Spammers cash in on SwineFlu worries
Several years ago on a now defunct blog I followed the money trail back to a spammer who through some rather clumsy semantics suggested he was selling a cure for Aids. He engaged in some bitter commenting on the blog after I published his details but eventually gave up. It was an indication of the [...]
Read moreMozilla delivers Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, boosts speed
Mozilla delivers Firefox 3.5 Beta 4: “Mozilla late on Monday released Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, the latest development preview of the company’s next browser, which has been delayed several times and now is tentatively slated to ship before the end of June. The milestone features more work under the hood – particularly in stability and [...]
Read morePhishers hit Facebook with scam messages
The attack tries to steal your user name and password. Quite often these are the same as used for personal email accounts. One friend of mine lost access to his Hotmail account in a similar attack via Facebook last year. Phishers hit Facebook with scam messages – Digital Lifestyle – Macworld UK: “Facebook users were [...]
Read moreThe internet is heading for a breakdown
Unless some serious upgrades are made to the internet network infrastructure soon, users are going to experience slower and more unreliable connections as soon as next year. Growing demand for streaming multimedia content from the likes of YouTube and the BBC iPlayer are already using copious amounts of bandwidth, and usage is likely to increase [...]
Read moreWindows7 Starter edition. CrippleWare?
The cheapest option of the next version of Windows will be Windows7 Starter Edition. According to Microsoft this Cheapo Cheapo Productions version is specifically optimised for Netbooks. But it has one huge and potentially irritating restriction. It will only allow the user to run a maximum of 3 applications at once. Browser tabs don’t count [...]
Read moreWindows 7 to run XP applications in a Virtual Machine
Posted on the Microsoft Windows blog today is an official announcement of Windows XP Mode in Windows 7. Specifically designed to help businesses move to the new version of Windows and still be able to run any old legacy applications. All you have to do is install the applications in a Windows XP environment running [...]
Read moreHow to get your website listed high on Google.
How can I get my website listed high on Google? We get asked this a lot, and the answer isn’t always what the questioner wants to hear. A brand new website will not get listed on any search engine within a few days, or weeks. Or possibly even months. And if your business or service [...]
Read moreOn Friendfeed, Nambu and the WordPress iPhone app
First of all this is posted using the iPhone WordPress app, which now seems to have settled down into a stable easy to use way of blogging on the road. I’ve been trying to get my head round FriendFeed for a couple of days now, but frankly I’m finding it’s a bit rubbish. There is [...]
Read moreStatebook: how UK government spooks see the Internet
Statebook: how UK government spooks see the Internet – Boing Boing: “Statebook: A Place to Access Your Citizens’ Information” Not quite Kosher but a scary indication of just how much personal information our lords and masters would like to have on tap. And on a laptop coming to a bus / tube seat near you. [...]
Read moreConficker. Are you protected?
If you are a Windows user then you will hopefully be familiar with the Conficker Worm threat. And equally hopefully you will be taking appropriate precautions against infection. You must at least have a proper Anti Virus application installed and running, and keep it up to date. Most will offer regular updates to the virus [...]
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