Software
Palm and Windows Mobile Still Not Vista Compatible
My brother in-law forwarded an email to me that he received from Epocrates, a mobile drug guide used by doctors. The email was a proactive information to the end user that currently Palm OS and Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) OS software applications, including the Epocrates applications cannot be installed or synced with Windows Vista computers [...]
How to burn video files to playable DVD
This is a nice article from LifeHacker on how to burn almost any video file type onto a playable DVD using the DVD Flick Open Source. Enjoy.
Zudeo Video Community
Zudeo is the code name of the new Azureus project for high definition movies and videos downloading. Azureus is well known for their BitTorrent java based Client for Peer-to-Peer file sharing. Now they have introduced Zudeo, mainly for full length high definition movies. All you need to do is download their small client and start [...]
Another day, another Zero-Day flaw in Microsoft
Just one day after the zero day flaw in Word was announced, another zero day flaw has been discovered in Windows Media Player. The flaw resides in the WMVCORE.DLL library that handles .ASX files. Microsoft have not yet released a fix for the problem, and did not even report it. Click here for the source [...]
IBM on board with XMPP Standards
IBM have announced their new IBM Lotus SameTime 7.5 release with the support of XMPP standard, making it now reachable to hundreds of other services that follow the same standard. LiveJournal are among the communities following that standard, and ofcourse most importantly is the Google Talk. Google them selves are so happy with the release [...]
Microsoft Issues Word Zero-Day Attack Alert
Microsoft have issued a security advisory regarding a newly discovered Word Zero-Day Attack. The attack infects all major Word releases by simply opening unsolicited attachments from both known and unknown source. Best thing to do know is avoid opening any attachments, even from legitimate source. The report came from Eweek with more details.
Microsoft to run Windows on OLPC
Few months back, Mr. Bill Gates opened fire on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which is a charity project aimed at providing low cost $99 laptops for the poor children, to allow them access to the technology. Gates attacked the project, which is powered by their rival Google, saying in parts of his [...]