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Laptops are gaining in popularity these days. Almost everyone is carrying one now either for work or entertainment. Laptops with the latest technology are introduced to the market everyday and these new laptops come with a huge price tag. However, that does not mean you cannot get a good and cheap laptop. I have put [...]
March 14th, 2009 | Posted in Web | No Comments
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 [...]
September 20th, 2008 | Posted in Web | No Comments
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 [...]
September 10th, 2008 | Posted in Microsoft, Web | No Comments
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 [...]
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in Google, News, Web | No Comments
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 [...]
September 8th, 2008 | Posted in Microsoft, Review, Web | 2 Comments
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 [...]
September 7th, 2008 | Posted in Google, Web | 6 Comments
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 [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Google, News, Web | No Comments
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. [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Microsoft, Mozilla, Review, Web | No Comments
It’s only been out in beta for 3 days, researchers around the world have been poking at it, trying to find some security flaws, and they found several. It seems the usual caution about using beta products is not just fine print, but a warning people should take notice of in the case of Google [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Google, News, Web | 2 Comments
Ever got an e-mail spam message asking you to download a program, which ends up being a worm most of the times, or buy some illegal products? Usually, they send you to a web site, with a domain name. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could simply look up the owner of that domain name, [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in News, Web | 1 Comment