Recently one of my readers asked me how to disable USB storage devices on computers. Now I am going to explain how you can enable your USB drive to reject detecting any pendrive. This trick comes handy if you own a cyber café and your computers are prone of virus infected USB drives. To disable the access to USB port, in windows Vista / XP follow the steps below Goto Start and click on Run [...]

Disable the Touchpad on Sony Vaio : Goto Vaio Control Center Click Keyboard and mouse in your left tab Uncheck the enable touchpad selection as shown below

No there’s no grammatical error there in the title of the post. Well, although there is, it’s intentional. Think about it. Since the time Google announced its open source android operating system for mobiles, people have wondered — why is Google launching a product that has no apparent revenue model? The question has come to the forefront once again with the launch of T mobile’s HTC G1. The phone is pretty nifty and we especially [...]

It seems the bigwigs at RIAA are ready to try out just about anything to stem the piracy biz. First they began by suing people who downloaded music. That meant suing just about every person on planet earth right? They managed to sue 30,000 accused file sharers in the last five years. Clearly it wasn’t working, so the music industry said “hey wait a minute, since so many people are downloading, viewing and listening to [...]

The Internet Storm Center has published the results of an exploratory research experiment into whether photos uploaded onto the Internet can give away sensitive information about your whereabouts. Based on the premise that most photo-sharing sites don’t strip out EXIF metadata from uploaded JPEG files, the team found that a large number of photos had names, camera/phone models and even GPS coordinates still embedded in them. Out of 15,291 photos collected on the Twitter companion [...]