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19th January 2008 Archive

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  • Yahoo! backs! OpenID!

    Password complexity be damned

    Yahoo! has pledged to support OpenID from the end of the month, giving a massive boost for the online identity framework that aims to cut password headaches. Yahoo.com and sister site flickr.com will add support for OpenID 2.0, Yahoo! said on Thursday. Separately, Google's Blogger confirmed yesterday plans to become an OpenID …

    Security 19 Jan 2008, 03:55

  • Perl.com sends visitors to porn link farm

    Perl necklace

    Visitors to Perl.com, the O'Reilly Media-owned resource, were redirected yesterday (Thursday) to a link farm pushing porn sites. Geeks who hit the site were sent to grepblogs-dot-net, a site that offers links to live adult webcams, erotic blogs and adult erotic fiction, among other things. Closing the Internet Explorer browser …

    Security 19 Jan 2008, 04:02

  • Revo pitches wireless internet wireless

    Radio ga-ga

    Internet radio is an unlimited source of stations for music and banter, but if you can’t be bothered to turn your laptop on to enjoy them, then it’s not much use. Thankfuly, manufacturer Revo has created a Wi-Fi alarm clock that’ll help lull you off to sleep and wake you up with music from anywhere around the world. Operating …

    Hardware 19 Jan 2008, 09:02

  • Apple MacBook Air wins Greenpeace's approval

    Not just a load of hot air, it seems

    Apple has finally scored a few positive points from Greenpeace. The environmental organisation has given the MacBook Air a thumbs up for its eco-friendly qualities. Apple's MacBook Air: green Despite the company previously receiving an uncomplimentary environmental score from Greenpeace, the campaigner claimed that Apple's …

    Hardware 19 Jan 2008, 10:02

  • Electrical contact lenses created for in-eye displays

    Life through a lens

    While many of the gadgets that Register Hardware writes about have us shouting 'cool!' and 'I want one of those', there are a few that make us scream 'Cyborg!' However, news of a contact lens that acts like a heads-up display inside the wear’s eye made us feel a little uneasy. The prototype lens has been developed by boffins …

    Hardware 19 Jan 2008, 14:02

  • Controlling XP's pagefile.sys on Eee PC

    Q&A

    I just upgraded my Eee PC's memory to 2GB but half the machine's 4GB SSD is now eaten up by Windows XP SP2's pagefile.sys system file. It's 2GB in size, even though I've set XP to put the file on my 4GB SDHC card. The SDHC is FAT 32 format. It's set to have a pagefile of 512-2048MB, with the C: drive's pagefile set to 2-50MB …

    Hardware 19 Jan 2008, 17:19