From the monthly archives:

December 2010

Unhappy New Year

December 31, 2010

Malware authors don’t miss any major event in their attempts to spread malware. Evidently, they see the upcoming New Year as yet another opportunity to get their creations into unsuspecting users’ computers. We have already seen signs of malware misusing this happy event. In most cases, these are spammed emails that look like legitimate “Happy [...]

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Lifehacker Pack for Windows Phone 7: Our List of the Best WP7 Apps [Downloads]

December 31, 2010

Windows Phone 7 is the newest kid on Smartphone Street, but this kid comes highly recommended. WP7′s got some great apps worth grabbing, even in its very young Market, and you can try them all free. Here are our best picks. More » Lifehacker: windows

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Why I Chose an HTC Mozart Windows Phone

December 31, 2010

Christmas day this year brought an extra present for me, I was due a free upgrade on my phone from my mobile carrier.  I’d spent a long time before weighing up the pros and cons of the various mobile operating systems and handsets but eventually needed to make a choice.  That choice, as you can assume [...]

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Event time zones in Google Calendar

December 31, 2010

Posted by Oleksandr Kyreiev, Software Engineer Dealing with time zones can be a headache. Whether you’re a regular traveler or trying to plan ahead for your weekend in Paris, it’s often difficult to keep track of time differences. We’ve heard your feedback and are pleased to announce a new addition to Google Calendar: event time [...]

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Public disclosure of IIS security issue with semi-colons in URL

December 30, 2010

IIS has been alerted to the claim of a new security issue in IIS 6 and I wanted to explain the issue and our position on it. The issue in question affects only IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003) and arises when you send a URL with a semi-colon in it. IIS 6 uses the path [...]

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60 million tabs towards good causes

December 30, 2010

In 2010, the Chrome community has joined us in moments of fun, invention, exploration, and now, giving. Last week, we invited Chrome’s users worldwide to “donate” their opened tabs in Chrome to drive a charitable gift of one million dollars. We on the Chrome team were deeply impressed with the support and participation and now [...]

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Hyper-V Dynamic Memory test for VDI density

December 30, 2010

Hi, I’m Michael Kleef, senior technical product manager within the Windows Server and Cloud division. As Brad Anderson and I discussed at the TechEd Europe keynote today, Dynamic Memory, a new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, can increase Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) densities by 40% compared to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 and [...]

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Change Windows 7 Aero Colors According To The Weather

December 30, 2010

The other day I stumbled across an interesting program called AeroWeather. This little application looks at the temperature and current weather conditions of your city and then plays around with the Windows Aero theme colors to reflect it. Basically it changes the color of your desktop based on the weather outside. For example if it’s [...]

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Reboot Your Mac Into Windows (from Windows) with a Batch Script [Scripts]

December 30, 2010

We’ve shown you how to reboot your Mac into Windows quickly with Quicksilver, but reader Dalton63841 shares a similar script that will let Boot Camp users do the same thing in Windows with just a double-click. More » Lifehacker: windows

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Targeted attacks against recently addressed Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2010-3333/MS10-087)

December 29, 2010

Last November, Microsoft released security bulletin MS10-087, which addresses a number of critical vulnerabilities in how Microsoft Office parses various office file formats. One of them is CVE-2010-3333, “RTF Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability,” which could lead to remote code execution via specially crafted RTF data. A few days before Christmas, we received a new sample [...]

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