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Well, the time has come: YouTube no longer supports Internet Explorer 6, and recommends to update to a newer browser: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome.

Links:

• YouTube Drops IE6 Support on March 13th
• IE6 No More
• It’s Time to Finally Drop Internet Explorer 6
• Apple’s MobileMe drops support for IE 6
• More…

YouTube announcement: We will be phasing out support for your browser soon. Please upgrade to one of these more modern browsers: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.6, Opera 10, Safari 4, Google Chrome.

It is a matter of fact that Internet Explorer [IE] 6 does not support web standards and modern technologies.

These web standards and modern technologies have been developed to easily build web sites and to provide a better web navigation and experience to any internet user.

Unfortunately, web developers have to use obsolete and unnecessarily complex techniques to ensure their pages would render properly in IE.

In other words, IE6 downgrades the internet.

Who still uses IE6 and why?

Mostly companies running their PCs on Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Windows 2000 can run any version of Internet Explorer up to 6, while Windows XP can run any version of Internet Explorer up to 8.

Most of the companies still uses IE6 because they built applications and software running on Microsoft APIs belonging to IE6, and if they update to a newer version of Internet Explorer, their applications and software will stop working or become buggy.

Good practice when building any application or software is to make it platform independent, so that it can run on any operating system, does not depend on any third party software to work, and it makes future upgrades easier.
A good example of a platform independent software is Java.

YouTube and its parent company Google have chosen to phase out support for IE6 after the attack from hackers in China to their platforms.

Digg has been the first web firm to announce their phasing out support for IE6.

Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. “Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world. Source: DistroWatch.

We tested Ubuntu from the Live CD on several low and high specs computers powered by Intel processors where Windows is installed and our first conclusions are:

• Faster operating system.
• Drivers for most computers included.
• Less resource (memory, CPU, graphic card) consuming so that it can run on old or low specs PCs.
• Running on Apple computers too.
• Run Windows side by side or in virtual machine.
• Lots of apps available in the repository (Ubuntu software center).
• Apps are easy to install like on smart phones.
• Open Office suite included fully compatible with Microsoft Office documents.
• PDF file conversion and print to PDF file included.
• Archiving utility already included to manage the common compressed files (.7z, .rar, .tar, .zip, etc.).

Learn more about Ubuntu at:

• Ubuntu Official site
• Ubuntu (operating system)

Learn more about Linux at:

• Linux
• List of Linux distributions
• Comparison of Windows and Linux
• Comparison of Windows and Linux: real world experience
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Install Windows inside Linux
• Top 10 reasons to use Ubuntu
• Top 10 reasons not to use Ubuntu

A new multipurpose toolbar is available from today on Zialingua.com to facilitate your web navigation experience.

What is Zialingua.com?
Zialingua.com is a Social Bookmarking website listing Bookmarks of Web Resources.
Social Bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren’t shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.
Find out more about social bookmarking on Wikipedia.

The search feature allows you to search with three different search engines (Google, Wikipedia, YouTube) and to search this same website.
Just type in the box what you are looking for and hit the button corresponding to the search engine you want to use.

Direct link to FaceBook and eBuddy Web and Mobile Messenger.

No need to download and install anything !!!
The toolbar is embedded in this website.
Just bookmark Zialingua.com in your favorites or use it as your home page for easier access to the internet.

Features:

1. Link to FaceBook
2. Link to eBuddy Web and Mobile Messenger
3. Search This Site
4. Google Search
5. Wikipedia Search
6. YouTube Search

Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web.

Perishable Press reports a very important WordPress security risk to fix as soon as WordPress is installed.
The fix #3 “Replace WordPress install.php with something safe and useful” is the easiest and the most useful to protect your website and understand the ongoing problem.
Read the full article at Perishable Press.
An enhanced version of install.php can be downloaded at install.txt.
It is a .txt file.
You need to rename it as a .php file.
To use this replacement page, do not forget to specify your email address in the seventh line.

Use OpenDNS to make your Internet faster, safer, and smarter.

PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.

Here are some of the features in PC Inspector File Recovery:

• Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged.
• Recovers files with the original time and date stamp.
• Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives.
• Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available.

PC Inspector File Recovery is so-called freeware. This means that the software does not cost you a single penny.

Get PC Inspector File Recovery at http://www.pcinspector.de/.

PC Inspector File Recovery cannot help if you have mechanical problems with the hard disk. If the hard disk is no longer recognized by the BIOS or is making unusual noises, you should contact a hardware technician.

NoticeBoard is a free simple light theme for WordPress self-hosted.

Features:

• Three fluid columns that adjust accordingly as the window is resized.
• Scalable font-size that adjusts on the browser zoom.
• Widget based theme.
• Available in black, blue, green, pink, red, white.
• Custom Style Sheets.
• Google Custom Search Engine integrated.
• Google Website Translate integrated.
• Fully satisfies the guidelines and requirements of WordPress Theme Development Checklist.
• Tested with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome.
• Current version.

Customizations:

• If you plan to customize NoticeBoard, then consider to use Widgets and Custom Styles to make future upgrades of this theme easier.
• Widgets and Custom Styles allow you to customize NoticeBoard, superseding the settings defined by default, without actually touching them.
• Because Widgets and Custom Styles are kept separate from the theme files, your customization will not get overwritten each time NoticeBoard is upgraded.

To customize, go to “WordPress Site Admin » Appearance”:

• Click on “Widgets” menu to add and manage your extra features.
  Widgets help | Widgets list | XHTML help
• Click on “Custom Styles” menu to add and manage your custom CSS code.
  CSS help

Install this theme in .zip format:

1. Download NoticeBoard.zip (released under the CC-GNU GPL version 2.0 or later).
2. Go to “WordPress Site Admin » Appearance » Add New Themes » Upload”.
3. More detailed installation instructions are available at WordPress Adding New Themes.

Links:

• Download Stats
• Contact Support

Suggested Plugins:

1. Akismet Anti Spam (shipped with WordPress, needs to be activated)
2. WordPress Health Check (this plugin will perform a number of checks on your WordPress install to detect common configuration errors and known issues)
3. Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi
4. Really Simple Captcha by Takayuki Miyoshi (for Contact Form 7)
5. Fast and Secure Contact Form by Mike Challis
6. SI Captcha Anti-Spam by Mike Challis (for comment, registration and login form)
7. Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith
8. PHP Code Widget by Otto
9. Print This Section by Scott Hair
10. NextGEN Gallery by Alex Rabe
11. FancyBox by Jose Pardilla

Who uses NoticeBoard theme for WordPress:

• http://fx-gambit.com/

Defraggler is a defragmentation program developed by Piriform Ltd.

Defraggler allows users to defragment individual files on their computer system.

Defraggler can defragment individual files, groups of files, or free space on any FAT32 or NTFS partition.

It also displays the location of these files on the specified partition.

Defraggler is also a portable program that can be used from a USB flash drive.

More recent versions allow Defraggler to run on computers with less memory.

Defraggler runs on Microsoft Windows. It has support for all versions since Windows 2000. It includes support for both 32- and 64-bit versions of these operating systems.

Following Defraggler ideal configuration settings to get best results.

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