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This Post describes how you can process/open your Digital Camera RAW Files using Open Source Application. In Particular this post will show to open NIKON RAW NEF files using Open Source application such UFRAW and GIMP. The details in this post applies to different Operating System Starting from Linux, Mac and ends with MS-Windows. and Different DSLR manufactures as Nikon, Canon , Pentax. the steps are simple a) install GIMP b) install UFRAW This is it, now you are able to open your Nikon or Canon RAW NEF files, and you still can edit them using GIMP, applying whatever filters and so on. 1) UFRAW is an Open Source Software that support Many RAW format , in my example it open and process Nikon RAW NEF files. and add a plugin to your GIMP 2.0+ installation that allows you directly open and process Nikon RAW NEF and all using Open Source applications. UFRAW web page is h3r3 UFRAW download Link is h3r3 2) GIMP The well known Open Source Photo editing software GIMP could be

This is another Google Project for Web Application Security Assessment, it is called SkipFish. It is open Source Project with Code License Apache License 2.0. Main Features of this Project : High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets. Ease of use: heuristics to support a variety of quirky web frameworks and mixed-technology sites, with automatic learning capabilities, on-the-fly wordlist creation, and form autocompletion. Cutting-edge security logic: high quality, low false positive, differential security checks, capable of spotting a range of subtle flaws, including blind injection vectors. The tool is believed to support Linux, FreeBSD 7.0+, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments. Project Page is h3r3

Zink is a New technology that allows manufactures to have an inkless printer, in other words Printer that does not need ink cartridges or ribbons. something similar to the old days Polaroid Camera wit instant photos but the technology is completely different. this Zero Ink Printer is available at the Market now, some photos of different manufactures using the same Zero Ink Technology is h3r3 Zink (Zero Ink) Web site is h3r3 Video describes how it works is h3r3

"Ratproxy" definition as per Google. A semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool, optimized for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments. Detects and prioritizes broad classes of security problems, such as dynamic cross-site trust model considerations, script inclusion issues, content serving problems, insufficient XSRF and XSS defenses, and much more. Ratproxy is currently believed to support Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments.". Ratproxy have been released as Open Source Project with Code License "Apache License 2.0" RatProxy analyzes problems such as cross-site script inclusion threats, insufficient cross-site request forgery defenses, caching issues, cross-site scripting candidates, potentially unsafe cross-domain code inclusion s

As per the official Announcement on Ubuntu Mail List. Ubuntu 10.4 LTS Beta 1 is released on 19 March 2010 Earth time code Name "Lucid Lynx" Download ( SHA256 ): ubuntu-10.04-beta1-desktop-i386.iso (675MB, torrent ), ubuntu-10.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (679MB, torrent ). Also release today were 10.04 beta 1 builds of Kubuntu ( download , release notes ), Xubuntu ( download ), Edubuntu ( download ), Mythbuntu ( download , release announcement ) and Ubuntu Studio ( download ). Reference to Announcement is h3r3 Quoted from the Announcement and some features : " Server features --------------- Cloud computing: The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud installer has been vastly improved in order to support alternative installation topologies. UEC components are now automatically discovered and registered, even with complex topologies. Finally, UEC is now powered by Eucalyptus 1.6.2 codebase. UEC and EC2: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS continues the tradition of official U

PayPal unveiled a new Send Money application for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Version 2.0 of the PayPal Send Money app gives PayPal and phone customers around the world secure mobile access to their money and convenient features for everyday life, including Bump money transfers, Split Check and Collect Money. With “bump” users can put two phones together, and funds are quickly transferred between their PayPal accounts. The Split Check feature lets users conveniently divide and quickly reimburse each other for the cost of a meal, including tip and tax, for up to 20 people. Collect Money allows users to request money from multiple people for a joint gift, team dues, concert tickets, and more. Users can send gifts of money on the spot for birthdays, anniversaries or any moment of impulsive generosity. “Today, you leave the house with three critical things: your phone, your wallet and your keys,” said Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president of platform and emerging technology. “PayPal S

Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely. More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots. Ramos-Lopez’s account had been closed when he was terminated from Texas Auto Center in a workforce reduction last month, but he allegedly got in through another employee’s account, Garcia says. At first, the intruder targeted vehicles by searching on the names of specific customers. Then he discovered he could pull up a database of all 1,100 Auto Center customers whose cars were equipped with the device. He started going down the li

Brain Computer Interface is a new technology that allow users to control/Actually use their brain as input devices to their computer instead of the traditional Keyboard and Mouse. I agree we have been using Keyboard and Mouse since decades now , it is time for change. Details: The world's first commercial effort at a patient-ready brain computer interface is on display at CeBIT 2010. Intended for patients suffering from locked-in syndrome and other communication-impairing conditions, the Intendix from Guger Technologies allows users to input text using only their brains. Intendix works using an EEG-sensitive (Electroencephalography) , for those who do not know what is Electroencephalography , please check this link  ) which is cap that measures brain activity that is focused in a particular way. You simply watch a grid of letters that flashes on the screen, focusing on the letter you want to type. When the letter you want lights up, your brainwaves jump ever so slightly, all

Usage of Open Source Software is increasing everywhere. Show cases illustrated below are from automotive industry. Chevrolet , Mitsubishi are using the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Joomla. 1) http://www.chevroletaanbieding.nl 2) http://www.mitsubishiaanbieding.nl 3) http://www.mitsubishi.pl