Friday, March 27, 2009

@bmorrissey - Casual Game Ads Lift Brands (vendor sponsored study) - http://ping.fm/KdJDG - what'd you think they'd say?

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Posted by Augustine at 12:20 PM

Simple keystroke sniffing schemes work where keyloggers won't

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/simple-keystroke-sniffing-schemes-work-where-keyloggers-wont/


Ah, the wonders of CanSecWest. The famed security conference has delivered yet again in 2009, this time bringing to light two simple sniffing schemes that could be used to decipher typed text when keyloggers are just too noticeable. Gurus from Inverse Path were on hand to explain the approaches, one of which involved around $80 of off-the-shelf gear. In short, curious individuals could point a laser on the reflective surface of a laptop between 50 feet and 100 feet away, and then by using a "handmade laser microphone device and a photo diode to measure the vibrations, software for analyzing the spectrograms of frequencies from different keystrokes, as well as technology to apply the data to a dictionary," words could be pretty easily guessed. The second method taps into power grid signals passed along from PS/2 keyboard outputs, and by using a digital oscilloscope and an analog-digital converter, those in the know can pick out tweets from afar. Check the read link for more, and make sure you close those blinds and pick up a USB keyboard, pronto.

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Posted by Augustine at 9:52 AM

Havok and AMD show off OpenCL with pretty pretty dresses

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/havok-and-amd-show-off-opencl-with-pretty-pretty-dresses/

Havok and AMD show off OpenCL with pretty pretty dresses
With all the talk about OpenCL and Snow Leopard together and how the spec will allow Apple's upcoming hotness to exploit graphics accelerators, it's easy to lose track of the place where the standard could make its biggest impact: gaming. Yes, OpenGL may have lost favor in that realm in recent years, but OpenCL looks to captivate the hearts and GPUs of gamers everywhere by applying some much-needed standardization to the physics acceleration realm, first shown in public at GDC running on some AMD hardware. Havok is demonstrating its Havok Cloth and Havoc Destruction engines, the former of which is embedded below, and we think you'll agree it's quite impressive. OpenCL allows such acceleration to switch between the GPU and CPU seamlessly and as needed depending on which is more available, hopefully opening the door to physics acceleration that actually affects gameplay and doesn't just exist to make you say, "Whoa."

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Posted by Augustine at 9:50 AM

Google Rolling Out "Wonder Wheel" and Other Search Additions [Search]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/fFkS_NP0vc4/google-rolling-out-wonder-wheel-and-other-search-additions

Google search has been on a roll lately, and today brings yet another addition—an "options" panel that switches your results to reviews, forum posts, recent items and a timeline, and even a nifty "Wonder Wheel."

Only a certain percentage of Google users will see the "Show Options" link in their blue Google bar at the moment, but the Google Blogoscoped blog has a bit of cookie-adding JavaScript anyone can use to get opted into the "experiment." Once you do, you'll see the view options pictured at right, giving you all kinds of new views on your search results. Most intriguing are the "Reviews" sorter, which uses Google's algorithms and ranking to weed out the opinions and ratings, the "Recent" sorter to show the latest web items, and the Wonder Wheel, pictured up top, that lets you chain-click around a topic to find a lot of related material.

Check out Google Blogoscoped's screencast of the latest Google features below, and hit the link farther down for the cookie add-in trick:



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Posted by Augustine at 9:41 AM

Google Docs Gets Full Find & Replace, Drawing Tools [Online Documents]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/KjxX9C2H6uA/google-docs-gets-full-find--replace-drawing-tools

Google Docs takes another step toward becoming a proper document tool, adding a full-fledged find and replace toolbar, as well as a browser-based SVG drawing tool.

Docs had a kind of low-powered, actually apologetic find and replace tool before that could only do whole-document, every-instance replacements. Now it's a bit more familiar, with one box for the finding text (or regular expression), one for the replacement, and buttons and shortcuts (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+G for next) that can replace items one-by-one:

That's just a writing tool, though. The new drawing app, found by hitting "Insert," then "Drawing" from the top menus, works on text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It's easy to figure out and doesn't require any special software (at least on SVG-supporting browsers like Firefox, Chrome, or Opera), but, as Google Operating System points out, you have to "save" the drawing by hitting the "X" in the upper-right, which doesn't seem like what you want to do.



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Posted by Augustine at 9:40 AM

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