Operating Systems

ThinkFree Office Online is a free web service that allows users to access, open, create and edit Microsft Office documents include Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. Beside, the documents can be easily converted into PDF format. ThinkFree also enables users to easily share, comment, tag, publish and full text search the documents, all of theses on top of generous 1GB storage space for […]

When Apache web server is starting up in FreeBSD system, Apache loads succcessfully and web server functioning properly, but the following warning error occurs: [warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the ‘httpready’ Accept Filter

Democracy Player (DTV) is a free desktop application for watching Internet TV from Participatory Culture Foundation that based on P2P torrent client technology, and integrates an RSS aggregator, a BitTorrent client, and VLC media player. It’s a P2P IPTV that download the video media not only from the single source, but also from other Democracy Player users who are watching the same video.

If you have frequently and randomly experienced Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office applications, third party software or even the whole Windows PC hanged or freezing, you may have affected by conflict problem caused by security update patch from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-015 (KB908531), which was release on 11th April 2006 to fix security vulnerability in Windows Explorer that could allow remote code execution.

LostGoogles (previously known as MoreGoogle, changed at the request of Google) is small and tiny add-on plug-in for Internet Explorer 5.0 or above (not workable in Mozilla Firefox). LostGoogles enhances Google search results page by integrating several information about the websites in Google search results and changes the way search results are presented.

IT-Observer reviewed Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner which audits and checks websites and web application (shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc.) for security attacks vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, XSS (Cross Site Scripting), CRLF injection, code execution, directory traversal, file inclusion, authentication, Google search hacking and etc.

PCWorld tested and compared several spyware stopper tools, including Allume Systems’ (formerly Aladdin Systems’) Internet Cleanup, Aluria Software’s Spyware Eliminator, Computer Associates’ ETrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware, InterMute’s SpySubtract Pro, McAfee’s AntiSpyware, Sunbelt Software’s CounterSpy, Webroot Software’s Spy Sweeper and freware Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware SE Personal, Safer Networking’s Spybot Search & Destroy and Merijn.org’s HijackThis.

Digital-Lifestyles reviewed Spb Pocket Plus 3.1 from Spb Software House, a popular Today plug-in with tabs for Pocket PCs or Windows Mobile devices. Spb Pocket Plus enhances the Pocket-PC based PDA with lots of functionality to make the PDA easier to use and more powerful.

ajaxWrite is an online word processor that based on AJAX and XML User Interface Language (XUL). In other words, ajaxWrite is a web-based applications that has same functionality of desktop or computer-based word processing productivity application such as Microsoft Word, without any needs of installation and at fraction of costs or even free.

TVants is a P2P stream TV which depends on TVants users for distribution of media and also bandwidth allocation for of media streaming. The unique feature of TVants is TVants allows users to easily broadcast their own channels through TVants. The channels can be TV channels broadcast or streaming media contents found on the web.

Computerworld has published a detailed step-by-step installation guide on intructions to install Microsoft Windows XP on an Apple Mac computer. Apple releases Boot Camp for Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.6 to allows an Intel-based Mac (iMac, Mac mini and MacBook Pro) to run Windows XP as operating system natively. The technology will be included in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard.

Portmanager is an FreeBSD utility that automates the process of upgrading and managing installed FreeBSD ports without or almost without user intervention when updating. Portmanager ensures that FreeBSD installed ports accurately reflect and update as of those available in the ports tree.