Spam is reduced due hosting company shutdown?

The Washington Post just reported that an U.S. based hosting company was responsible for almost 75 percent of all the world wide internet spam. The company in question is the McColo Corp., a San Jose, California based web hosting company.

Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing, both major internet providers for McColo, pulled the plug today upon discovering a large number of illegal activities happening on McColo’s servers including email spam,online scams or phishing websites.

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The speech to search iPhone application from Google

Now, voice commands on the phone aren’t something new, but searching Google from your phone using your voice is. The good part is that it’s here and we can use it, the bad part is that this is only available for the Apple’s iPhone. Now I suspect that this feature will reach the Android market in the near future, but there isn’t any word for other markets such as Symbian.

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Moderator: View and moderate Wordpress comments from your desktop

There are some blogs owners or administrators out there that will love this application. If you have a WordPress blog and you receive many comments daily, managing them can be a hassle. I’m telling you, logging in and out of WordPress to approve new comments and view recent comments can be a hard job. This is where Moderator comes in, providing you with a desktop ‘portal’ to your blog comment area. You can view and moderate comments from your desktop, all wrapped up in a nice widget-ish way.

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How To: Remove Norton from your computer

While personally I don’t dislike Norton or any of the Symantec products, everybody knows that Norton is a resource eating application and many of its users give up on Norton in favor of other security solutions such as Kaspersky, AVG, Avira etc.

Now, Norton is a little tricky to uninstall due to the fact that it leaves many registry entries and folders intact.

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Gmail gets video chat and voice support

Yesterday, Google announced that Gmail will have video chat and voice support. Actually, user will need to install an enhancement to Gmail that will allow the 2 new options. The Gmail voice and video chat enhancement (browser plugin) can be installed following this page.

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How To: View System Up Time in Windows Xp and Vista

If you are a fan of the uptime command present within Linux or you are a heavy multimedia 24/7 download freak, you should know your current system up time. What is the system up time you ask? Well, shortly, the system up time shows you how long your system has been online. Surely you can brag or do contests with your friends, but we’ll keep this aspect for another time.

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Android silently runs everything you type, worst bug ever

This is probably the most annoying yet funny mobile bug I know at this point and it’s happening within the all mighty Android. Shortly, every word you type on your ‘Google Phone’, any phone running Android more specific, will interpret those words as shell commands and Android will run them in superuser mode. Isn’t that great? Yes it is!

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Shazam for the iPhone: Identify external music

Apple released yet another iPhone ad, but this time, a rather different but cool application, Shazam. Shazam will recognize any captured external music (via mic) in  seconds and it will display detailed informations such as artist, song and album.

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