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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter adds option to always use HTTPS]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>boymab</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Twitter has tweaked its security settings to offer an option to always enable Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, or HTTPS.Although the more secure setting has always been available, in the past Twitter users had to browse specifically to https://twitter.com to take advantage of it. Now, the tighter security is a new option found in the Twitter settings page.Clicking on your account name in Twitter and then selecting Settings brings up the appropriate page. From there, you'll see the new option at the bottom of the page. Checking &quot;always use https&quot; ensures that each Twitter session will now encrypt your username, password, and any other personal data.The capability to use HTTPS is already the default option for Twitter's mobileiPhone app, according to a Twitter blog posted yesterday, but not for Twitter's mobile site. To enable the tighter security when browsing the mobile version, you'll still have to specify the address as https://mobile.twitter.com. Twitter also said that people who use a third-party mobile Twitter app will need to check to see if it allows for HTTPS.Twitter added that it plans at some point to set up HTTPS as the default option on its Web site so that users won't need to manually enable it.Offering stronger security than the standard HTTP, HTTPS uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt and decrypt information passed back and forth over the Internet. Twitter sees the tighter security as a much-needed option for people who tweet over unsecured Wi-Fi networks.The new option also follows a recent push by New York Sen. Charles Schumer who wrote to Amazon, Yahoo, and Twitter asking them to switch their default pages from HTTP to HTTPS to better protect people using public Wi-Fi connections.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mozilla blocks Skype's Firefox-crashing add-on]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mozilla-blocks-skypes-firefox-crashing-add-on</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>boymab</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Mozilla has barred a Skype extension forFirefox, accusing it of causing 40,000 browser crashes a week and of dramatically slowing page-load times.&quot;We believe that both of these items constitute a major, user-facing issue, and meet our established criteria for blocklisting an add-on,&quot; Mozilla said in a blog post yesterday. Because the extension is installed by default when Skype's main software is installed, a &quot;large number of Firefox users who have installed Skype have also installed the Skype Toolbar, knowingly or unknowingly,&quot; Mozilla said.Mozilla is in contact with Skype programmers and will restore the extension's privileges if the problems are addressed, the organization said.In a statement, Skype said it's resolving the problem.&quot;Based on our initial investigation, we know that downloading the new client will fix for most users any compatibility issues, and are working with Mozilla to ensure that there are no other compatibility issues. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused our users,&quot; the company said.The Skype toolbar extension, bundled with the Skype software for making audio and video calls over the Internet, highlights phone numbers in Web pages to make it easier to call them with Skype. Those who really like it can still run the toolbar, Mozilla said: &quot;The blocklist entry will be a 'soft block,' where the extension is disabled and the user is notified of the block and given the option to re-enable it if they choose. It's also important to note that the Skype application itself will continue to work as it always has' only the Skype Toolbar within Firefox is being disabled.&quot;The extension has been the No. 1 or No. 2 cause of crashes for the current stable version of Firefox, according to comments in Mozilla's bug tracker. And the plug-in dramatically slows Firefox's processing of Web page elements through what's called the Document Object Model (DOM)--by a factor of 3 to 8 with a newer 5.x version and by a factor of 325 with the older 4.x version, Mozilla programmer Boris Zbarsky said. The effect of this is to make pages appear to load much more slowly.Earlier in January, a Skype representative acknowledged that the company knows about the issue. &quot;Look out for an update in the near future,&quot; the representative said.Updated 6:57 a.m. PTwith Skype comment.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SanDisk claims 45MB/sec write speeds for new SDHC]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>boymab</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=sandisk-claims-45mbsec-write-speeds-for-new-sdhc</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:SanDisk)Announced about a year ago, the SD Card Association's SD 3.0 specification has yet to gain much traction. Panasonic and Toshiba both announced UHS-I SDHC products last September, with Toshiba claiming ultrafast write speeds of up to 80 megabytes per second. But those cards have yet to materialize. AtCES 2011, Kingston announced a new series of UHS-I cards, unfortunately dubbed UltimateXX, with a claimed 35MB/sec write speed and slated to be available this month. SanDisk now ups the ante, expanding its Extreme Pro line of of flash cards from CompactFlash to SDHC, with the momentarily fastest spec of up to 45MB/sec write speed, It also has a video-rated minimum sustainable write speed of 10MB/sec.You're definitely paying a premium. Prices range from $109.99 for the 8GB card to $349.99 for the 32GB card. In contrast, you can get the 30MB/sec version of SanDisk's 32GB card for about $170. Which raises the question: what kind of speed boost does that extra dough buy youWell, if you don't have a Nikon D7000, not much' for now, the only camera which we know of that supports the UHS specification is that one. So I popped the 32GB Extreme Pro into the camera and took it for a continuous-shooting test drive. I compared it against the fastest card I happened to have lying around, an 8GB 20MB/sec Extreme III.As a reminder, faster cards don't actually increase your burst speed (unless your current card is exceptionally slow). What they do, in theory, is allow the camera to save out the images cached in the buffer faster. That effectively gives you a higher burst rate once you've passed the buffer depth--in my case about 18 fine JPEGs, 8 raw/raw+JPEGs. What I've found when it comes to card speeds, though, is unless the card is fast enough to allow the camera to empty the buffer by a significant amount, the burst still slows too much to be really useful. For shooting JPEGs, the Extreme Pro did increase the effective burst rate, enabling 5 extra shots within the same time interval. For raw+JPEG and raw, though, it gained maybe one shot before the buffer bottleneck kicked in. And that's compared to a card that's not even close to the currently fastest available.It always pays to have a faster card when it comes to downloading, though, and the card's maximum 60MB/sec read speed certainly can come in handy for that' it's not unique in that respect, however, as quite a few cards offer fast read speeds.So if you shoot with a D7000 and need fast continuous shooting relatively far into the buffer, the Extreme Pro may be worth the extra money for you. But don't expect the same results with raw or raw+JPEG. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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