Latest Web Innovations

Industry experts are raising the alarm with the bubbling security flaw, the so-called UAC or User Accounts Control, a security measure Microsoft deemed necessary to safeguard the overall stability of the system. It made it’s first appearance with Vista, remember, the irritating pop-up that always asks for your permission whatever you are doing? Microsoft designed it in a way that it prevents users from modifying vital or critical system settings enough to make it unstable and thus unusable. Now the problem with the UAC is that it may be the effervescent irritating pop up that seems to checks everything and anything you do but in reality, it doesn’t. There are specific applications or programs, changes that if are done properly (digitally signed or even duped to be so) can get fast-tracked or executed without any annoying pop up showing up. Read the rest of this entry »

Mozilla, the organization behind FireFox, the world’s most used web browser has again gained a couple or so updates or patches as they are referred to by industry experts to address several security flaws that have come out since the last patch-a-thon. Eleven flaws or security holes were addressed, of those, six were deemed to be critical due to possibility of remote code execution that can hijack computers the world over. All this in the never ending battle for control of the net that seems to develop holes as quickly as they’re patched by developers. These vulnerabilities are quite dangerous and can have code that loads it with more exploits or even give total control to unknown culprits. Read the rest of this entry »

Google is again in the headlines with rumors of a search engine for micro-blogs like Twitter set to be released soon. This may have been put back by the release of Bing yet the company is still in the forefront of the search market which it dominates and earns tons from in advertising revenues. Code-named “Query”, the release is a buzz in the company’s translation panel which has been releasing steady bits and pieces of information about the supposed search engine. As we all know, micro-blogging has taken the internet by storm due to popularity in the mobile workforce. People simply cannot stay away from Twitter and who’s to complain and so they complied with their version of a search designed specifically for that purpose. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, they should! Microsoft reports to have shelled out 100 million dollars for all the publicity and ad campaigns while Google has spent less than a fourth of that amount. Call it complacent yet there is not much buzz for the newcomer in the search engine market where winners and losers are known in a short time. Many see the strengths of Bing, such as the robust filtering technology in imaging searches that prevents pornographic images from being presented with the rest of the search results. Google isn’t raising red flags yet, but one particular executive has expressed alarm on the introduction of the new search engine, enough to get him seen with the day to day operations of their search engine product which he isn’t normally involved in. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re the type that likes to take pictures and wants to put a bit of extra flair without going through the rigors of Photoshop or other professional photo editing software, then Picnik is the answer to your prayers.

Picnik is 100% free, and you also don’t need to download any software or program for you to edit your photos. All you need to do is to upload your pictures, and the apply the different effects available in the site to get the effect you want. There are also templates for posters or borders. The user interface is easy enough to understand - a beginner would easily familiarize himself or herself with the controls and be editing his or her pictures in no time at all. It;s also integrated into sites like Facebook, Flickr and MySpace, allowing you to directly upload your edited photos into your account.

The introduction of many security providers of secure data storage facilities inn their data banks is seen as the next step for the extreme security of your data. Though quite extreme, it may be the only sure way to secure data asides from copying all your files onto dvd’s and carrying them around in your pockets. Remote storage has all of your files secured in the provider’s data centers (which should be more secure than your desktop or laptop), that can be dynamically updated at a scheduled time and date.
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One of the great innovations for the web was the Instant Messengers. There are quite a lot of IM clients out there but it was limited to what you are currently using. With meebo, you can chat with people using other IM clients and it had no downloads required.

Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.

So Meebo is the one for you if you think that downloading another program to your hard disk drive and still want to chat with your friends.

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The economic crisis has really affected everybody. And that includes the internet world. Just recently, Digital Railroad, a photo hosting company has shut down. It is quite sad and a cause of panic for a number of people. I just hope it doesn’t include you. What you will just see on the site of Digital Railroad is a letter for all the users and guests alike. Here’s what it says;

To our valued Members and Partners:

We deeply regret to inform you that Digital Railroad (DRR) has shut down. On October 15th we reported that the company had reduced its staff and was aggressively pursuing additional financing and/or a strategic partner. Unfortunately, those efforts were unsuccessful. Therefore Digital Railroad has been forced to close all operations. Digital Railroad has attracted a loyal set of customers and partners, and we regret this unfortunate outcome. Without sufficient long-term financial support, the business had become unsustainable.

Thank you for allowing us to serve the photographic community these past few years.

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A blogger, Mike Nolet has come up with a tiny add on but fun to use which enables your browser history to cross reference it the Quantcast’s top 1000 sites. What it does is, it compiles overall ratio of the type of gender you are, basing solely on the results. It uses the gender ratio of each site in the list. Most of the ones who tried it in their offices, like for example an IT company, came up as MALE, given the fact that tech sites have higher male users ratio. Even one of their female colleague came up as a male. Haha. The application gives you a roll call of all the sites that came up with their ratios. Its reall kind of fun to just go through them and get a view of each makeup. It can surprise you sometimes. The data entered will never be used for any malicious activities. The application works best with Mozilla Firefox and Opera. It has yet to fix speed problems with the Internet Explorer.

Computer giants are finally taking preventive measures to protect the environment. Intel, for one, has initiated energy consumption with their operations. Addressing the need to adopt technology that can reduce the growing problem of carbon-footprint. Carbon footprint adds up to the ever present danger of global warming due to green house effects. Various programs have been put up to raise the awareness of these problem. Intel started to use renewable energy in the U.S. Furthermore, Other companies like Oracle, have jump started organizations that focus on using technology to transform the energy industry. Presently, the global IT industry is responsible for the 2% increase of the global carbon dioxide and is likely to increase in the following years because it is one of the fastest growing industries.

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