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The right to privacy is one of every human being’s basic rights. Absolute anonymity is not exactly possible nowadays, especially in cyberspace. However, there’s a lot that you can do in the attempt to protect your private or official data. Year after year, the number of “casualties” is increasing, as is the imaginativeness of the attacks launched on users, which means that we have to remain up-to-date and wary as well, regardless of whether you’re just protecting data on your private PC or an entire business computer network. In both cases, you have to be aware that the time when a passive defence in form of antivirus programs and optimism is long gone, and that your tactics must be much more elaborate in order to remain truly secure.
On 14th March, a new chapter in the never-ending browser war began. In the blue, Microsoft corner, the long-awaited Internet Explorer 9 finally made its official appearance. After several months of open testing of beta versions, we got the finished product, promising high performance and a simple interface, ready to ease your work and entertainment on the web.
Maths seems to be the most difficult school subject, regardless of the particular country in question. We won’t delve into the reasons behind this, although it’s true that pupils and students are also largely responsible for this, preferring to get ready-made answers to questions instead of actually reaching them by logic and common sense. This is why Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 seems like a controversial solution at first, as software solutions involving mathematics usually serve the purpose of simplifying problems rather than aiding tuition. Yet the truth is largely different - this program is an excellent educational tool, and may have been of particular interest to us because of another detail - the latest version has been entirely developed in Microsoft’s development centre here in Belgrade, where our offices are located, but in full cooperation with the company seat in Redmond.
It’s difficult to find a mobile phone user who doesn’t care about the weather forecast. BlackBerry (BB) users are no exception, and for a while, everything was functioning perfectly well, since there was an official RIM (Research In Motion) application that did the job correctly. However, at some point, RIM was asked to change this (which was probably asserted with a fine financial incentive) and introduce The Weather Channel, which works just as well, except that it doesn’t support three quarters of the world’s countries. Therefore, the user should pick an alternative, and alternatives are numerous in this regard. We find Weather Plus to be the best, since it’s relatively simple, which saves you battery and CPU cycles, supports many locations and features multi-day forecast. The commercial version offers home screen integration, and promotional campaigns that offer commercial functionality for free aren’t a rare feat either.
Over the course of the past two years, the number of applications available on Android market has increased dramatically, to the point where it can compare against Apple’s iOS platform. With this in mind, it was no easy task to select the best, but we’ve done our best to pick ten applications that we believe every Android user should at least give a try, and perhaps keep afterwards.
Facebook’s basic idea is rather confusing for new social network users. Is that a place to communicate with your friends and family, a place to promote yourself and your company, a place to link to funny and interesting websites that you’ve found on the internet, or a place to “kill” some time by playing one of the available games with your friends? In short, Facebook is all of this and more. With over half a billion virtual “neighbours”, it’s clear that this is the biggest online community. The interesting fact, however, that sets Facebook apart from all other social networks, is the sheer number of available applications. While the simple user interface has attracted users worldwide, the simple API (Application Programming Interface) has attracted independent programmers and development teams to create Facebook applications. Owing to Facebook’s rapid expansion, this social network now contains around 600,000 applications.
The expansion of wireless networks seems to be unstoppable, for both the desire to eliminate cables and the increase in portability of devices with WiFi capabilities, primarily notebooks. Wireless internet is now generally available in offices, parks, cafés etc., and more and more home users are opting for setting up a personal wireless network themselves as well, in order to simplify internet access to various devices in their environment. However, in parallel with the increase in the number of available wireless networks, there’s also been another trend in development - the problem of internet “thievery”, i.e. neighbours that access your unprotected (or poorly protected) wireless network. In the best case scenario, you’ll experience throughput problems and poor internet performance, but it doesn’t always end there - you may even expose your shared folders and all the files contained within. Luckily, protection against the aforementioned unwanted intrusions isn’t a complicated feat to achieve, and we’ll develop on the most effective ways to do that.
Futuremark proudly continues their tradition of presenting the new version of the most popular 3D benchmark program in the world every two years (give or take a couple of months). This developer first reached global popularity while under the name MadOnion, when they premiered 3DMark 2000, soon followed by 3DMark 2001 (SE), only to revert back to their original name, “Futuremark”, in 2002, taken way back in 1997. Besides this benchmark family, Futuremark is also famed for their PCMark, a complete system benchmark suite, but also 3DMark Mobile, a program for mobile devices. This time, we're reviewing the latest 3DMark 11, which implements all new technologies that DirectX 11 has to offer, and we have to admit that it looks impressive.
Only a decade ago, the first association when video editing was mentioned would be huge desks with a large number of buttons and bars in all sizes and colours, with special CRT monitors and Beta video recorders neatly stacked in front. Working with this equipment was anything but simple. Video editing is one of the best examples of computers speeding up and simplifying data manipulation. The editing room of today consists of a single strong PC with lots of storage space and a good monitor. Everything else is under software control. However, powerful video editing programs are still way too expensive for the ordinary home user, and their interface is often neither easily understandable nor intuitive.
