Many people might have an Exchange calendar at work that they access through Outlook and a Google Calendar for personal use. If you want to move the entries from one system to another, you can use this tool, Google Calendar Sync, to keep your calendars in sync. Google Calendar Sync does just about everything you could ask from it. You can customize how often the sync service … [Read more...]
Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1 Vulnerable to Javascript Again!
Adobe, after recently patching Adobe Reader and Acrobat to 9.1, has announced that this version too is vulnerable to javascript induced buffer overflows. You can see their announcement here: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-02.html A patch is set to be deployed May 12th. I stand by my original assessment. You're best off just disabling javascript in … [Read more...]
FreeMeter: a low-impact system monitor
My latest article over at Freewaregenius goes through the finer points of FreeMeter, a system resource monitor. FreeMeter keeps it lean so it doesn't negatively impact your performance as you're watching your resource usage. It also has a pretty nice interface which can efficiently convey information to you with a quick glance regarding memory usage, CPU usage, hard drive … [Read more...]
A Quick Fix for a QuickTime Problem
I ran into a problem in one of our labs recently regarding our good friend QuickTime. Now, I'm no fan of QuickTime and curse the .mov format under my breath every time I have no alternative formats available. Pressed for time, I tried to solve this problem using QuickTime Alternative but my users specifically wanted to use QTVR, which QuickTime Alternative does not support, at … [Read more...]
iGoogle Stops Supporting Secure Gmail?
iGoogle has won and earned its position at the healm of my browser experience by becoming my homepage. It's a useful location that can host many widgets that I'd want to check first thing: my Gmail account, my RSS feeds in Google Reader, a To Do list, the weather, and some news headlines. All-in-all it's very useful, but this morning I woke up to it becoming a little less … [Read more...]