Finding apps in the iTunes App Store is becoming tricky as the number of available third party applications is rapidly approaching 10,000. Fortunately, Arnold Kim (creator of MacRumors.com) has developed a new site (AppShopper.com) dedicated to tracking the apps in the App Store. The Top 100 - as its name indicates - keeps [...]
AppShopper - Find iPhone/iPod Touch Apps Easily
By Franklin Davis on Nov 14, 2008 within Apple | Comments
Happy 233rd Birthday to the USMC!
By Bill Wagner on Nov 10, 2008 within Coffee Break | Comments
I know this is not a typical technology post, but I wanted to say Happy Birthday to all the other Devil Dogs out there! On April 19, 1775, British troops fire on Minutemen on Lexington (Mass.) Common and the American Revolution begins. Then, on 10 November, 1775, the Continental Congress authorizes two battalions [...]
Is WPA Broken? Not quite.
By Franklin Davis on Nov 7, 2008 within Technology | Comments
Ars Technica has a well written piece by Glenn Fleishman about Erik Tews’ (pictured) work on cracking WPA. Up until now WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) has been the only alternative to the severely flawed Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). Note: it now takes only seconds to break into a WEP secured wireless network. Fortunately, there [...]
Top 10 Technologies That Will Help Change the World
By Bill Wagner on Nov 4, 2008 within Featured, Lists, Technology | Comments
Recently, MIT’s Technology Review published their list of the ten emerging technologies that they feel are most likely to change the way we live. Sadly, the ‘Hotdoll’ and the ‘USB Stripper’ were left off the list, but the list does include ‘Modeling Surprise’, ‘Probabilistic Chips’, ‘NanoRadios’, ‘Wireless Power’, ‘Atomic Magnetometers’, ‘Offline Web Applications’, ‘Graphene [...]