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Excel 2007 password, cell and sheet protection removal – unprotect/remove password easily

Elmcomsoft has a variety of really good brute-force and dictionary-based password attacks on the full Office suite, including a distributed version to run in the cloud (which I wrote about some time ago). As cool as the software is, it doesn’t allow the removal of cell-based or sheet-based passwords (which kinda sucks), and the password.xla file which seems to be the big thing from staxx.co ...

Radiation from your mobile / cellphone

You can check on how much radiation your mobile phone uses here – the lower the better! The Blackberry 8820 rates very very badly, top of the list of badness, followed closely by the Motorola i880, all this in terms of the overall acceptable radiation levels… The full details on mobile cellphone radiation are here, as provided by the Environmental Working Group. Sigh… But you kn ...

Kindle DX International now out

Yes, yes – you knew that already. At 546g (250g more than the 6″ Kindle International) it’s still less than the 730g the iPad from Apple weighs in at. Half the weight of a netbook… The Kindle International DX (KIDX from now on) doesn’t have the left-hand side page-turn button (no big worries if you’re right-handed), but from a functionality perspective, other t ...

jQuery UI 1.8RC2 is out

As you may know already, RC2 for version 1.8 of jQuery UI for jQuery 1.4 is out, heralding the final release of jQuery UI 1.8 “in the next few days” based on the What’s New post. You can link through directly from http://jquery.com/ or http://jqueryui.com/ — or get the deep-link download here. But you knew that already! 🙂 ...

Afrigator internal recent items broken?

Afrigator.com (Blogs, Videos, Social Media etc) seems to have issues on the cross-linking of author to posting – cross-linking internally and referencing incorrectly. I’m sure they’re on it. In this example, Gaming SA hasn’t posted since Dec 2008, but is being referenced for a post from Feb 2010. THe top link goes to the site directly, and a framed Afrigator in the first a ...

Hospital Bend, Cape Town

In Issue 57 of the City of Cape Town’s newsletter of 12 Feb 2010, an update of the Hospital Bend development is presented. There’s a PDF of the outgoing and incoming lane preselection, relating to De Waal Drive’s new bridge, the new Anzio Road bridge, and the merge directly with Settler’s Way off the De Wall Drive. From the article: “The total project budget was R263 ...

HTML5 takes over from Google Gears

Google Gears is reportedly being relegated to the bench by the Campus (Google, that is, as mentioned in a range of comments before) in order to allow the fun-filled featues of HTML5 to replace the functionality required. Makes sense – why have a fully fledged custom system when a specification exists that covers most of the features that Google Gears encompasses. Also, this makes sense with ...

Images of Ngorogoro Crater, Serengeti, the Great Rift Valley

So images of the second phase of the Tanzania trip are up at http://www.kilimanjaro2010.co.za/Serengeti – featuring images of the Ngorogoro Crater, the Great Rift Valley (of Leakey fame – “Louis and his wife Mary held firm to this belief through decades of exploring sites in Tanzania and Kenya, and in 1959 their faith was vindicated when they uncovered the first of many hominid ...