Google’s web history tracks your usage data. It gives you a choice to delete certain searches, it also gives your mom, the police, and hackers an ability to explore this diary. Whether they use it for blackmail or prosecution, its not good for YOU.
Spindex Tech Preview
05/14/2010 by Leave a Comment
Bay Area Tech Pros takes an exclusive inside look at Microsoft’s new social aggregator Spindex, with screenshot goodness.
Fight back spam with Gmail
05/11/2010 by Leave a Comment
Here’s a short post for getting back at companies who insist on sending you junk and offer no options to unsubscribe, or force you to jump through inconvenient hoops. What you will need to do is find the corporate (optional: and personal) mailboxes of head people at the said company, The Consumerist runs a fairly [...]
Operation Chokehold: take down ATT data network
12/15/2009 by Leave a Comment
Operation Chokehold is a protest against the policies of AT&T. The aim is to bring justice and improve future consumer experience with this company.
YouTube phases out old accounts
12/01/2009 by Leave a Comment
If you signed up for YouTube prior to Google’s acquisition you may be displeased to see that you are no longer allowed to use your YouTube account independent of your email. The change merges your YouTube account with whatever email was associated with it at the time.
Future of Torrents; DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained
11/24/2009 by Leave a Comment
DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained. The Pirate Bay has shutdown their tracker; now DHT, PEX, and Magnet Links will decentralize Torrents and remove the necessity of trackers like TPB.
Modern Warfare 2 vulnerable to Virus and Trojan attacks
11/19/2009 by Leave a Comment
Modern Warfare’s silly practice of opening ports and connecting directly to hosts leaves an easy path for a hacker to launch an attack against your PC. This can become a keylogger, or place your computer under a botnet.
Security Essentials weekend report
10/18/2009 by Leave a Comment
Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft’s leap into the Anti-Virus market. The suite aims at tackling viruses, trojans, worms, and malware. It is surprisingly light on resources (unlike a certain Windows-Defender) and has features to match its competitors.
This is the first week that Essentials has been out of beta, and the MS Malware Protection Center has released some interesting statistics.
PeerGuardian PG alternative, ipfilter + utorrent, ipfilter.dat
06/02/2009 by 22 Comments
Whether you are looking for an alternative to PG2 because it fails to function properly, or simply looking to cut down the number of processes you are running – the information here is for you.
It is possible to block ip-ranges with utorrent’s built in ipfiltering system.
Slow torrents with Windows 7
06/02/2009 by 12 Comments
After getting windows 7 I noticed that my downloads of the Linux kernel through utorrent were running at incredibly slow speeds. Though the reasons behind this may be complicated, the solution turned out to be rather simple.
