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  • Symantec Recommends Disabling pcAnywhere Pending Patch [News]

    January 27, 2012

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    Sometimes the past can come back to bite you. That?s exactly what is happening to Symantec right now. The company is dealing with a security issue related to a source code leak that took place in 2006. The breach, which was not fully disclosed until January of this year, included the source code of Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security and Norton SystemWorks.


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  • Arduino Programming – Playing With Shift Registers (a.k.a Even More LEDs)

    January 13, 2012

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    Today I’ll attempt to teach you a little bit about Shift Registers. These are a fairly important part of Arduino programming, basically because they expand the number of outputs you can use, in exchange for only 3 control pins. You can also daisy-chain shift registers together in order to get even more outputs. This is a significant jump in difficulty from previous tutorials.


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  • Kindle Fire’s Silk Browser Ported To Other Android Devices [News]

    January 6, 2012

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    When the Kindle Fire was introduced by Amazon one of the main features highlighted was its browser, called Silk. Unlike most browsers, Silk uses remote servers to handle portions of page rendering, which is supposed to improve browsing speeds. Benchmarks so far have indicated that the feature is hit-or-miss, but should it be improved, the benefits could become significant.


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  • How To Control Your Windows PC With Kinect

    May 27, 2011

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    Last time, I introduced you to Kinect hacking on the PC and the drivers involved, as well as a basic zombie survival game demo. While killing zombies is awesome, it’s time we moved onto doing something actually useful. So I’d like to show you the Kinemote application, as well as how to use it to control both your mouse for general Windows tasks, and Xbox Media Center.


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