Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | Author:

Wow, so FF3 is officially out! After a bit of testing and whatnot, I can testify that it IS a GREAT browser! Sure, personal experience still forces me to still stick with IE7 (hey, hey! quite your boo-ing!), but this is definitely a great alternative for me, probably the messiah for those M$ haters out there hehe… Initial response is definitely positive with me being first hand on waiting on the queue for hours, pressing that stupid F5 buttons a million time until a ”friend” showed a little backdoor……  :) The response is fast, the little “amazing bar” is definitely cool, and plugins (Flash/java/etc) seems to have no issue whatsoever. The only issue I’ve found is that my main site :( FF3 seems to ignore the <center> tag in the CSS lol…..
Ok ok, I’ll stop talking… here you go! http://spreadfirefox.com/

Coming up next is a nifty little Trojan that doesnt infect your computer…. no sir… it infects your router :)

Oh yes. This bugger will actually brute-force its way into your router, and changing its DNS table. DNS table is the big “list” that tells you where to go when you’re surfing the Internet. Simply said, its like when you typed www.google.com, where IS google anyway? How do the computer know? Well, the bulk of rocket science on Internet navigation is that it really is based on addresses – such as IP addresses. Heard of those before? Well, that means every sites – including google – have an address. With me so far, Einstein? Those DNS services are the ones tracking down and keeping a tab on connecting the domain names (google.com, bbc.co.uk, utorrent.com, etc) with their IP addresses! This table is usually located on your internet provider, and it’s your computer – or your router – to know where that is.
Comes the Trojan into the picture. It actually screw up your DNS routing of your router, and so the next time you ask for www.yourbank.com, instead of going to the real IP addresses, it forwards it to the hacker’s own website’s IP addresses.
Simple, yes? So what can you do to prevent it? Well, you can read the whole article on more technical details, but here’s the easiest way to prevent it: change your router’s default settings; such as the Administrator’s password.
Eh? You’ve never try to get in to your router’s settings page? You just plug-n-play it you say? Uh oh… better cross your finger you dont come across one of these suckers, or start digging up those manuals you threw away :)

Next is Outlook – or pretty much any major standalone mail client program out there. Do you have Hotmail, or Yahoo, or Gmail, or any other web-based emails that you want to see using Outlook? Well you CAN! It’s been a long while since Outlook supported viewing Hotmail in their program (both Microsoft products, just FYI), but the trend is catching up quickly that more and more web-based mails are supporting their access to a standalone client.
My most recent discovery is Gmail. Yes, I use Gmail, but I’ve never used it in Outlook… pfft… They only support Hotmail, right? Well… wrong. Here’s a very good instruction on putting Gmail on your Outlook 2007, while if you’re using something else, why don’t you check out Gmail’s official instruction guides? Neat huh, :D ok, maybe its not groundbreaking, but it’s very cool for me where I used Outlook extensively to schedule items and link documents and creating alerts and everything else!

Last bits of the day is Kid Rock. Yeah, you probably heard of it… he pretty much supports us..errr.. I mean… those PEOPLE :P who illegally download musics off the Internet! What? Why? I mean… that’s good… but why?? Well, you can read the rest for yourself, and don’t forget to click on the related articles links! It’s actually quite entertaining.

Meh, that’s it for now. I’m hungry. Need dinner.

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