Archive for May, 2006
Friday, May 26th, 2006
JBoss Messaging provides an open source and standards-based messaging platform that brings enterprise-class messaging to the mass market. JBoss Messaging implements a high performance, robust messaging core that is designed to support the largest and most heavily utilized SOAs, enterprise service busses (ESBs) and other integration needs ranging from the simplest to the highest demand networks. JBoss Messaging includes a Java Messaging Service (JMS) front-end to deliver messaging in a standards-based format. Additionally, JBoss Messaging is designed to support other messaging protocols.
Download: JBoss Messaging 1.0.1.CR2
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
IdleWeb is a screen saver module for Mac OS X that allows you to view websites while you aren’t using your computer. URL’s can also be dragged to the list of bookmarks from Safari.
Requirements
Mac OS X (10.3 or higher)
WebKit framework installed (comes with Safari 1.0)
Download: IdleWeb 2.0
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
High capacity card to meet growing demand for music and photos on mobile phones
Toshiba America has beefed up its range of high-capacity miniSD memory cards with the introduction of a 2GB version.
MiniSD cards are much smaller than a standard SD memory card and are designed primarily for use in mobile devices with miniSD slots, but can also be used in standard SD slots with an adapter.
The card’s 2GB storage capacity is able to carry 35 hours of music, and boasts a maximum writing speed of approximately 5Mbps.
Full article: vnunet.com
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Swift PDF is useful for taking images (from scans, photos, downloads or any other source) and combining them into a single PDF document. Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) files are a universal file format that can be viewed on mulitple operating systems. Swift PDF was initially designed for creating PDF files of scanned pages to fax, archive and e-mail the documents instead of sending invidual pages one at a time. However, it can also be used for photographs, graphics or any other Jpeg, Gif or Bitmap images.
You can set the page sizes to any available paper size (Letter, Legal, A4, etc.), adjust the margins, page orientation and sizing options on each page. There aren’t many more options or features than that, but it does its job simply and swiftly, and it’s entirely free.
Dwnload: Swift PDF 1.1
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
DENIM is a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the levels through zooming.
Download: DENIM 2.0 Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux, and other Unix-like Operating Systems
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Auto Reboot Remover enables or disables the automatic reboot ‘feature’ of Windows XP SP2 after an update has been installed. Saves you from losing important work when you walk away from your computer at the wrong time - and XP decides it is going to close everything without saving.
Download: Auto Reboot Remover 1.0 Windows XP
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo.
The software maker detailed the new image format on Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle. Windows Media Photo will be supported in Windows Vista and also be made available for Windows XP, Bill Crow, program manager for Windows Media Photo said in a presentation.
“One of the biggest reasons people upgrade their PCs is digital photos,” Crow said, noting that Microsoft has been in contact with printer makers, digital camera companies and other unnamed industry partners while working on Windows Media Photo. Microsoft touts managing “digital memories” as one of the key attributes of XP successor Vista.
In his presentation, Crow showed an image with 24:1 compression that visibly contained more detail in the Windows Media Photo format than the JPEG and JPEG 2000 formats compressed at the same level.
Still, the image in the Microsoft format was somewhat distorted because of the high compression level. Typically digital cameras today use 6:1 compression, Crow said. Windows Media Photo should offer better pictures at double that level, he said. “We can do it in half the size of a JPEG file.”
Full article: ZDNet Australia
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Nintendo has revealed its next-generation console, the Wii, will retail in the US for $250 or less, and no more than ?Ǭ•25,000 ($220/?Ǭ£119/?¢‚Äö¬¨174) in Japan. It also expects to have shipped more than 6m of the machines by March 2007, the company said today.
That’s as many machines as the total number of PlayStation 3 consoles Sony is expecting to ship in the same period. Sony’s box is more than twice the price of the Wii. Both Sony and Microsoft have suggested consumers will buy a Wii alongside each company’s more advanced console because the Nintendo machine is relatively so cheap.
Read more: reghardware.co.uk
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
AIM Sypware Remover: Search, Scan, Remove and use AIM safer. This program was created for AIM version 5.9 ONLY. AIM Triton is not supported.
System Requirements:
- AIM 5.9
- Internet Explorer 6 or higher
- Windows 2000/XP (Home/Profressional)
Download: AIM Sypware Remover 0.9 Beta
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
The One Laptop Per Child crusade for low-cost PCs for developing nations is another step closer to the assembly line.
The nonprofit organization this week is showing off an initial working prototype of its so-called $100 PC. This marks the first time the project has combined its candy-colored designs with computing hardware.
“Both the (industrial design) and the hardware had been shown separately in the past,” Walter Bender, OLPC’s president for software and content, said in an e-mail to CNET News.com. The working laptop, he wrote, is “completely self-contained, a real milestone for us.”
One of the machines on exhibit this week features a new, vividly orange exterior that complements other prototypes done up in shades of green, blue and yellow. But it’s not a final design just yet: The system carries an 800-by-480-pixel display, while the eventual production version is expected to have a 1,200-by-900 display.
Full article: c|net News.com
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
To be PC or not PC…
As Microsoft moves its internal desktop systems to Windows Vista, it is contemplating whether to change a long-running tradition and take administrator rights away from its employees in order to improve security.
Microsoft installs early builds of its software in its own corporate systems to ensure the products are thoroughly tested in a real-world environment. Vista, the next update of the Windows operating system, is set for launch in January next year.
