I was recently followed by a guy on Twitter but due to my laziness, I did not follow back at once. Which simply means that on the Twitter web interface, I can’t see his tweets but he can see mine. So if he replies to any of my tweets, I would be oblivious to[.....]

The fourth variant of the Conficker worm, Conficker.D, failed to show up on April 1 putting a stop to the speculation that April Fool’s Day would prove to be some sort of Cyber Doomsday. However, 7 days later on April 8, another variant Conficker.E has risen. The Conficker worm started updating via p2p between[.....]

A jury at the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island ruled against Microsoft Corporation in a case filed by anti-piracy software maker Uniloc, Inc against the software giant which alleged that Microsoft infringed on a patent held by them. Uniloc makes software to prevent illegal installations of software on multiple computers. Microsoft was ordered[.....]

Ever had a case where you saved a password to some website in your browser and forgot it? And there came a time when you needed it again but could not remember it? No need to have it sent to your email and waste time. Firefox: Go to Tools > Options and click on[.....]

I recently cleaned up my PC (read formatted) and made a clean re-install of everything after getting a new hard drive. After installing all the necessary softwares, I decided to give Internet Explorer 8 a try. My Windows XP came with IE 6. I downloaded the installation package from Microsoft’s website and set it[.....]

With the arrival of April 1st, concerns among security experts are on the rise with respect to the threat of the Conficker worm, the latest version of which is reportedly set to activate on this day and wreak havoc in the world. This worm targets the Microsoft Windows operating system. Conficker (also known as[.....]

The NBA slapped a fine of $25,000 on Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks for criticizing the refs on Twitter after the Denver Nuggets 103 – 101 win over the Mavericks last Friday night. During the Mavericks visit to Denver in January, Cuban was fined $25,000 for seeking out the Nuggets’ J. R.[.....]

PHP provides a built-in facility to detect the IP address of the visitor using the $_SERVER superglobal array. Using the ‘REMOTE_ADDR’ element as an index value for this array, you can easily get the IP address as: $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] You can either print it, or treat it as a variable. Heck, store it in another[.....]

Microsoft has posted a video on the Internet Explorer 8 website which boasts about the speed of Internet Explorer. Shockingly, it proves to be 1/3 faster than Chrome and 3 times faster than Firefox ( all stable released versions ). They