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Splitter: Flash-Based Puzzle Game

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:56:50 +0100

Guide your character to the goal by cutting objects and joints.
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Boston.com The Big Picture: 2008, The Year in Photographs

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:39:48 +0100

Boston.com's "The Big Picture" is a weblog with impressive high resolution photographs. Recently, its author Alan Taylor has posted the third and final selection of 120 (US-centric) pictures that "show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months".

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

eMotive: Physical Motion Effects

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:59:43 +0100

"Check out the video by Adrien Mondot for a demonstration of eMotion being used with a Wiimote. eMotion is a physics based visual tool for the Mac. It's designed to enhance performances by reacting to real world motion."
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Noupe.com: 50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:03:58 +0100

Noupe.com has collected a nice selection of icon sets. Many of them can be used freely for own projects.

Tor Three-Year Development Roadmap

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:39:16 +0100

The onion routing project Tor has published a three-year development roadmap. It contains a lot of interesting material and research topics, like a mechanism to turn reliable clients into bridges/relays automatically, and 'bonus points' for well-behaving relays.

Five New IT books: A To-Do List

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:35:59 +0100

I regularly browse through the list of new acquisitions of our university's library. Turns out there are a few interesting new books to read!
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A Most Amazing (and funny) Privacy Scandal

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:42:51 +0100

One of the largest "identity thefts" in German history turned out to be a bizarre christmas story: Account data of 130,000 customers of the Landesbank Berlin (LBB) was delivered to the Frankfurter Rundschau (a German newspaper) on December 10th - allegedly even including PINs.

How did this happen? It was all about Stollen, a traditional German christmas fruitcake.
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Play Auditorium

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:30:44 +0100

Auditorium is a very nice relaxing Flash-based puzzle game. If you need something "for in-between", this is one for you.
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10 Quick Tips for (Web) Interface Design

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:26:58 +0100

Dmitry Fadeyev from Smashing Magazine has posted some useful tips for (mostly Web related) interface design.

Free vServer (Joyent)

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:45:47 +0100

Joyent is offering free VPS with 256MB RAM, 10GB storage and 'unlimited' traffic, as long as you're using Google's OpenSocial API. Yes, including root access.
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Proposal for Tor Hidden Services

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:34:39 +0100

With the help of Tor and its so-called "hidden services", you can publish content anonymously and censor-resistant. Gateways such as Tor2Web allow easy access to these contents without the need to install Tor as reader. Still, there's only a handful of (known) hidden services, more or less useful. While the technology and infrastructure is available (there's even a free anonymous webhoster), the majority of users is not tech-savvy enough to benefit: In times where the largest group of media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors (more than 120 journalists in prison today), we need an easy-to-use platform for online journalists.
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Interesting Paper on Trojan Keyloggers

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:12:13 +0100

A team from University of Mannheim has published a case-study about trojan keyloggers and their dropzones. What I found particularly interesting is the analysis of configuration mechanisms: The two examined families of keyloggers (Limbo/Netshell and ZeuS/Zbot) both contact servers for updated configuration, whereas the ZeuS family is more advanced and even allows to take screenshots to defeat virtual keyboards.
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Simulated Headshots

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:59:54 +0100

TN Games, a company that already sells a haptic body vest to "feel the impact of punches, kicks, bullets and blasts" within computer games, has annouced a Force Feedback helmet that is supposed to make you feel as if you're being shot in the head.
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Projekte, Strukturen und Herzblutenergie

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:40:25 +0100

Auszüge aus dem Artikel Projekte, Strukturen und Herzblutenergie von Gunter Dueck, IBM Distinguished Engineer, aus der aktuellen "Informatik Spektrum" Dezember 2008:

QUOTE:

Wer beginnt heute einfach mal so ein Projekt - aus unternehmerischer Lust? Das kann sich vielleicht ein mittelständischer Unternehmer leisten, der das Sagen hat und das eigene Geld gibt und dazu noch alles gut selbst überschauen kann. (...) Wer aber blickt bei großen Projekten noch durch? Etwas Neues muss überall genehmigt werden. Jeder sagt etwas dazu. Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie haben eine große Idee und besitzen nicht zufällig die Firma oder die Unversität selbst. Sie können das Projekt nicht stemmen, Ihr Chef auch nicht, dessen Chef ebenfalls nicht. Keiner will eine neue Baustelle aufmachen.

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The Music Room

nospam@example.com (Mo) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:39:00 +0100

A 3D world, filled with music coming from different sources, blended together in surround sound (5.1/7.1). Similar music is closer together (for example, based on last.fm information). You can freely move around, with distant sources fading out, until you only hear the closest source (standing "inside" it).
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