Tag: SANDBOX

There's no replacement for good anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. But if you want to be super-certain that you're not downloading anything dangerous next time you open your web browser, there's one surefire way to protect your computer: make sure you're not writing anything to your system. Sandboxie lets you do this by setting up a sort of virtual hard drive that's separated from the rest of ...

ZoneAlarm has launched a public beta of a new security tool that basically puts your web browser into a sandbox. Visit sites you know are unsafe, check your bank statements on a computer that you know is infected with viruses and spyware. We caught up with ZoneAlarm Director of Consumer Product Management John Gable at ShowStoppers in New York, and he told us a bit about the new product. ...

At the Google Developer Day a little while ago, Google announced a Mashup Editor that they were releasing. It was by invitation only, and known as an interactive development environment that would allow users to edit, compile, test and manage applications. We recently got the opportunity to check out the interface, and play around with it a bit. The Google Mashup Editor is built off of an AJAX ...

Getting your website or blog ready for AdSense isn't always a picnic, and trying to peg the right keywords to generate the best ads for your audience can often prove to be a cryptic game of whack-a-mole. Sure, Google offers their own basic sandbox for building your ad units, but they don't really help you with either of the aforementioned tasks. Thankfully, Amit Agarwal has stepped up to the ...

Steven Frank, founder of Mac software company Panic Inc., certainly thinks so, and I agree. With the slew of new web apps that are being introduced almost on a daily basis, it's becoming a pain to create a registration for each one, verify, then jump back in to finally start playing. Not to mention this process completely breaks that initial 'ooh, a slick new [insert service here]!!' excitement. I ...