Dropping transfer rate costs per Gigabyte and faster connection speeds make the online storage niche attractive. One of the latest players to enter is AVG, developer of the popular antivirus solution. AVG announced the LiveKive service in February and promised that a beta would soon follow. The beta has just started and everyone who participates [...]
New Critical 0-day Flash Vulnerability Exploited Via Excel Attachments
Adobe today has released a new security advisory for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat. All three applications are affected by a critical 0-day vulnerability that is exploited via Excel email attachments. Vulnerable versions are Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.33 and earlier for all supported desktop operating systems, Adobe Flash Player 10.1.106.16 and earlier for [...]
Dropbox Portable AHK, Run Dropbox Without Installation
I have been using Dropbox extensively in the last months. For a project that I’m currently developing with Daniel that is going to launch this year (for webmasters, domain management and a lot more, contact me if you like more information and early beta access) and for access to files on all computers that I [...]
Internet Explorer 9 Launch, All The Information You Need
Microsoft is preparing to launch the final version of Internet Explorer 9 today at 9PM Pacific Time. This guide gives you all the information that you need to be prepared for the launch. Internet Explorer 9 will be released for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 and the server products Windows [...]
How To Block Spam With A Secondary Email Account
Most Internet users receive spam, largely because they have revealed their email address at one point or the other on the web. It does not really matter what they did, whether they signed up for free offers, an Internet service, left a comment on a blog or replied to an email that they did receive; [...]
Facebook users become the latest victims of the Japanese Tsunami
It’s not the first time that spammers and malware writers have used a tragic public event to spread malware on Facebook, but the latest are fake videos purporting to show “breathtaking” or “unbelievable” footage of the Japanese tsunami. These links, when clicked, will take you through to another website where you will be required to perform [...]
The Ultimate Tech Search Engine
I’m not the only one who thinks that search quality has taken a dive in recent years. I do not want to paraphrase the whole argument again, but I believe it is a result of search engines trying to keep the users longer on their “property” and the rise of autoblogs, spam sites and other [...]
Review: openSUSE 11.4
I have to admit, over the years I haven’t given openSUSE enough love or credit for being the outstanding Linux distribution is it. With that said, I wanted to give some attention to the latest release coming out of the openSUSE project. And, since the default desktop for openSUSE 11.4 is KDE, I will be [...]
Are Apps the New Websites?
I’ve written a lot about tablets over the last few months and indeed I now own a Windows 7 tablet myself, the ExoPC Slate. It didn’t take much use of this device to become disillusioned with the modern web as it stands today and I can’t help but wonder if the future of the web [...]