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Monthly Archive for June, 2008
Did not want to lose to his rival that several months ago released big update, Blogger also announced several new features. If you are the user of the Blogger platform, visit draft.blogger.com to see several features that still was in the testing stage:
- Webmaster Tools Verification; to automatically arranged your blog in Google Webmaster Tools
- Star Ratings; enabled you to add the assessment system under the article
- Import/Export Feature; an option so that you could make full back up of tour blog in XML format
- Integrated Comment System with Google account and OpenID authentication
- New Post Editor; with additional feature to add picture through drag and drop and better HTML support
Last week NVIDIA released Forceware 177.39 driver that activated PhysX capability in several NVIDIA graphic cards. After being tested by several industrial experts, NVIDIA accepted many criticism regarding to 3DMark Vantage benchmark deliberately manipulation by using the graphic card to help physiscs calculation in a benchmark to measuring CPU performance.
These accusation caused many arguments in various sites, there were those who agreed for example AMD and several ATI partners, there were also those who disagree, said that was did by NVIDIA “driver optimistation for specific application”. Read also this article.
This below 25 applications that came with Windows XP that often was forgotten. Depended on the use of your computer, some of the applications below possibly useful, there were also several legacy programs from previous Windows version was not removed.
To run programs below, was enough to open command prompt and typed the name of the program (with .exe extention).
If you had many accounts for one service (Gmail, Yahoo mail, Facebook, Digg or else), now had the trick to access multiple account at the same time in 1 browser. Firefox Extension that had a name CookiePie enabled you to login and continue to login with the different account. Like it’s name, this extension arranged cookie in your browser.
With right click in browser, you could activate CookiePie. Do the same thing in other tab and you could be login whis differenet account for the same service. This extension could be used in Windows and Linux, according to the CookiePie developer, could not be used in Mac, although having some user reported his success used CookiePie in Mac. Moreover, this extension also apparently could not be used together with Firefox extension Tab Mix.
Everybody knew whoever had Microsoft Office could make a presentation with PowerPoint. However during purchasing power or compatibility with OS became the problem, or wanted to make a different presentation from other, you had various alternatives. That was needed by you only the internet connection and a little creativity. Below this was four from the best.
Zoho Show
Zoho Show were the presentation production service from Zoho. It’s could carry out the fantastic work and had many features to help you make the presentation quickly. There were many themes available to make the presentation in accordance with your wish, including Master Styles for master slides, clipart, and the integration with Zoho Chat.
Google Docs
If you were the user of Google Docs online service, you could use this service to make the presentation on your flight. Although Google gave various themes and option to add picture or video, Google Presentations rather had difficulty being used because of the Google style that was impressed simple. Not too many choices that were available, and in the available choice, was some restrictions that usually are not in the other service. As the bonus, you could adding your presentation that you made in Google Docs in your personal site.
280 Slides
280 Slides were the alternative to the quite sophisticated online presentation. However 280 Slides were still needing many improvements, because just passed private stage. Not so manu themes available and you could not add your picture personally. But on the other hand, you could add various medias like Flickr and YouTube. And you could too to download your presentation made in 280 Slides in the PowerPoint 2007 format.
SlideRocket
SlideRocket was one of the best presentation manufacturers. You could see ReadWriteWeb comment about SlideRocket here.
Microsoft Office has several years supporting multiple clipboard feature, but was not with Windows! Are you hoped to be able to accommodate many datas in clipboard before being copied to the other place? M8 Free Multi Clipboard was the answer.
M8 could keep results cut or copy from the text, picture (picture produced by Print Screen) and file more than 25 clipboard. Then the available data in clipboard could be grouped in accordance as your wish.
When we want to did paste, just enough to opened M8 (could with shortcut) and choose some clip available. That was interesting, if cursor being aimed over some clip, the preview from the contents clip this will appear. Data with text format will be put forward as several text lines, data with image format shown as thumbnail.
