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91,000 Apple iPads pre-ordered in first 6 hours

Admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:51:45 PDT

Neither recession nor gadget overload shall slow the mania surrounding the introduction of Apple’s iPad mobile computer. Last Friday, the first day that buyers could pre-order the device (it arrives in stores next month), Apple racked up an estimated 91,000 sales in just the first six hours of availability, putting temporarily to rest the Internet’s persistent “iPad fail” meme.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has described the iPad as a new category of device that falls between smartphones and low-priced netbook computers. It has a 25cm touchscreen and can serve up webpages, e–mail, music, videos, electronic books and iPhone applications.

Apple said earlier this month that it would accept pre-orders beginning last Friday. Analysts predict that first year sales could reach five million. Still, despite the avalanche of pre-release hype (media-tracking firm O’Leary Analytics found 25,000 news mentions of the then unnamed product in January alone), last Friday’s pre-order mania was tempered by considerable ambivalence among the geeked-out on discussion boards and on Twitter.

“Early adopters,” scoffed a post on Appleinsider.com about the early buyers. A Twitter poster named Mash187 offered: “Avoiding the rush to pre-order an iPad today. Going to wait until the (basic) version is in the wild to see how people really like it.”

Had enough with the iPad hype? We probably have not seen anything yet. The product arrives in Apple stores on April 3. It can mean only one thing: TV reporters doing stand-ups in front of long lines of buyers camped out in front of the stores – including the untold numbers who will be there just to appear on TV news reports about people camped out in front of Apple stores.

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How to Extend Smartphone’s Battery Life

Admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:31:00 PDT

For a recent convert to smartphones, one thing he is most likely to find out right away is that the more applications he uses, the shorter his phone’s battery lasts. The solutions is not to desperately search for electrical outlets wherever one goes, but to figure out a strategy to reduce energy consumption while still having it available for essential tasks.

Whether one is using a laptop or a smartphone, the devices can be tweaked to get the most out of the lithium-ion batteries.

Dim It
The brighter your screen, the more battery power you’re using. Turn down the LCD screen’s brightness in a dimly-lit room. If the device has an auto-dimming feature that detects the light the room, use it. Similarly, when using the smartphone or laptop to play music, lower the volume.

Stop Searching
When you’re not using Bluetooth or not near a Wi-Fi hot spot, turn off those features on the phone or laptop. The reason is that portable devices will continue to look for Wi-Fi or a Bluetooth headset, using power. Similarly, put the smartphone to sleep when it is in standby.

Skip A Generation
The smartphone is also continually looking for a mobile-phone signal. In a weak-signal area, it must work even harder to find one, decreasing battery life. If you know that there is no coverage, turn off your portable device’s mobile capabilities.

Check Mail Manually
Mobile smartphones can check for e-mail and instant messages automatically, or they can be set to “push” notifications as soon as they arrive in your server’s mailbox. Both strategies can be power hogs. To increase battery life, turn off push and increase the interval between when the phone checks for messages. Or better still, set up the phone to check for messages manually.

Disable Animations
One of the biggest users of power is Flash animation, the technology behind many online videos and animated ads. To improve battery life, disable Flash when not using wall power.

Helpful Applications
Battery Go and myBatteryLife tell iPhone owners how much power they have left and how it translates into minutes of talk time, music, video and web surfing. NB BattStat alerts BlackBerry owners to the amount of battery charge remaining, as well as the battery’s temperature. The device can be set to vibrate or sound when a predetermined low battery level is reached.

Realise The End Will Come
No matter how well you husband your battery’s resources, there comes a time when you’ll need to send your battery to its final resting place. “If your battery lasts only an hour after you’ve charged it,” said Mr Anthony Magnabosco, owner of Milliamp.com, a battery-replacement company, “you know its time is up.”

Phones of the future

Admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:57:53 PDT

War of smartphone, below is the list of smartphone that I researched and thinking to get one to replace my stone.

HTC HD2

HTC HD2
What: HTC’s latest Windows Mobile smartphone is one power-packed device. The 157g phone comes with a speedy 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel camera, an internal global positioning system (GPS) antenna and a large 4.3inch touchscreen. Its HTC Sense software also allows users to manage their communications, such as e-mail, text messages and social networks, in a single screen.

