Windows only: FeedRoller does what it says, it places at the top of your monitor your RSS feeds and Twitter Updates. On my 24″ LCD Monitor it’s almost perfect, but my 17-inch laptop monitor is just too small, I can’t let FeedRoller’s black background banner eat up more space. More»
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This is a short video by the Distro.TV that presents Opera 10 Final. This overview video, done on Ubuntu 9.04 seems to say “see for yourself that Opera 10 runs smoothly on Ubuntu”. Needless to say, it does and well too.
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Researchers at TrendLabs have reported the presence of a newly released Proof-of-Concept (PoC) trojan that listens and records your Skype conversations.
Confirmation of the release of this Trojan horse called Trojan.Peskyspy that records VoIP communications, specifically Skype calls comes from Symantec.com. They sympathetically call it the “wiretap Trojan”.
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--bookmark-menu is another Google Chrome command-line startup switch to add to the several others out there. This windows-only switch can better replace the cumbersome Chrome bookmarks toolbar (toolbars are useful but at-the-same time they are always cumbersome) as it places a small bookmark menu button to the Google Chrome Toolbar bar, thus creating an equally quick bookmark access point and eliminating an extra toolbar. More»
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Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered the existence of a new spyware that initially pretends to be an Adobe Flash Player update but upon execution creates a Firefox add-on called “Adobe Flash Player 0.2″. If installed this fake Firefox add-on has the capability to monitor the user’s browsing activities, with much regard to the users Google search habits, say the researchers.
All information gathered is forwarded to a third party website http://{BLOCKED}jupdate.com.” The fake add-on is also capable of injecting ads into a Google search results page, that’s just a minor side effect.
via TrendLabs – Firefox Add-on Spies on Google Search Results
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