Turns out you can put a lat/long into Google maps. You need to use the following format: http://maps.google.com/?sll=53.616%2C-002.816 sll tells Google it is Lat/long, and then you enter it with xx.xxx,yy.yyy format, same as usual. (%2C is the URL safe version of a comma) When you press go, you will see a map of your […]
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The First Post is an online daily web newspaper, and I’m quite taken with it. And this made me laugh.
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A lot of people might have been confused by this, I know I was. If you are using Grisoft’s AVGFree version 7.1, you’ll have seen various pop-ups telling you that it was being stopped. However, what that meant was that the product support for 7.1 was being stopped, and that you should upgrade to the
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Well, yet again, we see spam coming in on a weekly basis, asking us to “Clcik here, and verify your online bank details” and other humorously low grade spoof attempts. A lot of this is for banks, as well as the usual PayPal and eBay stuff. Today, we got a phonecall, purporting to be from
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With the rather amusing title How Jews celebrate christmas, LadyADA announced to the world her latest creation. It is a simple and cheap automatic radio frequency jammer. For not very much money, this pocket sized device will knock out cellphone calls and GPS within a 10 to 30 metre radius of itself. This has some
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This Video should be enough to make you wonder if there are still any secrets out there! Watch as Barry Wels and Paul Crouwel show off a shiny Russian embassy lock. These are very, very hard to come by, as they are only used in Russian embassies. I’m sure someone in the GRU/KGB/internal security department
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A brilliant feature of the already brilliant Google Maps system is that you can now place multiple markers, and get directions. Forget your old route finding tricks with a paper map, or even your GPS or a site like the AA’s. This is so fast and easy. You are going out for the day to
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So, as in the life of most businesses, we come to the crunch point, where a person or company has had work done, but has then decided that, since the emergency they were having is now over, they don’t want to pay. Never mind that most locksmiths won’t do work on account for unknown companies
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There is a security flaw in eBay. When two people are logged on to the account from different places, logging out doesn’t log the other party out, or even challenge them for the password. This may not sound like an issue, but when things go wrong, it is. Let’s say your account is hijacked. This
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