Monday, February 28, 2005

FireFox security bugs

These pictures are quite descriptive to explain how phising methods can be done under Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera browsers. It basically consists on replacing some characters by the suitable Unicode symbol.

FireFox 1.0
Preview 1

FireFox 1.0.1
Preview 2

Sunday, February 20, 2005

Browsers speed tests

It has been made to check how fast they render pages on different platforms. It curiously shows the fact that Opera 6.x and 8 versions can be named as the fastest browsers on Earth. On the other hand, Firefox and Mozilla browsers don´t appear to be on the top at the list about different tests made. I totally agree with this and every single day I get frustrated with FireFox around multimedia environments pages.
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Monday, February 14, 2005

Load Balance Network Adapters

It provides concurrent Internet connections if you have both DSL (Ethernet) and Wireless connection. Personally, it gets helpful when you have detected an open wireless connection and want to speed up your downloads.

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Sms to Skype

A new service, still in beta, has been released from Connectotel which lets you send SMS to Skype users from any GSM mobile phone. Just what you need is a new user called smsgateway set in you contact list. A gateway name is also needed in your phone book.

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Wifi Ring detector

A small finger device to detect wifi coverage.



Dock-N-Talk

Good choice for people who pretend to keep their house or office fully connected through corded phones without active landline. Just drop your cell phone into the dock station (bluetooth is optional but recommended) and you´ll be able to use your old wired phones as you had wireline service.
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Monday, February 07, 2005

Top popular programming languages

Here is an index from TIOBE Community of how popular programming languages are. It is updated once a month.