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HTC Home Brings the HTC Weather Widget to Windows 7

2010-09-02T17:02:00.000-07:00

If you've ever had a HTC phone you probably have liked the Android user interface, known under the name HTC Sense. This interface contains a nice widget particular time and prognosis that will surely be pleased to know that is available for Windows.

HTC Home 1.1 is the first final version of this widget for Windows. The application has different types of settings:

• Alternating different wallpapers depending on the season, weather or time of day.
• Resize the widget to taste.
• Meter widget in the taskbar.
• Switch on and off animations.
• Relocate reporting of forecasts.
Finally, just say that is only compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7, with the need to have Microsoft. NET 3.5 (or higher).

Download: HTC Home 1.1 (Windows)
Via: LifeHacker

Tip: Change quickly the home screen Windows 7

2010-09-02T16:53:00.000-07:00

By now we all know that there are many applications that allow you to change the home screen of your operating system. On this occasion, we present a DDL file by a user developer devianArt that allows to quickly change the interface main screen of Windows 7.

On the Developer (the link is at the foot of the article) we can see that there are different versions: 'No Windows Flag', 'Default With Windows Flag', 'Transparent Windows Embedded Flag' and extra for a wallpaper called 'Aurora'.

As expected, we will have to download the compatible version for your operating system, either 32 or 64 bits. The DDL file we downloaded it must copy the folder 'C: \ Windows \ System32', previously recommended safeguard the DDL to replace.

Download: devianArt
Via: LifeHacker

Firefox is already adapting to the user environment with new extensions

2010-09-02T16:42:00.000-07:00

Some are already can not wait to come out Firefox version 4, and that's not a problem appears, do not change us we trust it is still definitely in beta, and may have bugs that can be resolved after a final version.

But with the latest beta of Firefox 4 it seems that things could be very different from what we have painted. Is that apparently that many programmers have already begun to adapt to his estate so as not to break in Mozilla Firefox 4. In fact, at this time are over 1,000 extensions already run well in the latest version of the browser as well known.

As I said Lisandro, we can find some news regarding the above:

• Ability to multi-touch Windows 7 and other platforms that support this capability.
• Improvements in the implementation of the JavaScript code.
• Improved performance and user safety.
Typically we go, but what we have in the new version?

Via: Download Squad

New Symbian Trojan Variant Discovered

2010-07-06T08:34:00.000-07:00

Trend Micro researchers detected the spread of a new variant of Flock, a Trojan for Symbian systems a year ago found that robs the user of the phone small amounts of money through SMS.

This new variant is passed through an application called 'ZvirOK'. Once installed on the device, it sends a message to a four-digit number with the text "xxx mumym joker90." Although researchers are not clear, it appears that the purpose of the trojan is still the same: to transfer a small sum of money through each of the messages sent.

"SYMBOS_FLOCK.I" as has been bautilzado such malware is desktop Python and affects phones that use Symbian. In addition, we found a different variant of the Trojan that runs on Java platforms (J2ME) and may affect a larger number of mobile devices.

SYMBOS_FLOCK.I being circulated on websites and can only be installed manually by the user. As always we recommend, very careful when downloading software (any kind) from untrusted sites.

via: Softpedia

Opera 10.60 available for download, Faster and more secure

2010-07-02T16:32:00.000-07:00

In mid past, Opera surprised us with a new beta of its browser, Opera 10.60. Yesterday, finally decided to release the final version for download for all versions and not just in Windows, that being the majority platform, other users should wait a little while longer.

With the new version Opera 10.60 browser will have a 50% faster, compatible with standard video Webm, compatible with multi-touch technology and now has the VFA as responsible for navigational safety from the browser.

You'll also find some interface changes and more options to choose Google in your Speed Dial.

More information and download: Opera

Check how secure is your password

2010-07-02T16:20:00.000-07:00

Passwords are an important part of anyone on the Internet. It is the way to protect our information. Unfortunately for some, when creating passwords do not get very creative, paving the way easy for miscreants who are responsible for stealing passwords.

It is important to note that when choosing a password, jeopardizes the security of information that can be sensitive. How good is your password?. With the help of a site you can measure how difficult it would try to figure out your password, as well as the estimated time it would take a computer to achieve the objective. The site is called How secure is my password, and as you type your password, you'll see at the bottom of an estimate of the time it would take to "guess" your password. Words such as "password", "test", "abcde" or "12345" are automatically classified as easy to guess.

Here are some general recommendations on the use of passwords, especially if you have an account at many web:

• Use a different password for each Web site.
• Use special characters (#, @,!, _, -, Etc.)
• Use numbers.
• Use at least one capital letter.
• Do not use personal information such as date of birth or telephone number.

