Posts in 'Web Buzzz'
Best websites (top stories) on popular social bookmarking services Facebook application/iGoogle gadget
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Dragos.
After getting tired of visiting all those pages on Digg, Reddit,Delicious, Mixx,TweetMeme… until I could finally visit the original link of an interesting story, that took ages and precious time. So I have worked on a script that would do the unpleasant process described above for you, and provide you only the top links that [...]
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eFAX: Beware your credit card! You may not be able to cancel your trial account :(
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Dragos.
Welcome to chat. The session has been accepted. {Craig H.} Hello, Dragos. Welcome to j2 Global online support. I am Craig, your online Live Support Representative. How are you doing today? {Dragos} Hello Craig. Thanks for disconnecting me a few moments ago. {Dragos} I have just checked my credit card statement and it says I [...]
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OMG: Sony Playstation 3 smahed into a Bravia TV
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Dragos.
“OMG, dude, they’ve smashed a PlayStation 3 into a Bravia TV!” “OMG, that was cool!”, and so the video spreads at viral speeds. This is the marketing technique that Sony Australia makes use of, trying to promote their new Bravia TV set. Tested on a car-smashing zone, the PS 3 was launched at 80 km/hr [...]
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Acquired: WeFollow.com is now part of the Digg experiment
Posted on 17. Oct, 2009 by Dragos.
Yesterday a change in the page’s footer of WeFollow.com has caught our attention and rumors spread around the Internet about Digg acquiring WeFollow. We have now a proof that WeFollow is now part of the Digg company. [ad] From Digg the Blog: As some of you may have read overnight, Digg and WeFollow (a Twitter [...]
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Warning: You might be at risk! Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 plugin for Firefox is the cause
Posted on 17. Oct, 2009 by Dragos.
Last February, Microsoft released an update for the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 via Windows Update. It turns out that along with the update, a plugin was automatically installed in the Firefox browser. Moreover the plugin was practically impossible to uninstall or delete through Firefox Add-ons manager. A method to escape the threat was [...]
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Facebook update: All statuses posted since thursday disappeared. Facebook hacked again or unexpected maintenance work?
Posted on 03. Oct, 2009 by Dragos.
One minute ago I have posted a message on my wall, refreshed the page and whoa! the first messages to appear are from Thursday. I am not sure what happened to Facebook (might it be another attack, or just maintenance work), but there’s surely something happening out there. If you are experiencing the same thing, [...]
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Web news: Mashable hacked? or WordPress vulnerability
Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve just noticed a strange issue on Mashable.com . If I go page by page, starting with page nr 1 till page nr 5, when I hover my mouse on the other page links, some strange text is appended to the url. I don’t think my machine has been hacked or virused, as I work [...]
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Webhit: Find reviews/testimonials written by real people. Share your opinion about different topics
Posted on 12. Sep, 2009 by Dragos.
Trustler has added a nice feature yesterday. It is now possible to add @mentions when posting a status message, which will be automatically treated as a review message. The @ operator means “about” and is mandatory for a post to be treated as a review message (instead of a status one). Even more, a # [...]
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Web hosting: Website hosted on Hostmonster is slow? It’s because CPU is being throttled
Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by Dragos.
Hosting problems with Hostmonster? Website inaccessible? Hostmonster has got powerful servers, but in order to avoid overloading and hardware failures, they have recently implemented a new way of dealing with high traffic websites hosted with them. They won’t suspend such websites, but instead will throttle the CPU for these accounts, so the website looks like [...]
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Define notions: What is CPU Throttling/Processor Throttling?
Posted on 05. Sep, 2009 by Dragos.
CPU throttling/processor throttling is the process when the CPU tries to avoid overheating and getting damaged. So if the temperature of the CPU exceeds some specified limits, the system will throttle down the CPU, allowing it to cool down and avoid damage. This process may also take place when the computer is idle or no [...]