Give your surfing a boost with these 10 Firefox extensions

10 Firefox that are considered essentials by the authors of this article.

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Podcasting for the strike 101

Canadian employees of the CBC television corporation started to publish podcasts about the lock out they are facing, seems the media is not paying attention to their situation. First the web ban from the telecommunication corporation, now this. Well the battle won't be televised but sure it will be podcasted.

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How to quit your job

This is quite a nice way to quit your job. In this polite yet hypocrite world everything seems to be scripted and this guide will get you through the whole process. My word of advice is, if you are planning to go back to your old job: don't quit at all.

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Oil barrel at $100, $4.5 per gallon here is why.

Over lunch I found this from a writer who I think finally
understands the "oil" problem.  Of course, if America did
not consume 1 in 4 barrels produced worldwide things could
be a little better!  Damn those Hummers.

Energy It's Only The Beginning
David Andelman, 08.25.05, 3:00 PM ET

There's a fun battle going on in the pages of The New York
Times between columnist John Tierney and Sunday Magazine
writer Peter Maass. It's over just how much oil we have
left in the world--and therefore, it would appear, how
much time we have before we hit the wall of an oilless
Armageddon.

Tierney thinks it's all bogus--that like we have many
times before, we will get past this momentary bubble in
oil prices.(THE YERGIN VISION) The Saudis or some other
still to be identified oil power will simply stick a few
more straws in the ground and suck up some more oil, and
all will be right with the world.

Maass, however, believes there are simply no more straws
to stick in the ground in the Great Arabian Desert, and
that we are on the cusp of seeing the most oil we will
ever find being sucked out of the ground today.(THE
SIMMONS VISION) Implicitly, of course, even if demand
remained constant, the price would have to begin soaring
--indeed it already has.

The problem is that they're both wrong, though Maass has
it closer to correct. The fact is, they're arguing over
the wrong question. They're arguing how much supply is
left. The elephant in the room that neither appears willing
to acknowledge, isn't how much oil is left, but how many
people there are consuming it. (INSIGHT!)

Thursday morning's news out of Beijing is the most ominous
to date for those who, correctly in my view, are arguing
over not how much supply we have left, but how quickly
demand is overtaking and blowing past--way past--the ability
of any new supplies to keep up.

The Chinese government disclosed that its oil imports surged
15% in July over the year-earlier level to 2.62 million barrels
per day. That's a stunning and, frankly, frightening increase
in just one year. It's still far short of U.S. imports of 10
million barrels a day, but at that rate of growth in China,
it won't be long before the two powers will be neck and neck.

And it's only the beginning. The fact is, the Chinese are
off trolling the world for sources of supplies that haven't
yet been locked up by Western oil giants. Though they
missed getting Unocal (nyse: UCL - news - people ) away from
Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ), last week, they offered
some $4 billion for PetroKazakhstan (nyse: PKZ - news -
people ). And they've invested heavily in some of the crown
jewel fields of Russian oil giant Yukos after the Russian
government came in and stole it from its owners. Their goal
is to become the destination of choice for any oil
neighboring Russia manages to coax out of the ground.

The Chinese are desperate because they, at least, see the
locomotive at the end of the tunnel headed straight for us.
The fact is that China has barely a third of its 1.3 billion
people consuming any quantity of oil at all right now.
And yet, its consumption is exploding at the staggering
rate of 15% a year. When the rest of the Chinese head for
the pump--look out .

The reason the demographics are so frightening is that
just 400 million or so Chinese are in the developed regions
along the coast from Shanghai down through Hong Kong and in
other big cities like Beijing. If China, as its leaders suggest
they'd like to do quickly, bring into the developed world
even a third of the 900 million in the primitive interior of
the nation, that would mean bringing another entire United
States online in just a few years. And just imagine all the
oil they'll consume.

And of course this is ignoring completely hundreds of millions
more in India and Indonesia--the world's second and fourth most
populous nations. Eventually, they'll want their share too.
India already imports 76% of its 2.57 million barrels per day
consumption. And it's growing as well, though at a fraction of
China's pace.

Can the world and its oil supplies withstand that kind of
strain? I think the only question is how quickly all this
will dawn on oil traders and how fast we reach $100 a barrel.
Which itself may be only the beginning.

Some get it....some don't.
Bob

ReactOS ver 0.2.7 is out

The open source solution that would bring a windows compatible operating system is available for download.

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Asianux: Linux for the Asian market ver 2.0 is out

The product of three asian companies that promote and develop solutions under Linux is available for download.

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Dr. Who on your cell phone

Cell phones get fancier by the month, BBC will exploit the capacity of some phones to accept mmc/sd like cards and put episodes of Dr. Who on sale plus many others to come.

