Yearly Archives: 2009
Scareware Scam
Symantec stated that in the past 12 months, online scammers have tricked over 40 million people to download a fake anti-virus software. They use well designed pop-up adverts with well known software provider logo’s such as Microsoft and users click … Continue reading
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Broadband StreetStats
StreetStats, developed by Top 10 Broadband, has revealed varying speeds of broadband on the same street. It allows users to see the speed of their neighbours residing in the same postal code. This variation of speed can be due to many factors, … Continue reading
Network Neutrality
How is data distributed on the web? The FCC has received a letter from some of the worlds largest internet companies (Google, Ebay, Skype, Facebook, Amazon and Sony Electronics – to name a few) stating that bandwidth-heavy data (i.e video and audio … Continue reading
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Energy Efficient Televisions
From energy alternatives such as solar and wind to hydroelectric and geothermal, energy reduction plays a big part in today’s society. Television manufacturers have come up with an evergy efficient way of reducing power consumption; whereby fitting a TV with a camera that searches … Continue reading
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Web Design Program Alternatives
Is Dreamwaver or Microsoft Frontpage too explensive for your pocket? Try these alturnative programs. UltraEdit – Free Trial / $49.95 WeBuilder – Free Trial / $49.85 CoffeeCup – Free Trial / $49 Coda (MAC ONLY) – Free Trial / $49 … Continue reading
HTML 5 and HTML4 differences
Interested in knowing what all the hype about HTML 5 is? The W3C has published a document outlining all the similarities and differences between the two versions of HTML The document covers topics such as: Backwards Compatibility, Syntax, Languages, API’s … Continue reading
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