Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on July 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

Google has already been testing print-ads in a handful of newspapers, but now they’re ready to expand the program further so that 225 different newspapers in the United States will have them. Major newspapers are involved including the Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.

This is a considerable addition to the amount of people that will be served the ads.  According to Reuters, Google Ads in print form will be found in 32 of the 35 largest metropolitan markets. This gives them a total audience of about 30 million people!

One of the reasons Google says that they’re getting so involved in a printed ad program is that it gives online advertisers the chance to have their ads placed in a printed newspaper and reach a larger market. It was designed to bring online advertisers back to papers.

Here I thought printed papers were slowly dying-off, but apparently they’ll be around for a long time to come if Google is getting so involved!

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This article was written on October 11, 2007 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

One of the most common things that I’ve been getting asked is how people can stay up-to-date on the latest software. I got really excited about the free UpdateStar application which I mentioned last week, but it still didn’t have information on a lot of the software that I used.

There are hundreds of sites out there that provide RSS feeds for downloads, and I began to think to myself that there had to be a good way to use some of those feeds to my advantage. Then Yahoo! Pipes came to mind since I had just used that last week to show how to translate RSS feeds, and it works perfectly in this situation.

–Overview–

What we’re going to do with Yahoo! Pipes is combine several feeds from popular download sites into one central feed. I recommend a handful of sites at the end of this article that should offer exactly what you’re looking for.

Then we’re going to use Yahoo! Pipes to sift through every item in each of the feeds, and pull out only the items that interest us. Because of the nature of Yahoo! Pipes it will only take a second to go back and add more things to watch for, so don’t worry if you forget to put an app on the list to be monitored.

–Instructions–

1. Go to the Yahoo! Pipes homepage, and begin creating a new pipe.
2. Drag the “Fetch Feed” item over onto the grid (located under the Sources menu):
   
3. Add the feeds you want to monitor for the downloads (a recommended list can be found at the end of this article). To add multiple feeds just use the plus sign located next to “URL”.
   
4. Drag the “Filter” item over onto the grid (located under the Operators menu):
   
5. Adjust the filter so that it will only “Permit” a feed item to make it through if it matches one of the names you are looking for. You can add multiple names to search for by hitting the plus sign next to “Rules”. Just make sure each one has the “item.title” selected.
   
6. Now you just have to connect the dots, literally. When you’re done hit the “Refresh” link at the bottom to see a live preview of what the resulting feed will look like. Don’t be surprised if you don’t see any items because there may not have been updates to your programs in a little while.
   
7. Go ahead and hit the “Save” button in the upper-right corner of the screen, and give your Pipe a name. Then click the “Back to My Pipes” link towards the top, and you should see your new feed listed there. Click on it, and then subscribe to it with your feed reader!

–Feeds–

There are hundreds of different download sites that you can subscribe to, but that’s not really necessary. Below is a list of five different feeds that should take care of all your needs. All you need to do is copy and paste each of the URL’s that I provide into Step 3 above.

1. Download.com: http://www.download.com/3409-2001-0-10.xml?tag=lr_rss
2. Fileforum.com: http://fileforum.betanews.com/rss2
3. MajorGeeks.com: http://majorgeeks.com/news.xml
4. FileHippo.com: http://filehippo.com/rss/
5. CyberNetNews.com: http://feeds.cybernetnews.com/CyberNetDailyDownloads

–Tips–

• One feed will probably be enough, and that way you eliminate the possibility of receiving duplicate entries in the feed which you can see happened to me in Step 6 above. I like to know as soon as possible when new programs are released (for obvious reasons), and having multiple feeds lets me do that. I recommend the MajorGeeks feed if you are going to choose just one of them.
• Let’s say you have something that you’re tracking called “ER”. You can’t just enter that into the filter because every title that has “er” somewhere in the words will match. To get around this just put spaces before and after the “ER” in the filter so that it is treated as a word.

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This article was written on December 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Each year Wired News puts together their list of Vaporware awards otherwise known as “the year’s top technology products promised, hyped and scheduled, but not delivered.” Reader’s send in nominations and then Wired ultimately makes the final decision. They’re in the current process of accepting nominations for 2007′s Awards, and at this point, it looks as though a handful of the “winners” from last year could potentially make the list this year:

• Coming in at number 10 last year on the list was the Optimus Maxiumus keyboard which was supposed to be ready in 2007.  They were set to ship the first 200 keyboard in December, but on the Optimus Maximus website, it says they won’t ship in February 2008
• Fourth on the list for 2006 was Spore – the new game from the Sims creator. After it was promised in 2006 and never made it, they promised a launch in 2007. December is here, and it looks like Spore won’t be ready until late 2008.
• Duke Nukem Forever came in as the number one Vaporware award last year. It’s been in development for 10 years now and on the website, they say that there is no release date for the game and that it’ll  be released “when it’s done.” Period.

