Archives for 2013

Create Glassy Buttons

Many sites use glassy buttons. Many tutorials try to explain how to build them. It's detailed work using layers and the like but you don't have to go … [Read more...]

What’s WOT?

Web of Trust is a community-based surfing tool that uses a peer-based rating system. The rating system is implemented as a browser add-on and the … [Read more...]

What Did You Do to FILExt?

Back when Microsoft was testing Windows XP Computer Knowledge had a single page of file extension listings. Many others had such lists as well but the … [Read more...]

Malware and Child Porn

Do you use non-secure file sharing? Do you look for sites where you can find ways of playing games without paying for them? Download and use software … [Read more...]

Helpful? Hardly!

[Originally published 11/18/2009] The AARP has published an interesting article about a new scam. It's yet another social engineering scheme designed … [Read more...]

What are Cookies?

Some people are concerned that web servers have the power to write to their local hard disk without their knowing about it. The information written is … [Read more...]

What is a Scan Code?

In the keyboard are little switches. When you press a key one of the switches is activated and when you release that key the switch is activated … [Read more...]

What is File Compression?

Introduction File compression is commonly used when sending a file from one computer to another over a connection that has limited bandwidth. The … [Read more...]

What is goog-malware-shavar?

If you happen to look in firewall logs or perhaps browse with Fiddler running [Fiddler is a transparent proxy that automatically adds itself to the … [Read more...]

Beware Spambots

Hi spambots! By visiting this page and harvesting the links on it you will next be visiting a honeypot page where you will havest an E-mail address … [Read more...]