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Archos 7 – another Droid tablet  (9″ tablets are available)

Features

• 8 GB capacity for about 4000 songs, 80,000 photos, or seven full-length movies (expandable to 32 GB)
• Seven hours of video or 42 hours of audio on a single charge
• Seven-inch TFT LCD touchscreen with 800×480 pixel resolution, 16m colors
• Supports H.264/MPEG-4/Real video codecs in AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, and FLV file formats; MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, OGG, FLAC
• One-year limited warranty

Technical Details

• Storage:: 8 GB Flash as well as expandable through a microSDHC Slot
• Capacity:: Up to 7 movies, 80,000 photos or 4,000 songs
• Display:: High-resolution touchscreen, 800×480 pixels, 7-inch TFT LCD, 16 million colors with a virtual keyboard
• Video Playback:: H.264 up to 720p resolution – 30 fps / 2.5 Mbps.; MPEG-4 up to 720p resolution – 30 fps / 6 Mbps.; Realvideo up to 720p resolution – 30 fps / 2.5 Mbps. With the aforementioned codecs, the device can play video files with the following extensions: .avi, .mp4, .mkv, .mov, and .flv M-JPEG (Motion JPEG Video) in QVGA resolution
• Audio Playback:: MP3, WMA (non protected), WAV3, APE, OGG, FLAC, AAC3
• Photo Viewer:: JPEG, BMP, GIF
• Interfaces:: USB 2.0 Slave (Mass Storage Class [MSC]); USB 2.0 Host (Mass Storage Class [MSC] – connects a mass storage device or keyboard and mouse [adapter micro B/A sold separately]); Micro SDHC card
• Communication Protocols:: Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n)
• Other Features:: Two built-in speakers; built-in leg stand; built-in Microphone; composite video output (cable sold separately)
• Power source:: Internal—Lithium Polymer battery; External—Power adapter/charger
• Battery Life:: Music playback time—up to 42 hours; Video playback time—up to 7 hours
• Compatibility:: Microsoft® Windows® XP, Vista, 7 or higher, Mac OS or Linux in mass storage mode
• Computer Interface:: USB 2.0 interface

The Archos 9 PC Tablet is also available.

Archos

The Dell Streak will be a 5″ Android Tablet.   As technology changes, there will be an assortment of Laptops, Netbooks, Tablets and phones.

• 5 inch Screen -WVGA (800×480) b
• 1GHz Snapdragon ARM-based mobile processor
• 5 MP Camera
• Front Facing Camera – Video Chat
• Replaceable battery
• A 3.5mm headphone jack
• Integrated 3G + Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + Bluetooth 2.1
• UMTS / GPRS / EDGE class 12 GSM radio with link speeds of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• Micro SD slot expandable up to 32GB.
• over 40,000 apps

• Microsoft Exchange connectivity- through TouchDown
• Google Voice support
• Integrated Google Maps with voice-activated search.
• Twitter, Facebook, YouTube

Want to Edit YouTube Videos?  PC Magazine has a good article on how to do just that.

Hands-On with YouTube Video Editing – How To Buy Video Editing Software Roundup | PCMag.com.

What exactly is a honeypot?   A honeypot is a non critical computer that has software on it that allows the monitoring of users who are on your network or if the honeypot has a public ip address, it can be used to monitor outside users.   This in turn allows you to view the ip address of the ‘curious’ and possibly malicious user of your network.   By obtaining the ip address, you can in turn block the ip address at your ISP level or on your firewall.

With no installation required and free to use ____ allows you to place a honeypot on your computer.   By simply running the program and selecting the configuration you want, you can monitor users who try to ‘break’ into your computer.   If you select a webserver, you can create a folder on your computer and place a ‘fake’ database with names and html in the folder.   This decoy server allows you to see ‘who’ is trying to circumvent your network.  

Internally this allows you to track back users who may be navigating on your network.   With most network policies, users should not navigate or attempt to navigate internally.

You will have to open your firewall (software on the host computer).  The configuration below shows port 80 open (webserver) and port 7 (ICMP or ping).

When configuring a webserver, you will have to create the folder wwwroot in your c: drive.  You will also have to create index.htm, a simple webpage.  If you aren’t web savvy, simply open an office document, type in the information you want and save as an htm document (index.htm) in the c:\wwwroot folder.

When you return to the main screen, click on monitoring and your honeypot will minimize to the system tray.  You can monitor live by opening the program.

To test the computer’s honeypot, go to another machine and type the ip address of the honeypot host into a webbrowser.  Below you will see the computer’s ip address has been logged.   The green is the honeypot’s ip address and the red is the malicious host.

This honeypot software is free and from Sourceforge (direct link to download).

Developer’s website.

I often look for free quiz sites that challenge adults with reading, spelling and math.  This quiz site appears to be for kids but is designed for children and adults.  Excellent site that offers mini challenges and comprehensive exams.  Quiz Tree is an excellent site to review and enhance your skills.

Grown-ups Activities

Nitroreader is an alternative to Adobe reader.    This reader allows you to create (from Microsoft, jpgs and other files), annotate, place notes, sign, secure, strike,   and and place sticky notes to your pdfs.   Nitroreader is one of the best free readers on the web.