Have you ever been in a social situation that you wish you could get out of? Maybe a terrible blind date? Or perhaps someone stops you in the street and starts talking non-stop? Do you also have an iPhone? Well, if so, there is a solution at hand to give you the perfect excuse to get away!
Magic Tap is an application in the iTunes Store which will make a fake call on your iPhone at a pre-set time to make it look as if you are receiving an urgent phone call.
You can apparently customize the caller name and number to anything your like. So you could enter something like “White House” and “555-555-1414”, and then when the phone rings, suddenly dash away, muttering “national security….nuclear launch codes…” under your breath.
The Star Wars official online shop has all sorts of interesting toys, not that I would buy anything from there mind you… or would I? Anyways, here’s my latest coup de foudre, courtesy of the Dark Lord himself.
Even though the Darth Vader Toaster isn’t as advanced as some of the fancy bread burners out there, it does what it was designed for perfectly: Toast a perfect image of the Dark Lord on each slice of bread it burns.
So, you’ve seen the multi-touch trackpad on Apple’s new Macbooks but are wondering how the thing actually works? Initially, I thought that this new trackpad concept totally sucked, but after seeing the following video, I’m not so sure anymore. Check it out below.
So now that’s you’ve seen this, what are your impressions? Do you think a trackpad like this could totally replace an old school mouse? Let us know in the comments section.
I got a very interesting piece of spam in my inbox this morning, and it took me a few moments to realize it was a phishing attack designed to make me disclose my Google Adwords password.
Here is a screenshot of it.
Hovering over the link, you can see that they use a machine name of “adwords.google.com,” however, it continues as a session name, followed by random numbers, and finally, a domain name located on a Russian host. This attack is designed to trick website operators and blog owners into disclosing their Google account password. So far I have only seen Adwords used as a phishing attack. I suspect that it would work just as well with Adsense and other Google subscription and pay services as well.
Many users of Google services use the same password for all of their services- for Gmail, Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools, Adsense and even Google Write. Allowing this password to be disclosed would likely allow the attacker to take over not only the the Gmail account itself, but also to access all the services and websites where the Gmail address was used to register.
Securiteam has a blog post here about a man who had many businesses and forwarded all of his emails to his Gmail account for ease of access, easy searching, and convenience. When his Google account was locked, undoubtedly because he was Phished, he literally lost the keys to his business and was unable to interact with his customers. It took days to regain his access.
Bottom line is, don’t fall for these phishing attacks. Make sure you have a backup email notification built into your Google account(s), and for God’s sake, don’t use the same password for everything. The same goes double for Yahoo accounts.
Like countless other people yesterday, I was watching the US elections on television and I was watching it on my preferred television channel, CNN. Suddenly Wolf “best political team on television” Blitzer pulls a R2-D2 on all of us and does this :
Holy Smokes! Are you impressed? Holographic reporters? Beat that Fox News!
Blitzer’s best line : “Thanks Jessica, you were a terrific hologram!” Ha! Ha! :-)
In the following video presentation, the Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them in the near future. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink, “dry” liquid and a very surprising 10-foot pole. Enjoy the show!
I am not too inspired to write much today as I am busy watching the US election unfold on CNN. So instead I will give you a rather amusing Star Wars video which I found earlier on YouTube.
Thank God George Lucas didn’t end Star Wars this way! Then again, if he does one more “Director’s Cut”, this might be all we are left with!
According to Pi’s campaign manager, a good reason for this write-in: “What pi refers to as ‘endless change’ is its infinite series of digits, which never repeat, have no predicable pattern, and never resolve. Simply put, pi is history’s biggest flip-flopper.”
In other words, if you already know you’re voting for someone irrational, you may as well make it an irrational number.
Though it should be noted that, representing the ratio between a perfect circle and its diameter, Pi “is entirely unsuited for the Oval Office.”
If AOL users could decide the election, John McCain would win in a landslide. That, of course, goes against virtually every single poll that has been released in the, oh, I don’t know, entire election season – but what it does show is the fact that AOL users are overwhelmingly Republican. As you can see in the map, AOL users in swing states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania would hand McCain the presidency.
The reader who submitted this data to the Silicon Valley Insider commented, “Proof Republicans only use dialup.”
Have you ever been in a social situation that you wish you could get out of? Maybe a terrible blind date? Or perhaps someone stops you in the street and starts talking non-stop? Do you also have an iPhone? Well, if so, there is a solution at hand to give you the perfect excuse to get away!
