Archive for March 14th, 2008


Mar 14

Wubi: Ubuntu Installer

Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. It allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try them but you were afraid, this is for you. Download Ubuntu,
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Mar 14

McAfee warns: Mass web based attacks preying on Windows

McAfee has warned of a new mass web-based attacks preying on the Windows operating system. The first attack was initially discovered on March 12 and it involved SQL injection. Craig Schmugar, threat research manager, McAfee Avert Labs, revealed that initially McAfee detected in excess of 10,000 compromised pages. Essentially, users are diverted from hacked
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Mar 14

Expanding Virtual Hard Disks with Hyper-V

Hyper-V adds the ability to increase the maximum size of a dynamically expanding or fixed-size virtual hard disk.  To do this you need to open the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard (by selecting Edit Disk... from the Hyper-V manager), select the virtual hard disk you want to expand, select Expand on the Choose Action page and
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Mar 14

Microsoft Blu-ray is a “historic phenomenon”

The console war intensified this week, with senior Xbox exec boss Chris Lewis branding disc formats a thing of the past as Microsoft slashed the price of 360 in Europe – with the entry level model now half the price of Sony's Blu-ray supporting PlayStation 3.With the entertainment format stand-off ostensibly ending last month
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Mar 14

Sizer: Resize your Windows

Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The utility is also handy when compiling screen-shots for documentation, using Sizer allows you
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Mar 14

GeForce 9800 GTX leaked slides & specs

MSRP to Start at $300 — As we have already reported we should witness the launch of a few new Nvidia graphics cards from the GeForce 9800 series. GeForce 9800 GX2 dual-chip solution should be launched on March 18, and a single-chip GeForce 9800 GTX that comes to replace GeForce 8800 GTX is scheduled to
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Mar 14

Dropbox: Sync your Files

Dropbox founded by Drew, Arash, and Aston, currently in private beta simplifyies file backup, sync, and sharing for the world. In short, it’s a new way to store and share files online. It also serves as a great way to synchronize files between computers. After installing Dropbox on your computers, be it Windows or Mac, you’ll see a Dropbox folder, where all of the
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Mar 14

Microsoft acquires Rapt

Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers. Rapt’s technology, along with its information and advisory services offerings, will become key components of the Atlas Publisher Suite, part of Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group. With the inclusion of
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Mar 14

Canadian IT Manangers “Why we want to save Windows XP?”

Three Canadian IT managers give their reasons for signing ComputerWorld Canada’s petition to Save XP. Why IMP Group cannot use Vista for its ERP system.IT managers have spoken and their cry is loud and clear: Windows XP is still mission-critical.Like previous software upgrades, Microsoft Corp.’s plan to stop selling retail
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Mar 14

TextGlow: Share Docx Files on the web

TextGlow is a Silverlight 2 application that lets your share .docx files on the web. This web-based runtime, powered by Silverlight, provides cross-platform access to the source Word document, whether or not you have Office installed on your machine. TextGlow works by downloading Word documents asynchronously, opening them as ZIP files, parsing them with
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Mar 14

eWEEK Survey: Windows Vista? Gimme Windows XP

Two operating systems are holding back Windows Vista adoption: Windows XP and—eh, well—Vista.A new eWEEK enterprise survey validates many of this blog's perspectives about Windows Vista. XP stands in the way, and enterprises are hugely underwhelmed by successor Vista.While consistent with other Vista adoption surveys, eWEEK's study makes an important
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Mar 14

Sophos: Windows Firewire hack is a feature

A tool developed by Adam Boileau, a New Zealand security consultant with Immunity, can hack into a Windows computer in a matter of seconds via a connection made through a Firewire port. The hack dates back to 2006, but just recently Boileau has made the tool available to the public. However, what was initially
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Mar 14

PageFlip WordPress Plugin

A Page Flip is a virtual book you can browse with your mouse. This plugin allows you to manage images you want to see in your book. The version you see here has been made for the open source Dynamic Page Flip V2 script. The WP-PageFlip LITE plugin allows you to configure this animation
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Mar 14

Collapsible Elements WordPress Plugin

Collapsible Elements adds a button to the code editor which creates the code for having multiple collapsible elements in a page or post. Once added these elements can be collapsed or expanded by clicking on it.
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Mar 14

Mozilla Firefox: The future web platform

Matt Asay: I spent an hour yesterday with John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, and Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of Engineering, and learned a few things. For one thing, I once argued that Mozilla should hire more "capitalist pigs." John's
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