Enlace How secure is my password?
Vía Lifechacker

Hackers target Microsoft Windows XP support system

2010-07-01T19:05:00.000-07:00

Windows XP is a product with a large user base. Despite being an old operating system there are millions of users around the world whose primary operating system to Windows XP. In recent days have seen an unprecedented rise in attacks is concerned: the target of these attacks is precisely the Microsoft operating system. Microsoft has reported that the attacks have been more than 10,000 PCs, but now the figure may be much higher since not found a solution to this problem.

A Google engineer reported finding a vulnerability in Windows XP to be allowed total control of a PC, using the capacities of this to receive help from another computer remotely.

Researchers from security firms like Trend Micro, say it is a serious problem for many developers of malware and viruses are being targeted on users of Windows XP. It is expected that in next few hours there is a more specific answer from Microsoft.

This breach of security does not affect Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Vía gHacks
Link Hackers target Microsoft Windows XP support system

Google adds new alerts of suspicious activity

2010-07-01T18:56:00.000-07:00

A few months ago, Google reported that it would be adding alerts on suspicious activity in the accounts of users. And for suspicious activity relating to unusual patterns in the sessions: if a person logs on to Madrid, and in half an hour from Los Angeles does, surely there is something to be suspicious. Are those situations that cause the above warning. This only happened when working in the environment of GMail, because it is currently the most used services. Due to the good results obtained from this practice, Google has incorporated this alarm system in more pages, now in the homepage of the Dashboard (board) where they are shortcuts to the links on Google, you can see notifications this style.

It seems that it is a new layer of protection for users, which may expand to other services later. Until that comes, now there are two places where we can check for suspicious activity in the accounts. Congratulations to Google for this initiative.

Via Download Squad

Norton produces a false alarm after upgrading Firefox

2010-06-30T07:48:00.000-07:00

For users of Symantec Norton antivirus company can give an alarm after upgrading to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox. Several readers who use Norton Antivirus and Internet Security Symantec's 2 detected this error after upgrading to the latest version of Firefox. In addition to several files in quarantine, all caused by a malfunction of the popular browser.

In the Symantec forums has been given more information about errors and error occurs when you upgrade to Firefox 3.6.6 and the files involved are:

• freebl3.dll
• softokn3.dll
• softokn3.dll
As we say it is not dangerous files, if not the facility of the browser.

Symantec systems in the cloud as detected these files are files that have not been so never sets on a suspect but is not really such. A Symantec employee has given notice of false alarm about this event and for the comfort of its users.

Source: h-online

Google Chrome is updated again this month

2010-06-29T06:23:00.000-07:00

Google has released a second update this month of June for Google Chrome browser is Google Chrome 5.0.375.86 for all 3 platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac) and fixes five security bugs that could allow an attacker to perform cross techniques -site scripting, denial of service and other techniques are not provided by Google.

Also in this update includes Flash in Chrome by default. Since so far there was no addition is activated for immediate use.

According to sources Hispasec responses can be used "application / json" for attacks on cross-site scripting. Also with this update corrects bugs that would enable other attacks related to video processing and other related subrecursos (omnibox load) and other treatment of pointers in response x509-user-cert.

Google Docs Viewer for Android, iPhone and IPAD

2010-06-29T06:04:00.000-07:00

We woke up today with new news for those who use the Google online office suite, Google Docs is that many users use their handsets to work from it and Google could not let the opportunity to launch a document viewer without the need for download any of them and occupy memory.

So, Google Docs Viewer is available to users with terminals Android, iPhone and IPAD, provided that they brought into the address bar of your browser the following address: docs.google.com

It would also be more than the company began to think of an online publisher of the documents that we store on our account, because with the trend that we have lately in the market with enough terminals and possible Oversized Tablets that appear on the market, would all a point in favor of Big Brother on the network.

More information: Official Google Blog Mobile

Firefox 3.6.4 available for download - most stable and slightly faster as Mozilla

2010-06-27T05:36:00.000-07:00

It is available new version of the browser Mozilla, Firefox 3.6.4 in particular. With version for all operating systems, whether Windows, Mac or Linux, this release is presented as a more stable version than previous ones and is multithreaded plugins available.

"What users will notice? for if for any reason technologies like Flash, QuickTime and Silverlight produce a crash we would not need to have to close the browser entirely, but simply need to reset the tab where the failure has occurred.

Of course, if at the time you're watching a video online or playing some online game, this does not eviatrá you should restart from the beginning, so the only improvement is that if you're that open more than one tab to time with important information, not lose them all.

More information: Mozilla Blog
Downloads: Firefox

Adobe Flash 10.1 for Android 2.2

2010-06-25T11:33:00.000-07:00

Adobe today launched the final version of Flash for mobile devices with Android operating system, Adobe Flash version 10.1. But not all users may download from the Android Market, only those terminals that have on the inside with the latest version of operating system code-named Froy or rather, Android 2.2.

