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10 reasons why I hate MS Outlook

1. It is crashing continuously because it is locked in some intensive I/O and the OS (yes, *their* own OS) is killing the application as being non responsive. 2. Lack of good plugins. In contrary to Thunderbird where there are thousand of plugins, the really good plugins for Outlook are very few. 3. Eats up […]

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Using ping.fm

I have to many services which I like to use: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, this blog and others. But how can I keep them synchronized ? I can’t… because they are just too different. I found by mistake a service which can… It is called Ping.fm and it actually works : I write in one place […]

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Twitterfeed

I found a new service which promises to publish every 30 minutes any RSS Feed to a Twitter account. It is called “Twitterfeed” . Let’s see if this post reaches my Twitter account : http://twitter.com/sorinmustaca

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SHA-3: second round in the cryptographers’ Olympiad

Source: Heise The competition run by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to find the next generation of cryptographic hash functions has gone into its second round. Fourteen algorithms are still vying to be crowned in 2012 as the next standard for cryptographic hash functions, SHA-3 (Secure Hash Algorithm). I am curious […]