Digg recently introduced the DiggBar to all links to articles from its site. This bar at the top of a page allows you to digg or bury an article, share it via e-mail, twitter, or facebook, and more. Personally, I don't like it. I found myself closing it every time I was looking at an article redirected from Digg. If I wanted to share a link, I'd get the original source … [Read more...]
AlternativeTo – Free Replacements for Popular Desktop and Mobile Apps
AlternativeTo provides a simple, straight forward means to finding free software that will provide the same functionality as a commercial title. It offers listings for Windows, Mac, Linux, and online applications. They also have a fairly new Mobile section that offers listings of alternative software for smart phones like the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, Android, Blackberry, … [Read more...]
Battery Life Benchmarks
There's been an interesting flurry of news lately regarding the way battery life is measured. Almost any consumer that has purchased a notebook or netbook lately has likely realized that the battery life (measured in hours) that was advertised to them has been at least slightly exaggerated. That circumstance is the topic of a number of blog posts on the official AMD blog which … [Read more...]
Happy SysAdmin Day 2009!
It was just under 200 posts ago and a year ago (the last Friday in July) that I was wishing you a happy sysadmin day back in 2008. Hopefully the past year has gone smooth for you and we've all learned a thing or two thousand in that time to perform the demanding tasks in IT better. If you're not in Information Technology, be sure to wish your IT department a Happy SysAdmin … [Read more...]
Book Review: Exploiting Online Games
Exploiting Online Games is the third book in series of titles by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw. Their two other books have previously been reviewed here at 404 Tech Support - Exploiting Software: How to Break Code and Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel. These titles typically provide information for developers to take into consideration in their projects and for IT … [Read more...]