IE8 Phoning Home Called ‘Innocuous’ By Microsoft
Catching up on Slashdot again I ran across something that’s a tad bothersome. Seems that Micro$loth is calling IE8’s habit of phoning home ‘Innocuous’.
Archive for the 'software' Category
How To Disable Autorun On CD-ROMs
One of the things that’s bugged me for a long time is the fact that Windows operating systems have this thing to them about autoplaying any CD-ROM that’s inserted.
Diebold Finally Admits It’s Machines Drop Votes
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In an article on Engadget there is news that’s going to be cause for all voters to wonder.
Diebold has finally come clean, admitting that their voting machines have a flaw in them that’s been there [...]
How To Get Rid of the XP Search Puppy
From 95 onward windows has always had a reasonable search function. It’s evolved over the years a bit here and a bit there and then along came XP. One of the things I hate about the XP version is that blasted animated dog.
Why I Use GnuPG Over PGP
I’ve been catching up on my mail and one list I read [PGP-Basics] has been particularly busy of late. The bulk of this traffic seems to have started in a thread in which somebody wanted to know which PGP version they should use.
Blaze Media Pro
While Blaze Media Pro isn’t freeware, It’s wide range of capabilities easily make up for it. Whether you just want to rip your CD’s so you can have the music on your iPod or flash drive or you’d like to convert existing audio files to another format. Perhaps you’ve got a collection of your musical creations that you want to burn to CD, This media suite has the goods.
It’s Official, Vista Is Pwned!
Windows Vista has been ‘pwned’ big time. A couple of researchers attacked Vista by using the way that Internet Explorer handles active scripting and .NET objects which results in effectively bypassing the memory protection safeguards in Vista.
Is Your ISP Throttling You?
That’s the question that more and more people are asking after Comcast and then others have been caught interfering with customers net connections by sending false reset packets to both sides of a bittorrent transfer.
Here Today, Gone Today
The birth and death of a really useful application in one day.
Freeware App: Camstudio
I’ve spent a fair amount of time searching around to find a useful program to record video screen captures and save them to an .AVI movie that I can edit or use in something else. Along the way I’ve found, downloaded and tried a bunch of utilities that promise to do what I want.
