May 21, 2012

Chrome is the most used browser in 2012

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Google Chrome has turned out to be the most popular and widely used browser in 2012. This week's stats from statcounter says Google Chrome dominates the browser market by occupying around 33% of the total market share.
Internet Explorer holds 32% and Mozilla Firefox has around 25% market share. This makes Firefox third most popular browser in the market.
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Why you should DuckDuckGo instead of Google

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DuckDuckGo is a search engine, not as famous as Google but has it's own advantages.
Why you should use DuckDuckGo:
- No search history.
- Instant search results.
- Full and real privacy.
- Clean interface.
- No promoted ad/search results.
- No clutter of Google products.
In recent years, it has gained popularity and is frequently used by people who are very much concerned about their privacy.

Link: DuckDuckGo
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May 08, 2012

How to patch PHP CGI vulnerability

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Fix for people not willing to quit using PHP running under CGI mode on old servers:
Use the following Apache directive in a .htaccess file.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(%2d |-)[^=]+$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1? [L]
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May 07, 2012

A tattoo that vibrates when you receive calls

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Nokia plans to develop a tattoo that will vibrate when you receive calls. It has already obtained patents for the future technology.  They plan to let people have two options, either attach a small material to your skin or get a real looking tattoo with some smart technology working in the background.
For people who're wonder how this technology will work, here's a breakdown. The tattoo will be done using special ferromagnetic inks which will be sensitive to external magnetic field and will vibrate according to magnetic signals sent from the phone. Apart from the special ink, the tattoo will have looks and feel just like ordinary tattoos.
These cellphone generated signals and the resulting vibrations would be different depending or whether you are getting a call, or a text or something else.
This is one of those crazy futuristic piece of technology that I'd would not love to go for. The technology will be of great use in different cases like deaf people will find it extremely useful, people working at construction sites and many other crazy tech fans.
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May 06, 2012

Facebook is too smart

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Try visiting this link: http://facebook.com/?-s

Apparently, this is Facebook's version of Easter egg for all those who might have thought of exploiting Facebook after coming across the recent PHP bug release by a group of Dutch Security experts. They accidentally found out that GET parameter ?-s was somehow getting passed as a command line parameter -s which may lead to source disclosure and remote command execution. The bug affects PHP running under CGI mode and said to be present there since 2004.

However, it does not affect Facebook as you can see by clicking on the link above. Instead, you will see link to Facebook online job application form for software engineers. Isn't that smart?
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