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For managing the Mac OS X firmware password, you can use the Open Firmware Password application. This works with Mac OS X 10.1 and later. For further details regarding managing Mac OSX firmware protection, read Apple’s online documentation. There are several easy steps to disable the mac’s firmware password: 1. Launch the Open Firmware Password application 2. [...]

I can’t say I’m surprised, but I really appreciate Barack Obama’s intentions and initiatives. After social media networking websites, now, the political campaigns are brought to us directly on the iPhone. The application “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly,” as we [...]

What is Helix? Helix is a bootable live cd, full of various forensics tools for your..special needs. If you like to play CSI with your friends or possibly, your girlfriend, using Helix, you can retreive all kinds of data from any computer. Helix does not leave any trails behind it, it’s the virtual policeman you were [...]

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) got its expected update, the 2.6.0. The new GiMP 2.6.0 offers several new features and improvements, but most importantly in this version, GIMP includes support for Generic Graphics Library (GEGL). The Generic Graphics Library is a graph based image processing framework which provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non [...]

Believe it or not, Microsoft is now offering its server virtualization software as a free download for anyone. Better yet, the new version of Microsoft Hyper V-Server is a stand-alone edition that doesn’t require MIcrosoft Server installed on the machine. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a great choice for customers who want a basic and simplified [...]

FaceBook launched a new and improved version of their FaceBook application for the iPhone, the 2.0. With this new version, FaceBook wants to go more towards the regular internet version, introducing some features like: Notifications, Friend Requests, Photo Tagging, Photo Captioning, Inbox Search, Attachments.. This update also promises to be more stable than the previous one, [...]

Developers will be thrilled, Microsoft announced recently the pre-beta launch of the anticipated WIndows 7 operating system. Windows 7 attempts to “wash” the fiasco generated by Windows Vista at its release, but some are still very skeptical regarding this new WIndows version. Developers will have the chance to see the new Windows 7 Alpha in action [...]

As a Windows XP or Vista user, you probably wondered how can you disable the system tray pop-ups when Automatic Updates are available or  the firewall/antivirus is disabled. The firewall alert is very annoying in my case, at every fresh install, I disable the Windows Firewall because, I simply don’t like it and I use [...]

While Windows Live Messenger isn’t one of my favorite instant messengers, certain work circumstances force me to use it. The most annoying things about Live Messenger are the ads that keep on getting displayed at the bottom, ads that I believe, diverted our browser to unsolicited pages one to many times. Fortunately, there is a [...]

Many individuals, including myself, use their cellphones as morning wake-up alarms. If you are such an individual, you must hate your phone by now..but there is a solution. The HappyWakeUp alarm is an application aimed for the S60 powered phones, which wakes you up ONLY when you are awake or half awake. The software uses [...]