Readers just beware new spam that just looks like your Outlook.com account has been deactivated and in order to activate it again they ask you click on a link which looks it came from mail.live.com/restoreaccount.jsp. If you look there first of all that links says mail.live.com, which is actually outlook.com or Hotmail.com URL that will list your emails after you login into. There are two issues with that link, first of all if you notice the page is restoreaccount.jsp, which is a Java Server Page, and I don’t think Microsoft uses Java. Even if they use, just type that URL (don’t click) http://mail.live.com/restoreaccount.jsp, it loads a page that is nothing but HTTP 404: File or Directory not found. Ok, if you dared and clicked on that link it redirects you to http://i-portal.asia/demo/logs/hotmail.com/ and the page just looks like Hotmail login screen. There if you enter without thinking for a second and enter your account name and password, they have it and will spam you. Ok, if you go to http://i-portal.asia, it takes you to a page where you see AstraZeneca logo and a registration page.

If you look at WHOIS database of this domain, you will notice that it is registered to PING Healthcare Pte Ltd., Singapore registered through GoDaddy.com, you could read the complete registration page here: http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=i-portal.asia&prog_id=GoDaddy 

Microsoft revealed their Xbox One yesterday. With a ton of technology advances, a game console is nothing without games. A yes, many were disappointed they didn’t show much games, but here is a list of confirmed games thus far. This year’s E3 is set to be a huge one!

Microsoft Studios

• Forza Motorsport 5 from Turn 10 Studios
• Quantum Break from Remedy Entertainment

Ubisoft

• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag from Ubisoft Montreal
• Watch_Dogs from Ubisoft Montreal

Activision

• Call of Duty: Ghosts from Infinity Ward
• Destiny from Bungie Entertainment

EA

• Battlefield 4 from DICE
• FIFA 14 from EA Canada
• Madden 25 from EA Tiburon
• NBA Live from EA Tiburon
• UFC from EA Canada

Square Enix

• Thief from Eidos Montreal

I came across this, uhh, let’s just call it a “4chan thread,” and I wanted to save the whole damn thing including images and surrounding hypertext. But I want the HTML and text preserved. How the heck do I do that, right? I don’t want to save-as and have it store one file then a folder with a zillion pictures and other random crap in it. No thanks! Taking a PNG screenshot of this huge page or a PDF? I ain’t got ram fo’ dat!

Not a problem chief. Among the 820,085 fine apps and extensions on the Chrome Web Store is SingleFile. You install it, it adds a little icon to the right of your address bar. Once you got it, go to any website, like this one, click that icon, give it a moment to think, and save the single HTML file it produces containing every damn thing of interest. Images, js, css, all of that is stuffed into the HTML file. That’s crazy! And guess what, the resulting file is compatible both with Chrome and also with the less popular browsers your lame coworkers use. Don’t believe me? How do you think I made this?

Yes I know know 66% of you aren’t using Chrome right now and there isn’t that much point in linking this extension, but my point is that Chrome’s a great browser (the best actually, as is Chromium, 1.4 billion users can’t be wrong) thanks to Google developers and the large and growing community of bright, happy people coming up with things like SingleFile. I suspect it can be done in Firefox, but how about IE? Stuck with saving as PDFs? C’mon fellas, grow up and get with the program. I’m looking at you, Jim.

Shortly after their acquisition of tumblr, Yahoo slapped together a public announcement for all. After earlier reports that they would not “screw up” tumblr, aka the Facebook/Instagram promise, they rolled out a whopping 1TB of storage to new and existing users. Did I mention this is a full resolution upload deal?

Along with your damn near lifetime of space, the iOS, Android and Web version of Flickr gets a new user experience. Yahoo seems to be indeed focused on taking Flickr back to its core. With 1TB and full resolution upload, I am tempted to dive in, hmmmmm. Oh, and they’ll be opening an office on Time Square, New York, what ever the hell that means.

Instagram? Are you scared yet? First Google +, now Flickr/tumblr combo, its getting mighty warm in here!

It’s amazing what we have in the smartphones. We have almost every sensor we’ve ever come up with. I recently got a scale, it measures air quality, and it uploads it to the Internet. I’m sure those things will end up in your smartphone. That’s amazing.

