After the Deadline Brings Better Grammar and Spellchecking to Firefox, and It’s Awesome

This nifty little add-on hides in the background on Firefox until you’re ready to use it. The next time you visit a message board, fill out a web form, or leave a comment on your favorite web site, just hit F7 on your keyboard before you send your message into the intertubes. The extension checks for spelling and grammatical errors and underlines them in hard-to-miss bold colors.

The Internet Traffic Report has been a resource for tracking the ebb and flow of global Internet usage for quite sometime now.
If your data connection is choking on a YouTube download, or you can’t get your Yahoo! on, it may be time to check the international, real-time, binary flow. Higher scores (updated every 5 minutes), mean more Yin for your Yang.
So if your favorite beef jerky recipe site in Slovakia is moving at the speed of dial-up, don’t cuss your provider just yet. This may just mean someone’s sitting on the data cable on the other side of the world.
Or you have dial-up.

There are several red flags in the fake UPS “tracking number” email that is currently circulating, which contains an infected .zip file attachment. If you were unlucky enough to catch this virus, the following is a site that details how to fix your system. If nothing else, have a look at what a virus infected email looks like. Hat tip to www.HowToGeek.com.