Category: Technology

WordPress might be among the easiest and more powerful blogging software. That power and popularity comes at the price of security. An increasing number of hackers find it highly profitable to exploit an ever growing number of vulnerabilites in WordPress to inject spam links, malicious files and redirects to WordPress blogs. Securing a WP install […]

Google image search has a new style, with the results being presented only as tiles, and the images in focus popping up. While this might look cool, this deprives you of several data – like image dimensions, size and URL, all of which were available in the old style of image searches. Once the freshness […]

Round 10 of Moto GP motor cycle racing, held in USA, will be broadcast on live TV on various channels around the world (for example, Ten Sports in India). But if you are unable to watch live TV feeds, here are some ways to watch the US GP live online. Free US GP live stream […]

The Formula One Spanish Grand Prix will be held at Hockenheim, Germany. F1 races are broadcast live on TV in most countries (eg.: BBC in UK, ESPN – Star Sports in India). But if you are unable to watch it TV, here are good sources to watch it on live video streaming sites. F1 German […]

Google Chrome, as do other browsers, offer to remember username and password when you enter them in a website for login, first time. If you hit “Never for this site”, by accident, or want to change the choice later, bad luck – Chrome never shows the yellow bar prompt on top again. To work around […]

Apple iAds has been running for the last few days. While Apple claims that iAds are a different experienec and will make you want to watch ads, the fact is that nobody likes ads, particularly on devices like iPhone where the screen space is limited. The only concern when you block ads is that a […]

The official rupee symbol was recently announced by Indian parliament. However, it will take several weeks for the design to be submitted and accepted in Unicode, and even longer for the symbol to be featured on keyboards. The tech community, however, has come forward with a free font that contains the rupee symbol. Below are […]

All modern browsers include a “Remember password” option while logging in to websites. I recently switched to Google Chrome full time, and one issue I noticed was that it sometimes refuses to save passwords, only on particular websites – ie. you do not even get the prompt to save password. This is, no doubt, a […]

Mozilla, makers of Firefox web browser, has issued a warning to users that the Mozilla Sniffer extension has malicious intents – it steals passwords entered into any sites by users, and relays them to a remove web server. Mozilla Sniffer was removed from Mozilla addons website Monday. It has also been added to Firefox blocklist, […]

BitTorrent trackers and associated websites are dime-a-dozen. Public trackers are used by most torrent users. The disadvantage of public trackers is that files may be unseeded once the initial frenzy is over, or some may have poor seed-to-peer ratio. Private torrent trackers solve this problem by making access highly exclusive. Members are allowed in a […]