I was listening to Security Now podcast, and kept hearing uberkey uberkey on i think it was episode 175. The concept of ubery key was pretty interesting, a usb device that can generate a long static password without you entering it. This can be in entering WEP or WPA keys, your normal login password etc.
I [...]

While clearing up my backlog of videocast, revision 3 system ep 083 was talking about camera os.
chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Do check this above link if you are a canon powershot use.
Extracted from the site
* RAW – CHDK can record raw files, giving you access to every bit of data the sensor saw, without compression or processing. Raw [...]

My first screencast, took about 1 day plus of fiddling and trying out different software.
1. In the end i used wink for the screen capture and annotation
www.debugmode.com/wink/
2. Camstudio use to capture the output from the swf
camstudio.org/
3. Audicity for trimming and fade out of MP3
audacity.sourceforge.net/
4. Virtualdub for encoding and putting the mp3 together
www.virtualdub.org/
Hope everyone enjoys it, [...]

Ctrl T, Ctrl T, Ctrl T, Ctrl T.
Bang, we got 4 tabs in firefox. Tabs are so addictive in firefox. Normally i would have like 20 tabs or so at any one time.
Lifehacker recently reviewed another tab management extension.
lifehacker.com/5123708/tabhunter-adds-faster-tab-switching-to-firefox
I say, nar, not good enough.
I’m using vimperator. vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator
It is my favourite firefox extension which i think [...]

What’s the video player that you use?
VLC? www.videolan.org/vlc/
Windows Media Classic? www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm
I say SMPlayer, frontend of MPlayer. smplayer.sourceforge.net/
Two major reasons.
1. Playback speed, variable playback rate, by just pressing [ and ] . This is critical if you have backlog of videocast to watch. Basically saves about 33% of the time required to clear them. I’m using [...]

This is one episode that everyone should watch or listen to
revision3.com/hak5/SessionHijackingAndVirtualizing/
Session hijacking. In short, by using tools available now, you can effectively
1. Use Jasager [www.digininja.org/jasager/index.php] to let people think that they are on their default wifi network. Meaning, i go to a starbucks, i turn on my wifi, and my laptop automatically tries to connect [...]

Listening to hak5 ep 0414,
Some interesting stuff i came across.
Keeping your pc “steady” instead of using ghost or vm.
www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
Some other applications that keeps things clean and neat
Sandboxie www.sandboxie.com/
Was discussed in-depth in episode of 172 of the Security Now podcast as well, when steve gibson interviewed the creator.
twit.tv/sn172
Unetbootin
Allows “burning” of iso to usb thumbdrive, suitable for [...]

Last i looked at wordpress probably was for version 2.3?
Seems that there is lots of changes since then and lots of new plugins and tools for wordpress. I had lots of problem searching for plugins, there were just too many of them all of which had quite reasonable ratings. Had quite a lot of fun [...]

Yeah! A brand new year 2008 2009.
Lots of cleaning up and clearing of stuff on my harddrive, since it’s new year right?
Some interesting things i came across over the cleaning up of my harddrive.
From watching Hak5 ep 416, clearing up my 40 gig of podcast!
1. Ping.fm, allows blogging or “pinging” to multiple site. Seems pretty [...]

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