A suicide truck bomber attacked a Hotel from Islamabad killing 45 people and wounding more than 300 people. The Merriot Hotel was a the location for delegation meeting few hours later and so was equiped with high security. Even then A truck managed to crash into the hotel. The exploasives in the truck were so [...]
The new update of the excellent CMS was released recently. Several of the possible security loopholes have been fixed.
Wordpress has become a CMS system used by many bloggers because of its ease of use and the flexibilty provided by it and also due to various plugins available. Therefore it has also attracted many hackers who [...]
Since this past weekend’s Digg event, more users on the popular social news site have been investigating what goes on behind the scenes. New stories have been posted about heavy diggers, people who spend their days promoting thousands of stories in a very short time. Some people were found to have submitted over a thousand [...]
One of the big new feature all the browsers are touting for their upcoming releases is the way the navigation bar works. Firefox has had the Awesome Bar since the 3.0 release, which pulls results from your bookmarks and history:
The new Google Chrome has its own version of that bar, which takes less room but [...]
Google announced that they will start anonymizing IP logs earlier than previously. It used to be that they kept logs of everything you did, linked to your IP address, for 18 months. Now, they are reducing it to 9 months.
Their announcement post goes into the fact that they need the IP logs not only to [...]
Google just announced that they released an updated version of Google Chrome. The update includes only bug fixes, and no new functionality. It fixes the security issues that were published last week, as well as other issues that were not public.
They seem to be very open about the features that are being fixed in the [...]
Live Mesh is Microsoft’s big push into Cloud Computing. It hasn’t gotten much press yet, because it’s still in a tech preview mode, but anyone in North America and some European countries can download and try it out. Basically it’s a platform that allows users to connect the web, computers and devices together, synchronize and [...]
Everyone knows about Google. As the most popular search engine, Google has transformed the way we view the web and how we do things online. Yet, 10 years ago, it was just an idea, a concept in the head of 2 guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D students at Stanford University, in California.
On [...]
With Google’s new browser now in use, many people have complained that one of its main issue is the lack of extensions. And one of the most popular extension that Firefox users have come to rely on is the use of AdBlock Plus, an ad blocker.
With a bit of hacking, however, it’s possible to have [...]
It’s a busy time for browsers. With Google Chrome now in the wild, we can’t forget that both Internet Explorer and Firefox have new browsers in development stages. So, how do the latest versions, IE8 Beta 2 and Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2, compare to each others?
Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2
First, let’s take a look at Firefox. [...]