Within the name that Adobe has made it clear in addition to the Nexus One, have sounded Milestone Motorola, HTC Desire, Dell Streak, HTC Evo, DROID Motorola, Samsung and HTC Galaxy S Incredible. On the other hand, has also commented that the mobile Flash platform will present shortly in operating systems like BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone, Limo, Meego and Symban, but nevertheless to a specific date for any of them.

Flash 10.1 for Mobile will be compatible with technology used by today's intelligent terminals such as the accelerometer, to zoom on the particular page, optimization of resources used and the user will not notice the cost of energy, etc ...

More information: Adobe

OpenBook - now it is time to review your privacy on Facebook

2010-06-10T04:48:00.000-07:00

OpenBook is a search engine that only shows you the great results of Mark Zuckerberg's social network. This network is constantly attacked by their privacy policy, although this simply must do a little research on your favorite search engine and you'll see that thousands of threads open about that.

Well, OpenBook with almost the same design of Facebook, lets you search specific, resulting in thousands of user updates are not properly activated your privacy and may make public statements which should not come to light, say as examples statements to your boss, photographs and personal information compromised.

In this way, the creators of Facebook active users OpenBook want mentalicen current users of all I could come to light with a simple search.

TweetDeck is updated with many improvements

2010-05-22T04:45:00.000-07:00

TweetDeck is one of the most used clients for intensive users of Twitter from your desktop, either Windows, Mac or Linux, since it is based on Adobe AIR technology. Already, a client is fairly complete, but allows convenient access to your contacts, but as has been released Version 0.34.1.

In this update, we found several integrations such as Google Buzz or foursquare, but if you do not use the latter, also allow you geolocalizarte TweetDeck as you can see in the video above showing all the new concepts.

On the other hand, have added new shorten URLs to which we already had and upload video directly from a file or live from the webcam to the server TwitVid.

Also we will have global filters in our columns to filter unwanted tweets, in addition to program messages when they want. Very useful utility to send messages at a time when we are unable to do so or simply because we do not trust our memory. Interesting for business Twitter accounts.

Finally, since we publish TweetDeck in services like Wordpress or Tumblr and other services that are compatible with the Twitter API.

More information and download: TweetDeck

Chrome Web Store - shop in the cloud and applications from the browser

2010-05-22T04:32:00.000-07:00

If anyone could make a web store applications in conditions, that is Google and we were not disappointed. At the Google I / O that takes place during these two days, we introduced the Chrome Web Store, an application store, destined to be one of the most important features when it appears on the scene Chrome OS operating system.

And is that the user from their browser will have all sorts of web-based applications simply getting from the Chrome Web Store both free programs and after logearnos payment to our account in any modern browser that uses modern technology, not only Chrome all versions, we get a pesteña the same which gives you all the apps downloaded as you can see in the picture accompanying this post.

The Chrome Web Store will be available to users and to developers before the end of the year, taking the last access before the general public and there will be hanging up their own applications.

Very interesting movement on the part of California, where not only will win more converts to Chrome, but Chrome OS is gradually taking shape and as we have said, is a fundamental part of its dedicated operating system in the cloud.

Via: Chromium Blog
More information: Chrome Web Store

Skype launches new beta version VideoCall 5

2010-05-14T09:31:00.000-07:00

One of the drawbacks I've always seen is that if you want Skype to make video calls with more than one person, it will not be possible, so we always had to resort to other programs.

Skype knows this and has been working on it. By the end of this year, will be available the new version of VoIP-based program, whose improvements will find multiple video call with a maximum of five users.

Even if you do not want to wait, as they say, the beta is now available for download, yes, only for Windows users. For Mac users can not prove it, but the final version will be available later this year.

To try videoconferencing to 5 other users who attempt to act in the conference, must have installed the beta or not work, of course.

Via: The Big Blog
Download: Skype

Find and delete Duplicate audio files for free hard disk space

2010-05-14T09:00:00.000-07:00

If you are someone who has your music library tidy little or nothing, you'd better go thinking how many times you'll repeat an audio track on your hard drive and all that entails.

Windows users have it easier with the free Similarity, which will read all the files you have on your hard disk as an extension having MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, WV, MPC and analyzes the tags, as well information of the tracks, but not match the minutes or extensions. After the scan the hard drive or selected folders, you must for Similarity results for disposal under your supervision. As we have said, is an application only for Windows users, including of course Windows 7.

More information and download: Similarity
Via: CyberNet News

Mozilla Plugin Check now for all browsers

2010-05-14T08:38:00.000-07:00

Having all the plugins to date, is a sign that your computer will work well and by the way, we have a more secure and stable. Mozilla already had a tool called Plugin Check, which will alert users of its Firefox browser, for when they had new versions of Flash, DivX, Java, QuickTime, among others.

