At one end of the house, I have a Sony PS3 that can stream videos from my PC connected to a TV that can also play Divx and Xvid files from a USB drive. At the other end of the house, I have just a standard TV and a DVD player. Of course, since I can't do something in one place, that's where I want to do it. So, the task was to come up with a way to play .avi files on a standard … [Read more...]
PDFVoid – Don’t Send a Malicious PDF
PDFVoid is a web service developed by the same folks behind NoVirusThanks that allows you to scan a PDF for any malicious code or exploits. You can upload a PDF (up to 1MB in size) or submit a URL that points to a PDF to have it scanned to see whether the file is clean or suspicious. The scan only takes a few seconds to completed. If the file is clean, it will be deleted but if … [Read more...]
48Upper – Social Networking for IT Pros
48Upper is the first Social Collaborative IT Management solution to fully embrace social networking and the power of the community directly within the processes that run IT. 48Upper provides IT professionals with the tools and knowledge necessary to be more productive by solving problems and finding solutions more efficiently than ever before, and most importantly, without … [Read more...]
Using the Microsoft Home Use Program for Office 2010
If where you work has an agreement with Microsoft (or Micrsoft as the posters in Wal-Mart spell it), you could benefit as an employee by being able to purchase a super-cheap copy of Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows or Office 2008 for Mac through Microsoft's Home Use Program. For $9.95 and your employment at a company with this agreement, you can get Office Professional Plus … [Read more...]
New Improvements to CAPTCHAs with NuCaptcha
CAPTCHAs, those images of squiggly letters that are a pain to solve, help digitize books, and are increasingly being cracked by bots, are taking a new approach. Instead of being a still image, CAPTCHAs are now being made into videos of moving text so they're easier for a human to solve but more complicated for a bot with NuCaptcha. NuCaptcha's Basic service is free and still … [Read more...]