Adobe released a security update for a serious vulnerability within Reader and Acrobat.
The update affects Adobe Reader 8.0 through 8.1.2, Adobe Reader 7.0.9 and earlier, Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard 8.0 through 8.1.2, Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard 7.0.9 and earlier. It does not affect Adobe Reader 7.1.0 and Acrobat 7.1.0.
Which is the world's fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn't beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7.
The Walt Disney World Resort might now be considered the happiest place inside your computer with a new product, Walt Disney World Resort in 3-D, which will give users of Google Earth a three-dimensional model of the entire park.
Users will be able to tour all four of the resort's theme parks and hotels.
A federal district judge in Washington State handed down an important decision this week on shrink-wrap license agreements and the First Sale Doctrine. The case concerned an eBay merchant named Timothy Vernor who has repeatedly locked horns with Autodesk over the sale of used copies of its software. Autodesk argued that it only licenses copies of its software, rather than selling them, and that therefore any resale of the software constitutes copyright infringement.
In the world of Windows defragmenters, there's one award that always stands out from the rest. That award is the Editor's Choice from Windows IT Pro for best defragmenter and PerfectDisk 2008 has just received this year's honor.
Adobe Security Advisory: - Potential vulnerability in After Effects CS3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
APSB08-13 - Security Update available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7 and 8
Originally posted: May 6, 2008
Summary: Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.1 and earlier versions. These vulnerabilities would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
Apparently, it's not a joke on this April Fools day that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format was approved as an international standard. Information posted by the OpenDoc Society to its members and unofficial tallies and blogs all suggest it is true.
The decision by the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC) considering the matter is officially scheduled to be publicly disclosed tomorrow,
Google is rolling out a much-awaited feature for its hosted applications: the ability for people to use them even when they aren't connected to the Internet.
Monday, March 31, 2008; 5:19 PM
Google is rolling out a much-awaited feature for its hosted applications: the ability for people to use them even when they aren't connected to the Internet.
Restricted access By Sylvie Barak: Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 9:19 PM "Adobe courts the big boys with a new addition to its Flash Media Server family, the Flash Media Rights Management Server software (FMRMS).
....shoving DRM into Flash will seriously limit what can be done with streamed flash content and will significantly impede fair use."
"Users may also have to upgrade their Flash Player software (and open source alternatives like Gnash, which has been making rapid progress, may be unable to play the encrypted streams at all). Third-party software that can download Flash Video, like the most recent RealPlayer, will also break.
But Adobe now has an incentive to push the use of DRM: it's only available to sites that use Flash Media Server 3 software, which starts at over $4,000 (with extra fees depending on the number of simultaneous streams)."
Tax time is a stressful time for many Americans as they prepare to count every deduction and balance the books by the ever-looming April 15. But with the digital age has come an additional concern — identity theft.
Martin Wainwright The Guardian, Wednesday February 20 2008
A British company has patented a hi-tech version of the cash boxes which squirt dye or shoot out telescopic poles - in the form of laptop software which photographs the thief, pinpoints his or her whereabouts and quietly destroys sensitive data.
The system has been tested in Yorkshire following the recent spate of high-profile cases involving government laptops taken home or left in staff members' cars against regulations.
onOne Software Announces Acquisition of Liquid Resize Technology Portland, OR Janury 17, 2008
"onOne Software, Inc., provider of world-class software solutions for professional photographers and graphic designers, announces today the technology acquisition of Liquid Resize which introduces a ground-breaking new way to resize images using a technique known as "seam carving" to reduce the distortion that typically occurs when manipulating the aspect ratio of an image."
About Liquid Resize Liquid Resize, a "content aware" image resizing application, was originally developed by the Vienna, Austria based husband-wife team of Ramin Sabet and Irmgard Sabet-Wasinger and is based on the work of Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir that made its first appearance in a video released at Siggraph 2007.
Liquid Resize will allow users to resize an image without the traditional geometric limitations while minimizing any distortion that would typically result from changing the original aspect ratio of an image."
"A free public beta of Liquid Resize for both Windows and Mac OS X users will be available in late January 2008". That beta as mentioned in onOne Blog, has apparently been delayed.
The free, original software is still available at CrystalXP.net
"Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox. This software is available for all major operating systems at www.virtualbox.org and www.openxvm.org."
The much anticipated "official" release date of the new PerfectDisk 2008 family of products is only days away.
To see a list of new features added to PerfectDisk 2008 Professional and to take a peek at the new products added to the PerfectDisk 2008 family, click the link below:
