GymPact – Workout or Payup

It’s hard to have time to go to the gym for a lot of folks. My schedule changed about a year ago and I can never find the time these days. If you are trying to get fit in the new year, you might need some incentive that is what GymPact provides.

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PostSecret Removes iPhone App From The App Store Due To Threatening Content

PostSecret has removed their iPhone app from Apple’s App Store, after some users of the application decided to post threatening and abusive content using the application.

This has left the developers of the app with the only option or removing the app, as they were unable to moderate all the content posted by the application due to the sheer volume of content submitted, the statement below from Ron Warren, the founder of Post Secret explains why the app was removed.

99% of the secrets created were in

Xbox Live bloodied by flawed airing of UFC bout

An Xbox Live promotion for the UFC 141 event.

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Xbox Live had a hard time handling the Octagon.
Last month, Microsoft updated its Xbox Live service,

XP still top OS, but Windows 7 hot on its trail

NetApplications' trending for desktop OS share.

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Windows XP is still the dominant OS worldwide after more than 10 years, but Windows 7

In 2012, MacBooks, ultrabooks mix it up

Hybrids, like the Asus Transformer Prime, shouldn't be rare in 2012.

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2012 promises to be a watershed year for laptops. Really thin will be in and internal optical drives out, while some designs venture into hybrid territory.

Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers

This is the Visa debit card Facebook is giving to some security researchers for reporting bugs.

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A few companies pay money to bug hunters. But Facebook is giving

Hackers release credit card, other data from Stratfor breach

 

The hackers released e-mail addresses, credit card numbers and other data from people who had signed up or paid for geopolitical intelligence briefings from Stratfor.

Hackers released more data obtained

Hackers released more data obtained from a breach of Stratfor, including e-mail addresses and credit card numbers, the geopolitical intelligence firm confirmed to CNET today.

In a post on Pastebin by someone using

Tools published that exploit router flaw

Researchers have released two tools that can be used to exploit a vulnerability in a protocol that makes it easier to set up secure home Wi-Fi networks.

Stefan Viehbock, who first reported the vulnerability to the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, released a tool that can crack a home Wi-Fi network in two hours. And Craig Heffner of Tactical Network Solutions, who had been working independently on

Anonymous targets military-gear site in latest holiday hack

In what its calling another round of "LulzXmas festivities," an Anonymous-affiliated hacktivst group today is claiming yet another breach and posting of customer information.

Secret subpoena aimed at Twitter user not so secret anymore

Massachusetts authorities apparently thought that asking nicely would suffice to keep secret their subpoena for information on a Twitter user involved with Occupy Wall Street. They thought wrong.

Apple billing e-mail scam making the rounds

Last week we warned that people be aware of potential Christmas scams, especially those involving Apple's products as the company has become exceptionally popular in the past few years.

Anonymous claims hack on security think tank

Anonymous is claiming to have stolen 200GB worth of data, including e-mails and clients' credit card information, from a U.S.-based security think tank, the Associated Press reported today.

The hacking group also used Twitter to post a link to a list of clients apparently belonging to think tank Stratfor Global Intelligence.

Talking Point: Should Distros Stick to CDR Size?

It's starting to look like the end of an era for Ubuntu users as Canonical mull the creation of an ISO that won't fit onto a CDR. The question is, does it matter?

The GNOME Desktop Project Unleashes GNOME 3.0

After five years of planning and design, GNOME 3.0 has been officially released. The totally rewritten desktop has had its share of both praise and condemnation in recent months due to what the project describes as "its most significant redesign of the

Munich Linux Migration Project LiMux Reports Success

LiMux, a project to convert local government institutions to Linux and open source software in Munich, has exceeded initial expectations. The project has done slightly better than projections of 8,500 and now boasts 9,000 Linux migrated workstations. The progress and evolution of this project that began in 2003 is well worth examination.

Linux Heavyweights Develop Secure Boot Strategy

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint statement regarding Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar statement.

LibreOffice Developer Glimpse Proves Balance

Florian Effenberger recently posted statistics of the number of developers contributing to the LibreOffice project. Several months ago, Cedric Bosdonnat offered data on the number of contribution and contributors from the various sources.

The Open Source Office Software Sector Heats Up

The world of LibreOffice and OpenOffice(.org) has been heating up recently with several exciting and, at times, bewildering developments. The Document Foundation remains very active as is LibreOffice development, but Oracle has given up on OpenOffice

Ubuntu 11.04, Unity Released to Mixed Reactions

Ubuntu 11.04 was released on April 28 with a brand new interface and a couple default application changes. But all the talk is about Unity, that brand new interface. As one might predict, reactions are all over the spectrum.

Tokyoflash Cobra LED Concept Watch

The guys over at Tokyoflash are at it again with their cool watch concepts,  the latest one if the Cobra LED watch,this design was actually submitted by one of their readers.

As you can see from the photos the watch numbers are engraved on the outside of the watch, with 

minutes and numbers separate by different ‘decks’.