Having heard of Adobe Flash’s would-be competitor earlier this month, I finally went over to the Silverlight Gallery to see how it significantly differs with Flash. A plug-in is needed to view Silverlight movies so I first downloaded the Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 beta plug-in and installed it. It’s a good thing that the developers included support for Firefox and Safari browsers in their beta release, though support for Opera would be much more appreciated.

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I spent a few hours a while ago testing out WarRock Philippines. I’m not really into FPS games but I enjoyed this one. First, I explored a couple of maps to see what’s in store for me, so I went into training. Some maps were impressive and large enough for 2 teams of 10. There were also lots of things to do in the game. You can ride a bike, a humvee, a half-track, or a heavy tank. You can choose from 5 character classes as well- engineer, medic, sniper, assault, or heavy weapons. Second, I joined a few games. As one would expect from a closed-beta release, there were only a few players in-game. However, I expect a lot of FPS gamers to swarm the servers when WarRock PH reaches open beta. There is currently one server, but there’s plenty of room for closed-beta players. Anyway, I joined a deathmatch game and a capture-the-flag team type game. The team game was a lot of fun because I was able to use different vehicles as well as character classes. Although communication among the team members wasn’t in sync, it wasn’t a hindrance to really have a feel of the game. Meanwhile, check out my training screenies. I hope you’d be able to join WarRock PH during its final release.

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If you’ve been using Gmail recently, you might have noticed that the attachment limit is now 20 MB. Yup, it has doubled. However, a recent project of mine called for a larger attachment. The file was around 80 MB, so I went ahead and looked for file hosting services. A simple Google search for the term free file hosting gave me an idea of what would initially make up my top 5 file hosing services.

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A few hours ago, Project Afterlight was inaccessible in some parts of the world. This was due to a hardware problem on the Web host’s data centers. Another minor error recently appeared as well. If you’re seeing a cryptic code on the sidebar of this Web site, please ignore it. Rest assured that all of these problems are being sorted out by our ever supportive Web host.

A SecurityFocus report tells of bloggers using the popular WordPress blogging software being vulnerable to attacks and infections because they fail to upgrade their WordPress installations. Security analyst David Kierznowski mentioned a couple of reasons why bloggers haven’t upgraded to the latest version:

• A lot of bloggers are not technical, and therefore, do not fully understand the reasons behind upgrading their software.
• A lot of users do not want to upgrade because their favorite plugins would fail.

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A new version of the Opera browser has just been released. Listed below are the changes from the previous version:

• New shortcut ‘ya’ for searching with Yahoo! Answers.
• The onunload event is no longer fired if a new URL is entered manually via the address bar or bookmarks.
• Fixed a bug where User JavaScript on HTTPS would keep prompting to be allowed to run on a page.
• Fixed a crash caused by long object descendant property chains in JavaScript.
• Fixed a buffer overflow with malformed torrents, as reported by iDefense.
• Stability fix for torrents.
• Fixed support for the WMP for Firefox plug-in.
• Corrected plug-in paths.
• PAC (Proxy Auto-Config) setting is now read from system.

Opera 9.21 is avalaible for download at the Opera Download page.

Opera is a cross-platform web browser and Internet suite which handles common internet-related tasks including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting online and displaying Widgets. -Wikipedia

I recently read an article from the spring issue of 2600 about avoiding Internet filtering. This method by Major Lump was one I haven’t tried before. I’ve gone through anonymous Web surfing sites such as PageWash or those which give you a list of anonymous proxies or even retrieving sites through e-mail but I haven’t tried the SSL way of accessing blocked Websites.

So how exactly do you access blocked Websites the SSL way? Read on.

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