But being a tool that helps us have a safer computer, Mozilla opens the doors to other browsers such as Opera 10.5, Safari 4, Chrome 4 and Internet Explorer either version 7 or 8.

Once you get into the tool, start the search and verification of the installed versions. Let you know whether you're a day or you need to update, in which case we will provide a button from which we sent to the download page, so that everything is as simple as possible.

More information: The Mozilla Blog
Official site: Check Plugin

Gmail allows you to insert images in the body of the message

2010-05-14T04:49:00.000-07:00

Apparently, from now and only if you use Google Chrome as a browser, you can create a more colorful emails than usual. Why am I saying this? Indeed just because you can attach images directly in the text box courier service.

A few weeks ago, the Gmail guys had already implemented the ability to add attachments without having to open the selection box and having to find, but it was just to add drag, saving us a little time when make e-mails.

With the new functionality, it may be much better when writing an email in which we can give it more body and inserting images directly is much more "beautiful" (yes we are going to do, he has left the vein corny). As we have said, but since Google Chrome is functional, but are already working on their compatibility is universal.

More info: Gmail Blog

WeTransfer - easy way to send big files up to 2GB

2010-05-12T11:43:00.000-07:00

They are different possibilities that we have in the network to upload files to share a posteriori, but many of these options, give you an example, require prior registration and a download of an application in our system.

It is also true that many of those we can share files by email, but in this case, the main problem is the maximum weight allowed by our proveeddor email accounts.

It is here that plays an important role the service that we show you the name of WeTransfer, a free service without prior registration and will send the number of files you want to reach a total weight of 2GB per transfer.

The archvos to send, may be received for up to 20 email accounts diefrentes, data from the accounts will not be disclosed for privacy issues and hanging files have a stay of two weeks before they are eliminated. The files will arrive in the recipient as an link to download.

With what WeTransfer stands for now in beta, as a very efficient service that could be the ideal companion for your email account, if you are someone who need to send large amounts of attachments and without your customers , family, friends, etc ... register for any services required for download.

More information: WeTransfer

Hacker sells 1.5 million Facebook accounts

2010-05-09T09:27:00.000-07:00

Researchers from the firm Verisign iDefense discovered that a hacker who calls himself "Kirllos' being sold in black market forums 1.5 million Facebook account. Although not confirmed the legitimacy of the accounts, the hacker claims that it has sold around 700,000 credentials.

Kirllos offers packages of 1,000 accounts for a price ranging from $ 25 to $ 45 depending on the number of contacts which each user. While it is a very low price compared to similar sales on the black market, krill can still get a lot of money with a high volume of accounts.

Facebook has not confirmed if these accounts are real, but so be, it is an alarming amount of stolen data, which can be used by other criminals for many purposes: from committing fraud to contact the victim, to spread malicious software to massive social network.

Flash 10.1 for Android arrive in June

2010-05-09T05:49:00.000-07:00

Kevin Lynch, chief technology officer (CTO) of Adobe, said publicly that he presented at the Google I / O (an important event that will take place in May) a trial version of Flash Player 10.1 Android compatible with 2.1.

In the event many developers will attend, so the idea is that they see the product and encourage them to create software using this technology for mid-June and users can enjoy Flash 10.1 on their Android phones.

Other manufacturers, and companies like RIM, Palm, Microsoft and Nokia, have already confirmed their inclusion of Flash on their platform, but it seems that Google has given people a hand to get the Android version faster.

Via: IntoMobile

Rumor: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone

2010-05-09T05:41:00.000-07:00

It seems that Microsoft ultimately decided to take the decision to develop a version of its instant messenger for iPhone OS, and is filtered out the network the first screenshots of the application.

Since Windows Live Messenger to iPhone, obviously, we chat with our contacts, receive and send photos (either from our gallery or on the camera phone) and use all the features offered by the desktop version for your social network.

So far there were some third-party alternatives, such as: Nimbuzz (free application), IM + ($ 10) and Trillian ($ 5).

Via: TUAC

Google Goggles translates texts from a photograph from Android

2010-05-08T09:25:00.000-07:00

Although Barcelona, Google showed this feature, which could only translate texts from German, is far from the Android Market when we have the latest service updates Google Goggles, which from a photograph taken with our terminal with operating system and application installed, we can get enough information.

But in this presentation and update, Google has sought to provide Goggles capacity to translate texts from a photograph. The example I have found very successful. You never have traveled and have had to ask a waiter what the hell was what it said or what was that dish?

Surely, after the response, you may have been sweet pulp thinking "if I knew the translation would these things." Well that's exactly what Google Goggles is concerned, take a picture of a text and translation will be simultaneous from your terminal. Yes, Goggles does not recognize any language, although we assume that will increase with the updates. Currently you can read Spanish, English, German, Italian and French and can translate a few more.

More information: Official Google Mobile Blog