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Draw Poker 101 (exe): Draw Poker 101 is video poker played 101 ways. Modeled after popular Las Vegas video poker machines, instead of playing one hand at a time, you are playing 101 hands simultaneously. This brings a new strategy and excitement to video poker. Imagine you were dealt a 4-of-a-kind. This version is...; Tags: Video, Poker, Direct Logic Systems, Corporate Communications, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-07-01
All My Fonts (exe): Do you have hundreds of fonts on your computer? Ever tried to find that one particular font you needed but you don't remember the font name? Instead of looking at just the name of the fonts, you can now look at the names and the font samples. Version 2.15 new...; Tags: Font, Direct Logic Systems; Software downloads 2008-06-16
Print Screen Now (exe): Do you know what the Prt Scrn key at the top of your keyboard is for? 15 or 20 years ago, when you pressed the Prt Scrn key, whatever was on your screen was immediately printed to your printer. But things were a lot simpler back then because the only...; Tags: Direct Logic Systems, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals; Software downloads 2008-05-07

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Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08: It would seem there's a bigger story to that MS08-037 flaw that came out for Patch Tuesday today. From Dave Lewis over at the Liquid Matrix security blog: Today Dan Kaminsky released a first, as far as I can recall. A coordinated patch was released today...; Tags: Black Hat, DNS, CERT, Flaw, Mogull, Updates, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletins: Microsoft announced 4 "Important" security bulletins today that cover 9 separate vulnerabilities. Of note were vulnerabilities reported in Windows DNS server and client, and within SQL Server. Briefly, the vulnerabilities involve: Cache poisoning and insufficient socket entropy flaws in Microsoft DNS Server A remote...; Tags: Attacker, Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Outlook, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08

A Modest Privacy Proposal: The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Microsoft delivers 'important' patches: Microsoft on Tuesday delivered nine important patches to fix vulnerabilities in SQL Server, Exchange Server, Vista and Windows Server. Among the details, which were previewed last week. CVE-2008-0085: A vulnerability in the way SQL Server manages memory page reuse. An attacker with database operator...; Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark: I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worker, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Geek Sheet: Configuring Synergy2 to Share Keyboard, Video and Mouse: It's time again for another Geek Sheet. This time, we're going to show you how to share keyboard, mouse, and video click for short demonstration between multiple desktop computers, using different Operating Systems with a free Open Source program called Synergy2. Are you geeky enough that you...; Tags: Mouse, Video, Synergy2, Client, Screen, Mice, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-08
ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrar: As we commented on, ICANN, the group that manages top-level domain TLD naming systems for the web, recently had several of its domains hijacked by a Turkish hacking group. ICANN has now commented that the hijacking was due to a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs. From...; Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Attack, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
ICANN says registrar was hacked: Two weeks after ICANN's own domains were hijacked by Turkish hackers, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says it was its registrar -- not ICANN's servers themselves -- that were attacked. On June 26, a number of ICANN sites popped up with this message: ...; Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Attack, Security, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Web 3.0 - the future of social networking: Note: re-posted after withdrawing post a few days ago; no changes made since then. I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over my life, the...; Tags: 3D, Web, Facebook, Network, Web 3.0, Scene, Vivaty Scenes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Intel will be inside DreamWorks' animated flicks: Intel on Tuesday formed an alliance where Dreamworks Animation will use its visual computing tools to produce movies in stereoscopic 3D. Dreamworks Animation is making its films in 3D beginning with Monsters vs. Aliens right due in March 2009. Dreamworks Animation will convert its systems to Intel-based...; Tags: DreamWorks SKG, Intel Corp., Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom: Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...; Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
IMHO, PhlatLight LEDs from Luminus are pretty phat: LED screens in notebooks are becoming fairly common, if not standard, not just because of the energy issues but because people are craving smaller, lighter laptops. But what about an LED in your HDTV? Enter Luminus Devices of Billerica, Mass., which has developed an LED chip...; Tags: Home Theater, DLP, Light-emitting Diode, Luminus Technology, Engineering, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Lotus Notes Contacts to Outlook (exe): Lotus Notes Contacts to Outlook software to convert notes contacts from orphan names.nsf file or direct from the domino server and save them to Outlook PST and Excel files. Convert unlimited contacts of Lotus Notes. Kernel software supports every version of Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, Lotus Domino Server, and MS...; Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Nucleus Technologies LLC., IBM Corp., Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2008-07-08
Ticking bombs in enterprise land: I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...; Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Demographics forging a new Net market: It's not your kids' Web: It's easy and fashionable to talk about "digital natives" that have grown up online, but the demographics of the United States are shifting radically to the grey and Web services developers should heed that news and make changes in their products and plans as a result. Old coots, like me,...; Tags: U.S., Web, Web Service, Advertising Age, West, Channel Management, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products: In what appears to be either a common scenario of "when the security solution ends up the security problem itself", or a product launch basing its strategy on outlining the increasing number of critical vulnerabilities found in competing antivirus products, the IT/Security consulting firm n.runs AG claims to have discovered...; Tags: Antivirus Product, Antivirus, Vulnerability, Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-07
Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenager: Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenagerInteresting...I find this experiment very interesting. However, there are a couple observations here:1) This wouldn't really be a typical experience for a typical user. Ubuntu has to be installed and configured; would he have done this or been able to do this without...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, VISTA IS, GUI, Ubuntu, typical user, Linux; Discussion threads 2008-07-07