Every second Tuesday in a month is patch day over at Microsoft. What does it mean? Microsoft pushes out all security patches of a month on that day to all users of their Windows operating systems and other applications like Microsoft Office. Only highly critical vulnerabilities receive out of band security patches. This month’s patch [...]
Windows Phone 7 WILL get Cut and Paste in early 2011
It was one of the biggest complaints about the iPhone for the best part of three years and looked set to also be a major gripe about Microsoft’s new smartphone OS, Windows Phone 7. Now though, Microsoft have come out to say that the OS WILL get Cut and Paste in an update early in [...]
Have Smart Phone, Will Travel – But Be Careful!
One of the great things about living in this age of smart phones and wi-fi devices is that it makes getting connected to the internet pretty easy, no matter where you are. That includes when you are traveling in a different country. The information networks are functional in something like 85% of the world now [...]
How To Add Greasemonkey To Firefox 4
I recently switched from the stable Firefox 3.6x browser to the beta of Firefox 4, mainly because the beta appeared to be relatively stable at this point in development. Naturally, some of the add-ons that I used to work with were not compatible with Firefox 4, either because the developer did not update the add-on [...]
Opera 10.63 Has Been Released
Companies who develop web browsers often work on multiple strains of a web browser at the same time. Google does that for instance by maintaining three different builds of the browser. Mozilla does it as well, and so does Opera. Opera has been working on Opera 10.63 as well as Opera 10.70 for a while [...]
FB-Secure, Configure Facebook Application Rights During App Installation
Facebook applications can request rights to access user information during installation. While all will request basic information, some require additional access rights for their functionality. Others however may request additional rights even if they are needed for the functionality of the app. A basic example: A Facebook application that displays a horoscope needs to have [...]
Fix Pinned Items Opening As New Icons In Windows 7 Taskbar
Windows 7 users can pin programs, files and folders to the taskbar for an easier way to interact with the items. Pinned items are always shown in the taskbar, regardless whether they are open or not on the operating system. Recently I noticed a strange behavior that I could not figure out at first. Some [...]
Stuxnet Removal Tool
The public became aware of the Stuxnet worm back in July, largely because it was linked to several 0-day vulnerabilities of the Windows operating system. Researchers who analyzed the worm discovered what appeared to be its core purpose: To target industrial computer networks running Siemens WinCC software. But the nature of the vulnerability made all [...]
Enter Windows Phone 7
With the smartphone market already crammed with handsets, operating systems and options, Microsoft have now entered the fray with their latest and greatest. At an event in New York city this morning, Windows Phone 7 was officially unveiled. It’s exciting too, finally a smartphone OS for people who bemoan the lack of buttons on their [...]