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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The new features of Windows 7

Windows 7 has several new features including Libraries, Device Stage, Home Groups and Windows Touch. There has also been several improvements to existing programs such as Word Pad, Paint and the Calculator as well as features added to the Aero interface such as Aero Snap, Aero Peek and Aero Shake. Businesses have not been left out either with features such as App Locker, Branch Cache and Direct Access.

Changes between the beta and RC

There has been several changes between the beta and the RC. Some big changes include Virtual Windows XP Mode (this is not included and has to be downloaded separately), Windows Peek now works with ALT+TAB, there are more themes and sound schemes, Windows Media Player 12 now has a new feature called RMS (Remote Media Streaming) and also supports the QuickTime MOV file format.

Smaller changes include, improved Jumplist functionality for some programs such as the Control Panel and Remote Desktop, there have been tweaks to Explorer and Libraries such as improving the way artists are sorted for music. Performance improvements have also been made such as trimming the WAV files of the logoff and shutdown sounds to save 400ms on shutdown. The footprint of the Operating System has been reduced, the pagefile pre-allocation size has been reduced and the reserved system partition used for features such as the Widows Recovery Environment and Bit Locker has been cut in half from 200MB to 100MB. As you can see some of these improvements are small tweaks but these changes just show you how Microsoft are paying attention to every single detail.

If you would like to see more changes and the thoughts of the developers on them check out Microsoft's Engineering Windows 7 blog here and here.