Have you ever heard about cloud computing? If not, you will get familiar with it very soon. It’s the new hype on the web, and basically takes us back to the old times with only a few large computers. The difference now is that “everyone” has access to them.
One of the services that is based on this is icloud.com
They give you 3 GB of storage and your own desktop online, so you can access your desktop anywhere anytime without dragging your laptop around.
You also get:
- 50 free applications
- a public profile
- a free email
- and much more
iCloud currently support Internet Explorer and Firefox, and if you want to try it out, go to their website today and register for free. A activation email will be sent to your email address shortly after you have registered and you may then log-in with your user name and password.
AVG has released a new version of their antivirus software. AVG is considered one of the best antivirus programs on the marked, and offers good protection while not occupying a lot of the system resources.
One of the most exiting news are the Identity Theft Protection.
Identity Theft Protection prevents new and unknown threats from stealing your personal information like bank and credit card details.
“Traditional” viruses and spyware keep on growing – every day we see tens of thousands of new examples in our labs. And online criminals are getting smarter– they keep inventing types of threat that have never been seen before, usually aimed at stealing your bank account, credit card details or other personal information, so we’ve developed an extra layer of identity theft protection that sits on top of traditional antivirus and antispyware software. It looks for changes in your PC’s behavior that are caused by new threats – and then stops them in their tracks.
AVG is available in both a free version and pay version where you got a more complete security package for your computer. It should also be mentioned that AVG is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
After the campaign to remove Internet Explorer 6 from computers worldwide started, there have been a lot of feedback saying that the users that still struggles with IE6 is users on company computers, without admin rights and then unable to upgrade or install an other browser.
But there is a solution to save them as well, while their IT departments are sitting on the fences watching, not doing anything about it. What you can do, if your sorry ass is affected by incompetent technical staff, is to get a portable version of a better browser.
I’ll guide you to two different browsers that works from a USB stick, Opera@USB and Firefox Portable . None of these are official versions of the browsers, but both runs the newest versions of the browser.
If you don’t have a USB stick you can install Google Chrome, that don’t require administrator rights to install.
It’s your choice.
Mozilla has decided to rename their next version from 3.1 to 3.5 because of the major changes that have been done for this release. This was confirmed by the VP of Engineering for the Mozilla Corporation , Mike Shaver, in a comment to the newsgroup mozilla.dev.planning. Some of the major changes that are released in this version is the new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey, Private Browsing, support for HTML5-elements as canvas, video and audio, as well as support for W3Cs Geolocation API Specification.
I’ve used a lot of tools to keep track of my tasks, but none have been a perfect match for my needs.
Todoist.com was the answer to my prays. It’s very easy in use and got some nice plug-ins, among them one to connect it with your Gmail account and a FireFox sidebar.
It’s easy to edit existing tasks, add new and to go back and look at your history. One thing I discovered it was very handy for was making a packing list when going on holiday. My girlfriend kept nagging me, remember this, remember that. But I just used my todoist and she was very surprised that i remembered everything.
And best of all, it’s free. Keep track of your todolist, check out Todoist.com.
I’d like to reopen this blog, that’s been idle for some time now, and I’d like to start with following up on the huge Norwegian campaign that started last week.
The Norwegian answer to eBay, Finn.no, launched a text only visible to IE6 users asking them to upgrade their browsers. The background for this is the number of hours system developers spend on customising scripts for IE6 to get them to work in that browser as well, as it does not follow the same standard as other browsers. The number of Internet Explorer 6 users was also to large for them to ignore it, so they desided to start an action to get users over to newer browsers that follow the web standards. Soon many of the largest websites in Norway followed up, and it seem to have had some effect on the private market, but businesses that are relying on IE6 for their programs to work are a bit slower to upgrade. Pretty strange when you think about how unsecure that browser is.
Microsoft has also supported this campaign, and Steve Ballmer writes in a email to tu.no that:
Microsoft recommends end users that are browsing the web with Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade today to benefit from numerous improvements including security features and usability enhancements.
Interoperability is key to enabling developers to continue to create great user experiences on the web. Our commitment to the technical community continues with our significant investment in Internet Explorer 8.
We continue to believe in the importance of supporting the end users and encourage the technical community to work with us in securing a good transition for the users that today are using IE6.
Hope that helps
You can follow this campaign here, and I have also added the code to my site.