Some folks with Macs (Intel based) have noticed much shorter battery life and higher than normal CPU temperatures. This comes via Hankers: There’s a possible fix here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US It involves resetting your Mac’s SMC (System Management Controller) and it’s supposed to be an easy fix, though it won’t work for all battery types .
This month it’s a mixed bag of patches to Windows, IE, MS SQL Server, MS Exchange, Server software and Developer Tools. The IE patches are for IE 6, 7 and 8. These are important, especially for businesses, as well as home users as browser attacks are the most common ways to compromise security. Bulletin five is very important as it addresses remote code execution on MS Exchange. This is a major attack target as it is the communications center for most businesses, and email ...
I saw this over at PCMag , and I couldn’t believe my eyes. Here we all are being thrilled by the pictures from Mars (yes, very expensive pictures) and what do I see? " MarsCuriosity: Anyone in Madrid, Spain or Canbarra who can help isolate the huge control signal used for the Mars Odyssey / Curiosity system please? The cypher and hopping is a standard mode, just need base frequency and recordings/feed of the huge signal going out. (yes we can spoof it both directions...
Battle.net has tons of users. Blizzard (the folks who brought you WoW, StarCraft and Diablo) posted on the Blizzard website that it discovered an unlawful and unauthorized breach into its internal network, on August 4th. The following have been compromised (stolen), but there’s no evidence that credit card info was stolen: A global list of email addresses of Battle-net users For North-American players, which includes Latin America, Australia, New Zea...
Bravo for The Windows Club! I am now the proud owner of the the above error codes and their meanings. It’s a pdf having 533 pages and links from MS that will help you find the meanings of any error code. “It may amuse you to learn that Microsoft appears to have an error code even if the operation completes successfully! Check what it says for 0×00000000 : The operation completed successfully!” – TWC You should also take advantage of the “Events and Er...
Thank you Neowin for this announcement! Any Video Editor is an excellent AV editing program. It does exactly what it says. It also supports a plethora of file types. It allows you to edit video on a timeline and storybox, trim, and overlay video files of any format, combine audio tracks with video, apply visual effects and insert transitions, add watermark, set transition and video effect duration. You can adjust the video and audio parameters including video codec, video size, v...
EaseUS approached me to review their newest updated Todo Backup Workstation 4.5. I agreed to do so, because of my positive experience reviewing Todo EaseUS Partition Manager Pro 9.1. You can find that review here . This software does everything you want it to do, through a simple user interface. Installation is a breeze, and what’s better is that there’s no reboot (as in prior editions). There’s a video that comes with it that explains various aspects of...
Was in a quandry where to post this. Could have gone to Support Forums, I suppose. Anyway, in Maxthon, IE9, Chrome and Pale Moon I get this. My system: Windows 7 HP x64, but I think it's more a coding issue. Anyone else seeing this?
Supposedly there’s been another cyber strike on Iran’s “peaceful/medical” nuclear program. Apparently this strike caused the computers at Natanz and Fordo to blare out “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC in the middle of the night (there). It also shut down part of the automation network according to Mikko Hypponen (a well known Finnish cyber-security expert at F-Secure). All this is coming via emails allegedly sent by an Iranian nuclear scientist. That m...
Just a quickie - There’s a great new “Guide To Home Networking” available over at MakeUseOf.com. You can get it in .pdf or ePub format. All you need do is either “share” on facebook, or subscribe to their (extremely minimal) emails… which are very informative. While you're there, they also have some great "cheat sheets" available at the same price . So, I stuck on a link for them, too. Source: http://www.makeuseof.com...
NanomAbs – nanoparticle monoclonal chemotherapy. This is the next big thing. Cancer is treated three ways: Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Chemotherapy has made huge advances… but with a major drawbacks. The very toxicity that kills cancer cells also has severe ‘whole body’ adverse and side effects. Wouldn’t it be a lot more efficient to deliver the toxic drug directly to the target tissue and avoid exposing healthy tissue? Well, there&rsquo...
Many folks use external apps (Acronis, EaseUS, etc.) to backup their computers. Windows 8 might just change all that… so savings might be a good deal larger than the $40 upgrade, over the long term. Most folks don’t use MS’s backup utility (95%). “File History” will continuously protect files in your Libraries, Desktop, Favorites and Contacts folders. By default, it scans the file system every hour for changes and copies changed files to another location (ext. device), and...
It’s no coincidence. SOPA, PIPA, the new measure proposed in Australia and now the in the UK a bill has been proposed a bill which would allow officials to view metadata, like the names of files that were transferred, when and to whom messages were sent, and what websites have been accessed, without a warrant, which would be needed to actually view the content itself. Who could look? Well, pretty much everyone from Law Enforcement to Tax Inspectors. So, there are multiple pote...
Looks like the update has elements which don’t get along with older parts of the Symantec program, and has been crashing home and business computers. The reports started coming in on 7/11/12. After updating, a BSOD resulted. So far, 300 corporate and 60 home system crashes have occurred. Symantec has offered a solution: Rollback of definitions until a final fix has been made. So, if you have the software and haven’t updated, DON’T! If you do have it, ...
Found out about this over at gHacks . The tool does several things: These are all good things. Face it, few of us know all the right settings to put in. One good step not touched on by this tool is creating a “Guest Account” so that the installing, etc. you do isn’t done with “Administrator” privileges. That’s actually a HUGE step in securing your computer. Common sense browsing and the use of extensions like &ldquo...