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Best Free Personal Firewall
PC Magazine Online's Editor's Choice and best
rated personal firewall, beating out ZoneAlarm
and Kerio freeware versions!
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Creating an Alarm Clock in the System
Tray with Visual Studio 2005
Ever since the earliest versions of Windows,
it has always surprised me that there is no built-in
alarm clock. For this column I decided to see
what it would take to use Visual Studio 2005 to
create a simple alarm clock that would hide to
the system tray, display a notification, and optionally
play a sound.
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Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2006
Myth #8. "Iraq is the central front in the
war on terror." From the beginning of history
until 2003 there had never been a suicide bombing
in Iraq. There was no al-Qaeda in Baath-ruled
Iraq. When Baath intelligence heard that Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi might have entered Iraq, they grew
alarmed at such an "al-Qaeda" presence and put
out an APB on him!
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Police use YouTube as 'wanted' poster
YouTube has now become an unconventional crime-fighter
in Canada, triggering alarms over police intrusion
of this libertarian haven. Canadian police posted
surveillance video this month on the popular website,
in which users share video clips, hoping to nab
a murderer.
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Alarming 9/11 claim is found baseless
The Senate Intelligence Committee has found
it untrue that US Representative Curt Weldon's
allegation (Able Danger) that the US government
had identified Mohammed Atta and other 9/11 terrorists.
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Lost laptops, zero-day vulns and RFID
chips
Security breaches that resulted in the disclosure
of confidential data, already a trend in recent
years, grew alarmingly - to the point where security
watchers noted that 100 million personal records
had been compromised in the period between February
2005, when ChoicePoint admitted that ID thieves
had swiped information on 163,000 victims from
its
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Miniminder - a great little date and
reminder program
keeps track of holidays, birthdays, appointments,
etc. Can set how long before a given event you
will be reminded and also has an optional alarm.
Nice free lil ap. For ppl who dont need a full
calendar and want something simple and lightweight
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Clocky, the hiding alarm clock: intriguingly
ridiculous
When Clocky goes off, you've got one chance
to wake up. If you go for the snooze, Clocky fires
up its wheels and rolls off your night stand to
go hide. Yep, it runs away. It's a design choice
that can only be described as "bold."
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In Soviet Russia, Gas Equals Power.
European Union officials are alarmed at the
heavy-handed tactics used by Moscow while the
West has been preoccupied with the Middle East;
Russia's use of energy supplies as a political
weapon should be a wake-up call to Britain and
the West to deal urgently with the threat.
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The Muslims are coming, the Muslims
are coming!
Right-wing politician voiced his alarm that
the election of more Muslims to high office could
diminish American values. His solution was to
severely limit immigration. This headline didn't
fit the original news pictures so it got fixed.
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HOW TO: Make a Music Syncing Light
Orb Alarm Clock!
Okay, we have seen some really cool Light
Orbs while trying to make this Music Syncing Light
Orb Alarm Clock. We started with Tod’s creation
and soon realize that 1 LED will not be bright
enough in slightest light conditions though his
Light Orb is tight let us say. So we checked out
RGB lights at Hackedgadgets.com.
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No antivirus updates today for ZoneAlarm
customers
CNET News. Zone Labs' Web site was down for
much of the day on Friday, preventing users of
the company's popular ZoneAlarm security software
from updating their antivirus definitions and
accessing support forums.
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Alert System Notified Kids When School
Bus is About to Arrive
Using the Student Alert System, kids can remain
in their home until a school bus approaches the
bus stop. A radio transmitter and receiver detects
the approaching bus, and sounds an alarm. This
lets Jr. stay indoors from the cold weather, or
predators.
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Knitting blog raising money for charity
hit by cease and decease letter.
The knitting blog raising funds for charity
has been asked to cease and decease using (apparently
innocent) terms supposedly trademarked by Publishers
Clearing House. [...]Apparently I put two completely
innocent words together in a blog title and once
these words were together: KABOOOM! I set off
alarms all around the trademark world.[...]
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Japan Alarmed By Contamination Despite
GMO Planting Ban
Contamination is occurring in places where
the gmo varieties were never approved as field
crops. This suggests even gmo seed transported
without extreme care can contaminate vast areas.
Soy in five provinces was found to have contamination
in up to 66% of the store products and none is
approved to grow. Very bad news for everyone but
Monsanto.
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Clocky Rolling Alarm Clock Now Available
What started out as an MIT nerd's dream has
now become an MIT nerd's cash machine. Oh yes,
Clocky, the world's most annoying rolling alarm
clock is now available.
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Hidden codes on PA systems
Londoners will probably be aware of Inspector
Sands, not a man but a coded announcement that
can be heard at Tube and major rail stations:
"Would Inspector Sands please come to the control
room immediately." It sounds when an alarm is
tripped and if a member of staff doesn’t clear
the problem before a set time elapses. More hidden
codes here...
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