Google Chrome’s fullscreen mode is similar to that of other popular web browsers. It will limit the web browser controls and maximize the web browser window at the same time to display the website using as much screen estate as possible. The Google browser on the other hand removes the address bar completely from fullscreen [...]
Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview
If you’ve been following the Ubuntu release cycle you know that the .10 release is forth coming. Slated to hit the bandwidth October 29th, 2009, 9.10 promises to have quite a number of new features that should please even the most discerning of Linux users. But what can you expect and how should it run? [...]
Microsoft Research ESL Assistant
People who learned English as their second language usually make different mistakes than English natives. This can be attributed to a number of factors with the differences between their native language and English being a major one. Computer programs that correct spelling errors are nowadays provided for most operating systems. They usually use a dictionary [...]
Real-time Local Twitter Trends
Twitter can be an excellent source for spotting the latest trends. Twitter itself displays several popular topics on its frontpage which are sorted by minute, day and week. It does become more difficulty to spot trends if they are not displayed on the Twitter homepage. The two problems that arise are finding those trends if [...]
Google Implements Cross-site Request Forgery Protection
Cross-site Request Forgery are carried out from a computer system or user that is trusted by a website. Cookies that do not expire after a user closes the website or web browser are one of the most common forms of trust that can be exploited by cross-site request forgery attacks. The attacker needs to use [...]
Preferred Filter Tweaker for Windows 7
Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7 uses Direct Show filters to decode several audio and video formats. Direct Show is being used by several multimedia applications like Windows Media Player or Media Center. It can also be used in third party tools like MPlayer. Users who prefer to use alternative codecs for decoding these audio [...]
Use this iptables script for Web/Mail server security
Security. Ah, security. It’s the make or break for administrators on so many levels. For the Linux operating system you could go in so many directions with your security. You could go the graphical front-end and make life easy but lose some flexibility. Or you could go the far more challenging route and use the [...]
Mozilla Plugin Check
The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web browser was open for attacks [...]
Secure Internet Explorer With IEController
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser is tightly integrated into the Windows operating system. This makes it an important software program even if the users of the system do not use it as their main web browser. The reason for this is that several other programs make use the Internet Explorer rendering engine. It is therefor [...]