IE9 and Flash – Getting it to work

May 30, 2011

Upgraded to IE9 to test it on a Vista 32bit box.  Went to Adobe’s site to grab the Flash Installer AND Uninstaller: (in FF) Installer Uninstaller Closed my browser and went to the Downloads Folder and ran the UNINSTALLER.  Then ran the installer (10.3+ player for Flash). Launched FF to test = perfect Chrome = [...]

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What you can do to make your iPhone more secure

May 26, 2011

With the news of a Russian company stating they have cracked the security on the iPhone that is an internal chip using 256-bit AES encryption. “The company said it had been aided by subtle weaknesses in the security architecture used by Apple, starting with the default passcode length of 4 digits. This yields only 10,000 [...]

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Mac OSX flushing web surfing history at the os level

May 20, 2011

[Source: How to make Safari’s Private Browsing feature actually private] Even if you run Safari in PRIVATE mode or FIREFOX in private mode, your web history exists at the os level. “Now open a Terminal by selecting Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal. Enter the command:” dscacheutil -cachedump -entries Host You will then see a list [...]

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Javascript PC Emulator by Fabrice Bellard

May 18, 2011

Truly impressive code development from Fabrice Bellard who has wrote QEMU that will emulate one type of procssor on another, FFmpeg which is an open-source streaming software for audio and video files, and more.  Even Brendan Eich, who is a Mozilla programmer and the creator of Javascript is paying close attention. Read more of Stephen [...]

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How to measure your ATT iPhone’s signal strength

May 14, 2011

iOS 4+ allows the all too helpful “Field Test Mode”.  Tons of data to look at, but I am not a cell tower engineer so it means nothing.  But in the top left corner it will display a number and that my friends IS useful. What I have been able to research: -51dBm is the [...]

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