I just registered myself on facebook. Wow, there are a lot of classmates, i can't believe! And there are a lot of "social applications".

One of these was the "IQ test".

Everywhere, messages will say: your friend "X" has done 120 points, can you beat him?

So, i click to try the IQ test, and i see 10 ultra-easy questions like "what language is spoken in France?", or "The moon is a planet or a star?". I am a bit speechless... In the end, the test tells me, for knowing the result you must give me your cellphone number. What?? So, i write a fictional phone nimber, and i see the scam! Giving the phone number will subscribe you to a 5€/week ringtone service! LOL, what a scam!

 Have you ever seen a strange folder, where the file name is not shown? Like here:

And them you asked yourself: "How i can show file names in explorer?"

A piece of cake! This is a Windows "feature" to "have more space". What a...! You have to click on the change view icon while holding the shift key.

Et voila!

Have you ever desidered to type something in Japanese on your Pc, but you did not because, honestly, is not worth to install the 300mb asian pack, the language bar, and a virtual japanese keyboard just to type a simple sentence?
This website will let you type in Japanese without install any software on your computer

http://ajaxime.chasen.org/

The new President of the USA, is very "technofile". it isn't?

He was the first president to have a dedicated channel on YouTube (now closed for "national security reasons")
The first president to get an official shot by a digital camera
The first president PDA-dependent

When he met the UK prime ministry, he gave a DVD movie set box as a gift. Unfortunately, it was not possible to play them due to "regional locks"

When he met her majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, he gave her an iPod.

Wow, a big change with the past! He kept his promise of "change" 

In the previous post, it was supposed that, it was possible, in theory, "brute-forcely change" the wallpaper by changing the file %windir%\web\wallpaper\windows\img0.jpg while in safe-mode.

Unfortunately, you can't! Rafael Riviera, the man behind the uxtheme patch, for customize the Windows user interface, has demonstrated that the wallpaper image will ONLY be displayed if its hash will be BDB1C7176946A5013E57E28B46911BF04AB6DBB9402FA37464F563F502A11677. (an hash is a code that univocally identify a file)

So, if you buy a PC with this operating system, BEWARE! You will be forced to like this desktop wallpaper"!

PS: IT IS NOT A LATE APRIL'S FOOL!

Google is famous for its April's Fool. This year they did so many!

YouTube has been flipped, to try the "new layout"

On Google home page is appeared a link to CADIE, a fake artificial intelligence software that can create a blog (designed to look amateurish); can check your email, replying automatically to "interesting offers" (a nigerian scam is shown), help you with Google docs, write some code for you, and explore the ocean in an automatic submarine.

CADIE has also done a 3d version of Google Chrome!

Funny! It's real! A joke in the joke!

You can download it from here. Instead, the people behind Google China, has announced to use pidgeons for Google Earth

Do you remember Conflicker? The virus that in December has started to spread automatically exploiting a Windows Bug.

According to experts, that virus is designed to activate itself on today, 1st april 2009!

What will happen?

1. Data loss?
2. Massive spam sending?
3. Massive distributed attack to other computers?
4. Sending of sensible data to evil servers? (like: password, credit card numbers)
5. April's Fool

In my opinion is the option #2... but i hope in an April's Fool!

Update: how to detect if your computer has been infected