Archive for October, 2007

Online auto-tracing tool (converts bitmaps to vector art)

Stanford University research project on converting bitmap images to vector art, aka “auto tracing” or “automatic vectorization”. Similar to Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace and CorelDRAW’s PowerTRACE but works better in many cases. Upload image and get a converted result (EPS/SVG) in a few moments.

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1 comment October 30, 2007

Hands down the best performance by a 12 year old girl ever caught on film.

Singing probably the most over done, badly done, “omg please tell me they’re done” song ever mutilated in front of a live audience, a 12 year old South Korean girl enters stage center and stuns a television audience with the first five words of the song. I thought they were dubbing her voice at first..You’ll find yourself wondering too.

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1 comment October 28, 2007

Live Video of ASCII Art

http://live.pirillo.com - Don’t adjust your monitor. That really is me in this video, and I look this way on purpose. You, too, can stream yourself live using ASCII characters… if you have OS X.

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Add comment October 28, 2007

Storm Worm Botnet Lobotomizing Anti-Virus Programs

Just in time for Halloween, a virus that lobotomizes your AV and leaves your machine at the mercy of it’s master. New technique leaves anti-virus running but brain-dead; expert says we haven’t come close to witnessing Storm’s true power.

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Add comment October 27, 2007

Upgrade Windows XP to Vista for free

Chris Pirillo shows us how to upgrade any version of Windows XP to Vista for the great price of free! The thing that is great about this is that Vista seems more stable when it is installed this way, why? I dunno but it is just awesome watch the video!

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Add comment October 25, 2007

When PDF’s Attack… Again!

Some months ago Symantec reported on a cross site scripting vulnerability relating to PDF files and browser handling of them. As it turned out, the vulnerability was not used in the wild much at all….

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Add comment October 24, 2007

Youtube and Sony’s new camcorder

Sony’s new camcorder lets you directly post your home videos to youtube

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Add comment October 12, 2007

Implicit Trust in DNS Servers is BAD

If a DNS server is exploited, any Web site you visit may be fake. This includes search engines, Web mail, banks, online stores, etc. By redirecting Web mail, a user’s email account can be stolen. By redirecting forums or message boards, a user’s password can be stolen. A smart attacker can make these completely invisible to the user.

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Add comment October 12, 2007

We will, we will – mislead you.

In the ever-expanding world of misleading applications, you might wonder how each new application can stand out from the crowd and get itself noticed. Browsing the Web sites of some of these applications shows that…

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Add comment October 10, 2007

Too good to be true

How can you substantiate someone’s claim that they are the worst, the best, the most user-friendly, or simply the only system that your company will ever need. Some people blindly put their trust into companies without authenticating their claims.

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