If you download a lot of stuff from services such as MultiUpload or RapidShare and you don’t have a premium account you may be all too familiar with having to wait up to several minutes before the site will let you download your file. I experience this all too often as I am keeping an …
February 2011 archive
Feb 07 2011
Enable Stronger Security in Facebook
Here’s a quick tip and some news that might have flown under the radar for some. After the fuss and debacle created by the release of FireSheep and the ability for people to easily impersonate others on popular social networking sites such as Facebook it has become apparent that Facebook have now provided the ability …
Feb 05 2011
Microsoft Adding H.264 Back into Google Chrome
If the title of this article made you rub your eyes and gave you cause to double check to make sure you were reading what you thought you had read then I don’t blame you. Under normal circumstances you certainly wouldn’t expect Microsoft to develop or enhance a competing product. Unless of course there was …
Feb 03 2011
Secure Your Google Searches with SSL
A quick tip tonight. For a while, Google has allowed the use of SSL with its search product by manually visiting https://encrypted.google.com but this has not been widely advertised in the past. However, it seems for residents in the USA that this is now becoming the default search page when people are visiting the regular …
Feb 02 2011
Keep Informed on Cyclone Yasi
Down under, it’s fairly well known that a mammoth cyclone in the form of Tropical Cyclone Yasi is heading for far north Queensland (FNQ). The international coverage on this natural event has been phenomenal which has been great in creating awareness of this impending disaster but what is more important is keeping those affected informed. …
Feb 01 2011
Reclaim Space – Remove an Unnecessary Windows Hibernation File
Yesterday, I wrote an article about a great little utility called WinDirStat and its ability to create a bitmap of what files and folders are consuming the most space on your drives. One thing I did discover was a huge 9GB hiberfil.sys file on my C: partition that was serving no real purpose as I …
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