5/10/2006
Google announced an update to its controversial Desktop app today, along with several new online services. The latest beta download, Google Desktop 4, offers shortcuts to the sites and tools you use the most based on its interpretation of your online habits and hard drive contents. You can use your personalized Google Desktop on multiple PCs and...
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4/7/2006
Security vendor Secunia announced a new security hole within Internet Explorer, one that could help phishers find their marks. The flaw exists because of the way the browser loads Web pages and Macromedia Flash animation. Microsoft is studying the report and suggests disabling Active Script within Internet Explorer as a workaround. A new round of ...
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4/7/2006
Today Google released a new Google Toolbar 2 beta for Firefox users. With search built into Firefox, you might wonder why it's necessary to have a toolbar, but often I want to search Google News or Google Images and not the default Google search engine; the new toolbar allows me to direct my search queries to those companion sites directly. The Goo...
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1/11/2006
So after its stealth launch yesterday, I decided to give Google Video a whirl. I was especially heartened by the news that Google Video would work with iPod. Everyone has been trashing the Google Video interface because it's not pretty, but I was OK with it. The drop-down menu got me where I needed to go: Deep Space Nine videos.
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