Again, as I mentioned, at this point people are just submitting their nominations. Among those nominations that have the potential to make the list this year are:

• Home – Playstations 3′s version of Second Life. It was expected to be available around the Glove by Fall, but it’s now nearly Winter and there’s been no news of it coming
• XP Service Pack 3 – yep, this one has gotten delayed despite XP’s popularity
• Tesla Roadster – you know, the pure electric car? It still hasn’t made its grand appearnce yet

Check out all of the nominations that have been submitted so far and let us know if there’s something you think belongs on the list!

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This article was written on March 28, 2006 by CyberNet.

The image above was the result of the Google Blog being hacked just a short time ago. A friend of the hacker made a post on Digg which quickly made it to a Front Page article. I guess the hacker broke into the blog by guessing the password (they say the password was related to Microsoft). The Google Blog is currently replaced with a cached version of the blog, which is why there are no images. Also, the friend of the hacker put up the AIM conversation they had:

11 :30:11 PM: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-fix-your-blog-pleeasssee-3.html
11:30:20 PM: i HACKED GOOGLEBLOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!1
11:30:24 PM: LEET POWER!
11:30:28 PM: lol
11:30:47 PM: i did. look at it.
11:31:10 PM: YOU did that?
11:31:14 PM: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
11:31:17 PM: yes,
11:31:29 PM: who’s trey philips?
11:31:44 PM: just nobody so that i dont get arrested…
11:31:48 PM: rofl
11:31:52 PM: dude, you could get a job!
11:31:57 PM: lol
11:32:00 PM: how’d you hack it?
11:32:18 PM: i’ll digg it
11:32:23 PM: their password was – [REMOVED PASSWORD]
11:32:31 PM: get it – [REMOVED PUN]
11:32:32 PM: rofl
11:32:36 PM: you have to be joking
11:32:47 PM: no i am not jioking – reset their passwd
11:33:16 PM: i mean5 i reset their paswd and dleted all thei rprevious entriess.
11:33:17 PM: dude, prove YOU hacked it
11:33:31 PM: put: this is proof
11:33:34 PM: on a blog post
11:33:34 PM: i just phreaking proved – whaddya want
11:33:41 PM: ok, hold on
11:34:03 PM: chekc now dude
11:34:25 PM: oh nice
11:34:32 PM:
11:34:37 PM: dont tell any1
11:35:42 PM: My friend aim’s me: i HACKED GOOGLEBLOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I don’t believe him. Sure enough, it’s hacked. But how do I know HE did it? Well….he added a special note for me.

