For your Halloween treat this year, Google is handing out a colorful, 5-panel Scooby Doo comic as its Google logo above search. The drawings are vibrant and pretty detailed (notice the basketball players in the background of two frames). If you click on the logo, it will progress you through the story and clicking the last frame takes you to a Google search on Halloween. You … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2010
OtherInbox Announces Changes Coming With 2011
OtherInbox, a web service that offers greater control over your e-mail through its Defender product, looks to be changing its offering as this year draws to a close. I first wrote about OtherInbox January 1st of 2009 and I've been using it even longer. It works well to stop junk mail, like the spam I've been receiving as a result of signing up through Active.com (I do believe … [Read more...]
Firefox 3.6.12 Available, Addresses Vulnerability 48 Hours After Informed
Mozilla has released version 3.6.12 of its popular web browser Firefox today, less than 48 hours after a 0-day vulnerability was reported. The emergency update addressed an exploit that had been planted on the Nobel Peace Prize website. Mozilla first posted to their Security Blog that they were aware of the issue, were working on a patch, and that the site was being blocked by … [Read more...]
LimeWire Given Injunction To Remove P2P Function, Site Disabled, Successor Found
LimeWire, which remained one of the last standing P2P programs out there after Napster and KaZaA have dropped that option and went legit, was dealt a large blow yesterday as a RIAA-brought lawsuit brought judgement. LimeWire was issued an injunction to remove "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality" … [Read more...]
Using the Internet To Prepare For Election Day
Midterm elections are a week away and I was hoping to write up some online resources that hold the unbiased information you need to be an informed voter at the polls. Political attack ads are flying back and forth on television but it's hard to know how much truth is in some of those claims. Even more rudimentary information like 'what district am I in', 'what positions are up … [Read more...]