Security researchers identify threat of social engineering scheme that could aim to trick users into launch actions from PDF files that could trigger arbitrary code execution.
GIMP is always compared to Adobe's Photoshop. But is this a fair comparison? Paul Ferrill gives us the straight story on GIMP, Photoshop, Inkscape, CinePaint, and other digital image editors.
Google's recent acquisition of Plink signals the company's growing interest in all things mobile. Is visual search a trend for ecommerce owners to watch?
Social networking giant rolls out a login notification service alerting users to activity on their accounts and begins asking verification questions when users log in from unfamiliar devices.
Central to the faster browser concept, users will enjoy dedicated application tabs and be able to install add-ons without having to restart the browser.
<b>Click:</b> "I put a lot of stock on the ability to do an in-place upgrade of my Linux/Unix desktops. And regarding upgrades from one distribution to another, Debian is supposedly one of the best."
<b>Engadget:</b> "The report details some of what we've come to expect in stories of labor abuses -- near children, most of them women, working for 16 or 17 hours a day, living in nearly deplorable conditions, for less than a dollar an hour -- all so that the world's ever-growing need for / addiction to consumer electronics can be fed."
Canonical overhauls its Ubuntu Linux OS support services with the new Advantage solution, which offers legal indemnification, support and management services.
<b>Techworld</b> "The Horde open source messaging and groupware project is gearing up for the first major release of its application suite and development environment in years with version 4, which is due to arrive in mid-2010."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "There were only a few areas where the two Linux distributions actually performed differently with many of their core packages being similar, but one of the areas where the results were vastly different was with the OpenGL performance as Ubuntu uses Compiz by default..."
<b>Scribbles and Snaps:</b> "One way to solve this problem is to use exposure blending. This technique involves taking several shots of the same scene or subject with different exposures and then fusing these shots into one perfectly exposed photo."
<b>Linux Journal:</b> "After a recent O/S version upgrade (to openSUSE 11.2) I noticed that bash started being a bit more intelligent when I did something stupid: it started giving me a useful error message..."