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Google Desktop Search (available at desktop.google com works inside your Web browser: type keywords into the search field, just as you would to search the Internet. Although Google's program scours Word and Excel documents, Outlook messages and more, to find matches for your queries, it recognizes audio and video only by file name...
It’s possible some of you have noticed signs you might be in need of a new browser. Perhaps every time you sit down in front of your computer, focused and intent on starting research for your ec paper (perhaps by conducting a game theory study on thefacebook.com), you find yourself stared in the face by a dozen pop-up windows advertising for ‘home surveillance’ cameras designed (if you trust the photos in the ads) to keep your house safe from the prying eyes and sticky fingers of scantily clad women. Or perhaps...
...authors that write the code that breaks Internet Explorer. You might ask, however, if Firefox is unpopular now and we all take your advice, won’t it grow into a big enough target such that it stops passing under the bad guys’ radar? Fortunately the browser has quite a bit more going for it: Released by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, it is an open-source application created by people who like writing good software not for financial gain but with the goal of making the Internet a kinder, gentler place. What “open...
...alone in my recommendation. For one, 11 million people have downloaded the browser since its release. And I may very well be the last tech columnist in the world to jump on the Firefox-praise bandwagon (I’ve been using it myself for quite some time, mind you: I’ve just not been proselytizing). Over the past three months as the browser reached maturity and was officially released to the public, noted journalists at the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and hundreds of other well regarded publications have been singing the praises of Mozilla?...
It’s even starting to be noticed in the information technology (IT) private sector—and on university networks like our own. Last week IT Services at Pennsylvania State University issued an announcement imploring students to switch from Internet Explorer to a browser like Firefox—a request they made not on the basis of the comparative ease of use of the browsers or on the slick new features, but rather because of their relative security levels. Microsoft’s browser has been the object of a large number of security vulnerabilities over the past...