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JAVA: Developing AJAX Applications the Easy Way

Creating a chat web page have never being easier as this tutorial explains.

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How To Look Like A UNIX/LINUX Guru

This is your survival guide to UNIX/LINUX, once you go bash you wont go back.

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Bully is coming let the witch hunt begin

Rockstar games new release Bully will be here in October, but everyone that makes a living out of just pointing others is already working, the last resource is making the Columbine tragedy the ultimate example on how violent video games could spell doom over childs, P L E A S E.

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AJAX - beyond the buzzwords

A paper that will just take 5 min to read, very informative and concise. Thinking about jumping into AJAX?, this is your must read.

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DIY dashboard widgets

Widgets on the Mac are not that difficult, learn how to brew your own widgets with this article.

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Build your own Septambic Keyboard

This is an ergonomic key interface Very cool for those who want to learn how to create a custom keyboard.

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Intel unveils Viiv, new brand aimed at consumers

Intel tries to get hip naming their new line of processors Viiv. Find out more about it here.

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Google talk alternatives

If you are not impressed by google talk like me, give jabber clients a try, simple to register, clean interfaces, ENCRYPTION, totally private and other neat features that beat the hell out of google talk. Remember never follow, innovate.

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From white hat to black hat, security admin arrested

This Finnish guy used his 5ki115 to get some petty cash from the company he was working for. Office space deja vu?.

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Lego's bricks wall street

A place for Lego trading is what you'll find here, buy, sell and be part of the communitiy of Lego builder.

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The Nautilus Minisub

Remember the old Disney movie 20000 Leagues Under the Sea?, well this guy made a replica of the Nautilus (one of the coolest submarines designs). Via Hack a day.

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New hot sport: Lava sledding.

Lava, the resource every game designer includes in their games will be the subject of a new trendy sport in Hawaii.

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BonsaiKitten: kitty in a vase

Many techno geeks love cats, this guy takes the ownership of cats to a new level, he "grows" them in vases.

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Add an external antenna to your bluetooth adapter

Wanna have fun with you bluetooth adapter?, to play you need to stay away from your target, this tutorial will explain you how to add an external antenna to your adapter for yo to attach your favorite cantenna or similar.

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Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo now and then

This is a photo diary of the locations used for the movie vertigo, it show how the looked back then and how they look today.

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Tugzip: Free file compression utility

Tugzip a great file compression tool that supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives. No more winzip or winrar cracking.

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Java vs PHP, who wins the CMS battle.

Java and PHP both offer content management systems to make easier the webmaster life, lots of people have implemented systems based on those two languages. Find out who is wining so far.

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Drupal: the PHPNuke killer

Drupal, the content management system based on PHP is gaining terrain very fast against PHPNuke, its community is growing and there are local events at many cities, check it out.

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Userscript: you need a tech script?, we have it.

If there is something out there that can be enhanced or automated with scripts, you surely find an answer here, scripts for blogger, ajax, technocrati, flickr and more.

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Mickey Mouse has worms, Disneyland under attack

It couldn't be worse for The Walt Disney Company, the infamous worm that attacked CNN and ABC also hit them were it hurts the most, their theme parks, access gates, fast passes and restaurants billing could get done because the house of the mouse uses Windows 2000 as their platform.

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Wigle THE worldwide wireless access network database

This is by far the best database of geo located data for wireless networks. The mapping of the data is superb and the posibilities endless.

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Linux in almost any laptop

So installing Linux in your laptop didn't go all right?, you can't play DVDs or music, connecting a peripheral wasn't a plug and play story, well, this page comes to the rescue, documenting the experiences of others users, sorted by brand and model sure you'll find something for you.

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The l33t programming language

Straight from the site: "l33t is an esoteric programming language created by Stephen McGreal and Alex Mole. It is based loosely on Brainfuck and influenced by Beatnik. It's a tongue-in-cheek attempt to create a language which can be programmed using Leet Speak, for the script kiddies, trolls and crackers who find themselves amused by it."

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Funny Kevin Rose thread

Remember that photo G4Techtv published with Kevin Rose face as Mr. Spock, well somebody came with an idea.

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Computer virus writers moving faster with attacks

Seems that a new wave of worms attacks is in the making. This article exposes the new worms that have appeared in the past days and talks on what is about to come.

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Test your firewall part 2

This is another great link to test your firewall configuration. You can't have enough tests.

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Hacking MD5 encryption

A nice doc on how to hack MD5 encrypted text.

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Tech surveillance flop kills innocent man in London

After the London bombings, the British big tech dragnet was put to work and have yielded the gunning down of an innocent man. Ironically the same tech is used to point fingers.

