Category: Software
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How to visit freely some paying web sites
This is really not complicated, many web sites (even subscription-based) want to be indexed by Google. To this end, they recognize the Google spider and give it priviliged access rights. Why not try to disguise yourself as the most well known search engine of the world? Simple: Modify your browser identification string? Simple, but not…
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FEAR Perseus Mandate, the expansion pack video
After F.E.A.R., the First Person Shooter (FPS) PC game that impressed (because of its playability as much as because of the then-overblown hardware requirements), here comes an expansion pack (F.E.A.R. – Perseus Mandate) that will allow you to explore the same dark universe, to experience the same acceleration effects, and to fight many opponents. Sierra…
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YouTube starts ads, TubeStop stops ads
Google announced, soon after its buying of YouTube, that it wouold add some advertisment on the amateur video web site. This is now what they did. But it did not leave the software developers insensitive: TubeStop is a FireFox plug-in that hides or closes that ads in YouTube to keep the same pleasure without the…
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Microsoft WGA servers are down
Those servers are central to validate the “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” service. In plain words, they provide the verification that you are really a registered user authorized by Microsoft. But these servers are currently down (some kind of network failure?) and Microsoft forecast about two days before going back to a normal situation. This simply means…
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Bioshock is having real DRM problems
We have been speaking a lot about Bioshock the newest First Person Shooter (FPS) PC video game from Second Take. We expected a very nice game in a complex environment with varied adversaries and game tactics. But we did not expected the most poweful adversary: The Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection against copy. TwitchGuru video…
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National Punctuation Day
The first National Punctuation Day was on September 24, 2006. OK. It seems that it was a hit in many different medias and among the US English teachers. This is now time to prepare the next one: Only one month left to collect the examples of the worse punctuation and to find ways to improve…
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WordPress and moving from PHP4 to PHP5
Some advice provided by Donncha for those who would like to move from PHP4 to PHP5 on a server supporting WordPress exploitation. Nothing big, but it is always good to check the items she points at: Location of PHP.INI Update to mysql and gd libraries Compatibility with WP-cache
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Maze solution using Photoshop
It may not be the easiest way to produce the solution to a magazine maze test, but you can do it with Photoshop, using the magic wand. Increase contrast. Select the right wall of the maze using the magic wand. Menu Select > Modify > Expand 4 pixels. Create new layer. Fill with Red. Menu…
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News from the P2P front line
It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…