Google´s browser Chrome 9 will be out of beta and released to the public within a couple of weeks. The crash rate of the browser has been cut to around 300 for every million page loads so Google is completing the final touches. Chrome version 9 restores the Flash sandbox and Google claims that WebGL [...]
The gang at Mozilla are looking for beta testers for Firefox 4. It looks like there is a lot of great new stuff in 4. The tabs have been moved above what Mozilla is calling ´The Awesome Bar´, (the same place Chrome has them). A new button on the top left side of the browser [...]
Some of the pro WikiLeaks gang have used Twitter´s API (application programming interface) to carry out attacks that have led to crippling slowdowns at MasterCard.com, Visa.com and other websites that cut off funding to the WikiLeaks. A Java-based version Low Orbit Ion Cannon allows users to use a master Twitter ID to direct thousands of [...]
Like to chat online? Don´t have a fast computer or graphics card? Tried 3D chat and got tired of walking into walls? Well Voodoo Chat might be for you. Voodoo Chat is a free graphical chat community! Using web pages as a backdrop, Voodoo Chat lets you chat with old and new friends in a [...]
The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange said he is seeking asylum because of increasing pressure he and his group is coming under since releasing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. military documents. Sweden denied giving Assange asylum back in October and Swedish authorities are investigating rape and sexual molestation allegations against Assange by two Swedish [...]
Spam here spam there, spammers are everywhere. Facebook has closed a hole that let those dastardly Spammers to automatically post wall messages and direct messages to friends, the company said on Tuesday. Clicking on the link to one of the applications that were taking advantage of the bug would allow the auto-posting to happen, Facebook [...]
Net Neutrality Equals Free Speech! Major corporations are about to launch an all-out attack on net neutrality. The lobbyists are circling Congress now. Giving Verizon, Time Warner or Google the right to slow the Internet traffic they choose, maybe deliver your e-mail tomorrow instead of today, is not a good idea. I have 150 channels [...]
Up until a few days ago, the 64-bit operating system was thought to be immune to rootkit infections… up until a few days ago. A famous rootkit, notorious for its advanced techniques and stealth features has been on the loose for some time now, infecting 32-bit operating systems right and left. Well, it was found [...]
Adobe Reader under attack by a click-and-get-hacked exploit that spreads through email that contains a booby-trapped PDF file that remains virtually undetected by most anti-virus programs, according to Mila Parkour, the security researcher who first alerted Adobe to the threat. The hack is very sophisticated and Adobe is working on a patch. In the meantime [...]
ClearCloud prevents you from being able to access known nasty websites, sites that will download malicious files to your computer. Even better, ClearCloud prevents you from being able to access nasty websites that you may not even know your computer is trying to access—and it prevents those nasty little programs from phoning home. There is [...]
One of the most talked-about new features is Safari Reader. A small gray "Reader" button now appears in the URL bar when you land on a news website or blog. Click it, and Safari strips out all of the clutter on the page (ads, widgets, sidebars, headers and footers) and presents just the text in [...]
Any reviews for web browsers seem to concentrate on speed and or security. Neither will be addressed here. What will be mentioned here is text rendering. You made have heard of anti-aliasing, which is a smoothing of text that you see when you go to different web pages. In a nutshell it takes the jaggies [...]
