If you’ve spent enough time over the years with Linux you know that the browser plug-in has been a source of agony for many. When plugins first became a necessity for browsing Linux was at an “early” age and adding these plugins was truly a nightmare. That was then, this is now. During my first [...]

Categories: Firefox, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

While Adobe Flash offers many exciting possibilities to web developers and users alike it also introduces several additional security risks to computer systems. We already discussed the impact of so called Flash Cookies which are able to track a user even if he deletes the normal cookies regularly across multiple web browsers. The HP Security [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Normally you will hear me professing to always install using your Linux distributions’ package management system. This is true for most cases. There is one case, however, that defies that philosophy: Installing Firefox. I have, on many occasions, installed Firefox using the distributions package management system only to have issue with either plugins or updates. [...]

Categories: Advice, Browsing, Firefox, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

The last year or so has been filled with announcements about private browsing. Each web browser developer implemented or announced plans to add private browsing to their web browser. Private browsing usually means to offer a sandboxed browsing session in computer memory with no information written and stored on the computer’s hard drive. Privacy is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Security

Flash Cookies, or Local Shared Objects, are stored on the user system by Macromedia Flash applications. They function a lot like cookies and can be used to store session information or save a game progress. The real problem that many users have with them is that they do not know that they exist because they [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

In a post last week I talked about the growth of cloud computing and web based applications in relation to online desktops. Today I’ve got some amazing flash powered online tools to show you. Aviary is a suite of web based creative tools. Each of the tools has been named after some kind of bird, [...]

Categories: Online Services

A report about a new Flash vulnerability that affected the latest two versions of Adobe Flash was spreading like fire on the Internet yesterday. The Flash Vulnerability was used on specially prepared websites that would exploit the vulnerability to download information and install additional malicious software. Research however has shown that the latest Adobe Flash [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

A recent vulnerability in the latest Adobe Flash version lead to a massive attack. More than 220000 pages on the Internet have been hacked most likely with an automated tool using a SQL injection attack. Those pages, some of well respected companies such as Nokia but also many non-profit organizations and town websites, redirect the [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

After such word processing giants as Google Docs and Zoho Writer, is there room for another one? The answer has to be a definite yes, I think there is always room for anything new, but let’s see if Adobe’s fancy-pants buzzword delivers the goods. First of all, yes, it does look awesome. It uses the [...]

Categories: Tools