Secure Your Vulnerabilities With Secunia Personal Inspector
August 28, 2008
Internet a world of infinity and too a paradise for hackers who get through the vulnerabilities in your PC and access your information and sensitive data. So you are never safe on Internet even if you have updated antivirus,firewalls and spywares. Thousands of vulnerabilities still exist even for oldest softwares hence its a game of luck whether the hacker sneaks to your PC or not.When you browse the Internet, you use an “Internet browser” this may be: Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Opera. All of these browsers have been affected by software vulnerabilities that have allowed hackers to do practically anything on your computer – all you had to do was to visit a website and the website could take control of your computer. The same goes for each and every other application on your computer – unless you keep them updated and patched. Programs such as anti-virus, personal firewall, and anti-spyware are good measures of protection, but they will NOT protect you from the threat of software vulnerabilities – despite what many of them promise!
But prevention is always better than cure, that is detecting the vulnerabilities and getting it patched solves the issues to an extent. The Secunia Personal Software Inspector is the FREE security tool that is designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer from software vulnerabilities.
Features of Overview of missing patches (network-wide)
- Historic and differential scanning (changes from scan to scan)
- Full control of programs on your network
- Easy and fast network scanning
- Centralised dashboard
- Customisable scanning preferences
- Unique program overview
- Simplified integration with 3rd party tools
- Export of data in CSV and PDF
- Advanced report generation
- Print options
Internet Explorer 8 Beta2 Ready!
August 28, 2008
Microsoft has announced the availability of the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for downloads, there are several enhancements in this version which includes better navigation and tab management changes, better safety, interpretability with other browsers and web standards.The feature that excites us about IE8 is the private browsing which allows you to browse the Internet without storing anything in the history. They have also added a ability to reopen closed tabs in addition to restoring a entire browsing session.Following are the Features of Internet Explorer 8.
Accelerators
Accelerators let you efficiently complete your everyday browsing activities like mapping directions, translating words, emailing your friends, and more in just a few mouse clicks.
InPrivate Browsing
Browse the web without saving your history with Internet Explorer 8’s InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won’t accidentally find out or use a shared computer without leaving a trace.
Web Slices
Keep up with changes to the sites you care about most. Add a Web Slice and you won’t have to go back to the same website again and again for updates on news, stock quotes, online auctions, weather, or even sports scores.
Search suggestions
Search smarter with detailed suggestions from your favorite search providers and browsing history. See visual previews and get suggested content topics while you type in the enhanced Instant Search Box.
SmartScreen Filter
New security features help to protect you against deceptive and malicious websites which can compromise your data, privacy and identity.
Hide Your Key Strokes From Keylogger
August 28, 2008
Are you using the PC of your friend or from Internet Cafes, then you could be a target for those who are behind you to steal you personal information, passwords and credit card details. And mostly all these information is ripped from the PC with help of key loggers which record all your key stokes whether its in word or you typing your password everything is either stored in unknown destination in PC or mailed to a predefined email. And its all in a fraction, you loose everything. So incase you happen to use a strange PC do keep in mind to type the sensitive information with the following two tools.
Neo’s SafeKeys is a small program that helps to defeat keyloggers on unsecure computer terminals (such as Internet Cafes).It is a custom-made tool that allows for you to mouse-click your password on an on-screen keyboard.
You type your password by clicking each button on the keyboard of this application (with your mouse). Your password will appear, letter by letter, in the text box at the bottom of the window (within a “******” password mask). Select the text with your mouse and then drag-drop it onto the password box on your online form. That’s it!
Alternatively you may use Online Keyboard which work the same way as Neo’s Safekeys. Virtual Keyboard is the great thing when you can’t install or use additional keyboard layouts bundled with your OS. For example, you’re at the internet cafe where only En/US layout is available and you want to write some letters to your Russian, Korean, Japanese or any other friends. Yes, you can just transliterate your writing, but this will take much more time than you ever expect and makes reading boring.
This is the case to have the VirtualKeyboard installed on a site: you just open it and begin typing. Virtual keyboard will do the translation/transliteration job for you on the fly. The same goes to the search engines, forums, webmail systems and much other online and offline applications. It makes a sense, to integrate tiny app there and make life easier for you and your customers.
Real VNC: Connecting You to Your PC
August 28, 2008
Getting mobile, its the prime requirement of everyone in this 3G era and that makes you to prefer laptops and palmtops. But for those who cannot afford those lappy’s they too can have access to their personal computer even when away from the PC with Virtual Network Computing (VNC). VNC is a remote client software which allows you to access your remote PC from any other PC. This can also be helpful in performing remote troubleshooting on your computer that is a technician need not ride down to you to fix your computer, he just can do this remotely.VNC has a wide range of applications including system administration, IT support and helpdesks. It can also be used to support the mobile user, both for hot desking within the enterprise and also to provide remote access at home, or on the road. The system allows several connections to the same desktop, providing an invaluable tool for collaborative or shared working in the workplace or classroom. Computer support within the geographically spread family is an ever popular use.
A similar type of application is RealVNC which is freeware and runs on Windows 98/2000/XP. When you log on to the remote PC you can have the entire remote desktop bridged on to your PC and you are able to work as working on your personal PC. All you have to do is to run a Server Software on the remote computer and configure a Viewer Software on the accessing PC and its all done. While initializing the viewer software it requests for IP address and password, and once the user is validated then he is given access to the PC via the remote desktop on his PC.
You can download RealVNC here
Flash Gallery : Create Simple Photo Gallery
August 28, 2008
Flash had played a great role in animating the Internet and our lives, but as it involved a bit of savvyness required minimal users had always been away from it. But its now for those normal users who can easily create Flash Gallery in just a couple of clicks. Flash Gallery is a free, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file. The following are the features of the Flash Gallery.
- Flash Gallery is 100% FREE!
- Easy to implement in your site
- Intuitive navigation
- Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux
- Supports Latin, Cyrilic, Chinese and any other language you can think of
- Lightweight, only 11KB
- Image preloader and effects
Click Here to download Flash Gallery
PowerTalk : Text To Speech Presentation Tool
August 25, 2008
Presentations are the easiest way to build up an audience and the new approaches to your presentation can make the audience more closer to you and your ideas can be easily penetrated into their minds sooner. We here introduce to you a power point addon which can make your presentation more effective. PowerTalk is a free ‘Text to Speech’ application meant to read out text appearing on Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or slideshow. And it automatically speaks the contents on the slide as you move your slides.
And you would never get confused whether your accent is perceived by the audience. Speech is provided by the standard synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows. Its a simple and easy interactive application which can leverage your audience to get glued on to your presentation. And it just works as you move your presentation and need not worry about the timing too.
You can try on PowerTalk on the Microsoft Powerpoint2000 and later versions. Click here to Download PowerTalk.
WorkMeterXP:Mouse And KeyPress Stats
August 21, 2008
There are a variety of utilities just made for the sake of it and others made for high level of productivity and here I am going to introduce you a utility. And its you who is to decide which category of utilities does it fall, according to me it could be a mixed response as some may find it usefull and some junk.
The utility I mentioned is WorkMeterXP which measures the number of mouse clicks and key press and gives you the result with all those statistics. It counts keyboard and mouse clicks and calculates cursor’s trajectory length in pixels and meters.Calculated length depends on diagonal length so it must be set in order to achieve better accuracy. The statistics are shown in HTML and you can navigate through all the past stats. So its now you to decide…just try it out and post your comments.