PayPal is a popular payment processing system that is used by millions to make purchases and transactions on the Internet. Much of PayPal’s appeal stems from the fact that its system supports user to user transactions. New PayPal accounts are limited automatically until they are verified. Limitations block certain site features and limits the amount [...]
Automatically Restart Firefox On High Memory Usage
High memory usage can slow down a program or the operating system. While I personally never experienced that in Firefox on my computer systems, I know of users who did and still do. Finding the cause for the high memory usage in Firefox would obviously be the best solution for the issue. Sometimes though that [...]
LastPass Password Manager Now With Google Authenticator Support
One way to improve online account security is to use so called 2-step verification systems when they are offered by companies and services. Companies like Google, PayPal or Yahoo are already offering multifactor authentication systems to their users. These systems are optional for now and improve security by combining standard log ins with a second [...]
Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 Review
Kaspersky has been in the Internet security business for a very long time. A veteran company that usually scores very well in comparative tests. Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 fills the space between Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012, a security application concentrating solely on virus and malware protection, and Kaspersky Pure, Kaspersky’s flagship product that adds security related [...]
Display Files In Windows 7 Libraries, Favorites Differently
Files in standard folders can be sorted and displayed in a number of ways. When it comes to sorting, users have options to display files in list form or as thumbnails. The sorting options allow them to sort files and folders by name, or other parameters such as file size or modification date. Library and [...]
Create Web Based Interactive Excel Mashups
How do you make Excel data available on the Internet? You could upload the spreadsheet directly, or use the program’s export feature to export the spreadsheet as a static table full of data. Developers who wanted more than that had to find a way to use the spreadsheet data with a web scripting language, for [...]
Combine Dropbox and uTorrent to Load Torrents Remotely
You may come upon torrents that you’d like to download when you are out of house. Maybe you are at a friend’s house, at work, or in a foreign country. The problem that you’ll encounter is always the same. How do you get the torrent from the computer to your home computer running uTorrent? You [...]
Sandbox Programs With Sandboxie
A sandbox in computing in layman terms puts a border around programs running in the sandbox so that they run isolated from the rest of the system. This protects the rest of the system if the sandboxed program is attacked or exploited. Sandboxing can be a very effective option when testing programs, running files where [...]
Google Funded Browser Security Comparison Says Chrome Most Secure
A recently conducted and published browser security comparison by Accuvant Labs comes to the conclusion that Google’s Chrome browser is more secure than Firefox and Internet Explorer. The researchers looked at specific browser security technologies and their implementation in web browsers. That’s an analytical what-if approach, and fundamentally different from analyzing a browser’s vulnerabilities in [...]