http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk Computing Weblog round-up: News from the world of computers, hardware, and software Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:55:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Within twenty four hours from being released, the Firefox 3.0.11 browser it was downloaded a massive one hundred and fifty million times. The significance of this follows the announcement from Apple who reported that after three days from release its new Safari browser was downloaded eleven million times. These figures have ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/335-firefox-3011-welcomes-150-million-users.html Without the loop, a blog hosted on Wordpress would not be half as good as it is now, but there are a few things that we could do to make the loop work for the blog, to make it a much better and more functional site. These are known as hacks, ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/333-cool-loop-hacks-for-wordpress.html When we look at sci fi or futuristic films the police are often portrayed has having access to all sorts of technical gadgetry, this begs the question as to what sort of gadgets do the police have at their disposal or is fiction running away with its imagination. It seems that ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/331-what-the-gadget-police-use-today.html The software giant slipped in a security update on millions of computers, this is an add on for the millions of users who have chosen Mozilla’s Firefox as their browser. A lot of users will not be too pleased about this additional add on, and therefore will no doubt head over ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/329-microsoft-installs-a-firefox-extension.html It is not much as an identity that is at stake, the main problem is credit card security. This sort of information is regularly and often openly sold on the internet, providing that you know where to look. The card details are gathered in a variety of ways, stolen cards or ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/327-how-much-for-an-identity.html Can the world take another Google coming along; some people think not and that any start up that shows the signs of having the potential to become the next Google should be nipped in the bud. This is political vision not from just one location, but from around the world. It ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/325-the-next-google-should-stay-in-the-box.html In France the “Three Strikes” rule has finally been passed, this has sent a signal around Europe that governments and internet service providers are going to have to get tough on internet users who keep downloading illegal material. The favoured plan is to go down the three strikes and you are ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/323-uk-isps-will-not-be-internet-cops.html When Virgin Media announced that, they are putting their 200 Mbps broadband service on trial in Ashford, Kent there must have been a rush of households looking to sign up. But although the very thought of surfing the internet at speeds faster than anything available in the UK, does this speed ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/321-will-we-ever-see-200-mbps.html There are various dates coming out as to when the full version of Windows 7 will be released, the latest being that Acer will be producing a new line of computers that will be running the operating system by October of this year. But for those who do not want to ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/319-windows-7-rc-instructions.html A Swedish ISP has decided to go against the flow and delete all records of the data that could be used to identify their customers, Tele 2 have made the decision because they say that it what their customers want. However, with the new EU, law that requires ISP’s to store ... http://www.computerroadmap.co.uk/317-isp-beats-copyright-cops-to-data.html