Despite receiving praises indicating that Chrome is a secure, sandboxed browser, Google is not one to sit on it’s laurels waiting for people to submit bug and vulnerability reports. In light of their recent dealings with browser security vulnerabilities *cough*Internet Explorer 6*cough* that compromised their chinese network and lead to unspecified damages, that’s great news, especially when the company is offering $500 upfront for any security vulnerability that you can detect on their browser.
Google Analytics has long integrated stat reporting from Feedburner. This allows you to track visitors to your site that come from Feedburner fed feeds (pardon the pun 
) and view the stats under the “Traffic Sources” report of Google Analytics.
Google Analytics tracks feedburner visitors by appending tags such as “utm_source” and “utm_medium” to the URL which turns it to something like http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechieXplorer/~x/xxxxxxxx/. The resulting URL then reads:
http://www.techiexplorer.com/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed|email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+${feedUri}+%28${feedName}%29
Even monkeys can do it apparently.
Physically upgrading internal components of a PC seems like rocket science to most non-savvy users and with good reason. Who wants to tamper with that mess of wires and cables? This video from ATI however, shows you that changing your video card isn’t really that hard. You just need to know what you’re doing. If a money can do it so can you no?
Big things do come in small packages as demonstrated by Alienware’s latest and smallest M11x Notebook. Packing with an 11.6-inch display and up to 6.5 hours of battery life you’ll probably guess offhand that this small unit is a netbook. On the contrary however, it’s a full pledged gaming notebook. And yes, it does play Crysis
MSI has just unveiled a prototype for a 10″ netbook with dual 1024 x 600 pixel touchscreen displays and no physical keyboard. While it’s still just a prototype it, Liliputing states from it’s Hand’s-on that the hardware and software are pretty much good to go… just need to work out much of the kinks that goes along with a first of it’s kind product.
While everyone’s waiting for big named companies to reveal their upcoming tablet offerings (Apple, Microsoft, HP to name a few), Freescale has unveiled their tablet PC offering targeted for netbook market.
Japan always gets the best of things, including internet speed.
Compare Japan’s $.27/MBps speed to the Philippine’s $23/MBps and you get the very clear picture. Aside from arguably the best data plans in the world, there’s no bandwidth caps (unlimited upload / download) nor throttling involved and there’s wifi everywhere.
*sigh*
WordPress 2.9.1 has been released. This release fixes quite a few problems encountered with Wordpress 2.9.
After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we’re releasing WordPress 2.9.1. This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. If any of these issues affect you, give 2.9.1 a try. Download 2.9.1 or upgrade automatically from the Tools->Upgrade menu in your blog’s admin area.
Changelog: WordPress 2.9.1
Download: WordPress 2.9.1
Download: Modified files since WordPress 2.9
Acer is one of the first netbook makers to jump on the PineTrail (Intel’s latest atom platform) bandwagon with it’s upcoming Aspire One AO532h unit. The AO532h has a 1.66GHz Atom N450 CPU, 10.1-inch WSVGA display and 1GB of RAM, along with a 160GB hard-drive and WiFi b/g/n. According to Acer, it can run for up to 10 hours on the high-density 5,600mAh 6-cell battery (or 8 hours on the regular, 4,400mAh pack).
I’ll have to admit that most of the times, I need to have multiple logins on a single browser. Be it checking messages or viewing/exchanging details from multiple accounts, you’ve got to admit at one point or another, there was a time that you wanted to login to multiple accounts at the same time on the same browser. If you’re using Firefox, there’s an extension that gives you this convenience called Multifox.
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