Twitter has today updated its website to patch a flaw that was allowing spammers to cause multiple pop-ups with links to porn websites. The code has beens spread by worms and thousands of people around the world have been caught out. The self-replicating worm exploited a cross scripting (XSS) vulnerability and used just a small [...]
Linux Live USB Creator
One of the greatest options to test out a Linux distribution is to create a Live CD and use that to boot the operating system from. That way, no changes are made to the current system, and the user is still able to test Linux extensively. Then, when the user feels comfortable using the operating [...]
Google Chrome Extension Reveals Website User Agent Detection
Have you ever been to a website with one browser, and then later with another only to realize that the contents displayed were different? Or have you been to a site without favorite browser only to read the note that your browser was not supported by it? The websites in question are likely using techniques [...]
NTFSWalker, Explore And Recover Data On NTFS Partitions
NTFSWalker is a free tool for the Windows operating system that can be used to explore and recover data on NTFS partitions. The program can display data of connected partitions, or do the same for drive images if available. It displays a list of available partitions and drives on startup, and offers to load disk [...]
Free Music Player Overview
There are heaps of music players for the Windows operating system. Even if you discount all media players that support music as well, you are left with hundreds of free players for the operating system. This overview takes a look at some of the more popular choices when it comes to music players. Before we [...]
Clean up Gconf database with GConf Cleaner
If you are a Windows user you are probably accustomed to cleaning up your registry on a regular basis. Adding and removing software can leave behind unused or corrupt entries in the registry which, in turn, can cause system irregularities or, worse, cause a system to not run. GNOME has it’s own flavor of the [...]
Google Translate Tooltip, Fast On Page Translations
When it comes to online translations, it is Google Translate that gets the most attention from Internet users. The popular service is not only accessible through the official website, but thanks to its API also through third party tools like browser add-ons or desktop applications. The translation is the only constant when it comes to [...]
Germany.gov calls for Data Protection Code
Germany is the largest country in Europe where Google’s controversial Street View has not gone live. This is because of privacy complaints made about the service around the world. Now the German government has called for a voluntary data protection code to be in place by 7th December this year, as reported by the BBC. [...]
CD DVD Data Recovery Software Overview
Blank CDs and DVDs have been around for quite some time now and their limited life span means that many users will eventually run into accessibility problems. With age come problems to read files from the CDs or DVDs. The only option in this case is to make use of data recovery software to save [...]