How is Linux vulnerable to spyware and phishing

People using Linux today choose one of the window managers – often it is KDE or Gnome. Both of these window managers allow users to further extend the system via special widgets.
There are tons of widgets – they can be system or disk monitors, satellite image screens, weather forecasts or even the games. Some of [...]

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March 28, 2010 at 22:42 :: Filed under Internet :: [*] :: 3 Comments ::

New Pandora? Tips for improving Soundz.fm

Soundz.fm is a new Slovak startup that provides you with (quoting their slogan) “Listening to the radio, new school style.”
They provide list of radios you can add to your account and listen to via Flash player. If you don’t like the song playing on radio X, you can quickly switch to a different radio station [...]

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March 8, 2010 at 23:21 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::

How Amazon, AmieStreet and YouTube Support Internet Piracy

I live in Slovakia, a small country neighboring with Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine. Slovakia has been a full member of European Union since 2004 and entered Eurozone last year (i.e. we have had Euro as a currency here since January 2009). Nevertheless, I as a customer feel like living in a warzone [...]

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February 22, 2010 at 21:46 :: Filed under Internet, Rants :: [*] :: 6 Comments ::

Retro Folk Dolls Chocolate Packaging

Figaro, a Slovak chocolate and sweets company owned by Kraft Foods, launched their retro style chocolate packaging featuring folk dolls well-known to the older generation. The company has also started a competition on their website (due to the entirely Flash website, it is impossible to link to the competition directly).
Dolls are named Jana, Dana and [...]

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February 17, 2010 at 19:28 :: Filed under Internet :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::

Death Of Interstitial Pages

Ten years back, interstitial pages used to be almost customary. Many websites had their logos, special announcements or even advertisements displayed at the interstitial page right after you visited the respective domain. Interstitials were set to automatically redirect to the requested page after some time (generally 10  seconds) via META refresh tag.
The custom to display [...]

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February 13, 2010 at 14:30 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::

How Well Does Google Cope With The Content Language Change

Have you ever wondered how can a change of the language of your blog posts affect overall traffic on your blog? How do search engines cope with the fact the content they encounter is suddenly in the completely different language? Is Google quick in indexing new content and how early does it find 301 permanent [...]

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February 2, 2010 at 21:34 :: Filed under Internet :: [*] :: No Comments ::

8 Reasons Why Linux Makes You More Productive (Window User-friendly Article)

I have been using Linux as my primary system since late 2005. I had had other more or less random encounters with various flavours of Linux before that, but those had been times when you couldn’t get your sound/graphics/whatever working and good internet sources were scarce.
I have tried lots of different Linux distributions and always [...]

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January 26, 2010 at 20:55 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: 5 Comments ::

People I follow on Twitter #follow2010

Andrej had tagged me last year with #follow2010 (the the list of people I am and will be following this year). Since I set up English blog only yesterday, I am catching up on the task to list and describe people I follow a bit.
Music
I am following my beloved musician George Evelyn (Nightmares on Wax) [...]

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January 21, 2010 at 20:24 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::