http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 01:07:04 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 01:07:04 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-iOS-5-1-1-Untethered-Jailbreak-on-Linux-271798.shtml The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to jailbreak their Apple iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 1, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 4G devices.

As you all know, the Chronic Dev Team finally released today, May 25th, the highly anticipated 2.0 version of Absinthe jailbreak tool for the Linux, Mac OS X an... (read more)]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 16:21:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-iOS-5-1-1-Untethered-Jailbreak-on-Linux-271798.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-iOS-5-1-1-Untethered-Jailbreak-on-Linux-271798.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Jailbreak-iPhone-4S-and-iPad-2-on-Linux-250681.shtml The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to jailbreak their Apple iPhone 4S and Apple iPad 2 devices.

As you all know, the Chronic Dev Team finally released the highly anticipated version of Absinthe jailbreak tool for the Linux platform. With Absinthe users can easily untether jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices power... (read more)]]> Sat, 4 Feb 2012 15:01:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Jailbreak-iPhone-4S-and-iPad-2-on-Linux-250681.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Jailbreak-iPhone-4S-and-iPad-2-on-Linux-250681.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Boot-ISO-Images-from-Your-Hard-Drive-190443.shtml The following tutorial will teach you how to easily boot any ISO image of a Linux distribution directly from your hard drive. We've tested the tutorial on the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and the current development version of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating systems.

Would you like an easy method to test ISO images ... (read more)]]> Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Boot-ISO-Images-from-Your-Hard-Drive-190443.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Boot-ISO-Images-from-Your-Hard-Drive-190443.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Sync-Firefox-Add-ons-Bookmarks-Preferences-History-185187.shtml The following tutorial will teach our readers how to easily backup, restore and sync their Firefox add-ons, bookmarks, passwords, preferences, history and tabs, on all systems!

Do you have lots of Firefox add-ons installed? Ever wondered if there's an easy way to backup and restore your Firefox's add-ons, preferences, histor... (read more)]]> Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Sync-Firefox-Add-ons-Bookmarks-Preferences-History-185187.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Sync-Firefox-Add-ons-Bookmarks-Preferences-History-185187.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fixing-quot-WMID-devices-quot-Error-on-Your-Netbook-150715.shtml The following tutorial will teach you how to fix the "acer-wmi: unable to detect available WMID devices" error on Ubuntu Netbook Remix and other netbook operating systems based on Ubuntu. The error appears on various (if not all) netbooks made by Acer, such as Acer Aspire One or Acer eMachines, after a recent system update.

... (read more)]]> Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:49:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fixing-quot-WMID-devices-quot-Error-on-Your-Netbook-150715.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fixing-quot-WMID-devices-quot-Error-on-Your-Netbook-150715.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Use-GoogleCL-in-Linux-145183.shtml Google introduced at the end of last week a new tool called GoogleCL. It runs from the command-line (yes, the Linux terminal), and allows users to post, create, list or delete photos from an existing Picasa account, videos from a YouTube account, edit, list or upload documents from your Google Docs account, add, delete or list events from Google Calendar or post on ... (read more)]]> Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Use-GoogleCL-in-Linux-145183.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Use-GoogleCL-in-Linux-145183.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-Windows-7-Sharing-in-VirtualBox-123021.shtml In my last tutorial about VirtualBox (the free virtualization software from Sun Microsystems) I offered a solution to fix the USB support, a problem that I think is fixed now, but... I have recently encountered another issue: sharing folders with a Windows 7 guest machine!

The issue:

So, what's not working? Well, you set the ... (read more)]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-Windows-7-Sharing-in-VirtualBox-123021.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-Windows-7-Sharing-in-VirtualBox-123021.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-VirtualBox-USB-Support-111715.shtml It is actually a known fact that there is an issue with VirtualBox and the attached USB devices that many of us are trying to use in the virtual machine. Here is a real-life example:

