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Microsoft: Stop Playing Games with the Customer!

ARTICLE DATE: 07.07.09 http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D242030,00.asp By John C. Dvorak The glory days of Microsoft ended with Vista for one reason, and one reason only: Vista Ultimate. It was part of an ill-advised scheme called "subtractive marketing" or "fake versioning"—purposely taking features out of a finished product to create an artificial range or selection. Who ever dreamed up the Vista Ultimate moniker, I consider that individual responsible for the decline of Micr… Continue

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VC's automated Twitter feed spreads malware

June 24, 2009 4:59 PM PDT by Elinor Mills http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10272457-83.html?tag=nl.e703 Updated June 25 at 9:00 a.m. PDT with Trend Micro saying the Trojan is harmful to Macs and PCs. Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki got more than he bargained for from an automated feed he set up on his Twitter account. Some of Kawasaki's more than 139,000 Twitter followers noticed something strange when they saw a particular non-VC-related tweet sent from his account on Tuesday. The update ad… Continue

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The Perfect Mobile Phone Is (Nearly) Here

The iPhone may have begun the smartphone's transition into a full-fledged computer, but lots needs to change before we get there. Here's my wish list. 06.15.09 by John C. Dvorak http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348745,00.asp As the world begins to adjust to the mobile phone as a computing platform, we have to recognize the fact that for many people the device is bound to become the complete substitute for all computing needs. But not quite in the form we see it. I've written about this id… Continue

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Big-name sites spread latest malware infections

Going by such names as Gumblar, JSRedir-R, Martuz, and Beladin, a new generation of malware has managed to surreptitiously place malicious JavaScript code on tens of thousands of popular Web sites. Top Story, June 11, 2009 By Susan Bradley http://windowssecrets.com/2009/06/11/01-Big-name-sites-spread-latest-malware-infections The hacker scripts try to infect site visitors and then attempt to use their compromised PCs to spread the infection to yet other sites. Over the past month, the securi… Continue

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Hacker named to Homeland Security Advisory Council

June 5, 2009 5:27 PM PDT by Elinor Mills http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10258634-83.html?tag=nl.e757 Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. The HSAC members will provide recommendations and advice directly to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Moss' background as a computer hacker (aka "Dark Tangent") and role as a luminary among young hackers who flock to… Continue

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The Risky Solid-State Drive

ARTICLE DATE: 06.02.09 By John C. Dvorak http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347918,00.asp Everyone is gaga over the idea of fast solid-state drives, but until we move to some new memory technology other than flash, SSDs are a dead end. I say this only because during a recent trip to Europe I took about six photos on a 16GB CompactFlash card and—boom!—it was dead. This makes the third CompactFlash drive that blew up on me over the past few years. I've had two early 1GB drives go out, and now… Continue

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Get Must-Have Fix for New Microsoft DirectShow Flaw

Erik Larkin http://www.pcworld.com/article/165705/musthave_fix_for_new_underattack_microsoft_flaw.html?tk=nl_wvx_h_cbintro A critical new zero-day flaw involving Microsoft DirectShow's processing of QuickTime content is under attack, Microsoft reported today. The flaw in the quartz.dll processor in the DirectShow platform affects Windows XP, 2000, and Server 2003. Windows Vista, Server 2008, and Windows 7 are not affected. Crooks can go after the hole even if you have Apple's QuickTime install… Continue

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Pandora One: Good For You, Even Better For Pandora

May 20th, 2009 | by Jennifer Van Grove http://mashable.com/2009/05/20/pandora-one

As we reported yesterday, PandoraPandora reviewsPandora reviews has bounced back from the brink of extinction and is heading towards profitability, largely thanks to their ability to sell targeted… Continue

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HOW TO: Juice Up Firefox with Amazon, Google and Twitter

May 20th, 2009 | by Ben Parr http://mashable.com/2009/05/20/juice/

The Firefox sidebar tool Juice could change the very way you browse the web, especially if you’re an information junkie or a multitasker. Linkool Labs, the makers of Juice, released the 1.0 version of its extension tod… Continue

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Goodbye, SOX?

