A Much Needed Update

22 July 2009

Oh man, I seem to get in the habit of starting up a blog and abandoning it after a few weeks. None-the-less I’m going to start making changes to slashnow.
One small change that I made was I change the URL of this blog from slashnow.com over to blog.slashnow.com. Its not much I know but its [...]

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Close Fail.

9 May 2009

Dam, haven’t blogged in a while, not GoTD. Stop emailing me about it. It will be back soon. Promise Just came across this on digg, I laughed and sighed at the same time.
The kid was probably thinking “Hey who the f@#$ is that, it looks like me…..wooo UFO”.
Backflip Kid WIN

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Everything- Fast File Indexer For Windows

9 April 2009

Everything is a local file search engine. When I first saw the program I was quiet skeptical about using it, but about three months down the track everything is one of my “Can’t leave without” applications.

Everything is quiet small, produces small footprint to system resources, it uses a very fast indexing service to monitor all [...]

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Protect Yourself from Conficker by using OpenDNS

3 April 2009

OpenDNS is a  free service that has being running for the past three years. It provides free secruity and network services that makes the internet safer as well as faster. It does this through integrated web content filtering, and DNS.
On the OpenDNS blog David stated that:
The latest variant of Conficker is now churning through 50,000 [...]

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Foobar2000 0.9.6.4 Released

31 March 2009

I don’t know how many of you still uses Microsoft’s crappy windows media player (WMP), which is bloated, slow and ugly. Persoanlly I use foobar2000 to me its what a music player should be.
Foobar2000 is a customizable music player it:

Supports a wide range of audio formats out of the box (WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, [...]

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Scanning for Malicious Softwares

30 March 2009

Howtogeek today has written a indepth post about scanning for malicious viruses on your computer.The article was written well in time of a potentially harmful virus which is set to hit some of the computers out there called “Conficker” on the 1st of April 2009. I’ll be following Conficker in the next few days stay [...]

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Firefox 3.0.8:Security Update for Firefox

29 March 2009

Today an emergency update was pushed forward by Mozilla. It fixes two major security issues which can potential lead to hackers having control to your beloved computer.
This update is highly recommended and can be downloaded from the Firefox website. [Download Site]

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