Droidwall – firewall for Android

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As you may have read I jumped on the Android wagon earlier, it’s a cool phone not quite as stylish as the iPhone but a LOT cheaper and more open. One annoying thing however is, that applications ALL seem to require obscure access to run – access to geolocation, access to sim card, access to contacts, access to sd card, access to make phonecalls and full access to internet… and it’s not as on the iPhone where you are asked if this is ok, no once you install the software you are informed about the rights the software wants and you then have two options install or not..  strange and annoying, why can’t I select what I want to give access to? Anyhow, what we need is a firewall for the device, and someone has been kind enough to make one Droidwall 😀  sadly it requires root access 🙁 http://www.appbrain.com/app/droidwall-%28root-required%29/com.googlecode.droidwall
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Windows Search in Windows 7

I was getting tired of the constant disk activity on my workstation, I have  1.5TB diskspace on it and Windows search seems to enjoy joyriding these disks as if it was surfing on sunny beach..

Anyhow, I figured out how to turn the darn thing off, however that had some dire results – disabling search means COMPLETELY removing all search capabilities, I was stunned after the reboot – F3 did no longer work, Win+F did not work and all search boxes was removed.  Under WinXP disabling Windows search just meant that your search was not indexed, but that is in the past, believe me Windows won’t work without Windows Search..

So my next assignment is to figure out how to minimize the disksurfing, it must be possible..  a lot of my HDD space is stuffed with files that only rarely changes and thus updating the index of these ought not to be nessesary.  If you have any good tips on how to minimize the constant indexing let me know 🙂

Read more on disabling Win7 search and the consequenses;
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/25343-windows-search-turn-off.html

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Pimp your car back to the future…

Looking for the perfect gift for that friend that just have everything?  Look no further, this site has just what you need;
http://www.bttfhardware.com/index.html

Imagine pimping your car (or as mentioned giving it as a gift) so it looks like the famous Delorean from “Back to the future”, it would be utterly cool (and perhaps a bit geeky) 🙂

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