Following quietly in the footsteps of Napster, peer-to-peer file-sharing network Audiogalaxy has been sunk. The popular Napster clone has agreed to filter songs that are the subject of copyright and pay an undisclosed sum of money after a court battle with the Recording Industry Association of America. While last week’s gagging of Audiogalaxy wasn’t as […]
There are thousands of useful programs readily available for download over the internet and often the person who wrote the software is more than happy to make it available free of charge. There are several sites that specialise in bringing together collections of these programs, known as freeware. Good starting points are No Nags, Freeware
Freeware programs are readily available Read Post »
There are still lots of nasty surprises awaiting the unsuspecting surfer so take care when opening e-mails and surfing the net. Both McAfee and Symantec are warning users to watch out for an e-mail with a subject line: “Thoughts…” Apart from a short note reading: “I just found this program, and, I don’t know why…but
Little nasties not so cute Read Post »
Has your computer had a visit from Klez yet? If you’ve managed to avoid it, then well done. Klez is the latest mass-mailing worm doing the rounds. It uses random subject lines, message bodies, and attachment file names and exploits yet another a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express in an attempt to execute
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The death of the Queen Mother brought a huge rise in traffic to the official British monarchy website, with it jumping more than 2500 places in the hitwise.co.nz rankings. The official Royals site site has links on the front page to either the main site or to the Queen Mum tribute site where you can
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When most Kiwi web surfers think of Trade Me they think of the highly popular online auction site. However, the Trade Me also runs online dating agency Find Someone), Flathunt for those in the market for a new flat or flatmate and online escrow service Safe Trader. The latest site in the Trade Me stable
Trade Me helps to find old and new friends Read Post »
It’s been six months since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States and reminders are everywhere on the net. Every second site seems to have some sort of icon or section commemorating the attacks and the thousands who died. While a respectful sign of remembrance is fine, there is increasing controversy over the
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(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) The growth of the internet has also brought about a growth in the number of scams that are happening. One most people know about is the Nigerian scam. If you get an e-mail from someone claiming to be from top officials in the Nigerian government
