According to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web, there are about 600,000 Macs around the world that are infected by different variations of the Flashback trojan and are now part of a fast-growing Mac botnet. Of the 600,000 infected Macs the majority are located in North America – 57% from the US and 20% in Canada. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 5, 2010
Earlier this week, Facebook rolled out several updates including the Mobile Initiative with updates on its Facebook iPhone/Android apps. However, the most noticeable update and the one that got a lot reaction/complaints is the Facebook font size. A lot of Facebook users are complaining about the smaller font size because it’s causing them to squint [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 22, 2010
If the Wibiya Toolbar isn’t your thing or it doesn’t work for you but still want a way to make your blog/website more interactive and provide your readers an easy way to share your content then you might want to try out the AddThis Sharebar, a website toolbar from the creators of the popular AddThis [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Back in October of 2009, Mozilla launched the Mozilla Plugin Check tool to help Firefox users keep their plugins/addons up-to-date, addressing the issue of outdated plugins being a major source of security and stability risks for users. Yesterday, Mozilla announced that the Mozilla Plugin Check tool will now also be supporting other web browsers like [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 15, 2010
For those who use Google Reader as their main RSS reader/aggregator, the default interface can sometimes be too cluttered with all the colors, social features and buttons. If you’re not using most of the features and if you want a clean and minimal Google Reader interface, then you should check out Helvetireader. Helvetireader is a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 6, 2010
One of the primary goals for web developers and bloggers like me is to provide users/readers a nice and smooth user experience on our websites or blogs. To achieve this, some of the things we do are using tools like the Google Browser Tool to check how our websites and blogs look like in different [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Yesterday, Apple released the public beta version of Safari 4 for both Mac OS X and Windows platforms. According to Apple, Safari 4 is faster and “more innovative” than Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and other competing browsers. Safari 4 runs on a new Javascript engine called Nitro which Apple claims to be 30 times [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tokyo-based web software company Lunascape Corporation recently released a web browser called the Lunascape 5 Alpha. This Windows-only browser is the English version of their popular Japanese version (downloaded 10 million times) released back in 2001. What makes Lunascape unique is that it’s the world’s first hybrid engine web browser that uses three rendering engines [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 20, 2008
As a parent I was happy to read about this new browser for kids called KidZui. Although my kid is still too little to browse the Internet or even use the computer, it's good to know that there's technology such as this that makes browsing the Internet safe for kids. So what is KidZui? KidZui is basically a browser based on Internet Explorer (if you use Windows) and Safari (if you use a Mac) that "whitelists" websites, photos and videos that are suitable for children. 200 teachers and parents across the US were hired to scan the world wide web to look for appropriate content that would be included in the whitelist. As of now, KidZui has 500,000 whitelisted websites, pictures and videos. All content gathered by KidZui are manually reviewed by humans before they get included in the whitelist to make sure nothing inappropriate gets thru. Screenshots: Start Page Create Zui Page
Continue reading...Sunday, November 18, 2007
Better late than never, right? Here’s the late issue of last week’s weekend roundup. Enjoy! Dougal Campbell just released Easy Gravatars WordPress plugin version 1.1 and it’s also now available at the WordPress Plugin Directory. Lorelle Van Foosen talks about a new breed of spammers and scrapers who steal your blog’s content – Spinning Spammers. [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 15, 2007
iTheme is Mac inspired 2-column, widget-ready WordPress theme created by Nick La of N. Design Studio. He’s the same guy that gave us the cool Glossy Blue theme. I’m pretty sure all the Mac fans would be very happy to see and use this theme on their blogs. iTheme is a WordPress theme that is [...]
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