Archive for September 15th, 2005

TargetKiller !

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

I just came across another awesome extension so I couldn’t resist posting this one as well. If you happened to read a previous post of mine and you share similar frustrations, then perhaps this plugin is for you. In short, my previous post is just a rant about website developers that assume I [...]

MapIt!

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

I would imagine that most people reading this have no doubt used some type of online mapping service such as Google Maps, MapQuest, Yahoo Maps, or one of the several other notable services out there. Additionally, I would also imagine that most have gone through the cumbersome procedure of either copying and pasting the [...]

Keyboard Clicks

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

This is interesting:
Researchers at UC Berkeley claim they can just listen to keyboard taps and piece together a 96% accurate reconstruction of English words typed — and 90% of all randomly generated five-character passwords within 20 tries. The techniques used are “relatively easy” using a $10 PC microphone, open source spelling and grammar correction tools, [...]