US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook : Luxury goods maker Chanel has convinced a judge to order the seizure of hundreds of Internet domain names and to order the names blocked from "all" search engines and social media networks. Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator : American immigration law makes it difficult for foreigners to found businesses in the United States[......]
Amazon's HTML5-based Kindle Cloud Reader lets you read your Kindle books in your Web browser, a neat idea that's hampered by lack of widespread support, including Internet Explorer and Firefox. Well, Amazon is still shunning Internet Explorer (or vice versa), but the Kindle Cloud Reader does now work with Mozilla Firefox, along with existing support for Chrome and Safari (on the iPad and desktop). Mozilla claims there are more than 450 million Firefox users around the globe, and all of them now have the option of reading Kindle books from within the second most popular browser around (in terms of market share)[......]
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The browser wars are back, not least due to hectic and ever shorter release schedules, just about every other week there seems to be some new build promising that it's the faster way to get around online. But which browser really delivers the best performance? [......]
Nitro PDF Software has released version 2.0 of its popular free PDF editor/creator software, Nitro PDF Reader . Available in separate 32-bit and 64-bit builds, Nitro PDF Reader 2.0 is actually the first stable release of the software -- previous 1.x versions were classed as beta. PDF Reader 2.0 offers PDF conversion, creation and editing tools in addition to its basic viewing capabilities[......]
One of the most popular tricks in the Malware Handbook is to fool users into installing fake antivirus software. You've seen the bogus warnings before, the ones telling you your PC is infected with viruses, and all you have to do to restore order is download and install whatever fake antivirus software is on your screen. Savvy PC users recognize this as a scam designed to get users to unwittingly install real malware under the guise of a helpful product, and the reason it still works is because malware writers keep finding new and creative ways of dishing up their bogus software[......]
If you administer Windows systems you must know about Microsoft's Sysinternals tools . [......]
Have you ever noticed just how cluttered up the context menu -- the one that pops up when you click on a file or folder with the right mouse button -- gets over time? [......]
Spend any amount of time online and there is a high chance that some of the websites you visit track information about you. Cookies, scripts and other techniques can be used to monitor how web users behave online and to build up profiles. This may well be information you would prefer not to share, and Ghostery is a browser add-on that can be used to detect, analyze and block any tracking of your online activities. [......]
You'll have to look real hard to find IE9 in NetApplications April browser user share data. IE9 doesn't even make NetApp's browser-version breakdown chart for all operating systems, although its usage share was 2.41 percent. By comparison, Firefox 4.0, which launched 7 days later, snatched 5.43 percent usage share[......]
Web of Trust Services has released a major new update to its free WOT browser plug-in , which provides security and privacy ratings for websites. Past versions of WOT also provided ratings for major search engine results, allowing the user to see a site's rating before attempting to visit it. The latest release extends this functionality to provide ratings for links displayed in Facebook and Twitter, as well as links that have been shortened using services such as bit.ly or t.co . WOT rates websites for both security and privacy, based on community feedback from millions of WOT users worldwide[......]
For a third straight year, Google's Chrome browser has gone unhacked at a yearly event aimed at exposing the security flaws of today's modern browsers. [......]
By Mike Williams Wiping confidential files from your PC can be a difficult task. Just deleting them leaves the data available to any passer-by with a suitable undelete tool. [......]
By Mike Williams If you need to collaborate with others online then you'll probably think first about using email. But while this is a simple way to tell people what you're doing, there are far more powerful options available, and LogMeIn join.me is top of the list. This one free tool (LogMeIn's replacement for LogMeIn Express) allows you to connect up to 250 people, for instance. They'll all be able to view your screen, while individuals you select can also control your system. A file transfer option makes it easy to share data, while the integrated chat client allows you to keep everyone in touch with what's going on. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Raw first-week sales numbers are often used to indicate the efficacy of a product's launch. But really, the thing these numbers best represent is the level of user excitement[......]
By Mike Williams Figuring out how to speed up your PC can be a complex process, requiring plenty of time and expertise. Are your system's performance problems down to dated drivers, unnecessary software, hard drive clutter, Registry issues, or something else entirely? It'll probably take considerable effort before you find out. [......]
