Pierow’s Prattle

NSAR will register your dog (yes, any dog) as a service animal.  From their website:

“It’s no secret that many businesses simply aren’t pet-friendly, even though most of the population is. A large number of our clients register their dogs as Certified Service Animals or Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) not just to accompany them into stores, restaurants, motels, or on airline flights (for no extra cost), but to successfully qualify for housing where pets aren’t allowed. Our Service Dog Certification documents formalize and simplify these processes and make qualifying for special housing hassle-free. If you and your service dog become certified with NSAR, both of you are immediately protected under federal law (ADA).”

[Complete Service Animal Certification Kit - $64.95 at NSAR]

“The Wrongulator is no ordinary calculator, its actually the world’s worst calculator as it never gives the right answer, ever!  If your calculator has been exchanged for this one then every single calculation you’ve entered in it has been wrong. It is perhaps the cruelest practical joke you could inflict on your office colleague and the chances are, without being told, they’ll probably never guess….well not before it’s too late anyway! Mwhahahaha!”

[£4.95 at RED5]

“Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), created by the US Department of Defense, is a small Linux live CD focusing on privacy and security, for  this reason, it boots from a CD and executes from RAM, providing a web browser, a file manager and some interesing tools. LPS-Public turns an untrusted system into a trusted network client.”

[Unixmen]     [http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose.htm]

[Download the LPS-Public ISO image, version 1.2.2 (16 July 2011)]

“If you have been troubled by recent revelations that your cell phone can be used to reveal details of your personal life, this item will probably boost your concern level. It turns out that there is actually a commercially available device specifically designed for sucking data out of your handheld. In fact, Cellebrite Ltd. (www.cellebrite.com) has just released Version 2.0 of its Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), designed to provide “law enforcement and government intelligence agencies with new capabilities for improved extraction, retrieval, and analysis of mobile phone data.” (more…)

Facebook remembers everything that has ever been posted to your wall.  It’s a very cumbersome task but you can actually scroll back through all of the history on your wall by manually clicking (and waiting).  You can also remove the posts from your wall by clicking the ‘X’ to delete each and every individual post.  Sound time consuming and boring?  It is.  Enter Clean My Wall.  (more…)

Hotmail has recently developed two new features to help protect Hotmail Accounts.  The first lets you report a friend’s account as compromised by simply clicking a link.  The second prevents you from using common passwords that make your account easy to hack.

[Hey! My friend’s account was hacked!]

A US government program to increase the circulation of one dollar coins is being used by travel enthusiasts who buy thousands of dollar coins with credit cards that award frequent-flier miles for purchases.  The one dollar coins are shipped for free by the mint and can then be spent directly or deposited into a bank account. (more…)

Unionhawk at Lifehacker discovered a way to find the serial number of your IOS device (iPod, iPhone, etc.).  Useful if the device needed to be reported stolen.

“My brother’s iPod was stolen earlier today (set his bag down and left it unwatched for 2 seconds, came back and it was gone). We didn’t have the serial number, however, I was able to find where iTunes stores every serial number of every iPod that has ever been synced with that iPod. Just go to ~\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPodDevices.xml, and it lists all serial numbers. Then you can check each serial number here to ascertain which one you’re looking for based on the model: [selfsolve.apple.com]“

Chrome extension Move2Picasa migrates all your photos from Facebook to Google Plus.  Install the app in Chrome, fire it off and let it run.  =)

“Google Plus uses Google’s Picasa Web Albums (soon to be renamed to Google Photos) as the backend for Google Plus photos, so in order to migrate your Facebook photos to Google Plus, you’re actually moving them all to Picasa. With Move2Picasa, that process is extremely simple.”

[Move Your Photos Chrome Extension]

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