Each Netflix subscription gives the user access to a smaller movie library that can be accessed instantly from up to three PCs. All subscription plans except for the cheapest one include unlimited hours of watching movies on the computer. This service is limited to three computers though which might not be enough depending on the […]
Can you please hand over all electronic devices that you carry with you, Sir ? I need to check them thoroughly for copyright infringing material, terrorist activity and pornography. Is that a video of you and your wife, wow that looks hot. Is that the new song of Madonna ? Do you have a receipt […]
A recent vulnerability in the latest Adobe Flash version lead to a massive attack. More than 220000 pages on the Internet have been hacked most likely with an automated tool using a SQL injection attack. Those pages, some of well respected companies such as Nokia but also many non-profit organizations and town websites, redirect the […]
Not a lot of updates this week but some good ones. Flashgot finally made it to 1.0 which is a huge achievement for the team. Some of my favorite tools have been updated this week including Opera, Locate and MyUninstaller which is also the tool to grab the update of the week award.
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The information on a website that is temporarily or permanently unaccessible is not necessarily lost. Internet caches crawl the web and store the information. The most popular cache is probably Google Cache which automatically caches pages when Google Bot pays a visit. Technical difficulties are the main reason why a website is temporarily unaccessible. This […]
If you are running the Symantec products Norton Internet Security 2008, Norton SystemWorks 2008, Norton 360 or Norton AntiVirus 2008 on a machine with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and want to upgrade to Service Pack 3 you should disable the SymProtect feature before doing so or your operating system could go kaboom. More precisely […]
I explained in the article Working With Several Firefox Profiles how I’m using several Firefox profiles for certain tasks like normal surfing, testing and visiting secure websites. I’m using one profile to visit my bank’s website and any other secure site related to finance and personal information. That approach makes sure that I cannot land […]
What Microsoft has officially shown of Windows 7 is not much and their extremely tight-lipped approach has led to some confusion and false rumors in the past. The D6 Conference took place yesterday and Microsoft, for the first time, demonstrated one of the features of Windows 7 that is most likely part of the retail […]
Windows is not having the easy command line options to update the installed drivers or applications that Linux has. Many users forget to update their system drivers at all after installing them for the first time. That can be one major cause for problems on the system and it should be mandatory to update the […]
In what started as a small beta test in Feb 08, Google’s “Automatic Matching” function is being made available to more AdWords advertisers. The controversial feature is expanding this weekend and you could be one of the lucky (or unlucky) ones without knowing it.
Let’s see what Automatic Matching is before we lay judgment on its […]