Thursday, June 7, 2007

Firefox and IE - browsers vulnerabilities

In the 4th of jun Michal Zalewski made public at http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-June/063712.html a list of 4 vulnerabilities of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
There is one critical problem at the IE with the access to the cookies of some pages by third part pages. A major problem in Firefox with the iframes that could include javascript injection. Ant other two midium problems, one for the browser provided by Mozilla and the other for the Microsoft's browser.
You will find interesting the last one, here is a demo of how you can be triked that you are visiting the real cnn page.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Nokia - 10 interesting facts

1) The name of the town of Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta, was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning sable, later pine marten. A species of this small, black-furred predatory animal was once found in the region, but it is now extinct.

2) Nokia is sometimes called aikon (Nokia backwards) by non-Nokia mobile phone users and by mobile software developers, because "aikon" is used in various SDK software packages, including Nokia's own Symbian S60 SDK.

3) Unlike other modern day handsets, Nokia phones do not automatically start the call timer when the call is connected, but start it when the call is initiated. (Except for Series 60 based handsets like the Nokia 6600).

4) Nokia was listed as the 20th most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's list of 2006 (1st in network communications, 4th non-US company).

5) In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any Nokia handset model number, because 4 is considered unlucky in many parts of Southeast/East Asia.

6) The Nokia corporate font (typeface) is the AgfaMonotype Nokia Sans font, originally designed by Eric Spiekermann. Previously in advertising and in its mobile phone User's Guides Nokia mostly used the Agfa Rotis Sans font.

7) The "Special" tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for "SMS". Similarly, the "Ascending" SMS tone is Morse code for "Connecting People," Nokia's slogan. The "Standard" SMS tone is Morse code for "M" (Message).

8) Nokia is currently the world's largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.

9) The world's first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in Helsinki over a Nokia-supplied network, by Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a Nokia phone.

10) The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named "Gran Vals" by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega. The Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was changed to "Nokia Tune" around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the "Nokia Tune."

Salesforce Group Edition - new service for business

It's solution for Google AdWords customers. It will provide easier way to manage the "clickers" of their ads and grow the number of customers. It is available for free (only for 7 days), but the prices are affordable for smaller companies that advertise on the net using Google services.
This is a common effort of Salesforce and Google, and the product should be useful for the target client.
See more about this upgrade of the Team Edition on Salesforce website.

Friday, June 1, 2007

Widows user can copy files faster with TeraCopy

I don't now the etymology of the name of this application, but it is easy to guess. Tera, i think, comes from the the amount of data that could be managed with the help of this utility, and copy comes from the feature it provides.
So.. the application can help you to copy much faster the files from one hard drive to another, to make this process in several times by put it on hold and continue it when you want, integrate with the shell. Very useful when Windows wants more space on a drive (you know that Low disk space message), and the time is always important, so the delay in the work process because of copying files.
You can find this product on codesector page ,I think I'll try it too.