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Google Maps is cool

I was searching recently some location on Google Maps and I accidentally found .. a plane 🙂 Google’s satellite took the picture from the orbit and photographed the plane in flight over that region. Nothing special, just pure accident 😉 See the picture below:

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Avira Techblog is online

At the beginning of this year Avira opened to the public the Technical blog: http://techblog.avira.com We publish there news which are too technical to be displayed on the www.avira.com page. I publish quite a lot things about Spam and Phishing. Have a look at it: http://techblog.avira.com There is also RSS Feed support: http://techblog.avira.com/feed/en/

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C++ evolved

C++ got since last update new functionalities: Regular expressions library Atomic operations library Thread support library Smart pointers Read more here: http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2008/n2798.pdf These things are also added in Boost and in TR1 implementation for Visual Studio 2008. Read the Draft Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions available here: Click to access n1836.pdf

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Nigerian scam with MS Word Document attached

There is a new type of Nigerian scam (aka 419 scam) where the body of the email looks like the one in the screen shot below and the real content is in the attached MS Word document. Here is the content of the Word document: Why this ? Because it is very hard to detect […]

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Google is … sorry ?

I am using the Google lite extension for Firefox 3. I typed there “futex” (Fast User space muTEX) and I received this URL: http://sorry.google.com/sorry/?continue=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dfutex%26ie%3DUTF-8 and this page: It is really interesting what those links show: virus checker http://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239-0.html spyware remover http://www.download.com/sort/3150-8022-0-1-4.html

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Safari vs. Firefox 2.x

I recently installed Safari and immediately liked it. It looks cool, much cooler than Firefox. But, how friendly is it ? Well, too friendly… as in… too dumb 🙁 Just a very simple example where to save a file. And there are many others. Unfortunately, I had to stop using it. It just doesn’t offer […]

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It is official: I have a Photoblog

After seeing this post in the main page of WordPress I decided to make a Photoblog. I am not yet sure what will I publish there, but… it is done ! Here is the link and you can also find it in the Link section on the right side.

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What’s wrong with Facebook ?

Is there something wrong going on with Facebook at the time I publish this post? The website behaves abnormally slow and I had to click 2-3 time on some buttons until the changes were applied. If somebody received from me 2 (or more) invitations to connect, sorry… it is from this strange effect. Initially I […]