I am a 100% Linux user and I have a photo printer that Linux can't recognize. Let's say that I want to print some photos quickly, to give them to someone. I have a Win... (read more)]]> Fri, 15 May 2009 10:19:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-VirtualBox-USB-Support-111715.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-VirtualBox-USB-Support-111715.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-OpenOffice-org-3-1-on-Ubuntu-9-04-111105.shtml After our famous "How to Install OpenOffice.org 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10" guide and because the final versions of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 are out for some time now, we decided to create a new tutorial, about how to install the fresh and improved OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 9.04. However, this tutorial will also work f... (read more)]]> Sat, 9 May 2009 14:31:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-OpenOffice-org-3-1-on-Ubuntu-9-04-111105.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-OpenOffice-org-3-1-on-Ubuntu-9-04-111105.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Turn-Linux-Into-a-PS3-or-Xbox-360-Media-Server-102831.shtml Turning your personal computer into a media server means that you will be able to play video (AVI, MPEG, MPEG-2, DivX, XviD, MKV, WMV, MP4 or even DVD ISOs or VIDEO_TS folders) and audio files (MP3, OGG, FLAC or WMA) or view your favorite photos (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF) stored on your PC's hard drive on a big screen TV set or LCD/Plasma high-de... (read more)]]> Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Turn-Linux-Into-a-PS3-or-Xbox-360-Media-Server-102831.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Turn-Linux-Into-a-PS3-or-Xbox-360-Media-Server-102831.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Enable-Video-Playback-in-Yellow-Dog-Linux-6-1-101664.shtml This tutorial is here for PlayStation 3 users who have Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 installed and want to play various video files on it. I guess that it's already a known fact that Yellow Dog Linux does not include any multimedia codecs which allow you to play most of today's video and audio formats, and trust me that installing them is quite a pain... (read more)]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:41:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Enable-Video-Playback-in-Yellow-Dog-Linux-6-1-101664.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Enable-Video-Playback-in-Yellow-Dog-Linux-6-1-101664.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Yellow-Dog-Linux-6-1-on-PS3-100880.shtml Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 operating system for SONY's PlayStation 3, Apple PowerPC G4/G5, IBM Power Systems and YDL PowerStation was officially released by Fixstars on November 19th, 2008. Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 (codename Pyxis) is an operating system for the PPC64 architecture and it is based on the CentOS Linux distribution, a RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) de... (read more)]]> Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:31:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Yellow-Dog-Linux-6-1-on-PS3-100880.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Yellow-Dog-Linux-6-1-on-PS3-100880.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Run-Linux-from-an-USB-Flash-Drive-93316.shtml Ever wanted to have a portable operating system? One that can reside inside a small USB flash drive? In the past, it was possible to run a Linux distribution from an USB stick just like you would have run it from a Compact Disc, but this task was quite hard to achieve. Why? Simply because you had to type a lot of geeky commands in a terminal and if, some... (read more)]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:07:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Run-Linux-from-an-USB-Flash-Drive-93316.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Run-Linux-from-an-USB-Flash-Drive-93316.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Install-the-Colorblind-Applet-on-GNOME-91323.shtml Color blindness, sometimes called daltonism, is mostly a color vision deficiency. Colorblind people can't tell the difference between some chromatic colors and as far as I know there are no tools on Linux OSes that can help them distinguish the hues. I use Ubuntu, and the colorblind applet is part of the gnome-mag package, but for some reason (and I... (read more)]]> Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:43:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Install-the-Colorblind-Applet-on-GNOME-91323.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Install-the-Colorblind-Applet-on-GNOME-91323.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/OpenSolaris-2008-5-Installation-Guide-84898.shtml The final version of the OpenSolaris operating system was released a few days ago and it brings a brand new Image Packaging System (IPS), ZFS as the default filesystem, and DTrace enabled packages so you can keep an eye on everything and squeeze the juice out of your system. The powerful bash shell is one of the GNU utilities that made their way into OpenSo... (read more)]]> Wed, 7 May 2008 06:05:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/OpenSolaris-2008-5-Installation-Guide-84898.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/OpenSolaris-2008-5-Installation-Guide-84898.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Unite-Windows-and-Linux-With-a-Single-Mouse-Click-78535.shtml After the success I had with my previous tutorial about how to run Windows and a Linux distribution together on the same computer (with a single monitor, keyboard and mouse and no other magic tricks required), I decided to improve the installation method with an extremely easy-to-use one. The idea is the same as in the previous guide, to obtain ... (read more)]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Unite-Windows-and-Linux-With-a-Single-Mouse-Click-78535.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Unite-Windows-and-Linux-With-a-Single-Mouse-Click-78535.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-VectorLinux-5-9-GOLD-Edition-76471.shtml VectorLinux is a lightweight Slackware-based Linux distribution. Among its features we can notice X.org 7.3, Linux kernel 2.6.22.14, a fully customized Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment, Fluxbox window manager, Jwm window manager, SeaMonkey Internet Suite 1.1.7, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Opera 9.5.0 Beta 1 web browsers. VectorLinux has enhanced Slackware... (read more)]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:53:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-VectorLinux-5-9-GOLD-Edition-76471.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-VectorLinux-5-9-GOLD-Edition-76471.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-OpenSolaris-73778.shtml Indiana is a Live CD distribution, based on the OpenSolaris source code, which tries to make the installation experience easier, to modernize the look and feel of OpenSolaris on the desktop, and to introduce a network-based package management system into Solaris. It will also have the capability for developers to create their own customized distribution. The following are... (read more)]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:46:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-OpenSolaris-73778.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-OpenSolaris-73778.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-StartCom-Enterprise-Linux-70796.shtml StartCom Ltd has announced the 5.0.1 update release of their popular StartCom Enterprise Linux two days ago and it brings the latest technologies for any mission-critical server deployments. If you want to try this distribution and don't know how to install it, here is a step-by-step guide on how to achieve that.

