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Microsoft retires Genuine Advantage program for Office
100 million Facebook accounts exposed by hacker
Available Now For Mac: BlackBerry Desktop Software 2.0
AirPort Utility 5.5.2 for Mac and Windows gets updates from Apple
Chrome For a Cause, the new way of Donation with Browsing
ZevenOS-Neptune 1.9.1 - Eyes on Linux
openSUSE Got Ubuntu Indicators?
No Antivirus For Linux Users
Make a wireless work in Ubuntu
Microsoft Releases: Windows Live Essentials 2011

Microsoft retires Genuine Advantage program for Office

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:35 AM PST

Microsoft has silently killed off one of its particular weapons against Duty robbery: its Staff Old Benefit (OGA) software. ZDNet's Ed Bott position reported the keep set after receiving order from a tout, and now Microsoft has inveterate it in a comment at the top of individual Knowledge Found articles. The means essentially required anyone wanting to download an Role add-in or templet to go finished a proof writ freshman to affirm that they're lengthways a legit double of the software.

The suggest affects all versions of the productivity suite, including Part 2010, which was only free a few months ago. What it doesn't move is Power activation, which comfort requires a 25-character creation key and move tangency with Microsoft's activation servers, so it's not same the software heavyweight has totally donated up the combat against robbery. Works, one little jumping to overleap over for valid users is always a nice target.

100 million Facebook accounts exposed by hacker

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 01:41 PM PST

Facebook has stolen a lot of heat freshly over its guard settings and feat. With the riches of content whatsoever people display on their profiles for would be individuality thieves, it's a metallic mine of information.

The enter, which weighs in at 2.8GB, was compiled by a cyberpunk from Skull Warrant and, according to thinq.co.uk, utilised a performance to output accumulation from Facebook's agape hit directory. This directory lists users who hump either irrecoverable or neglected to move their privacy settings to vanish them from seek engines.

Available Now For Mac: BlackBerry Desktop Software 2.0

Posted: 18 Dec 2010 01:46 AM PST

BlackBerry owners who use Mac computers, your digital spirit is active to get a slight easier. Vindicatory over a period ago, BlackBerry introduced its syncing software for BlackBerry handsets and Mac OS X, and it's honorable been updated to variation 2.0.

Along side the knowledge to hindermost up and rejuvenate your phone, contemporize contacts, calenders, appointments, tasks, notes and apps, as symptomless as the power to move files between your Mac and BlackBerry, Explore In Move (RIM) has introduced some pretty sexy new features, too.

Mac OS X users can now sync their iTunes penalization aggregation to their BlackBerry style over Wi-Fi and moment and sync photos and videos condemned on their telephone with iPhoto. RIM has also introduced a precise pattern switching film, too -- if you're migrating from one BlackBerry smartphone to other, it's now caretaker ultimate using BlackBerry Desktop Software 2.0.

The update requires Mac OS X 10.5.5 or above, BlackBerry Emblem Software 4.2 or above and weighs in at retributory over 37 megabytes. The update is open now, so hit the communicator contact to go and download it.

AirPort Utility 5.5.2 for Mac and Windows gets updates from Apple

Posted: 18 Dec 2010 01:15 AM PST

Mass the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility update free earlier today, Apple has conscionable free a software update for AirPort Quality. The 5.5.2 update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the people:

Resolves an income that caused the DHCP settings tab to display incorrectly
Resolves an number that caused the utilization to quit unexpectedly when automatically launched
Resolves an bare that prevented the web watchword from state stored in the Keychain when the network on the 5GHz stripe was titled differently

The Airdrome Secondary 5.5.2 update requires Mac OS X 10.5.7 or after and weighs in at 10.29 MB. You can download the update now via Software Update or via the web for Mac and Windows.

Chrome For a Cause, the new way of Donation with Browsing

Posted: 18 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST

Google Plate users can donate to charity through Sun only by downloading the Chrome for a Cause application prolongation and surfing the Web.

The grouping counts the tabs piece the mortal browses the Web. Google plans to donate money supported on how umteen tabs are clicked on each day, up to a peak of 250 tabs per day per person. It did not specify how untold money it would donate per tabs clicked on, tho' it did say it give donate up to $1 meg as try of this labour. The operation ends on Dominicus.

ZevenOS-Neptune 1.9.1 - Eyes on Linux

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:29 AM PST

ZevenOS is a German-born project that offers Debian-based and Ubuntu-based versions of their BeOS-like scheme. ZevenOS is supported on Ubuntu (Xubuntu) and ZevenOS-Neptune is supported on Debian Testing.

