Shockwave Flash Crash: How To Resolve Crashes At Your Own?

Shockwave Flash Player is one of the most integral part of the operating system, which websites use to promote interactivity and smooth navigational experience. It has been observed in the past few years, (particularly since the frequent updates of browsers and operating systems became a tradition) that shockwave flash is continually leading a large number of problems to form, which can only be resolved by repairing the various issues that this part of the system may have. 

Causes Of Shockwave flash crash Include: 

1. The website you're viewing has some problem
2. Your "registry database" as errors
3. The web browser's cache contains some corrupt element.
4. Windows is unable to correctly load up the files needed to run it.

How to Fix the Puzzle?

Here is a three step guide to fix this technical bug. 
#1: Re-Install Shockwave Flash ActiveX Component - The first step is to re-install the Shockwave Flash ActiveX component on your PC, as this is the main piece of software which Windows will use to play back Shockwave applications. To do this, you should follow these steps:

1. Click "Start" > "Control Panel" > "Add / Remove Programs"
2. Select the "Shockwave Flash Player" listing
3. Select "Remove" next to the program
4. Complete the uninstall process
5. Restart your PC
6. Install Shockwave again
7. Restart your system and enjoy smooth browsing

#2: Make sure your drivers are working correctly - The "drivers" of Windows are used continually to help make sure that your computer can process the software & hardware of its system in the right way. We've found that drivers can be a major cause of Shockwave Flash errors, making it vital that you're able to repair the various issues it may have with these steps: Click onto "Device Manager"

1. Look at all the pieces of hardware on your PC
2. Make note of any ones which may have problems
3. Look on the Internet & download the latest drivers for each program

#3: Clean Up The Registry Of Windows - The registry is a large database inside every Windows system. It's basically where your computer will keep everything from your most recent emails to your desktop icons, and is used to help ensure that your PC can process the files that it requires to operate. Although this part of your computer is continually being used to help ensure that Windows is able to run as smoothly as possible, it's continually leading a large number of problems to form, including issues with Shockwave Flash. 

In order to fix this, you have to be able to use a program called a "registry cleaner" to scan through this part of your PC and automatically fix any of the errors inside. However, make sure to download some reliable registry cleaner to optimize your system and remove shockwave crash bug. It is strongly advised to read customer reviews, and download some reliable program.

How Facebook Responded to Princeton University's Report Indicating Imminent Demise of Facebook

This article is an official response by Facebook, so being published as it is, without any modification or changes- It was originally published in Facebook Notes. Link given in the bottom.

Like many of you, we were intrigued by a recent article by Princeton researchers predicting the imminent demise of Facebook. Of particular interest was the innovative use of Google search data to predict engagement trends, instead of studying the actual engagement trends. Using the same robust methodology featured in the paper, we attempted to find out more about this "Princeton University" - and you won't believe what we found!

In keeping with the scientific principle "correlation equals causation," our research unequivocally demonstrated that Princeton may be in danger of disappearing entirely. Looking at page likes on Facebook, we find the following alarming trend:

Now, Facebook isn't the only repository of human knowledge out there. A search of Google Scholar revealing a plethora of scholarly articles of great scholarliness turned up the following results, showing the percentage of articles matching the query "Princeton" by year:

The trend is similarly alarming: since 2009, the percentage of "Princeton" papers in journals has dropped dramatically.

Of course, Princeton University is primarily an institution of higher learning - so as long as it has students, it'll be fine. Unfortunately, in investigating this, we found a strong correlation between the undergraduate enrollment of an institution and its Google Trends index:

Sadly, this spells bad news for this Princeton entity, whose Google Trends search scores have been declining for the last several years:

This trend suggests that Princeton will have only half its current enrollment by 2018, and by 2021 it will have no students at all, agreeing with the previous graph of scholarly scholarliness. Based on our robust scientific analysis, future generations will only be able to imagine this now-rubble institution that once walked this earth.

       

While we are concerned for Princeton University, we are even more concerned about the fate of the planet — Google Trends for "air" have also been declining steadily, and our projections show that by the year 2060 there will be no air left:

As previous researchers [J. Sparks, 2008] have expressed in the past, this will have grievous consequences for the fate of all humanity, not just our academic colleagues in New Jersey.

Although this research has not yet been peer-reviewed, every Like for this post counts as a peer review. Start reviewing!

P.S. We don’t really think Princeton or the world’s air supply is going anywhere soon. We love Princeton (and air). As data scientists, we wanted to give a fun reminder that not all research is created equal – and some methods of analysis lead to pretty crazy conclusions.

Research by Mike Develin, Lada Adamic, and Sean Taylor. (This article was originally published on Facebook, you can access it  here.)

Gmail And Google+ Go Down On Friday, Impacting Millions Of Users Across the World

Post By Kelly Clay:

On Friday just before 11 a.m. PST, Google's GOOG -3.1% Gmail went down, leaving millions of users – including business users relying on Google Apps for Business – unable to communicate. The downtime was confirmed with Down Right Now and Google’s App Status Dashboard, which showed that the service is experiencing a service disruption at this time – and that Gmail also burped earlier Friday morning. Google’s official blog for Gmail also returned a 503 error. Gmail’s error  is a 500 code problem, indicating it’s only a temporary problem – but doesn’t explain the cause. Judging by the amount of tweets and FB updates about the problem, it’s likely affecting the majority of users worldwide.