Nokia X6

Nokia X6
What: Music aficionados will take to Nokia’s latest and greatest. The 32GB version of this phone has the Comes With Music unlimited music-download service, which gives users access to millions of songs from the Nokia Music Store for a year. Who could say no to that?
The 3.2inch touchscreen Symbian phone weight in at just 122g. Stay in touch with the phone’s social networking feature, which sends updates to the homescreen of the phone.

Garmin-Asus nuvifone M10

Garmin-Asus nuvifone M10
What: The M10 is the latest in the line of GPS-device maker Garmin and tech firm Asus. The 138g smartphone is able to guide drivers to the correct lane for an approaching turn and can also prompt them on the next three street exits.
Besides these features, this Windows Mobile Phone also sports a 3.5inch touchscreen and a 5-megapixel camera.

Motorola Dext

Motorola Dext
What: Motorola’s first phone running on Google’s Android operating system, the Dext is one phone that will appeal to young executives who stay connected with friends through social networking.
The smartphone helps users manage their various social-networking accounts, as well as e-mail and text messages. Besides its 3.1inch touchscreen, the 160g phone comes with a slideout “qwerty” keypad as well.

Acer Liquid

Acer Liquid
What: Acer’s first Android smartphone rides on the social-networking wave by allowing users to add social-networking information to their contacts list. It also has a Spinlets application that allows users to stream music and videos for free, and share them with friends. The 135g phone has a 3.5inch touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera and LED indicators for unread messages, missed calls and battery status.

BlackBerry Bold 9000

BlackBerry Bold 9000
What: If you thought BlackBerry smartphones were always black, think again. A white version of the Bold 9000 with a chrome finishing is available now. The 136g phone comes with a “qwerty” keypad. As with past BlackBerries, the Bold has push e-mail features and can edit word-processing documents

Sony Ericsson Vivaz

Sony Ericsson Vivaz
What: The Vivaz Symbian smartphone, ups the game with its 8.1-megapixel camera that can also record high-definition videos. The camera even comes with image stabilisation normally found on dedicated digital cameras. The phone has 3.2inch touchscreen and is really light, at 97g

Which one do you like? please vote for it!!

What’s the easiest way to help save environment?

Admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:10:21 PST

You can start by not printing your e-mails. According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), the highest recycling rates of materials in Singapore comprise metal (up to 91 percent), wood (52 percent) and paper (51 percent). Incidentally, glass (9 percent) and plastic (11 percent) are among the materials with the lowest rates. “The economics of collecting and recycling certain kinds of waste are more favourable, hence the higher rates of recycling,” says Ong Seng Eng, director of Resource Conservation at the NEA. So unless you work in a steel or timber mill, the best way to begin your Gaia project is to recycles as much paper as possible – newspapers, magazines, newsletters, shredded documents, whatever. If you office doesn’t have recycling facilities, start one or visit the NEA website at www.nea.gov.sg/cms/rcd/locations/map.html for a list of the recycle bins in Singapore. Don’t neglect the other kinds of materials that can be recycled as well (plastics, glass,cans) because every bit counts, you tree-hugger, you.

Captain Planet
Recycling saves the Earth – just look at paper. Recycling paper reduces pollution by 74 percent and water pollution by 35 percent. Every tonne of paper recycled also saves up to 17 small trees, according to the National Environment Agency (NEA). One of the best benefits of recycling is that it saves heaps of energy. Here’s the amount of energy that can be saved if the following materials were recycled (as opposed to producing them from new resources):
- Glass – 30 percent
- Paper – 40 percent
- Steel – 60 percent
- Aluminium – 95 percent

Sort it Out
Recyclables require different bins because of a method of sorting known as multi-stream recycling, which sorts the materials out at the collecting source, as opposed to single-stream where everything goes into one bin. The multi-stream method reduces the contamination that can foul the recycling process – glass shards in paper for instance, can dramatically reduce the salvage value of both materials. However, single-stream can lead to a reduction in costs (less bins and trucks are needed) and a higher participation rate (it’s definitely easier to chuck stuff into one bin). However, it’s really a case of what works best in different countries.