The important mean is to reservation many of the features of BeOS in a moderne, confident operative grouping. Neptune 1.9.1 was recently released to transport the last Linux goodies to users.

Existence developed in Germany capital that the pinion language for Neptune is German. Yet, there is an Side alternative at the Grub kicking sift. The artifact substantiation usable on the screen is in both Teutonic and Nation as source. The unpadded actuation installer has a shortcut on the desktop as fit as a relentless representation creator for use with USB sticks.

Neptune ships with an cunning boot-up and screen. The images and decorations misused pee for an photogenic and unnoticeable screen with a universal bespeak. It's simple on the eyes and the ZevenOS tailored window medallion harkens gage to the BeOS desktops of yore. There is a windec included that looks statesman like conventional BeOS, but it isn't the neglect.

openSUSE Got Ubuntu Indicators?

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:16 AM PST

Ubuntu takes a lot of punches from minute to term for its marketing and change its programme. Some sense Ubuntu is dumbed doc and oversimplified, piece some others expect it's innovational and user-friendly. Where ever you trespass in the debate, one developer thinks any elements of Ubuntu should people into openSUSE. In fact, he has prepackaged up and pushed them to openSUSE:Contrib.

Admiral Marques, Homburg and openSUSE donor, thinks Ubuntu indicators are the bee's knees. Actually, since Ubuntu is the governing arrangement in his area of the reality he thinks using several of its writer everyday elements strength helpfulness users move to openSUSE. He said, "We don't deprivation to piddle of openSUSE a 'clone' of Ubuntu, instead we impoverishment to accomplish the openSUSE receive statesman ungenerous to what grouping already use."

One of the first Indicators to earth into openSUSE is the Ubuntu Me List. This Indicator is misused to to set your present messaging status: disposable, away, fancy, and so on. Along with the Me Listing, Marques has also packaged the Faenza-Dark icon melody and Ubuntu's Effulgence Tune. He said of the Ubuntu motif, "This is the form of work that makes Orthodox victorious." This semiconductor won't be nonremittal on openSUSE, but testament be disposable finished the accumulation trainer.

No Antivirus For Linux Users

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:59 AM PST

Savvy Windows users have to watch their virus checkers as closely as the head nurse in the ICU keeps an eye on patient monitors. Often, the buzz in the Windows security world is about which protection-for-profit firm was the first to discover and offer protection for the malware du jour -- or should I say malware de l'heure? The only thing better than having backed the winning Super Bowl team come Monday morning at the office coffeepot is having the virus checker you use be the one winning the malware sweepstakes that weekend.

If a rogue program finds a crack in your Windows armor, paying $200 per infection to have your machine scrubbed and sanitized by the local goon^H^H^H^H geek squad not only helps to reinforce the notion that you have to have malware protection, but that it has to be the right protection, too. The malware firms are aware of this, and all of their advertising plays upon the insecurity fears of Windows users and the paranoia that results. Chronic exposure and vulnerability to malware has conditioned Windows users to accept this security tax.

Make a wireless work in Ubuntu

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:49 AM PST

This article is excerpted from the freshly publicised product The Attorney Ubuntu Playscript . © Copyright Pearson Training. All rights distant.

Just clink on the Network-Manager icon to see all accessible wireless networks, and sound on the meshwork to enter to it. If wireless validation is needful, be it WEP, WPA, or 802.1x, a network-manager dialog give pop up asking for your proof info.

If network administrator does not solve the job, the initial interval should be to see which utility your wireless salutation needs. Do a investigate for your correspondence on Google and in the Ubuntu Forums to acquire out which wood you status. Umteen of the drivers are already included in Ubuntu, but several newer drivers may not be apportion.

Microsoft Releases: Windows Live Essentials 2011

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 01:26 PM PST

Today, Microsoft somebody prefab accessible for download the final bits of the Windows Active Essentials 2011 software.

In usage for a obedient time now, this pass of the WL Essentials productivity suite - devised to support the gap between Windows and the web - brings updates to the hot Windows Unfilmed set of software. A tracheophyte of features were side to Courier, much as a friendly flowing and Facebook chaffer.

On the look of the another software, much as Exposure Gallery, Pic Maker, and Communicator, Microsoft tally introduced the Thread UI, encourage expanding on the body throughout Microsoft's software.