Vuvuzela 2010 for iPhone Review

The Vuvuzelas are like Marmite, you either love them or you hate them, if you are watching the world cup final tonight and you want to be part of the atmosphere and don't have a real Vuvuzela then a Vuvuzela app certainly helps, there are loads of Vuvuzela apps on the apps store, some are paid and others are free. This one happens to be free and it is nice and simple to use. You simply repeatedly tap on the Vuvuzela or shake you phone to activate the sound. The sound from the app is quite realistic unlike some of the other apps in the store. Other apps have features such as blowing into the mic, this one doesn't which is a shame. You can change the colour of the Vuvuzela by clicking on the different coloured shirts, I wish there was flags as well but the shirt colours cover most bases.

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Wikipedia Mobile for iPhone Review

iPhone Used: iPhone 3GS (OS Version 3.1)
Category: Reference
App Author: Wikimedia Foundation
Release Date: 17 August 2009
Version: 0.1
App Price: Free
App Size: 1.6MB

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Wikipedia Mobile pretty much does what it says on the tin, it provides you with a mobile version of Wikipedia.

The app has a simple, clean layout. At the top is the search bar and down the bottom there are several buttons. On the left is a forward and back button and on the right is three buttons, the first is a home button, the second is a reload and the last is a history button. There is only one extra option you can access from your settings menu on your iPhone and that is a log option, it's only handy if you are a developer of the app really.

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Myst for iPhone Review

iPhone Used: iPhone 3GS (OS Version 3.1)
Category: Games
App Author: Cyan Worlds Inc.
Release Date: 04 May 2009
Version: 1.1.5
App Price: £3.49
App Size: 533MB

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Introduction

Myst is an adventure game that you move about the island areas exploring different worlds known as ages. The game operates on changing pre-rendered stills and by touching the screen in the direction you wish to travel changes the stills. You play as an unnamed character and you quickly learn of Atrus, an explorer that you must help.

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New iPhone Category Coming Soon!

The I.T Massive crew are pleased to announce that there will be an iPhone category added to our main page in the near future. Just like our Windows, *nix and Mac categories we will be bringing you tips, tricks and reviews.

We will be covering the features of the iPhone from the Calender to the Camera and all the cool applications that you can download. The model of iPhone used will be the iPhone 3GS running 3.x of the iPhone OS.

We hope you'll enjoy the new category!

pfSense: Captive Portal

Disclosure: I am not connected with pfSense/BSD Perimeter LLC in any business manner, I am just a user. I created this feature focus for my own reasons but decided to publish it anyway.

Introduction

For the uninitiated pfSense is a standalone firewall/router the is based on FreeBSD which is designed for use on standard PC hardware. It uses the OpenBSD Packet Filter (hence the pf) for the firewall as well as advanced features such as hardware redundancy via CARP, VPN and Load balancing. However I will be talking about an interesting feature called the captive portal on pfSense 1.x and I will also be having a quick look into pfSense 2.0 which is yet to be released.

A captive portal normally sits between the client hosts on the network and the Internet. It normally requires a login from the user before permitting access. This is useful if you wish to allow/deny some people getting online with your wireless at your house party, stop visitors accessing the internet at the office or simply for displaying an acceptable use policy.

Captive portals will normally permit access to a IP/MAC address pair that has been authenticated by the device. As anyone that knows about networking will tell you both MAC and IP address can be easily spoofed by an attacker on a LAN to an already authenticated pair permitting the attackers traffic through the Portal. This weakness is something to keep in mind when thinking of using a captive portal.

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Sharing Windows 7 Themes

This is a follow up article to my Creating Windows 7 Themes article.

Now that we have one or two of our own custom Themes made we can do a really neat thing with them and that is to share them. I am going to show you how to share Themes using my Animals example Theme that I made up, if you would like to download it just click here.  

The first step is to go to the Personalize screen in the Control Panel. This can be done by either clicking Start, Control Panel then clicking Personalization or by right clicking the desktop and clicking Personalize. If you are using my example Theme then your Personalize screen should look something like this.

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Creating Windows 7 Themes

In this article I am going to show you how easy it is to create your own custom Windows 7 Themes.

It is easy to create your own custom themes on Windows 7. First off go to the Personalization Screen in the Control Panel. This can be done by either clicking Start, Control Panel then clicking Personalization or by right clicking the desktop and clicking Personalize.

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Mac OSX Slide Show Wallpapers

We've all taken a few pictures on holiday that remind us of the happy days. I'll be you showing how create a slide show of these pictures for your desktop. I've demonstrated two ways of doing this and its purely personal preference of which way works best for you.

I find that the iPhoto method works best for people that use a Mac and iPhoto as there primary photo storage place. The Non iPhoto method would work better for people who copy the files from another computer and may not even use iPhoto.

iPhoto Method
1. Open iPhoto and create a new album.

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Windows 7 Features: The RC Themes

This is a follow up article on the Windows 7 Beta Styles article I wrote a few months ago. As you will see from the pictures below they are different from the ones in the beta (apart from the Windows 7 fish) and most of them are slide show backgrounds as well. I have also noticed that Microsoft seems to have for now anyway settled on calling them Themes rather than Styles, this may change in the final version of Windows 7 mind you.

Below I have posted the selection screen as well as selected one picture from each set for you to take a look at. Some are really cool pictures while others are quite bizarre.

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Easy Jailing with The (PC-BSD) Warden

I've been looking at a neat little program that is part of PC-BSD called The Warden. With this program is very easy to setup and manage FreeBSD jails. The Warden supports pre packaged software that can be installed into jails called Inmates. In this example I will be using the Joomla Inmate package that installs Joomla, Apache, MySQL and PHP in a short space of time.

Installing The Warden

The Warden is installed on PC-BSD via the PBI system. Once the The Warden .pbi file has been downloaded to the computer it is a simple matter of double clicking the file which will ask to be run as root. You would need to enter your root password so the package as permission to install and then click ok.

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