Adobe Reader to block attacks with sandbox tech

Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe, explains how sandboxing will protect Adobe Reader customers from attacks. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Adobe Reader will soon have an additional layer of protection against the many attacks that target the popular PDF viewer. Adobe Systems is borrowing a page from Microsoft’s and Google’s playbook by turning to sandboxing technology designed to isolate code from other parts of the computer

More:
Adobe Reader to block attacks with sandbox tech

Free: Serif PagePlus desktop publishing software

Serif PagePlus is a killer desktop-publishing app. The X4 version costs $100, but the very capable Starter Edition is free! (Credit: Serif) It’s odd that the need to create newsletters, fliers, brochures, and the like hasn’t gone away, but desktop publishing software has.

Visit link:
Free: Serif PagePlus desktop publishing software

Firefox 4 upgrade ideas start becoming reality

Mozilla released a new Firefox 4 prototype late Monday that builds in support for Google’s WebM video technology and several other changes planned for the open-source Web browser’s next major version. With WebM, Google hopes to liberate Web video from patent-related royalty constraints of today’s prevailing video compression technology, H.264. Mozilla and Google are working to make WebM’s VP8 codec a standard part of the new specification for built-in video being added to the HTML5 Web page design technology

See the original post:
Firefox 4 upgrade ideas start becoming reality

Marketing departments abscond with ‘HTML5′

Apple’s launch of Safari 5 made it final: the marketing people have snatched the term “HTML5″ away from the developers. HTML5 is the next version of the Hypertext Markup Language standard for creating Web pages

See the article here:
Marketing departments abscond with ‘HTML5′

With Safari 5, Apple plugs four dozen holes

(Credit: Apple) Apple has released the latest version of its Safari browser that includes fixes for four dozen security holes, mostly in the open-source WebKit technology and many of which leave a computer open to compromise by drive-by-download attacks from visiting a malicious Web page. Safari 5 for Windows and Mac debuted on Monday . The impact on security issues is detailed in this advisory , which applies to Safari 5.0 and Safari 4.1

See the original post:
With Safari 5, Apple plugs four dozen holes

Grab big pics off Google Images the easy way

If you happen to frequent Google’s Images search tool with the intention of grabbing the full-quality version of whatever image you’re looking for, you’ve probably noticed Google makes you jump through some hoops to get there. In fact, Microsoft and Yahoo do the same thing, but it’s with good reason: to offer you the full version of the image without actually visiting the page removes the context of why it’s there, and makes the search engines more of a content leech than a beneficial traffic director.

Read more here:
Grab big pics off Google Images the easy way

Next Page »