Archive for May, 2007

Customize the look and feel of your GMail with this Firefox extension

Who doesn’t want to make her/his GMail interface look pretty and better? I know, most of us do! Gmailskins is an excellent extension for Firefox browser that will let you change the look and feel of your GMail interface by completely integrating with your GMail account and also make it look much better than how it is now. A simple installation of the add-on will do lot of things for you and it’s very easy. Here is a quick run

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MXPLAY Player: Make Your Music Come Alive with 3D Audio

MXPLAY Player (in Beta) is the only player that lets you mash your music with video from YouTube and control it with Wiimote. This player lets you import your music from iTunes, your PC or the web. Some of its features are: Full digital music player, with an integrated web browser for finding new music all over the web. A new way to experience music – the AudioSpace – combine videos or photos with your music and change the way

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Are Firefox Addons and Plugins Safe to Use?

Are you a fan of Firefox and other Mozilla products and enjoying every bit of what they offer? This will be an interesting question for you – Would you know if the add-ons or the plugins that you use for Firefox and other Mozilla products are safe to use? What is that’s not so safe about them, you might ask. Here is a quick run down of some points worth considering that will tell you why those plugins and add-ons

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Bank of America Customers be Aware of This Phishing Attack

There have been many phishing attacks happened in the past but this one seems to be a major one with fraudulent emails hitting email accounts and they all are being sent from numerous email addresses. The website address used in this attack are different ones and attempting to trick Bank Of America customers to click on the embedded URLs in the email and provide the remote website with your important banking information. You must delete these emails as soon as

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Microsoft Using Apache in AdWords to Attract Visitors?

This was not the first time that I saw an Ad on my site showing up with ‘Apache Server’ in the title but this time it was quite unusual because it was an Ad from Microsoft using ‘Apache Server’ in the title of the Ad. See the screen shot below. Now why would Microsoft use ‘Apache Server’ in the title of their Ad in the AdWords campaign? Does it increase the chances of someone clicking on their Ad to visit

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Manage Multiple Windows Systems Easily with BGInfo

How many times you have found yourself running through multiple commands to find critical system information such as its IP address, Hostname, CPU Information, Service Pack information and User Name? This is very annoying specially when you are in charge of system administration and work on multiple Windows systems to troubleshoot various problems such as slow PC performance related issues. BGInfo is a small utility to help you find important information about a system within no time. As soon as

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Secure Your Firefox Browser with Firekeeper Intrusion Detection System

Firekeeper is an IDS, Intrusion Detection System, for Firefox browser that can detect, warn and block the websites that are malicious in nature. Firekeeper has the ability to scan the incoming traffic, including HTTPS, and analyze URL, body and response headers to cancel further processing of suspicious looking websites. Firekeeper uses rules that are similar to Snort to identify the malicious websites and attack attempts. The pattern matching algorithm is very fast as it’s taken directly from Snort. It also

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