If browser were women, they would look like these.
Sauce: the Internet
How to test your antivirus software
There are times when you think your antivirus software had stopped working. The last time it detected a fishy file was like half a year ago. Now you wonder is it still working or not. Why hasn’t it detect anything for the last few months?
Hey, why don’t you test it with a real virus? Let’s see if the AV will catch, or least detect it. Yeah, go ahead if you got the nuts. That virus might or might not be detected, and it might or might not destroyed your precious files just in case it pass through the AV filter. Nothing beats the thrill of gambling, eh?
Here’s a safer way to test your AV without the risk of breaking anything valuable. This method was developed by European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research to allow people, companies, and AV programmers to test their software without having to use a real computer virus that could cause actual damage should the AV not respond correctly. Continue Reading »
Firefox 3.5 is officially out !!
In my previous post I stated that Mozilla will roll out Firefox 3.5 by the end of June. Hey, it’s today. It is out now !!
Please refer here for the list of new features. And here are some that I left out:
- Awesome bar pretty much works like Google Chrome’s the one and only bar. Now in Firefox, it’s a search bar, a history bar, and a bookmark bar.
- Smarter session restore makes crash recovery perform even better.
- Dynamic color profiling in the browser is optimized for web viewing; it means that whatever color you see when you’re doing some design work, it will be the same on the web page.
- Here comes geo-location, a feature that tracks your local IP. It kicks in when you, say type restaurant, it guesses that you’re looking for the nearest one to you. Neat ?
As usual to any newly launched browser, it promises better performance. This is something Mozilla would like you to know:
A brief intro to cloud computing
The terms cloud computing has been afloat in IT industry years ago. Many have heard of it, but not many of them knows what it is.
The cloud computing itself has yet to take-off. There are a couple of reasons why it isn’t so. More coverage of that will follow up. But for now, here’s a short video by IBM to give you at least the very basic idea of it: