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.

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.

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.

Bigger attachments for GMail

Now the message can have 20 MB in size, that means that your mail and the attachments can't jump that size (!?). Until now I had problems sending files that have 11-12 MB and my applications that are .exe or .js, now the firs problem transforms in: cannot send files of 21- 22 MB - but this is a smaller problem. I could use another mail client for bigger attachments or a free file hosting service.
See more news about GMail on About GMail news.

New features on Blogger - autosaving post

... in GMail it happens from the beginning, when you write a message it will be saved from time to time in your drafts just to make sure you don't loose your changes. Now the same thing was added to Blogger when you write a post for your blog.
Read about this news on the Blogger's blog : Blog Buzz.

You need help with your huge office dek

... and you need to play a bit to let the office stress go away. For that ThinkGeek comes with a sloution: "Tiny Forklift Does Your Bidding!" - they say about a little toy that makes some things for you.
See  how it works in the ThikGeek article (see images and a little movie).

Yahoo! Mail get bigger

This month the size of Yahoo! Mail inbox will become unlimited, after trying to make an online chat -  GTalk like - for Yahoo users (it is not available for all yet), the size of inbox must be increased too to keep the competition going.
Some history and ideas you could read on Yodel.

Convert your png to an icon

I earlier presented a site - in an other post -  that can convert all kind of images to other kind of images (and not images only), but there's no option to convert it to an .ico file if you want to use it for an application. And if you want to do it quick and you have to use the Internet only - it is not hard to remember a URL like this: www.ConvertIcon.com. But you need a /png file for that.

Now - do we have advantages? Yes it is free and it do something, it is easy to find.

Do we have alternatives? A lot, but the thing I'm using is IrfanView, a tiny application tat let you save an image in any format you like (including .ico). Ant this tool is free too and do his work much better than the ConvertIcon site.

Flying alarm - new enemy to your morning sleep

Your alarm clock was good at his time, he was your enemy when you are getting up from the bed. But now, you just get up, stop it, and you go to bad again - just for 10 more minutes, you say. You even put it somewhere on a table witch is far from the bed, but this is not a problem, you just make those three steps to that table, turn the clock off and return to the bed.

And now you could get an other enemy to your morning sleep, and this is harder to kill, you have to find it first, because it flies away all the time, and his noise is hard to support. So you have to really get up. And maybe later you'll use the soap with caffeine.

See about this alarm clock, and his wings, at Think Geek. The image above is a metaphoric presentations of the idea, the real one looks different.

Getting home idea

a nice idea from Tricks of the Trade:If you need a ride home after a wild night out, walk into a pizza parlor that delivers and order a pie to be sent to your house. Then ask if you can get a lift to your house

Google Notebook in Firefox

If you use Google Notebook, you'll find it usefull. It is a firefox add-on that adds your Notebook to the Firefox sidebar. You'll habe acces to your notes from the browser and it is better the their wiget from Google.

Try it, if you don't use Notebook you may start to use it now.

Googel Notebook in Firexox sidebar - find here about it, and about instalation of it.

It's easyer to wake up in the morning

Waking up and making coffee... and these are several minutes when you are sleeping on the feet? Now you have Shower Shock, the original, caffeinated soap. Your body will "drink" the coffee through your skin.It Works 'cause it been tested!

Shower Shock is an all vegetable based glycerine soap which does *not* contain any harsh ingredients like ethanol, diethanolamine, polyethylene glycol or cocyl isethionate. Scented with peppermint oil and infused with caffeine anhydrous, each bar of Shower shock contains approximately 12 servings/showers per 4 ounce bar with 200 milligrams of caffeine per serving.

Have a nice wake ups!

[Short post] The worst word in atomic science

Uups!..

[New] Tunderbird 2.0 released

Tunderbird 2 is available for download on Windows, Mac and Linux in over 35 languages. Thunderbird 1.5.0.x users will be offered Thunderbird 2 via software update at a later date. Those wishing to upgrade now are therefore advised to download and install Thunderbird 2 manually.

There are some new things in Tunderbird 2.0:

- Message Tags: like GMail labels

- Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services: you don't have to configure some pop3 servers, it is easyer now

- Find As You Type: Firefox like searching

More of these advantages you can find in the Release Notes of Tunderbird 2.0 page.

Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox

Have been released another official Microsoft plug-in.
This plug-in allows you to use Windows Media Player inside of Firefox.

It is designed to support the following Windows platforms:

• Windows XP SP2 (x86)
• Windows XP SP2 (x64)
• Windows Vista (x86)
• Windows Vista (x64)/li>

Port25 is hosting it, and you can download it from here: Download - indows Media Player Firefox Plugin

It is backwards compatible with the old 6.4 Windows Media Player. And among other things has the following new features.

Read more.

Dangerous financial business

Recently, in the Sudiatung town, in the Liaoning province, at the bank doors it been a fight - it was a client and an collector. The result of the fight was that the client was shut deadly.
The story is like that: a man finished his business in the bank and intended to leave it. At the door an collector stopped him and asked to wait for a while. The man told him that he's in a hurry, he couldn't wait. And the fight begun.
In the end the collector told to the client: "Believe me or not, but if you'll make one more step I'll shoot you in the head". The man steeped forward and the collectordid what he promised to do.
On the recorded tape shows that man didn't intended to steal money or to attack the collector, but... in our days you sometimes should be afraid to go to the school or to the bank (if you are in a hurry) if you need to keep your life.

Decrapify you computer

PC Decrapifier - a funny name for an application, a funny word too.

What does this mead? It is the process you need to take for removing unnecessary programs that are installed on you computer. Most of the times it is very useful on new laptops or workstations that comes with a lot of junk stuff. There's an application that could help you to uninstall lots of these unnecessary stuff (like trial versions of some programs, some toolbars in your browser, some unknown/unwanted utilities).

This program you could find free at PC Decrapifier team that created it. It should be very helpful.

A little story for... who want to read it

I liked this story, hope you'll like it too...

I came home late again and my 5 year old was waiting me at the door.

- Hello! What are you doing here?

- I have something to ask you!

- What was your question?

- Dad, how much do you get payed for an hour at work?

- That's none of your business - I said and wanted to end the discussion, but why did he ask that?

- They pay me 200, why do you need to know?

- Can you give me 150?

- What!? You need them for a stupid toy, I'm working all day log and you come at this hour to ark me something like that!? Go to bad and don't annoy me with that kind of things...

He didn't say anything, he just turned to his room. I start thinking why does he needs those money, he didn't ask for money till now. So I went to his room.

- Are you sleeping?

- No, dad, I'm not.

- I'm sorry I yield at you, here - take the money you asked.

He took the money, then he pooled put some money from under his pillow, put it together, count it again.

- Why do you need these money, you all ready have... some.

- Yes, I have enough now, I have 200 and I want to buy an hour of your time, could you come tomorrow to have dinner with me and mom?

From Chicago to London in 4,703 minutes suggests Google maps

You have to see this google idea of traveling. If you'll seek a way from Chicago to London, you'll find very interesting to swim over the ocean to get there.

Here you'll find the path that Google proposed. I thing it is a good exercise for travelers, 'cause getting there on plains and boats aren't so ecological like swimming.

Time is not the same

The time is not the same in the whole world, an we all know it. It is a different time in Washington and in London, or Ulan-Bator, and most of the time we don't need to realize that, but sometimes we do. Let's say that a friend of yours went abroad, or in to the other end of the country, or your boss sent you to the far away kingdom, or your brother is on holidays in Ethiopia, and you started to talk with some of them on a instant messaging program, or voice call program, and he tells you "Good morning!" at five o'clock in the afternoon. Then you start to ask yourself what time is it there (especially when it is your boss and you don't want to ask his time, you should add/subtract hours), but your head don't respond to your question. When you have a problem you solve it, you could create a table with your and theirs hours (me : 7 - boss : 11, bro' : 3 ...), or make your application, use something that exists already. I am lousy and I choose the las one. I found a MS TimeZone application that is very useful.

It looks like that when it is installed and runs in your system tray. And to perform this first step (the installation step), go here. The second step is to set your locations in options (right click on the tray icon) and your locations could be like this: To create your custom named locations just go in the Option dialog box to the add button under the Available locations list.

More informations about this application you can find here.
Or maybe you want a screen saver with time zones: here's a screen saver.
You could choose a less user friendly interface but mybe with some more power (i dont't realy know about it) by using this app.
One more thing: all these applications here are free, an work for windows.

[Funny] Interesting conversation

A telemarketer calls you, sometimes he has something interesting to tell you, but must of the time you don't want to talk with him. There are many ways to finish the conversation. You could tell him you're not interested in the offer, you are busy right now, you could just hang out or tell him that you can't hear anything, make some noises or something like that. But why finish the conversation if you could make fun of it. There is a guy that found a funny situation to put in the telemarketer and he made the conversation public on the net. It is about somebody called mr. Mabe, and at the office we had a good laugh listening to this, on the page it is presented you'll see the subtitles of this talk. Get in the mood by seeing this. (You'll have to wait a little to let the sound loading completely).

Your Windows show a "Low disk space" warning again!?

Sometimes you get tired of these warnings, and this is one that most of the people will gladly disable. But for that you need to go editing registry of your operating system. On the Downloadsquad website you'll find the line below like an alternative to registrar editing. Just copy the line and paste it in a command prompt. (To open a command prompt you need to type cmd in Run dialog box, to show this dialog box type Window key + R).

 

regini HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" = REG_DWORD 1

But this warning i find sometimes useful. I start to download a little bigger file, and may be I do not have enough space on the disk, and this warning will make me find some space before the downloading process is finished or download the file on a different drive. So it is your choice to disable the warning. I didn't do it on my computer, because it shows not so often, and it still appears useful to me.

Yahoo! Mail beta has Messenger

.. or at least it will.

The greatest advantage of GMail for me was the free POP3 access and the integrated talk client, an then was the no advertising thing. But now it seems that Yahoo! wants to integrate a Y! Messenger client in the Mail beta, to be available directly in the browser. With the new, more user friendly, interface of the Mail, Yahoo! took a big step, and this will be an important step too.

Here's a video presentation of the idea. In the presentation you can see some thing about it, and that this feature will be released later for all the users.


And more about the new Yahoo Mail on http://ymailupdates.com/.

GMail has about 3 GB - you could use it like a drive

You can use it on your computer by installing an application that will do to access the drive easier, or you could use it from the net.
The first method is very easy to use (too bad you can't see the drive in Total Commander, but the Windows Explorer will do). You just have to:
1. Download the GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.10 from here.
2. Extract he files from the archive and run setup.exe
3. Access the new drive in Windows Explorer - it will ask you to log in (you know that Windows Explorer is something like Internet Explorer but with some other default tools, so when you copy files on that drive you just upload a file into an email sent to you, and when you copy from it you just download that file, so don't expect extra speed).
Look at the tips on the download page that I gave you above. It is nice to put a filter to your uploaded files.
Here you can see a little illustration how it works:


The method number two:
But sometimes you want to access your files not only on your computer, but somewhere else, at school, where you have no time or will to install that application. You can use this page witch is user friendly, and uses the same GMail. It is xMailHardDrive page powerredby BlackBox.
I saw this site is in the beta version, and sometimes you need patience with it. This guy from the clip above say that is is ok. It wasn't for me...

If the second method doesn't work, try downloading files from your GMail inbox (that's kind of third method), that sure will work, it will be just harder to upload files, but for that you better use the first method from home, where you have the drive installed.

If you deleted those file accidentally

 

The Shift + Del shortcut to delete the file skip the file to go Recycle Bin and then go to throw all the trash, now the files are lost. Lost like the moment you empty the Bin - if the you don't have a Norton Antivirus or something that helps you to keep you hard dick full. But sometimes you lost some files that you needed. In this case try to use as quick as possible a recovery tool - quick, I mean until you didn't added some files to that partition, or  you didn't defragmented it.

A new utility, free utility is called Recuva (pronounced "recover") from recuva.com, it is a Windows utility that helps you to recover those files.

 

I hope it will do good for you, if it is not good enough try other utilities. Easy recovery worked once good enough for me. You can find the trial version here, it has no limitation.

More information about recovering data - on http://www.data-recovery-software.net/ .

Men with blue eye prefer blue-eyed women

I found this article on New Scientist site, and their explanations are very interesting.

The most interesting argument is that in a "blue-eyed couple" the child will be sure blue-eyed, and this will work like a test of paternity. For a father without blue yes the child is more probable without blue eyes too.

A blue-eyed man is more likely to be involved in relation with a woman with the same eye color then other possible combinations.

... Should I seek a blue-eyed partner?

... What color do you like the most for your partner's eyes?