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Yahoo's photomail service goes live.

You can send messages and photos in just one shot with this new service from Yahoo. The only problem is that you need M$ Explorer to use the service.

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Test your firewall

This is a basic test that will probe your firewall, check if the thing is running with this site.

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Human-like skin gives robots sense of touch -study

A new electronic skin would give robotic applications the sense of pressure and heat, finally toys would call the parents if their childs try to hurt them, after all those toys cost them some dough

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Taser says stun gun shown to avert deadly force

Taser International, makers of the known gun that will send a 50,000-volt down your spie, is "dodging bullets" with all the concerns around the use of this technology for law enforcement. Those deaths related to use of taser guns are just "coincidence".

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Nuvio challenges FCC Internet phone rules for 911

This VOIP company says that providing geo located data of their costumers for the 911 service in the short time frame proposed by the FCC is almost impossible, they argue that mobile companies have been given more "flexible" regulations on this aspect.

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jahshaka a kick ass video real time editing and effects app

This opensource application will really give a spark to your video editing projects.

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Technology flirting bypasses society's rules

Is no secret for no one the segregating nature of the Saudi society, women dine in one room away from the men, so how is the flirting scene done Saudi Arabia?, answer: via bluetooth. Seems that that the local religious police needs some bluesnarfing ASAP.

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FREE Password Recovery Utilities

Free tools to recover passwords from Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Trillian, Outlook Express, MS Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, VPN, dial ups, internet explorer autocomplete, windows protected storage and windows network passwords.

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CSS examples galore

If you learn by seeing others work this is the site for you, lots of web pages that apply CSS at full extent, ordered by popularity.

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Dive into Python FREE online book

For any of those who need to improve your Python skills here is a FREE book you can download, includes the source code for the examples in the book. enjoy.

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Navigate without clicking

These guys propose an user interface where you don't have to click to navigate the application. Bad habits die hard and I see difficult this would gain any momentum, although there is some people that surely would welcome this improvement in software using experience.

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FREE Ajax based solutions

This guy offers an interactive Ajax driven text box, the more you help your users the better user experience.

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Sorta comprehensive list of free file uploading web servers

Here is a humble list of web sites that will let you upload and store files on their servers, these sites are great for posting links to the files on forums and share files online without installing an FTP server on your computer or opening it to the internet ( a big NO, NO unless you know what you are doing). Also these work as free file hosting servers for your files, what means 0, zilch, nada bandwidth load for your site (some servers delete the files after some time so don't count with them eternally).

Is good to mention that you shouldn't post any files that could affect or compromise your privacy, others privacy or your employment. Also remember that anyone could access the stored file and is kinda shady what do these services do with them.

uploadhut.com
Max file size: 50MB

Megaupload.com
Max file size: 250 MB

youshareit.com
Same as megaupload
Max file size: 250 MB

putfile.com
Max file size: 2 MB ( jpg .gif .png)
Max file size: 10 MB (.wmv .avi .mpg .mov .asf .swf)

rapidshare.de
Max file size: 50MB

ultrashare.net
Max file size: 30 MB

yousendit.com
Max file size: 1 GB

updownloadserver.de
Max file size: 250 MB

yourfile.net
Max file size: 1 MB

Kytec.com
Max file size: 0.5 MB

Dropload.com
Max file size: 100 MB
Requires login (bugmenot friendly)

Mytempdir.com
Max file size: 25 MB

ShareBigFile.com
Max file size:: 250 MB

uploadtemple.com
Any file but: .php,mp3
Max file size: 30 MB

4shared.com
Max file size: 100 MB

Regards,

Bonlebon

Create flash content with PHP

From the site: "Ming is a C library for generating SWF ("Flash") format movies, plus a set of wrappers for using the library from C++ and popular scripting languages like PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby.". No need to learn flash, write your flash content in C and use a wrapper for your favorite language, is flash content created programmatically.

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Wicked sick flying R/C

This is the X-UFO, a bitching R/C toy that will make you want one when you see the promo (scroll down the page and look for the windows media file). This thing will make your neighbors run for cover when they see it's lights blinking in the middle of the night.

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Java: Hacking Swing with Undocumented Classes and Properties

What do you know about undocumented java swing/awt class files, well a guy already undugg that corpse and there is a lot of good stuff to learn from. Why sun doesn't document them is a mystery to be solved.

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Hello World, I'm Bonlebon

Hello World, anybody there?, well, I've decided to jump on the blog wagon and publish whatever stuff I find on the internet or anything I can write about. I started as a Digger at digg.com and am still part of it, from contributing content to speaking my mind.