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Little Things Matters Most

Little things which MS Windows does! Just the GUI missing. Lets see, I got this .iso file which I need to burn and I don't have NERO or any image burning stuff with me at the moment. My PC is formatted and nothing is reachable for an immediate use! PITY! But hey, XP creates MP3 files with ease as an audio CD. Why cannot it create an iso or burn an iso to a cd? Rather than creating a data disc? Now there got to be some way around... So I did some googling and found this -->ISO Recorder For XP. What does it do? ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder. It seems ISO Recorder has been conceived during Windows XP beta program, when Microsoft for the first time started distributing new OS builds as ISO images. Even though the new OS had CD-burning support (by Roxio...

Every move you make ... they'll be watching you

It's getting harder to cover your tracks as even the most everyday activities -- from running a Google search to using the E-Z Pass lane -- leave a lengthy digital trail. Ever get the feeling that someone's eyeballing you? You're probably right. These days, between the news that the National Security Agency has been eavesdropping without warrants and that the Justice Department wants to know what searches have been conducted on Google and elsewhere, it's no wonder you feel under watch. The real surprise, though, may be how so much of what you do on an everyday basis already gets screened, monitored, tracked, scanned and observed - often without your ever knowing it. From spyware on your computer to police cameras on your street to GPS devices on your cell phone, how much of your private life is really private any more? "It's all part of the general evaporation of privacy," said Peter Wayner, a Baltimore-based computer programmer who has written se...