Here tom's networking shows you how to add a WiFi inside your laptop not using PCMCIA.

In Part 2 of ASP.NET Security in a Sandbox, Michele Leroux Bustamante shows how to further improve on ASP.NET security using impersonation with Enterprise Services. Those Enterprise Service components can then be activated in their own AppDomain with the execution identity set to a limited access account.

Reporters Without Borders said it suspected a political motive after US web host The Planet terminated its contract with the Iranian Student's News Agency (ISNA) on 14 January 2005. The worldwide press freedom organisation has written to the US company seeking an explanation for its unilateral decision. It pointed out that a host cannot interrupt its client's service unless it has evidently broken a clause in the contract or if the contract has expired. Even in the event of a contractual dispute, a technical provider must give reasons for its decision. It does not have the competence to decide whether or not an online publication should be banned. This is the province of a judge, it said in the letter. Iranian Internet-users already suffer relentless government censorship, so it is all the more important for American host companies to show their respect for free expression, it added. The ISNA is an official press agency that nevertheless provides an important source of information, particularly for foreign organisations and media, on the arrests of journalists and political dissidents in Iran, it said. The agency regularly relays information from human rights organisations, even though it does not give its sources. In the email notifying ISNA that it was terminating the contract, The Planet said its decision was non negotiable and gave the agency 48 hours to find a new provider. Contacted by phone by Reporters Without Borders, The Planet refused to comment. The deputy technical director of ISNA described the host's action as a "violation of international law". The agency confirmed that it had changed its host following the notification from The Planet.

BBC: "Iran has accused the US government of ordering an American internet service provider to stop hosting the website of an official Iranian news agency. The Iranian Student News Agency said no explanation had been given by the server, called The Planet, for its abrupt move to terminate the contract. Isna, which is widely read in Iran, says it has moved to another server, which it did not name. The Planet was unable to comment immediately on the allegations. The row has led to calls for Iran to develop its own satellite technology. Isna said it had received an e-mail from The Planet warning that the website would be terminated within 48 hours and that the decision was final and non-negotiable."

In the first part of a two-part interview, Stephen Cole of the BBC's technology show Click Online talks to Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates about the "digital lifestyle".

According to some news I read yesterday, The Planet is hardly moving forward blocking Iranian servers. I discussed once with them this long time ago and they actually didn't have any problem with Iranians but now... This pressure from USA on Iranians is far from 'unfair'. Google, eBay, PayPal and now... ThePlanet! Who will be the next?

After all and all looking for broadband connection with a reasonable price here in Tehran, I had some experience in Kish island before, I got an IP Wireless Service from DATAK company yesterday. They charged me 50$ per a month for 128/32 connection. Although it is 128k, I have got for some hours around 45KBps which reminds me of 512kbps. As it has been announced on their website, it uses Radio Frequency between 2.5 - 23 GHz. The CPE is connected to your Ethernet card using a cross cable and the service till now has been so far so good! Here you can see my CPE in front of my window beside my laptop.


Notice: The picture has been taken by me iMate SP3 SmartPhone!

"Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you know. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print at home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello, and even put pictures on your own blog. "
Download it here!

This may be irrelevant to about 99.9% of you, but Ars Technica has an in-depth analysis of the Micro-AmigaOne and the Amiga OS4 operating system. Amiga, you say? Didn’t that platform disappear around the same time asteroids were obliterating the dinosaurs? Well, sort of. Like many a failed-but-elegant system (OS/2 Warp, anyone?), the Amiga has been kept alive by devoted fans through years of ownership changes, bankruptcies and false starts. According to Ars Technica’s review, the platform is remarkably up-to-date and includes handy features like an Internet connection wizard, a Winamp clone to play MP3s, and a Photoshop knockoff. Pretty slick if you’re an Amiga fan, but we won’t be happy until someone releases an updated version of the Apple Lisa. Via Engadget.

Muslims are using camera phones on Haj recording their memories. This is one of the reasons why we say camera phones are useful.

Brad Wilson: "We found a down-right evil bug today. A customer had reported that he was having problems with some piece of functionality in our application when he was using a non-English culture."

Clubimate.com has announced a ROM update for iMate SP3.

According to some news I received yesterday, The Planet has shut down some Iranian servers since they were from Iran. I am sure they have been put under pressure for doing that but whom from... Not sure. Anyway, I hope to see the day which Iranians won't be facing such issues anymore on the 'net, it is International Network not a National one ;)

Well, the low speed of this web site, or maybe down time for some hours, was due to a network outage in the data center which aliparvaresh.com is hosted on. I apologize for that.

Nice article on how to upload a file from a Windows Application to a Web Service using VB.NET.

Google provides the best overall consumer experience among major Web search engines, but Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN have made significant gains in popularity since May 2004, according to a study by Keynote Systems. Participants in the survey also chose Google as the search engine they would most likely use in the future. Google, Yahoo, and MSN are the top three search engines, in that order, based on overall consumer experience, Keynote found in a survey of 2,000 consumers. Ask Jeeves and Lycos round out the top five, the San Mateo, California-based Web performance monitoring company said. Read More . . .

Take a look at msmobiles.com for review of latest AvantGo software for Pocket PC.

