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Windows only: Time to move-on and upgrade your portable version of Mozilla Firefox browser from version 3.5 to Firefox 3.5.1 Portable. This quick upgrade that fixes the critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 is brought to you by the PortableApps team, naturally.
Portable Firefox by PortableApps is a carbon copy of the original Firefox. It’s a free download and will run off a USB drive on all Windows systems and on WineHq
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1, Portable Edition
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Ubuntu Titbits: The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, is a weekly – – released every Monday of the week, with tons of information from the Ubuntu world.
The recent issue, 146, for the week June 8th – June 14th, 2009 covers SanDisk collaborates to improve Ubuntu netbook SSD performance, MOTU Council Results, Ubuntu Stats, Calling all LoCo Teams!. Amongst the many other articles from the Blogsphere you’ll find, includes an article from Kabatology: Ubuntu One Beta Finally Kicks Off .
UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue146
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Mozilla Firefox is the newest sponsor of the StopBadware.org project, that has amongst other sponsor big names like Google, PayPal, Lenovo, AOL and Trend Micro. These companies together with StopBadware.org form a common front in the fight against the proliferation of badware in the web.
StopBadware.org is a Harvard University initiative to protect Internet and computer users from the threats to privacy and security that are caused by bad software.
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WordPress bloggers are advised to update to WordPress 2.6.2, especially those WordPress blogs that have an open registration. The update fixes a mt_rand() weakness that becomes a nuisance – amongst other fixes. To update, it is enough to replace the following files.
via [Weblog Tools Collection]
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If you urgently want to regain access to your PC but can’t remember your password, then this freeware is for you. If you want to steal your way into a colleagues, girlfriend or brothers PC, then think twice before using this password recovery tool. Why? Because PC Login Now does not recover your lost password, it erases it; in other words it gives you a “blank password”. Meaning, after rebooting you’ll have direct access to your PC, be it Windows Vista, Windows XP/XP with SP2, Windows 2003 server or Windows 2000/NT – But your colleagues will notice the complete absence of a password and you’ll find yourself in trouble. In this case, use Opchrack Live Cd. More»
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