Davis described the panic she felt during this experience last summer — how she tried to contact Hancock emergency personnel or find someone she knew in the town among her scores of phone numbers. In December — after a four-day review period by iPhone parent company Apple — My Town Contacts debuted on the iTunes store for 99 cents. Her major upfront costs included a new, updated Mac computer for $2,000 — a one-time investment she needed to use the $99 software development kit — and $400 paid to a developer in China she found through the Web site Elance. For all of these would-be developers, the opportunity came courtesy of Apple’s release, in 2008, of iPhone SDK — a software development kit that made it possible for the public to develop iPhone applications. In addition to using social media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, Davis also uses the video sharing site YouTube and has created a Web site for her new company, tapunited. read more
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Malware is a generic term for trojans, viruses, worms, keyloggers, rootkits and other malicious code. The Avira blog has posted an interesting statistic about the malware that gets distributed by urls either in emails, on websites or other ways. Most computer users probably associated file types like exe as dangerous when they encounter them on websites or in emails and might be surprised that those files only make up 53% of the file extensions used. But attackers can also rename an executable to txt and use malicious code on a website to run the file. The statistics basically points out that while the standard file (exe) associated with a computer virus is making up more than 50% of all attacks it is of equal importance to understand that harmless looking files and links can be malicious as well. The safest bet is still to avoid clicking on links or attachments in emails. read more
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Responsible disclosure Mozilla has released the latest iteration of its flagship Firefox browser with a few significant security goodies to keep malicious hacker at bay. The update, which is being shipped via the browser’s automatic update mechanism, includes new features to patch third-party Firefox plug-ins and lock out rogue add-ons. There are no security vulnerabilities being fixed with this Firefox 3. Building on the browser’s ability to check for updates to Adobe Flash Player , Mozilla has now fitted a plug-in checker that scans the machine for insecure plug-ins that are installed. Here is a link to the Firefox Plug-in Checker . The second major security improvement in Firefox 3. read more
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The online Yellow Pages includes Stafford Motor Speedway business partners along with car owners, sponsors and drivers business listings. The goal is to create a means for consumers to make contact with businesses within the Stafford Speedway community. The SMS Yellow Page tab can be found on the Stafford Motor Speedway home page at www. The page is organized in alphabetical order by business type to allow easy access to find a business by trade or purpose. For further information on the SMS Yellow Pages, or to be included in the directory, contact the Speedway Office at 860-684-2783. read more
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As Nokia takes on Google with turn-by-turn voice navigation on select smartphones, the worst nightmares of GPS device makers are coming true. While Google Maps Navigation requires a data connection, Ovi Maps uses a combination of pre-loaded and online maps, but can load directions even in a dead zone. Nokia and Google have already duplicated voice navigation, and they already offer free directory listings and traffic, which aren’t free on all GPS devices. Google has said ” you’ll have to speak to Apple about availability ” of Google Voice Navigation, which makes me think Apple is developing a service of its own instead of ceding more of the iPhone to Google (Apple did buy a map company , Placebase, last year for reasons yet unknown). If free navigation apps become available on all major smartphones, GPS makers will only be able to pray that people hang on to their flip- and feature-phones forever. read more
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