ajb{log}: learn something new each day

Bots or zombies can secretly hijack your computer to send out spam or attack other computers through the Internet.

Be safe and install RUBotted now. It makes the Internet safer.

What is RUBotted?

RUBotted monitors your computer for suspicious behavior associated with Bots, a form of malicious software that can secretly take control of your computer for criminal purposes. Upon discovering a potential infection, RUBotted immediately prompts you to scan and clean your computer.

My computer is clear. Is yours clear? Check it now.

Operating System Requirements:

    * Windows 2000 Professional (with the latest Service Pack installed)
    * Windows XP Professional or Home Edition (with the latest Service Pack installed)
    * Windows 2003 Server (with the latest Service Pack installed)
    * Windows Vista (32-bit version only, with the latest Service Pack installed)

Liquidmac mimics the behavior of liquid by creating a particle system that reacts to your Mac’s orientation. This only works with Macs that are equipped with the motion sensor.

It’s free, fun and worth checking out.

Here’s a video when it’s installed to show how it looks like:

–aj

I’m probably one of the first early users to get access to Woopra’s beta couple of months ago. Quite frankly, I didn’t use it. I felt Woopra wasn’t going to be as good as what we currently use (Google Analytics). I even said to myself, “it’s just gonna be another Google Analytics with the same sets of data. What can they probably offer? What else is new?”

But as soon as I read about Woopra on CenterNetworks this morning, I gave it a whirl. I logged in to my Woopra account, copy/pasted the JS snippet on Mployd. I thought it would take some time for the data to funnel to my dashboard.

And so I tried to download and install the Woopra desktop application. To my surprise, data from the site is already crunching in!

Here’s a screenshot of the Woopra desktop application on my machine after I installed it.

See that? After 10 mins I’m already getting what I need to know from our visitors. That’s really neat!

And one cool thing about it is that it sits on my desktop/system tray for quick access. Woopra integrated a lot of awesome features into the app aside from analytics. There’s just too much to list them down here.

The Woopra desktop application is currently available in beta to Windows, MacOS, and Linux (note that Java is required to run the app).

We know that Google Analytics dominates the free web analytics space. I’d say Woopra can quickly become #2 with the added innovations to the app.

I’ve tried almost every single free web analytics app out there and Woopra is a breath of fresh air. I simply love it.

–aj

MobileMe is a new service for your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC.
Featuring Push email, Push contacts, and Push calendar, and more.

MobileMe according to Apple…

You might have a Mac at home, a PC at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. The challenge is keeping multiple devices always in sync. Enterprises can use a server like Exchange. For everyone else, now there’s MobileMe.

MobileMe works with the applications you know well. Microsoft Outlook on a PC. Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac. And Mail, Contacts, and Calendar on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Access and manage your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files at me.com. All with amazing applications that are so feature-rich and easy to use, you may end up preferring them to your regular desktop applications.

Check your email, change your calendar, edit your contacts, and more at me.com. Accessible anywhere, me.com is an ad-free suite of web applications — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk — that are elegant and easy to use. You can drag and drop, click and drag, use keyboard shortcuts, and even switch between applications with a single click. Me.com is such a great web experience, it seems as if you’re using desktop software.

Check it out now!

UPDATE: The keynote video is now up here

–aj

FireNes is a new Firefox plugin you can use to play all those NES game goodies without downloading a NES emulator or those game packages. You simply download FireNes, restart your Firefox, open up FireNes over at Tools >> FireNes. That opens up over 100 NES games. Games you played when you were a kid (at least for me), now right on your Firefox sidebar.

Double-click a game you want and it opens up automatically without even downloading anything after!

To save you time on the controls, it’s the X & Z. You can view the controls by right-clicking any game on the sidebar.

By the way, FireNes runs on Java (if that means anything to you at all). Also, here’s the English translation if you can’t understand anything on the site.

Enjoy your favorite games and have a good weekend.

–aj

BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU plugins that adds distinct features and basic modifications to the WordPress MU interface.

The standard features of BuddyPress are as follows:

    * Extended Profiles
    * Personal Blog
    * Private Messaging
    * Friends
    * Groups
    * The Wire
    * Status Updates
    * Albums

Each one of the above is a separate plugin to that site admins can pick and choose which components they want.

Some more screenshots here:

Download and try it over here.

–aj

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Velasquez Street, UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon City

Note: Limited seats,First come, first serve basis. Registration
is open until June 2, 2008. Your registration expires if no payment
is made within 2 days.
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Bad Boy Ballmer ducks as an angry Hungarian man throws 3 eggs to him. Boo! You missed! Next time, practice first!

–aj

Now dude, tell me if this is a hardware problem.

–aj

Rulers, Guides, Grid, Snap, Curves, Color Balance, Auto Enhance, Polygonal Lasso, New Automator Actions, New Help and much, much more are included in the latest and greatest update of Pixelmator 1.2 Draftsman!

It’s free for you if you already own a license. $59 if you don’t have a licence.

Download now

–aj