There goes another year! During the past 12 months, we’ve had lots of stories here on Tech Snake and some changes to the website. Because of this I thought I would compile the most interesting and important stories for 2008. So sit down, take a load off and lets have a look through the last [...]
Archive for December, 2008
A festive cartoon for you all, from wetherobots.com!
Deal after deal have fallen through, and now Sky Broadband are the latest on the list of companies unwilling to front the £600 million asking price.
Sky, only prepared to part with £450 million, ended talks with the Italian owned ISP (who also have Pipex & Homechoice under the Tiscali umbrella). Of course, you can [...]
As detailed two days ago, a serious security flaw was highlighted for Internet Explorer. If you do not have Automatic Updates turned on (which I would strongly suggest) you can visit Microsoft’s site to apply the patch manually here to make sure your system is patched and up to date.
Ideal for the geek who wants something a little different than the standard Windows screensavers, or perhaps for the person who wants to play a prank on an unknowing friend. This screensaver, available from Microsoft, will display a fake Blue Screen of Death (or BSoD) that looks so convincing most people will rush to [...]
December 16th, 2008
Serious Security Flaw Found In Internet Explorer
Comments, The site, by Paul Godden. Users of Internet Explorer are being urged to switch to a different browser in a bid to escape a serious zero day flaw.
Internet Explorer 5, 6 and 7 are all shown to contain the flaw that could potentially allow somebody access to your computer. Admittedly, if you stick to well known websites you should [...]
For the uninitiated, Flock is an open-source social network browser based on the same codebase as Firefox (Mozilla/Gecko). Because of this it has the same speed and security of it’s better known cousin. I had used Flock for a short period about six months ago so I thought it was time I revisited the [...]
December 15th, 2008
Protests Against Australia’s New Web Filtering Law
Comments, The site, by Paul Godden. People turned out in their thousands to protest against Australia’s equivalent to the Great Firewall of China.
It seems as though Australian MPs had decided a nanny state is the way forward, instead of educating the (mis)users of the internet. All but one of the ISPs in Australia refused recently to conduct trials with the [...]
That’s the conclusion I came to, after finding an article on silicon.com. In an interview with Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, the police force in the UK are looking to create some kind of magical device that can be used like a "computer breathalyser."
The device would look on somebody’s PC for any illegal activity, such [...]
The Beta tag has been taken off – which must be the quickest in Google’s history, after Chrome is updated to version 1.0.154.36!
Among the most recent updates are:
Improved Speed (with more apparently due in the future)
Stability & performance tweaks for the inbuilt plugins (flash etc.)
Bookmark import/export & management options
Good changes I’m sure [...]