I stumbled upon Tumblr not to long ago. At first, I dismissed it as yet another online blog software. However, looking closer, it has many subtle differences. The analogy that they give is perfect, “if blogs are journals, Tumblelogs are scrapbooks”.

Tumblr is not meant to be a blog (or to replace it) but an unorganized compilation of quick short messages, links, photos, quotes, dialogues used to share author’s creations, discoveries or experiences without any commentary. It is meant to be simple way to quickly publish things you run across in the web or in your daily life.

Created by a web development company in New York called Davidville (also the creators of Senduit), I see Tumblr as something you would use before you write a post on a blog - a creative scrapbooks with links, photos and RSS.

Instead of using the old pen and paper to jot things down, you can write it up informally and know that it won’t end up under that pile of papers or in the trash.

The video shows to how crack WEP and WPA secured wireless networks. It further educates you in preventing hackers from cracking your already secured wireless networks. The main objective is not necessarily to teach people to hack but more so to help you understand the need to take better steps to secure your wireless networks.

For those of you thinking that putting this up may increase the possibility of individuals using it negatively, here are my thoughts on that — the best way to learn and prevent network security vulnerabilities is to know how hackers operate and the loop holes that they target. As Sun Tzu said in his book “The Art of War” … “To know your enemy is half the battle of winning the war”.

Thanks to Brian Young for submitting this. Sorry about the annoying music in between but I believe he included it to cut the monotony of a powerpoint presentation. All information shown is for educational and informational purposes only.

V12 Design in Milan has come up with this innovative dual-touchscreen concept notebook called the Canovo. The idea behind the notebook is to create 2 touchscreens monitors on the computer where one of them can double up as a virtual keyboard.

Valerio Cometti, Managing Director of V12 Design has said that the design concept came about two years ago but it wasn’t taken to the next level due to lack of interest from manufacturers and the the complexity of the project. However, we may actually see a working design by a European computer manufacturer in the future:

The project captured the attention of a European computer manufacturer and together with its Taiwanese sister company, they started the development of the electronics. The complexity of the fully custom made electronic components has slowed down the development of the product as a whole.

Without doubting the usefulness of having two touchscreens, I am not sure how I would like typing on a flat screen. Call me old fashioned but I like the feeling of typing on a real keyboard. A sensitivity adjustment may be needed on the second touchscreen as one resting his hands on the virtual keyboard might trigger a key or two. I believe the biggest area they would have to look into would be how to minimize battery life as running two monitors at the same time will surely drain the battery.

As project development is at such an early stage, computer specifications has not been released yet.