denon has a digital audio cable on amazon for the amazing price of $500.00 it amazes me that anyone would buy a cable for that price, yet somehow, as of this writting, they only have two left in stock with more coming on reoder. if you feel so inclined, you could purchase a used one for as low as $2,499.98 or a refurbished one for only $999.99. but the comedy only starts there. be sure to read the buyer comments where the cable holds global warming at bay, creates miniture black holes, causes music to play backwards, and can regrow limbs.

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basically, thanks to the power of the modern internet browsers a website is able to have layers. these layers can be set to different levels of visibility and accessability. so what happens is they will hide one page below a different page and by lining up the click buttons they can trick you into giving up your myspace page, your email account, your bank login, etc. this clearly needs to stopped, so how do you protect yourself against it? there are two ways this can be prevented, server side and client side solutions. server side solutions tend to be a code that blocks the site from being used in frames, but this is only a partial solution since there are ways of doing clickjacking without using frames.

one of my classmates pointed out a new flash memory drive that holds 64 gigs. sadly its a little out of my price range at $144.99 at newegg.com. so i start wondering just how high do these drives go now? i think this is the highest volume for sale right now, but there is both a one terabyte and a fifty terabyte drive in development. the one terabyte uses a new technology called programmable metallization cell (pmc). current flash drives store information as an electronic charge and they are quickly approaching the physical limitations of that method. the pmc system uses copper nanowires the size of a virus.

i admit it, i love vista and i know people are scared to work try vista. 90% of the bad press you hear about vista have been people complining about vista before it even came out. you've got to stop believing everything the media tells you. but, for everyone who is too scared to try vista, dose not like vista or simply can not afford it there is an article over at lifehacker.com that talks about how you can choose to add some of the functionality of vista to xp. so this way you can get the best of vista's user interface, keep the stuff you like, uninstall the stuff you don't and get an idea of what the newest operating system has to offer. enjoy :)

i am proud to say i have now joined the ranks of openid!! the idea behind openid is an open source one login and password for the entire internet!

jungle disk plus amazon's s3 account equals easy, reliable, cheap online backup. amazon's s3 service provides unliited storage for a megar fifteen cents a month. even if you were to backup twenty gb it would only cost you #3.40 a month. there is only one flaw to this setup, amazon provides no user interface for this system. it was designed for developers who would already have an interface or could very easily make one. so how do the rest of us get to enjoy this service?

viruses, spyware, and trojans, oh my. the internet can be a dangerous place for windows users. countless malicouse codes and unsavory programs roaming the net hammering away at everyone looking for holes in the system. and that's just the background noise, there are hackers out there with their armies of compromised zombie systems aimed at making money and stealing identies. its enough to keep some people offline. only a fool, or a mac user, would be unconcered about the state of the net. but this does not mean that honest web users need be afraid. its actually very easy to set up enough of a defense to keep all but the most determined attacks at bay.

u3 is that annoying feature on some usb thumbdrives that is designed to allow you to carry your programs / workstation from one computer to the next. a fine idea if you actually have a use for it. frankly, a properly configured network would do this much better and i personally don't want someone installing the platform needed for u3 to run on my computer, but the thumbdrive is very aggressive and once it sees a new computer it wants to sink its teeth in. but there is a way to remove this annoyance.