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| Does FunCom Really Penalize Female AoC Characters? |  | Age of Conan is the biggest MMORPG release this year and one of the biggest in recent years. Despite that, since it came a few years after its biggest competitors, it will not be pardoned too easy for its mistakes and bugs. And, apparently, the developers did not see a ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox RC3 Released to Fix 10.5.3 Bug |  | Mozilla.org has been prompted to roll out a new release candidate of its web browser. Firefox 3.0 RC3, issued yesterday, offers a single bug fix for Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard users. Also yesterday, Mozilla announced its plans to release the final version of Firefox 3.0 on Tuesday, June 17.
"Af ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2008, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Introduces Windows Bug Contest |  | Microsoft is looking to provide incentives for testers to turn in bugs for its next generation of Windows Embedded operating system, now in CTP phase. At the beginning of this month the Windows Embedded Standard Community Technology Preview was made available for download via Microsoft Connect. A week later, the Bug ... [read more >>] | | 10 June 2008, 13:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Fails to Fix 'Incoming Mail Sound' Issue |  | Apple Discussions is filled with complaints about how upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard kills the "Incoming Mail Sound." Seemingly, not only those upgrading to the latest version of the OS are having this issue. Also, the problem is tied to more e-email protocols than just the POP, as the ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Wonderware SuiteLink's Denial of Reported Service Vulnerability |  | Security researchers at Core Security Technologies have issued a warning statement on Monday according to which they found a rare vulnerability in Wonderware subsidiary's InTouch SuiteLink application. Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, is a software manufacturer that offers solutions to business users in areas such as Production and Performance Management, Geographical SCADA and Supervisory HMI (Human-Machine Interface).
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| Yahoo Mail Bug Adds Unsolicited Text, POP3 Still Needed |  | Yahoo Mail back in the spotlights. Unfortunately for the Sunnyvale-based company, Yahoo Mail caught our attention due to an error which, according to Yahoo's officials, adds some unrequested text at the footer of the messages users compose. Ryan K, Community Manager, Yahoo Mail, wrote that the engineers have already identified the source of the problem and are currently working on it, the fix being expected sometimes in a da ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Microsoft-Apple Joke |  | In what sounds like yet another bold move on behalf of the Cupertino-based corporation in relation to Windows users, Steve Jobs reportedly told ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Need a Bug Fix? Ask Steve Jobs |  | Say you have problems with your Mac. What do you do? Hit Apple Discussions of course, or any other Mac-dedicated forum, blog etc. But say you're in a higher position than mom&# ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 08:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Why Hot Males Have More Sex? |  | We already knew this without science. But science now has just proven it: hot males can have more sex. Especially if they are from the ambush bug species.
These predatory bugs are famous for their color pattern that camouflage the insects against flowers. This way they can lie in wait to ambush insects stopping on the flower. The ambush bugs (Phymata americana) stand on their two hind pairs of legs, with their bodies raised i ... [read more >>] | | 27 December 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How to Eat Insects |  | The entomophagy or insect eating is considered disgusting in western societies, even if the Europeans eat all kinds of crustaceans and mollusks. But in the diet of our ancestors, they could have had an important place, judging from the diet of the chimpanzees.
Other cultures do not reject insects at all, as they are an easy and accessible source of proteins and fats. Eating insects for food is common throughout the world and dates back ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PayPal Not As Secure As You Had Expected? |  | PayPal's Security Key was regarded as an extremely efficient solution to stop potential phishing or other web attacks over the PayPal members, as it generates a six-character code to be entered for authentification. Along with a username, a password and an answer to a secret question, it's probably impossible to break and get access to the account. At least this is what we know. But here's Chris Romero, an IT admin ... [read more >>] | | 29 November 2007, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla: No More Patched Bugs before Firefox 3 Final |  | Firefox 3.0 Gran Paradiso, the new version of the Mozilla browser, is expected to be released next year, representing the most powerful version of Firefox ever released. But it seems like this application might leave numerous reported bugs unpatched as the Mozilla wants to repair only 20 percent of the glitches, PC World reported today. In a message published on the main Mozilla page, the company requires developers to rate the i ... [read more >>] | | 16 November 2007, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PS3 Ratchet & Clank Arrives, Glitches Included |  | While we're playing Crash of the Titans on the PSP and Xbox 360, another major platformer arises, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction being the most awaited game of its genre on the PS3. However, there's ... [read more >>] | | 26 October 2007, 08:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Funniest Videogame Bug Ever in Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 |  | Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 may be launched tomorrow, but what matters today is that you can laugh at one extremely funny bug from the game, by checking out the video below. I've seen bugs and bugs till now, but none of this magnitude... While it's not a [AD ... [read more >>] | | 25 October 2007, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Super Paper Mario Has Glitches – Game Freezes in Chapter 2-2 |  | The European version of the famous Super Paper Mario title has some issues, well rather programming glitches. It turns out this Wii game freezes your console at the start of Chapter 2-2, but only under certain conditions. When you meet Mimi and start chatting with her, in c ... [read more >>] | | 20 September 2007, 02:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox Still Vulnerable! (Reminds Me Of XP) |  | It still can't properly handle protocol. It's bugged! They've released two patches since these flaws were first discovered but it is still vulnerable.
