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Charlie Miller: Snow Leopard Easier To Hack Than Windows 7

March 3, 2010

Apple fanbois, you better buckle up, cause when the anti-Apple crew gets a hold of this little titbit from Charlie Miller, they might mock your choice of being a Mac user just a little bit.
Italian IT Security site, oneITsecurity, published an interview with Charlie Miller, two-year contest champion at Pwn2Own where the deal is to [...]

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YouTube Parts With Internet Explorer 6

February 24, 2010

Google means business and soon end support for old browsers on YouTube, despite millions of users still surfing the ‘net with Internet Explorer 6 or other outdated browsers.
Back in 2009, Google announced how they intend to end support for old browsers because it slows down evolution (is that even the right word to use here?), [...]

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Is Flash A Goner In The Future? What Will Happen?

February 22, 2010

Google just finished taking over On2 Technologies and their video format, VP8, so Free Software Foundation (FSF) sent an open-letter to Google where they encourage Google to release VP8 as an open-source format and also use it themselves on YouTube. By doing that, Google will “free” the world from patented and proprietary formats such as [...]

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Apple Released Aperture 3 = Lots Of Problems !!!

February 16, 2010

Last week, Apple released Aperture 3 for Macintosh. The newest version in their range of “pro” applications, this one aimed at pro photographers, but amateurs who wants something more than what iPhoto can give them, are of course also welcome to use Aperture.
As you might have read, I recently got myself my first DSLR camera, [...]

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Windows 7 Resulted In More Satisfied Users Than Snow Leopard

February 5, 2010

Both Microsoft and Apple released their newest operating systems in 2009 and according to a British opinion survey by YouGov, Microsoft’s operating system was the software users were most satisfied with.
YouGov followed the “satisfaction rating” for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for the past 6 months. A group of users were [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Now The Most Used Browser

February 2, 2010

Google recently announced how they plan to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 as well as other older browsers from Firefox and Safari when it comes to Google products like Gmail, Calendar etc., during 2010.
Now, updated numbers from Net Applications show that IE 6, which was released 9 years ago, no longer is the most used [...]

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Internet Explorer Turns Your PC Into A Public File Server

January 30, 2010

In the beginning of February, the Black Hat Technical Security Conference is held in the US, where Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina will be speaking on a topic that might interest you, it will certainly interest Microsoft. The topic is “Internet Explorer turns your personal computer into a public file server”.
In this presentation we will show [...]

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Windows 3.1 In Your Browser? Try It Out!

January 25, 2010

Nostalgia? Why not take good ol’ Windows 3.1 for a spin in your browser. Michaelv.org has a decent version of Windows 3.1 running and it requires nothing else than your modern-day web browser to use it.
Windows 3.1 was first released in October 1992 and later replaced with Windows 3.11 in 1993. A few years later, [...]

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France Joins Germany In I.E. Warning – Opera Downloads Increases

January 20, 2010

BBC News reports that France has now joined Germany in their warning against web users browsing with Internet Explorer and also recommends users to find an alternative Internet browser until Microsoft has issued a patch to fix the security hole in the three Internet Explorer browsers.
While a switch to an alternative browser, such as Firefox, [...]

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Germany Warns Against MS Internet Explorer

January 18, 2010

After Microsoft admitted it’s Internet Explorer was the weak link in the recent attack on Google’s systems, Germany has responded by warning web users to use an alternative browser than Internet Explorer.
Even though spokesman Thomas Baumsgaertner, Microsoft Germany, said that the attacks were by “highly motivated people with a very specific agenda” and that “there’s [...]

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Google Wave Invitations Giveaway – Free!

January 14, 2010

I don’t know if Google Wave invitations are still hot. I’ve given lots of them away in the past and back then, they sure were hot!
Anyway, I have 8 Google Wave invites available, so if you want one, just leave a comment below. That way I’ll havey our e-mail address, so you don’t have to [...]

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Free Google Wave Invites Giveaway For Tweeps

November 14, 2009

Greetings, Twitter user!
You’re here because somebody (probably myself) tweeted the link to this page and because you would like one of my free Google Wave invitations, ain’t that right? Well, it just so happens that I have 25 of them available (see proof below).
I’ve given away Google Wave invitations two times before. Both times I [...]

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Google Wave Invitations – Come And Get’em, They’re Still Free!

November 4, 2009

Google Wave is a rather new and fancy product from Google that’s still in preview and so it’s not possible to join it instantly. You can, however, get invited and get access faster than if you apply directly at Google.
Google Wave is a shared workspace where you can discuss stuff, work, communicate with friends, co-workers [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Available After Two Week Delay

November 2, 2009

Firefox 3.6 beta was supposed to be released around mid-October, but it took until now to have the first beta available for the public.
The new beta is based on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, coming to you with several new features and enhancements:

One-click change of browser appearance.
Now warns user if a plugin is too [...]

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Mozilla Raindrop – An Alternative To Google Wave?

October 26, 2009

Google Wave has been getting a lot of buzz in the world of tech lately, as more and more people are getting invitations and access to join Google Wave and try out the preview version.
Mozilla, the team behind applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird, now introduced their “alternative” to Google Wave. It’s called Raindrop. I’m [...]

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Google Wave Invitations – Come And Get’em, They’re Free!

October 15, 2009

Google Wave is a rather new and fancy product from Google that’s still in preview and so it’s not possible to join it instantly. You can, however, get invited and hopefully get access faster than if you apply directly.
Google Wave is a shared workspace where you can discuss stuff, work, communicate with friends, co-workers etc., [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Will Support Accelerometers – Beta Release Tomorrow?

October 14, 2009

Firefox 3.6 beta was supposed to be made available for download today or yesterday, but so far I haven’t been able to find a download link for it – I can only assume that it might come out tomorrow instead?
Firefox 3.6 comes with bug fixes as well as some interesting improvements such as a 22.8% [...]

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Windows Mobile 6.5 Released Today – It Doesn’t Look Good

October 6, 2009

Windows Mobile has received a ton of negative criticism over the years, though there’s still some faithful users of Windows Mobile, the rest of the world seems to have moved over to Symbian, iPhone, Android and webOS. And to be honest, Windows Mobile seems really old and clumsy to use compared to other modern mobile [...]

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