Author Archives: Abe Diaz

Jun 11 2008
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Miscelaneous, Science Related

BMW’s GINA

New Car Concept – Genius

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: Premiere – The only thing I have to say is that whoever thought of this should be a millionaire. Can you imagine cars with Louis Vutton skins? The opportunities are endless.

Apr 13 2008
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Computer Related, Tips and Tricks

Seesmic

I know it’s been a while since i posted but I haven’t had the time for almost anything. But here a new site that’s great for video blogs or anything. It captures the video from the page (by just giving Flash access to your Mic and Camera). Check it out if you can its great for making videos on the fly. Seesmic

Mar 08 2008
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Computer Related, Tips and Tricks

What is a Dropbox?

Well in summary a drop box is a gift sent from heaven (meaning the Internet). I’m talking about Drop.io a new website that serves many purposes. It is a file repository, you can upload files (documents, photos, anything) via email, web, even fax. The most awesome feature is that you can actually send a document as a fax to a phone number from the drop box. You can receive faxes also and managing it is a breeze. You can set a user password (besides the admin’s one) for privacy and user can add, edit, delete content (you choose what they can do). I personally use it for keeping my resume at hand and being able to fax it anywhere is a PLUS. Try it out and you’ll see what i mean.

Mar 06 2008
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Computer Related, Tips and Tricks

Greatest Secretary Ever!

I have recently stumbled upon a little website with a big heart. Its the greatest thing since dictating to a secretary; it is called Jott and incredibly it is free. I had looked for something like this before but was never satisfied. Now what it is you say… It is basically a phone number you call (after activating and registering), say to whom or what and just write…I mean talk. Yes dictate your note, reminder, to-do list or tell the guys at work that the meeting has been changed. The magical thing is that if you created a group with their emails and/or cellphone numbers the message will be transcribed and emailed to them. It is almost infinite the number of things you can use this for and amazingly it does it’s job very well. Trust me try it out you’ll love it.

Feb 12 2008
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Computer Related, Tips and Tricks

Manage your money

Ages ago people usually bought applications like MS Money to manage their accounts but since MS Money 2007 I pretty much lost interest on these types of applications. “But wait!”… Now there are many online options to choose from. “OMG are you kidding me?, Financial information on the Web?” Yes I know most people do not trust the web for this sort of task but there is a new option. Wesabe, this website helps you manage your $$$ easily and trust me i wouldn’t use it if it wasn’t secure.

Jan 04 2008
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Science Related

Feeling Sleepy… Just spray and keep going.

DARPA Develops Brain Chemical to Replace Sleep – Amazing is just the beginning, It was discovered that the deficiency of “Orexin A” (yes i know it sounds like some Sci-Fi character) causes narcolepsy in some people. Then the next step was to introduce this chemical into people to see what happened and voila, Sleep Gone! Yes as easy as that this nasal spray takes away the symptoms of sleep and it produces no effect on already awake people (because it is not an stimulant as caffeine). The future apparently will be like your light switch… one pill to go to sleep and another to wake up.

Jan 01 2008
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Personal

New Year… New Beginning

No resolutions just hope… That is what i have for this new year. I hope that this will be a year of changes and growth (both professionally and personally). There will be many trials and tribulations but at the end of the shift the boat will keep on floating and with a new direction.

This isn’t just for me i wish everybody could feel the warmth this new year gives me. I want for everybody better lives and less suffering; just drop everything and start walking. Grab your love ones with you and (as Johny Walker said: “Keep Walking” don’t look back.

I know that 52 weeks from today we will all be in a better place and with a confidence in ourselves that nothing will  stop us in the future years. This may be a year of silence and deep observation. We are going to have to look inside ourselves ans realize what we are made of. Some may not like what they see, as self analysis if absolute and true. So if you find you are a worst person than you thought or if you feel like there is something holding you from being you don’t be sad be happy you know this now and not years later alone in a dark room. Others may find they are truly the honest and great persons they are, but then why do horrible things happen to you? No one can tell you an absolute truth but you must know that this is not meant to break but to heal.

Well no more… I sincerely hope for the best (and fear for the worst) for all of us. It doesn’t matter if you know me or don’t just know that this year is a new beginning for all of us… (“Stop procrastinating with your life”)

Dec 01 2007
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Computer Related

Perl on Rails

We loved RUBY on Rails but now BBC has implemented something new Perl on Rails.

“What we wanted was a dynamic publishing solution – in other words the
ability to render webpages on the fly, when a user requests them. Now
obviously there are already a number of existing frameworks out there
that provide the sort of functionality that we needed, however none
that provided the functionality and that could be run on the BBC
servers. So we (the Audio and Music bit of Future Media and Technology
– but more specifically Paul, Duncan, Michael and Jamie) embarked on
building a Model-view-controller (MVC) framework in Perl.”

That pretty much sums it up. This is another example of how the “Field of Dreams” quote works… you know the “if you build it they will come”. We’ll if you can’t find anything done that works for you build it; great inspiration.

An example of Perl on Rails running is /programmes if you don’t understand the beauty of it you probably don’t understand it at all, its all about webpages on-the-fly.

Nov 29 2007
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Computer Related, Tips and Tricks

The New Era of… SpyRuses

Yes I’m officially calling them Spyuses. Its a mix between spyware and viruses, so it’s a spyrus. They are as annoying as both of them combined. The new trend is to infect in anyway possible by new means like cursors in web pages or even when you “mouse-over” some link. Not just that they have jump into MSN messenger and annoyed the hell out of many of us. “No I do not want to see your pictures” if you know what this message means, then you must have a few friends on MSN messenger that have been infected by the new virus. I recently became a ware of a virus that exploited a flaw found in new U3 enabled USB devices.

A few months back i developed a Rogue USB, exploiting the Autorun feature from these devices. It was able to get passwords from IE/Mozilla, MSN, MSN Logs, Hardware info and much more. It was merely a project for a class i was taking and the repercussions were incredible. Well now a few months later I myself found a little program on my USB exploiting this same flaw in USB devices.

It was called RavMon.exe and along with a Autorun.inf file it infected every drive on the computer including C:\ with itself and allocated a key on the registry to startup every time. Even if you were able to do a System Restore it will stay on your system. This is a nasty as hell annoyance but it is very dangerous, we are not talking about pop-ups now its a full on warfare with these pesky little programs.

If you suspect this virus infection or the MSN Re-Sender please download AVG free edition, and for more security run their Anti Rootkit checker for the ones you may have and don’t even know it yet.

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Nov 28 2007
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Tips and Tricks

Everything about Excel

This may not interest most of you but i suggest you download it anyway. This is the guide for everything you need to know about Excel. It’s written by Mr. Excel himself and it covers almost everything. Seriously just keep it somewhere and if you like it and need it you can buy a hard copy but for now I’ll stick to the free one. Check the webpage here.

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