Mozilla Geode – A threat to User privacy?

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps websites detect the physical location of computers.

• The system will allow users, for instance, to find local restaurants when they travel to a new town.

• The Geode project is an experimental program ahead of a full blown launch of geolocation technology.

• Users will have control over how much location information they give.

• It uses technology from a firm called Skyhook which works out a computer’s location from nearby wireless networks.

• Its so-called Loki system can determine location within seconds with an accuracy of about 10 to 20 metres.

But when it can trace the physical location of computers, then it can easily trace serious information for hackers and intruders as well, even some random websites now may steal user information very easily if this source code gets leaked.

It is a controversial question that if this issue should be accepted or not that easily by everyday and not so computer savvy users, as it may be a big threat to user privacy.

Drive defrag-speed up your pc(windows) with drive defrag.

Symptom for slow pc speed caused by increased file seeking time

Most of the users see that hourglass for minutes while exploring windows after 2 to 4 years of their continuous computer usage,

Try Disk cleanup wizard

1. Click start, then All Programs, then Accessories, then system tools, then Disk cleanup and choose the desired drive to be cleaned up and run this wizard, it will ask you first about the files which may be deleted.
2. You may also manually run disk cleanup, open My computer, right click on the disk/partition to be cleaned up, go to properties, under General tab run Disk cleanup.

Manual defragmentation of the Local Disk

1.	Open My Computer.
2.	Right-click the local disk volume that you want to defragment, and then click Properties.
3.	On the Tools tab, click Defragment Now.
4.	Click Defragment

Computer Management MMC

1.	Start Computer Management MMC (Compmgmt.msc).
2.	Click Disk Defragmenter.
3.	Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment.

Disk Defragmenter MMC

1.	Start Disk Defragmenter MMC (Dfrg.msc).
2.	Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment.

The version of Disk Defragmenter MMC that is included with Windows XP has the following limitations:

1.	It can defragment only local volumes.
2.	It can defragment only one volume at a time.
3.	It cannot defragment one volume while it is scanning another.
4.	It cannot be scheduled. If you need to schedule disk defragmentation, use the Defrag.exe command line tool.It can run only one MMC snap-in at a time.

Optimize firefox browser, speed up web browsing.

Windows can’t be better than Mac but
when it comes to having software diversity Mac gets a loose character with all
the glitches and moreover web browsers created on the platform change the basic
appearance of the websites! safari is not a good one here! Every system on the
net endorses firefox which eats more memory than a mini os quota

while randomizing my tour I came across the super memory hungry firefox using my
pc’s 56,576k. almost multitasking banned for firefox users!

Optimize firefox

save your bookmarks first! transfer them
to an extra file in the hard drive.

Using profile management

1. Run
” C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe”-P
(specify your own respective installation path)

2. Create new profile but do not modify the existing default profile

3. restart firefox and first of all reboot the cache as firefox is really a cunning fox at showing you the same saved page again
and again even if you reinstall the default profile.

4. check if the speed has improved or not and if not switch back the useless
changes. and do fresh reinstall.