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10 04 2008

SimpleBucket: Real Easy Photo Hosting

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Filed under: Photo, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

SimpleBucket is a promising new pic sharing site that has just emerged from a complete redesign and rebuild. The service is very promising, and offers a lot of nice features that might make it a massive player in the days to come.

SimpleBucket’s tagline reads “Real Easy Pic Hosting,” and it shows. First off, SimpleBucket does not require registration. As in at all. Simply enter in any email address, choose a photo (or number of photos) to upload, and away you go. HTML code for embedding your photo, a link to the photo page, and a link to the pic itself are all instantly generated.

Gallery: SimpleBucket

10 04 2008

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10 04 2008

GPS Trackers Find Novel Applications

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Pickens writes “Inexpensive GPS devices like the Zoombak (which costs just $200 plus $10 a month) have becomes so prevalent that some people are using them routinely to keep tabs on their most precious possessions. Kathy Besa has a Zoombak attached to the collar of her 5-year-old beagle, Buddy. If Buddy wanders more than 20 feet from the home, she gets a text message on her phone that states, ‘Buddy has left the premises.’ The small size made possible by chip advances over the last two or three years is enabling many novel uses of GPS tracking. An art collector in New York uses one when he transports million-dollar pieces, a home builder is putting them on costly appliances to track them if they disappear from construction sites, a drug company is using them after millions of dollars in inventory turned up missing, and a mobile phone company is hiding them in some cellphone boxes to catch thieves.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

10 04 2008

Mediasentry Violates Cease & Desist Order

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “On January 2, 2008, the Massachusetts Say Police ordered MediaSentry, the RIAA’s investigator, to stop and desist from conducting investigations in Massachusetts without a license. Based on what appears to be irrefutable proof that MediaSentry has been violating that order, the Boston University students who tentatively won, in London-Sire v. Doe 1, an order tentatively quashing the subpoena for their identities, have brought a new motion to vacate the RIAA’s court papers altogether, on the ground that the RIAA’s ‘evidence’ was procured by criminal behavior.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

10 04 2008

Movement Sensors a Less Invasive Substitute To CCTV

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holy_calamity writes “Researchers at Mitsubishi state cramming buildings with movement sensors, not cameras, is a safer and less invasive substitute to CCTV. They covered their office building with 215 low-cost sensors to watch over their colleagues and show how it works. A video shows how a user can see people’s movements on a map of the building in real time. Data from the sensors is much easier to handle than video footage, and it can easily be searched.” The Surface-like UI is pretty neat too.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

10 04 2008

Top Botnets Control Some 1 Million Hijacked Personal

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Puskas writes “Joe Stewart is the director of malware research at SecureWorks, and presented a dire view of the current botnet landscape at the RSA conference this week. He conducted a survey of the top spamming ‘nets, extrapolating their size from the volume of emails that flow across the web. By his calculations, the top 11 networks control just over a million machines, hitting inboxes with some 100 billion messages a day. ‘The botnet at the top of the chart is Srizbi. According to Stewart, this botnet — which also goes by the names “Cbeplay” and “Exchanger” — has an estimated 315,000 bots and can blast out 60 billion messages a day. While it might not have gotten the publicity that Storm has during the last year, it’s built around a much more substantial collection of hijacked personal, stated Stewart. In comparison, Storm’s botnet counts just 85,000 machines, only 35,000 of which are set up to send spam. Storm, in fact, is No. 5 on Stewart’s list.’”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

10 04 2008

Google Shares Its Security Secrets

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Stony Stevenson writes “Google presents a massive fat target for would-be hackers and attackers. At the RSA conference Google offered security professionals a look at its internal security systems. Scott Petry, director of Google’s Enterprise and founder of security firm Postini, explained how the company handles constant pressure and scrutiny from attackers. In order to keep its products safe, Google has adopted a philosophy of ’security as a cultural value.’ The program includes mandatory security training for developers, a set of in-house security libraries, and code reviews by both Google developers and outside security researchers.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

10 04 2008

Find the optimal cellphone plan with BillShrink

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Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0

If you take into account taking out a second mortgage on your home each month when the cellphone bill arrives, you might want to check out BillShrink. This web-based service lets you compare cellphone plans in the most useful ways possible. It shows you which plans can save you money and which companies provided the most reliable coverage in your neighborhood.

The toolbar at the top of the page lets you describe how much you’re currently paying for service and then you can drag a few sliders around to show the number of lines, anytime minutes, text messages, and data minutes you need. BillShrink will then try to find a plan that matches your criteria for less than you’re currently paying. If there’s one that meets your needs and has a strong signal in your area, it will show up at the top of the list. If there’s one with a weak signal in your area, it will move down the list a bit.

You can click on any plan to see additional details or to see comparable plans from other wireless carriers. And you can sign up for service, at which point BillShrink redirects you to the carrier’s web site. The only problem we see with this service is that it doesn’t account for local fees and taxes. So if you normally pay $95 per month for your phone service, you might accidentally input that value and see a whole bunch of bargains before realizing that your actual plan is closer to $75 while the rest is fees that would apply no matter which carrier you use. Not that we made this mistake the first time we checked out BillShrink. Nope. No siree.

[via MakeUseOf]

10 04 2008

Create simple to remember, hard to guess passwords with Password Bird

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Filed under: Security, Web services

Password Bird is a simple on the web service that’ll create a password based on a number of personal markers. Because the password is culled from a few names and dates that are important to you, the hope is that the password will be easy to remember but remain hard to crack.

So how does it work? When you visit Password Bird, you’re prompted to enter in three items:

A name that is important or special to you
A word that’s special to you
A date that has personal significance

After that, you hit the create password button, and Password Bird goes to work. The next page will show you the customized password. If you don’t like the password, Password Bird can quickly generate a new one based on the personal markers; or, you can choose to start over absolutely with a new set of words and dates.

The question is, does Password Bird make secure, yet easy to remember, passwords? In our test, we used the name Simon, the word Technology, and 1/1/2000 for the date. Here’s what Password Bird came up with:

00simogy
01tecmon
ogysim00
simtec20

It doesn’t take the guy from A Beautiful Mind to see a pattern here.

What do you guys think? Useful service or not?

[via Technobuzz]