This really isn’t very involved. I was looking at two sets of numbers: MS just launched ie9. Supposedly faster and more secure. There are a lot of qualifiers to that. But, even if there weren’t, I still don’t get how they think. Granted, over the seven months, XP’s share dropped 10% (54% to 44%). IE’s share dropped 10% also (36% to 26%) while the big winner was Chrome (10% to 24%). So why didn’t they make ie9 for XP which...
Well, a weird thing happened the other day (and not for the first time). Turns out if you visited/commented on Facebook, you (and 10% of web traffic) took a trip to China, South Korea and back. Yep: Route-Jacking. Facebook traffic for AT&T customers was routed through Chinese and Korean servers for some unspecified amount of time, raising privacy concerns. Some of the network traffic heading to Facebook’s servers in Palo Alto, Calif., was re-routed to first p...
Over at Lifehacker , there’s a super piece of software (granted, still in Beta) for video editing for free. Lightworks , according to Adam Dachis (who really knows his stuff) is really worth it, and the folks at at Lightworks have taken it open source so all you have to do is to register there to download and keep it. This is not trialware. Although I can’t promise it, I believe updates will be free also. There’s a Forum there where you can ask question...
Two cool articles for you to take a loook at and hopefully find useful, today… The first? A fundamental how to get started (just part one as the series only started today) with Video Editing. This is very exciting since I know there are perspective Dream skinners out there! Even if you don’t want to dedicate yourself to that great art form, the lessons will teach you how to work with, edit and improve videos you might have shot or inherited…. Wouldn’t it be great to breat...
Went to CNET.com to see what’s new and (of course) went to “Desktop Enhancement” and found: Congrats Stardock!
Just passing this along. The Mozilla website hasn’t been updated as of now, but my ff4RC updated today…as will yours if you participated in the beta testing program. Still, it’s problematic…. doesn’t show the vids I can see with Opera 11.01 on WC. Neither does ie9. For those interested (from Island Dog) : http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%204.0.exe Additional source reading: http://www.neowin.n...
Device Doctor is a great (free) way to keep your drivers (even for your ‘unknown devices’ in Device Manager) up to date so your computer will function well and will be secure. Your programs will run better and faster when your drivers are up to date. Device Doctor Download Link: http://www.devicedoctor.com/ And speaking of programs… Keep your programs up to date (and your computer more secure) by taking advantage of this little gem Update...
If you’re forever being asked to “Come over for a visit, and btw, fix my computer, pleeeease!”, or even if only for your own needs, IObit Toolbox is “It”. I recommend it highly! It’s a free, portable collection of software tools that system administrators and (really) just anyone can take along to solve PC problems anytime and anywhere on a flash drive. It can also be installed on your home system. "With more than 20 dedicated tools (26 to be...
Microsoft has brought down Rustock , a notorious botnet responsible for sending billions of spam emails, the company said in a blog post. Microsoft said the botnet had infected millions of computers and was sending out fake Microsoft lottery scams, and offers to sell fake prescription drugs. Here is some detail from Microsoft’s blog: “Today, I’m happy to announce that based on the knowledge gained in that effort, we have successfully taken down a larger,...
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols over at ZDNet summed it up pretty neatly for me and revealed problems and vulnerabilities which I didn’t know about. Quoting just the highlights (see the review for details): Operating system incompatibilities : XP is ignored. Whether it’s a dinosaur or not, it’s one of MS’s OS’s and this, to me at least, just isn’t playing fair. Performance : FF4 betas and Chrome outperform it on the majority of benchmarks. H...
Counting on people’s voyeuristic “Trainwreck” (who doesn’t rubberneck at a road accident?)psychology and the “need to feed” and keep up on what’s going on in Japan, a brand new click-jacking scam has surfaced on facebook. This clickjacking/survey scam lures users in with supposed raw footage of the tsunami that hit Japan after the earthquake. The message contains a link to the page hosting the video purportedly shot by a CNN crew, or discove...
Just a quickie - After the betas and the RC, the finalized ie 9 is now available for download. A nice screenshot tour is available: http://lifehacker.com/#!5638885/internet-explorer-screenshot-tour-the-best-new-features-in-ie9 Download Link: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/download
That pun was intended. [rant start here]. Computers are slowly but surely edging into “human territory”. I’m actually glad we’re starting to feel what the mountain lions and bears have felt for years… getting “squeezed out”, in the name of “progress”. I don’t have to guess who’s coming to club this baby seal: United Health Care, BCBC, CMS, Humana (there’s a laugh), et al are (and have been for years). For those unfamiliar (anyone not know what “Jeopardy is?), Jeopardy...
Not strictly Personal computing, except that some of the items covered are tied to that. This really caught my eye, and I figured (maybe I'm wrong) it could come in really useful at least to some degree for just about everyone. It comes from Lifehacker which I couldn't live without. Well, not as well, anyway. Don't forget to check your papers, though. This doesn't tell you where to buy, after all. It's just a "general guide". It's been “just sitting there”...
Blackhat SEO (Search Engine Optimization) attacks have already surfaced exploiting search engines pointed at “most recent earthquakes in Japan” according to Trend Micro. These criminals pounced very quickly to mock up legitimate appearing sites fueled by people’s honest search for details an video clips of the disaster. “We immediately monitored for any active attacks as soon as news broke out, and true enough we saw web pages inserted with key words relate...