Hopefully, they’ll hire him, not sue him.
11:35:44 PM: is that OK
11:35:48 PM: for the digg article
11:36:12 PM: go for it – i dont care. its rally not hacking. i guessed the password
11:36:24 PM: should i add the part about the pwd?
11:36:41 PM: just say i somehow guessed it and it has something to do with m$
11:36:59 PM: dude, i am sure this is gonna be slashdotted.
11:37:32 PM: How did he do it? Some good old password guessing. Wanna know the pass? Let’s just say it had something to do with their lovely rival M$.
11:37:38 PM: sound good?
11:37:40 PM: check now
11:37:42 PM: i want to be famous too
11:37:47 PM: googleblog.blogspot.com
11:37:56 PM: look at my profile
11:38:16 PM: i dindt want to do comp. sci – too obvious
11:38:48 PM: heh
11:38:48 PM: look at the comments
11:39:12 PM: post a link to my digg
11:39:14 PM: for ppl to DIGG it
11:39:22 PM: give me link
11:39:25 PM: i’ll get you the link in a sec
11:39:35 PM: http://digg.com/security/Google_blog_hacked_
11:39:37 PM: there we go
11:40:38 PM: i rul3 !
11:41:10 PM: post on the comments
11:41:14 PM: that my digg is the official one
11:41:17 PM: so says the hacker
11:41:29 PM: and then make a blog entry about the digg
11:41:32 PM: so it’s on front page
11:41:52 PM: too risky. wait. i will login qwith my alter -egp
11:41:54 PM: is it still the same pass?
11:41:57 PM: exactly
11:41:58 PM: *alter-ego
11:42:21 PM: no ofcourse not. its a super uncrackable password – sumthing to do with longhorns…
11:42:29 PM:
11:43:55 PM: hurry up with alter-ego
11:44:01 PM: tons of ppl read google blog
11:44:10 PM: heh, they prolly won’t notice til next morning
11:44:12 PM: crap. i cant loing ;(
11:44:13 PM: cuz they off work
11:44:20 PM: login?
11:44:23 PM: i cant login.
11:44:23 PM: did they counter you?
11:44:26 PM: ???
11:44:37 PM: i dunno – i cant even loing to my original blogger…
11:44:41 PM: ROFL
11:44:43 PM: uh oh.
11:44:43 PM: that was fast
11:44:46 PM: they got you
11:44:54 PM: holy shit
11:45:21 PM: already 12 comments. ofcourse 3 of them mine.
11:45:38 PM: already 7 diggs
11:45:40 PM: and 1 comment
11:46:13 PM: yeah, but they fucking locked me out from both my real blogger and trey philips….
11:46:22 PM: how did they figure out?
11:46:41 PM: come on…someone in google is going to randomly look at the blog
11:46:44 PM: let me check. let me go out to a ut computer – maybe they just blocked my ip
11:46:57 PM: hehe
11:47:06 PM: then try wireless
11:47:09 PM: google will track you
11:47:15 PM: you’ll be haxed!
11:47:20 PM: or offered a job
11:47:23 PM: depending on their mood
11:47:38 PM: 14 diggs
11:47:40 PM: it’s going fast
11:47:53 PM: 16 commetns on the blog…its spiralling.
11:48:00 PM: lol – slashdotted!
11:48:10 PM: already? wow
11:48:22 PM: not on the main , but sum1 submitted it to the admins
11:48:43 PM: i tried to submit it and it said ta similar srticle is under-review. submitted 1 minutes before me./…
11:48:59 PM: pfft
11:49:03 PM: tell them YOU’re the guy
11:49:08 PM: and they should ignore the other crap
11:49:17 PM: i don’t know how to use slashdot…it’s confusing
11:49:50 PM: ok, finally i logged in. no urls in the comments maan – they are blocking them
11:49:50 PM: !!!
11:50:20 PM: heh
11:50:35 PM: wait.
11:51:16 PM: digg link on main blog page plz
11:51:20 PM: must get this dugg fast
11:52:04 PM: wait. i am doing sumthing clever.
11:54:05 PM: how’d you make the weird pic?
11:54:20 PM: 55 diggs….
11:54:23 PM: this is happening fast
11:54:49 PM: pixel manipulation of my original facebook pic….look up the “morph filter in GIMP”
11:54:59 PM: it’s on front page
11:55:00 PM: 66 diggs
11:55:02 PM: !
11:55:27 PM: wow, there are so many ways they can track this back to you
11:55:43 PM: who cares? i dint hack.
11:55:48 PM: this is exciting
11:56:11 PM: ok, i might have used a little help from my wep-cracker, but that dusnt count….;=)
11:56:48 PM: should i tell them the old pass? they are begging
11:56:52 PM: i’ll tell them it’s something better now
11:57:33 PM: no dont do it – that ud be too suspicious. they can get to me from you! dont do it plz. tell them sumthing wrong or give em a hint
11:57:42 PM: accept my comment
11:57:58 PM: pfft, user agreement doesn’t say i have to give you up
11:58:06 PM: i’ll be like, “is he getting a job?….”
11:58:10 PM: “am I getting a job?”
11:58:10 PM:
11:58:14 PM: lol
11:58:34 PM: i’ll tell them OLD pass, not new…
11:58:47 PM: http://digg.com/
11:58:50 PM: NOOOOOOOO
11:59:16 PM: they ud get to me from you then. if u dont tell them the pswd – u can weasel out by saying i was just kidding.
11:59:20 PM: 120diggs
11:59:21 PM: hehe
11:59:31 PM: record frontpaging for digg
11:59:34 PM: ok, do one thing – copy and paste this conversation without the paSSWROD!!!!!
11:59:47 PM: to where?
12:00:04 AM: i’ll post it on my site
12:00:17 AM: then link to my site from there
12:00:21 AM: check google blog now – did the “clever” thing – my ode to google and i am scared
12:00:21 AM: i’ll put up google ads
12:00:22 AM: and make money
12:00:25 AM: lol
12:00:29 AM:
12:00:32 AM: i’l split with you
12:00:38 AM: gotta work fast
12:00:44 AM: split – more like 90% and 10% split
12:00:49 AM: ok do it

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