Entries from March 2008 ↓

A security vulnerability exploited Friday researcher at a critical bug in Adobe Systems Inc. ‘Flash Player to hack a laptop computer equipped with Windows Vista Ultimate, the second machine to fall this year’s “To OWN OWN” challenge.

The only thing that is not claimed by the original portable trio from the end of the competition was a Sony Vaio with Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Shane Macaulay, a consultant security with the objectives, which claims, a $ 5000 cash prize, in a U810 Fujitsu SP1, Windows Vista Ultimate late Friday. According to 3Com, Inc. ’s TippingPoint, with prices for the three days of pirates challenge CanSecWest, Macaulay used an unknown Zero-Day to the vulnerability of the ubiquitous Flash Player.

Macaulay, was set up by Derek Callaway, including the Security Council goals, and Alexander Sotirov, an independent researcher, was the second winner for OWN OWN. Thursday, Charlie Miller Independent Security Evaluators attacked an Air MacBook with a security hole in Apple Computer, Inc. “a Safari browser, and win a laptop.

It is really fun to have a free tarot reading website. Yes, I just hovered around a wonderful website that is perfectly designed for its purpose. iFate.com is a newly launched website that caters to the fortune-telling, divination, tarot, astrology lovers. One of the best things that this site is great is the fact that the contents are free for all the visitors unlike the other websites that they accept payments before you read their stuffs.

Well, you will have to ask yourself, “Will Britney Spears find another man this year?”. Try, iFate.com today and find out!

In an era in which we live surrounded by digital cameras and all of us can be a fervent free photos with a photo montage of the application is available online, is a dream come true. Photoshop Express, the latest initiative of Adobe, which can only be what we were looking for: a lightweight, simple and intuitive nature and how to work and organize photo collections.

As you probably know already, in order to deny access to the application, that is all you have to do, open your browser, you create an account with Photshop.com / Express, and you can get started in sending your images. You can choose to upload images as much as you like (I tried, with 30 images), but also the duration of the transfer depends on the size of the image and the speed of your Internet connection. Similarly, as for many other photos sharing sites, you can put it in a library, even though many albums as you like. After downloading the images, you can simply drag & drop by between albums. To select multiple images, hold down the CTRL key and click on the photos you want.

The name of the album can easily be changed with just one click. But the real “power” and the importance of Adobe new service lies in its ability to work and edit images.

Backgammon Masters continually engulfing the web through their online games. Now they have this new Guinness World Record in the farthest backgammon dice toss which will captivate the hearts of millions of gamers again. They have this Guinness Gamer World Record event to take an opportunity of promoting the Backgammon Masters Freeroll tournaments which are held every Tuesday and Friday. I like the idea of tossing
backgammon dice out of a helicopter fro 200-300 ft. in the sky onto a 1 acre-size gigantic backgammon board shaped field.

In this tournament, there will be 2 well-known backgammon champions. They wil pla a full match on that huge field using a helicopter. They will toss the dice and staff to move the checkers using walkie talkies as way of communication. Well, according to their press release, the size of the checkers to be used is 3 feet in diameter. The prize of the winner will get the dice ammounting 1,000 Euro. Yes, this will be a great backgammon event and they will sell tickets that will proceed to charity.

Sunday early reports indicate that Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) appears to have enough votes to a standard ISO certification. An official census is not to wait until Monday.

Given that the votes come from 87 national standards bodies, they have a number of complaints of irregularities and strong-arm tactics in different countries, notably Poland and Norway.

Blogs Open in Malaysia, openness and demand for the students, that the ballot papers on Saturday evening, the need to combine more than the approval of two thirds of votes, and less than one-quarter to be condemned.

A lawyer and expert on standards Andrew Updegrove, a defender of the standard Open Document rival, has been held at the same conclusion, based on official statements and reports from participants.