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Sunday, April 27th, 2008You’ll notice that this site is now running WP 2.5.1. Automatic released version 2.5.1 of WordPress on April 25, in order to fixe a bunch of performance and interface bugs, and a very important security update. It is highly reccommended that all WordPress 2.5 users update their installations as soon as possible, especially if [...]
AVG 8.0 Freeware released, with protection from spyware
Sunday, April 27th, 2008A few months ago, Grisoft updated its AVG anti-virus suite to version 8 and included linkscanning, anti-spyware, and anti-rootkit software to boot. Now the popular freeware equivalent of Grisoft’s anti-virus application is getting some of the same features.
AVG Free 8 is out, and not only does it protect your system from viruses, but you [...]
MySpace - You can checkout, but you can never leave
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Mathew Moran has problems cancelling his MySpace accounts
I’ve had two myspace profiles for awhile - one as an individual and one as a band. Recently, for various reasons, I decided to get rid of both. Getting rid of my personal was interesting because their instructions are incorrect. I would say this is an oversight but [...]
Password Safe - Secure and Simple Password Management
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Password Safe is a free Windows utility designed by Bruce Schneier that allows users to can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single combination unlocks them all.
The reason for PasswordSafe is that most computer users have to keep track of dozens of passwords, network accounts, online services, premium web sites. Some [...]
Internet Explorer and Index.dat files
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Another one from Ghacks:
The usual way to ensure no one can track your surfing in Internet Explorer is to delete the Temporary Internet Files, cookies and history , right ? Wrong !!
Internet Explorer uses index.dat files to store information even though the information contained in those files are hardly needed (although, apparently, the auto complete [...]
Read all Wallstreet Journal articles for free
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008from Ghacks:
Apparently though the Wallstreet Journal website is making referrer checks to see if a user is coming from either Digg or Google News and will present the user the full story if the check is successful. Everyone else coming from different websites or opening the Wallstreet Journal page manually will only see the excerpt.
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The [...]
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008From the Official Australian Google Blog:
An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In [...]
Is your ISP is messing with your BitTorrents ?
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008We have seen claims that almost 70% of ALL Internet traffic is P2P (but no one can tell what the ratio of legal vs. illegal content is). Since then, many ISP’s have taken it upon themselves to throttle down BT related traffic, despite the fact that no one knows whether you’re downloading a Linux Distribution [...]
2 Sources Responsible for 60% of all Spam
Friday, March 21st, 2008According to an analysisby Marshal, Six bots are responsible for 85% of all spam. One of them alone, the Srizbi botnet, accounts for 39% of junk mail messages, and the next highest is the Rustock botnet, responsible for 21% of the spam.
Most of the times, spammers have access to multiple botnets and they have been [...]
How to uninstall MSN Messenger from an XP system
Monday, February 4th, 2008Whether you use MSN Messenger or not, it comes pre-installed and runs all on its own. It can annoy the hell out of people who want control over their machine. There are several alternative methods of getting rid of it. Warning - if you use Outlook or Outlook Express it will slow down their [...]