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Nice story about Firefox including features and the best extensions. Also talks about security, history, and the future of this excellent browser.

Link: How Stuff Works

How to Reinstall Windows XP Without Having to Reactivate With Microsoft.

Link: About

For maximum security, passwords should not be cohesive words or phrases and should not be too obviously related to something like your birthday or the birthday of someone close to you. Personal information is one of the first things used when people attempt to break passwords.

Link: The Tech Zone

A lot of people are concerned these days about the online prevalence of viruses, spyware, and possible identity theft. While no one way can protect you completly while surfing the web, there are ways to hide your real identity while online.

One of the easiest ways to hide your computer, and thus hide you, while on the web is to use proxies. Proxies act as a computer between you and the rest of the web. When you are surfing the web through a proxy, any web servers you connect to, actually think you are connecting from the proxy computer.

You can, for instance, connect to the web through a proxy in Japan even though you are in the United States. Any web server you connect through will think you are connecting from Japan. Sometimes you can get iteresting results from doing this. For instance, if you do run through a proxy in Japan, and then surf to Google.com, Google will think you are in Japan, and show you the Japanese version of their website. You can of course click “Google in English” to fix that.

Link: eHow