Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 30 (July 22, 2013)

How to Install Windows from a USB Flash Drive: 13 Steps
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The purpose of this guide is to prepare a USB Flash Drive with the installation files of Windows Vista™ or Windows 7™. Most Netbook does not come with a CD/DVD drive and therefore installing or upgrading to a new operating system is always a challenge. The guide is divided into two parts, the first part talks about the preparation of the Flash Drive and the later talks about how to copy the installation file content on to the Drive for installation.

PRISM (surveillance program) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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PRISM is a clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007.[1][2][3][Notes 1] PRISM is a government code name for a data-collection effort known officially by the SIGAD US-984XN.[8][9]

PRISM began in 2007 in the wake of the passage of the Protect America Act under the Bush Administration.[10][11] The program is operated under the supervision of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court, or FISC) pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).[citation needed] Its existence was leaked six years later by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who warned that the extent of mass data collection was far greater than the public knew and included what he characterized as "dangerous" and "criminal" activities.[12] The disclosures were published by The Guardian and The Washington Post on June 6, 2013.

A document included in the leak indicated that PRISM was "the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports."[13] The leaked information came to light one day after the revelation that the FISA Court had been ordering a subsidiary of telecommunications company Verizon Communications to turn over to the NSA logs tracking all of its customers' telephone calls on an ongoing daily basis.[14][15]

U.S. government officials have disputed some aspects of the Guardian and Washington Post stories and have defended the program by asserting it cannot be used on domestic targets without a warrant, that it has helped to prevent acts of terrorism, and that it receives independent oversight from the federal government's executive, judicial and legislative branches.[16][17] On June 19, 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama, during a visit to Germany, stated that the NSA's data gathering practices constitute "a circumscribed, narrow system directed at us being able to protect our people

jitsi.org | Jitsi
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Secure video calls, conferencing, chat, desktop sharing, file transfer, support for your favorite OS, and IM network. All this, and more, in Jitsi - the most complete and advanced open source communicator.

Use all your networks from the same application. Jitsi lets you connect to Facebook, GoogleTalk, XMPP, Windows Live, Yahoo!, AIM, and ICQ so that you can chat to all your friends in the simplest possible way.

Desktop Sharing

Tor Browser Bundle
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The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

Open Street View

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openstreetview

OpenStreetView (openstreetview.org) is a project talked about at State Of The Map 2009 by John McKerrell and launched in September 2009. The aims of the project are to create a large open licensed database of street level photography. Photos can be uploaded into the system by anyone who signs up for an account. All photos must then be moderated by a number of people (currently 3) to ensure that they are appropriate for the project. Once a photo has been moderated it will then show up in API queries and appear on the site to anyone, whether signed in or not.

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ePhone

Turn your computer into a telephone, with ePhone™ by Comwave. Log In to ePhone from your desktop or laptop computer from anywhere around the world to make and receive free calls with your own phone number. ePhone uses your data connection or Wi-Fi so there is no need to worry about expensive fees while traveling.