Tech Thoughts Daily Net News – June 23, 2010

25 Best Business Software Tools and Web Services – With capability and frugality firmly in mind, we rounded up 25 of our favorite software tools and Web services that we deem the best for powering small and medium-size businesses

Quick Fixes for Internet Annoyances – Here’s how to “unlike” annoying fan pages in Facebook, speed up Firefox, and keep iTunes links from automatically launching the app

Australian firewall wobbles under pressure from all sides – The future of the great Australian firewall is beginning to look decidedly shaky, as electoral calculations and widespread condemnation from politicians and industry alike begin to take their toll. (submitted by Dar)

35 Fresh and Useful Photoshop Tutorials – Part of being a designer, you need yourself up-to-date and sharp skills. Skills can be spanning a broad range of expanding your range of techniques. Photoshop is most useful for designers.

Google Voice: A Guide to Getting Started – Google’s officially opened the gates and invited all of America into Google Voice, its customizable phone management service. Here’s a quick guide to getting started.

How do spammers harvest email addresses? – There are many ways in which spammers can get your email address. The ones I know of are …..

Ubuntu-based Windows XP looker freshens up – An Ubuntu-based Linux distro identical in look and feel to Microsoft’s Windows XP’s been updated. The Linux distro has been updated to Ubuntu 10.04, released in April, and packs OpenOffice 3.2, SMPlayer, Audacious music player, Firefox, and the familiar Windows XP look.

That Was Easy: New Tool For Web Form Password Brute Force – Firefox extension that enables brute force password attacks against Web forms from right within the browser. It’s FireForce, and it is available here. What a simplistic but useful and powerful tool!

3.7 Billion Phishing E-Mails Sent in the Past Year – More than half of online scams are fake bank messages intended to dupe customers, while hoax lotteries and scams, researchers say.

Off Topic (Sort of):

How many American jobs will Steve Jobs destroy? – But despite their old marketing campaign, Apple is not the company “for the rest of us.” Apple’s primary goal is meeting Apple’s goals, often without regard to who is hurt along the way.

Vitamin C and Cardiovascular Disease – It is important to know that vitamins and minerals work hand in hand. Vitamins cannot be absorbed without the help of minerals and vitamins cannot metabolize without ingesting food. (submitted by Dar)

Jesus will return by 2050, say 40% of Americans – More than 40 per cent of Americans believe Jesus Christ will return to Earth by 2050, according to a poll. By mid century, 71 per cent believe cancer will be cured, 66 per cent say artificial limbs will work better than real ones and 81 per cent believe computers will be able to converse like humans.

Reliability and Service: Technology’s Most (and Least) Reliable Brands – When you buy a new PC, camera, printer, or TV, you want a dependable device from a manufacturer that’s committed to supporting its customers. We asked 45,000 readers and found out which companies you can really trust.

What Happens to Your Body If You Drink a Coke Right Now – Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? Because it gets you high. They removed the cocaine almost 100 years ago. Why? It was redundant.

Today’s Quote:

“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”

–    Eric Schmidt

Today’s Free Downloads:

EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition – The latest version of Easeus Partition Master Home Edition has acquired the ability to recover files from deleted or failed partitions–and the fact that a free program it will do this verges on amazing. It will also create, format, delete, resize, move, merge, split, convert, and wipe partitions, and much more.

SpaceSniffer – “Where did all my space go?” This question has been asked by every computer user since the days of the 5.25″ floppy (probably since the days of the ENIAC), and SpaceSniffer is a fast, easy, way to answer it. While SpaceSniffer in itself does nothing to reclaim space, it does provide you with a very good overview of what’s occupying the nether reaches of your hard disk.

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