Frozen Europeans can take on-line revenge on the Ukrainian President
At least web-citizens can throw another shoe at Ukrainian President Viktor Iushchenko who steals European gas instead paying the debt to Russia.
read moreGoogle Chrome will expose your passwords?
Google Chrome is positioning as the safest and fastest browser in the world ("perhaps, the best", like everything in Google). So far, security and quickness were just the reasons why the users chose Firefox.
With Google reputation, who would dare to doubt? read more
Web 2.0 with Chinese accent
Everybody heard about the horrors of Chinese Internet,
but it's a surprise to learn they look so sweet and enthusiastic as Jingjing and Chacha. It should seem that the optimistic Chinese just have fun even in such a way. Besides, the service is quite in the manner of Web 2.0. See for yourself: read moreA Man is Known by his Username
The Username selection becomes a key challenge today. While surfing the Web you face the necessity to use it much more often then your offline first and last names given by the parents without your sanction.
Unlike the latter, a username is something you are free to invent. This creativity certainly fills the names with sense. It even allows drawing the certain conclusions about their owners. From time to time the usernames delight the eye of a tired surfer so they deserved a kind of homemade classification read more
Has Web 2.0 influenced the Global Crisis?
The participants of the recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco expressed their concern about the trendiness of clogging the Internet with useless information.
According to their version, the crisis burst in many ways out of info superabundance: the experts simply failed to discern the alarm signs in this torrent. Do you have the same information overdose symptoms?
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Six tips to not go mad when some enemy disconnected you from Internet
No Internet access! Just when you planned to execute so many great ideas! Now it's all over and next couples of hours are fatally spoiled.
Do not panic and stop calling the support. Pull yourself together and do some practical things instead.
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Election topics are spammers useful tool. What spam may be useful to us?
According to New York Times spammers are seven times more likely to use Obama's name than McCain's in the bulk messages subject lines.
For ordinary users this fact may only mean adding extra spam filters. However, sometimes spam messages may contain invaluable information.
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Halloween spooky gift from hackers
drawing on and the Internet criminals are it together with us. This time they offer a nice copy of well-known Storm Trojan to gladden the innocent and credulous users.
The messages sent by the gangs suggest downloading a program called Halloween.exe. The application is declared to be "Halloween dancing skeleton screensaver". Needless to say that practically it is an extremely hazardous Trojan. It takes control of your PC and penetrates into your local network to further remotely controlling all computers through a server. read more
Brad Pitt in his new capacity
Protect your PC from Brad Pitt: leading news feeds have declared him "the most dangerous man in Internet". Type in you brouser his name and learn why.
What do you know about Brad Pitt? Bet the variants would be: "the greatest blond ever", "an odious Hollywood sex symbol", "the most remarkable in human history", "Angelina Jolie's current husband" and similar banalities. read more
Social networks: hedge of etiquette to feel comfortable
Recent research has revealed that almost two thirds of social sites users face certain difficulties mixing with people within social networks. Some simple-to-follow rules may help to avoid misunderstanding and frustration about this popular activity...
If you prefer to remain enigmatic and mysterious perhaps social networks are not for you.Such sites are created to reveal maximum information both to other users and to advertisers (what is much more important). read more
A word in defense of video games
You'd hardly find a person claiming that playing videogames do nothing but a power of good. At the same time most people definitely play at least one of them.
Video games are the same part of today's reality as, say, unfavorable ecological situation or petrol price increase. Does it mean the parents can just own up this state of things?
The massive central issue of the debate is the games' impact on children. The most well-grounded opponents may rant out a speech with the key-words as violence and aggression, health threat, lost time, reality misrepresentation.
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Attention! Another Internet fraud
Nobody wants his computer to be infected, but not every user is sure how these viruses look like. It's a perfect background for the swindles of all kinds.
You surf Internet and suddenly your attention's attracted by the link "Test your PC for hackers attacks vulnerability" or "Is your PC safe?", or something like this. read more
How to see that your hard disk is at the death's door
It depends only on you whether it will leave all accumulated riches to you or these secrets will die with it.
Anyhow, you can sleep peacefully only if valuable information is saved twice, and the best way to protect your data is to back-up it to DVD or another carrier. If you haven't still done this, think about. You'd better start immediately if you noticed one of below symptoms. read more
