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If you get a lot of business cards, you might want to take a look at this. It’s a scanner that really is a camera which takes a picture at 600 dpi. Both the document scanner and the business card scanner fold down to be portable, but then you open them up and get your information scanned.

The HoverCam is a full document and business card scanner. With their software, you can collect and organize the documents. Best part – the software is FREE. You don’t even need the scanner. Just download off their site. It works with Adobe AIR 2.0, so as long as you have a computer that can run AIR, you are good to go.

Jeffrey Powers talks with Gene on the HoverCam and how it can turn all your documents into nothing. The business card scanner is not available until later this year, but with the $80 price tag, it will be a quick addition. The Document scanner comes in 2 flavors – 2 MP for $139 and 5 MP for $199.

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Day in Tech History

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1994 – Adobe finalizes the merger with Aldus to try and create a new powerful desktop manager. Aldus brought to the table a desktop publishing program in “PageMaker”. The program was first created in 1985 and used the emerging Graphical User Interface in both Mac and PC environments. This also allowed Adobe to control the TIFF file format.

Other items in Day in Tech History:

• Apple announces 2 million iMac
• Emulex Corporation hoax
• PHPMyAdmin released

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The Guardian reports that there’s a new kid in town, and he’s breaking windows via the Google. The story is here.

A computer virus that targets Google users is mutating rapidly, turning it into what some are calling the biggest threat to online security today.

The worm, known as Gumblar, attacks computers through vulnerabilities in some version of Adobe’s PDF reader and Flash player software. Once it infects a victim’s PC, it silently redirects the user’s Google search results to sites that download more malware onto the machine or allow criminals to conduct “phishing” attacks to steal login details for banking, social networking and websites.

The worm spreads from infected website. The story recommends the Unmask Parasites tool for scanning a site; I just scanned my own site and it came up clean.

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From the New York Times: Major League Baseball and Microsoft square off on the relative virtues of Adobe’s Flash Player and Microsoft’s Silverlight in a darkly humorous exchange. Read the full story here.

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Judging by this description from McAfee, when Koobface infects a computer, it connects to the net and downloads additional malware. Here’s one item it attempts to download.

The worm uses social engineering to spread. It sends users bogus messages posing as an invitation to watch a video and prompts the user to download malware disguised as an Adobe flash plugin.

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On Tuesday, Apple did what it said they were going to do for the last 2 years – pull out of MacWorld. Of course, Apple will attend this years’ event, but they really dropped the ball by stating Steve Jobs will not be doing the Keynote address. So now MacWorld is left with the senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phillip Schiller.

MacWorld Should Say to Apple “We’re Mad As Hell and we’re not going to take this anymore…”

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When I go out to find a new PC – Many Years from now. Will it be equipped with a floppy drive, 2 gigs of RAM and 1 gig WiFi. Can it process a Terrabyte of data or will it be real slow. Will it be a PC, Intel or AMD, and will it be 64 bit.

Windows 7 is just around the corner. It will have something like 20 versions of it. Most important, it will have 32 bit versions as well as 64 bit versions.

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Open Source seems to be a growing movement. Not everything is part of the “GNU General Public License” though.  Some have even gone as far to make their own Public License standard.

Microsoft does have some Open Source to them, but what would happen if they took their Operating System to that standard? Would people accept the Microsoft OS, or would they finally make the switch to Linux?

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The tabulating machine

Fire Extinguishers

H-Bomb

First Jukebox

Wang Computers

Steve Jobs

Charles Geschke

Jello

Plasma

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