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The much loved web browser that has taken the web monopoly out of the much used Internet Explorer has turned version 3.5 when release candidates have been released even as their version 3.0.11 was for distribution. The newest installment is overall way better than the previous ones but they are having to face another problem and it isn’t IE yet, it’s other open-sourced browsers that have made their entry into the web. From Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari and of course Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, they are sharing the web they used to own over IE and they are feeling it. The improvements they have included with the latest release is being received well but time will tell if it will retain it’s grip on most of the web browsing crowd. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple has announced the coming release of the new and improved iPhone that has not been so well received as it’s former two kin. Why, well the recession may have something to do with it and the fact that you can turn your old iPhone (the second one actually), through firmware upgrades to function the same as the new one, all of these factors may play in the fate of the ever-loved iPhone. Apple has even been rumored to be wooing app developers, namely for games to start developing apps for their new models even as they overcome the 1 million units sold mark. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody knows of the proliferation of mobile apps and the many browsers that allow people on the go to access the internet. It has taken the office out of the workplace and social life into the office. This has caught the eye of marketing specialists who through viral videos and other mobile marketing trends have begun to exploit their ability to reach people even when they are out of their desks. May you be at home or in the workplace, life is getting wired bit by bit and with the many CMS systems around, people are getting the content they need fast while sending feedback as to their reader’s habits allowing well aimed advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most prevalent malicious attacks on computer systems today is called PHISHING.

Phishing is where sensitive information – such as passwords, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. – is obtained under false premises. The usual modus operandi is for a site to pretend to be a trustworthy site which then ask for users’ personal information. Some also disguise themselves as emails that tell the recipient that he or she won x amount of money in a contest they never heard of. The recipient is then required to log in or register to a site, which then records all the information inputted by the clueless person.

So before you commit to putting down sensitive information on forms on the web, make sure that the site is trustworthy – and always be suspicious of too-good-to-be-true offers that suddenly show up.

Cloud computing is here and MobileMe is here to serve the few faithful Apple fanatics who are benefiting from one of the very few yet effective examples of the new cloud computing framework where all applications and data are stored in data centers, to be called upon when needed. The advantages of secure online backup of information is very much a new thing but it does allow you to back-up some of your vital information into secure servers that should not fail. There are even some providers who offer such services for a fee like Norton’s 360 product which includes a couple of megabytes of free secure online data storage space.
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One of the web trends these days is the improvement of Instant Messengers. Once, you were limited to chatting with the others who weer part of the same IM client as your own. However, there’s been an improvement these days where other clients will be available to you. One of the best examples of these is Meebo:

Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.

It has a ton of great features like changing your wallpaper and themes, however it won’t tbe able to do the features specific for Yahoo Messenger and the other lot.

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Your favorite source of Movie and Television series information recently celebrated its 18th year in existence. Internet Movie DataBase came to the internet and was launched on Oct 17, 1990. It was created by a teenager by the name of Col Needham. It is really a momentous occasion for such an outfit because usually, the normal “life expectancy” of a website is usually up until 14 years. It either upgrades itslef into a better site or it just ceases to operate. The IMDB started out from Usenet newsgroups then it proceeded to become a web site. It is just sad that IMDB was bought by Amazon.com. The site has gone through a series of improvements through all its years and whats most important to know is, it stayed true to its mission of providing reliable cross referencing.

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Nowadays, Reddit members are taking the source code and they are importing it to their sites so they can create social news hubs on their own. This opportunity came just recently when Reddit released their source code for free. Open for everybody. It is slowly becoming a platform for establishing link sharing sites. While developers had the ability to do this on their own, IT became much easier for them to do so since it went on to be an open source code. They can now personalize their voting system according to their site’s needs. And now, the system can be imported from Reddit’s domain. It is hoped that with this, news voting system will grow in number on sites that do not have them. Reddit is much smaller than its rival Digg and Yahoo Buzz but it has been making waves these past few months. The alternative in-house social news system might just help other sites wanting to adopt this kind of thing to its web site.

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What? TCP/IP? Who cares. Fact is, without TCP/IP there would be no Internet. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol) were the protocols the military developed in its research aiming at developing communication using the early forms of computer. Computers before, were the size of a room. The military was forced to connect different types of machine because not every branch of the military was using the same machine. The first Internet delivered a few basic services like file transfer, electronic mail to name a few. TCP/IP is composed of layers. Each layer has its own responsibility. IP is responsible for moving data from computer to computer. IP forwards each packet based on a four-byte destination address (the IP number). TCP is responsible for ensuring correct delivery of data from computer to computer. Because data can be lost in the network, TCP adds support to detect errors or lost data and to trigger retransmission until the data is correctly and completely received. In short, IP is used to send the data, while TCP verifies that it is sent correctly.

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Ruby on rails is a complete cross-platform application for web development. It is a very contemporary web framework and like other platforms it uses a “Model Views Controller”. Nowadays it is the best architecture for developing application programming. Ruby on Rails has several advantages over other frameworks. They are what makes Ruby development tasks fast and easy, like “out of the box” creation. It provides a meta programming method for creating of database based web applications, it is also known as “Scaffold”. Using this technique you can easily construct some of the templates, models and views needed for the majority of the basic websites, homepages and even web portals. “WEBrick” is a new technology which Ruby development uses too. The sense of it is that library, which is included in Ruby distribution, provides basic HTTP web server services and tools. “Rake” is also included too, the sense of this anonymous function block is: to define various tasks which allows one to use Ruby syntax.