Ninite Brings No-Hassle Bulk Installations to Linux – Re-installing your favorite software in a new system takes time—boring, click-to-proceed time you could spend more wisely. Ninite, the web-based installer that takes the nag out of installs, now offers great custom packages for Ubuntu Linux.
Microsoft: Taking the mystery out of 64-bit Windows – If you’re shopping for a new computer, chances are you already have enough to consider without wondering whether you should buy a computer with a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 7.
Windows 32-Bit vs. 64-Bit, Personalize Your OS – Rick discusses the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and tells you how to make your desktop easier to read and change your user-account icon.
Twitter Hit With Mouseover Malware Attack – Microblogging service hit with attack that sees hackers embed JavaScript within URLs in tweets that display a pop-up directing users to malicious or pornographic websites.
How do I make my Windows 7 desktop look and feel like a Linux desktop? – Jack Wallen shows you how to use free third-party tools to modify the standard Windows 7 desktop into a desktop that resembles Linux.
Trojan posing as installer wants your money – A Trojan masquerading as an installer for well-known applications such as DivX, μTorrent, LimeWire, Avast! Antivirus and others has been popping up on users’ computers lately and is trying to get them to send an SMS to a premium number in order to “unlock” the application in question, says Microsoft.
Video: Lock down Windows 7 to run only specified applications – Bill Detwiler shows you how to use the Local Group Policy Editor to make Windows 7 run only the applications you approve.
Twitter Attack An XSS Wake-Up Call – The high-profile attack that hit the Twitter website early this morning and affected tens to hundreds of thousands of Twitter users serves as a reminder of just how the pervasive but often-dismissed cross-site scripting (XSS)
Company News:
September 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report – MessageLabs Intelligence investigated the most frequently blocked policy categories comparing office-bound and roaming workers and found that blocks for the Downloads category are 5.4 times more likely to be triggered by mobile workers. Likewise, Shopping, Search Engines and Personals& Dating categories are all more frequently blocked for workers outside the office than those who are inside while blocks on Adult/Sexually Explicit content was more likely to be attempted from the workplace.
BlackBerry Tablet May Appear Next Week, Report Says – Research in Motion may introduce a tablet computer next week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Persistent rumors over the past few months have pointed to a BlackBerry tablet that would aim to compete with Apple’s popular iPad.
Facebook Phone Is Doomed to Failure: 10 Reasons Why – Facebook could be releasing a mobile phone at some point in the future. But the chances of such a device catching on with phone buyers seem awfully slim.
Apple 32GB iPhone 4 – The iPhone 4 is a major upgrade from its predecessor, the iPhone 3GS, in everything from the camera quality to data speeds.
Off Topic (Sort of):
Microsoft telescope puts the universe on your desktop – Stargazers can find black holes, radiation fields, and supernovas right from their desktops with Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope.
Cut the Cord: Low-Cost and Free Landline Phone Alternatives – Begone, monthly phone bill! New and improved products like NetTalk Duo, the Ooma Telo, and the YMax MagicJack offer full-featured phone service at a fraction of the cost of regular landline service.
A standardized format for cybercrime reporting – “Cybercrime is emerging as a very concrete threat. Considering the anonymity of cyberspace, it may in fact be one of the most dangerous criminal threats ever,” said Interpol’s Secretary General.
As Iraq winds down, U.S. Army confronts a broken force – When Lt. Col. Dave Wilson took command of a battalion of the 4th Brigade of the 1st Armored Division, the unit had just returned to Texas from 14 months traveling some of Iraq’s most dangerous roads as part of a logistics mission. What he found, he said, was a unit far more damaged than the single death it had suffered in its two deployments to Iraq. (submitted by Dar)
Today’s Quote:
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
- Joseph Conrad
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