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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 [...]

Firefox Add-ons: What is an Add-on? First things first.  It’s now well known among the more savvy internet users, that the Firefox web browser is a fine piece of kit; secure, innovative and with a burgeoning user base that has seen Microsoft rise from it’s slumbers and put some serious damage control development into it’s [...]

A Possible Start to Personal Details Theft? Here’s how it works… Some time ago I made a posting on the odiously chubby internet bankrupteer and millionaire self-publicist Robert Allen (see link here).  As part of this investigation I used the name “Morton” coupled to my spam magnet email address in order to see what would [...]

WordPress User Registration Spam Last year I told how I tackled various sorts of spam hitting the website, in particular, in this post, User Registration Spam.  Even now, my main defence is SABRE, although I don’t use all the options.  This gives me the combination of flexibility, security and openness I require on this website.  [...]

There’s a lot of hatred in the UK that we all have to pay a ‘licence’ fee to watch TV. Some people say that it gives quality and independence to the Corporation. Others have commented on the corridors full of empty champagne bottles… Recent scandals like the Jonathan Ross affair have seen the BBC ‘fined’ [...]

Wassup I use a myriad of plugins on my website (and have tested zillions more). A plugin, for those that don’t know, is an add-on to the basic WordPress install that I use to run this blog.  You can get plugins for all sorts of blogging, forum and CMS systems… Anyway, for a week, I’m [...]

Possibly More Cool Than You Think It Will Be With the tag-line “Possibly More Cool Than You Think It Will Be”, Browser Ball is a demonstration of the work going on at Google specifically at their new Chrome web browser.  See this page.  It’ll also take you to some other demonstrations of the Chrome Experiments.  [...]

In a follow-up to my earlier post, this problem is now going mainstream news.  See; Internet Explorer security alert Another wave of attacks target Internet Explorer Apparently, 10,000 websites have now been hacked and are ready and waiting (like conger eels in a hole or praying mantises on a twig), to nick all the personal [...]

Another day, another Microsoft security alert.. This morning, another raft of advisories arrived in my mail from Secunia, this is one; Internet Explorer Data Binding Memory Corruption Vulnerability This rivetting title is like deja-vu.  Time and again we’ve seen this.  This is the fault of a company, Microsoft, that puts form before function, functionality before [...]

Following on from my trial with Opera after my trying times with Firefox and Pipex, I’ve given the new Google browser, Chrome a go. So far it’s worked well, even as a beta.  It loads this website faster for me, as well as nearly everything else wonderfully, except… This morning my regular CTC newsletter arrived [...]

I don’t know what reasons are behind any of it, but it’s probably a combination of a corrupted Firefox profile and some weird goings on with my ISP, Pipex, (like here, say),but I’ve found that of the 3 main browsers, Opera works best with my websites. :-P Despite all I’ve previously said about Firefox being [...]