Wireless Optical Mouse with Photo Frame

Behold, we introduce you the most unergonomic mouse in the world… it also have a neat photo frame. Basicly it’s a slim wireless USB mouse with a small protective area for a printed photo.

Racing Grannies

Two high-octane octogenarians rev up their wheelchairs and spin around the 10-piece track; individual controls keep the action going.

Potty Putter

Pot while you put

Whether you need some amusement in the loo or just some serious golf practice, The Potty Putter is a good choice! Potty Putter is a true innovation in toilet entertainment and the perfect gift for a golf enthusiast.

GPS cow hats to the aid of rough-n-tough cowboys

Not so diffcult to trace your cow if lost (:D)

Cowboys are famous for their rough-n-tough macho lifestyles. However, their seemingly adventurous lifestyle may have many sorrows of its own – the loss of the cattle being one of the gravest of them! It’s certainly not at all an easy task to take care of the hordes of the hundreds of cattle, especially during their grazing spree when each one can drift in any direction it wishes and thereafter getting misplaced.

top gaming laptop

1. The Alienware Area-51 m15x

-  best components you can find:highest resolution in a 15-inch display; the backlit keyboard is a cool touch; one of the fastest laptops on the planet right now. Alienware’s wonderfully powerful flagship Area51 m-15x has the insides down, But finicky aesthetic sense isn’t sold on the look of this otherwise awesome 15inch power machine of a gaming notebooks.

2.Maingear eX-L

-this thing is impressive,its got Fantastic performance; amazing display, slick design,  more then enough ports, spacious keyboard, huge 17′ srceen and built in speakers plus a subwoofer.

3.The Gateway P-7811FX

- No one  know’s how Gateway makes money doing anything, but finding high-end components at low prices makes  the 17-inch Gateway P-7811FX the best mobile gaming deal going right now. It features a high-end Centrino 2 CPU and Nvidia GeForce-9800 graphics-card for an amazingly reasonable price; higher screen resolution than previous models; 4GIG of RAM and 64bit OS.

4.IBuypower Battalion 101 CZ-9Ultra

-amazing performance for the price; great battery life…the best display; not the slickest design design…if you can ghandle a small screen and don’t mind not playing video games at the really high resolutions, then the iBuypower Battalion 101 CZ-9 Ultra is a great deal…Gamers who don’t want to lug around overly bulky notebooks have had a lot of awesome choices among 15.4inch notebook’s these days.

Google quietly starts behavioral targeting

Last month, Google initiated what it calls interest-based advertising, or behavioral targeting to the rest of us. If this concerns you, find out what you can do.

There are over 30 Internet companies, including Yahoo and Microsoft, currently using behavioral targeting technology.

That may seem significant. It’s not though, now that Google–arguably the most popular search engine–has committed to using behavioral targeting.

I’ve a vested affinity in the subject, having written several articles about Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Behavioral Targeting (BT) over the last few months.

Not surprisingly, what interested me the most were the frank and enlightened responses from the members.

When it comes to BT, it seems we’re hopeful, confused, and concerned all at the same time. I’d like address that, share my thoughts about what’s happening, and explain what options are available to us.

Google is about money
First and foremost, it’s paramount to understand that Google is a business and businesses are about making money.

In an interview with American jounralist and TV host Charlie Rose, Google CEO Eric Schmidt alluded to a new revenue stream that would be a win-win situation for Google and those who use Google’s services. Although behavioral targeting wasn’t specifically mentioned, connecting the dots was simple.

The free video player that plays (almost) any video file

Digital video has become common in the workplace. At work, I often create promotional videos, training videos and videos of company events and distribute them to my colleagues.

Have you ever received a video file from a colleague that you can’t play? Try downloading VLC (http://www.videolan.org), the free open-source video player for Windows, Mac and Linux. It plays almost any video file, including AVI, MOV (QuickTime), FLV (Flash Video), MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

VLC even plays video files encoded with the new MPEG-4 H.264 AVC codec, which is most suitable for compressing large high-definition video files. On my notebook, VLC plays high-definition H.264 video files much more smoothly than QuickTime.

For advanced users, VLC offers a feature to convert videos from one format to another, also known as video transcoding. VLC is a prime example of a very useful free open source tool.

Note that the use of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 codecs (including H.264) may be subjected to licence fees, even though the codecs may be part of an open-source tool like VLC. If you’re thinking of using VLC in a product or commercial project, contact MPEG LA for licensing details.

