Best USB Stick Design

Man, toys these days are unbelievable. And this one just keeps getting better. Those who remember the first generation of Transformers know that Ravage of the Decepticons transforms into a cassette tape. A Ravage USB drive will be out in the market. The storage is only 2GB and priced at 43$ but hey, this looks tempting.

I might want to buy one myself. This Ravage USB is slicker than its tape counterpart. Here is hoping other of Soundwave and Blaster’s tapes like Rat Bat, Laserbeak, Rumble, Frenzy, Slugfest, Steeljaw, Ramhorn, Rewind and Eject, will be made in the future.

LeapFish

Leapfish brings search 2.0 technology online with its intuitive idea of displaying search results from other search engine providers like Google, Yahoo, YouTube and MSN to name a few. It aggregates search results from other providers, organizes them and renders the most relevant information to you in one simple search. Every wonder why you see a subtitle that says “Just type it”? It is actually a click-free search interface in such a way that whatever gets typed in the text field is automatically used as the search keyword and relevant results will be displayed to you. Leapfish uses of the effectiveness of hyper-threading technology to communicate simultaneously with other search engines and their API’s providing you different results in a single search.

Its user interface is pretty simple and search results are laid out in a clean and orderly manner. The main page also displays the latest news, tips and video in quick fashion. Now that, is taking full advantage of hyper threading technology. To sum it all up, a search engine can only give out search results as far as what contents are found in its own database. But LeapFish extended that by gathering all the best search engines in the web today and displaying all the results from within one site. No need to go to other search engines individually and search what you need. LeapFish takes care all of that with just a few key strokes.

The Inspiration Behind The Logo Design Of Google Chrome

Haha! This is one funny strip. Kudos to the artist.

Decrypt Using Blowflish And Java

In my previous post (Encrypt Using Blowflish And Java), I talked about a way to encrypt using Blowfish in Java. To decrypt it back to its original string, use this method below. Again, part of this method’s code uses a secondary method that converts hexadecimal to binary. You can find it here.

public static String decrypt(String key, String cipher) {
  Security.insertProviderAt(new org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider(), 3);
  String plain = null;
  byte[] cipherText = convertHexadecimal2Binary(cipher.getBytes());
 
  try {
    SecretKeySpec blowfishKey = new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes(), "Blowfish");
    Cipher blowfishCipher = Cipher.getInstance("Blowfish", "BC");
    blowfishCipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, (Key)blowfishKey);
    byte[] plainText = blowfishCipher.doFinal(cipherText);
    plain = new String(plainText);
  } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
  return plain;
}