The new tool only help users to prevent unwanted situation, but please remember that the safety of your devices lies within your hands, so always stay tune with security updates and be more proactive towards security awareness.
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Automated Scanning on Android Market
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Android team has added a new security layer to help their users to get the best experience of using Android products. Posted by Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Engineering, Android is the Bouncer which is an automated scanning tool that scans all new uploaded application on the Android Market for any kinds of malware.
The new tool only help users to prevent unwanted situation, but please remember that the safety of your devices lies within your hands, so always stay tune with security updates and be more proactive towards security awareness. -
Weird Bugs
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Another strange thing happend on my wife's laptop. After her ethernet card disappeared from her laptop, i unplug the cable from her laptop and leave the laptop turned off.
When i turned it on today, i checked the system hardware and the Ethernet is now back and listed as one of the default hardware detected by the system. I plugged the cable and it's now connected again to the Internet. What a weird bug by Windows (or Dell as the vendor) -
Weird Bugs
Admin
Another strange thing happend on my wife's laptop. After her ethernet card disappeared from her laptop, i unplug the cable from her laptop and leave the laptop turned off.
When i turned it on today, i checked the system hardware and the Ethernet is now back and listed as one of the default hardware detected by the system. I plugged the cable and it's now connected again to the Internet. What a weird bug by Windows (or Dell as the vendor) -
Ethernet Card is Gone
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My wife's laptop had a serious problem right after upgrading to Firefox 10. I don't think it's related as Firefox is an application and the problem itself is hardware-related, which is the broken ethernet.
She told me that after upgrading to Firefox 10, the ethernet icon on her laptop was missing and i checked using ipconfig and it's really gone. I restarted the laptop with some hope that it might just a glitch, but unfortunately it's not. It happened some time ago, and i hope by restarting, all will be fixed, but i was wrong. It's really gone and since it's wireless chipset is also having some problems, the laptop is connectionless for now.
I will bring it to the computer store to be repaired by tomorrow and hopefully it can be fixed, since ethernet port in a laptop is not the same as in PC/desktop in which you can just simply replace the card by another one. For now, i will just ask her to simply backup all her data just in case we had to reinstall the Windows again (it hasn't been reinstalled since 2008 since there was no problem with the system). -
Ethernet Card is Gone
Admin
My wife's laptop had a serious problem right after upgrading to Firefox 10. I don't think it's related as Firefox is an application and the problem itself is hardware-related, which is the broken ethernet.
She told me that after upgrading to Firefox 10, the ethernet icon on her laptop was missing and i checked using ipconfig and it's really gone. I restarted the laptop with some hope that it might just a glitch, but unfortunately it's not. It happened some time ago, and i hope by restarting, all will be fixed, but i was wrong. It's really gone and since it's wireless chipset is also having some problems, the laptop is connectionless for now.
I will bring it to the computer store to be repaired by tomorrow and hopefully it can be fixed, since ethernet port in a laptop is not the same as in PC/desktop in which you can just simply replace the card by another one. For now, i will just ask her to simply backup all her data just in case we had to reinstall the Windows again (it hasn't been reinstalled since 2008 since there was no problem with the system). -
Firefox 10 Released
Admin
It's February 1 and a new major release of Firefox has just been released. Firefox has now reached version 10. It's now available from auto-update mechanism that was built in into the product itself. If you happened to use a package from your Linux distribution, an update will come out soon enough since many packager disabled the auto update feature.
What's new on this release? According to the release notes, this version brings several new features such as:
- CSS 3D Transforms
- Anti-Aliasing for WebGL
- Invisible Forward button (will be visible when you press the Back button)
- Full Screen API
- IndexedDB API
- Inspect tool with content highlighting
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Firefox 10 Released
Admin
It's February 1 and a new major release of Firefox has just been released. Firefox has now reached version 10. It's now available from auto-update mechanism that was built in into the product itself. If you happened to use a package from your Linux distribution, an update will come out soon enough since many packager disabled the auto update feature.
What's new on this release? According to the release notes, this version brings several new features such as:
- CSS 3D Transforms
- Anti-Aliasing for WebGL
- Invisible Forward button (will be visible when you press the Back button)
- Full Screen API
- IndexedDB API
- Inspect tool with content highlighting
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New Lossless Color Image Compression: ImageZero
Admin
A new lossless color image compression algorithm called ImageZero is being developed after the author has been dissapointed with the current algorithm available on the market.
By simply looking at the benchmarks results, it is quite remarkable:
I think this algorithm has a good chance to be further developed as it's now released as an open source project on gitorious.Method File Size Compression Decompression uncompressed 46380 KB - - JLS 14984 KB 6.6 s 7.3 s PNG 16256 KB 42.4 s 2.4 s IZ 15496 KB 1.2 s 1.3 s -
New Lossless Color Image Compression: ImageZero
Admin
A new lossless color image compression algorithm called ImageZero is being developed after the author has been dissapointed with the current algorithm available on the market.
By simply looking at the benchmarks results, it is quite remarkable:
I think this algorithm has a good chance to be further developed as it's now released as an open source project on gitorious.Method File Size Compression Decompression uncompressed 46380 KB - - JLS 14984 KB 6.6 s 7.3 s PNG 16256 KB 42.4 s 2.4 s IZ 15496 KB 1.2 s 1.3 s -
Wasitup is Down
Admin
Was It Up, an online server status checker is now taken offline due to increased burden of keeping it to stay online. It was a good service and i believe everyone who uses this service will also think the same way.
It's a shame that this great service has to go offline until there's a new investor who can fund this project in the future. As for now, i'm using SiteUptime to monitor my server. It's not a real time though since it's a free service. If i choose the pro version, they will have a shorter time interval between each check.
Another service that i use is Pingdom Panel which is more customizable than SiteUptime. It also offers free service where users may add 1 domain and free 20 sms alerts.