Rehashed Nosh
Get this: Even food can be recycled. It comes mostly from factories that produce soya bean and bread, and usually ends up as animal feed, says Ong Seng Eng, director of Resource Conservation at the NEA. However, food courts, hawker centres and markets can be recycled using a process known as biomethanisation. Food waste is “digested” to produce methane gas for electricity generation, says Ong. The resulting compost can function as fertilisers as well, so nothing is wasted.

Taiwan Solar Energy Stadium constructed for 2009 World Games

Admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:11:24 PST

Taiwan recently finished construction on a solar-powered stadium that will generate 100% of its electricity from photovoltaic technology Designed by Toyo Ito, the 50,000-seat arena will officially open later this year to welcome the 2009 World Games which features many sports not included in the Olympics such as parachuting, tenpin bowling and rugby sevens.

Taking advantage of the solar energy, a new futuristic-looking stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, can generate its own electricity. It is worth mentioning that the stadium has been constructed for the World Games, which are going to take place this July.

This is world’s first stadium to use exclusively solar power technology to produce all of its electricity, having 8,844 solar panels installed on its roof. The solar panels will be able to produce the amount of electricity that could power 3,300 lights along with two giant monitors on the stadium.

Having the shape of a horse shoe, the huge structure can boast a seating capacity of 55,000. Its developers say that the stadium will be used for athletics and rugby events.

After the 2009 World Games, the Taiwanese national football team is going to play its home matches there, reports Daily Mail.

The design of the gigantic construction is attributed to Japanese architect Toyo Ito. The somewhat unusual semi-spiral shape was designed with the goal of imitating a dragon and offering a “cordial welcome and a cheerful greeting” to all athletes and viewers with its open-ended structure.

According to a Taiwanese official, the solar panels will be able to produce up to 1.14 million kWh of electricity per year, which means a reduction on annual carbon dioxide emissions by 660 tons.

Source from InfoNIAC.com

Taipei – Taiwan on for size

JW Player 5.1 Released with 50% License Discount

Admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:08:48 PST

50% Winter license Discount Extended for March
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JW Player 5.1 Released

Many users have been patiently awaiting its arrival, so Longtail are quite pleased to announce the release of JW Player 5.1. This latest release addresses a number of issues discovered in JW5.0 (in particular, RTMP functionality has been streamlined) and also a few enhancements including:

* Bandwidth detection — sample and determine the bandwidth your user is experiencing.
* Bitrate switching — sample and determine the bandwidth your user is experiencing
* DVR support — if you’re using Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) 3.5 to stream live content, the JW Player now allows your users to pause and seek the live stream.

For more detail, consult the release notes and change log.

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Source from Longtail March 2010 Newsletter

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3-D movies can strain eyes and cause vision problems

Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:14:29 PST

The epic science-fiction film film Avatar has had some unwanted side effects. Many viewers have complained that Avatar and other 3-D films give them headaches, nausea, blurred vision and other symptoms of visually induced motion sickness.

The problem, studies indicate, is that the films often cause unnatural eye movements. Normally, when an object approaches a person, the eyes respond in two ways. They converge, or rotate inward to follow it. At the same time, as the object approaches, the eyes focus and maintain a clear image of it by changing the shape of the lens, a process called visual accomodation.

However, a 3-D object flying off the screen causes sensory conflict. The eyes rotate inward to follow it, but they must also maintain a fixed focus on the display surface. So they converge without accommodating, an uncoupling of two natural process that – over the course of a long movie – can be stressful.

Film buffs who have sat through multiple screenings of Avatar say one trick is to avoid looking at unfocused parts of the scenes, which sounds a lot easier than it is.

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iPad lure used as bait in mobile phones scam

Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:24:08 PST

Information technology security and data-protection firm Sophos is warning that thousands of Facebook users have been tricked into signing up for a premium-rate mobile-phone service, after being duped into believing they were registering to beta-test the upcoming Apple iPad.

Facebook pages with names such as “iPad Researchers Wanted – Get An iPad Early And Keep It!” and “The Mega iPad Giveaway!” prey on the public’s desire to own a free iPad.

Sophos has made a YouTube video demonstrating the scam.

The scam pages typically take their intended victims through a tree-step process:
1. Become a fan of the page.
2. Invite your friends to also become fans of the page and take part in a “special promotion”.
3. Claim or apply for your prize.

