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Skype releases mobile client

Skype for your mobile [via Shodan] beta was released by Skype. This is basically Skype that can be installed on a mobile phone. The mobile phones that are currently supported are from Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. Not all mobile phones from those manufacturers are supported though but the download page is providing images [...]

Author: , Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: Mobiles, Online Services

Free Magazines and Whitepapers for Professionals

It’s time again to take a look at some of the new magazines and whitepapers for professionals. This is basically a cooperation between my site and the Netline Cooperation who provide access to these magazines and whitepapers free of charge. Magazine subscriptions are free and sometimes provided as magazines that are send to your doorsteps [...]

Author: , Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: ghacks

Firefox View Dependencies

Randy was commenting on today’s article about using several Firefox profiles pointing out that he would love a list of the security add-ons that I was using in my secure profile. One of those is called View Dependencies. You have to understand that loading a website is not like downloading one file to your computer. [...]

Author: , Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security, The Web

Software Updates Week 18

Some great applications have been updated in the last seven, or shall I say six, days. I missed last weeks post by a day and this means that you will only be able to get the updates of the last six days because last week got eight. Nevertheless this weeks above average if you look [...]

Author: , Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Netvibes Feed Problem

I was astonished to see a dip in the amount of feed readers in the last days and decided to investigate the matter. It has happened in the past that Feedburner did have some problems to accumulate the stats correctly or that another party, like Google, did not report the amount of subscribers correctly. This [...]

Author: , Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: Online Services

Working with several Firefox profiles

Most Firefox users strangely work only with one Firefox profile. Well, I should not say strangely because one profile is of course sufficient for most tasks. I however prefer a different way of working with Firefox. I use several profiles that all aid me in certain situations that I encounter regularly. It takes an additional [...]

Author: , Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor

The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (Cofee) is a USB thumb-drive developed by Microsoft that was distributed to more than 2000 law-enforcement officers in 15 countries including the United States, Germany, New Zealand and Poland. Software on the device supports more than 150 commands that eliminates the need to seize the computer from the scene [...]

Author: , Tuesday April 29, 2008
Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows

Create your own photo mosaic online

Photo mosaics look beautiful if they come in small sizes or if you are have enough distance to the mosaic to be able to fully enjoy it. The mosaics are called photo mosaics because many photo are used to create the mosaic. Computers have made it easier to create photo mosaics and the website Pic [...]

Author: , Tuesday April 29, 2008
Categories: Cool, Entertainment

One.com free hosting and domain for selected countries

I think that the following hosting offer can be interesting to some users. I have to admit that I’m not using the hosting at one.com because I run my own dedicated server but I was not able to find out bad reviews about the webhoster when researching it. One.com is currently running a promotion that [...]

Author: , Tuesday April 29, 2008
Categories: The Web

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