Google has received requests from many individuals to offer a boost in privacy. These requests came from over three dozen security, privacy, and research personnel. Google has deciding that it’s going to oblige to the requests.

Google has always allowed for you to encrypt your Gmail by using https:// however you have to manually set this as the default. Other applications such as Docs or Calendar don’t have this option. This means that the information can be acquired by malicious users. The document was signed by a top security expert and addressed to Eric Schmidt.

Many other sites have this problem as well and users are just as vulnerable to data theft or having their accounts stolen. However Google is able to start a trend in the right direction to fixing the problem.

The problem is that many people don’t understand the risks that are involved in using services that aren’t encrypted. Even though Gmail has the option to do so many people don’t know it exists. If people don’t know it exists then the option itself is basically useless.

Google officials want some time to experiment with putting all of the apps into a security mode so that they will know all of the effects on users’ experience. The biggest problem they’ve found is where users will experience the application slow down when doing certain actions.

Google has announced that it’s going to test the security encryption on a small basis to see what kinds of effects it has on email and other applications. Google plans to make the https:// address standard as long as there are no huge negative effects.

Those who contributed to the letter believe that Google and its engineers can create a low latency system for Gmail and other applications as they have done for AdWords, Health, Voice, and AdSense.

Source: CNET

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Are you familiar with the term “case mod?” In case you don’t know, it means “case modification. I thought that nobody’s really into it. As they say, “it’s what inside that counts.” 

“Case modders” admit that putting disco lights inside their computer won’t even add a single megahertz to the speed of their PC. In fact it may even compromise the performance of the unit if the power demanded by the accessories exceeds the limit or capacity of the power supply. It’s not a performance-enhancing undertaking, but it’s definitely an eye-pleaser.  It’s already a given that case modification is a matter of preference and not of necessity. If your system’s specs are already impressive, then I see no reason why you should refrain from training your wallet on dazzling cooling fans or fancy motherboard lights. 

However, I think that spending big on PC make up and lipstick is unreasonable if your processor is already begging for retirement or if your system lacks the necessary tools or applications for optimization. What good is an aesthetically-pleasing PC when it takes minutes for just a single application to run. 

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I’ve been looking for a healthy, but more daring chicken recipe on the Internet. Although my doctor counts chicken as a personal foul on my diet (I’m sometimes allergic to it), I can’t resist inserting one fowl dish on my daily menu. To exaggerate a bit, I think my body simply won’t function without a piece of chicken. It’s my very own operating system

Just as the human body can’t function without food, so does a computer without software. While you may store virtually almost anything on your hard drive, keep in mind that the files or applications that your computer runs on should be cholesterol-free. System registries, actual and virtual memories get clogged when fed with programs that are poorly written, or worse, laced with spyware or adware.

When people get sick, they take in medicine. It’s quite the same in the case of computers. If your unit gets infected with electronic worms or diseases, all you have to do is find a cure for it. Sometimes, all it takes for a PC to be up and running again is to rid its registry of needless instructions coming from parasitical files or programs.

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