Friday, August 1, 2008

How do you feel about laptop searches when crossing borders?

How do you feel about laptop searches when crossing borders?
Words fail me. This is something I would expect from old regimes: "Travellers' laptops may be detained at border".

More information here and here.



Google snatches away Microsoft's biggest customer
According to this article here, Google managed to snatch Microsoft's biggest customer away. The NSW Department of Education in Australia is going to provide Google e-mail accounts to up to 1.3 million users of its e-mail system, replacing the previou... (more in the full post)



Unleash your Vodafone iPhone
We all know the Vodafone iPhone is not SIM or network locked. You can purchase the handset outright, paying full price and just use it with a prepay SIM card or any other network's SIM card.

We also know that because of its current APN configuration it will only have voice and SMS on prepay. The current APN configured in the iPhone is not "visible" to prepay accounts.

But there's a very legal way around this. You can change the configuration on your iPhone by visiting UnlockIt - APN changer for iPhone.

The author LennonNZ has posted some UnlockIt statistics in our forums.

So many people benefited from it, and so little was paid back. I recommend you make a donation if you use the site to "unlock" your Vodafone iPhone.




Intelligent Assistance for Desktop User Tasks. Google Video.
I have been watching this a few times as so much of it makes scene. I like how he displays a learning system, that with time/more samples it get better. I found this inspiring in regards to some concepts I have been learning, regarding the design of expert systems for (tag cloud)/categorisation development of forums.



Enhancing Web 2.0 Accessibility Via AxsJAX: A Tutorial at Google
This google talk lecture is on a Java technology for page ripping called AxsJAX.
This presentation tutorial of AxsAJAX is for building an screen reader for the blind.



I like this as it makes building a simulated 'expert systems to read and process existing web content so much nicer,
I mean, great for hacking, in that it lets your computer become more aware to the key page information.

And they mention a T-Shirt contest and the bit about the car, I think was cut.


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