iPhone and iPad stuff – Most Useful Things
SkyDrive is Microsofts online storage solution and it's a mix of Dropbox and Google Docs, because you get both a storage solution you can connect to a folder on your local computer and an online office suite like in Google Docs. Continue Reading
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When the Wright brothers took their first historic flight on December 17, 1903, they weren’t trying for perfection. They weren’t trying to offer great cocktail service or wireless Internet or 100 channels of TV aboard their flying machine. They just wanted the darned thing to stay up in the air for a few seconds! Continue Reading
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Soon it may be possible for anyone to get their own Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) on the Internet. Icann, the organization behind pretty much all domain names, are currently investigating if it should be possible to register for example .google or perhaps .microsoft. Continue Reading
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In March everyone in Europe running Windows XP, Vista or 7 on their computers must select the standard web browser they would like to use. This is because of an agreement between Microsoft and EU, since EU thinks the IE domination is too big. Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, The World According to Xavier
One of the most popular web browsers on the Internet is still Internet Explorer 6, almost 9 years after it's release. The most resent news about IE6 was that a bug in it helped hackers to gain access to Googles network. Continue Reading
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Yesterday an unknown hacker released code to exploit a bug in IE6 and IE7 which makes it possible for an attacker to take control over a victims computer. Continue Reading
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I just tried Microsoft Security Essentials for my Windows computers and I have to say that it's a fantastic antivirus software. McAfee and Symantec really need to watch out since this is going to make them lose customers. Continue Reading
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It looks like Yahoo! and Microsoft finally signed their long-awaited search deal, but is the agreement as good as the companies claim? Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories, The World According to Xavier
Microsoft confirmed yesterday that there is a bug in the company's web server IIS 6. According to the Microsoft security risk is minimal since it requires that the server is configured in a special way for the security hole to be exploited. In a security bulletin that Microsoft released yesterday shows examples of the type [...] Continue Reading
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The rumours about a merger between Google and Twitter (more like Google swallowing Twitter if you see to the estimated value of the both companies) are flooding the Internet these days and the big question is if there are any thruth behind them at all. Even if the rumours are just only rumours it would [...] Continue Reading
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Security companies have found a new and extremely critical vulnerability in Power Point in Microsofts Office suite. The vulnerability allows attackers to take control over the operating system and control computers remotely using special code inside a Power Point presentation. The security company Securia is ranking this as "extremely critical" and Microsoft is reporting that [...] Continue Reading
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