Secuirty Tips Archive
27 Jul 2015
Apple Updates iOS 9 Public Beta, Welcomes Back Home Sharing
Apple Updates iOS 9 Public Beta, Welcomes Back Home Sharing For those daring users who have been running Apple’s iOS 9 Public Beta on their iOS devices, a little bit of relief is arriving in the form of an update to iOS 9 Public Beta 2. Launched a few days ago, the beta update
14 Jul 2015
How to use design thinking in your next project
How to use design thinking in your next project With more and more engineering-focused companies trying to become design-centric, they’re no doubt trying to adopt design thinking. But it’s not as simple as saying, “Just use design thinking.” Saying it does not make it so. What exactly is “Design Thinking”? Let’s take a step
14 Jul 2015
Mozilla has had enough of Flash’s security flaws, disables Firefox plugin
Mozilla has had enough of Flash’s security flaws, disables Firefox plugin Mozilla has blocklisted all vulnerable versions of Adobe Flashin its Firefox browser, following the discovery of numerous critical security flaws in the platform. Mark Schmidt, head of Firefox Support, took to Twitter to announce the change. The news comes just a day after
13 Jul 2015
Microsoft joins Facebook-founded Open Compute Project, touts its ‘unprecedented’ contributions
Microsoft joins Facebook-founded Open Compute Project, touts its ‘unprecedented’ contributions The fifth summit of the Open Compute Project is happening on Tuesday, and Microsoft has revealed that it is the latest member to join the group, a Facebook-founded initiative that sees the company and its partners commit to developing and sharing designs for data center
13 Jul 2015
20 Google Search Tips You Need to Learn
20 Google Search Tips You Need to Learn It’s easy to take the common Google search for granted. But if you take just a moment to really think about it, you might appreciate it for what it truly is: crazy superhero magic! Just by typing a few words, a single person can achieve near-instantaneous
09 Jul 2015
Two tools that help you stop over-using words in your documents
Two tools that help you stop over-using words in your documents I go through phases with my writing. Sometimes I feel like every second sent ence needs to start with “but,” then I start using “however,” which becomes “nevertheless,” and on and on it goes until the bad habit stops. For times like those, it’s
06 Jul 2015
Pakistan is Part of the Biggest Corporate Powergrab in History
Pakistan is Part of the Biggest Corporate Powergrab in History According to WikiLeaks, Pakistan is part of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). Currently being negotiated away from public eyes between the US, EU and 23 countries that make up two thirds of the world’s GDP, it has the potential to alter the service economy
03 Jul 2015
14% Advance Tax Imposed on Internet Across Pakistan
14% Advance Tax Imposed on Internet Across Pakistan Another day and we have a news about another tax. Reports suggest that Government of Pakistan has imposed 14% tax on internet across Pakistan. With this new advance tax — which can be reclaimed at the time of filing of returns — 14% of the bill amount
03 Jul 2015
PTCL Launches new CharJi Evo LTE Tab with Several Free Goodies
PTCL Launches new CharJi Evo LTE Tab with Several Free Goodies PTCL has launched a new Charji EVO LTE Tablet in Pakistan and offers quite a lot of free goodies that make it good value for money. The tablet is capable of utilising the current PTCL CharJi network and achieve theoretical speeds of up
02 Jul 2015
SafeDNS
SafeDNS Installing a stand-alone parental control product on the family PC isn’t so effective when the kids can just switch to surfing the Web on a smartphone, tablet, or gaming console. For $19.95 per year, SafeDNS filters out nasty or dangerous websites for any device connected to your home router. In my testing, it