Nice! It isn’t available yet, but it was previewed in Apple’s event yesterday so, it’ll work on the new iPad with iOS. As for Windows and Chrome, no info yet. It won’t need the Adobe Creative Cloud, so, you’ll be able to edit files of up to 50MB on the go. I certainly hope Windows and Chrome apps will be forthcoming. Why throw potential customers away? “Fix” Was used in conjunction with PsComp CC (on the go execution of a complete layout) and Ps Sketch ( here ) apps for i...
But…a change log for this update will only be provided for “significant changes” (see here ). But, here’s what’s in it per MS Support . Well, I’d tell you to put it off and see what early installers are saying on MS Forums…but, at most, home users will have a one month’s grace on that delay. The only reason I suggest that is MS’s reputation for less than perfect updates. Just so you know it’s coming.
If you own the above item, you’d best download and install the patch to prevent file tampering/theft by hackers. “The vulnerabilities primarily affect owners of Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Storage, Seagate Wireless Mobile Storage, and LaCie Fuel devices purchased since October 2014. “With products from large vendors such as Seagate, there tend to be numerous product names for basically the same product under the same vendor’s name or another vendor,” Tangible Securi...
“Mozilla yesterday said an unknown attacker accessed its Bugzilla bug-and-change tracking database, stole information about 53 critical security vulnerabilities, and used at least one of those flaws to attack Firefox users…Mozilla urged Firefox users to update the browser to Firefox 40, which was released Aug. 27, as that version patched all remaining vulnerabilities the attacker accessed.” – Gregg Keizer A hacker accessed a secret log of bug and changes...
The answer’s pretty simple. If your use is social networks (facebook and the like) with occasional downloads…yes, most likely IF you remove the Java Plugin. Don’t use it. Google and Mozilla are going over to HTML5, and hopefully the net will get there ASAP. The only problem is advertisers, and money IS the juice of the net. If you’re involved with downloading torrent related stuff…nope. You’ll need more mojo…Bitdefender is currently (and for the past couple of years) rated best....
Now to convince the devs…Flash is bloated, and very insecure…and if you’re on a mobile device, eats your battery in a decidedly non-kosher manner. So, from tomorrow, Chrome will automatically pause web ads using Adobe Flash. Ads using HTML5 will autoplay. Amazon is no longer accepting Flash based ads. Last month, Mozilla blocked Flash in default settings. Well…time has come to move on from Flash. Vive la différence! Source: http://www.wired.com/2015/0...
Oliver Sacks was a British Neurologist. He was remarkable for his empathy and caring as well as his gift for using the English language so well as rare as that would seem, nowadays. He took care of patients in a Home for the elderly, as well as being a renowned author. While the melanoma had spread to his liver, he never lost the qualities which endeared him to many. He wrote many essays and books about his patients, the brain and how it works, and the human condition. Many remem...
Snip is MS’s newest Garage Project special…it’s like the snipping tool in W7 and 8/8.1/10. This one ships with an editor, though…big drawback: You can only edit with voice or with the pen. No way to type or make the presentation appear professional. So…you select your screen shot using the dock which is movable to any part of the screen. It gives you the possibilities to select the area to capture limited to square or rectangular…no freehand. It also gives a whiteboard, a ...
From Techtalk at PCPitstop: Weather.com and Drudge Report (to name just two) sites with millions of visitors were serving up ads with CryptoWall ransomeware, or infected adware on PCs. “Once an ad network is subverted, hundreds of millions of poisoned ads are displayed in real-time. Many of these ads initiate a drive-by attack without the user having to do anything. The attack does a few redirects, kicks in a U.S. and Canada-focused Exploit Kit which checks for vulnerabilitie...
Happy Sunday, all and sundry. I saw this and of course (get it?) signed up and thought about all you guys and girls sitting around with really old photos having great sentimental value, which might be damaged and needing repair. Sooo…I decided to put this post up. Ben Willmore is a great teacher. He’s a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame who has taught over 100,000 Photoshop users on five continents…tons of books, and tutorials. He’s probably the best around with “"t...
Well, it’s over for 2015. What stunning photos. Seriously…I recommend allowing yourself to be entranced for quite a bit of time by them. The categories were: Outdoor scenes, sense of place, spontaneous moments and travel portraits. Better? Many are available for free as desktop wallpapers… 1600 x 1200 for desktops, but also for tablets and phone, with some branding (National Geographic) at the bottom of the photos… You can easily spend a wonderful coupl...
Bill Gates, Musk, Hawkings and others have all stated their concern regarding the distressing potential dangers of AI more than once, on we go pell-mell towards self aware/self governing machines. We can’t even get security updates right without causing severe problems, but somehow think “We can do this. We can win!”. Just a minor thought…a program, any program (including heuristic ones) are limited by their coding and how, via this coding, they ‘learn’. The same is tr...
Again! Lenovo actually did it again! If their rep wasn’t gone the last time, they’ve gone and shoveled the last bit of dirt and filled the grave. Not gonna detail it…just read it and weep. “Lenovo used a utility it called Lenovo Service Engine in the BIOS of some products that downloaded a program called OneKey Optimizer to user systems and sent "non-personally identifiable system data" to Lenovo servers. What makes this particularly worrisome is...
Well, that’s a misleading title, so my apologies. MS has a long history of borked updates. KB3081424 is yet another. No big deal, right? Wrong. Some users are reporting it causes an endless cycle of reboots. When will MS learn that the policy of mandatory updating hasn’t been well enough thought through or isn’t being timed well? In theory, supposedly all patches/updates, etc. are first distributed to a certain group of users for testing. If all goes well, it is then d...
The first – the Stagefright exploit (several vulnerabilities) is apparently worse than the Heartbleed vulnerability. These could give the opening to run remote code from an MMS message, or even just viewing a specially constructed video on an infected webpage with embedded video content. The vulnerability is well explained here , and here . There’s a fix for that out…you can check and fix with the app described here . Now, two Israeli researchers (Bobrov and Bashan) have...