May 18th, 2009 Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 8:54 am http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=2085&tag=nl.e019 Keep your eye on this one: the US Supreme Court has just decided to review the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. According to today’s news, the Supremes said they would consider a legal challenge to the law, on the basis that it “violates the constitutionally mandated separation of powers.” (Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, 08-86… Continue

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Wolfram Alpha: A new slant on Web data

The online tool supplies answers to factual, data-intensive questions but also does math in the process. This weekend, it's set to open up to the public. May 16, 2009 6:00 AM PDT by CNET News staff http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10241816-93.html?tag=nl.e703

Wolfram Alpha is liv… Continue

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PDF-Crack: Free Online PDF Unlocker

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/pdf-crack-free-online-pdf-unlocker/ Some PDF documents come with restrictions that don’t let you to copy or print its contents. This is very inconvenient if you want to access the information from the document or print it out for offline use. Now you can unlock this kind of PDF files with one click using free online pdf unlocker PDF-Crack from Ensode.net. Just upload a document from your computer and click “Submit”. The unlocked version of your document will be wil… Continue

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How To Kill Unresponsive Programs without The Task Manager

May. 14th, 2009 By Varun Kashyap http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-kill-unresponsive-programs-without-the-task-manager/ Windows is generally not known for its stability. Among other things there are frequent “Not Responding” applications. The reasons may vary from less RAM to Viruses to poorly designed applications. So what do you do when an application hangs up? I bet you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del or fire up the task manager in some other way, reach for the application and choose “End Task”. Now the… Continue

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10 handy Firefox about:config hacks

If you really want to fine-tune your Firefox functionality, you have to roll up your sleeves and tinker with the about:config page. Jack Wallen shares some simple hacks to make Firefox work the way you want. Date: May 7th, 2009 Author: Jack Wallen http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=719&tag=nl.e102 Unless you’re a Firefox power user, you may not be familiar with the about:config page. The Firefox about:config page is not so much a page as it is a somewhat hidden configuration sec… Continue

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Microsoft tweaks antipiracy tech for Windows 7

May 7, 2009 6:00 AM PDT by Ina Fried http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10234441-56.html?tag=nl.e703 With Windows 7, Microsoft is making some subtle changes to the ways it tries to thwart piracy. As has been the case for some time, Microsoft's strategy hinges on requiring a user to electronically verify their copy of the software, a process known as activation, and then the software also periodically validates that a copy of Windows is genuine. In Windows Vista, if a user does not activate the… Continue

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Windows 7 at risk from legacy flaw, F-Secure says

May 6, 2009 7:01 AM PDT by Tom Espiner http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10234336-83.html?tag=nl.e757 Microsoft has failed to remove a long-recognized Windows Explorer security risk from Windows 7, according to security company F-Secure. The "hide extensions" feature, which was present in Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Vista, is also included in the Windows 7 release candidate, Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's chief research officer, said Tuesday in a blog. The feature could allow virus writers to trick u… Continue

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Is There Such a Thing as a Safe Web Browser?

May 6th, 2009 | by Stan Schroeder http://mashable.com/2009/05/06/browser-innocence/

Do you remember how, a couple of years ago, you could tell someone who was clueless about computers to simply switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox, and that action alone would fix 90% of all t… Continue

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Hands On with Windows 7's XP Mode

Microsoft's new Windows XP Mode is getting a lot of buzz on the blogosphere, but when we actually tested the beta, we found it to be surprisingly clunky. ARTICLE DATE: 05.04.09 By Edward Mendelson http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346464,00.asp The Windows 7 Release Candidate ships with a feature called Windows XP Mode (XPM) that has left longtime Windows users excited. XPM is designed to let users continue to run older XP-compatible applications, mostly special-purpose business programs,… Continue

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War of the Firefox Extension Developers

By Harry McCracken | Posted at 2:16 pm on Monday, May 4, 2009 http://technologizer.com/2009/05/04/war-of-the-firefox-extension-developers

Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul has posted a good piece on an alarming story: The developers of two popular and useful Firefox extensions, NoScript and Ad… Continue

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