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Password Fail For Chrome Reports Websites With Bad Password Policies

Webmasters who create a community on the web need to define password policies that include password limitations and recovery options. They also need to ensure that the passwords and user data in general is protected on the service’s servers to avoid disastrous hacker attacks where hackers can gather valuable unprotected data from the service. The [...]

Author: , Saturday March 13, 2010
Categories: Google Chrome

How To Whitelist Cookies And Delete The Rest Regularly

Cookies are needed on many Internet sites. They are however also used for tracking purposes to track the movement of Internet users and can pose a privacy risk as they might reveal websites that the user visited in the past. Most web browsers offer a basic cookie management module that can be used to delete [...]

Author: , Friday March 12, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Photo Resizer BatchBlitz

Individual photos and images can easily be resized with virtually any image editor and most image viewers as they usually offer resizing options. But a specialized photo resizer is usually the better choice when multiple photos need to be resized and edited. BatchBlitz is a free photo resizer for the Windows operating system that can [...]

Author: , Friday March 12, 2010
Categories: Software, Windows

Create a bootable CD of PloP Linux

PloP Linux is one of those small in size but large in features Live distributions that could, at some point, save your skin. It offers tons of tools to help you out of just about any situation and, because of the necessity to build the live version, allows you to add whatever tool you need. [...]

Author: , Friday March 12, 2010
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Software, troubleshooting

Do You Want To Upgrade To Firefox 3.6 Now?

The Mozilla Firefox web browser is being offered in three different versions currently. Official release versions of Firefox are 3.0.x, 3.5.x and the main release Firefox 3.6.x. There are still many users that have installed the previous release strains 3.0.x or 3.5.x even though the Firefox 3.6 release is being pushed by Mozilla. The Mozilla [...]

Author: , Friday March 12, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

AVG Anti-Virus 9

The guys over at giveaway of the day are offering the popular antivirus software AVG Anti-Virus 9 today. The security program offers several additional features over its free counterpart (named AVG Anti-Virus 9 Free or AVG 9 Free) which will be the focus of this review. AVG 9 Free offers the core features that one [...]

Author: , Friday March 12, 2010
Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Mozilla Account Manager

The Mozilla Account Manager project aims to simplify the login connection process to websites and services by implementing a new protocol “that sites can use to define their account-and-session management features” that integrates with the web browser. The Account Manager is described as an evolution of the password manager that is integrated in Firefox and [...]

Author: , Friday March 12, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security

IE Tab 2 Continues Where IE Tab Stopped

IE Tab was a very popular Firefox extension that could be used to embed Internet Explorer into Mozilla Firefox. The main use of this add-on was to make sites compatible in Firefox that otherwise were not without having to switch to Internet Explorer to open those websites. It was also used by web developers to [...]

Author: , Thursday March 11, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Software Copy Protection Scanner Burnout

Copy protections are often used on CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks so that it becomes more difficulty to copy the contents of the media. Up until now no copy protection was ever used that has not been cracked or bypassed eventually and it is likely that this will hold true in the future. It is [...]

Author: , Thursday March 11, 2010
Categories: Software, Windows

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