First Worm for the iPhone

Finally the first iphone self propagating worm has come to town for all those that love their apple iphone.
Whats interesting about this worm (virus) is that it's only found circulating around Australia at the moment
,mainly because an Aussie Script kiddie has found an exploit for the jail-broken application.

What the worm does is exploits a security hole by which the iphone that has ssh installed with the default password
that hasn't been changed, and the user has removed  the Apple's protection by allowing all software to run is at risk. The exploit
changes the phone's wallpaper to a picture of an 1980s singer "Rick Astley" with a message that says
"ikee is never going to give you up".

The best way to prevent this self propagating worm infecting your iphone is by locking down the security mechanism
so that only the programs you want to run have access to your phone.

For more infomation about this security post visit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8349905.stm

Yahoo Search to go real-time!

Yahoo Search to go real-time!


Yahoo is very close to signing a deal with 'OneRiot' which is a real-time search engine provider to make searches more timeless when searching. What this means is that a user can search content with it being up to date to the minute or close enough when searching on yahoo.

How it works is the oneriot search engine will be constantly crawling social media websites like digg, stumble upon and delicious and then catorgize the most relevent links of whats popular. This will be an excellent way of boosting search engine traffic quickly but then again might be even harder to gain traffic because it will be based on opions of what people think is best.
The authority of the webpage like traffic rank, how fresh the content is and the authority of the person posting the content are all contributing factors to determine the real-time stats.

Yahoo hasn't announced yet exactly how it will get its 'real-time' updates, but will be closley related to the way Google and Bing is soon to get their real-time updates and thats by crawling for links in twitter posts.

For more information follow the below link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6454015/Yahoo-signs-real-time-search-deal-with-OneRiot.html

Resizable tabs in opera 10

A very new and nice feature in Opera 10 is the ability to resize the tabs. This is where Opera does it over firefox any day. To resize the tabs just click and drag underneath the tab bar to see the difference. Even just mousing over each tab lets you preview that page.

Opera 10 speed dial

Opera 10 has a fantastic feature could speed dial. It allows one to browse a list of favorite websites when opening up a new tab. Each dial can be customized to your favorite sites which allows for quick access without having to type the address into the address bar. A background image can also be added to speed dial and it all so has a built in search field. 

speedup Opera with Turbo boost

Opera 10 has a new speedup tool could Turbo. It allows the user to speedup loading web pages by turning on this feature. Turbo is a compression tool that speeds up the process of data loading on a web page. Opera Turbo has three settings of Automatic which detects the network speed and if it is slow then it will be enabled. On, which is permanently on to speedup the loading pages on a slow network and Off which loads pages normally.

Block websites in Opera 10

Opera 10 has a built in security feature to easily block a website from loading in the browser.

This can be done by going to the menu Tools > Advanced > Blocked Content.

Email Notes in Opera 10

The opera browser allows the user to create notes within the browser. To create a note just go to tools up on the menu bar, and click Notes then Add. Then type the email message or text. To email the note just double click it in the left column, then choose the default system email client. This makes a great text editor where notes can be saved to come back too.