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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.

YouTube on Internet Explorer 6

Internet Explorer [IE] 6 does not support web standards and modern technologies to easily develop advanced web sites.

Innovation in web development stagnates as developers has to use obsolete and unnecessarily complex techniques to ensure their pages would render properly in IE.

The online campaign IE6 No More, supported by more than 70 web firms, says that because IE6 browser does not support modern web standards it restricts what developers can do and is “holding the web back”.

Who still uses IE6 and why?

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

Windows 2000 can only support Internet Explorer up to version 6, while Windows XP can support any version of Internet Explorer up to the latest 8.

Most of the corporates still uses IE6 because they built applications running on Microsoft APIs belonging to IE6, and if they switch to a newer version of Internet Explorer, their applications will stop working.

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 start up.
• It works just out of the box.
• Scrolling pages is smoother.
• Faster applications start up.
• Less resource (memory, CPU, graphic card) consumption so that it can run on old or low specs PCs.
• It runs on Apple computers too.

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

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 is the easiest and the most useful to the website owner to protect one’s own site and understand the ongoing problem.
Read the full article at Perishable Press.

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 simple 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.
• Three sidebars (Left, Right, Bottom) widget ready.
• Available in Black, Blue, Green, Pink, Red, White.
• Valid XHTML and CSS.
• i18n internationalization.
• Additional Credits template to insert your credits, license (like Creative Commons, GNU GPL), etc.
  • Go to WordPress Site Admin > Appearance > Editor > credits.php, insert your HTML Code, click on Update File.
• Additional Site Stats template to insert your Site Statistics HTML Code (like Google Analytics, Shiny Stat, Stat Counter, etc.).
  • Go to WordPress Site Admin > Appearance > Editor > sitestats.php, insert your Site Statistics HTML Code, click on Update File.
• This theme fully satisfies the guidelines and requirements requested by WordPress at http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development_Checklist.
• Tested with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome.

Install this theme in .zip format:

1. Fill in this Request Form to download NoticeBoard.zip file (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 on WordPress at http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Adding_New_Themes.

Links:

• NoticeBoard.zip Download Stats
• NoticeBoard Theme Help

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.

Here below Defraggler ideal configuration settings to get best results. (more…)

Spybot Search & Destroy (Spybot-S&D) is a popular proprietary spyware and adware removal program compatible with Microsoft Windows 95 and later. Spybot-S&D scans the computer hard disk and/or RAM for malicious software (Source: Wikipedia).

A good way to always stay protected against spyware is to keep your Spybot-S&D constantly updated.

Run Spybot-S&D update as soon as your computer and your internet connection are on, but before opening any other application.

Here below instructions on how to update Spybot-S&D. (more…)