When owning a domain name the owner is required to submitcertain data about himself to complete the registration. Nameand address information as well as a phone number and an emailaddress are required to be on file. If these pieces ofinformation are not provided the registration can either not becompleted or is not valid and the domain name could be takenaway.Often people forget to keep this information updated. This isnot a dramatic issue until the domain name expires and needs tobe renewed. If the owner keeps track of the names it is noproblem, but too often people tend to forget. Email…

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micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint It was designed to use as little cpu memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients With BitTorrent you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth nbsp We 39 ve added UDP tracker support uTP has been improved significantly over the previous alpha with many bugs fixed and performance improvements It 39 s no longer hidden in Advanced settings The setup dialog has been overhauled to make it much easier to use and…

Phishing is an illegal activity where sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords, are acquired. Facebook and other social networking sites are frequently targeted. Phishing attacks can steal private information, such as login credentials or credit card numbers.
The latest generation web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 come with built in phishing protection but this is not enough. Various solutions were offered, including running anti-spyware software, disabling plugins, and so forth but  It would not prevent all. If the problem was caused by ISP’s DNS server,  you can use OpenDNS to help prevent things like this.…

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Reader [john] finished up his home power monitor over the holiday weekend. It uses a pair of current transducers clamped onto the mains. These output 0-3V and are read by the Arduino’s ADC. The Arduino averages samples over a 20 second period, calculates power used, and uploads it using an Ethernet Shield. The shield can’t do DNS lookups, so he uses a WRT54G to negotiate with the remote webserver. He admits that the system could be more accurate; it can’t detect small loads like wall warts. He also says that money could be saved by talking serial to the…

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CO.CC is the world’s best free domain name registrar and the leading provider of Internet services including – Free dns service, online marketing, url forwarding, e-mail and more. Thery are the sole developer and proprietor of their technology, do not license any products from others, and do not outsource or offshore any of their operations. This enables them to provide better support and ensure the most advanced and competitively-priced products and services available today. They are committed to making it easy and affordable for businesses to build and grow their Internet presence, no matter their technical skill level. CO.CC’s employees…

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D-Link is adding captcha support to its line of home routers. While default password lists have been abundant for many years, it was only recently that we started seeing the them implemented in malware. Last year, zlob variants started logging into routers and changing their DNS settings. It’s an interesting situation since the people who need the captcha feature are the ones who will never see it, since they won’t log in to change the default password.
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Many of you have already moved from a feedburner.com account to a Google Account. For those who have not yet made the move, there seems to be some confusion on the process and exactly what will happen, or not happen, by certain dates. We want this post to help clear up any confusion.The FeedBurner functionality of analyzing, optimizing, publicizing, and monetizing your feeds is not being shut down or reduced in any way. We have made some strategic decisions to remove some of our functionality that is not directly relevant to managing feeds for reasons we hope will become apparent…

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