You wouldn’t believe it until you saw it! Apparently 17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dressed up as a cat (occasionally), complete with furry tail and danced on wine bottles, June 1958.

Here’s the hard evidence from the BBC photo archive.

Her performance was based on a dream and she practiced for eight hours every day in order to perfect her dance.

OnClick freeware from 2BrightSparks are easy to use, single function utility programs. These are real must-have utilities, and my favourites are;

• DeleteOnClick completely deletes files in one click and the data becomes unrecoverable, and also has the option to wipe free disk space. For this reason you must use the program carefully. Once a file is ‘Securely Deleted’ no one can undelete it.
• EncryptOnClick is like hiring your own highly experienced data security guard who ensures the files you want to keep safe and out of view from others, stay that way.
• HashOnClick quickly and easily provides information to compare hash values (CRC32, MD5, SHA-1) side by side to establish the data in one file exactly matches (or not) the data in another. Ensure that the files you receive haven’t been tampered with.

They also provide some paid versions that will let you recover deleted files from your hard drive etc. Looks like a very promising site/company indeed.

Watch and learn… Doesn’t look to hard does it?

There are some things in life that are great to share. Important personal or company documents are not amongst them. You would not pass your personal photo album or business documents to the person sitting next to you in an airport or on a plane? Therefore you should protect the “data” on your visible screen in the office or on the move.

How?

The digital age has replaced traditional paper documents and photographs with electronic files and digital pictures. So protect whatever information is on your screen from wandering eyes with a Targus Privacy Screen. The Privacy Screen is a micro slim film that covers the notebook/ LCD screen and only allows normal viewing from directly in front of it, whilst also reducing glare from the screen and protecting it from damage. People viewing from an angle greater than 45 degrees will only see a black screen.

Pro’s

Your visible data are now hidden from anyone sitting next to you.

Con’s

Anyone standing behind you will still see what you’re doing (with reduced glare).

Those sitting to the side of you will think you’ve completely lost it as it would appear you’re working with the notebook shut off.

Conclusion

I don’t see this as a new revolution in the security sector, but for anyone interested here’s the link to the Targus Privacy Screen.

Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) was independently discovered in 1988 in Fe/Cr/Fe trilayers by a research team led by Peter Grünberg of the Jülich Research Centre, who owns the patent, and in Fe/Cr multilayers by the group of Albert Fert of the University of Paris-Sud, who first saw the large effect in multilayers that led to its naming, and first correctly explained the underlying physics.

Very weak magnetic changes give rise to major differences in electrical resistance in a GMR system. A system of this kind is the perfect tool for reading data from hard disks when information registered magnetically has to be converted to electric current.

Soon researchers and engineers began work to enable use of the effect in read-out heads. In 1997 the first read-out head based on the GMR effect was launched and this soon became the standard technology. Even the most recent read-out techniques of today are further developments of GMR.

Grünberg and Fert have received a number of prestigious prizes and awards for their discovery and contributions to the field of spintronics, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to ALBERT FERT and PETER GRÜNBERG for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. Applications of this phenomenon have revolutionized techniques for retrieving data from hard disks. The discovery also plays a major role in various magnetic sensors as well as for the development of a new generation of electronics. The use of Giant Magnetoresistance can be regarded as one of the first major applications of nanotechnology.

The two scientists are awarded 10 million Swedish kronor (€1.1 million) which is to be split equally amongst them.

Source: Nobelprize.org , Kva.se