Along with all the great books, magazines, and DVDs, you'll now be able to check out a power monitoring system from your local public library in Illinois thanks to a program through the Ameren electric company. Ameren, an electric utility in Illinois and Missouri, has launched a great new program they're calling WATT Solutions through their ActOnEnergy initiative. Ameren has … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2009
Unskippable – Entertainment Out of Those Long, Boring Intro Videos
The Escapist, a popular gaming culture magazine, has a collection of features that make it very entertaining and informative in the areas of video game and sci-fi news, reviews, and everything in between. Unskippable is one of those feature I'd like to highlight. If you've ever been really excited about a video game, ran to the store to buy it, brought it back, installed it, … [Read more...]
Spring Cleaning with CCleaner and ATF Cleaner
Spring is here and so is spring cleaning. Here are two small utilities that can help you clean up temporary files, unused registry entries, and unwanted applications. CCleaner is a multi-use tool. After a quick and small install, you're ready to go. CCleaner is a tool for cleaning up all those files that you don't really care about like the temporary internet files, cookies, … [Read more...]
Google Calendar Sync – Sync Google Calendar and Outlook
Many people might have an Exchange calendar at work that they access through Outlook and a Google Calendar for personal use. If you want to move the entries from one system to another, you can use this tool, Google Calendar Sync, to keep your calendars in sync. Google Calendar Sync does just about everything you could ask from it. You can customize how often the sync service … [Read more...]
Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1 Vulnerable to Javascript Again!
Adobe, after recently patching Adobe Reader and Acrobat to 9.1, has announced that this version too is vulnerable to javascript induced buffer overflows. You can see their announcement here: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-02.html A patch is set to be deployed May 12th. I stand by my original assessment. You're best off just disabling javascript in … [Read more...]