Lifehacker: Five Best Video-Sharing Sites – With everything from our cell phones to laptops to keychain trinkets coming sporting video cameras these days, more and more people are capturing and sharing digital video. The following video sites make sharing your video missives easy.
Windows XP Users: We Still Love XP and Loathe Vista, But Windows 7 Looks Impressive – We surveyed nearly 5,000 readers who still primarily use Windows XP, and asked about their plans (if any) to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7.
10 Things We Hate About Wireless Carriers – The companies that provide cell phone voice and data make their billions by cheating. They must be stopped.
Startup Launches Free, Collaborative Antivirus Package – Immunet offers cloud-based solution that innoculates an entire community when one member is infected.
Revive a Stuck LCD Pixel – A frozen, unresponsive pixel can drive you crazy. These tricks may fix it.
Tech Insight: SQL Injection Demystified – Attackers are using the old standby SQL injection en masse – a look at the attack and how to protect your applications from it.
Botmaster: It’s All About Infecting, Selling Big Batches of Bots – Undercover Cisco researcher told the going rate for a single bot is 10 to 25 cents.
Clean a Dusty PC – Grime can build up in a desktop PC. Here’s how to clean the case.
Security Bugs Crawl All Over Financial Giant’s Website – Ameriprise Financial’s Website has contained several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities for the past five months.
Hackers Runs Opera To Ward Off Other Criminals – Exploit kit providers use mainstream browsers, but are more likely to use Opera than the average user because it’s a smaller target.
Facebook Disables Rogue Apps, But More Appear – Facebook killed six rogue apps stealing Facebook users’ log-in credentials in order to send out spam, and within hours more appeared.
Off Topic:
About To Get Charged With Battery – The customer is not always right.
The US government has a new website – The fun thing is that these pictures are so ambiguous they could mean anything! Here are a few interpretations.
Did Ancient Viruses Spur Human Evolution? A Galaxy Insight – When the mapping of the human genome was completed in 2003, researchers discovered a shocking fact: our bodies are littered with the shards of retroviruses, fragments of the chemical code from which all genetic material is made.
25 most difficult questions you’ll be asked on a job interview – Being prepared is half the battle.
Today’s Free Downloads:
RunAlyzer – If you’re looking to track down spyware, or speed up system startup–and you’re technically astute–then RunAlyzer may be just what you need. Run it, and it performs a thorough analysis of all programs and services that run when you start up your computer.
Belarc Advisor – Belarc Advisor creates an HTML report that not only tells you everything you could possibly want to know about the hardware on your system, but also what you might need to know about the software that’s installed. Gathered info includes motherboard type and revision, CPU and GPU info, drive space, Microsoft hotfixes, operating system revision, and Web browser vulnerabilities, as well as third-party software installs.
Browser Boosters – We’ve rounded up the ten browsers and browser helpers for you. They ll boost your browsing and power up your time on the Web. Whether you’re looking for an entirely new browser for downloaders or power users, or you want an add-in to get the most out of Firefox or Internet Explorer, we’ve got something to help. Not only that, every one of them is free.
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‘Clean a Dusty PC – Grime can build up in a desktop PC. Here’s how to clean the case.’
Hey Bill,
I can apply most of these tips to a laptop too,
which is more vulnerable to dust. Great.
Hey Pochp,
Good point. Thanks.
Bill