Google+ is also down, affecting YouTube comments which means that users can’t comment and existing comments aren’t loading. Additionally, Hangouts aren’t working on both the web and mobile,which have emerged as a primary method of communication for remote teams. The downtime of Google+ just further impacts businesses around the world.

In Seattle, Sean Sperte tweeted “This means we can all take the day off, right? #GmailDown“. In Canada, Kirstine Stewart (Head of @TwitterCanada) tweeted “Gmail Down = Adult Snow Day”. Others – like Kat Daemon from New York – clearly couldn’t handle the downtime, as she tweeted “Is Gmail down??? I can’t get in and the anxiety is starting to gnaw at my face.” Even Yahoo YHOO -3.76% (which offers its own email service) tweeted that Gmail was down. As more users around the world tweeted about the downtime Gmail actually became a trending topic on Twitter, indicating the sheer magnitude of the crash.

The last time Gmail went down was September 24, 2013. At that time, Google said the issue affected less than 50 percent of Gmail users, which means almost half of all Gmail users suffered some kind of glitch. Today’s downtown was perhaps one of it’s most serious, though – all of Google crashed on August 19, 2013 - including YouTube, Gmail and the company’s search engine — but only between one to five minutes around 4:30 PDT.

(This article was originally published in Forbes Magazine, you can access it here.

Dropbox Tweaks Consumerization Model

Post By:  MICHAEL HICKINS

Dropbox Inc., the online file sharing and storage company, is gunning more than ever for the business market. The company closed on a $250 million funding round valuing it at close to $10 billion. Dropbox is incredibly popular with consumers – it claims a whopping 200 million users – and, as it turns out, is also successfully making its way into the business market, claiming 4 million businesses and 97% of the Fortune 500, according to Ilya Fushman, the company’s head of product for enterprise and mobile. “A lot of investment is going into Dropbox for Business,” including a new feature introduced last week to a limited number of customers that allows users to maintain two distinct accounts, Mr. Fushman told CIO Journal during a telephone interview Wednesday. The feature lets users keep personal and business data separate.

Consumer applications like Dropbox, which store corporate information in remote data centers those companies don’t control, have given CIOs pause, but the company has been working to clear many of those hurdles. Even highly regulated companies are allowing employees to use Dropbox for certain purposes because it’s easier for CIOs to adopt it than try to choke it off. Rob Koplowitz, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc., tells CIO Journal “shutting it down is very difficult for the CIO to justify” because “sharing is a very compelling business functionality.”

Don Callahan, who runs operations and technology for Citigroup Inc., says he tries to use cloud technologies like Dropbox in areas of the bank’s operations that aren’t regulated. “If it makes sense, then we will” make use of it, he said during an interview at Citi headquarters in New York last month. But Mr. Callahan noted that the bank has no plans to put customer data in a cloud service such as Dropbox.

Marty Lippert, the CIO of insurance firm Metlife Inc., says employees have to request authorization to use Dropbox for work purposes, and that permission is granted “on an exception basis.”

Before even considering granting permission, Mr. Lippert says Metlife puts cloud services through strict reviews. “When we use these types of services from an enterprise perspective, we do fairly extensive security reviews from the perspective of how the vendor is operating the service, and often times look for SAS70-type reviews by a third party that can go in and do an assessment of the security infrastructure that was built around the service.” He said Metlife also looks at how the cloud service is designed to manage peaks in demand.

Joseph Schmitt, CIO of Pitney Bowes Inc., says employees, especially salespeople, are demanding applications with “the same look and feel and ease of use that they have at home.” He says Pitney Bowes is now allowing them to use Dropbox, but is still struggling to find the right balance “between enabling employee productivity and security.”

He said PBI works to educate employees about security and intellectual property issues “and sign our security policies on a yearly basis.” The company also has a steering committee that reviews privacy issues.

Mr. Fushman says Dropbox for Business allows employees to maintain two distinct accounts, which means their corporate access can be revoked without affecting their personal data; companies can also reassign their accounts to other employees, remotely wipe corporate data, and perform audits of how data has been shared. But the twin accounts means employees can still walk away with their dignity – and data – intact. “It is fundamental for us to offer a continuity of experience to our customers,” he said.

How times have changed. “At first, it was the devil,” says Cynthia Weaver, who as assistant vice president of information technology is the highest ranking technology executive at privately held Walbridge, a Detroit, Mich.-based construction company with 2011 sales of over $1.1 billion. She says the company “heavily discouraged” employees from using Dropbox because it was easy for them to put proprietary data “outside the corporate structure.”

However, she says steps taken by the company to take corporate IT needs into account, make her “more interested in having that conversation with them.”

Ross Piper, vice president of enterprise strategy for Dropbox, says the company is trying to meet as many CIOs as it can “to make sure we’re building things the right way.”

