Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Steve
Considering the recent Internet Explorer security vulnerability, there are all too many reasons to make sure your installation of Windows is safe and secure (or otherwise switch to MacOS, Linux, or some other *nix).
If switching to an alternate OS isn’t feasible, here are 5 easy ways to make your Windows installations less virus and [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Steve
Disqus, the JavaScript-based commenting add-on for blogs and community sites, will soon be getting Facebook Connect support, allowing users to log into Disqus and post comments on blogs with their Facebook account. The new upgrade will also allow blog owners to optionally send events back to Facebook once a user posts a comment.
The Facebook [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Steve
Are you a Product Manager looking for work who loves web software and also happens to use Twitter? And do you just happen to have some brilliant idea on how Twitter might monetize their services? You might be in luck, because Twitter is now looking for their very first Product Manager:
As Twitter’s first product [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Steve
Microsoft has released an off-cycle patch for a previously known vulnerability in Internet Explorer which would’ve allowed virus and malware writers to infect computers via specially crafted XML files. The flaw, which exists in all versions of mshtml.dll from Internet Explorer 5.01 up through Internet Explorer 8, could allow an attacker to run arbitrary [...]
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