Interesting…first, what does Brave browser do? “The browser's revenue model, Eich explained nearly three months ago, was based on ad blocking. Brave will scrub websites of most of their ads and all tracking, then replace those now-empty slots with ads it sells. Seventy percent of the revenue from Brave's ad sales would be shared with publishers (55%) and users (15%). The latter will be able to turn that money -- in Bitcoin form -- over to their favorite sites or keep it. Br...
Adobe issued an emergency update to Flash on Thursday due to a vulnerability that allowed ransomware delivery to Windows PCs. Adobe is urging all flash player users on Windows, Mac and Linux PCs to update their Flash Players. So. If you’re using Chrome, force the update by going to settings (in the hamburger menu at the right upper corner of the browser)> About. This will force the browser to search for updates. When found and installed, you’ll be told to relaunch. Vival...
Merle passed away in his home in Redding, CA today, his manager confirmed. He’d recently been hospitalized with recurrent bouts of pneumonia, and COPD. Haggard is a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and was recently nominated for yet another Grammy for his duet with Don Henley. Rest in peace, Merle. You made life better for many.
Well, I’m using it at the moment, and it’s truly fast! Setting it up is easy peasy. And Po’ will love it because of Opera…although it’s based on Chrome, it’s appearance is that of Opera, and it’s really directed at personalizing your browsing experience…and designed for power users. It’s open sourced, uses Chrome extensions. It is feature rich – like Opera, and that is way different than Chrome and Edge. Martin Brinkma...
Everyone has probably heard that Cellebrite, an Israeli security firm helped the FBI circumvent Apple’s user enabled data encryption. Has this changed anything? Not at all. Just as predicted, since the DoJ is involved in other ongoing cases where Apple’s help in overcoming the iOS data encryption has been “requested”, it is very likely that the Courts involved will demand details as to how that was done. When that happens, there will be (and probably has been) an effort made to ...
Ben Willmore is a great instructor and creativeLive is giving you four weeks of Lightroom instruction with Ben for free. No hooks, no hidden charges. The full course will run from April 4th – April 29th. “Welcome to CreativeLive’s comprehensive, 4-week Lightroom workshop! Join one of our best software instructors, Ben Willmore, to learn how to process and organize your images more efficiently - and have more time to spend doing the stuff that matters. In this series of lesso...
You all know about ransomware…and its destructive capabilities. So, BitDefender is offering free a tool to give at least limited protection against three of the most common varieties of ransomwate: CTB-Locker, Locky and TeslaCrypt. It’s all of 4.5 Mb in size. As Martin Bormann of gHacks noted, though: “It should be clear from this that Bitlocker Anti-Ransomware does not protect against all ransomware attacks. Trend Micro lists dozens of ransomware f...
Windows 10 Zhuangongban (Specially Provided Edition) aimed at gov’’t. owned businesses and gov’t. agencies has just been completed by MS. “Microsoft's Chinese chief said the edition "may remove some of the special edition for consumer applications and features to enhance the product's ease of management and security, to meet the special needs of the Chinese government." (Source: caixin.com ) It’s probably safe to assume that the enhanced m...
The Windows log viewer is designed to make things a lot harder than they should be. This small, free and easy to use does a lot better…especially if you’re experiencing problems and even better, everything the program can do is easily accessible through the menu and right click keys. There’s a really good review here: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/03/22/logwizard-windows-log-viewer/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1839%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1wxl There’s a very clear introductory article here: ...
New mouse. Usually that one’s a “ho hum” for me…but I figure this one’s for the gamers amongst us…doing my due diligence. So, it’s the “G900 Chaos Spectrum”. Why not “Warp 10 Evil Faster Than Shite Laser Killer Mouse” – as long as you’re going for loooong names, do it to the hilt, right? So this one doesn’t compromise on “latency”. Supposedly. So, Logitech set up some tests to check that. (Check out the graphics on cnet) “According to Logitech's data, the G900 had ...
This software is truly excellent…it is a full suite you can read about here: https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/nikcollection/ If you need help, it’s here: https://support.google.com/nikcollection/?hl=en-GB#topic=2991541 You will need Ps to use it. “Today we’re making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free. Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day. As we continue to focu...
“Support for Windows 7 and 8.1 on certain Skylake PCs will now continue until July 17, 2018, a one-year extension from the original deadline. After that date, Microsoft and its computer-making partners will not guarantee that they will revise device drivers to support those editions of Windows on newer hardware.” – Computerworld They’ve also retreated regarding critical security updates: They will receive ALL updates through their January 2020 and January 2023 retirement...
Malvertising (malware tainted advertising) is a plague. So, those websites were hit with malvertising this past Sunday. The BBC was still infected on Monday as well. “The advertisements connected with servers hosting the Angler exploit kit. The kit tries to find software vulnerabilities on a computer in order to deliver malware. A successful exploit could deliver ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts a computer’s files. Victims are asked to pay a ransom, ...
Daylight Savings Time. What a hoax. When did all this nonsense start? Ben Franklin invented it…as a half joke, and a dig at the French: “Money would be saved, Franklin argued, if people rose with the sun and turned in earlier at night, replacing hours of expensive candle use with free morning daylight.” – National Geographic But no one took it seriously…well, maybe some French folks, but apparently they didn’t lose any sleep over it. ...
We’ve seen in the past that Barbie dolls (the interactive sort) and Amazon’s Echo listen to you even when you aren’t aware they are. Of course, Mattel and Amazon tell you that all information passed on is “depersonalized” and not at all invasive. Now, makeuseof has noticed around the web, people are seeing ads suddenly appear which seem to be linked to conversations they had when their smartphones are being used for messaging or conversations. They deny having “googled” about ...