After a security researcher demonstrated a security flaw in Apple's Safari browser running on its Snow Leopard operating system, the company has issued a fix, providing clues as to the nature of the threat.
<b>Scribbles and Snaps:</b> "Of course, renaming each and every photo by hand is not particularly practical, especially if you take dozens or even hundreds of photos each day. This is when digiKam's Rename feature can come in rather handy. You can use it to define rather advanced renaming rules and apply them to multiple photos in one fell swoop."
<b>Linux Beacon:</b> "Although its name sounds like that of a bacterium, Coccinella is a nice cross-platform open source Jabber client. While Jabber, and IM clients in general, are a dime a dozen, Coccinella sports a few nifty features that make it worth considering if your are in the market for a Jabber client."
EBay has rolled out intelligent customer support on its eBay.com site. We tell you how the VirtuOz virtual agent works to resolve problems for ecommerce buyers and sellers.
Oracle focuses on the default settings for just about all of the security setup in "The Oracle 2-Day Security Guide". As we draw near the close of the book, we'll examine a few guidelines for auditing.
As financial regulatory reform legislation works its way through Congress, marketers fret over a provision that they say could hurt advertisers online and in other emerging areas.
<b>Ubuntu Geek:</b> "BAR is backup archiver program to create compressed and encrypted archives of files that can be stored on a hard disk, CD, DVD, or directly on a server via FTP, SCP, or SFTP. A server mode and a scheduler are integrated for making automated backups in the background. A graphical front end that can connect to the (remote) server is included."
<b>Free Software Magazine: </b>"How do you get a flurry of images in your head into a concrete description of a film so that you can produce it? One important step is to create storyboards.This article is part of an on-going series on the challenges I've faced in producing two free-licensed movies."
Cheap laptops are easy to find, but an affordable notebook computer with both style and substance is a terrific find for any small business owner. The ThinkPad Edge does not disappoint.
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Ubuntu 9.10."
<b>CIO Update:</b> "Hewlett-Packard on Friday expanded its worldwide recall of notebook batteries for laptops sold between 2007 and 2008 in a variety of notebooks due to the risk of catching fire."
<b>CIO Update:</b> "Hewlett-Packard on Friday expanded its worldwide recall of notebook batteries for laptops sold between 2007 and 2008 in a variety of notebooks due to the risk of catching fire."
<b>Tech Comics:</b> "Social networking activities like Facebook and Twitter consumer so much attention that it may be hard to find a balance with life itself."
Claiming double-digit growth over the past three years, a Microsoft vice president says its unified communications product will help usher in his view of a world of "connected communications."