Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect more than 100,000 websites from spam and fraud, was recently acquired by the IT giant Google. A CAPTCHA, according to Wikipedia, is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. This feature is commonly used in ... Full story

Managing a Linux System is definitely not an easy task, specially if you're not using more than a CLI (Command Line Interface). There are a lot of commands to remember and settings to change along the multiple processes running on your server. This is where Webmin comes in. After instalation it integrates itself with your server's ... Full story

Unlike the last post, this one comes directly from the official Last.fm blog, where Richard Jones announces that the online radio will soon have a monthly subscription fee of €3 if you want to continue to listening to music wherever you are (and have an internet connection). This will ... Full story

Crisis alert! I had some problems today with my main internet provider that made the servers go down and only now I had the time to reconfigurate the DNS server to point to the backup connection (I know, I have to be more prepared next time!) Anyway, sorry... PS: The website will probably run a bit slower until the main connection comes back up, which I hope ... Full story

Yesterday YouTube said it will block all music videos to UK users after it was unable to reach a rights deal with the main songwriters' collection society. PRS for Music, a British collection society was asking much more for song royalties than the previous licensing agreement that has expired. YouTube said PRS was also ... Full story

I almost could not believe my eyes when I read about this! According to Chris Holmes and aeroxp.org, Microsoft will give users the ability to disable and delete Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7. The bloggers identified the feature in a recent build (7048) of a pre-release version of ... Full story

Troy Dixon, a character in the online show Pure Pwnage recently past away on a car accident. The news read: It is with great sadness that we bring you this news. Troy Dixon lost his life in a car accident on Saturday night. He will be remembered for his warmth and kindness, and for the laughter he was able to bring to this ... Full story

Yesterday Ericsson announced at a press conference what they consider to be they're concept of a future mobile terminal, with 12 to 20 megapixel capabilities and full blown HD video recording. This is simple awesome and, combined with the XGA (1024x768) screen resolution and 100Mbit internet access, changes the way we look at mobility right now. "We have an image of a mobile terminal equipped with ... Full story