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Even after many high-profile hacking and phishing attacks on social networking accounts, and constant messages urging people to be vigilant, the biggest problem with web security is still weak passwords. Speaking at South by South West Interactive, an industry panel of security engineering managers from Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft discussed the approaches they use to secure their web services. Del Harvey is Director of Trust and Safety at Twitter.

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Do you want to make Internet Explorer safer and more helpful for you and family? Then join us as we look at the CEOP ( Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre ) enhanced version of Internet Explorer 8. Setting CEOP Up We chose to install the whole CEOP pack in order to have access to complete set of CEOP Tools.

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It hasn’t been a good week for Microsoft’s updates to Office . Today, Microsoft came clean on some problems with a recently released seven-patch update for Excel. Apparently, users are seeing Chinese where they’d normally expect to see English. This comes on top of an early faux pas in an update for Office 2007 that caused it to crash under certain circumstances

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We’ve been showing you fun flash games to play during company time on a Friday afternoon. Hopefully while playing them, you haven’t received a “talking to”. Today we show you some cool games to play that look like productivity apps, so the boss will be none the wiser.

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Mozilla this week made available the first beta of Thunderbird 3 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Codenamed “Lanikai,” the latest release introduces a few changes to the open-source email client, many of which take place under the hood. Built on top of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform (the same engine powering Firefox 3.6), Mozilla says you can expect improvements in stability and memory, fixes to improve upgrading from Thunderbird 2, fixes for auto complete, tabs, and activity manager, and several design improvements and corrections to the interface. As with any beta software, you should expect a few bugs, and there are a handful of known issues in Thunderbird 3. Kaspersky’s Anti-Spam extension is disabled, for instance, and you may run into some SMTP issues

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Want to take a trip down memory lane with old school DOS games?

The Sliver is an ultraportable laptop that offers the great style, but compromises have been made to achieve its tiny size. This is a visually pleasing laptop and the machine looks fantastic from all angles. The small form factor also makes it a very portable machine, ideal for those needing to work on the move a lot. The portability of the machine however is slightly let down by the very average battery life, at only 143 minutes you’ll need to carry the charger around with you on long trips.

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Do you have a webpage that needs to be reloaded every so often or perhaps you have multiple webpages that each need their own individual reload time? Now you can have the best of both with the AutoReloader extension for Google Chrome. Using AutoReloader When you first look at the drop-down window everything will be in a neutral “waiting” state.

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The default balloon tooltip in Firefox does well at times but then there are instances when a person finds that more information would be much better. The Tooltip Plus extension for Firefox will give your browser that nice extra information boost. Before & After For our example we have placed the “before & after shots” together for better comparison. First off we started with the How-To Geek logo.

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Are you looking for a way to take the music videos you watch on YouTube and convert them to MP3? Today we take a look at an easy way to convert those YouTube videos to MP3 for free with YouTube Downloader. The YouTube Downloader functions in two steps. First, it downloads the video from YouTube in MP4 format, and then allows you to convert that MP4 file to MP3. Note: It also supports conversion conversion to some other formats such as AVI video, MOV, iPhone, PSP, 3GP, and WMV.

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