We Are Open Again

Ok folks so after this long and huge time, I decided to re-open the blog an start to post tech news like before.

So Stay tuned...

The first bionic eye

Doctor Mark Humayun, professor of the ophthalmology and biomedical engineering together with experts from the Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California initiated the first bionic eye.

Bionic eye consists of a video camera at the dimensions of the haricot bean grain implanted in the eyeball. The camera is connected to an artificial retina, which transmits moving images to the brain by the optic nerve.

The invention gives blind people the ability to see and scientists say that it may be launched in serial production in 3-5 years. Using this invention at the institute where he works, d-r Humayun has already tested the first artificial sight system called Argus.

This gadget is connected to a camera installed in the eyeglasses which catches images that are converted into electric signals which are transmitted by wireless technology to an implant situated behind the retina. Electrodes from the implant decode the signal and create a rudimentary black and white images, transmitted by the optic nerve to the brain.

By now the usage of 10 electrodes has been obtained. Afterwards, at the second stage in is supposed to use 60 electrodes, which offer the patients possibility to see clearer images, but the specialists try to create the third implant with 1000 electrodes, which will offer face recognition.

Google Phone

Evidence for the existence of the Google phone keeps piling up. It's pretty much confirmed though not officially official, between a fairly solid Boston Globe piece and Om Malik's five facts "from a reliable source." The down and dirty:

It's Linux-based, runs Java apps (the entire UI is in Java, as well as possibly the browser), plays multimedia files, and the OS is running on "3-to-5 devices, most of them likely made by HTC." Slightly disappointing is that the UI is "typical of mobiles phones," meaning it's not groundbreaking. But, the browser might be based on the same engine that's in Safari the iPhone (WebKit), and Google's supposedly been tweaking it to make it speedier

New Author

Tech Oni would like to welcome its new Autor to the blog family : Mohamed Kamal

Mohamed Kamal has been a very close personal friend for the past 6 years, we share allot of things with each other we we had also made we security website called Online-Tech.net wich we closed some years ago due to the lack of funding...

Welcome Bro.

Programmable Tattoos

Do you like Tattoos? But you get fed up from them easily?

Well here is the answer for you, Get a programmable tattoo. It's programmable tattoos.

more info : OhMyNews.com

They Know !!!

Every Click you make and every site you visit, Your ISP (Internet Services Provider) knows about it, logs it and than harvests it.

What do they use it for ? Is it for security reasons ?!

Well they use it to send you advertisement.

When they collect the websites that you visit they can tell your hobbies or what you mostly look for on the internet, that way they can send you specific advertisement.

More info: Link

Viva FireFox

According to Forrester Research Enterprises are starting to love FireFox more than IE7.Enterprises are still using IE6 and not many of them have updated to IE7 instead they started to use FireFox.


In my opinion IE7 is not an evolution for Internet Explorer, When I first saw IE7 the first thing that I noticed were the TAB’s system, And I said to myself : Hey that’s just like FireFox WTF !!!

And I looked no further into IE7 just installed it on a PC at work and that’s all.
The reason that I like FireFox is because it does not use allot of the system resources and it’s light and above all it loads the pictures the last thing. Some will say IE can do that, I don’t know if it can or not but I like FireFox and I’m not going to switch to IE.

MacBook Air hacked under 2 min

At CanSecWest security conference's MacBook Air laptop was hacked under 2 minutes, the first day the contestants were not allowed to touch it (no physical access) on the 2nd day however they were granted physical access to it.

Miller was the winner, he went home with: Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook plus 10,000$ as his prize.

for more information : Click Here

Yuno PC

Do you work allot, Always using your laptop and food drops on it ?

Well here is the answer Yuno PC its still a concept, but look at it this way, Its a computer and it holds your coffee in it.

1 TeraByte Hard Drive

I remember back in the days when the 1 GB hard drive first came out i was like : WOW, 1 GB what am i gona put on all that space.... Well that was back in the days when we only had P1 computer.

That was a past era. Now we have the 1 TB hard drive. Western Digital has released this 1 TB.
1TB of capacity allows for storage of approximately 75 hours of uncompressed DV digital video, the equivalent of 212 4.7GB DVD video discs or up to 250,000 MP3 files.

No updates

I’m really sorry for not updating this blog for some time now. The reason is that I got a new job as an IT manager and I have to re-do the whole networking… So forgive me please and I promise you that I will update it before 13 march. Once again I’m really sorry.

Vista Cracked

All who have a pirated version of windows vista must have been trying so many different cracks, and almost non of them work, you can't update. but here is a tool that will embed the OEM keys of vista versions that are on Acer, HP, Lenovo laptops.

Will microsoft be able to block those keys ? well if they did they would block all the people who have the original vista that came with there laptops.

for more information : Link

Goodbye Netscape Navigator

Everyone that used the internet in the past 10 years or more must know Netscape. Well AOL is no longer providing support for it as of : 1st march 2008.
For more info on that you can check this link :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7270583.stm

updated iphone to firmware 1.1.4

So you have updated your iphone to firmware 1.1.4, and its no more cracked, or you want to update it and don’t now how to crack it ?!

Well you can use : ZiPhone. A tool which allows you to crack the new firmware in just 4.5 minutes.

To download the ZiPhone and more info you can look at : http://www.ziphone.org/

Cheap Vista

Vista prices cut by as much as 48%,but not in U.S

It seems that Microsoft thinks that the price for vista is much over rated, so they decided to lower its price. UK is the only one with a good price cut down. Here is a table of the prices that windows vista will be sold in.





