Miro, the manager and player for internet videos, torrents, and podcasts, has been around for a while, formerly known as Democracy Player and DTV. Miro comes from the Participatory Culture Foundation which has had another one of its projects, Universal Subtitles, featured on 404 Tech Support before. Miro is a free video downloader, player, and organizer. In a nutshell, it just … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
(Another) Update To Adobe Flash Addresses Latest 0-Day Vulnerability
Adobe announced in a security advisory Monday that a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash was actively being exploited with credit and more details going to Mila Parkour. News of the vulnerability was broken by Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security who reported: According to sources, the attacks exploit a vulnerability in fully-patched versions of Flash, and are being leveraged … [Read more...]
Did YouTube Remove The Ability To Embed Videos?
The answer, fortunately, is 'no'. YouTube has simply moved the embed button from its videos to a less obvious spot. The change apparently happened yesterday and it doesn't seem like they told anybody about the interface change. Previously, the button was located on the same line as the like/dislike buttons and the number of views a video has had but it is no longer to be found … [Read more...]
Firefox 5 And the Missing Status Bar
Update: Applicable to Firefox 4 and Firefox 5. Firefox 4 came with quite an interface change, seeming to grow closer and closer to Chrome. Tabs changed location, buttons moved around, and the status bar disappeared... or did it? Mozilla seems to have received enough inquiries about the missing status bar that they've written up a knowledge base article to explain it. If you're … [Read more...]
Failin.gs – Find your Faults
The middle of April is an odd time to be thinking about resolutions. It's long enough away from new year's that those resolutions have either been successful or failed. A lot of times, when discussing resolutions, I'll hear people say they don't have anything they really want to work on. Since we could all probably use some self-improvement, often times it's just a matter of … [Read more...]