An article in Geekzone shows us how to use Google Desktop Search as a cheap search engine server for our local area networks. Read More . . .

Design Technica: "Amazons site went down briefly Friday for less than an hour. No word has been released as to what caused the proble, An Amazon Spokeswoman had the following to say: Some folks had trouble getting to the site and others didn't, said Patty Smith, spokeswoman for the Seattle-based company. She described the difficulty as just a sporadic problem (that) has been resolved on site."

xThink has released MathJournal version 1.1, an interactive program for the Tablet PC that provides a natural and intuitive environment for solving mathematical and engineering problems. MathJournal recognizes handwritten mathematical expressions, and then displays a list of relevant solution types to the user. Whenever possible MathJournal gives the option to plot an expression. Via Scoble.

According to InfoWorld, the bug which let people read others emails has been patched.

In this piece of advice, Brad Wilson compares and contrasts factory methods to constructors, and illustrates some of the benefits of using the Factory Method Pattern.

VBConversions is has announced the release of version 1.2 of its VB.Net to C# Converter. VBConversions VB.Net to C# Converter is a conversion program which rewrites your VB.Net project in C#. Unlike other conversion programs, variable names, comments, and inline comments are preserved. Via TSS.NET

NewsBreak works in this way that you add URL of RSS feed and then it appears on the list of subscribed channels. Then the content of the feed can be fetched, and you can view the individual news item. In this program however to view content of individual news item, the NewsBreak program opens simply Pocket Internet Explorer with the news item. RSS readers for PC usually show the content of the news item from the RSS feed right away in the same program. Here is how the Newsbreak for Microsoft Smartphone looks like:


Via MSMobiles.com

According to BBC Persian, Orkut and PersianBlog has been blocked by Iranian ISPs asked by Iran's Judgement Department. Iran's government is looking for possible ways unblocking them. Read More . . .

GIZMODO: "Memsen was showing prototypes of their new 'Click 'n' Share' flash memory drives at CES. The concept is simple, but potentially powerful: each flash drive has (presumably) a 'shared' folder, and when two flash drives are within range, just a simple button press will wirelessly transfer the contents of those shared folders. It's only at the point of reference design for now, but Memsen is planning on licensing the idea to other vendors for production soon. I still want to beam songs from iPod to iPod (or even better, iPod to Any Other Storage Drive)."

FolderShare is a website and software application that allows you to create a personal Peer-to-Peer network. Use FolderShare to retrieve/update documents or to share your files (photos, reports, etc.) with family, friends, and colleagues. A FolderShare Library is the center of this personal P2P network. Run FolderShare on multiple personal computers (like your home and office machines) and you will have a powerful file system at your disposal. FolderShare can automatically create an identical set of files on all of your computers. Make a file at home and it will instantly be copied to your office computer. Edit a file on your laptop and your office computer will automatically update its version of the file. If you are on the road, use FolderShare to view and download files from your office computer via any web browser. Expand your P2P network by turning your FolderShare library into a group library. Create a Library with invited friends/colleagues and build a collection of files (documents, photos, etc.) that everyone in the group can access. Securely share as many files as you desire because FolderShare has no file size limitations or bandwidth quotas. Via Kirk Haselden.

According to some emails and messages I have received recently, Orkut gonna be blocked by iranian ISPs. Iranians are signing an online peition, those who can, please spread the word out.

Microsoft has released the third Service Pack for the .NET Compact Framework. This Service Pack fixes several issues including problems with web services, memory leaks, and control issues.

Magneto, or what ever: Windows Mobile 2005, will be around soon.

On 16 December 2004 Microsoft announced its acquisition of Giant Company Software, Inc., a provider of anti-spyware and Internet security products. The company started working on incorporating Giant's technology into a new product, called Microsoft Windows Anti-Spyware. The first beta of this new product is available for download from today. The beta software scans a user's PC to locate spyware and other software threats and enable customers to remove them. It is available for Windows 2000 and later, including Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Pro. Read More . . .

Our team mates in PhoneMag and SlashPhone are blogging from CES lively giving our new related to this show. Stay tuned!

Free application to send and receive SMS directly on your PC with any connected SmartPhone. Via MSMobiles.

This article looks at one way to represent trees in .NET - and how to map them to a table in SQL Server and back again - which should hopefully take the pain out of storing trees and manipulating them from .NET.

Samsung gonna produce an SmartPhone with a built-in 3GB hard disk. Read more on Phone Magazine.

Lockergnome: "According to my own traffic statistics, based on a sample of over 600,000 visitors from over 180 countries, Internet Explorer controls slightly more than 70% of the browser market, where, just twelve months ago it had over 91% of it."
That's the result of people moving to FireFox, Mozilla and Opera.

Here is the site for weblog awards of 2005.

I am going to write in PhoneMag.com about Microsoft SmartPhones and Microsoft Pocket PC Phones now and on. You might follow my posts about that there.

BBC: Some of the most vivid descriptions of the devastation in southern Asia are on the internet - in the form of web logs or blogs. Bloggers have been offering snapshots of information from around the region and are also providing some useful information for those who want to help.

Year 2005... Happy New Year!