U.S. Vista Pricing
Old Price New Price Price Cut

-Home Premium, Upgrade $159.95 $129.95 18.8%

-Ultimate, Full $399.95 $319.95 20.0%

-Ultimate, Upgrade $259.95 $219.95 15.4%


U.K. Vista Pricing
Old Price New Price Price Cut


-Home Premium, Full £94.29 £50.20 46.8%

-Home Premium, Upgrade £60.97 £44.56 26.9%

-Ultimate, Full £233.60 £131.92 43.5%

-Ultimate, Upgrade £153.59 £122.11 20.5%

-Home Basic, Upgrade £60.97 £44.56 26.9%


EU Vista Pricing
Old Price New Price Price Cut

-Home Basic, Full € 188.27 € 124.19 34.0%

-Home Premium, Full € 223.24 € 147.26 34.0%

-Business, Full € 277.98 € 201.10 27.7%

-Ultimate, Full € 373.67 € 208.17 44.3%

-Home Basic, Upgrade € 97.26 € 64.16 34.0%

-Premium, Upgrade € 150.42 € 80.86 46.2%

-Business, Upgrade € 186.98 € 186.98 0.0%

-Ultimate, Upgrade € 245.03 € 194.04 20.8%

Google Scanner

As most people know Cult of the Dead Cow ( cDc ) has released a google scanner. What this scanner dose is that it search's for Vulnerabilities in websites using the power of google search engine.

This tool as any other tool if used correctly it would be good, But most people will use it to deface and hack websites. You will say now : So people are doing that for a long time, what's new ?!

I'll tell you what's new, before people use to target specific sites and search within that site for a bug or a Vulnerabilities in it, But now with this tool, it will search in all the sites that are indexed by google. The bigger risk is that almost if not all websites on the internet are indexed and listed in google search engine.

So now the treat is wider, and it won't be a target specific, it will be random.
The fear is not from the people who are experts in defacing websites, its in the ones that don’t know anything such as script kiddies it will be chaos, all the want to be and the ones who want to impress there girlfriends or friends will be hacking and slashing websites.

I'm not saying all that so people will freak out and go around yelling: hacked, hacked.
And some will say that google is the evil big brother if he did not have such great search engine non of this would have happened. That’s just wrong. EVERY single item or thing in this world can be used in 2 ways, the good way and the bad way.

Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

If you haven't gotten a chance yet, do watch the video of this attack. It's does a good job explaining the problem. Full drive encryption stores the key in RAM while the computer is powered on. The RAM's stored data doesn't immediately disappear when powered off, but fades over time. To recover the keys, they powered off the computer and booted from a USB disk that created an image of the RAM.

Aussie team claims 5Gbps wireless breakthrough

Faster transmission speeds, low power usage, and significant range are the trifecta of results that all wireless standard companies are chasing with a vengeance. The WirelessHD consortium released the final version of its own standard back in early January, while the startup company Pulse~LINK debuted its own next-generation wireless chipset back in December. The new WirelessHD specification defines a device that operates in the 60GHz spectrum and is capable of transferring up to 4Gbps over 10 meters, while Pulse~LINK claims its new chipset its chipset can deliver up to 890Mbps at close range (8 feet/2.4M) and 120Mbps at 40 feet/12M). If a team from Australia's NICTA (National ICT Australia) is accurately representing their own advancements, however, both these standards are about to be exceeded. The group from NICTA, lead by Gigabit Wireless Project team leader Prof. Stan Skafidas, is claiming to have developed a CMOS-based chip capable of transferring up to 5Gbps at up to 10M—a 25 percent improvement over the WirelessHD specification.
That's a substantial achievement in and of itself, but NICTA's new "GiFi" transmitter is supposedly loaded with a host of other goodies. GiFi is small, at just 5mm per-side (25mm sq.), it's built using CMOS, uses a 1mm antenna, costs less than $10, uses a built-in power amplifier that's only a few microns wide, and draws around 2W of power. That much power consumption means we'll not be seeing GiFi in any mobile devices anytime soon—not unless NICTA can cut the chip's power draw by an order of magnitude—but the rest of the claims made for the nascent standard paint it as the ultimate solution for high-speed, close-range wireless networking. Professor Stafidas, at least, seems to think this is likely. He claims to have spent over a decade designing GiFi, and states that he believes the chip will one day be found "in every consumer device."
According to Stafidas, NICTA will spin out a startup corporation later this year to market and commercialize the design. He estimates that his team needs about a year (and $10 million) to finish R&D and begin production of GiFi transmitters. NICTA is working with the IEEE to ensure GiFi meets standard specifications as defined by IEEE 802.15.3c, and plans to have prototype GiFi's built by the end of the year.
If GiFi seems a little too good to you, you aren't alone. NICTA is essentially claiming to have leapfrogged the competition, and is representing its product as the only real solution for this type of transmission moving forward. That's enough to raise anyone's skepticism level, and the optimistic cost projections and time-to-market estimates don't help much. It's possible that NICTA has actually made fundamental advancements that will speed deployment of short-range, ultra-high-speed networks—but it seems more likely that the organization has drunk a bit too much of its own Kool-Aid.

Wi-Fi on the Fly

So you're on a plan going to nowhere, your board and you have the urge to check your e-mail since your life evolves around your e-mail…
Well FLY JetBlue Airways, They said that soon they will have Wi-Fi access in the plain, you can check your e-mail, chat on Yahoo, or even download warez...