Some of the pages display thousands of position comments from other Facebook users claiming that the offer is genuine. When victims apply for their prize, they are taken to an online quiz and their mobile-phone number is requested so they can be sent the result.

“As if inviting all of your friends to participate in a scheme that you haven’t properly investigated wasn’t bad enough, the biggest mistake of all is to hand over your handphone number,” said Mr Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.

“You will be signed up for a premium-rate service, costing you in the region of US$10 every week, until you unsubscribe”

10 Ways to Reduce Stress

Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:17 PST

If you have been fretting about how to cope with stress and pulling your hair out in the process, health website WedMD offers some tips to help calm you

1. Kick the salt habit
Too much salt can leave you bloated, cause water retention and result in high blood pressure. Lower your salt intake by consuming fresh rather than canned or processed food. Better yet, engage your culinary skills and use other seasonings such as curry powder, garlic, cumin and rosemary for an exotic twist to your meal. They impart flavour and you will feel good knowing you are eating healthy.

2. Take the stairs
The next time you feel the urge to binge on chocolate or smoke a cigarette to fight off the stress hormones, try exercising instead. If you are in the office, head outdoors or to the nearest flight of stairs and take a 10 minutes of physical activity can provide a mental boost and leave you feeling more energised.

3. Fight the sugar temptation
The hard trust is that doughnuts, chocolates and other comfort food provide you with only a temporary energy boost. Unfortunately, the extra weight you could put on is not as temporary. If munching on something helps you cope with stress, try something healthier like an apple.

4. A good night’s sleep
Experts recommend that you get at least seven to eight hours of sleep every night to help lower stress. If you are having trouble getting that, do not drink caffeinated drinks past noon and avoid exercising two hours before bedtime. It also helps if you keep all distractions like your mobile phone or computer away from your bedroom. If the problem persists, you should see a doctor.

5. Time for a change
Break out of your routine. Sometimes, trying a new route to work or having something different for breakfast can help improve your outlook and mood. For added success, focus on things that you can easily accomplish.

6. In touch with your body
You do not have to spend hours sweating it out in the gym to get in touch with your body. Taking a walk around your neighbourhood or doing exercises that involve meditation can help revitalise your body and mind.

7. Get enough fibre
If you are stressed out over trying to lose weight, getting enough fibre can help you feel fuller faster so that you will eat less. Fibre comes in many forms and is present in apples, citrus fruit, strawberries and almost any vegetables.

8. Live for the present
The past is over and the future has yet to unfold. So why worry about either? Focus on the present. How does the sand feel against your feet? If you find your mind wandering, bring it back to the present.

9. Call the doctor
Having an ongoing ailment can sap your energy. Have you been suffering from constant headaches, muscle aches or a cough that just will not go away? It is time to stop brushing these symptoms aside and find out what is wrong by seeing a doctor.

10 Engage your brain
If you have a lot on your mind, you still can relax without having to stop all brain activity. For example, you can listen to a lecture on your MP3 player instead of reading your notes or do a crossword puzzle. Better yet, take up a new hobby that engages you mentally and physically, like gardening or hiking.

Aiptek AHD TS1 Pocket HD Camcorder

Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:44:10 PST

The Aiptek AHD TS1 feels like a conventional camcorder – you can grip and rest it comfortably in your palm with the handstrap. Its is also the only device in this round-up with a flip-out LCD preview panel with a touchscreen interface. This is handy for selecting options – such as the seven scene modes – with a free hand or finger. This beats taking your eye off the screen to fiddle and fuss with controls on the camcorder’s body.

Incidentally, the Aiptek’s onscreen menu looks very similar to that of the Toshiba Camileo S10. One advantage it offers is a choice of focus modes: Flick the lens ring to switch between Macro mode for shooting near objects and Infinity mode for general shots. But using the 3X digital zoom – via two clumsy buttons – is not a good idea as the end result is usually blurry.

The overall video quality is a hit-and-miss affair. On a bright day or in a well-illuminated room, you can record decently sharp HD-ready video footage with good enough colours that will pass muster on a 40-inch HDTV.

However, fast-moving scenes – such as the branches of tree swaying in the wind – betray some noisy pixellation as the video compression struggles to keep up with the action.

