Ian Scott

Has someone stolen your social security or credit card number? StolenIDSearch is a new site aims to answer this question that has tickled the back of most American’s minds at some point, especially in light of the recent spree of retailer breaches and stolen laptops containing reams of personal information.

StolenIDSearch provides a free online search engine. All you have to do is enter your Social Security Number or credit card number into the box and they’ll look it up to see if it’s on the stolen list. [more details]

Here you will find all the Gmail Tips, hope they help you in your continued use of Gmail!

So gather the kids ’round the warm glow of the computer this Christmas Eve and watch Santa trot the globe and deliver presents. If that’s not enough to excite you, watch a slew of CW and basic cable stars talk about how excited they are about it. [via lifehacker]

It seems that Windows Vista RTM has already been cracked. According to APCMag

The activation crack is a separate download, and works by replacing the licensing components with components from beta builds. Then using a product key from Beta 1, Beta 2, RC1 or RC2, the Gold version of Vista can be activated online.

In this sense, it’s not a true crack – it’s simply leveraging off compatibilities between the betas and the Gold release. Vista still needs to be activated, and it looks like for the moment, there’s no way around that.

It’s impressive how they managed to get a copy so quickly. [via A Welsh View]

Web site Daily Cup of Tech offers a custom autoplay program for your USB thumb drive that tells the user what to do if it is lost and found.

Much more effective than a boring old IfFoundPleaseReturnTo.txt text file, this customizable .exe offers a “Help! I’m lost!” Autoplay option when someone plugs in your thumb drive. I especially like the bribery tactic: “You will receive a shiny USB drive twice as big as this one for your trouble.”

Flash based Super Fast ASCII Generator.

Video of Jiffy Lube scamming a news team.

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The “Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator” will generate “bullshit-compliant products and services” with the click of a button. I also appreciate that the creator has included links to related services to give the budding entrepreneur all of the tools they need to “sell your company to Yahoo”.

Story about the birth of Pirate Bay, people behind it etc.

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