Isn't It Embarassing?

TV commercials that use the same song! Didn't their agencies check who else is using the same song? Energizer Pampers training pants Hotels.com Ford more... (sorted by song) "Just What I Needed" - The Cars (Circuit City) "Lust For Life"- Iggy Pop (Carnival Cruiselines) "U Can't Touch This"- MC Hammer (Purrell) "Picture Book"- The Kinks (Hewlett Packard)

"Weight"- The Band (Cingular) "Let My Love Open the Door"- Pete Townshend (JC Penneys) "It's Over"- Roy Orbison (Blockbuster) "Have Love, Will Travel"- The Sonics (Land Rover)

"Run Away"- Real McCoy (Lexus) "Should I Stay or Should I Go"- The Clash (Pontiac) "I Want to Break Free"- Queen (Coke) "Rock 'N' Roll"- Led Zeppelin (Cadillac)

"Got To Be Real"- Cheryl Lynn (Clairol) "Rock 'n Me"- Steve Miller Band (Wrangler) "What's new Pussycat"- Tom Jones (Special K) "I Feel Good"- James Brown (Ameriquest)

"Dream On"- Aerosmith (Buick) "Comon' Get Happy"- The Partridge Family (PA Lottery) "Rescue Me"- Aretha Franklin (Pledge) "Magic Carpet Ride"- Steppenwolf (Chevy)

"Too Hot Ta Trot"- The Commodores (Special K) "All Right Now"- Free (Tweeter) "Give it to Me, Baby"- Rick James (Papa John's) "I Can See For Miles"- The Who (Silverstar)

"Happy Together"- The Turtles (Clinique) "I Melt With You"- Modern English (Ritz) "Dream Weaver"- Gary Wright (Macy*s) "Push It"- Salt-n-Pepa (Nextel)

"She's a Lady"- Tom Jones (Commerce Bank) "Complicated"- The Rolling Stones (Lexmark) "Love Hurts"- Nazareth (Norelco) "Rebel Yell"- Billy Idol (Blockbuster)

"I've Got the Power"- Snap (Hotels.com, Pampers, Ford) "You Sexy Thing"- Hot Chocolate (Applebees) "Over Under Sideways Down"- The Yardbirds (Chevy) "Let's Get it On"- Nazareth (Chevy Mailibu)

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Apple TV OS loosed into the wilds

Apple TV will succeed like Palm and Wii because intentionally or unintentionally it is allowing the user base (their fans) to make mods and make it better.

Posted Mar 26th 2007 6:36AM by Thomas Ricker Filed under: Home Entertainment, Media PCs

It was just a matter of time until the immanently hackable Apple TV OS was released into the wild. Afterall, the OS and internal disk drives have already been ripped from the svelte chassis, mixed in with higher density disks, and burned back into Apple's set top box. Of course, the 200MB Apple TV OS image is likely locked to Apple TV hardware and runs on Intel procs only, but these are just minor annoyances as we've seen before. Given its mach kernel and BSD origins, it won't be long before Apple TV becomes the homebrew happy-hacking platform of choice. Hear that team XMBC, there's a new sheriff in town. Now please, somebody enable that goofy USB port for something a bit more useful than "service," mkay?

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FlickrCash made it to front page of del.icio.us today

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Hide files in JPEG images

The Tech Tray weblog has posted a tutorial for hiding secret files inside JPEG images using the popular Windows archiver, WinRAR, and a little command line magic.

Basically, you create a .rar archive of your to-be-hidden file, then run a copy command from the Windows command line (with the /b binary switch) to embed your secret file in your image. After you complete the process, you can open and view the JPEG like any other image - the only thing that might tip off that the image has got a secret is a potentially bloated file size. To grab the secret file, you just use WinRAR to extract the file from the image.

It may sound like a lot of work, but it's a pretty simple process (watch the video to see how easy it is). This is a neat trick, but if you want to get really serious about encryption, you'll want to encrypt your data with TrueCrypt. — Adam Pash

How to hide files in JPEG's [thetechtray.net]

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Hiding Files in Jpg's

Introduction

Here is a tutorial on how to hide files in Jpg's. Please note it isn't the most secure method, because the information is stored in plain text but it's still cool to play with. A simple solution to make this more secure, is to use encryption on the RAR file when your create it, but thats not the point of this tutorial :) The idea is to show how files can be 'slammed' together, to stop the average PC user from finding them.

Video Tutorial

Please click here to see the video tutorial.

Step by Step Instructions

You will need the following..

• Windows 2000 / XP (probably Vista, too!)
• Basic Knowledge of the Command Prompt
• WinRar

1. Gather your image and the files you wish to lodge into it. Here I have a meeting.txt which which I will slap inside my secret.jpg

2. Add the files you want to hide into a new RAR archive
3. Open Command Prompt

4. Go to the folder where your files are located, in this case 'C:\hidden'
5. Type 'copy /b secret.jpg + meeting.txt.rar lizard.jpg' where secret.jpg is the original picture, meeting.txt.rar is the file to be hidden, and lizard.jpg is the file which contains both.
6. Test the JPG by opening it, and verifying it still opens. If it does, try opening the file with WinRar!

7. The completed RAR file!
8. Here is the image I created when making this tutorial!

Further Reading

• Further reading on steganography
• Wikipedia article on the rar file format

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Pavonine showcases 24-inch MIRACUBE stereoscopic LCD monitor

Posted Mar 19th 2007 7:48AM by Darren Murph

Filed under: Displays

While not quite as flashy as IO2's floating M3 Heliodisplay, Pavonine's forthcoming 24-incher still manages to put an interesting twist on your average computer LCD. Aside from touting a respectable 1,920 x 1,200 resolution, front-panel controls, and a DVI input, the MIRACUBE monitor boasts stereoscopic abilities most commonly associated with those gaudy head-mounted displays and cheap 3D gimmicks. The screen can only muster 1,920 x 600 resolution while displaying in the third-dimension, and requires (a presumably bundled) pair of glasses in order to experience the full effect. No word just yet on how much Pavonine plans on charging for the G240S once it departs the CeBIT floor, but we'd probably wait for a hands-on review before plunking down for such hit-and-miss technology.

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