It’s summer heat once again, and with it, less clothes, more bathing, fancy sunbathing creams and lotions etc… And while girls and boys try to present themselves the best way possible, with perfect bodies created by miraculous shakes or the local gym, posing on beaches and in cafés in their D&G swimsuits, Armani slippers and Prada sunglasses, they tend to forget that everyone around them is shooting, with phones, cheap “idiots”, officially called digital cameras, etc. Most of those pictures are likely to end up on the internet, most commonly on Facebook, the very one that more and more people claim to hate while they secretly log in to check on who might have liked their photos.
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The right to privacy is one of every human being’s basic rights. Absolute anonymity is not exactly possible nowadays, especially in cyberspace. However, there’s a lot that you can do in the attempt to protect your private or official data. Year after year, the number of “casualties” is increasing, as is the imaginativeness of the attacks launched on users, which means that we have to remain up-to-date and wary as well, regardless of whether you’re just protecting data on your private PC or an entire business computer network. In both cases, you have to be aware that the time when a passive defence in form of antivirus programs and optimism is long gone, and that your tactics must be much more elaborate in order to remain truly secure.
On 14th March, a new chapter in the never-ending browser war began. In the blue, Microsoft corner, the long-awaited Internet Explorer 9 finally made its official appearance. After several months of open testing of beta versions, we got the finished product, promising high performance and a simple interface, ready to ease your work and entertainment on the web.
Maths seems to be the most difficult school subject, regardless of the particular country in question. We won’t delve into the reasons behind this, although it’s true that pupils and students are also largely responsible for this, preferring to get ready-made answers to questions instead of actually reaching them by logic and common sense. This is why Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 seems like a controversial solution at first, as software solutions involving mathematics usually serve the purpose of simplifying problems rather than aiding tuition. Yet the truth is largely different - this program is an excellent educational tool, and may have been of particular interest to us because of another detail - the latest version has been entirely developed in Microsoft’s development centre here in Belgrade, where our offices are located, but in full cooperation with the company seat in Redmond.
Over the course of the past two years, the number of applications available on Android market has increased dramatically, to the point where it can compare against Apple’s iOS platform. With this in mind, it was no easy task to select the best, but we’ve done our best to pick ten applications that we believe every Android user should at least give a try, and perhaps keep afterwards.
Facebook’s basic idea is rather confusing for new social network users. Is that a place to communicate with your friends and family, a place to promote yourself and your company, a place to link to funny and interesting websites that you’ve found on the internet, or a place to “kill” some time by playing one of the available games with your friends? In short, Facebook is all of this and more. With over half a billion virtual “neighbours”, it’s clear that this is the biggest online community. The interesting fact, however, that sets Facebook apart from all other social networks, is the sheer number of available applications. While the simple user interface has attracted users worldwide, the simple API (Application Programming Interface) has attracted independent programmers and development teams to create Facebook applications. Owing to Facebook’s rapid expansion, this social network now contains around 600,000 applications.
The expansion of wireless networks seems to be unstoppable, for both the desire to eliminate cables and the increase in portability of devices with WiFi capabilities, primarily notebooks. Wireless internet is now generally available in offices, parks, cafés etc., and more and more home users are opting for setting up a personal wireless network themselves as well, in order to simplify internet access to various devices in their environment. However, in parallel with the increase in the number of available wireless networks, there’s also been another trend in development - the problem of internet “thievery”, i.e. neighbours that access your unprotected (or poorly protected) wireless network. In the best case scenario, you’ll experience throughput problems and poor internet performance, but it doesn’t always end there - you may even expose your shared folders and all the files contained within. Luckily, protection against the aforementioned unwanted intrusions isn’t a complicated feat to achieve, and we’ll develop on the most effective ways to do that.
Futuremark proudly continues their tradition of presenting the new version of the most popular 3D benchmark program in the world every two years (give or take a couple of months). This developer first reached global popularity while under the name MadOnion, when they premiered 3DMark 2000, soon followed by 3DMark 2001 (SE), only to revert back to their original name, “Futuremark”, in 2002, taken way back in 1997. Besides this benchmark family, Futuremark is also famed for their PCMark, a complete system benchmark suite, but also 3DMark Mobile, a program for mobile devices. This time, we're reviewing the latest 3DMark 11, which implements all new technologies that DirectX 11 has to offer, and we have to admit that it looks impressive.
It’s summer heat once again, and with it, less clothes, more bathing, fancy sunbathing creams and lotions etc… And while girls and boys try to present themselves the best way possible, with perfect bodies created by miraculous shakes or the local gym, posing on beaches and in cafés in their D&G swimsuits, Armani slippers and Prada sunglasses, they tend to forget that everyone around them is shooting, with phones, cheap “idiots”, officially called digital cameras, etc. Most of those pictures are likely to end up on the internet, most commonly on Facebook, the very one that more and more people claim to hate while they secretly log in to check on who might have liked their photos.