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After trying to install Spyware Doctor from Google Packs on my Virtual Windows 7 Machine using Virtual Box, Windows 7 simply froze and would not boot. Clicking on ‘Start Windows Normally” on the boot screen tried to successfully boot Windows 7, but it failed. Then on the screen, I get an option to repair Windows 7 Automatically.

And fixed. When Windows 7 finished it automated repair, a quick boot and the system was back up and running.

The only downside is, that the other Google Pack software that was installed, was removed. But the main thing for the end user is having a quick fix to a broken computer.

A website that states “CrossLoop - Simple, secure screen-sharing and trusted experts for computer help” is not very secure at all when you look at this picture.

When you login to the website over a secure encryption, it uses the GET method to log you in and shows your password and email to the world and people standing behind you.

I entered the email as email[at]jicola.com and the password as mypassword and the URL outputs “https://crossloop.com/quicklogin.htm?login_error=1&j_password=mypassword&q=y&j_username=email[at]jicola.com&qurl=”

For a website that exchanges money between clients and computer experts, showing a user name and password in the web browsers URL is not acceptable. Especially when the website is a gateway to allow two remote users to access and control each others computer. It will open the world up to hackers.

Crossloop has to do something about this and let your someone’s username and password to be shown in the URL. Even though the password is wrong, it only has to be one letter or number and standbyers can work out the correct password.

Update: This security flaw only happens when you click the log in link on the home page and the URL is http://crossloop.com/quicklogin.htm. To securely log in, use this link https://crossloop.com/login.htm. If you incorrectly log in on this URL, it shows login.htm?login_error=1, and not your email and password.

A recent study from Professor Alain Lieury from University of Rennes in Brittany, France, conducted a study on four groups of ten year old children to see if you become smarter by using Nintendo brain game’s compared to conventional learning such as school and pen to paper.

The study has shown, that playing the Brain games doesn’t make much of a difference compared to the conventional styles of learning.

But even though it may not make a difference, children would rather play the computer games rather then doing work at school. Playing these brain games instead of playing first person shooters is at least constructive for children as at least they are learning something.

Today I have been playing around with Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta, and frankly, Google Docs and Zoho is much better. It is easier to use and is purely web-based, unlike Office Live which asks you to install a setup file onto your computer.

You can view word documents online, but you cannot create or edit them without installing the software. What is the point of that, especially if your on a public computer.

If you are trying to have an Office online, make it so you don’t have to install software, otherwise, just use Google Docs. And with Google Docs, you can have it on your own personal domain name if you wish.

Even though Microsoft is trying to compete online with Google, they are not doing a good job with it.

To get started with Office Live Workspaces, visit http://workspace.office.live.com or you can download the optional Windows Update program Office Live Add-in which installs a link into your start menu.

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1. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
2. In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” were considered a dirty word.
3. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
4. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
5. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
6. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
7. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
8. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
9. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
10. Mosquitoes have teeth.

If your like me, you go to the video store and you see all these new release movies  that you have never heard of and do not know what it is about and whether or not you would like it.

But now, Jinni is a new service available on the Internet which allows to discover movies similar to the ones that you like.

However, if you want to watch the movie, you still have to go to the video store or click the links which allows to you rent or buy the movie from online stores.

The service is currently in the BETA stage, so you have to register for an account to use the service.

In the US and UK only, you can now search, read and access all your downloaded emails from Gmail.

When you do not have an Internet connection, you are not left in the dark. Pretty much everything that you don’t need an Internet connection for in Gmail, you can now access offline.

It now bridges the game between web-based and desktop based.

Microsoft is currently planing to change its Windows Live brand and Office Live brand into one portal called Kumo, which in Japanese means cloud, ceiling and a few other names. Microsoft has recently registerd the domain name kumo.com and many others such as kumosearch.com, kumopics.com, kumogroups.com, kumowiki.com and kumotravel.com

The domain name kumo.com was created on 30th of April 2008 and expired 10 years later in the year 2018.

A while a go, the EU is wanting Microsoft to either unbundle Internet Explorer with its operating system or bundle it with Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

But when the EU told Microsoft to unbundled Internet Explorer, how would people surf the Internet as their is now no web browser to download other web browsers.

Every new computer I buy or reformat, I always install Firefox, and now I will install Chrome, Internet Explorer is just an unfriendly web browser.

I think it will be good if Microsoft bundles other browsers with its OS. What are your thoughts?