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02/10/2005 19:19 #31674

Cell Phone scavenger Hunt
I haven't decided exactly how I want this to work but I was thinking something like , teams of people with a camera phone run around the city in order to be the first to post various pics of landmarks, etc.

It could have lots of clue components but I am not that good at writing games / stories. I would think maybe this is something for someone with a mind for writing like (e:drchlorine) or if he still existed maybe even (e:stickboy)

(e:ajay) maybe we could add some GPS component to this?

02/11/2005 03:44 #31673

Keystroke recorders
Category: computers
Somehow this get on my system

I noticed my computer having all sorts of problems, and always thinking the cntl key was down. I tried to do a virus scan, used adaware, lost my internet connection and networking for about an hour, etc. FInally I decided to try spybot and found that somehow there was a keylogger by winwhatwhere.com on my system. I feel so totally violated. If would personally like to see the developers of that stabbed to death with spoons.

As a matter of fact, I don't think there is a heinous enough death not only for them but whoever brought it to my system. The question is how did it get there. And furthermore, what information it took with it. Probably my bank passwords. What is so crazy is that my laptop never leaves my side, so we can rule out any physical entry. And i don't use explorer, so we can rule that out to. I am also always behind at least two firewalls. In this case three. The main router, the wireless router, and the windows firewall. So maybe they arn't really getting any data.

Is WinWhatWhere or TrueActive Monitor on my computer?

The chances of our software being installed on your personal system without your knowledge are very remote.

WinWhatWhere/TAM cannot simply appear on a computer without being installed. It needs to be installed by having direct access to the machine. It cannot be installed from the Internet or from an email without your active participation. It does not tag along with other downloads. TrueActive as a company has NEVER installed our software where it wasn't requested. We never will.

Many detector programs will report the presence of our software when, in fact, it is not there. They base their determination on the presence of certain files. However, the files they use to indicate the presence of our software are also used by many other applications - not just ours. Some of these programs even make the claim that they've uninstalled our software, taking credit for something that we know is not possible to do without our own administration program.

We share your concern and annoyance with the "false positive" reports from these detector programs. They are causing unnecessary worry for many computer users.



I find that hard to believe, what use would it be if people had to allow it to install!

02/11/2005 03:15 #31672

More scans of my hand
Category: art
These are so old like 2001ish made on a really slow computer wher ethis took like an hour to render!! I modeled a hand and textured the model using another scan of my hand. I guess I had a thing for my hand for a while. I seriously have about 100 different porject since then. How am I going to organize anything if I don't start now.

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02/11/2005 04:46 #31671

Has anyone else seen googlemap?
Somehow it just slipped past me. I love it way better than mapquest so I changed it as the default mapping program on the site. To add a google map link (MAP TO: 2001%20MAIN%20STREET) , simply click on the googlemap button in your stylebox and type the address inside the box. The service is unbelievably fast and accurate. Also the zooming and moving is totally real-time interactive. It blows mapquest away.

If you are using a buffalo address you do not need the city, state zip but if you want an out of city or state address you will need them. In my exmaple I just types 2001 Main Street in between the map tags.

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paul - 06/10/07 12:04
Wow, this happend when google maps had just came out. Later, I ended up using yahooo maps for the site instead. It's funny how this demo about adding a google map to your journal, now adds a yahoo map.

02/11/2005 17:53 #31670

CNET and valentines day
Category: computers
Just to make what everyoe has been saying about the commercial aspect of valentne's day I found this even more disturbing. At CNET, I was looking around at laptops, which I am not getting right now and saw this link on the page for the laptop I was reading about.

I seriously don't want this laptop. I don't know who would. It seems too chincy but I still can't believ how they advertise buying it like this.

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