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Yahoo has issued a critical security patch for Messenger to address zero-day exploits that take advantage of vulnerabilities in its Webcam ActiveX controls.

Problem :

Messenger users' computers could be at risk if they visit malicious Web sites or view other malicious HTML code. The attackers could then exploit security flaws in the Yahoo Webcam ActiveX control, a software package that is downloaded with Messenger.

So how fast is Yahoo in patching this problem ? 

eEye Digital Security discovered the flaw and reported it to Yahoo earlier this week. eEye gave the problem its highest risk rating; fellow security company Secunia did the same, labeling it "extremely critical." Yahoo issued the patch in an update on Thursday.

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Yahoo's advisory on the problem states that anyone using a version of Messenger obtained before Friday should download the update.

[ zdnet ] 

Six Apart announced the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog platform that has two distinct user bases - consumer base and Enterprise. Movable Type Open Source, or MTOS, is the open source project that will consist of a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0, to be released in Q3 2007, and resources for the already large community of Movable Type developers.

Its already late but never too late..to stay in the competition of these blogging platforms, they had to open source it..anyway..better late than never …

The MTOS distribution will be available for download / checkout later this summer at www.movabletype.org

To learn more about the open source project, visit its website http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/.

Does watching a YouTube video on another site leave you hungering for more like it? Youtube has recently added another new feature for the embedded player with a scroll-through feature that shows related videos to your embeds.

It's fun to play with and lets you discover new, related videos without leaving your site. Just hover over the video after pressing "play" and watch the magic unfold…

You can see related videos at the bottom of the player and also a right,left clickable linked videos list on the left and right, so that you can goto the previous and next videos right on the site which you currently viewing.

Suppose if you dont want this new feature of related videos , then use this:

If for any reason you don't want this option turned on, you can modify the video URL by attaching a rel=0 parameter to the video. i.e. http://www.youtube.com/v/&rel=0 

Example :

This is totally surprising to see that Microsoft is going to offer music for FREE on Xbox Live. 

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the launch of a new initiative that will give artists an exclusive chance to reach out to as many people as possible through a new and free program called Ignition.

You can access Maximo Park’s content on Zune Marketplace and Zune.net:

[via pcworld  ]

Jointly developed by Intel and Asustek, the Eee PC will hit the market during the third quarter, most likely in August or September. The notebook will be aimed at education users 

Measuring 9 inches wide by 6.6 inches deep, the Eee PC 701 is about 1.5 inches thick with the screen closed and weighs just 31 ounces. Other specifications include a 7-inch monitor, a 300,000-pixel camera, 512MB of DDR2 memory, and Wi-Fi. Next year, Asustek plans to introduce a second Eee PC model, the 1001, which will have a 10-inch screen.

Rearrange or remove menuitems from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menubar (File Edit View etc.). So when you install a fresh Firefox installation or add lots of addons or extensions like we do, then the right click on Firefox is in a mess. So to arrange the items in this right click menu, use Menu Editor.

This will help you re-arrange all the items in the right click menu. This is the perfect add-on for slimming down menus, especially when you start to get loads of add-ons. Its a must have for people who have lots of extensions. Like we have Google Toolbar, Clipmarks, Scrapbook,BlueOrganizer, Internet Download Manager addon..

It should be in the Recommended Add-Ons list on Mozilla Extensions site.

Screenshots :

[ Menu Editor ] [ Recommended Firefox Addons ]

Orkut is now among the top most popular social networking site on the net. Orkut after it was acquired by Google , it has made lots of additions , lots of new features..The list is going on and on and on ..

Today i saw they have added "edit feeds" button to the left side menu on your profile. You can now add any sites feeds to your profile and access it at anytime..so any news and any stuff nearly a click away..

You can add different sites feeds to your profile left menu. Here are some screenshots .

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thank you for such nice features.. 

Lage raho Google ! Long Live Orkut ..Long Live Google.

I donna how many of you have encountered these problems , but i do ..Some of them very frequent. 

- The Gmail just moves onto the left or right side of the browser - the rest of the page eaten off..

here is a screenshot.. have a look . 

- Gmail showing this message very frequently .( loading problem - maybe due to speed) 

This is shown very frequently …. ( note: i am on broadband connection )

- Problem with Google chat , many a times it says " connecting …) and we are back..

- One of the weird things ever happened. for example x is my friend and y is my sister. I saw the id of x being online and started chatting, but i was actually chatting with y. i.e the id being online which was shown was of x but i was really chatting with y . This is happening since many days already and for those two particular ids only. I donna how come Id's get swapped.. Some serious problem in Gmail .

So jaago Google team ! Something's wrong with Google Mail… 

Mozilla has now updated Firefox to 2.0.0.4 and released to the general public. This update includes security fixes, stability improvements and enhancement to Firefox's ability to block popups.

Users have already begun to see the upgrades right from on Wednesday, May 30th. We upgraded our browser on 30th only..

[ Download Firefox 2.0.0.4 ] 

Google adsense is doing a lot of changes. Lots of new types of displaying ads. We were amazed to see some real cool ad some days ago.. We searched for scholarship and got this ad on the right side on the search engine page.

Check out these screenshots :

             
It showed some phone icon on the ad, we just clicked it. The image 2nd was the thing which showed up. Surprisingly Google says " Google can call your phone now and connect you to this company. " Connect for free ". Wow..this is something seen for the first time .