How to Clean Your Apps Permissions Easily

Many of us might have authorized permissions for various free apps to access our private information in our online accounts, such as in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Yahoo, LinkedIn, DropBox, Instagram, Flickr, etc. As matter as fact, it has become common that not all those apps were useful. However, we just left them there, keep being authorized to get our private data as much as they want

Wanna recheck and clean those permission? Try visiting mypermissions.org. They have provided useful links for you.

“My Resolution”

“My resolution will always be resolving the network layer addresses into link layer addresses, because it is a critical function in multiple-access networks.

I will provide the means for the asking host by forcing it to ask its neighbors who has the certain network address, then soon it will receive the reply. Thanks to me”,

says the ARP.

Blogsome is Shutting Down

A sudden notification came, a little shocking, but reasonable:

Hello Fariz,

We regret to inform you that Blogsome is going to be closing down permanently. We’ve enjoyed hosting your blogs, but all good things must come to an end. After the 7th December the admin interface of your blog may no longer be accessible and the blog content may be removed.

Bismillaah

Bismillaah..

Always begin doing everything in God’s name, to get blessed and maximized benefit of your efforts..

This is the first post of this blog –officially. I just moved to WordPress few minutes ago. I migrated here because of two reasons:

How to Download Facebook Video from Google Chrome

Sometimes you may want to keep the videos shared in some friend’s Facebook. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn’t provide any simple button or hyperlink to download its videos. There are some freewares or browser add-ons/extensions offering simple ways to download videos from Facebook, but I’m not discussing about them as you can easily Google it

For you who wants to download Facebook Videos in a “geeky way“, here you go . Basically you must know that every single online shared video you watch (in YouTube, Facebook, etc.) has actually been downloaded first by your browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.) to its cache. So if you want to keep the video to be able to watch it later without going online, you simply have to copy or move it from the cache directory.

Here are the steps, in details, using Google Chrome browser in Microsoft Windows 7 operating system (OS):

Book: Strategic Cyber Security

 

Knowing from a mailing list I’m following, this book’s content looks good. Here’s what the CCDCOE said about it:

The book argues that computer security has evolved from a technical discipline to a strategic 
concept. The world’s growing dependence on a powerful but vulnerable Internet – combined 
with the disruptive capabilities of cyber attackers – now threatens national and international 
security.

Strategic challenges require strategic solutions. The author examines four nation-state approaches to cyber attack mitigation:
•  Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
•  Sun Tzu’s Art of War
•  Cyber attack deterrence
•  Cyber arms control

The World’s Most Blocked Websites

OpenDNS, one of the most popular DNS services on the Internet, is frequently used by parents and organizations to block websites that they think are inappropriate for children or may hamper productivity at the workplace.

OpenDNS, which claims to handle DNS requests for 1% of Internet users worldwide, has released a report detailing a list of top 10 websites that are most frequently blocked by home users and business users.

The list includes social sites (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter) and adult websites (Redtube, Pornhub and Playboy) as usual but the presence of two major advertising networks on that list suggests people do have their share of privacy concerns.

Here’s the complete list

Albert Einstein and Arthur Eddington

Have you seen the movie “Einstein and Eddington“? It’s a good movie about the beauty of science. It tells us how and when exactly Albert Einstein became famous..

Many of us have no idea who Arthur Eddington is. Yes, he was a scientist, just like Einstein. He was an English observer, while Einstein was a German theorist. During their time, Eddington and Einstein had some difficulties in research since their countries were enemies at World War I.

However, Eddington was less happy in the spotlight. He spent the rest of his life trying to unite his scientific knowledge with his religious faith. And today, his work is largely forgotten..

IMO, in science, self-publication isn’t everything. The most important thing is how we explore the science for the sake of human kind, without defying God’s existence

 

Anyway, the fun fact is: the actor playing as Einstein was the same person who became Smeagol/Gollum at The Lord of The Rings!

 

(Picture taken from IMDB)

Microsoft compares OpenOffice.org Writer and MS Word

By Bruce Byfield

Until now, I had somehow missed Microsoft’s "Why Microsoft" videos, explaining why users should choose Microsoft Office over OpenOffice.org. The title of the series alone warns you to expect bias, but you might not expect are the high number of errors, omissions and misleading statements in the videos. In fact, there are so many that it took me over twenty minutes to view the six minute video on Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org Writer, since I had to stop after almost every sentence to take notes about my problems with what was said.

The video’s narrator, Jake Zborowski, a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, starts by explaining that he is going to show you "a few of the many examples of what you miss when you choose OpenOffice.org over Microsoft Office." He goes on to compare Word and Writer in five areas: styles, visuals, search, spell-checking and grammar, and sharing documents. To make the video more personal, the narrator focuses on the experience of two users, Dave, an OpenOffice.org Writer user, and Holly, an MS Word user.

Styles

Styles are a strange area for the video to focus on, because, on the whole, Word is designed for manual formatting, while Writer is designed for styles. Not only does Writer have far more categories of styles than Word, but each style also contains far more options.

Unsurprisingly, though, these inconvenient facts are not mentioned in the video. Instead, it shows a few seconds of Dave using the Styles and Formatting floating window, and then moving to the toolbar to change a font size manually — something that most people using styles would rarely do.

7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

Using a weak password

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": hO27usEs!

Leaving your full birth date in your profile

It’s an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you’ve already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

Overlooking useful privacy controls