By setting password protection on access to your Windows PC, the notion is that you're safe from intrusion, and although this is largely true in most cases, that doesn't mean there are not ways to circumvent the apparently strict security. You would presume - as should be the case - that the only way one could access a locked account is to have guessed the password, but thanks to a few tricks involving command prompts and sticky keys, anybody with a short amount of elevated access could easily start running executables right from the login screen.
Although the Samsung Galaxy S III has yet to be released, the Android community is having a field day in extracting some of its prized exclusive features and porting them through to other devices on the market.
While students often get a bad reputation of being lazy, deluded procrastinators, quite a few actually knuckle down and work extremely hard. A group of students studying at the Köln International School of Design in Germany have certainly done that with aplomb, creating a rather wonderful Kinect-based prototype which takes the idea of the coffee table tablet and rethinks it for a somewhat softer surface.
Although Facebook's IPO just 10 days ago has been shrouded with controversy, the rumor mill has been working overtime in trying to ascertain the social network's next move. Following on from the report that Zuck's company might be looking to purchase the Opera browser, an Israeli business site seems to believe it may now be looking to acquire native facial-recognition technology company Face.com.
Whilst sharing files between Android devices is nowhere near as tedious as Apple appears to be making it for iOS users, that doesn't mean to say apps facilitating and promoting file sharing between smartphones and tablets are not welcome. Despite the stance of the vendors, consumers love apps which aid easy miscellaneous file transfer between devices, and AnySend is a wonderful example of how such a utility should look, behave and perform.
Many have wondered - given that when watching video, it's used in landscape mode - why the iPad's dock connector isn't located along the length of the device, as opposed the shorter side at the bottom. Even if Apple felt the necessity to keep the dock at the bottom of the tablet, it would surely have made sense to offer a dock for those preferring to plant their device lengthways.
Using our smartphones to connect to a computer and controlling things like music playback, video playback, starting and stopping podcasts is nothing new, after all, Apple offers the extremely polished 'Remote' app for iOS which features all of these functions plus more. For those Windows Phone users out there who may not know of its existence, the Zemote app offers similar functionality for controlling media on a PC via a Windows Phone smartphone.
The tech world was in a state of shock last year when Microsoft confirmed it had purchased VoIP telecommunications outfit Skype. The move for the software and technology wasn't too surprising in itself, but the $8.5 billion price tag certainly was, especially given the company - which was once under the control of internet auction site eBay - wasn't exactly making much money.
One of the great things about the JB loving community is that it is made up of a wide and diverse range of individuals. Users and developers, young and old, male and female and everything in between. Cydia contains a range of packages to suit everyone's tastes and the same can be said for jailbreak tools, with a number of options being available to satisfy us all.
Regardless of whether it is current CEO Tim Cook, or the late Steve Jobs, whenever Apple take to the stage in front of the media they never miss an opportunity to tell us how many iOS devices are currently in circulation. After all, it isn't really a secret that we all love a few facts, figures and statistics being thrown at us.
