According to a news report from the BBC in early 2011 the hard drives we use in our machines will be undergoing one of the biggest changes in its format than has been seen in 30 some years.
Called advanced format this change will make it easier for hard drive manufacturers to produce bigger drives that use less energy.
There is only one problem: Windows XP.
Continue reading XP users face a troubled future – even hard drives won’t want them »
Okay so it’s not the batteries themselves that are in danger of infecting your machines but rather the software that comes with USB battery chargers.
According to the folks over at Sunbelt Software there is a warning out today from CERT that the Energizer DUO USB battery chargers have been found to be infected with a trojan that loads up backdoor malware when you install the battery monitoring software.
The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is warning that Energizer DUO USB battery chargers have been found infected with a Trojan that loads backdoor malware on a victim PC along with its battery monitoring software.
The charger copies a .dll file named UsbCharger.dll in the application’s directory and another named Arucer.dll in the Windows system32 directory. USBCharger sets a registry entry to autoexecute Arucer.dll when Windows starts.
Arucer.dll is a backdoor that communicates through TCP port 7777.
The charger has been sold worldwide for three years.
CERT notes that the Trojan contains Chinese language text.
Sunbelt detects it as Trojan.Arugizer.
CERT Vulnerability Note VU#154421 here.
I always knew I hated that drum beating rabbit.
While there might not be any actual plans for this rig that you can download but I think anyone with a bit of imagination and access to a bunch of aluminum pipe should be able to pull this together.
So what are you waiting for – get bending some pipe.
Ever since word first leaked last September of a new hardware product going by the name of Courier interest in Microsoft’s interpretation of a tablet slash e-book reader has been growing.
Well it appears that Gizmodo has a bunch new information as well as images of the illusive Courier as well as word of it coming to market somewhere around Q3 or Q4 of this year (amazingly close to the delivery date for the Windows Phone 7 Series).
Contrary to popular thought though is that OS that will be powering won’t be Windows 7 but rather the same operating system that is powering the Zune HD, Windows Phone 7 Series and the upcoming Pink phone. Additionally word is that it will be pen-based and centered around drawing and writing.
Continue reading Some more info on Microsoft’s Courier [Pics & Video] »
I realize that it is all kinds of fun to make fun of Microsoft and call it a has been. Sure Vista didn’t do anything to help alleviate the stodgy monolithic reputation that it has gotten over the years but I get the feeling that the old Microsoft battleship has been sent back to the boatyard, given a fresh coat of paint and transformed into a quick nimble gun boat.
Leading this change without any doubt has been the release; and growing adoption, of Windows 7. Following on it’s heels is the upcoming release of their next generation smartphone version of Windows 7 which already has more than a few people excited; myself included. Hell if I could afford a new smartphone (and the price gouging data plans) I’d be counting down the days until it hits the stores.
To back up the feeling that Windows 7 is helping to herald in a new attitude at Microsoft is the release today of the sales figures for Windows 7 since its release. Jacob Friedman over at The Next Web has a few more of the details but the short form of the story is that there have been 90,000,000 copies of Windows 7 sold to date.
Microsoft finally backed their Windows 7 boasts up with numbers, and they’re quite impressive indeed.
Microsoft hadn’t provided exact sales numbers for Windows 7 until last night, when Microsoft CFO Peter Klein announced the sales figures at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference. Klein revealed that Windows 7 has sold a massive 90,000,000 copies.
Not bad for slightly over four months on sale.
Not bad to say the least.
Nicely done Microsoft.
I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been watching something on the web and wished that I had a drop dead simple way to download a copy of the video to my local hard drive for later. Well thanks to the crew over at Addictive Tips I have found just that tool. It’s called ClipGrab and it works great.
Once you have it installed and running it will sit in the background until it notices a video link appearing on the Windows Clipboard. At which point, depending on how you configured it ClipGrab will start downloading the video at the end of that link.
ClipGrab supports the following sites at the moment:
It supports the most eminent media formats.
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