Archive for December, 2005
1 Million Digitized Images Now Available Online from The Library of Congress
Looking for an image or photograph to help illustrate a Web page or publication? Search Engine Watch has a page on the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection.
One searchable digitized collection from LC that you should know about is a catalog of imagery from the The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. As [...]
AMD vs. Intel
If you are thinking of getting a new computer and want to have the new dual-core technology, you may be looking at choosing between models with an AMD or an Intel processor. A series of tests by CNet seems to indicate that AMD handily wins in various tests and is definitely the best for the [...]
Review of Firefox 1.5
A review at CNet by Robert Vamosi is out. Here is an excerpt:
They said it couldn’t be done, but during the first few months of 2005, the Mozilla Organization’s Firefox browser carved a sizable dent in Microsoft Internet Explorer’s domination over the desktop Internet browser market, and this new release should bring even more converts. [...]
Trojan horse rides on unpatched IE flaw
Illustrating what I said in the previous entry about Microsoft taking its time patching security problems is the ongoing problem I mentioned 11 days ago and which is further described in this ZDNet article
Attackers are taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to target users of the ubiquitous Web browser, Microsoft warned late [...]
What’s new in Firefox 1.5
For a description of the changes in the new version of the Firefox browser go to this Firefox site.
I have been using the new version for a day or so and on the surface version 1.5 is the same. However, under the hood some good things have happened. For example, better support for CSS [...]
Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites
Eric Howes writes extensively about Internet security issues. He tests a lot of things and has done us all a nice service by posting a site with a long list of “Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products” with his comments on what he thinks is wrong with the programs. As of today the list has 236 different programs! [...]
Fake IRS refund
The latest phishing scam is a fake email supposedly from the IRS that is catching the unwary. Here is the description at Internet Week:
A new phishing attack posing as a tax refund from the Internal Revenue Service is using a configuration problem on the GovBenefits.gov Web site to fool users into thinking they’re safe in [...]