This is sort of like Windows XP. They've released it and then came Service Pack I and then II and a lot of hotfixes and updates and so on and so forth. And now, no matter what version of Windows XP you have, once in a while, that little box pops up in the corn ... [read more >>] | | 05 September 2007, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Characters Masturbate in BioShock! |  | Quite a few BioShock gamers should already be acquainted with the game's various glitches. For such a promising title, BioShock not only has a lot of bugs, but some very obscene ones as well. For example, the game's "masturbation glitch". It& ... [read more >>] | | 30 August 2007, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Exploit Crashing WoW's Servers Discovered! |  | A piece I just happened to stumble upon, posted on Theregister.co says that "Players in the World of Warcraft discovered an exploit that crashes the game's servers late Sunday, causing massive outages throughout the night." Blizzard is awfully quiet on this one, but ... [read more >>] | | 28 August 2007, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Bug? Not Anymore! |  | Every once in a while, the YouTube team discovers bugs, errors or just simple glitches that affect the experience of viewing the online clips. Recently, it was reported that there was a bug in the subscriber count system that caused the technology to crash so no new subscriber was recorded. Because sometimes it is very important to keep the technology up and stable, the YouTube team is always opened to suggestions and ready to m ... [read more >>] | | 20 August 2007, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Skype Goes Offline, Major Downtime Recorded |  | The famous communication tool Skype was yesterday affected by a serious problem concerning the login technology which caused one of the most impressive downtimes ever recorded by the software solution. Although the Skype team managed to identify the problem quite quickly they also admitted that it might take up to 24 hours until they manage to fix it. Until now, Skype was quite a stable product if we avoid talking about short-ter ... [read more >>] | | 17 August 2007, 06:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista's Annoyances Under the Spotlight |  | After getting used to work with Vista I somewhat forgot about how difficult it was to get used to it and now I finally had the idea to make some sort of list containing all the annoyances (or at least the ones that I remember of) that made me think Vista will only make my life a living hell. That was when I started to use it because, as you probably know, after using any type of software or operating system you get used to it or, in the wo ... [read more >>] | | 31 July 2007, 11:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hackers Find the iPhone's Vulnerabilities |  | The iPhone might look great, it may also be capable of managing a great deal of evolved performances, but has its own weak spots. This has happened in the first three days since the release of this device, which makes it even more possible that their number incr ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2007, 08:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How to Eat Living Stink Bugs... |  | The entomophagy or insect eating is considered disgusting in western societies, even if the Europeans eat all kinds of crustaceans and mollusks.
