QD#4: America’s Dumbest Criminals, OpenOffice.org Premium, Firefox 2 beta, Security Engineering book, 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: August 31, 2006]

=> America's Dumbest Criminals - A lineup of bumbling crooks who practically caught themselves (Humor)

=> OpenOffice.org Premium 2.0.3 has been released - OpenOffice.org Premium is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org plus some Extras for you to use such as

Clip Art (currently more than 2,800 objects)
Templates (number varies by language)
Samples (number varies by language)
Documentation (if available)
Fonts (more than 90 fonts) etc

=> Firefox 2 Beta 2 - is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only (Go Firefox go...).

=> Security Engineering the book : After reading this you will see how difficult it is to protect information systems from corruption, eavesdropping, unauthorized use, and general malice etc. The author offers, a lot of thoughts on how information can be made more secure. Please note that this is absolutely not a book solely about computers but in general book for everybody. (Interesting read for average joe)

=> 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic - Nice list

=> Kartoo - Visual meta search engine - KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm. It is fun to use this engine. It needs Flash. (Kewl web 2.0).

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