I always recommend having an empty h... (read more)]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:53:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-StartCom-Enterprise-Linux-70796.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-StartCom-Enterprise-Linux-70796.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Convert-Movies-with-subtitles-for-your-PSP-on-Ubuntu-67806.shtml For this task, you will need Avidemux 2.4 Preview 2. Why? Simply because it has improved support for H.264 videos, that means most of today's HR (High Resolution) movies and HDTV content. Let's say for example that you've recorded a TV show from your favorite HDTV channel and you don't have time to watch it (that's the reason why you have rec... (read more)]]> Sun, 7 Oct 2007 12:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Convert-Movies-with-subtitles-for-your-PSP-on-Ubuntu-67806.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Convert-Movies-with-subtitles-for-your-PSP-on-Ubuntu-67806.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-SME-Server-7-2-60923.shtml Based on CentOS 4.5, SME Server 7.2 is a FREE and Open Source network server and gateway Linux distribution, addressed at small and medium enterprises. The following guide will teach you step-by-step how to install the SME Server distribution on your computer.

Before we begin, I should warn you that it is required to have two network cards on the computer if... (read more)]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:00:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-SME-Server-7-2-60923.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-SME-Server-7-2-60923.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Freespire-2-0-for-Newbies-60236.shtml Not yet in its final version, Freespire 2.0 is a Ubuntu-based Linux operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer. It provides users with the choice of including proprietary drivers, codecs and applications as they see fit.

With Freespire, the choice is yours as to what software is installed on your computer, w... (read more)]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:07:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Freespire-2-0-for-Newbies-60236.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Freespire-2-0-for-Newbies-60236.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Gobuntu-7-10-59788.shtml Gobuntu is a just like Kubuntu or Xubuntu, a flavor of the Ubuntu distribution that has a very strict set of restrictions on the licenses of code and content. The Ubuntu team stripped off any redistributable and modifiable content in order to apply the Free Software Foundation "rights" definition to everything in the platform. Unfortunately, Gobuntu will not correctly ... (read more)]]> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Gobuntu-7-10-59788.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Gobuntu-7-10-59788.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Linux-Symbiosis-Not-a-Dream-Anymore-59314.shtml A quick search on Google for tutorials regarding Linux and Windows interoperability, will reveal a lot of guides on how to install (emulate) Windows on a virtual machine inside Linux or how to migrate from Windows to Linux or how to dual boot Windows and Linux, but what I was really looking for was a way to run Windows and Linux at the same time, on ... (read more)]]> Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:29:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Linux-Symbiosis-Not-a-Dream-Anymore-59314.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Linux-Symbiosis-Not-a-Dream-Anymore-59314.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Arch-Linux-59239.shtml Arch Linux is a lightweight and flexible GNU/Linux distribution. It uses i686 and x86_64 optimized packages that offer you an improved performance over other distributions. In today's guide, I'll try to explain you how to install this Linux distribution on your personal computer. First of all, grab the ISO from Arch Linux's Softpedia download page, burn it on a blank ... (read more)]]> Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:19:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Arch-Linux-59239.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Arch-Linux-59239.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Enlightenment-Desktop-from-CVS-58705.shtml Are you a Linux (Unix) user? Are you familiar with Enlightenment? If you aren't, you're probably asking yourselves right now ‘what is Enlightenment?’ Well, let me tell you that Enlightenment is the next generation, lightweight, beautiful, eye candy, powerful desktop environment for the Linux operating system. However, there are two versions of Enlightenmen... (read more)]]> Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:37:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Enlightenment-Desktop-from-CVS-58705.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Enlightenment-Desktop-from-CVS-58705.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Elive-Gem-58427.shtml The final version of Elive Linux distribution burst onto the Linux scene yesterday and I thought it would be nice to teach the new users how to install it, because this baby is a keeper, trust me. But first, I think some background about Elive wouldn't hurt anyone. Elive Gem is a Linux distribution based on the heavyweight champion, Debian 4.0 (Etch). However, Elive is ... (read more)]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Elive-Gem-58427.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Elive-Gem-58427.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-NexentaOS-58021.shtml I've heard rumors about the NexentaOS, saying that it's something "scary" for companies like IBM and RedHat, something very fast; actually, they claim that it's the best Unix distribution to come. But what's NexentaOS, after all? Well, let me enrich your knowledge: NexentaOS is an OpenSolaris distribution that combines GNU software with a state-of-the-art SunOS kernel. More... 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Highlights:

￭ 2.6.19.7 Linux kernel with the GRSecurity patch
￭ Lighttpd
￭ PHP
￭ Mysql
￭ Bind
￭ Postfix
￭ Samba
￭ WebLua
￭ Full deve... (read more)]]> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Zenserver-Installation-for-Dummies-57282.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Zenserver-Installation-for-Dummies-57282.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Stay-Secure-While-Chatting-Online-57219.shtml Jabber is an "en vogue" chat (Instant Messaging) technology, perfect for small and medium businesses. One of the cool things about Jabber - except for the fact that it's free and open source - is that it can be used on multiple platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD). Popular chat clients like Pidgin, Psi or Adium have support for the Jabber protocol. Once with t... (read more)]]> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:49:00 GMT Softpedia News - Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Stay-Secure-While-Chatting-Online-57219.shtml Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials http://news.softpedia.com/news/Stay-Secure-While-Chatting-Online-57219.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)