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I’m paranoid. When it comes to malware & spyware. So much paranoid that I run anti-spyware every 2nd day, irrespective of whether new updates are available or not.

Today was one of those 2nd days and the results that I saw, gave me quiet a shock !! Tracking Cookies on Firefox !! First I thought that [...]

For past 2 weeks I’ve been playing around with Firefox 2 - Beta 1 & Beta 2. Undoubtly it is a good step forward compared to 1.5.x.x in every way. Be it speed, memory useage, features, solidity [crashed just twice].
But now I’ve finally decided to take a step a back to installing Firefox 1.5.x.x, because [...]

Opera release version 9 of their browser with some cool features like built-in support for Bit-Torrent, Widgets, etc.
And Chris Morelle did an excellent review of it, Opera 9, another choice . Go through it, if you are planning to use Opera for the first time, or even if you are planning to upgrade Opera on [...]

Ladies and Gentleman …. Flock Beta is out !!
After 8 months since developer release, Flock release the Beta version along with a stunning looking site. I’ve been using Flock since October and now it is my default browser. And I have never regretted my decision to move to flock ever since, also thanks to all [...]

I’m been unable to post anything on my blog off-late, partially due to lazyness and partially due to the time my other blog is taking. So here are a few quickies for this week:
» Windows Vista Beta 2 release to the public today. Go and download your copy. You’ll also need a key for using [...]

Road-bumps !! Well … sounds quiet catchy !
Nearly one year since I got hooked to netvibes, things seems to be taking turn for worse. Netvibes has been my main Feed-Reader and I truly adored it, but for past few days there is definite performance degradation. Feeds take long to load, many a times I am [...]

Going through the article on ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer , I really found some interesting tid-bits.
“On behalf of Microsoft and the IE team, we messed up - and we’re sorry”. [ Tony Chor, Group Program Manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team]
First thing they wanted to do with IE7 was “make everyday browsing easier […] make [...]