There was no doubt that hackers would develop cracks to get Windows Vista illegally, but as it turns out a crack isn’t really needed. That’s because a new brute force method has been found that will continuously try product keys until Vista accepts one of them. At a rate of 20,000 keys per hour (480,000 per day) it might take a few hours or days to find one that works.
There is so much information all over the web that keeping up with it all can become a tedious task. Most sites have feeds that can be subscribed to so that all of your news is aggregated into one location, but sometimes it is nice to actually visit your favorite sites.
A new version of Google Desktop is available about one-month after Google was notified of a vulnerability in the desktop search application. Watchfire, a web application security company, notified Google about the loop hole on January 4th, 2007 and Google was able to make an updated version available on February 1st, 2007.
In my opinion it is a no brainer that not changing your default password on your router will increase the chances that you might lose control of the router.
Gmail has always been my choice of online email clients, but one thing that is frustrating is that HTML signatures aren't supported within the composition area. Well, Gmail can actually handle them there is just no easy way to have the signature automatically inserted with each message...until now.
The Firefox Downloads window and Add-Ons page are probably some of the things that I use the most in Firefox.
As websites continue to become more and more AJAXified I believe that bookmarklets are going to become a larger driving force. Some of you may not be familiar with bookmarklets, so I was trying to think of a good way I could explain them. When I stumbled upon the Wikipedia article I thought it couldn't be said any better:
Firefox 2 has received millions and millions of downloads in the first week which is absolutely amazing. Even though the browser is really great the best part of using it is being able to tweak it until your heart is content.
Broadband Internet access is becoming standard in homes around the world. With fast Internet access comes file sharing, and that is where RapidShare comes in. RapidShare lets people upload files to their servers and they will host the files at no cost. This is a great solution but some people get annoyed with the limitations RapidShare places on free accounts.
Now, this is by no means a REAL fix for the Firefox memory leak, but it certainly does appear to help it quite a bit. This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox it will obviously increase the memory usage.
