Spyware Could Send You to Prison
A not so tech-savvy 41-year-old former substitute teacher was convicted of four felony counts of endangering minors last year because she failed to stop pop-up images from appearing in her classroom computer. According to the procecutors the substitute teacher exposed her students to pornography and failed “to shield them from the pop-up images after they [...]
I Googled for Footwear
I don’t know why, but to family and friends, I am the person to call when there is something that they need to know about– be it a short definition of a term, the name of the director of a good film, how to get a credit card, how to start a blog or change [...]
How To Hide Audio Files in Image Files
Okay, this trick is quiet old, I have posted this in one of my blogs more than a year ago and I have shared it as a thread in one of the forums I frequent. But I have received an email from a follower of this blog asking me if I know how to hide [...]
Eset Smart Security 4 Beta Now Available
The first public beta for Eset Smart Security is now available for download. It is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems. Eset Smart Security is one of the best protections you can have today against malware and virus. This release incorporates many new features and improvements, including: support for Microsoft Windows Live Mail [...]
Monitor Pages Without RSS feed with Newzie
Yes, you can monitor pages without RSS feed with this cool app, Newzie. This app can be used to monitor RSS and ATOM formatted feeds, as well as normal webpages. It is so simple to monitor a page without RSS feed, just hit the add button and then choose the page you want to monitor, [...]
Do You Have What it Takes to be an XML Superstar?
Are you familiar with XQuery, XML and DB? are you good at it? Do you want to know how you fare with other developers and aspiring programmers in this area? Now is your chance to see if you can be an XML superstar envied by other developers. IDUG is sponsoring a contest, the IDUG contest [...]
Check Out FoxGlove
What happens when a Firefox addict who uses a lot of Google applications decides to mix Google and Firefox? FoxGlove, an alternate browser which is a standalone Google apps portal. Yeah, this thingy is worth checking out. Why not download it now and see it in action? You can also read more about it from [...]
Wonderful Selection of Holiday Frames at Zenni
Need a new pair of frames for your eyeglasses that would match the holiday feel? Or need to buy one of your loved ones a new set of frames as a holiday gift? Well, grab them from the popular online eyeglasses shop Zenni Optical. When you buy online holiday glass frames from Zenni Optical, you’ll [...]
Goodbye SearchMash, Hello SearchWiki
Google drops SearchMash (Google’s experimental non-branded search interface) in favor of SearchWiki, a new functionality that allows those with Google account to customize their search results. With SearchWiki you can move specific results up or down in rankings so that they will appear in the preferred order when you do the same search in the [...]
Bounce Rate is Really a Factor in Search Engine Ranking
There is a post at SEO Blackhat that shows that bounce rate is really a factor in search engine ranking. In the post there are screen shots of Google analytics data from a site. If you study the screen shots you will see that there is a “pattern you would expect from a program designed [...]
