30 March 2014

Which Browser Is Most Secure On Your Old Windows XP System?



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You should be upgrading from Windows XP, but we have to face facts — many people won’t upgrade before the end-of-support date. If you’re still using one of those XP computers, the best thing you can do is ditch Internet Explorer for a more modern browser. This is the main thing you can do to make your Windows XP system more secure. Stop Using Internet Explorer Now The most recent version of Internet Explorer available on Windows XP is Internet Explorer 8. This version is already several major versions old — modern versions of IE like Internet Explorer 11 are...


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Google Pal?



If you go to www.google.com/pal, Google redirects the page to: http://ift.tt/1fz0MJv and shows a 404 error message. The redirect suggests that this could be an actual Google page, but it's not yet launched.






Google has many landing pages with information about Google services at google.com/landing: Image Search, Google Now, Cloud Print, India, Thailand, Japan, Chinese New Year, Ramadan and more. Last year's main April Fools' Day joke, Google Nose BETA, was hosted at: http://ift.tt/XRUT1I.



{ Thanks, Florian. }

How Advertisements On Your Website Could Make Or Break You



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The Internet as we know it would not exist without advertisements. Ads are necessary for generating revenue from free content and an Internet without ads would be an Internet smothered in subscriptions and paywalls. You don’t have to feel guilty for running ads on your website, but make sure you do it right. Want to know the fastest way to kill your website? Implement ads that are annoying to readers. Indeed, aggressive ads will push readers to install an adblocker and we all know that adblockers kill websites. If you’re going to monetize your site with ads, here are a...


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