If things go as planned Firefox 4 final could be released to the public in February. Beta 9 has been released just a few days ago which gives a good indication of the final release, especially since it is feature complete. Firefox 4 users will find that the browser has changed, a lot. Noticeable is [...]
Why I love Arguments
One of these days, and I’ll try this eventually, I’m going to write an article called “Apple” which will contain just a single word, that word will again be “Apple”. What will the reason be for doing this? Simply because I know full well that some Apple fans will be up in arms and probably accuse [...]
EASEUS Todo Backup Home 2.0
Backups should play an important role in a user’s or company’s disaster recovery strategy as it may only be possible to recover data from a – preferably remote – backup. Why are backups so important? Think about a hard drive crash that leaves the data on the disk unrecoverable, or a theft of a laptop [...]
Web Page Thumbnails, Create, Archive Web Page Screenshots
Two options are available to save a website. The first is to save it as a html document which is supported by all web browsers. The second option to create a high resolution screenshot of the website. Web Page Thumbnails is a free software for Windows that can create screenshots of web pages. All created [...]
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Download
If you cannot wait to get your hands on the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 release you may now download it from reputable sites such as Softpedia. There is still no official confirmation that the download offered is indeed the RTM version of the service pack that Microsoft intends to distribute to Windows 7 users [...]
Adobe’s Flash Sandbox Not So Secure After All
The idea on paper sounded great: Add a sandbox to Adobe Flash to prevent many attacks from affecting the underlying operating system. It appears however that the sandbox which has been introduced in December 2010 is not as effective as it could be. Security researcher Billy Rios discovered a way to bypass Adobe’s Flash Player [...]
Wikipedia Turns 10
The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is 10 today. It was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is now the largest and most popular reference website with over 17 million articles and 400 million readers. The name came from the Hawaiian word wiki which means “quick” and the word encyclopedia. At the moment [...]
SaferChrome Protects Chrome Users Against Man In The Middle Attacks, Improves Security
Internet users who connect to the Internet out of a computer network have to be very careful about the data they send and receive, and how they do that. The Firefox add-on Firesheep was definitely not the first program to show how easy it is to record data from other users of the network but [...]
Firefox 4 Beta 9 Released, Final In February
The latest beta of the upcoming Firefox 4 web browser has just been uploaded to the official Mozilla ftp release server. Firefox 4 Beta 9 is currently distributed to the worldwide mirror network to ensure an error free rapid distribution once the official release announcement has been made on the Mozilla website. It is likely [...]