Strong password management for the mobile user

Truly strong passwords are necessary to protect our information, but they can be a pain to generate, manage, and access globally. Check out two free online tools that can help. Regardless of what we think of passwords, they are still necessary to access the vast majority of applications, sites, and services. And as password cracking has become an art form, increasing in efficiency because of developments like rainbow tables, password strength, and length requirements are making password management, well…unmanageable. However, there are free online tools to help. In this post, I look at two online applications that enable easy-to-use strong password management and anytime-anywhere access to important account information: Perfect Passwords and Xecrets. Perfect Passwords Perfect Passwords is a free online random password generator provided by Steve Gibson at his Web site, grc.com. According to the site, Every [password] is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again. Also, because this page will only allow itself to be displayed over a snoop-proof and proxy-proof high-security SSL connection, and it is marked as having expired back in 1999, this page which was custom generated just now for you will not be cached or visible to anyone else. Therefore, these password strings are just for you. No one else can ever see them or get them. You may safely take these strings as they are, or use chunks from several to build your own if you prefer, or do whatever you want with them. Each set displayed are totally, uniquely yours–forever. Figure 1 shows the three password formats available. My favorite is the middle set, ASCII characters. When the application or service for which I need a password doesn’t accept anything but alpha-numeric strings, I settle for the bottom set.

Application Security: The Missing Pillar of Software Quality

Hi all today while reading some application security news I came across one application security white paper by HP.Some of the content of this article is as follows.

Introduction

Historically, application developers and quality assurance (QA) teams have not focused on security. Why? They haven’t focused on security because we have not asked them to. IT Management typically asks developers to achieve two goals—build innovative features and see that the project is completed on time. For QA teams, the expectation is to see that the application functions as intended and that it can scale effectively and perform under load (functional and performance testing). At no point during the development and QA phases does management typically expect that any real form of security testing will take place. In fact, security testing is often viewed as an initiative that works in opposition to the aforementioned goals, as it can extend the already lengthy development and testing phases. Far too many organizations treat security as an afterthought as opposed to being integrated throughout the development process. In addition, most developers and QA professionals do not consider themselves responsible for application security—assuming that security will be managed while the application is live.

Application Security is a quality issue

Many—if not most—businesses deploy web-based technologies under the assumption that gateway security measures such as firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS) are sufficient to protect web applications from attack or misuse. This is a dangerous assumption. Web applications, by design, are exposed externally or to predefined internal populations, generally on port 80 (HTTP) or port 443 (HTTPS). A firewall will do nothing to protect a web application from vulnerabilities at the application layer; it can only be used to restrict who can access the application in the first place. IDS and IPS systems on the other hand rely on signature-based rules to detect anomalous behavior. Web applications are custom applications, not off the shelf software components. Due to customization and ever-changing nature of web applications, it is extremely difficult to write IDS/IPS signatures that will do anything more than detect the most basic attacks.

The majority of vulnerabilities in web applications reside in the custom business logic of the application itself. Compensating controls provided by external products are temporary solutions which seek to hide the vulnerability. It is typically only a matter of time before an attacker identifies an alternate entry point or is able to encode an attack in such a manner that a signature-based technology is unable to detect the attack packet. Only by correcting the vulnerable code is it possible to fully protect the application. It is for this reason that developers, QA teams, and the management must share in the responsibility of developing secure code. Auditing a web application either prior to or following release into production simply is not sufficient

to identify all vulnerabilities adequately. Application security must be an iterative process that is applied consistently throughout the development process.

Some of the risks posed by an insecure application are financial in nature and the cost of a single security breach can be significant. It is important to remember that the total cost can be difficult to fully measure due to the intangible nature of many costs. While the cost of labor to remediate the damage would be an obvious cost, damage to a corporate reputation caused by a defaced website or an unavailable application due to a distributed denial of service attack can be much more difficult to measure.

Regulatory risk is another substantial and growing concern. Failure to adhere to a growing list of government and industry regulations can lead to fines, discontinuation of services, and even civil and criminal penalties. The following common regulations all emphasize the need for security, especially at the application level.

Application security—The new frontier for QA

Unfortunately, the availability of application-security testing tools is extremely limited. Existing tools such as static code analyzers or black box testing tools are complex and require security and vulnerability expertise that is rarely available within QA organizations. Businesses need a simplified, cost-effective means to incorporate security expertise into QA processes without impacting production schedules or resources.

Currently, the only solution that meets these rigorous requirements is HP QAInspect software. This innovative testing tool brings application security expertise to QA environments to produce an integrated, highly-automated approach to security and application development. This easy-to-use unification of previously separate processes has built a growing legion of satisfied customers because it recognizes the following business realities:

• Web applications are complex, dynamic creations that span multiple platforms and protocols

• Web applications, by definition, create a security risk because they breach the network perimeter

• Web applications grow in sophistication and number and the potential for critical vulnerabilities grows far faster than discovery or patching efforts can possibly match

• QA personnel, software testers, and developers are not security experts, and security professionals are not QA personnel, software testers, or developers

• Web applications function in a dynamic environment. Security testing must recognize this reality and provide direction for how an application will meet user needs on an ongoing basis prior to the application’s release.