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How-to: Get Windows Live Mail! for free - no invite needed!


Posted in Howto, Tech by Dan | 81 Comments

This was recently posted on Neowin but then was deleted. Any way, the thing is here: You can get a Windows Live Mail! account for free. It’s a small exploit ...

2006 - The Year of UNEASY


Posted in Site News by Derek | 7 Comments

2005 was a great year for UNEASYsilence. With a little know how, a bit of hacking, and help from our special readers, we were able to present a handful of ...

Don’t eat these Cookies


Posted in Tech by Dan | 2 Comments

The National Security Agency has been inserting files known as cookies onto the computers of individuals who visit the NSA Web site, a violation of federal rules meant to protect ...

Spellbound [Dev.] - Live spell check for Firefox


Posted in Random by Derek | 4 Comments

The Spellbound [Development] extension provides live spell checking as you type for any web forms or text boxes in Firefox. Similar to Microsoft Word, Spellbound will underline misspelled words providing ...

‘Slasher Santa’ could be yours


Posted in SoapBox by Dan | 3 Comments

Now that the season of giving is winding down, people tend to unload gifts and things they don't want anymore. I guess this applies to decorations too. This one decoration ...

Remove PDF password restrictions using ColorSync


Posted in Apple, Tech by Dan | No Comments »

Use this one while it still works: Some PDFs can be viewed, but not copied or printed, and I find this annoying, and it makes it harder for me to use ...

Mmm that meat looks so tasty


Posted in Random by Derek | 2 Comments

I'll take a breast and two wings... What? That isn't chicken? It's rat. The hills are alive, with the never endng supply of rat. See More

SMS indictments


Posted in Stupid by Dan | No Comments »

WOA! South Koreans may look at their mobile phones with some trepidation in the new year because prosecutors will start telling people they have been indicted via text messages, an official ...

Slightly Warped


Posted in Tech by Dan | 1 Comment

IBM officially retired OS/2 Warp from their product line last week which closes the book on what was the most advanced operating system when it was released in the early ...

You found WHAT in my pipe?


Posted in Stupid by Dan | No Comments »

Obviously, people love sticking STRANGE things down their drains. Cincinnati-based Roto-Rooter surveyed its field technicians throughout North America to find the strangest items recovered from pipes, toilets and trenches over the ...

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