Gadgets: Panic button for your keyboard

There are many moments when you might have missed this button on your keyboard. It doesn’t do much - depending on which button you cover - but you feel a lot better having a button to stab at when everything goes to wrong.
It comes with a self-adhesive pad on the base. Safe for home [...]

Eternity on Ice

When your kids have taken over the Lego Ice cubes there is something that might last a bit longer with you. Art. Lebedev Studio is introducing this beautiful ice tray with an eternal touch. The design is based on the fairy-tale “The Snow Queen”.
Available soon through Art. Lebedev retailers and importers worldwide.

He arranged his pieces [...]

IT Project Management illustrated

The painful process from vision to reality…
via The Techsplodervia EzzyEnough

Internet: Finding the most watched advertising videos

While many just switch to another channel when a block of advertisements starts on TV, others seemingly can’t get enough of it. And we’re talking dozens of million views here…
All-time-high winner Sony Bravia not only made it to the front-page news, got millions of views on the top download sites, it even got its [...]

Christmas shopping for the ultra-rich (1)

Christmas is approaching fast so we want to contribute our part and support a group of our society - often overlooked - but in real need.
In a brief series we will provide some suggestions to those that are now discovering that this year again has already gone by while they still trying to [...]

Life: Cufflinks with a message

We did hesitate a bit putting this post up but then these cuff links are looking great on the right person (hey-hey).
Acorn Studios is selling these keyboard beauties for about USD 15. There are 10 different pairs to choose - from [Esc] & [Pause] to [Page Up] & [Page Down] plus custom orders. The [...]

UK: Road signs hacked

On Thursday last week thousands of commuters driving to work in Crawley, West Sussex got a special greeting in the morning.
Digital roadside signs that usually inform about parking availability, instead told visitors to “F*** off”. The message appeared on all similar signs around Crawley at about 6.45am and the Council declared that hackers gained [...]

PayPal: HP adds PayPal as payment option

You can tell that a new solution has become mainstream when key market players announce publicly that they will use it.
Yesterday worldwide number 1 computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has announced that it now is offering PayPal as a new payment option in their online stores. With the agreement, the HP Home & Home Office Store [...]

Top 10 time waster games

When you’re done with MS Windows included games or other freebies or these “nasty” admins at work didn’t install them on your computer here are some suggestions of online games.
We did only include games you can play with little effort - for example by just using the mouse -and that run as Flash files. [...]

Internet: Make the web a safer place and provide firewall data

With more and more people using ADSL broadband and always on Internet connections, we believe it might be time for a little reminder. Support the SANS Internet Storm Center and provide firewall logs to the DShield database.

The Internet Storm Center (ISC) is an initiative of the SANS Institute, one of the most reputable computer [...]