M8 version 12 also had feature to manipulate file, text and picture. Download M8 here.
New York Times reported that Intel, the biggest CPU producer in the world at the same time partner of Microsoft had since long ago decided to not upgrade their operating system (OS) that use by his 80,000 employees to Windows Vista and chose to immediately changed to Windows 7.
The source said that Intel took this decision after the department of their internal technology carried out the analysis in a manner gave details about the price, the loss and the profiit that were received from the migration to Windows Vista. The newest OS from Microsoft, often was criticised as one of OS with slow performance that needed expensive hardware to be able to operate well.
“This decision was not carried out to insult Microsoft, but the Intel IT employee did not find the good reason for adopting the Vista,” said the source. Intel spokesperson said that they beforehand tested and implemented Vista in several departments, but not for all the company.
The decision was confirmed painful for Microsoft because both companies had co-operated since long ago to guarantee hardware compatibility and software. Moreover both of them were also known as “Wintel” in the PC industry.
Intel not the only one big company that refused to use Windows Vista. As far as this is concerned already many big companies that always choose to be waiting one year or more after the new Windows version went out before using him, so that bugs available has been improved beforehand. “But usually after your 18 months will see the sale that rocketed, and we did still not see at this time,” said David Smith, an analyst from Gartner.
Michael Silver, Smith workmate in Gartner said that around 30% corporate client usually passed one of Windows new released version. This percentage will be higher for Vista, according to the Silver prediction. Gartner corporate clients that planned to not use Vista did not see the existence of the profit from upgraded this, especially because the Vista needed high PC requirement in the weak economic situation.
But, Microsoft also not too much difficult sold Vista to several big companies. Microsoft said that is gotten by more than 140 million Vista units that installed in PC all over the world.
Once again Microsoft said that although they often accepted the protest from the client, they continued to stop the Windows XP distribution to shops and stopped giving of the licence to the producer PC next week. Microsoft also made an announcement that the further Windows version, Windows 7 will begin to be sold in January 2010.
Last week, I read about security hole in Apple Remote Desktop Agent (ARDAgent) that could be worn to undertake AppleScript with root privilege in Mac OS X. This security hole it was considered critical and could be used to control computer victim remotely.
I just received the opportunity to try this security hole in MacBook belong to my friend, and apparently this security hole was serious enough because of could be exploited easily. To see whether your Mac was affected with this weakness, you were enough to type “osascript -e ‘tell app “ARDAgent” to do shell script “whoami”‘;” in terminal.
Those syntax above ordered ARDAgent to undertake to run “whoami” that returned “root”, proof that the script above was undertaken with the root account. And currently, F-secure reported the existence of two trojan just that exploited this, it is Backdoor.Mac.Hovdy.a and Trojan-PSW: OSX/PokerStealer.A. Trojan PokerStealer sent username, password and the IP address computer victim, that opened the possibility for the aggressor to control your computer remotely.
When this article was written, official patch from Apple to this security hole was still not available. Most Mac users (including my friend) did not know the prevention manner from trojan, because trojan was very rare found in Mac. For the temporary prevention, you could carry out two preventions like that was explained in Slashdot and Washington Post.
Windows 7 were the Microsoft operation system that was in the development stage and was planned to be released in 2010. Microsoft confirmed that look and feel of Windows 7 will not much different, although already plenty of speculations about Windows 7 look and feel. While we waiting for the further news about Windows 7, why did not try to use the Windows theme 7 in Windows XP?
The method are:
- Download the Windows theme 7 from here
- Install “UXTheme Multi- Patcher 6.0.exe” from the “UX Theme Patcher” folder that was inside zip file
- Double click “Windows 7 of M1 VS.msstyles” in the “Theme\Windows 7 of M1 VS” folder to install this theme.
The instruction above will not running well if you have used Windows XP SP3, but you could get the patcher from here. And you also could use various other visual themes for Windows XP with visited StudioTwentyEight.
