Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.2 a full week ahead of schedule. The development and release of this latest version was accelerated to address a highly critical vulnerability that could allow remote execution of code which Mozilla has been providing updates on through their security blog. Due to this vulnerability, a department of the German government had just advised its … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2010
Location, Location, Location in a Digital World
Location seems to have become all the buzz around the Internet world for the past few weeks, so I wanted to chime in with some of the interesting tidbits and long-lasting effects that this will have on Internet culture. Basically, I intend to show you all the happening places for happening places. Smart Phones It would be almost impossible for you to not have heard of … [Read more...]
What’s the Harm in McAfee SiteAdvisor?
I'm torn on what stance I want to take on this issue I stumbled across today regarding McAfee SiteAdvisor. The IT security side of me says that any tool that prevents people from stumbling upon bad sites and malicious downloads is a good thing but the webmaster side of me says that any tool that is not moderated well and does not update frequently is bad for websites and thus … [Read more...]
Internet Explorer 9 Preview Available
Microsoft has released its Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9. It's touting a lot of cool features like faster Javascript, HTML5 compatibility, and GPU-rendered HTML5 graphics. From the Internet Explorer Team's Blog: The Internet Explorer Platform Preview is a light-weight frame around the core IE platform which includes the rendering and layout, object model, parsing, … [Read more...]
Visualizing Google Search Suggestions
An interesting way of investigating a topic can come from simply following the suggestions Google makes as you begin typing your query. You just start typing a word or phrase relevant to your topic of interest and suggestions will show up for related queries thanks to Google's Query Suggestions. Fortunately, there are some better ways of doing this than just sitting on Google's … [Read more...]