Update: Google Wave Available for Everyone — simply visit wave.google.com and sign right in. I’ve got 18 more invitations to give away. Free of course. Let me know if you want one. What is Google Wave? Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless — in one place, you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
Behavioral Advertising huh?
Did you know that you’ve opted in to behavioral advertising programs when you decided to browse the internet? What’s behavioral advertising anyway? Advertising companies say it’s their way of Making ads more interesting. It simply a method of displaying ads based on the information collected on your web surfing activities such as the web pages [...]
Google Chrome says: I know the internet.
Firefox says: I can take you where you want to go. Internet Explorer says: I can take you where you want to go. I’m not sure what I’m doing, would you like to navigate to ‘http://3639557480.com’ instead? Google Chrome says: I can take you where you want to go. I know the internet. For those [...]
Browser Wars
Google homepage now also reads “”New! Download Chrome (BETA) – the new browser from Google” The web browser with no chrome is Google’s fresh take on the browser. It does however have a chrome, but it doesn’t try to stand out and get in your way. This browser has been built from scratch; the Google Chrome [...]
Combating SQL Injection: Free tools
Earlier this week Microsoft IIS team released its URLScan 3.0 (beta) to help fight SQL injection attacks at the Web Server, now Microsoft has put out another tool, this time in the form of a Code Analyzer. Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection should help out to quickly analyze and secure any existing ASP [...]
It’s Firefox Download Day
Firefox Download Day is here. Download Firefox 3 today! Help set a World Record and make history!
World Download Record
The Firefox team is trying to set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours with the upcoming Firefox 3 release. If you want to help out with this effort visit the Firefox Download Day 2008 Website and make a pledge. I switched to Firefox 3 from Firefox 2 since the initial beta releases [...]
Google account stolen?
What’s wrong in the email that I got below? Well for one thing, I didn’t try to reset my password, and the email doesn’t tell me what to do if I was not the one who initiated this password reset process. Someone had recently attempted to reset my Google Account password. I’m not sure if [...]
Attacked!
The month of May seems to be a time for many SQL injection attacks around the world. Unfortunately one of the sites affected by these attacks happens to be one that is administrated by a friend of mine. As it so happens the site was also developed by a friend and I’m sure we can have [...]
Google Virus Guard
The Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) website www.slt.lk has been infected with a Trojan Virus Trojan.Maliframe!html. If you don’t believe that the telecoms giant is compromised, here is a screen-shot showing the Trojan virus infected web page. The risk level of this particular virus has been rated as a very low by Symantec, however considering the number of Internet users in [...]