Category Archives: General

Twitter acquires TwitPic’s Domain and Photo archive

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Photo-sharing web site TwitPic announced that the site will be acquired by Twitter after “quite the roller coaster ride over the last few months.” The company will be handing over the TwitPic domain and archive to Twitter so users will

Common reasons for a hacked website

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Annie

The most common reasons for a hacked (defaced) websits are * Outdated web application (Joomla, WordPress, PhpBB…) : Every popular web application has had security problems and that’s why you have to use always the latest version. * Outdated web

How to change my document root folder using an .htaccess file?

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Annie

By default website is loaded from the public_html folder of hosting account. The public_html directory is also called document root folder. If you’ve created a test website under a sub-folder and you want it to be displayed when you type

Twitter unveils ‘Fabric’ new platform for Mobile Developers

Posted on October 25, 2014 by sherly

Twitter unveiled Fabric on Wednesday, a new developer toolkit with software products to better build third-party mobile apps. Fabric was showcased by Twitter executives in San Francisco, including CEO Dick Costolo, at the company’s first mobile developers conference, Flight. Fabric

Microsoft to stop Free Xbox Music streaming in December

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

When Microsoft launched the Xbox Music streaming service, the company offered three ways to listen to music, including a free ad-based service. But the reports says Microsoft announced that effective December 1, Xbox Music’s free tier will be retired. Microsoft

Facebook, Yahoo team up to keep hackers from using recycled accounts

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

With Yahoo recycling its email accounts by giving dormant addresses to other users, could new users of a recycled account hijack the Facebook accounts they are linked to?. Well Facebook was watching and teamed up with Yahoo to make sure

Twitter announces Digits, an alternative to passwords

Posted on October 24, 2014 by sherly

Twitter has announced a service that enables users to replace static passwords with a text message-based one-time passcode service. The announcement of the Digits service, made at Twitter’s Flight developer conference in San Francisco, came just hours after Google announced

Facebook tries anonymous chatting app, Rooms

Posted on October 24, 2014 by sherly

Facebook announced the launch of its own anonymous messaging app, called Rooms. With this, the social networking giant has entered a domain, which is an increasingly crowded field, considering various start-ups, which revolve around anonymous messaging. Facebook’s app is a

Google Unveils new App for Managing Gmail Inboxes

Posted on October 23, 2014 by sherly

Sorting through hundreds of emails and picking out what’s important can be a real pain, and now Google has built a tool to help fix that problem. Inbox, which launched Wednesday, offers a different way of handling the daily avalanche

A Physical Key to Your Google Account

Posted on October 23, 2014 by sherly

Opting in to Google’s latest security upgrade requires a spot on your key chain for a device known as a security key. A security key provides a more secure version of two-factor authentication, an approach already offered by some Web

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