Currently, the majority of Microsoft’s employees enjoy full administrator rights on their desktop PCs. That is an unusual practice in corporations, as it makes it possible for people to install unauthorised software and introduce unwanted pests such as spyware.
Mark Estberg, the director of Microsoft’s internal security, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Australia at the AusCERT conference that a security feature in Vista called User Access Control (UAC) could mean fewer employees have full administrator rights over their PCs.
Estberg said: “We haven’t made that final determination yet. We would like to absolutely look at scenarios where we can look at elements of User Access Control - that is the feature in Vista - so that we can start moving in that direction.”
He added: “It is a tough balance, and every company has to decide what is right for them.”
Full story: silicon.com
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Beastly number auctioned for charity
The world’s most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar.
The number, 666 6666, sold for 10m Qatari riyals or ?Ǭ£1.5m.
The previous record holder was Chinese number 8888 8888, which sold for ?Ǭ£270,000. The Cantonese word for eight sounds very similar to the word for rich. It was bought by Sichuan Airlines.
The auction started at a million riyals and interest quickly narrowed from eight bidders to just two, according to Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA).
Full story: The Register
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Secure Memo is a Simple Secure Notepad can be used to store encrypted plain text files. As encryption cipher is used Blowfish. All passwords are transformed through MD5 to long passwords. Effective key size is 128 bits. You can store yours “invisible” notes or your passwords.
Download: Secure Memo
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Desktop Calendar is a small calendar and event reminder that unobtrusively sits on your desktop and is ready to use any time. No taskbar button, no system tray icon, the calendar is transparent so it’s not an eyesore and consumes very little memory (less than 600KB idle). Enter as many daily or regular events as you like. Float your mouse over a day to see all events for the day. Shows a short list of upcoming events below the calendar. Fonts, colours and tooltips are customisable so it blends in with your desktop colour and font schemes. Events may be colour coded for quick identification. First day of the week is customisable. Scales as small or as big you want.
Please note: this application will only work on Windows 2K/XP.
Download: Desktop Calendar 1.34
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
SEATTLE ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú It’s official. Microsoft has released beta 2 of its Vista operating system, With its “Longhorn” Server system and Office 2007 all available, the release marks the first time Microsoft has had all three of its primary software products available for testing at the same time.
Speaking at the annual WinHec conference here, chairman and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, covered a range of technologies in his keynote address centered on Vista and the “ecosystem” of PCs, mobile computing devices and software.
“We see the PC changing,” said Gates, noting the advent of bigger screens, more mobile systems and “the relationship with telephony” via such applications as VoIP. He also touted the advent of 64-bit computing, and multi-core processors which provide a better platform for software innovation.
“We’re making a shift and a number of our products are only going to be 64-bit, like Exchange Server 2007,” said Gates. “We’re sending a clear message that 64-bit is here to say and will be pervasive.”
Although 64-bit processors are most widely found in servers today and newer desktop systems, Gates predicted that in the next three years all new desktop computers will be 64-bit as will most mobile systems.
Full article: internetnews.com
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Google is rolling out a new ad product today for distribution through its off-site AdSense contextual network: PPC video ads.
Google is portraying the new ad product as the latest revolutionary way that Google is leveling the playing field for small businesses, according to the NYT:
A large percentage of video ads will come from small advertisers,” said Gokul Rajaram, a director of product management at Google. “A small resort owner in Maui probably already has video of their great beachfront property. Now they can put it in an ad and reach a qualified set of users.
More: blogs.zdnet.com
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
SnoopFree Privacy Shield is a powerful privacy protection system to put a stop to spy software once and for all! SnoopFree Privacy Shield will give you the power to control your online privacy like no other product. This product will turn your computer into an impenetrable fortress that no spy software can break into.
It’s a powerful shield that guards your keyboard, screen and open windows from all spy software. The way it works makes it virtually impossible for any spy program to work on your computer.
SnoopFree Privacy Shield’s unique protection works against all spy software in real time…
Download: SnoopFree Privacy Shield 1.0.5 Windows XP
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Viridian lurches forward
Microsoft appears to have done the improbable and pushed forward the release of its revamped server virtualization software.
Redmond is currently in the midst of reworking its virtualization wares. It will throw out the Virtual Server product it currently sells in favor of bundling a layer of virtualization software known as a hypervisor with the Longhorn Server operating system. The move will help Microsoft compete with the likes of VMware and Xen, who have already embraced the hypervisor design.
Up until now, Microsoft had been warning that it could take until 2008 or 2009 to ship the hypervisor, code-named Viridian. The software maker expected to deliver the server-slicing product as part of the first update to Longhorn Server.
Today, however, we learn that Microsoft will start beta testing Viridian by the end of this year and plans to ship a working version of the package six months after Longhorn Server arrives. The server OS is due in the second half of 2007.
Full article: The Register
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
US firm warns of life-cycle attacks buried deep within millions of lines of code
US military, government, security and critical infrastructure agencies are being warned against using commercial software which could be hacked by foreign cyber-terrorists.
The warning was issued by Cyber Defense Agency (CDA), an information security consulting and research company specialising in services for the US government and infrastructure sectors.
CDA said that gas, electricity, telecoms, banking and water companies are among the critical service providers that could fall victim to cyber-terrorism caused by so-called life-cycle attacks buried deep within millions of lines of software code.
Life-cycle attacks occur when one line of code is rigged to open vulnerabilities within the software, thus exposing the software and the company to external threats, CDA stated.
Full article: vnunet.com
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