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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2009!!
It’s the end of the year again, time for introspection, time for celebration, and time for vacation!!
With the increasing popularity of Facebook as the leading social networking site, it is hard to deny that Facebook currently being among the few top visited website in the Internet. It would be interesting to check out the statistic published by Facebook themselves. Among the few notable ones (to date) are:
- more than 140 million active users,
- 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
- more than 660,000 developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
Having such a huge database of (real) users, amount of time spent on Facebook and with participation by such amount of developers and entrepreneurs, it means significant potential for the online advertisement sector.
Being a web developer, I am looking closely at how developing Facebook application can bring profit (and fame). At time of writing this article, Facebook allows applications to have their own advertisement banners and elements residing within the application canvas. This means another profit channel. And imagine 0.1% of total active users installed your application, and 10% of them uses your application daily, that will mean 140,000 page views per day.
I spent a few days before I finally figured out how to compile the bits and pieces of information out there, and I thought it would be great if I can share them with you while having it as a reference for myself.
It has been a panicking year-end for Microsoft.
Public reported that vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7 which allows remote code execution. If the exploit succeeded, it could crash the browser and force a restart that would allow malicious code to piggyback on the Web page code when the browser is reopened after reboot.
With 26.6% of the Internet users executing their Internet activities on Internet Explorer 7 (according to w3schools), that means a quarter of us are exposed to the vulnerability (despites 1 in 500 as estimated by Microsoft).
Make sure you run Microsoft Auto Updates, anytime from now on!
It can be on your system tray as shown below, or you may go direct to Microsoft Update site (using IE).
I wouldn’t be too sure if that will keep your machine safe from any attacks, but at least it is all you can do now.
Either that, or switch to other alternative browsers.
BEWARE: Vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer 7 which allows remote code execution, be sure to run Microsoft Auto Updates this Wednesday [17 Dec 2008]
Are you a fan of the most popular video sharing portal – YouTube? Always wanted to put YouTube videos onto your iPod, PSP, NDS? Have been trying hard to (illegally) get a free video format converter and eventually got infected by trojan horses and viruses? Fred no more as you now have an easy and hassle free way of saving MP4 video files straight from YouTube website!
If you are techie enough, you simply need to add an additional parameter onto the URL “fmt=18″ if you already know how to download YouTube video directly as FLV files. But what we aim for here is simplicity. None of us want to spend time keying in the URL manually one by one, we all fancy drag and drop or right click and save kind of UI.
There may be some other options (better ones, maybe) out there, but I’m sharing one of those methods that works great for me.
Here is how it goes.
I am a self-taught photographer who earns a living as web developer. I am a Technology Engineer, in which am professionally concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems. And if you are expecting the magical mixture between science and arts, you found me.
