Do you know when you visit a web site, you behavior might be monitored and tracked? If I tell you that there are six sites will be monitoring you when you visit MSNBC web site (www.msnbc.com), will you believe it? Thanks to a nice browser plugin called Ghostery, you can find all those hidden sites that are tracking you. I highly recommend everyone to download and install it, and the plugin is available for Internet […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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I bet lot of people are familiar with E*Trade’s famous talking baby commercials, but do you know that last week E*Trade launched a fun, free web site allowing user to create and send personalized and animated talking E*Trade Baby message to anyone? You can use the built-in E*Trade Baby images or upload your own images, then type or record a brief message, or choose from one of the built-in messages, then you are ready to […]
If you use Windows XP Mode and make any change in your BIOS, then you may notice that next time when you try to launch Windows XP Mode, you will get an error message as this: Windows XP mode could not be restored because of either host processor mismatch or lack of hardware assisted virtualization support in the system. The reason is that by default when you close Windows XP Mode, Windows Virtual PC will […]
IMPORTANT UPDATES I just found out that Windows Live Mesh does NOT encrypt user files stored on their server, here is the original blog post talking about how the original Live Mesh was designed and implemented three years ago: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/livemesh/archive/2008/05/29/behind-live-mesh-authorization-and-encryption.aspx, and to my disappointment, three years later, Windows Live Mesh still has not implemented data encryption to protect user files. Here is the question I asked and the answer I got from Widnows Live Help […]
DropBox has been in the spotlight since they silently changed their terms of service (TOS). The updated TOS basically says, to be compliant with the US law, they would give customer’s file (after decrypting it) to the government when requested legally. This change seems to be very reasonable, because companies like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc. would do the same thing, but the real problem lies in the boldest claim they have on their web site: […]
Last week I finally decided to transfer this domain away from GoDaddy to a different registrar. I thought the process should be smooth and painless, but it turned out not. My site suffered several days of down time, as a result, lost a lot of traffic. Here are some experiences I would like to share with you: 1. My domain was not hosted by GoDaddy, and I changed the DNS nameservers before the transfer is […]
1. Speed and Performance With its own JavaScript engine Chakra, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 released this week has better SunSpider JavaScript test score than any other web browsers, such as Google Chrome 10, FireFox 3.6 (and FireFox 4.0 RC), Safari 5.0, and Opera 11. The new JavaScript engine is also able to access the computer’s graphics card processor to speed up the performance, especially for 3D graphic and video (this is so called hardware acceleration […]
Internet Explorer 9 will be available for download today starting at 9pm PST. According to the report of NSS Labs, Internet Explorer outperformed other web browsers in protecting user from the socially-engineered malware attack, where IE 9 (beta) blocked 90% of the live threats and IE 8 blocked 80% of the live threats. Although those numbers are very impressive, I found this report is pro-IE. Firstly, the report tested IE 9 beta version, but […]
Microsoft released a new version of Bing Bar with better user interface. I personally like the design of the new Bing Bar very much.
Microsoft finally decided to join the world to get rid of the 10-year-old Internet Browser 6, but only this time it launched its own campaign site called The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown (www.ie6countdown.com), and the purpose is to reduce the market share of IE6 from the current 12% (as in Feb 2011) to 1%. I happily joined the campaign. If you visit my blog with IE6, then you will see this image at the top […]