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    Amazing IE/Firefox Extension by MIT startup SiteAdvisor for Web safety

    SiteAdvisor is testing all Web sites for spam, spyware, & safety threats. You browse and search as normal and their empirical data (green=good, yellow=caution, red=bad) appears in an icon in IE or Firefox & next to results in Google, Yahoo, & MSN. Every site gets its own site details page w/ in-depth analysis. They launched a slick redesign today.

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    Google Hosting?

    I was gonna write up something on this .. and still might but for starters here is some info.

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    Ethicist Says Nothing Wrong With Using Free WiFi

    While some people are being sent to jail for using open WiFi connections, an ethicist for the NY Times is saying there’s nothing ethically wrong with piggybacking on an open WiFi connection, assuming you’re not sucking up all the bandwidth.

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    The Superbrowser - Firefox with 100 extensions installed

    This guy installed 100 very popular extensions on Firefox to stress test it! He says it did pretty well under the load - includes screenshots.

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    Google calendar to be called CL2, a calendar for you and the world

    I stumbled across a a preferences page for a quick links bar in Gmail. Nothing too exciting there I thought, but one of the links you can have is to Google CL2, a calendar for you and world.

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    Google Hacking: Ten Simple Security Searches That Work

    With 1,000s of security related Google searches, here’s the 10 that consistently return great results. Without further ado, digg into some queries.

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    Chaos Theroy Explained

    What exactly is chaos? The name “chaos theory” comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data.

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    Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables

    A good article clearly explaining how you can crack most passwords within a few minutes with the correct resources, includes sources for tables and software (with a free alternative to LC5)

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    Store 1GB of files with an AJAX interface!

    Site lets you store files online using AJAX as the interface.

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    New AJAX Blogging Engine - Logahead

    Basically, it incorporates some AJAX and has some of the ‘cooler’ features you might like to find in a blogging engine. You can read more about them on the features page of the website.

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