Just today I came across a javascript hack that was sending information for website users to a third party location. The way I found this out – other than getting malware notices from Google, was to do a wireshark trace on the offending website. From there I saw some interesting requests. Upon closer inspection, I [...]

I’ve noticed that when I run Elluminate on my new 64 bit Windows Vista machine I have problems with the explorer and other programs hanging. It really makes the session terrible. I thought it was a problem with Windows Vista, but later discovered it had to do with the 64 bit JVM on my machine. [...]

Google’s current translation service has just gone a step further.  Not only can you translate text, or a web page, but now you can translate PDF files that are on the internet.  Simply enter in the URL for the PDF file and google will use it’s PDF->HTML conversion tools to convert the document to an [...]

I few months ago I published my solution for the various wireless problems I had with my laptop when I upgraded from Windows XP SP2 to SP3.  Back then I used a batch file to resolve the problems that I was consistently seeing when coming back out of standby or hibernate mode. (See Windows XP [...]

For those who follow news and information from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is a new widget out there that allows you track news of the church on any of your blogs or other websites. First you go to the LDS News Widget Page and select the style of widget that [...]

On Saturday, I had received an email-advertisement for an online e-card generator hosted by jibjab.com.  It is a holiday ecard named “elf-yourself”. You upload photos of you and family and friends. You then stick your uploaded faces onto their website and they transfer them to a bunch of dancing elves. You can select the type [...]

Google — one of the most cutting-edge companies in the technology world has been investing a lot of time and effort in Apple’s iPhone — yet another one of the most cutting-edge companies and products in the world today. It appears that Google has been doing a lot of research and development with regard to [...]

Ok…so no, this is not about putting your new 52 inch LCD tv into a steel reinforced concrete vault with 10 inch walls buried 30 feet under the ground to keep it from melting down in a nuclear Armageddon. We had a problem with one of our LCD tvs at work. This TV acts as [...]

I recently read that google video lets you not only embed a video onto a blog or a webpage, but that you can embed a specified section (starting point) of the video only. This is very useful if you are wanting to highlight only a small part of the video without requiring your readers to [...]

I recently came across an easy, online tool that converts your PDF files into an embeddable flash object that can be put right on to your web page.  Instead of requiring a user to click on a PDF link to open a pdf file, just display it right there on the page. The tool I [...]