The fallout continues to spread over Wikileaks. Now, from the “I can’t believe what I’m reading” department to Julian’s defense! Here’s what the Wikileaks InfoManager found since Wednesday… * PayPal cuts WikiLeaks from money flow
* US tries to keep troops in Iraq away from WikiLeaks
* US agencies curb unauthorized WikiLeaks access
* How WikiLeaks altered the way we see the world in just a week
* Clinton: WikiLeaks cables show diplomacy at work
* Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks Founder’s Rights
* Ron Paul stands up for Julian Assange
* WikiLeaks: Diplo-smack! Making sense of the cable dump
* Could WikiLeaks survive without Julian Assange?
iPads, iPods, iPhones under the tree … they’ll all be more fun with one or all of these games
* Kung Fu Panda is Back
* KUNG FU SANTA
* Color the World!
* Feed and protect molecules
* Demolition Master: Space Quest
* Trek Quest: Classic 70s Video Game
* Decoloro combines Pinball, Memory and Labyrinth…
Malware, hacking, phishing and cybercrime is growing with news stories and new online attractions. Here’s what we found this week:
* Phony Holiday Tweets Hide Malware
* Coming Soon: A New Banking Trojan
* How the Worm Turned
* Will High-Speed Malware Crash the Internet?
* Top Security Predictions for 2011
* Siberian crooks dev’d custom malware in ATM slurp heist scheme
* Three common smartphone scams to avoid
* Web sites are stealing browser histories
* Phishing victims responded within one hour
File sharing vanity has now found yet another level — a gizzmo that lets you take a picture of yourself. A great idea for the ‘me’ generation! The Pocket XShot is the latest in a line of camera extenders that lets the photographer be in all the pictures with their friends! Continue reading »
ActiveTrak Inc. has announced that its award-winning GadgetTrak Laptop 3 is now being bundled with warranty plans, including AppleCare at select Apple retailers. This arrangement increases the level of protection by not only covering physical problems with the laptop, but also helping recover it if it’s lost or stolen.
Tidal Pool Software’s PhoneCam 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch turns your iPhone or iPod touch (camera required) into a wireless webcam. It allows you to easily capture and transmit images to a website from anywhere. PhoneCam 2.0 now integrates Sensr, providing a free webcam image server with lots of great features. Sensr includes support for motion detection, DVR, alerts, and uploading and sharing images on Facebook and Twitter.
Applications for Life Company has rolled out Box Shot 3D 3.1, an update to their powerful utility that renders 3D shapes using provided images. Box Shot 3D allows to render software boxes, book covers, magazines, CD, DVD and Blu-Ray boxes, cans, bottles, mugs, bags and much more. No 3D-knowledge is required at all and the results look very professional because of raytracing rendering technology.
Imposition Wizard is a professional level, standalone imposition software for Mac OS X. Version 1.8 features 2-up preview mode, reads bleed and trim data from source files, allows to rotate sheets and define their default parameters. It also brings many small improvements. Upgrade is free and highly recommended.
FX Photo Studio has been updated — and the 3.0 version is a huge update, amping up an already powerful photo effects application. iPhone and iPod touch users will shortly get access to 171 high quality effects and filters. This will be the biggest collection, available on App Store. The current “record holder” is FX Photo Studio 2.6.0 with 140 photo effects offered.
An all new upgrade to Patterno has been released — a powerful utility that creates background images and tiled patterns for Mac OS X. Patterno allows to create professional-looking images with ease. Continue reading »
After spending some time Wednesday on my editorial about Wikileaks, this morning it would seem there are a lot of others saying and advocating the very same thing. So, I’ve had to re-write my editorial.
The issues are seriously too hot to ignore. The media has a feeding frenzy
* Wikileaks is espionage, not journalism
* WikiLeaks Changes Domain Name After Cyber Attacks
* Amazon Says WikiLeaks Violated Terms of Service
* WikiLeaks RETURNS: Website Takes New Approach After Being Forced Offline
* Pentagon Spokesman: We Could Have Shut Down WikiLeaks, But We Decided Not To
* The leakers who fear for their lives in the land of the free
