It is not really clear to me why url shorteners have become that popular on today’s Internet. Sure, Twitter may have an impact on that, considering its 140 word limit per message, but there do not seem to be a lot of other applications for url shortening services. Despite that, popularity has risen and more [...]
Infrastructure worm targets Iran
A new worm that has been named Stuxnet has been detected that appears to have been written specifically to attack infrastructure in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the first example of malware of this type the worm was programmed to attack power stations, water plants and industrial units. A report by the BBC has said [...]
Duplicate Commander, Find And Delete Duplicate Files
Duplicate files are not such a big problem anymore for most users, unlike a few years ago. This can be mainly attributed to the increase in storage space of the average PC. Even one Gigabyte of duplicate contents does not mean a lot if the PC has storage space of 1 Terabyte or above. Still, [...]
Latest Firefox 4 Nightly Removes Status Bar
In a move that is likely to alienate part of the Firefox user base, Firefox developers have removed the status bar from the latest nightly builds of the upcoming web browser. Users who download and install the nightly build will immediately notice that the status bar has been removed from the browser. Even worse is [...]
Torrific, Turn Torrents Into Direct HTTP Downloads
Bittorrent offers a very popular way of downloading files from the Internet, or even a local network. The protocol is however very dependent on the seeders, that is the users or servers the complete files are distributed from. Users can speed up downloading and seeding of files with so called seedboxes, which are dedicated servers [...]
Mulve, Windows Music Downloader
Earlier today, reviews of the free portable app Mulve made their rounds on the Internet. It probably originated at Torrentfreak and got picked up by other sites shortly thereafter as well. Mulve, is a free, standalone program to download music from the Internet. It’s biggest feature? Simplicity. A double-click to start, a search phrase, and [...]
Small Businesses to get Free Microsoft Security Essentials
In a u-turn for Microsoft, the company has now announced that it will licence it’s free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) anti-virus product for small businesses from October. The move is a turn around from the launch of the product, which is based on the same scanning engine as the company’s award-winning ForeFront Client Security, corporate [...]
How To Create Custom RSS Feeds
Real Simple Syndication (RSS) makes it a lot easier to keep up to date with the latest updates on Internet services and websites. Many websites nowadays offer RSS feeds to provide their readers with an alternative to visiting the site manually, or subscribing to an e-mail newsletter. Feed readers like RSS Owl or the online [...]
Google New, Find Out What’s New From Google
The sheer size of a company like Google, or Microsoft for that matter, makes it really hard to keep up to date with all the latest developments of said company. Google maintains blogs and web services that try their best to promote new or updated products, but this until now meant that interested users had [...]