Archive for January, 2010

PS 3 hacked?

The same guy who in the past hacked the iPhone, is now claiming that he has managed to do the same thing with the Playstation 3. He is saying that he has dumps of the console and that this took him 5 weeks to achieve. At the moment not a lot of details [...] Related posts:
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  3. Twitter Hacked

Tip: Microsoft Word hangs on the splash screen

Recently, I opened Microsoft Word to write a post for TechieViews and the application just hanged on the splash screen. All other applications in the Office suite such as Excel and PowerPoint were still working perfectly, and although Word itself offered me to launch itself in ’safe mode’ and later to ‘fix’ itself, nothing [...] Related posts:
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German government issues warning against using Internet Explorer

The German government has warned Internet users to use an alternative browser instead of Internet Explorer because of security reasons. This warning applies to versions 6, 7 and even to the latest version 8. The warning which was issued from the Federal Office for Information Security follows a press release where Microsoft admitted [...] Related posts:
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  2. Firefox 3.5 is now the most popular browser
  3. You Tube to stop working on IE 6

Tip for Windows Vista and Windows 7

It was recently discovered that both Windows Vista (32 Bit only) and Windows 7 contain what is usually referred to as a virtual Easter egg in the form of a GodMode, which is a collection of all tools found in Windows from one location. You can think of it as one of those tweaking [...] Related posts:
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