Managing favorites in Internet Explorer

If you are like me, you keep accumulating favorites or bookmarks for your browser. Periodically, all these favorites need some housekeeping. Some will be obsolete and need deletion, others will need to be rearranged. Unfortunately, trying to manage your favorites through the Internet Explorer function, “Organize Favorites”, is a pain. In a previous post, I [...]

PHP send email using authenticated smtp server in real time

PHP has mail() function to send an email to users. However this mail() will not work:
=> If sendmail (or compatible binary) is not installed
=> If Apache Web server / Lighttpd running in chrooted jail
=> And your smtp server needs an authentication before sending an email
In all these cases you need to use PHP PEAR’s Mail:: [...]

Critical ActiveX problem for Internet Explorer PDF reader

Here we go with yet another ActiveX security hole. Adobe has warned that the ActiveX component that is used to help Internet Explorer read PDF documents contains a critical security bug. Firefox and other browsers are not affected because they do not use ActiveX. As of this writing, Adobe was still working on a fix [...]

Monitor your network connections with X-NetStat

In these times where computer crimes have become one of the most normal things it’s nice that you can protect yourself.
Like Martin, i think that firewalls don’t help that much (i have never encountered one that worked good enough)
And when i found X-NetStat i found a really good solution to this problem.
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