Technology should do the hard work so that people can get with doing the things that make them happiest in life.

The opportunities we have are tremendous. I think we’re all here because we share a deep sense of optimism about the potential of technology to improve people’s lives, and the world. Everyday I come to work, the list of things that needs to be done is longer than the day before. And the opportunity of those things is bigger than it was before. Because of that I think we as Google, and as an industry – all of you – we’re really only at one percent of what is possible. Probably even less than that.

Despite the faster change we have in the industry, we’re still moving slow relative to the opportunities that we have. And some of that I think is due to the negativity. In every story I read about Google, it’s us versus some other company, some stupid thing, and I just don’t find that very interesting.

We should be building great things that don’t exist.

Larry Page, Google I/O 2013 (video)

Button Trackr? Yea okay, this is indeed the straw that lead to the camel ending up on a really entertaining episode of Cheaters. Sure, the indiegogo project gives a great presentation for you keys, they even go so far as to show multiple pictures with this thing attached to a key. But we all know what this is, watch yourselves people, she/he will know exactly where and when you are.

Button TrackR is the latest item tracking creation by the smart guys over at Phone Halo. Remember theWallet TrackR? (a small device the size of a credit card that keeps you from losing your wallet), well this is a similar device but the size of a coin! and it can by attached to virtually anything. All you have to do is pair the Button TrackR to the included app, it will then notify you when you have left an important item behind, it can keep track of 10 items simultaneously. The app also remembers the time and location you separated from your Button TrackR via GPS.

Well hello there! In an against the trend move, Microsoft has integrated Google Talk in to their email and cloud solution experience. Well then, I am hoping and preying this will make it to the Windows Phone integration! And even one say, Google Plus.

Let me slow down, one step at a time. For now, this is what we have and I am happy. Thank you Microsoft and Google. The enemy of your enemy is you friend!

(Relax, that was a link bait title – he said he thought that at first but eventually realized the value of it.)

NPR interviewed Google’s chair Eric Schmidt, you can listen to it here, though it’s long and not top-shelf Schmidt, not his A game in terms of saying many stunningly odd things to be twisted to even odder degrees when quoted out of context. Though he did field a question on the origins of Google’s Don’t Be Evil slogan which I found interesting:

Well, it was invented by Larry and Sergey, and the idea was that we don’t quite know what evil is, but if we have a rule that says don’t be evil, then employees can say, ‘I think that’s evil.’ Now, when I showed up, I thought this was the stupidest rule ever, because there’s no book about evil except maybe the Bible or something. So I’m sitting in this meeting, and we’re having this debate about an advertising product. And one of the engineers pounds his fists on the table and says, ‘That’s evil.’ And then the whole conversation stops, everyone goes into conniptions and we stopped the project. So it did work.

Regarding Google Glass, everyone’s favorite punching bag, Schmidt did concede that there are certain situations in which they should not be used, if you “shall we say,” “catch my drift.” I sort of catch the drift but could you spell that out for the record anyway Schmidt?

Did you know that Google Maps came out of engineers on their 20% time?

Massive free video host YouTube has just announced the pilot program for their paid content channels that went live today.  At a cost of $0.99 a month you can take advantage of popular YouTube channels like Cars.TV, Comedy.TV, and 51 other subscription channels you can check out here. So there you have it. $0.99 a month for 53 subscription YouTube channels. Who’s down with that?

“Starting today, we’re launching a pilot program for a small group of partners that will offer paid channels on YouTube with subscription fees starting at $0.99 per month. Every channel has a 14-day free trial, and many offer discounted yearly rates. For example, Sesame Street will be offering full episodes on their paid channel when it launches. And UFC fans can see classic fights, like a full version of their first event from UFC’s new channel. You might run into more of these channels across YouTube, or look here for a list of pilot channels. Once you subscribe from a computer, you’ll be able to watch paid channels on your computer, phone, tablet and TV, and soon you’ll be able to subscribe to them from more devices.”

I have seen plenty of hilarity in my day, but this my friends, THIS! is HILARIOUS! Only because its true