Software utilities

Zdnet reports that bugs discovered in Gmail could lead a hacker to gain access to a Gmail account, enabling him to forward messages to another account. This could be done if a web surfer visit a site that exploits this technology (using cross site request forgery CSRF), while having a Gmail session open in another page. Other secutiry issues are present in Google Search Appliance, Blogspot and Picasa.

An UK based company, Goldstriker, offers 24ct gold plated phones and iPods. Also, they also sell the housing, or if yours is in good conditions, they offer the possibility to transform your own!

Here an extract from their homepage:

Mobile phones are without a doubt a ‘‘must have’’ accessory, with ipods becoming a close second. Although you may always endeavour to have the best mobile or ipod on the market, you never achieve any uniqueness or originality as they are so widely available to everyone. Goldstriker international are now giving you the opportunity to express your individuality, and stand out from the crowd.

We have the widest range of 24ct gold plated phones and accessories on the market today, however if you can’t find what you are looking for, just contact us and we will be happy to assist with your enquiry.

If you already have one of these phones/ipods and don’t wish to purchase another, simply order just the housing and transform your existing one. You can even send us your own housing to gold plate providing it is in good condition.

Please browse our online store and enjoy the examples of our stunning work.

TV viewing has never been so good and exciting before the arrival of the Plasma TV with true to life vibrant colors and an extremely high resolution. Once you start viewing HDTV on a plasma TV you will never ever return to viewing normal TV which has very low resolution. Once you set your eyes on the plasma TV you will realize immediately why more and more people are switching over to plasma TV.

Plasma TV is fantastic in picture quality, with sharp and crisp images and meets all the HDTV standards so your investment in a Plasma TV is secured for future technology adaptation. All Plasma TV are HDTV ready. Now that once you have set your mind on purchasing a Plasma TV for yourself you need to do some market research before jumping the gun and buying an obsolete product.

First of all you have to decide whether you need a Plasma TV with full audio system or just the monitor part as you may want to add a sophisticated 7 speaker audio system to your setup. Plasma TV has inbuilt TV tuner and audio system and is useful as a standalone TV, however if you use a Home Theatre or a satellite TV receiver or cable TV receiver, then the Plasma Monitor is a perfect choice your needs. However with Plasma Monitor having a separate audio and tuner system is compulsory which means additional costs as well.

The second thing you need to choose is how you would place the Plasma TV, on its own stand or have it wall mounted. Bigger Plasma TVs usually come with both options. Since the choice can have a major bearing on the ultimate cost you pay, you need to make this choice judiciously.

Lastly as with any other electronic item, it is most important to do a market survey so as to get the best offer on the Plasma TV prices and warranties including extended warranties.

Eboostr is a software utility, created by a small software house, Moscow Development Office (MDO), which simulates the performance increase of ReadyBoost, a Microsoft technology, available only on Windows Vista. The performance increase is obtained by using memory in a USB drive (or another external memory device); those memories are usually slower than RAM, but faster than HD, so using them for cache could make the whole system much faster. It must be noted that the performance increase is not enormous, and it can be appreciated only on older systems with a small amount of memory or slow HDs. This could be useful for old systems, especially notebook. The advantage of Eboostr is that it can use also other types of memory, such as Firewire devices or external hard disks. and it can be used on Winodws XP too!

Web Directory scripts and software has been on the market for some years. As web directory industry matures, the need for a more creative way to expand arose; this lead to the emergence of bid for position directory.
Once bid for position directories started gaining popularity, script and software to make creating bidding directory started appearing on the market. Most of the early bid for position directory script has one flaw or the other. Weaknesses in the early bidding directories were studied and improve on in new bidding directory software called Link Bid Script.

Link Bid Script bidding web directory software was created using PHP scripting language, this ensures that it runs on all major server platform and gain wide acceptance among the PHP community.
Link Bid Script works like a standard web directory in that it has various categories and sub categories you can submit a link to. The important features which distinguishes it from a standard web directory is the fact that listing are ordered based on the amount of money paid for the link.

Link Bid Script website owner can determine the minimum bid to be placed on and initial bid or indeed minimum bid increase when bidders come back to top up a bid. The maximum number of links to be displayed on a page and indeed the number of link to be displayed on the homepage should the directory owner wish to display highest paying link on the homepage.

Link Bid Script is packed full of numerous other features. You can find list of Link Bid Script features here. You can explore the features of Link Bid Script at demo site. You can also take a look at an example bid directory at www.biddirectory.it.