Recently, PsyStar appeared again on the news, this time we learnt that they only sold 768 Mac clone in a year. Since we know that Apple sold over 10 million Mac this year, why a company selling an identical product would only sold 768 unit of their product.

People Want an Apple, not a clone

The answer is simple, Psystar thought that people wanted computer with Mac OS X installed on it, it seems the data pulled by Matthew Lynde (Cornerstone Research) from Psystar account proved otherwise.

They wanted an Apple, not a Apple clone.  400 $ for a name, for an image and for this I must congratulate Apple’s marketing department for doing such a great job

The first of the short films will be available October 26, with the final film to arrive ahead of the game’s release date on November 17

When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to investigate. The answers he uncovers implicate Italy’s most powerful families reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself. As Giovanni draws closer to the truth, he becomes hunted himself. He must expose the conspirators before he joins their ever growing list of victims.

Ubisoft revealed that Assassin’s Creed 2 will start at the moment part 1 ended.

Update : The google logo of the 6/09/2009

Yesterday, Big Bird’s legs reined supreme as Google’s theme logo. Today, Cookie Monster’s eyes make up the two ‘O’s ‘ in the popular search engine’s logo.

The American educational children’s TV series, which is well known for its Muppets characters created by Jim Henson. It premiered on November 10, 1969 and is the longest running children’s programme in the U.S.

Celebrities as varied as Jim Carey, James Blunt, Michael Jackson, Ben Stiller, Hilary Clinton and Destiny’s Child have made guest appearances.

Cookie Monster is notorious for his love of cookies, particularly those that have chocolate chips. His character was created by Jim Henson in the mid 1960′s

Browser ranks

According to w3school.com Browser Statistic, the word of the browser is dominated with 2 big players, Firefox being used by 46.6% of the web surfer and Internet Explorer with 39.6%, then come in third place Google Chrome with 7.1%. However, even if it is still far from the head, Google Chrome has gotten more popular every month over the last 11 month. Being powered by Google has helped the 13 month old browser to quickly become more popular then Safari, Mozilla and Opera.

Faster JavaScript = More interactive web

Google Chrome is different from other browsers; it is optimized to execute JavaScript fast, this will make it a very good alternativebrowser for the future. To give you an overview of the difference of performance the browser gives, here is a JavaScript NES emulator ; on Firefox, Tetris works at around  6 FPS and uses 50% of my CPU and it’s too slow to play, while on Internet Explorer it is simply not loading at all. On the other hand, Chrome aces it with 60FPS and uses around 40% of my CPU. So not only is Chrome running JavaScript 10 times faster, it makes JS  also lighter on the processor .

SunSpider benchmark results show Google’s Chrome is the fastest of the top five Windows browsers at rendering JavaScript. (Lower scores/shorter graph bars are better.) www.computerworld.com/

If you need more benchmark go take a look here

Speed is essential to the future of internet especially when everybody is talking about a more social web with more interactive content. Interactive content means more JavaScript (Ajax) and we previously saw that there was a limit of what the current browser could do without lag and without hammering the processor.

Chrome is fast but is it secure?

Speed is important but so is security, Google Chrome sandbox makes surfing more secure, even thought flaws are found, there is no real threat to the files on the computer because the sand-box isolates the browser from the system . Chrome proved itself more secure than the other browsers by being the only one standing in the Pwn2Own hacker contest.

You don’t care about what security expert says? Here’s a page where you can make crash all the browsers, the only difference is how they react, Chrome is the only one to not completely crash.

Chrome’s bad points

Google Chrome doesn’t have the most user friendly interface and functionality or the customizability of Firefox, neither does it has the tons of excellent plug-ins Firefox has. Many critique complained about the fact that it was only compatible with Windows. But Chrome doesn’t even have 2 years, I’m sure that they will find way to make everything simpler and when it’s going to become more popular, plug-ins will be developed for Chrome. Also I was taking a look at Google Chrome 4 Beta and it looks like there will be a Mac and a Linux version as well.

Why will Chrome be a strong challenger in the browser wars

Having gained 3.2% of popularity over the last 8 month, Chrome has everything it needs to continue to grow. Google optimise each of their own products and services for it, and they have a LOT of products, like Google Search, Gmail, Google Map, Blogger, Google Group, etc.

Since Google’s products are used by millions of people every day Google can easily attract users to their browser.Also with the near release of Google Wave, optimised for Google Chrome, some users might find their browsers slow and heavy on Wave and then change to the only browser on witch it runs perfectly : Chrome.

Google Wave will become very popular  because of its reactivity and real-time execution(lots of AJAX), Wave will make the web evolve of the Web 2.0 to Web 2.5 : where the web looks more like a normal application and this is in what Chrome most excel with.

This year, Google announced they were adding another string to their bow, after Android, they are working on Google Chrome OS. This OS based on Linux kernel, will be focusing on the web surfing and will most likely come for free with Google Chrome installed on it. the good image of Google and its strong partner( Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and others) will make people consider it a good option .

Conclusion

The performance of a browser like Google Chrome is essential for the future use of the internet, that’s why Chrome is going to be a strong competitor in the browser war. Its a very secure browser, light, open fast and has great themes.

The more and more people will use Chrome and without knowing it, Chrome will join the fight between Firefox and Internet explorer and put some action in the browser world.

