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So you think you’re safe? You think you can just carry on doing what you do in your life without thinking you’re in danger? Don’t you have any idea what’s going on behind the scenes when your computer automatically reboots, crashes, keeps sending your contacts suspicious emails or links to kiddie porn? If you do, then you wouldn’t have been here reading this. No, instead you would’ve been in a state of shock, like the rest of us who are in the know. Instead, you would’ve been curled up in bed, wondering how you managed to last so long without seeing the “real picture”. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, just take a look at the photo above. See that? Know what that is? That’s what’s been eating up all of your computer’s resources lately. That’s the thing that keeps on destroying network after network and connection after connection, all without you even noticing. That, my friend, is a picture of computer malware. And if you look closely, if you could only try to look straight into its eyes, then maybe you’ll understand why I’m so tense right now.

Keep on reading for a few more renderings care of a wicked visualization program called Malwarez…

Stormy

IRCBot

PWSLineage Trojan

Via [Geekologie]

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Posted Mar 15th 2008 3:11PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Laptops
Sheesh — as if the Eee PC, ONE, Cloudbook, G10IL and countless others weren’t enough, now we’ve got one more low-cost laptop to keep track of. Aiming to arrive just a hair below that magical $300 price point, NorhTec is reportedly gearing up to introduce its Gecko laptop to the world, but the machine itself will be designed / built by Quanta. So far, we’re hearing that it’ll tout a 1GHz Via C7M ULV processor, an optional PATA hard drive, integrated graphics, a 7-inch display and the Linpus Linux Lite operating system. According to NorhTech’s president Michael Barnes, “Linpus Lite is very similar to gOS,” which we aren’t exactly sure is something you’d really want to trumpet. Nevertheless, said bigwig also implied that the formal announcement of this here lappie would be happening soon — let’s just hope it actually stays under three bills.

[Via Eee Site]

Posted Mar 15th 2008 7:56PM by Paul Miller
Filed under: cellphones
Can’t leave the comforts of your speedy, reliable network, but aren’t ready to carry the brick-like Voyager to appease that touchscreen hankering? Verizon might finally have a solution with the LG VX9700, which just passed the FCC. The above leaked image of the phone shows it to be similar to LG’s Prada phone, but apparently there’s no designer branding to be had here — just like AT&T’s upcoming Prada-inspired LG Vu. Other than that, erm, innovative menu, rumored infos include a 3.2 megapixel camera, micro USB, microSDHC, and an on-screen QWERTY keyboard for text input. Word is the phone was slated for the end of the month, but now might be delayed until April. We suppose we’ll be finding out soon enough.

Posted Mar 16th 2008 3:40AM by Paul Miller
Filed under: cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video
While it appears that Meizu’s infringement shutdown at CeBIT was for unlicensed MP3 usage, and not at all to do with the eerie resemblance to a certain iphone, the company still seems eager to prove to the world it is brewing something unique with the M8 mini One. CEO Jack Wong posted a bunch of new shots to the Meizu forums with small interface tweaks that inch the OS a bit away from its iPhone roots — but certainly not far.

[Thanks, Lino G.]

Gallery: Meizu M8 interface gets tweaked once again. A few pixels to the left, please?

Posted Mar 15th 2008 1:40PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Household
This whole “turning waste into fuel” idea has certainly gained a lot of traction lately, and it seems that Whirlpool is next in line to show off a concept that could purportedly hack down your energy bill (and give Mother Earth some love, too). Simply hailed as the green kitchen, this futuristic area would reportedly enable “60-percent of the water and heat generated from [kitchen gizmos to be] diverted to fuel other appliances.” For instance, the heat created from the refrigerator compressor could be used to heat water for the dishwasher, and while it’s hard to say how accurate it is, word on the street pegs energy savings from using said concept at around 24-percent. The real question, however, is will it come equipped with an integrated LCD TV?

Posted Mar 15th 2008 11:54PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: StorageIf you were impressed with OCZ’s latest 2.5-inch SSDs, chances are you’ll be thoroughly enamored by InnoDisk’s FiD 2.5-inch SATA 10000. ‘Course, it’s certainly not the first 128GB solid state disc we’ve seen, but it does boast a rugged metal enclosure and promises sustained read / write rates of up to 110Mbps / 90Mbps. Reportedly, this SLC NAND flash drive will see its way out to samplers later this month, and it should start shipping in volume sometime during Q2.

[Via FarEastGizmos]

Posted Mar 15th 2008 4:12PM by Paul Miller
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Perhaps this is some sort of elaborate hoax, maybe it’s an epidemic of iPod touch coffee stains, or perhaps this player really just is this hard to photograph. Still, our second set of blurry “my ipod touch caught on fire” pictures certainly has us reaching for our Flaming Goblet of Skepticism (+3 WIS). Similar to Max’s experience a couple days ago, tipster Ryan F. says his iPod caught on fire from the inside. Ryan says he plugged it in to charge and it showed a dead battery, then the screen went white and the device started to get super hot, so he unplugged it but it continued to burn. The fire ended up leaving a blackish orangish circle in the screen, along with a brown dent in the metal on the back (pictured after the break). Ryan’s going to try and track down a better camera to take some better pictures of the damage.

I read about USB Flash Drive Swarovski Crystal Engagement Ring on TFTS. The editor sugest to use this gadgets to your proposal of marriage. Our advice: simply don’t! Girls love diamonds Engagement rings not USB Flash Drives, event if it is full of Swarovski Crystals…

Maybe it is a good gift for your wife, but not good for your girlfriend! She will start to think to a real Engagement Ring (remember diamonds?). And if you want to fail go and use it for marriage proposal.

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The NME is reporting that Guy Garvey of Elbow is against the practice of downloading only certain songs off an album in iTunes instead of downloading the whole album. 

Accodring to Garvey, it’s not about the money;

“I’d rather people went ripped the whole thing for free than got the individual tracks for 79p each, you know what I mean, there’s no point in doing what we do (otherwise).”

Garvey feels that the practice is killing the idea of the album as an art form. That’s why he wants iTunes to let artists be able to lock their albums. Currently iTunes and other music download stores allow for certain tracks to be available only with purchase of the full album, but iTunes (or more specifically Apple) doesn’t allow for artists to allow only album sales.

The two comments to the article both agree with Garvey, and so do I. Downloading individual tracks is great for EPs where you just want the B-sides. But for full-length albums, if you like the artist enough, just buy the whole album, if only for the economies of scale aspect of it. Maybe bands could release just radio edits of singles, so that if fans want the original versions of the songs, then they have to buy the album.

Read [NME.com]

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Filed in archive Tip by John Mello on October 23, 2007

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From time to time, I get the urge to experiment with artificial lighting, but then I take a gander at the cost of studio lights and retreat back into my world of natural illumination and built-in flash photography. "Clockdoc," though, over at the the Digital Photography School forum, has some engaging stills he shot with, of all things, a single LED penlight. "I posted this to encourage you to try out different 'everyday' light sources you find around the house and to show that you don't need a $300 strobe to do creative lighting," he writes. After looking at his lighting experiments, they certainly have me ruminating about creative ways to tinker with ordinary artificial lighting sources.