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Cute Trick: Entertainment When you Get Bored
This is pretty funny and clever . This person shows a way to modify your wireless router to mess with people riding your connection unwantingly. Basically, it splits into two networks: one for internal and one for the unwanted heathens outside. The heathens...
Gadzooks: Third Party Cookies are a Pain
Here's a little project for you (since you're obviously bored enough to be reading this garbage): Open up Internet Explorer and open Internet Options. Click on the "Privacy" tab, then click the "Advanced" button. Check "Override automatic cookie handling...
Apple's Shameless Safari Tactic is likely to Pay Off
So I plug in my iPod to synch it up, like I do everyday, and see the Apple Updater launch in my face with an "Important" update pending: Apple Safari . No thanks. I can't blame them, since Microsoft has used that approach for decades (two makes it plural...
"Kid Safe" Browsing Service
A knee-jerk response to something like this is typically cynical. However, from a purely business standpoint it makes good sense and may actually be profitable, but not in the way you might think. KidZui has announced it will be building a database of...
Bleeding to death on the bleeding edge of IE8
I know it's beta. I know it's beta. I know it's beta. I know it's not the final UI it will have when released also. But purely on the functional and behavioral aspects, had to pull the plug on my physical install at least. I'll keep it in my VM test machines...
I'm convinced all browsers suck
Yes. It is true. They all suck. What's worse is how many there are, all of which suck. I've had Opera, Firefox, Konqueror, and the ubiquitous IE7 on most of my network for, well, forever. What kills me about each one is this... Firefox - 2.0 is too bloated...