SUMO Paint is one of those things that further blurs the line between a web site and an application, thus you get a web app. What PDFescape does to Adobe Acrobat, SUMO Paint does to Photoshop. SUMO Paint is something you have to see to actually realize its power. You can open images from your computer (jpeg, gif, png) or a URL and when you're done you can save them to your … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2008
bubbl.us – Flowchart, mind map Web 2.0 application
Bubbl.us allows you to easily create a presentation-quality mind map of your thoughts. Here's a demonstration that I whipped up quickly to show what a backup script would capture. Bubbl.us particularly excels at showing how things are organized in a hierarchy. Using Adobe Flash and AJAX, you can easily move entries around to where you want them. The simplicity of … [Read more...]
Restart Script without Admin privileges
If you're trying to script a restart function for users, you'll unfortunately find that shutdown.exe does not work for non-Administrators, nor does psshutdown. Shutdown.exe requires privileges for the shutdown process and psshutdown.exe requires privileges to add and start services. One of many ways around this problem is to create a visual basic script. This also offers the … [Read more...]
Book Review: Rootkits – Subverting the Windows Kernel
Rootkits, authored by Greg Hoglund and James Butler, is a very technical reading for a very technical topic. Rootkits themselves (the technology) gained quite a bit of fame in 2005 when Sony was found to be embedding rootkit technology along with their CDs to prevent copying of music. This book goes well beyond the simple copyright protection and really delves into the … [Read more...]
Modify Internet Explorer Zone Security in the Registry
Internet Explorer, and its interaction with the overall Windows desktop experience, gets even more annoying when it dictates its control over your ability to access files on your local servers. I decided to look into the issue further after getting annoyed with constant prompts when trying to copy a file with the following message: Internet Explorer Do you want to move or … [Read more...]