Archive : Web

It seems that Facebook hasn’t learned from its mistakes. Though it is by far the most popular social network on the internet, it tends to get into trouble by making changes to its interface every now and then. Shortly after it was blasted by users all around the world for changes to its privacy policy, Facebook has now introduced navigation changes for users. So, what has changed for you on Facebook? [...]

Spam is undoubtedly the greatest evil of the internet and the worst part is that it grows exponentially with the super fast growth of the internet. A team of computer scientists has now come up with a brilliant idea to fight spam – use the spammer’s tricks to counter spam. The idea is simple – decipher the templates being used for creating spam and then feed the intelligence of these templates [...]

Image via Wikipedia China has categorically denied any state involvement in Operation Aurora, the series of cyber attacks that rocked Google and several other technology companies earlier this year. This is in response to United States President Barack Obama’s comment where he mentioned that he was “troubled” by Google’s claims of a Chinese hand in the recent cyber attacks. Google says [...]

Image via Wikipedia The war is well and truly on for the Numero Uno’ spot in location based gaming – Foursquare, Gowalla and MyTown being the contenders for the coveted title. While Foursquare and Gowalla have drawn huge media attention, it’s MyTown which looks to have taken the lead with a mammoth user base of nearly 500,000 users. MyTown traces its origin to another game, Booyah written [...]

Craig “Lazie” Lynch, aged 28 and the man who became nothing short of a cult figure due to his defiant status updates on Facebook, has finally been re-captured four months after his break-out. Lynch was living ever dangerously since he posted a profile picture of himself pointing his middle finger to the camera. While he was busy collecting popularity and adding friends on Facebook, efforts had [...]

Image via Wikipedia The Ministry of Justice has given its nod to levy fines up to £500K for data protection offences. Unless there are parliamentarian objections (which I doubt will be the case), these fines are all set to become a law with effect from 6th April, 2010. Christopher Graham, The Information Commissioner has made the message loud and clear – his office will be committed to working [...]

We all know God is a Geek [shameless plug] but is it high time that God learns to use (and bless) a smartphone? Well that’s what I’d believe if I were to follow the words of David Parrott, a London Clergyman who sought blessings for laptops and smartphones on the altar of 17th century St. Lawrence Jewry Church yesterday. Parrott is adamant to modernize the traditional Plough Monday church service [...]

Image via Wikipedia Are you enjoying high speed downloads on normal sites and then when it comes to downloading torrents you’re getting really slow downloads? This is probably due to your ISP throttling BitTorrent traffic. You can see a list of ISP’s that are blocking downloads here However, there is a way you can bypass the ISP’s checks by encrypting your torrents with RC4. Below are [...]

The verdict is out – google (mind the lower case), my personal choice for company of the decade has been named as ‘Word of the Decade’ by the American Dialect Society. The lower case implies that the word means an internet search and does not refer to the name of the company. Tweet received the ‘Word of the Year’ award for 2009 but was no match up to Google in the Word of the Decade category. [...]

If you just logged into your Facebook account after a long break, don’t be surprised if you see a lot of friend requests from strangers and a bunch of irrelevant messages/ invitations. If that’s not enough, you’d be shocked to know that your name, profile photo, gender and other personal information are now public on Facebook. All these changes are courtesy the new privacy (rather, the lack [...]