Well, I decided to finally give Skype a try, and only being a subscriber for 12 hours, I’m ubber excited about the free and commercial service. Skype in general is free. If all you want to do is call PC to PC with voice or instant messenger, no problem, Skype won’t cost you a dime. If you want to call a land line phone number, it will cost you $29 per year for unlimited calls to anywhere in the United States and Canada. If you want incoming calls and an actual real phone number attached to your Skype account, it will cost another $40 (aprx) per year. Continue reading →
The Inside Scoop on Skype.
iPhone Password easily hacked.
The Apple iPhone password that’s used to protect personal information can be easily circumvented, according to users. Circumventing the password involves the use of the device’s “emergency call” keypad. Once the emergency call keypad is accessed through the passcode entry screen, a person only needs to double tap the home button, which takes the user to the iPhone’s favorites section. From there, a person gets full access to the device, including applications, contact lists, and e-mail.
-Info Weekly
Password stealing virus makes it to space station.
A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the International Space Station. W32.Gammima.AG, is a worm that spreads to drives and flash memory. The worm is designed to steal passwords from online games such as World of Warcraft and others.
NASA is sending the laptops new flash memory.
Howto change the full user-agent in FireFox.
Sometimes you’ll run across a free WiFi network that just happens to block the “Gecko” user agent types. In this case, your firefox browser won’t work either and you’ll have to change your Firefox user-agent to something withouth the word “Gecko”.
Type in “about:config” in your location bar and hit enter. Add a string called “general.useragent.override” with a value of “Mozilla”. Or, if you want to stay as close to firefox standards as possible change the string to “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Firefox/2007100619″ which basically makes it look like you are surfing from a Linux computer with Firefox.