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Archive for September, 2007

Stop Smoking Day

Friday, September 28th, 2007

No, it is not another smoke free day, it however is the day that I had decided I have had enough of the smoking habit. After 3 cold turkey attempts that failed, 2 attempts with the patches which also failed, oh and don’t forget the 1 failed attempt using the gum, I decided to try [...]

Despite AOL’s Claim, AIM Worm Hole Still Wide Open

Friday, September 28th, 2007

 
Clown of the month writes “There’s a nasty worm hole in America Online’s standalone AIM (instant messaging) software that won’t be patched until the middle of October. This vulnerability, first reported to AOL by researchers at Core Security more than a month ago, is caused by the way AIM supports the rendering of HTML content [...]

Chandler Project–Personal Information Dashboard

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the new Eudora adoption into the Mozilla project . But there is another PIM and email project that is interesting, it’s the Chandler Project.
The Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based personal information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration and a core set of information management [...]

Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

 
iritant writes “As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso — the latest version of Firefox — is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get [...]

Run the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) OS on Your Computer

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Has the OLPC project and the “Sugar” OS piqued your interest with all the press coverage it has received? Thankfully since the whole project was created with an open source mission, users can easily download the OLPC OS (Which is a fork of Red Hat) and run on any hardware they see fit.
If you run [...]

New service eavesdrops on Internet calls

Monday, September 24th, 2007

NEW YORK - A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers’ computer screens based on what’s being talked about.
For instance, a caller talking about going for dinner might see ads to local [...]

Mashable

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Like the name implies here is a site that has links to the cures to the many problems that a normal user has, and some not so usual. I have been getting them now for about 2 months now and they continue to surprise me with the number of results they get on every topic [...]

GNOME 2.20 arrives on Linux desktops

Friday, September 21st, 2007

 
The first major update of GNOME, version 2.20, has arrived almost two and a half years after GNOME 2.10, its last big step forward. GNOME 2.20 boasts not just improvements to the desktop itself, but multiple significant improvements to GNOME’s applications as well.
Well it has to be faster and not so difficult to use [...]

Porting C/C++ sources from Windows to UNIX

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

 
Software programs are often made to run on systems that are completely different from the system in which the program is coded or developed. This process of adapting software across systems is known as porting. This article shows you how to port your software from one environment to another.
Jeeesh I have been working on [...]

The Hidden Power of WordPress in Managing Blogs

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

 
Wordpress is one of the best software tools you can use to start your own weblog, but it has additional hidden power that makes it suitable for other things too. The open source blogging platform has come a long way in the last three years, taking on the dominant player Movable Type and forcing [...]

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