I create a video for TiltMobility.com that explains and shows how to flash a ROM to your AT&T Tilt, check it out.

IMPORTANT! Flashing your ROM is a potentially dangerous activity and I take NO responsibility for you messing up your device or anything else.

Please read this post on TiltMobility for important information about the video prior to flashing your ROM.

Some of you probably read about the vulnerability in Vista that doesn’t just take advantage of any new exploit but rather Vista’s fundamental architecture all together.

Well the way this systematic attack is approached is via an arbitrary browser exploit.  But what if browser exploits were cut off from the main machine?

Meet ZoneAlarm’s new security tool that’s been a bit long in coming in my opinion.  It’s called ForceField (and with good reason).

What the product does is put your browser inside of a virtual environment that’s totally cut off from the underlying OS.  It also cuts off the OS from the browser (helping negate the effects of keystroke loggers and such).

Now earlier they were giving away free CD keys for ForceField and I registered for a copy (1 year subscription).  It doesn’t have Vista 64-bit support unfortunately but it is on my laptop (32-bit Windows XP) and I’d say that it runs rather well.  My laptop is a machine that’s gaining a little age (although it’s far from old) and typically has some trouble running Firefox 3.0 with all my normal extensions.  However even running virtually, it still runs rather fast (negligible performance decreases).

So aside from negating this proposed attack, it can also protect against a wide variety of other problems, and it’s existence (albeit probably inevitable) is certainly welcome.  It will certainly be nice to be even less concerned about visited websites leaving cookies, ads containing exploits, and the like.

Hey everyone, check out tiltsite.com, I’m a writer here now and you may see a couple of my posts.  I’m working on the first article right now in fact.

By the way, Microsoft Live Writer(and a lot of the Live suite of software) is very cool(using it right now for this article)

Also….I’m on the President’s Honor Roll for last semester, WOOHOO!

If you’re like me, you’re not a fan of Apple hardware or software. Sure you’re probably saying “how can you dislike something so pure?” Well, same way I dislike designer clothing. A mac really is only designer clothing. Sure back in the days of the PowerPC processors Apple was different, but now, you’re just paying insane dollars for a name wrapped in a pretty container(don’t start on EFI).

Among my annoyances are “necessities” now days such as iTunes/Quicktime. Personally, I have a strong vendetta against Quicktime, mostly because it’s constantly messing with Firefox’s stability.

Before you say “it’s a Windows thing” remember this, there’s plenty of other software originally designed for Linux that runs just fine inside of Windows(VLC *cough*). And how about other applications like foobar2000 that are also light on resources

But aside from that, is the annoying Apple Software Updater which now attempts to automatically install Safari. I have no use for Safari, it’s not particularly extensible, and if you’re wanting speed and security, why not try Opera?

But how to get rid of it? I searched everywhere only to find it in a not-so-Windowsy place. Now I will give Apple this, they put it in a logical place where it wouldn’t tie up boot times or otherwise occupy resources when it wasn’t needed. Too many applications these days launch on system boot(I’m talking to you Adobe Updater and Sun Java Updater) and needlessly occupy system resources as well as increase boot time.

It’s in the Scheduled Tasks folder. I’ve since deleted it here and haven’t gotten another prompt for it.

So I end on a higher note than I began. Apple, I’m not a fan of the software itself, but as far as putting an annoying updater in an annoyingly unsuspected place(more annoying that I didn’t think to check here), I’m glad you did it sensibly.