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This page is huge. It has everything from .NET to Ruby on Rails, FireFox extension, XHMLT, CSS, image manipulation, traffic analysis, SQL and just about everything else you can think of needing.

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Packet Garden is a free software that captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore. It takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from internet address itself. The size of each hill or valley is based on how much data is sent or received. Plants are also grown for each protocol detected by the software; if you visit a website, an ‘HTTP plant’ is grown. If you share some files, a ‘Peer to Peer plant’ is grown, and so on. Sounds slick!

The site is being crushed by Digg traffic right now. You can find the homepage here. The homepage has the client, about, etc… somebody put up a mirror to the installer only here.

Bittorrent tracker PirateBay.org, currently based in Sweden, plans to purchase the man-made island-country, Sealand, off the coast of the UK. Sealand is its own country, and the PirateBay would not be subject to the jurisdiction of any nations if it relocated to the island. TPB is seaking donations to help go through with this plan. I wonder if they’ll get US sanctions if they go thru with this?

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Here’s a good article on how to make a niche minisite with little startup money and use it to generate nice, passive income. Hmm… mebbie I need to try this???

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A-ha… I just bought an iPod nano (I know, can you believe it took me this long?) so this will come in handy when the nano FM transmitter I ordered shows up. Not only that, we have a Sirius unit in my wife’s vehicle (using the built in FM transmitter). The reception on the Sirius is decent, but is prone to interference. I’m pretty sure we’re NOT using the frequency recommended by this site.

The SIRIUS Frequency Finder helps you find the best FM frequency to tune your FM transmitter to, whether it’s for your satellite radio or your iPod’s FM transmitter car kit, by searching an “FCC-provided database of licensed FM broadcasters.”

Just enter your zip code, and the Frequency Finder will return the FM frequency most likely to be free from interference in your area.

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This article has gotten a lot of traffic from Stumbleupon. If you’re coming here from Stumbleupon, the URL to this article has changed (used to be paulspoerry.com/index.php/…. and now the index.php has been removed. If you could, please hit your “I like it!” button and give me a thumbs up.Thanx.

The free, open source Ophcrack Live CD is a Windows account password cracking tool designed to help you recover lost Windows passwords.

After you download the 462mb .iso and burn it to a CD, just restart your computer and boot up the Live CD. Once the CD boots, blamo… Ophcrack automatically loads and is on its way to cracking your password.

(screenshot of ophcrack on Linux cracking Windows passwords)

Features:

• Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (intel).
• Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
• Free tables available for alphanumeric LM hashes.
• Loads hashes from local SAM, remote SAM.
• Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition, Vista included.

I’ve yet to try this live bootable version, but I used l0phtcrack (now LC5 and no longer produced since the company that made it was bought by Symantec) a few years ago and retrieved 99% of the passwords off a backup domain controller in something like 12 hours (using a not-so-powerful desktop to do the cracking).

Get ophcrack Live CD. FYI - you can still get l0phtcrack (aka LC5) from mirrors like sectools.org.

STUMBLEUPON UPDATE:

A couple people have asked if this really works. I just want to re-iterate that this DOES work. It requires physical access to the machine, but if you have physical access you can literally crack every password on a machine in a very short time. As I said above, I used it on a backup domain controller and in about 12 hours cracked every single password on the BDC.

Why crack passwords when you can just create a new Admin account?

Most people tell me they simply “lost” their password. If that’s the case you can use some free tools to create a new Administrator account. With this account you can simply change the existing accounts password, use the new Admin account, or… well… do anything you want. Read more in my article: Hack Vista - Create a new admin account

“Here’s the best place to sharpen your investing skills and pick up new ones. Whether you’re a novice, an experienced investor, or someplace in-between, we can help you make better investing decisions with knowlege…Choose from 172 different courses on stocks, funds, bonds, and portfolio building and monitoring.”

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Amazing collection of the best 300 freeware programs for Windows. Only a high quality applications, no cheap stuff. Find out what’s free and cool. Divided into categories for faster navigation! Enjoy and share!

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Simple and to the point: Ipod managers, video converters, resource site links, and a bunch of task specific tools, most of them free. If you got a new Ipod for the holidays (or just eBay’s one like I did), check this out. There’s even a tool to put driving directions on your iPod!

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A new atheism movement being powered by web 2.0 and specifically digg and youtube.

This article isn’t really promoting atheism, it’s just pointing out how new “Web 2.0 media” is a new medium for it. If your a moderate for either side, you’ll surely find the comment threads at the article link are hilarious.

I kinda like that atheist are finding a voice lately. This comment from to the article kinda sums it up for me “Perhaps this hostility toward religion is simply a frustrated reaction to the recent push by fundamentalists to intrude into established science. I admit to feeling a god amount of hostility when I heard of the attempt to remove the scientific explanation for the Grand Canyon and replace it with the Noah myth. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=273668&page=1”

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