Microsoft has released an update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that provides functionality and performance improvements for the graphics platform. Neither the Knowledge Base article, nor the Microsoft download pages reveal information about the improvements provided by the update. Softpedia’s Marius Oiaga suggested that the update improves key apis of DirectX 11. [...]
H.264 to be royalty free forever
The H.264 video codec has been proving extremely popular of late, enabling all of us to watch quality, high-definition video on the web and in our homes. Microsoft and Apple have also both come forward to announce ongoing support for H.264 HD video in HTML5 in their new browsers. Now, the MPEG LA standards organisation [...]
Yahoo Sells Hotjobs To Monster, Protects Their Users
Dante just emailed me information about the purchase of Yahoo Hotjobs by Monster. We have seen Yahoo sell assets in the past and this is just another one of them. What’s more interesting is the fact how the transfer of user data has been negotiated. Yahoo could have simply given Monster access to the Hotjobs [...]
Google Moves Realtime Search To New Address
Search engines have improved their capabilities over the years to integrate near realtime information in their search engine results. Lately, many search engines decided that it would be a good idea to integrate Twitter results. This frankly did not yield the desired “freshness update” the search engines where hoping for, largely because of the amount [...]
Vimium, Speed Up Google Chrome With Keyboard Shortcuts
Using a web browser’s keyboard controls can speed up web surfing significantly. But most web browsers limit those keyboard shortcuts, and do not offer options to add additional hotkeys to speed up specific operations that are not supported by default. Vimium is a Google Chrome extension that adds a few dozen keyboard controls to the [...]
Facebook to kill of IE6 support
Internet Explorer is the black sheep of the browser community. It’s about as standards compliant as the overweight kid in the school athletics team, and as insecure as Fort Knox with the front door open. Annoyingly though it’s still out there and being used. Now there might be some light at the end of the tunnel. Social networking [...]
Bing Up, Yahoo And Google Down
The latest US search engine market share statistics compiled by Nielsen have been released and they confirm a trend that we have predicted for some time now. Microsoft’s Bing search engine managed to grow from 9% to 13.6 in the last twelve months, while Yahoo fell sharply from 17.1% to 14.3 and Google Search moderately [...]
Securely delete files with secure-delete
There are times when you need to delete a file…REALLY need to delete a file. Anyone who has been in the business of PCs long enough knows that when you simply delete a file it can be recovered. If someone is clever enough, and has the means, they could recover a file that had been [...]
Microsoft Offers Workaround For Remote DLL Vulnerability
A vulnerability was recently discovered in Microsoft Windows operating systems that exploits the default dll loading behavior. A Microsoft Security Advisory explains that the “issue is caused by specific insecure programming practices that allow so-called binary planting or DLL preloading attacks”. In simple terms: Applications that do not use qualified paths for external dynamic link [...]