On occasion, you will need to copy a website address into an email, or even worse, into Twitter. I say worse because Twitter only allows 140 characters and some website addresses that you want to share can take up most of that. As for pasting a website address into an email, depending on where you [...]
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Google released a new version of its Chrome browser Thursday to fix a high-severity security problem. The problem affects Google’s mainstream stable version of Chrome and is fixed in the new version 1.0.154.59 (download). Google has built Chrome so it updates itself automatically with no user intervention, though the software must be restarted for the [...]
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Have you ever wanted to learn a foreign language but can’t find the time to take a class or listen to CD’s? At Learn10.com you can have 10 new foreign words and their english translation sent to your email every day. Learning 10 new words a day will build your vocabulary very quickly. You can [...]
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Dell and HP balk at replacing bad Nvidia chip By Michael Lasky An old urban myth claims that the microprocessors used in PCs and other consumer electronics are designed to fail within days or weeks of their warranty expiration. For tens of thousands of people who bought Dell and HP notebooks whose motherboards fried — [...]
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A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, software, web page or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt, but actually is derived by the practice of the last Russian imperial family’s tradition of giving elaborately [...]
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Apple Inc., on Tuesday, began selling some of its most-downloaded songs for $1.29 apiece. Apple said in January that it would stop selling all individual songs for 99 cents each and begin offering three tiers: 69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29. Recording companies pick the prices. The main iTunes page advertised collections of 69-cent songs [...]
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Computer users’ growing fear of worms and viruses could be behind a recent spike in attacks on PCs via bogus security software, according to a Microsoft Corp report published on Wednesday. As the Conficker worm and other malicious software — known as malware — have grabbed headlines, more computer users have been looking for security [...]
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WOT (Web of Trust) is a plugin I use to make sure that the websites I visit are safe. If you use Internet Explorer or Firefox, this is one plugin that you have to install. Cloudeight Internet recently did a comparison of four different programs that rate the safety of websites, including Norton Safe Web, [...]
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So, was Conficker the bust that some say it is? Possibly, but not because of how it was written. I think what caused it not to be as explosive as it could have been was due to it’s own initial success. When the first couple of versions came out at the end of last year [...]
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