The company has added a number of features making it easier for developers to incorporate new applications into the Dropbox ecosystem. Mr. Piper said Dropbox is adding new features making it easier for people to share documents – which is what makes the application popular with consumers – as well as in ways to make corporate IT departments happy. “We need to continue to invest in security features, administrative controls and console, and integration with other systems.”

Dropbox is far from alone in this area, and is sometimes confused with another cloud based storage and sharing company with a similar name, Box Inc. But Whitney Bouck, general manager of enterprise sales for Box, doesn’t see the two companies as competing fiercely for the same audience. “I see a peaceful coexistence with Dropbox,” she says. She says Dropbox has “anchored themselves with consumers better than anybody,” but that Dropbox lags behind Box when it comes to auditing and security aspects. “We’re dominating in our respective areas,” she said.

Howsoever friendly as that might be, Dropbox is hardly ready to cede the enterprise market to Box.

The cloud storage market is indeed crowded with both startups and legacy vendors.  “[Dropbox isn’t] the only game in town,” says Mr. Koplowitz, “but they have managed to work their way into a large number of enterprise short lists in very short order.”

CORRECTION: Dropbox launched a new feature last week to a limited number of customers that allows users to maintain two distinct accounts, which they can use to keep personal and business data separate. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Dropbox for Business was introduced last week.

(This Article was Originally Published in Wall Street Journal- You Can Access Original source of Content Here.. )

How Firefox Reacted To the Removal of Ad-Ons from Google Chrome?

In the previous post’ we discussed that Google had to take strict action against a couple of extensions to remove an issue with its Chrome web browser.  As per reported in leading tech blogs, the browser extensions “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” were spitting out unwanted ads. With the growing concern/anger by the users, Google finally punished them by removing from Chrome app store.

After such an incident, a lot many users were concerned that other Web browsers, like Mozilla’s ultra-popular Firefox, could be susceptible to similar shenanigans, and perhaps rightly so. Therefore, Mozilla’s PR team came up with an immediate response to the development.

According to a post in the Digital Trends; “If you ask Mozilla, however, that issue is not likely to crop up for Firefox users. Here what a Mozilla spokesperson had to say when asked about the possibility of Firefox add-ons getting hijacked with ad-spamming code the way “Add to “Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” were on Chrome.

“For add-ons hosted on addons.mozilla.org, all version updates are code reviewed and tested by a member of our review team, and it needs to pass all of our review policies to be pushed to users via auto-update,” Mozilla’s spokesperson said. “One such policy is that all unexpected changes, such as advertising, needs to be explicitly opt-in. This all makes it more difficult for this kind of hijacking to be effective for add-ons listed on Mozilla Add-ons.”

Looking at what industry experts’ claim; “Mozilla Firefox isn’t exactly bulletproof when it comes to add-on hijacks. A past experience of “Autocopy’ add-on is cited as example. It was developed and then sold to a tech start-up called “Wips”. Once the add-on was acquired by the company, it was re-jiggered to include code containing ad generating instructions. Here, they not only highlighted loopholes in the Mozilla’s add-on approval system but also violated the terms of agreement or service.

Therefore, we will have to see what sort of development comes ahead, particularly when Google Chrome is already in news for quite an extreme step. From the users’ viewpoint, these developments are encouraging as they will help in obtaining quality navigation and browsing experience. We have seen in the past that when people complained about frequent shockwave flash crash incidents in browsers, the developers had to come up with a solution. Therefore, if such bad practice has come to limelight; Mozilla, Google, Apple and other browser developing companies would surely take a deep look at their extensions.

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Disciplinary Action - Google Removes Two Chrome Extensions Over Spam

Google has taken another strategic disciplinary action, in a bid to end/discourage Spam. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google has removed two extensions from Chrome browser after it was discovered the software included code that served people ads. This was sort of tactic that violated the company’s terms of service.

This weekend, there were rumors that two extensions — “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” — each one of them had less than 100,000 users might receive penalty. The probable reason behind this penalty is being described as promoting undesirable ads, which users complained about. As per WSJ; "one user review for “Add to Feedly” called the extension “Spam” that caused ads to suddenly pop up on any website visited."

Ever since launching Chrome, Google has made many updates and took certain measures to strengthen it against Firefox. Earlier, people were complaining about Shockwave Flash Crashes in the browser. This bug was a serious problem that used to result in browser's crash or regular hangs. As a result a furious competition started in the development industry to come up with the most reliable shockwave flash crash fixing tool. However, there too, some low-quality plug-in caused problem. Therefore, Google has turned a bit harsh towards Spam and bad-ads.

What is an Extension?

Extensions are small bits of code that alter a browser by adding new features or removing others. AdBlock, for example, is a popular extension that automatically blocks advertising on websites. Google had updated its policies in December last year, where it made software developers bound not to use extensions to insert advertising on more than one part of a page. 

As per the Google guidelines, the extensions should serve only one purpose. While “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” had small numbers of users, their kind of situation could be more pervasive. 

With this development, there are chances that Google might inspect other extensions too. However, the good development is that, developers are surely to learn something from this case. We can expect some improved browsing experience as a result of such disciplinary actions.