Google Help out by extending Person Finder to aid Japan

http://goo.gl/sagas
As long as people can get online, and with a serious lack of power due to power grid seriously damaged and the lack of operational power stations and Telecom / data networks, this could be a while before its found its feed as a useful tool.

Japanese Language



（消息情報）へは http://goo.gl/sagas でもアクセスできます

Thunderbolt: Introducing a new way to hack Macs

Apple and Intel have introduced a new notebook connection technology called Thunderbolt that will hopefully replace all the other cables coming out of your laptop. However, it appears to share the same security flaw as some of these older technologies: attaching a hostile device can break into your computer. A hacker can walk up to your laptop while you are not looking, connect a device for a few seconds, disconnect it and walk away with your data (such as passwords). This works even when your laptop is "locked" with the password screen. We can't prove this until we get our hands on the hardware, but all signs point to hackers being able to exploit Thunderbolt.

Imagine that you are at a conference. You innocently attach your DisplayPort to a projector to show your presentation on the big screen. Unknown to you, while giving your presentation, the projector is downloading the entire contents of your hard disk.

Posted by Robert Graham
Copied from the owners site :-

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/02/thunderbolt-introducing-new-way-to-hack.html

I'm now rocking GingerBread

After I got an Over The Air notification to say 2.3.3 was available for my Google Nexus One, I decided to take the opportunity to change my gmail email address from googlemail.com to gmail.com.
When I did this some months ago now it broke some of my apps on my Nexus one due to sign in details that could not be changed, the only option to me was to wipe the phone and start again.

So this is what I did, restored factory defaults on the phone then change my gmail.com details, then set the freshly wiped phone with the new google details.

Then i wanted to download gingerbread via the OTA update but the notification had disappeared from the phone.

I then looked to see if there was a way of forcing the update or manually installing.
I came across the code to force the phone to check *#*#2432546#*#* (*#*#checkin#*#*) which i put into the phone dialler, got a msg back checkin successful , but still nothing.

I then found a site detailing instructions on downloading the gingerbread update then putting on the MicroSD card and then rebooting the phone in a loader mode.
I cant find the original site but this link details what i did. androidcentral.com

Found more details on the Google Mobile Help Forum some report google voice can break on the Nexus One, cant get this in the UK so im not bothered about this.
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