This is good starter camcorder for children learning the finer points of shooting HD video, but video snods might find the video quality rather touch-and-go

Creative Vado HD 3rd Generation Camcorders

Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:26:53 PST

The Creative Vado HD works like a charm right out of the box. There is no screen to flip nor SD card to insert. Just take it out of your pocket, turn it on and shoot video the same way you would with your mobile phone.

In video quality, the Vado HD can hold its own against the rest of the camcorders here with sharp and fairly detailed visuals – you can even “feel” the texture of wooden planks in one shot.

The colours are strong and footage does brilliantly on a 40-inch HDTV – despite the Vado’s highest video resolution being only HD-ready (1,280 by 720 pixels). Low-light performance is predictably noisy. Also, the autofocus is not as quick to adapt to the surrounding lighting as high-end camcorders are and you get the occasional off-focus shots when you go too close to an object.

The fold-in USB connector is a godsend because you do not need to take along an extra cable when you are out and about. Just plug the Vado directly into any computer to recharge the battery or to transfer the video clips to a PC’s hard drive.

The audio pick-up is excellent too, with clear and crisp sound. The Vado even managed to muffle the noise of the wind that usually overwhelms other sounds.

The touch-sensitive controls are a joy to use. Press the Up and Down arrows to control the zoom (2x digital zoom) or the forward and rewind arrows to increase or decrease the exposure setting.

The bundled HDMI cable to connect the Vado to a HDTV is a bonus. The only complaint is the lack of an SD memory card slot, which leaves you independent on the Vado’s 4GB internal flash memory enough for roughly two hours of HD footage.

The Vado HD’s winning feature is its simplified elegance, it lets you get on with the task of shooting HD video with complications.

Samsung HMX-U10 with Full HD-ready Resolution

Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:14:51 PST

The Samsung U10 boasts a striking, fuss-free design; like the Creative Vado HD, it does not require you to flip out a preview LCD screen. I like the stylish and thumb-friendly touch-sensitive controls for activating the digital zoom.

Video quality is sharp enough even when viewed on a 40-inch HDTV with the supplied component output cables. However, in some scenes, the colours are a little muted and the overall video looked a little soft.

One gripe: Near objects, say an arm’s length away, tend to appear slightly blurry. There are some quirks too.

The U10 is meant to be held up just like how you would shoot video with a mobile phone – vertically. However, because the U10 looks and feels like a typically sleek digital camera from Samsung, I kept making the mistake of holding it horizontally instead of vertically.

Also, the U10 allows you to zoom if you shoot at HD-ready (1,280 by 720 pixels) resolution, but the zoom feature is deactivated when you record at the Full HD resolution (1,920 by 1,080 pixels). There is no internal memory, so an SD card is an essential purchase.

I like the software integration. Just connect it to the PC with a USB cable and the Samsung Intelli Studio basic editing software launches automatically to manage the videos or photos you have recorded. There is no need to install the software at all.

The time-lapse recording mode is a bonus feature. A worthy choice if you are looking for a decent packet HD camcorder that will not break the bank.

Sanyo Xacti Dual Camcorder

Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:04:36 PST

Sanyo Xacti may look like an electric shaver, but it lives up to video-shooting expectations. The HD-ready resolution (1,280 by 720 pixels) footage it produces is slightly sharper and the colours are a tad more vivid than those of its rivals, though given its price, that is expected.

It comes out tops for night scenes too. The different colours of vehicles in a dimly lit carpark come out clear rather than a dark wash.

The automatic shooting mode is fast enough to keep pace when you pan, adjusting the exposure and focus as you move the camcorder’s view, say, from a sunny sky to a shady cafe.

However, do expect to spot some noise when you pan the camcorder too quickly. For folks who like simplicity, the Xacti offers a simplified menu with just three options to adjust the video size, the flash mode and the focus mode.

The experienced user though, can switch to the full menu offering anything from manual focus to manual white balance. This puts it in the middle ground between the very basic and the very high-end camcorders that cost over $1,000.

The handy 40MB of internal memory will come in useful when you exhaust all space on your memory card and yet need to squeeze in a few seconds of footage. The ideal one for those willing to pay more to get more control and better features.

February 2010 Security Updates!

Admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:59:27 PST

Below are all the vulnerabilities that have been discovered recently, please do update or patch your application.

