Apparently, when using Skype, one’s IP address isn’t as private as one might assume that it would be …
If you are a user of the messaging software Skype, you know that you can see the location of your contacts in the Skype interface. What you probably do not know is that there is currently a way to display a Skype user’s remote and local IP address as well.
This is good news, but it’s only a matter of time before the spammers eventually figure out how to game this search update too …
As a webmaster, I’m often affected by updates to Google’s search algorithm. Updates that try to resolve issues with low quality sites, web spam or sites that are tampering with the system have affected websites and thus also webmasters who should not have been affected. With every Google search update there is a chance that a site gets hit that should not got hit in the first place. And got hit in this regard means that rankings drop in the search engine, which leads to reduced visits and everything that goes along with it.
Cloud storage can be incredibly helpful … as long as you keep in mind that privacy and security work differently in the cloud than they do on your hard drive.
Now that half of the world is talking about hosting files in the cloud, I thought it to be a good idea to take a look at what you can actually do with cloud storage space. While you could use it exclusively to host files online, you may be missing out on some of the advanced options that online storage provides. This guide contains suggestions as to what these options may be.
Here’s a nice side-by-side price comparison of some of the most popular cloud drive services …
Price can be an important factor when selecting the right cloud hosting service. With that many services in the field, it is important to compare prices, as much as it is important to look at the feature sets individual services offer. Like pricing, features differ a lot between services.
If you’re anxious to check out the upcoming Windows 8 release, it looks like you’ll have another chance in early June …
Microsoft in the past months has released two public preview versions of their upcoming operating system Windows 8. First last year’s Windows 8 Developer Preview version which was aimed at developers and tech enthusiasts, and then this year’s Consumer Preview which was aimed at a larger audience interested in the operating system. With interest in the Consumer Preview twice as high as that of the Windows 7 Beta, Microsoft must have done something right one could say. And while it is difficulty to verify the claim, it is fair to say that the preview builds have made an impact.
Conserving electricity makes perfect sense … but it will still be a job convincing my teenaged son that it’s a good idea.
I have a Nintendo Wii, a Sony Playstation 3, and a Microsoft Xbox 360 at home, and while I’m not using them that much, I have come to enjoy what the current generation of gaming consoles have to offer. A recent study about game system energy efficiency shows that U.S. households could save 1% of residential electricity consumption if consoles would be turned off or put to standby instead of left idling.
It’s kind of surprising to see Chrome topped by a relatively unknown browser like Maxthon …
For the past two years or so, Google Chrome was the browser to beat in terms of compatibility with HTML5 and CSS3 support. Most reviewers used sites like HTML5Test to compare browser support for web technologies. As it turned out, Chrome has always been the leader of the pack in this regard. That is, until now.
Here’s an interesting, new feature for Google Chrome …
Google has started to integrate synchronization options in the Chrome browser in 2009. It began with a start up flag that you had to launch the browser with to enable bookmark syncing in the browser. Additional synchronization options to sync the browser’s history, passwords, extensions, themes or settings, were added at a later time.
Another month, another batch of Microsoft Security Bulletins …
It is the second Tuesday of the month, and that means patch day over at Microsoft. Windows systems configured to automatically update should pick up the updates on the next start of the system. Users who do not want to wait that long can run a manual check for updates instead. On Windows 7, users need to click on Start, enter Windows Update in the run box and select the first entry with that name in the listing.
