Apple fixes Quick Time flaw

Published at May 1, 2007   Filed Under Software, Technology   0 Comments  

Apple released a patch for the flaw in Quick Time used to hack a Mac book at a security conference. The vulnerability lies in Quick Time Java and can be triggered to hack the computer when the computer user visits a malicious website.
Apple Patch for QuickTime 7.1.6
An implementation issue exists in QuickTime for Java, [...]

Microsoft adds Streaming to Silverlight

Published at April 30, 2007   Filed Under Software, Technology, Video   0 Comments  

Microsoft announced streaming support for Silverlight at Mix07 conference, the service allows web develeopers to host and stream up to 4Gb of videos for free. The videos can be streamed at 700kbps. Silverlight streaming works in conjunction with Silverlight browser plugin released earlier. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media [...]

Sony enters in to japanese video sharing with eyeVio

Published at April 26, 2007   Filed Under Technology, Video, Web 2.0   0 Comments  

Sony is entering in to japanese video sharing network with eyeVio, eyeVio will be go live from Friday. ZDNet reports that this may be a first step from Sony to challenge Google’s Youtube. Currently eyeVio is available to japanese users only, later they will introduce the service in other countries.

Unlike Youtube eyeVio videos can [...]

Adobe to Open Source Flex

Published at April 26, 2007   Filed Under Software, Technology   0 Comments  

Adobe is planning to open source Flex, a development framesork for building Flash and Apollo based applications. Adobe is expecting the open source community will contribute to evolutions of Flex framework. The Flex source code is expected to release under MPL (Mozilla Public License).
Flex is used for building Rich Internet Applications, using framework developers [...]

Recover deleted files with Pandora Recovery

Published at April 25, 2007   Filed Under Software, Technology, Tweaks   9 Comments  

Sometimes we may delete an important file by mistake, but there is no easy way to recover these files till now, now Pandora corp has come up with a tool which can recover these deleted files from the hard disk. Pandora Recovery is a free tool to recover deleted files from your computer. When we [...]

Google Releases Patches for MySQL

Published at April 25, 2007   Filed Under Google, Technology   0 Comments  

Google is a big fan of the open source MySql relational database, it uses this for its applications. Google made some patches to the relational MySql database for better manageability and reliability, google has released these patches for the community, Mark Callaghan, Software Engineer at Google posted on the google code blog. These patches are [...]

Wikipedia on CD

Published at April 25, 2007   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

Wikipedia is now available on DVD for those who don’t have a proper internet connection. This wikipedia version 0.5 release contains around 2000 pages from the english wiki pages with topics ranging from geography, literature, arts and science.
The Wikipedia CD is compatible with Windows (back to 98), Macintosh (Intel) OS X and Linux x86. [...]

Newsvine Relaunched Today

Published at April 24, 2007   Filed Under Technology, Web 2.0   0 Comments  

Newsvine relaunched today calling it Newsvine Evergreen. Now users can customize the Newsvine home page with modules. The frontpage comes with modules like top story, live Newsvine, Top seeds, most active stories, weather etc. Users can now add their favorite RSS feeds to the frontpage.
With the modularization of the front page it is now [...]