Other cultures do not reject insects at all, as they are an easy and accessible source of proteins and fats. Toasted termites are extremely appreciated in the African countries; in Brazil ants are eaten salted, while in Thailand with curry. In Thailand, too, crickets are fried in banana leaves ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2007, 02:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First iPhone Bug! Is There Any Chance to Remain Secure? |  | The long-awaited Apple device, iPhone, might disappoint some owners because a security company already discovered an important bug in the gadget. Robert Graham from Errata Security, said that the bug is somehow similar to one issue found in Safari, the browser produced by the same company. Although iPhone already contains a security issue, the security expert said that the device is still more secure than other smartphones based ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2007, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How I Got Sick of Google Reader |  | Google Reader is always described as the best web-based RSS client because it works quite amazing although it is still a part of Google Labs. And until today, I really believed that Google Reader is a fantastic solution although every once is a while it returned me a tiny error. But today, it's the end. Today it's the big moment when I decided to switch from the famous solution powered by the Mountain View company to a ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2007, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Fights with The Bugs |  | The advertising platform provided by Google, AdWords, is now offering to its users a brand new... bug! Yes, you've read it correctly, AdWords contains a bug that affects the MCC (My Client Center) containing valuable information about your campaigns and accounts. As it is reported in a WebmasterWorld thread, the issue appeared one week ago and although the search giant's representatives said the engineers were working o ... [read more >>] | | 29 June 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fertility Pills Made Of Live Bacteria |  | We, humans, use aphrodisiacs to enhance fertility.
There are various recipes and food recommended for a better sexual life.
But sometimes nature can offer even germs to do this job. The plataspid stinkbug (Megacopta punctatissima) is a severe pest on soybean crops, and often leads to entire fields wasted. They have a formidable breeding power, and now researchers at University of Tokyo have uncovered their secret aphrodis ... [read more >>] | | 14 June 2007, 07:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Newly Discovered Thai Bugs Devour Fish |  | Researchers have found 50 new species of insects in Thailand, and we’re not talking about minute creatures here, but about large water bugs that can even eat small fish and induce painful bites on curious humans.
The team led by Robert Sites at University of Missouri, Columbia, has described 12 of the 50 new species discovered so far: six of the nasty bugs belong to the family of the water striders – scientifically named Gerridae – whic ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2007, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| You Drive Me Crazy (Google)! |  | Today, while I was reading the latest headlines published on Google News, an uncanny thing caught my attention. As you can see in the picture attached to the article, Google News displayed the same headlines, the same author with the same information no more than three times. They were all redirecting the readers to a “Get Google Pack” article published by the same author 33 minutes ago. Although I'm not sure if this is a ne ... [read more >>] | | 02 May 2007, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Breaks Into The House and Steals Your Stuff |  | Yesterday, one of the most used Google products was messed up by an unknown error that caused the service's configuration to be reverted to default. Google Personalized Homepage was quite messed up because a considerable number of users were affected by the bug and were unable to access the gadgets or other type of information stored in their account. As far as I can see, the bug affected all users, no matter what browser or ... [read more >>] | | 27 April 2007, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sex Talk Can Be Deadly |  | When it's about sex, the main goal is reproduction. But when it's about calling for sex, the call can bring the end of the caller's kind.
Brazilian researchers found that parasitoid wasps spy on the “sex talk” of female stink bugs in order to detect new flash for their eggs.
The parasitoid wasps seem depicted from a science fiction movie: they lay their eggs inside insect adults, larvae or eggs and the hatching larva ... [read more >>] | | 20 April 2007, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Is Down! And I Mean, DOWN! |  | Google Translate is surely the most efficient automatic translator on the Internet because it provides almost perfect translations in numerous languages from all over the world. The product is currently very powerful because it is based on users’ help, allowing us to suggest the translation using a simple balloon notification placed on the translated page and near a certain word. Today, something went wrong and Google returned a ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2007, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Freaky YouTube Error |  | Today, while I was looking for a security clip posted on Google’s video service, YouTube returned me a strange error. 500 Internal Server Error. “Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. Please report this incident to customer service. Also, please include the following information in your error report,” the error message said. The website also contained a link ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2007, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gmail Blocked Yahoo Emails |  | Gmail, the free mail solution provided by Google, caused some new headaches for the company after the service accidentally blocked Yahoo Group Emails, restricting all the messages coming from Yahoo. A Google Groups discussion reported that Gmail filtered the entire content sent to the Google mail service and blocked the emails delivered by an Yahoo account.
The first post was published on March 17 while Google officially confi ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2007, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Works with Microsoft to Repair iTunes Bug |  | iTunes is currently one of the most popular audio players on the Internet, being developed by Apple but available on Mac and Windows. Because it is also compatible with Microsoft’s operating system, more and more Windows users are attracted to use Apple’s application. Among other important improvements for the applications included in Mac OS X there is also a recommended update for iTunes meant to resolve some recently reported compatibili ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2007, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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