… because there’s nothing better to do.
When I first got Windows Vista, I thought that Microsoft has got rid of the telnet client because I found it unavailable when I first tried to use it. But then I noticed that it was made an optional component and you have to do the following to install it:
Have you ever used instant messaging programs to send sensitive information to a contact? Well I always do it! At least while I’m at work, I usually exchange servers passwords with my colleagues whenever needed. But I am always paranoid of the possibility have somebody sniffing my conversation and getting these passwords… that’s why I started searching for a way to encrypt my conversations with specific contacts and I found Simplite.
Simplite is a free encryption solution, it will prevent eavesdroppers from reading your conversations using asymmetric encryption. At first usage of the software you will be requested to provide a password to generate a private & public key for you to be used in the encryption process.
The product can handle both encrypted and unencrypted chats. If your contacts use Simplite conversations will be encrypted. Otherwise, they will remain unencrypted.
Check the list below to download Simplite for your favorite messaging software:
Download Simplite for MSN Messenger
Download Simplite for Yahoo! Messenger
Download Simplite for Jabber/Google
Resources:
More about asymmetric encryption
I am a Firefox user, I actually use it on my 2 computers both at work and at home. However, I have always been wishing there was some service that would synchronize my settings across my computers as I usually have a minimum of 10 tabs opened at a time (I can’t help it!) so I needed the same tabs along with the same bookmarks to be available at any time I use any of my computers.
That was until I found the Browser Sync extension from Google today! The extension is just great, all you need is a google account and you will get to synchronize your tabs, browser session, bookmarks, saved passwords and persistent cookies across your computers. Keep in mind that you should of course install the extension on each of your machines, it’s easy and wont take more than 2 minutes.
Note that this could be a good way to backup your bookmarks. If your hard disk crashed, you can still install this extension somewhere else and get back all your bookmarks!;)
I am sure you have encountered this somewhere on the web. You’re on a social networking website, facebook maybe, and right after you register for an account, it asks you to enter your email address along with its password to send an invitation on your behalf to your friends.
I am sure lot of people are doing it, as I receive tons of invitations from my friends everyday! But have these people ever thought of the possibility that some of these websites might be storing their passwords?
At Facebook for instance, they clearly state that they won’t store any login info, but why should someone trust them?
It only takes an additional couple lines of code to store your username and password into a file or a database on the server! And don’t let the https or the lock sign in your browser trick you to think you’re 100% secure, this will actually insure your password is being sent to the server after encrypting it. But be sure that they’re decrypting it at the server side since they should forward it to your webmail, so it is being manipulated in clear text somewhere in their system.
Moreover, what about all the addresses they’re getting from your address book? If all these addresses are never to be used by spammers… then I am Donald Duck!
So next time, think twice before you grant any website the permission to access your email.
The very last version of the popular BitTorrent client is out!
BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.
Oh, and it also supports 43 languages! Way more than the number my blog supports! 
Yet another solution to download videos from YouTube, Google Video and MySpace.
Alive YouTube Video Converter is a professional YouTube video downloader to download and convert youtube videos to popular formats directly, the output formats include AVI, MPEG, MP4, DivX, XviD, ASF, WMV, MOV, QuickTime, VOB, iPod, PSP, 3GP, iPhone, Zune, MP3, AAC, AC3 and M4A. So you are able to burn a CD or DVD for those videos, copy them to other computer, or upload them onto your iPod/iPhone, mobile phone, PocketPC, PDA, PSP or any other portable devices.
Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/67948633/Alive_YouTube_Video_Converter_v1.2.0.8.rar
YAY! Now you can read my blog in 8 different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish! 
Check the new widget I added to the right, and select your preferred language. All thanks to Google Translate.
Now I know how my blog looks like in Japanese! 
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