There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

There a massive concern for security when dealing with social networking sites such as facebook. Since Websense aquired Defensio, they have been working hard on v2 of the product. Free to users, Defensio 2.0 will monitor your facebook site for malicious posts, spam and viruses. The application cross-references content posted to users pages against their correlated threat databases. If a threat is detected it logs it and advises the end user who then makes the decision to block or not. I would imagine this would then feed into a Bayesian database for a smarter for automatic protection mechanism.

You can sign up for the service and the Defensio website.

Controlling an RC Helicopter from your iPhone or iPod once upon a time may have seen a little far fetched. Not anymore!

http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/en

Cool!

Google Wave invites are going out at the moment and Packetaddict was lucky enough to get their hands on one to get a hands on impression on what google is coming up with in the project. The biggest problem thus far is, it’s yet another Inbox to deal with and remember to check.

However being a thunderbird user and having recently upgraded to version three I caught onto the guys over at Quetzalcoatal have hacked together a piece of code that will let you open google wave within one of Thunderbird3’s new tabs.

To get it to work:

Launch Thunderbird > Tools > Error Console. Then paste in the following line of code and click Evaluate:

Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/windowmediator;1']
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator)
.getMostRecentWindow(”mail:3pane”).document.getElementById
(”tabmail”).openTab(”contentTab”,{contentPage:
“https://wave.google.com/wave/?nouacheck”});

Paste it into notepad or your favourite text editor and make sure it’s all on one line. It will open a new tab and prompt you to login to google wave.

Thunderbird 3.0 has been released. You can view the release notes here.

Thunderbird 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1.5 platform including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, web compatibility, and code simplification and sustainability.

There also appears to be a number of user enhancements as far as search functionality and message archiving.

Atomic Magazine

Starfleet wants you – and sooner than you think!

Stardate February the 2nd, 2010.

That’s the date that Star Trek Online will go on sale in North America, followed three days later by Europe. No Australian date has been announced, but we’d bet credits to Tribbles it’ll be closer to the US launch.

We’ve also been informed that the closed beta stage of the game will go live very shortly, with invites going out possibly within the next week or two.