The way BlogSpot display the titles of blogs is not always the best because it shows the name of your blog first, so when your page shows up in Google, visitors would see for this post “NJR-Team : Optimise the way Blogger or BlogSpot display your title”.

People who search in search engine are looking quickly for their result, so simply having NJR-Team at the beginning that has no link with the subject can make you lose some viewers.

The optimal way to show the title for my blog in Google is : ” Optimise the way Blogger or BlogSpot display your title | NJR-Team“. This way is the best because I’m still having the name of the blog in the title but I’m having the title first so people will click more.

So here is how to change it.

To access the HTML edit code

1. Goto Blogger Dashboard
2. Go to Layout > Edit HTML
3. Backup your Existing Template
4. Search for the Following code in the HTML part

Now replace “<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>” with this code:

You can still customise your title by changing this part of the code

Exemples

The grenade mouse

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The grenade mouse

The body mouse

The body mouse

The body mouse looks weird and it must be really awkward to put your hands on it. (Warning, it can have bad breath)

The wireless car mouse

Wireless car mouse

Original and flashy they are optimised for high speed mouse speed

The sexy mouse

Stop staring at the mouse!

The NES mouse controller

For geeks that still remembers the old times, where the games were better than the graphics

The Diamante Mouse also called IMouse

Expansive and shiny it’s the only mouse my girlfriend would be happy to use.( she denies it )

The mouse mouse

This mouse lack of originality, only people with some strange taste for dead thing will dare using it.

The gun mouse

Your Boss will not take you seriously if you threaten him with it.

The Brain mouse

It makes you be more intelligent

The Ghost mouse

I call it Casper If you have pictures of other computer mouse who looks different, please leave a comment with a link on it  I might add it to the post.

The mac effect

It is possible for doctors to access modern pacemaker with a short-range radio signal. This system allows them to store the patient information, monitor its vital-sign and upgrade the pacemaker version. The communication between the pacemaker and the control device is also unencrypted; this means that a person with the correct equipment can access all the info and even change the software inside the pacemaker.
In a paper published, Kevin Fu says : “Manufacturers point out that IMDs have used radio communication for decades, and that they are not aware of any unreported security problems. [...]it would be foolish to assume that IMDs are any more immune to malware[..]. Much like Mac users can take comfort in that most malware today takes aim at Windows applications, patients can take comfort in that IMDs seldom rely on such widely targeted software for now.”

The exploit

Kevin Fu and its team have developed a device that can access to a pacemaker and reprogram it. The size of the device is similar to a cell phone and has a range of 10 meter They used it to reprogram a pacemaker installed inside a block of meat to demonstrate the exploit. After the reprogramming, the pacemaker could not go back in sleep mode and drained its batteries in days instead of years.

Hopefully, there never was any known attack of this type and with the demonstration of the attack, Fu and his team also proposed solution to make implants more secure. By doing so they might have contributed to save lots of life. If you have a peacemaker, don’t freak out. The chances that you find yourself at 10 meter of someone that has the knowledge to do such equipment, an intense knowledge of pacemaker and the will to kill for no reason, is very low. I’m sure there is more chances that you meet someone that has the will to kill people for no reason but with a gun.

For more information about the experimentation check
http://www.secure-medicine.org/icd-study/icd-study.pdf

Cyber warriors, are basically hackers hired or trained by government or an organisation. There can do several things to help the military. Even if they don’t go and fight up close and personal with the enemy on the field, they can use their magic to gather sensitive or classified information that can be used to gain the advantage on the enemy, uncover enemy spies or find good target for a high precision missile strike. Just like spies, they can also do some good old sabotage. All critical infrastructures; like power, water, fuel, communication and transportation can be the target of their attack. We had a preview of what it would be like to be the target of a cyber attack in “Live Free or Die Hard” the 2008 movie starring Bruce Willis. That kind of attack can completely paralyse everybody’s life for hours and is very bad against the enemy’s moral. Who would say no to shutting down the enemy’s production of weapons?

Talking about moral, cyber army’s can diffuse propaganda more efficiently then in the past, instead of pouring flyers out of big airplanes, they will spam your cell phone and your e-mailbox with messages, this method is also less expensive in money and human life. They can deface websites to make it say whatever they want it to say. What does this do? Imagine that you go on your local news website and you see a page saying that your government lie to you and then an article about how they killed thousands of innocent. This can bring doubt and its show to the population an action on the enemy on their everyday life

The most impressive thing they can do is to actually intercept or replace orders given to every enemy unit that use a computer and /or satellite; everything that uses a computer is at risk even an aiming missile. That hack is so useful, they can steal the identity of the enemy headquarter and tell an enemy unit to hold their position, while the artillery strike is on its way.

These attacks can also be done against us also, so we need to secure our country’s infrastructures, invest money and take serious every threat. Because cyber wars exist here some exemple :
Cyberattacks during the 2008 South Ossetia war
Cyber attack against United State and South Korea
So that might why on the April 7, 2009, The Pentagon announced they spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems.

Hackers have their uses in modern wars, they will be used more and more,they will never replace the spies but working in cooperation with them will make hackers work more efficient.Even if in this article we focused of a cyber war between countries, the most common use of all cyber war is between companies, unfair concurrent that will do everything to get to the top.