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- Desktop Hijack Fix (zip)
- License: Freeware- Restores Windows Active Desktop back to original settings- Ability to backup and restore non-default Active Desktop settings- Detects when your Active Desktop settings have changed. Description: This tool can be used to fix most problems in which your normal background is not displayed. Usually in the backgrounds place...
- Tags: Desktop, Active Desktop, Random Rhyhtm
- Software downloads 2008-02-27
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- Opera patches serious code exection flaw
- Opera Software has joined the list of browser vendors shipping fixes for serious remote code execution vulnerabilities. The company's new Opera 9.5.1 patches at least four security issues, the most serious being a flaw reported by Microsoft's Billy Rios that could be used to execute arbitrary code....
- Tags: Opera Software, Patch Management, Flaw, Security Statu, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Antivirus vendor introducing virtual keyboard for secure Ebanking
- Kaspersky's most recent product launch of the Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, is featuring a virtual keyboard "a secure pop-up that enables logins, passwords, bank card details and other important personal information to be entered safely to prevent the theft of confidential information" aiming to protect users from keyloggers, and consequently...
- Tags: Bank, Antivirus, Virtual Keyboard, Malware, Kaspersky, Ebanking Malware, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Simple Solver (exe)
- Simple Solver provides four separate functions: Synthesis, Boolean, Permutation, and Random Number. The Synthesis function performs automatic design and simulation of digital logic circuits from truth table or waveform inputs for all circuit types: Combinational, Sequential, Synchronous and Asynchronous. The Boolean function provides minimization and truth tables for one or...
- Tags: Function, Random Number, David Baldwin, Synthesis Function, Boolean Function, Boolean Operator Format, Random Number Function
- Software downloads 2008-07-01
- Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law
- Every weekend I return home from traveling the country working at the 10,000 foot level of enterprise architecture for Fortune 500 customers, there is at least a fifty percent chance that I may be called upon to do some in the trenches desktop support work. Such drudgery...
- Tags: AOL Instant Messenger, America Online Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, AOL Instant Messenger Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Instant Messaging, Web Site Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law.
- Every weekend I return home from traveling the country working at the 10,000 foot level of enterprise architecture for Fortune 500 customers, there is at least a fifty percent chance that I may be called upon to do some in the trenches desktop support work. Such drudgery...
- Tags: AOL Instant Messenger, America Online Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, AOL Instant Messenger Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Instant Messaging, Web Site Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Mazemerize Screensaver (exe)
- Solid blocks are drawn around the entire screen in a maze pattern, in various shades of a random color. When a trail runs out of room to place blocks, a new trail is started. When the screen is full, it starts again with a new color. Looks slightly Aztec. This...
- Tags: Trail, Teagster Programming
- Software downloads 2008-06-30
- Free Subliminal Text (zip)
- Free Subliminal Text FST, flashes subliminal messages on screen. The default settings use very quick flashes of partially transparent text in random screen locations. Most of the time you shouldn't notice it is running, however, you can make what it does, more or less obvious. FST is still being developed...
- Tags: Message, Font, Richard Warburton, Free Subliminal Text
- Software downloads 2008-06-30
- SlideShare: user communication failure
- While Enterprise 2.0 applications can be useful, hassles sometimes abound. In this case, I innocently tried to upload a simple file to SlideShare, only to learn things aren't always straightforward.After attempting to upload the file, I received an error message stating in part: There's a big chance this is...
- Tags: Object-oriented Programming, File, SlideShare, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- News on flash: EcoRAM held up as less power-hungry option than DRAM for server farms
- Most people I know who talk tech associate flash memory with mobile phones and other small handheld gadgets, but the technology now is emerging as an option for reducing the power requirements in massive server farms, especially those that are frequently called upon to serve up data quickly and often....
- Tags: DRAM, Server Farm, Spansion Inc., EcoRAM, Memory, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
- California to drivers: Drop the cell phone, dude
- Next week a California law will require the use of hands-free phones and ban cell phones entirely for drivers under 18--but there's a loophole that allows texting while driving. LOS ANGELES--Next week California will try to wrest cell phones from the hands of drivers, telling everyone from movie starlets...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Democratic Lawmaker, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Reuters, cell phones, legal, hands-free, text messaging, California
- News items 2008-06-27
- Firefox and Thunderbird phone home daily
- Firefox and Thunderbird phone home dailyReally? What does Windowssend to MS everyday?IP address?What time you were using the product?What exact version number you were using?If you are using any of the plugins or addons sent in the disabled list?Total number of active users of their software?Problem isother companies like Apple...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird phone home, phone home, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Thunderbird, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer
- Zero-day flaw haunts Internet ExplorerJelloWow, Ryan, that really tells me a lot. What does this vulnerability do? Change my hard drive into Jello?While the information is appreciatedit would have been nice if the headline had included that little number 6. It makes a huge difference.this flaw haunts only OLD Internet...
- Tags: Web browsers, Manuel Caballero, Microsoft Internet Explorer, zero-day bug, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Google launches new iGoogle and artist themes
- It looks like Google just launched the new version of iGoogle that developers have had access to in the sandbox for a while now. The new version is great -- and it gives developers a lot more flexibility when creating their gadgets because now it's possible to make a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Theme, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic
- Lack of RFID standards leads to media panicActive vs. Passive RFID DevicesIn addition to the comments above, it was not clear from the article I read whether the researchers were testing only active RFID or both active and passive RFID. The author of the article I read also implied...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Dana, RFID, RFID Standards, media
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Another Trojan hits Mac OS X
- Another Trojan hits Mac OS XThis is good for AppleI would say that malware counts are the [b]best[/b] indication of desktop PC marketshare so congrats Apple, you really must be doing well now that you are being targeted so much! I'll leave you with a sobering thought:It is easy to...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, airline industry, trojan horse, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Another Trojan hits Mac OS X
- From a Slashdot article posted by "kdawson", written by "Don't Believe in Imaginary Property": "F-Secure is reporting that there are two new Mac OS X trojans. The first is just a proof-of-concept from the MacShadows people that takes advantage of the unpatched ARDAgent vulnerability to get root access when run by...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Password, Trojan Horse, Apple Mac OS X, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Apple Mac OS, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Samsung Soul SGH-U900 (unlocked)
- Photo gallery:Samsung SoulThe Samsung Soul (aka the SGH-U900) was one of the stars of this year's GSMA World Congress in Barcelona. Samsung showed it off at a big press conference and huge banners with images of the phone covered the city, from the airport baggage claim to the convention center....
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone
- Product reviews 2008-06-24
- Why I still prefer Internet Explorer
- I wrote a blog post last week where I discussed some of the good lessons from the success of Firefox. I truly believe Firefox is a great browser, and I am glad that competition has forced Microsoft to pull its IE developers out of suspended animation to update its ability...
- Tags: Opera Software, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, DIV, CSS, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
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