How to be secure while surfing the net on your PC?

Days past away when there was dial-up and the speed was slow, now almost everybody has DSL connection at home. Eventually, you will face security, virus, spyware, adwares, trojan horses and etc problems. This post will explain how and what softwares, mostly free and/or open source softwares and tools to prevent and enhance your personal security while having access to broadband internet connection. Read more

April 19, 2007 | Filed Under Desktops, Security, Software reviews, internet | 1 Comment 

The best free - open source E-Mail Client

Yes that’s definitely true to me! I love Thunderbird, I started using it back in 2005 and still having gone through a lot of clients I love it. Why?

  1. It is available in cross platform, be it Linux, BSDs, Mac OS X and Windows
  2. It is meant to deal with E-Mails at first, unlike some other clients where they boast they have so much of stuff. My point is - it needs to get my mails, order them by folders(now tagging also!) and send out emails.
  3. It lightweight compared to Evolution and not too much thin as in Claws
  4. It supports all kind of features of a decent client from RSS subscriptions to rendering HTML mails.
  5. Support for multiple accounts, managing single SMTP or otherwise for each account different SMTP server settings.

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April 18, 2007 | Filed Under Software reviews | Leave a Comment 

How to prevent bots spamming your forms

Today I’m going to explain how you can prevent bots submitting spam to your online contact forms, registrations and submission forms in general. We will use PHP and GD to achieve this. The following is the code for the image.php script with the comments where needed. Read more

April 12, 2007 | Filed Under Programming, internet | 2 Comments 

New Debian Project Leader

Sam Hocevar from France elected as the new Project Leader for Debian Project. Among many good things to be achieved he mentions about the design of the project website and compares to FreeBSD and Ubuntu websites. Apparently Debian is not the hottest/sexiest website among projects.

Screenshots

debian.png freebsd.png ubuntu.png

April 11, 2007 | Filed Under Linux, Site Reviews | Leave a Comment 

Today as in graphs!

Here’s my graph of internet traffic usage for the day.

Streamyx Connection 2mbps

April 10, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized, internet | Leave a Comment 
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