Joomla ccNewsletter Component “controller” File Inclusion
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: version 1.0.5
Vendor’s URL: ccNewsletter Component
Bug Type: File Inclusion
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Update to version 1.0.6.

Joomla! JE Event Calendars Component “event_id” SQLi
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: version 1.0
Vendor’s URL: JE Event Calendars Component
Bug Type: SQL Injection
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Joomla! Documents Seller Component “category_id” SQLi
Application: Joomla!
Affected Version: version 2.5.1 and other versions.
Vendor’s URL: Documents Seller Component
Bug Type: SQL Injection
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a proxy.

Joomla! jVideoDirect Component “v” SQLi
Application: Joomla!
Affected Version: version 1.1RC3b and other versions.
Vendor’s URL: jVideoDirect Component
Bug Type: SQL Injection
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Joomla JEvents Search Plugin SQLi
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: versions prior to 1.5.3b
Vendor’s URL: JEvents Search Plugin
Bug Type: SQL Injection
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Update to version 1.5.3b or later.

Joomla Productbook Component “id” SQLi
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: version 1.0.4
Vendor’s URL: Productbook Component
Bug Type: SQL Injection
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

odlican.net CMS Arbitrary File Upload
Application: odlican.net CMS
Affected Version: version 1.5.
Vendor’s URL: odlican.net CMS
Bug Type: File Inclusion
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Reportedly fixed in version 1.6.

Drupal Graphviz Filter Module Arbitrary Command Execution
Application: Drupal
Affected Version: versions prior to 6.x-1.6 and 5.x-1.3.
Vendor’s URL: Graphviz Filter Module
Bug Type: Command Execution
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
If you use Graphviz Filter 6.x-1.x, upgrade to Graphviz Filter 6.x-1.6.
If you use Graphviz Filter 5.x-1.x, upgrade to Graphviz Filter 5.x-1.3.

Joomla AllVideos Plugin “file” Information Disclosure
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: version 3.1
Vendor’s URL: AllVideos Plugin
Bug Type: Information Disclosure
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Update to version 3.3 or later.

Joomla JQuarks Component “id” SQLi
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: version 0.2.3 and other versions.
Vendor’s URL: JQuarks Component
Bug Type: SQL Injection
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Update to version 0.2.4 or later.

Joomla Webee Comments Component “articleId” SQLi
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: version 2.0 and other versions.
Vendor’s URL: Webee Comments Component
Bug Type: SQL Injection
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Joomla RWCards Component “controller” File Inclusion
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: version 3.0.18 and other versions.
Vendor’s URL: RWCards Component
Bug Type: File Inclusion
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Joomla! Core Design Scriptegrator Plugin Multiple File Inclusion
Application: Joomla!
Affected Version: version 1.4.1 and other versions.
Vendor’s URL: Core Design Scriptegrator Plugin
Bug Type: File Inclusion
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Drupal Content Distribution Module Multiple Vulnerabilities
Application: Drupal
Affected Version: versions prior to 6.x-1.3.
Vendor’s URL: Content Distribution Module
Bug Type:
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Update to version 6.x-1.3.

Joomla Community Polls Component “controller” File Inclusion
Application: Joomla
Affected Version: versions prior to 1.5.3.
Vendor’s URL: Community Polls Component
Bug Type: File Inclusion
Risk Level: Critical
Solution:
Update to version 1.5.3 or later.

Take Google Maps on Youtube travel across Russia

Admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:33:52 PST

Trans-Siberia

Travel 9,259km across Russia in 150 hours – or just over six days – seated at home. Just use Google Maps on YouTube. The journey, shot on two cameras out of a train window, starts at Moscow and ends at Vladivostok.

Tracked on Google Maps, the route, which would otherwise take eight days in real life to complete, plots key details such as how far you have travelled and how much father there is to go.

This video takes the cake for armchair travel. Not only can the “traveller” tune into a reading of Leo Tolstoy’s War And Peace while making the trip, he can fast forward the Trans-Siberia experience – say to the scenic mountains of Barguzin. Best of all, there is no fare to pay.

Let us hope that such YouTube trips stays free. It may be a matter of time before content creators charge for the click-through.

Alex @ here has what I know about

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