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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
What would you say if you found out that there was a way for a web site to store up to 100,000 bytes of information on your PC that they can use for tracking your activities, and you have no control over it with your normal browser security settings? Would you be surprised? What if these files can be scattered throughout your PC, and are not detected and removed by most anti-virus software? Prepare to be surprised. (more…)
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Many older sites written in PHP as well as many newer sites that evolved from older legacy code will find their sites broken when their servers are upgraded to PHP 5.3. That’s because many older PHP functions and INI directives are now formally deprecated (made obsolete) in version 5.3.
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Netflix just announced that it is offering a free instant streaming video disc for the Sony PS3 gaming console that allows Netflix members to view movies from their growing library of streaming video movies.
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
For years people have tried to figure out how Google manages to produce lightning fast search results from the huge amount of data that they have to work with. They are still not giving away all of their secrets, but they have a released a free tool and a set of web site develoment "best practices" to help web site owners improve the performance of their web sites.
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
We have recently seen a number of issues posted in forums that are related to hacked web sites where it appears that a Trojan virus infecting a site owner’s PC may be sending FTP information to hackers. The common thread appears to be FileZilla. If you are using the FileZilla FTP utility, this is potentially a very serious threat to your web sites.
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
February 12, 2009. This week two major manufacturers of plasma HDTVs announced that they are dropping out of the business.
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Most Americans should be aware that DTV Day, or the day almost all USA television broadcasters turn off their old analog transmissions and switch to the new digital signals, has been delayed until June 12. But about a third of the approximately 1,800 television stations have already made the switch to digital.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
For months people have been reporting strange problems with Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client. I have maintained that the problem is not likely to be Thunderbird, but is more likely to be related to a user’s ISP or a Windows issue or a firewall blocking access. I think I have found and verified at least one potential source for the ongoing issue with either inbound or outbound mail becoming disabled.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Several potentially serious new exploits have been patched with Mozilla Thunderbird. Make sure that you update to version 2.0.0.17 as soon as possible. The new fixes cover both PC and Mac versions.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
We just released an updated version of our popular free MySQL Cheat Sheet, which is a very useful reference resource for any programmer who works with the MySQL database or PHP.
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