In their words: Experts weigh in on Mac vs. PC security

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Mozilla maps out Jetpack add-on transition plan

p One of Firefox’s chief assets is a rich collection of extensions called add-ons, and for the small army of programmers who produce them, Mozilla has begun detailing how it plans to revamp Firefox’s add-on system /pp In 2009, a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10245934-2.html”Mozilla began work on a revamp of the Firefox add-on system called Jetpack/a, but the initial attempt wasn’t up to snuff for production work. On Wednesday, Mozilla sketched out its plan for releasing what will become the final version of Jetpack, called a href=”http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=746″Reboot/a.

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Want really secure Gmail? Try GPG encryption

div class=”cnet-image-div image-regular float-right” style=”width: 80px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100113/gmail_icon.png” alt=”" width=”80″ height=”60″ / /div p Perhaps a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10433538-265.html”Google’s announcement that Chinese cyber attackers went after human rights activists’ Gmail accounts/a has made you skittish about just how private your own messages are on the Google e-mail service.

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Microsoft brings kids developer tool to the PC

p div class=”cnet-image-div image-large float-left” style=”width: 610px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100113/kodu_mouse_610×356.png” alt=”" width=”610″ height=”356″ / p class=”image-caption”Microsoft is bringing its Kodu development tool from the Xbox to the PC./p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Microsoft)/span /div /pp Microsoft researcher Matt MacLaurin came up for the idea for a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Kodu/3000-18529_4-75036273.html”Kodu/a in his kitchen in the fall of 2006, noticing the way his three-year-old daughter watched her mom browse away on Facebook. MacLaurin saw how different computing is now than when he was a kid. While his Commodore Pet was like a lump of clay that he could mold by writing software in Basic, his daughter’s generation is using computers whose functions are already set in stone

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Carradine ‘murdered by secret sect’ - family

David Carradine was murdered by a secret kung fu sect, his family has claimed.

Relatives of the Kill Bill star believe he was “assassinated” because he was trying to expose an underworld martial arts group.

The 72-year-old actor who shot to fame in 1970s TV series Kung Fu was found dead in a hotel in Bangkok last Thursday. Read more

Rep: Susan Boyle Is “Recovering Well”

It’s about Susan Boyle the one who got the fast and unpredicted popularity in the song she sing called, “I Dreamed a Dream”, which led her video record watched by over 100 millions Youtube users, and got interviewed in Oprah Winfrey Show also Larry king Live. All these sudden fame has affected to his personal and emotional sense, let’s get to the news of current Susan Boyle condition after in London Clinic. Read more

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