Security firm NSS Labs have been running some tests on different modern web browsers to see how they defend and protect their users against socially-engineered malware. This is malware that attempts to trick users into installing it, much in the way Apple Mac users have been suffering with the recent spate of ‘Mac Defender’ malware. [...]
NewsMix Gives Twitter News Tweets Validation Among Traditional News
There are lots of different ways to utilize the power of Twitter. Many people use it simply at its most basic level, posting tweets to their followers while scanning those of their friends. Others use the service to advertise their business and spend hours identifying the best ways to market their products through the website. [...]
MC2 Burning Skies [Game Saturday]
I love to play old school arcade shooters. Games like R-Type, Blood Money or Apydia were lots of fun to play and hard to beat. MC2 Burning Skies is a well made Flash game that brings back the charm of those classic games. It is a sequel to Mechanical Commando 2. MC2 Burning Skies is [...]
WordPress Toolbar For Firefox
WordPress is displaying an admin bar since version 3.1 release that administrators can use to access the blog’s backend when they are on the frontend. The bar displays options to add new contents, edit the current page, open the dashboard, comment moderation or appearance settings of the blog. I personally dislike the new WordPress admin [...]
RSS Feed Reader RSSOwl Updated
I’m using the Java based program RSSOwl for my daily feed reading. I tested several desktop and online applications and found RSSOwl to be one of the best suited for my feed reading needs. The feed reader has just been updated to RSSOwl 2.1 which adds several very interesting features to the program. Probably the [...]
Find People On Plus Lets You Search Google Plus Users
Google Plus has been released in a bare bones version. While tech savvy users flock to it like crazy, it is in its current stage nothing more than a site to follow, be followed and exchange messages. Well, that’s not entirely correct as you get chat and a few other things as well. Still, essential [...]
Microsoft ‘Connected Devices’ Rumours Update
At last week’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft detailed it’s ongoing strategy to bring a connectedness to all the different types of devices in its product ranges. This makes sense to a certain extent as a unified interface across Windows PCs and tablets, Windows Phone, Xbox and other devices makes considerable sense and is what Apple [...]
How to Extract Audio from Video Files using VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player is complete software program, not just a media player. VLC has a method for converting FLV, AVI, and other video files to MP3 format. The steps are simple and it is quite useful when creating unique media files for applications when MP3 files need to be created by extracted audio from video [...]
Mozilla BrowserID, Sign-In System
Many contents on the Internet require a user account before they can be accessed and used. This means for users that they have to create an account, by entering one of their email addresses, selecting a password, username and maybe some other information. They often get a confirmation email with a link that they have [...]