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Clusty is the search site owned and operated by Vivísimo that aims to change the way people search online. It uses our award-winning Clustering Engine to organize search results into folders grouping similar items together. This is a nice alternative to the all powerful Google.

Search the web in clusters. Results are grouped, or clustered, in ways that make sense, such as by topic, by source, or by Web address. Will this new search engine be the Google killer? Well it is a pretty good search engine. Hey why don’t you try it out and see?

An in depth tutorial for photoshop basics that Every artist should go through.

I hope this hasn’t been submitted yet; I thought it was pretty cool. Provide 3-4 words and let Google finish the thought. Useless but cool!

I wonder whether they have something similar in a Malay Language… I just put “Kuih Karipap” and it will give “… kalau diber’ kepada lembu pawah boleh meningkatkan industri kereta kerana ia tiada pewarna tiruan…”. Actually, it can translate some of it LOL!!

Sometimes it generated did did did did did did did endlessly? What’s up with that?

Very comprehensive list! At the least it’s great for ID’ing spyware, virii and worms on infested machines.

In fact, this site is a bit better. e.g. svchost on tasklist.org has about 8 entries. Most of which indicated that the svchost.exe is spyware or worm added and NOT the microsoft file that it is. On processlibrary.com (and any number of other sites) it indiacates that it is a microsoft service host process and that it MAY be used by a few viruses, but that it is low risk.

Another way is to download Process Explorer.

These are good tools that would be helpful for finding what processes are running adware/spyware/malware. It would follow along with an article on removing spyware. The article is a good rule of thumb to follow when you are removing malisious software.

Now I dont have to freakout whenever I see a process I dont know. I think a simple google search is better for hunting down processes. You get more sites likes this, some better, some worse, to choose from and base a decision on. You can also flip the search over to Google Groups/Usenet to see if there are any discussions for the REAL suspicious ones.

Awesome reference for how to find exactly what you want with Google and the proper syntax to do it. A better layout than googles help pages. Claims to have used their permission; which is interesting, if true.

Nice to have this put together. This is the most complete sheet I have seen yet. This left out my very very favorite, the ‘index of /(topic)’ search, which I use for everything from MP3s to clip art.

This website contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use. NO Registration Required!

For maximum security, passwords should not be cohesive words or phrases and should not be too obviously related to something like your birthday or the birthday of someone close to you. Personal information is one of the first things used when people attempt to break passwords.

This article assumes brute force is the only way to crack a password. It didn’t even consider rainbow tables. This article only talks about how to make a slightly more secure password. So instead of someone cant guess that your password is spiderman, because it’s sp1d3rman or something. Those are defiantly not uncrackable passwords. I guess it would be a useful reading for people that use common words and such for passwords.

Some web registrations won’t even allow special characters above the number keys let alone the “alt codes”. Besides, you can lock yourself out due to a different encoding setting if you use the special keys.

Some work requires these “strong” passwords. They have to have one number, one lowercase letter, one capital letter, ane one non-alpha char, and be at least 8 chars long. Also, the password needs to be changed every 30 days. So, since there is no way to remember this crap, everyone just writes their current password on a post-it note on their desks. That’s great security!

From a theoretical standpoint, a One-Time Pad should be uncrackable, however it does require the users to know which key to use at what time (and the key can only be used once and must be as long as the message). I find just using the standard password policy of: 8 characters, at least one upper, one lower, one numeral, one punctuation mark, no dictionary word, no date, no license plate works for most intents and purposes.

An even easier and arguably more effective method is to use a public-private key with a pass phrase. Pass phrases are great in that you can even use stuff like an exert from your favorite book and you should be pretty safe from brute force if it’s of any reasonable length.

No password is safe. It can only be more secure than another version, but nothing is uncrackable. A password is only as safe as the encryption and the amount of time the hacker has, and their determination to break it.

Drastically improve your Bit Torrent downloads. I could not figure out why my Torrent downloads were taking forever until I stumbled across this BLOG entry.

I actually thought this was pretty good because most port forwarding guides don’t include images. It can be vague if you’re not familiar with the process.. Anyone who uses BT should know this. Port forwarding guides for BT downloads have been done to death.

You shouldn’t be using BT if you haven’t read how to use it IMO. It took me all of 3 min. with emule when I bought my first router to realize that something was wrong and within 10 min. I not only had my answer (ports) but had configured it. I’m NO tech genius, just willing to google for answers.

Another thing that can speed up your download is UPLOAD some clients disable sending files to you if you don’t send anything back. Upload speed should be set around 50%-80% of your max connection speed for best results.

Most people unfamiliar with computers will not have a static address on their home network. They will be using DHCP. I think the worst thing about the situation is that people are now equating using the word ‘router’ assuming it has NAT. Funny, people get told that in order to have more computers use the internet at once, they should get a router. But thats not the function of a router, thats a function of Network Address Translation, a *feature* of *some* routers.

For those complaining about their downloads being slow when they hit max upload speed. This has nothing to do with your ISP, it’s a function of TCP. When downloading data via TCP, the machine receiving the data sends packets back to the server letting it know that the packet was received correctly. This is done for error correction purposes. If your uploading pipe is clogged, your computer can’t send those packets out as fast (if at all) and your downloads die.

Here’s one related article or head sown to their main page.

I suppose it’s good for newbs though… This particular article fits the ‘crusty technical person’ personality mentioned previously. Why? If you are using BitTorrent to download, whether it be illegal movie content, or legal iso content… my opinion here, if you don’t know how to configure your router for P2P, then you probably shouldn’t be using it (P2P) yet.

Research. Use Google.

This is quite frankly the strangest thing I’ve ever seen… In one part the guy seemed to be dancing in a big thing of weed.

After watching this I suddenly feel the need to buy an SUV and fix it up to pollute as much as possible. This is very strange. Who is this guy?

2 meg video clip and step by step instructions included. It seems like I saw a women do this on Letterman about a month or two ago.

OK, WTF just happened?!?!

* Step 1, grab two points on the shirt.
* Step 2, BOOM! Folded shirt.

It’s like a money shot, except instead you get a folded shirt. Same level of excitement too!

That is absolutely insane. I tried it using the step by step instructions. It’s a bit unclear after you make the first fold and you have one hand in the shirt and one hand out. you have to GRAB in both places, then do that flick. It seems almost like you’re turning it inside-out, but it works out in the end. This’ll cut folding time considerably. This makes me want to throw away all my coat hangers and buy drawers just so I can do this nifty folding trick more often.

Eventually I just went back to my old technique because it was faster. If you don’t get the shirt flattened out perfectly it won’t work that well. It’d work great if you’re in the retail business and are trying to fold clothes for your customer. The problem I had was that I thought you pinch the entire shirt on the bottom pinch, but you only pinch the top layer. If you had difficulty then try pausing it and going through it a few frames at a time!

Summary:

1. Find the center of the shirt (top/bottom)
2. Find center between neck and where the side of the shirt is (left/right)
3. At the intersection, pinch shirt
4. From the intersection with your other hand, go up in a straight line to the top of the shirt and pinch
5. Pull the top of the shirt straight down to the bottom and add the first layer of the shirt to the pinch
6. Pull out the intersection pinch
7. Lay shirt face down and pull it over it self to meet other side of shirt
8. Tuck the sleeve that is left over underneath the shirt

The video can also be seen here.