May 7th, 2009
I have taken the big leap, I will be testing/using Windows 7 RC as my primary OS and will see how it goes. I was really impressed with the beta so hopefully it will be good enough to use a primary OS.
So far so good with using it today, but the last couple of days it was continuing to crash every time i was downloading multiple items and it turned out to be a problem with the network drivers. Microsoft had a update for my network card which i installed today and everything seems to be fine now.
Windows 7 is very quick and seems to be doing every task without a problem but still need to test out the gaming on the OS which I will be doing tonight.
I just have to prey that the network drivers have fixed the blue screen of death.
Tags: blue screen of death, RC, Windows, Windows 7
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May 2nd, 2009
The guys at GlyFX have released a free set of 5 common iPhone icons which you can use for the TabBar or Toolbar. The icons that are contained in the set are: home, feeds, update, info and a help icon. As always the quality of the iPhone icons are A+ so I recommend everyone to check them out.
GlyFX also have a tutorial on how to add the iPhone icons to your application in their support section, so if you are having any trouble i suggest you check it out.
Click here to download your free set of iPhone icons.
Tags: developers, free, free icons, glfx, icon sets, iphone, iphone developers, iphone icons, tutorial
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March 23rd, 2009
On the weekend I was helping out a mate who was having some very strange problems with his HP laptop. A couple of weeks ago I was trying to make his laptop run faster so we uninstalled norton which came pre-installed with the laptop and that’s when the strange problems began, how ever I didn’t tick the problems where being caused from norton.
After we had uninstalled norton, I installed AVG Free for virus protection but once it was installed AVG was unable to run an update for definitions. Then after AVG was installed, we lost all internet connectivity and was only able to gain access to the internet by uninstalling AVG. To begin with I thought the problem laid with AVG but in the end we were able to get internet connectivity with AVG installed so that was the night over and I went home.
A couple of weeks later, firefox stop working but IE was able to connect to the internet, so yesterday I sat down with the laptop to try and get it all sorted. After playing around with the laptop for a couple hours with uninstalling/installing various things I found the only thing that was able to receive internet connectivity was IE and no other applications on the laptop had net access.
I then started to search google for some answers and I read a post of someone who was having a similar problem and was told to download the Norton Removal Tool. So we then downloaded and ran the tool and once we rebooted the computer, everything started working as per normal. I have no idea why the uninstall through windows doesn’t remove everything correctly, but if anyway is having the same problem as I had and recently unistalled norton, I suggest you download and run the Norton Removal Tool from here.
Tags: internet, laptop, norton
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March 13th, 2009
I was just reading one of my mates blog, Ignite, and remebered that the guys at glyFX released a free icon set for the android mobile platform. You can check out the The Android Developer Common Icon Set which contains a total of 24 free quality icons.
The guys at glyFX really do create some stunning icons, and its good to see them release free icons for developers who wish to create applications for the android platform. So please check out the The Android Developer Common Icon Set and if you can help support the guys for their hard work.
You can also check out the full set of free icons that glyFX have released here.
Tags: android, android icons, free, free icons, glyfx, icon, icon sets, icons
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February 20th, 2009
A new trend that is occurring in a lot of new software, commercial and open source, is the ability to check for updates and install the latest version within the program itself. Now I always love this feature in software and means that I always have the latest version of the application. However the problem with these updates is that they are 100% trusted as safe from the end user and with more and more applications implementing this feature, it is only a matter of time before hackers start to attack these application to distribute their malware.
Since more independent software makers are including this feature into their applications, it wouldn’t be a stretch of the mind to think that their website has some security holes which could allow an attacker to take control of the webserver with a shell script or something similar.
Now say an attacker has uploaded a php script that takes advantage of the shell and even uses a list of php functions to help his attack. If the software is hosted on the same server, the attacker could then find out how the software checks for updates and trick the application to think that there is a new version and point the download location to where his malware is hosted. Now the end user thinks there is a new version, downloads it and now he has a virus on his machine.
With more and more applications including this feature, it would be possible to find an application that is hosted on a shared hosting environment, and even if their website has no security faults an attacker could potentially perform the same attack but was able to get his/her shell script onto the server through another website hosted on the same machine.
Now it will be interesting to see over the next couple of years to see how common this becomes, and its definitely not a stretch of the imagination that this could happen to a large company as Kaspersky was recently hacked through an sql injection on their website.
Tags: applications, hacking, security, updates
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