Strangely Perfect

HTC Desire S – Software Update Last night, my mobile decided to upgrade itself.  Both Android and HTC Sense got “upgraded”.  It’s now: Android 2.3.5 HTC Sense 3.0 Software Number 2.10.401.5 It’s now got very pretty icons and even more scary fog sounds on the weather app.!! It’s a bit slicker and has a ring-pull [...]

Testing Firefox 64-bit Right Now! Actually, I tried the 64 bit installs of Firefox and Internet Explorer soon after I installed this Windows 7 64 bit Operating System.  They were both pants and summarily removed from my hard drives and I haven’t revisited for over 2 years…. But now things seem on the up. 64-bit [...]

LSO Super Cookies?  Well It was News to Me! I this article in “Windows Secrets” by Woody Leonhard, Eliminate Flash-spawned ‘zombie’ cookies, he describes how they are generated as un-deletable cookies by Flash applications, which compromises user privacy, in the sense that they do stuff to your hard disc and network without your permission! So [...]

Introduction A few month’s back the Adobe Acrobat Reader landed itself in doo-doo with some Javascript security worries.  Adobe were slow off the mark informing their customers (like me) what to do.  So it was the blogs that provided the answer: Turn off Javascript Unfortunately, this wasn’t enough.  After a week a huge patch was [...]

Following on from my earlier experiment with “The Complainerator“, I got a very similar message from myself to myself  again…  It’s the address I used to dig into XIN NET, whose automated systems now seem to think I really, really need some drugs from a Canadian (United Kingdom for me) Pharmacy. This is the email [...]