Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.45.2 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Adobe has released a Flash Player update that fixes a flurry of vulnerabilities including a critical zero-day flaw (CVE-2010-1297) that has been actively exploited in attacks since last week. In addition to the numerous security patches, the new Flash player 10.1.53.64 version brings major functionality and performance improvements.

A lot of eyes have been on Adobe since last week, when yet another remote code execution vulnerability affecting Flash Player, as well as Adobe Reader and Acrobat, was announced. Worse yet, the bug was discovered in the wild, meaning it posed an immediate threat to users.

Earlier this week, the company revealed plans to release a patch by June 10, a promise it met yesterday by shipping the first stable version of Flash Player 10.1. This release marks the end of the 10.0.x branch, as well as the end of support for PowerPC G3, 10.1.53.64 being the last version to work on this architecture.

The Security Bulletin accompanying the release names no less than 32 security issues that the new Adobe Flash Player 10.1.53.64 addresses. The vast majority of these vulnerabilities can facilitate arbitrary code execution and affect Adobe AIR as well – for which a new version (2.0.2.12610) was also released.

The Adobe Flash Player update is only available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems, with the Solaris version being still in the beta stage of development. A new version for the 9.0.x branch, namely 9.0.277.0, has also been released, to accommodate scenarios where upgrading to 10.1 will break functionality.

Flash Player 10.1 has been a long-awaited release, mainly because it introduces GPU hardware acceleration, a feature that takes the load off CPUs during HD SWF playback, finally allowing for such content to be properly watched on netbooks and other low-performance devices. The video-streaming experience has also been improved, the player automatically adapting the stream quality in real time according to network conditions.

Sources: Adobe, Hungry Hackers

Download Latest Version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1.53.64:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Download Older Version of Adobe Flash Player

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406791.html

Download Latest Version Adobe AIR 2.0.2.12610 for Windows

http://get.adobe.com/air/

Security Bulletin:

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html

PwnTunes is the solution for to sync Music, Images and other files to your iphone, its a new Cydia app from the makers of popular application iRealSMS.

It allows users to use their iPhone and iPod Touch as a removable USB drive with music and image syncing functionality – without requiring any software on connecting computer. There are quite a few free iTunes alternatives but all of them require users to launch the application on connecting computer, PwnTunes on the other hand makes the iDevice detect as an removable USB drive,

&you need to do is to drag-n-drop files in respective folders and it will automatically import Music/Images from there without loosing existing library on the device.

PwnTunes Features:

* Drag&Drop Music Import/Export without iTunes

1. If you don’t like iTunes now you can simply ignore it – and have your Music with you anyway!

2. Now you can import Music from all your friend’s PCs without loosing Music already on device.

* Access iTunes Music from any PC without iTunes

1. Now you can share all your Music with all your friends – as simple as with every USB-Stick / MP3-Player.

2. Now you can backup your iTunes Music to another PC.

* Use iPhone/iPod/iPad as USB-Stick for any Files

1. Now you can take advantage of the iDevice’s harddisk as a USB-Stick and take all your Files with you – and leave that little ugly USB-Stick at home.

2. No extra Software on PC required

3. All this is as easy as plugging the USB cable

into any PC.

* Prepared for iPhone OS 4.0

System Requirements

Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP with Fix (included)

Sadly PwnTunes is not free and you will need to shell out $12.99 to but the app from Cydia store.

Sources: Apple iphones, Youtube, Windows, Megaleecher, Google, iphone, Pwntunes

Link:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Video on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpPrKuUghw&feature=player_embedded

Upgrade your Windows XP operating environment into the Window 7 by using a simple tool

Most of the people want  to the work in the environment  of windows 7  but they still want to work in the Windows XP .

Here is the simple tool which upgrade the window XP  Environment totally into the Windows 7 environment without the lost of your important settings like user setting ,saved application program data ,important files etc . The tool  called Zinstall done all the upgrading for you without affecting your all XP important stuff. With Zinstall your entire system is transferred to the new one .Application ,files ,background settings and so on.

The tool can be  purchase at very affordable  price of $89, and you can get your copy of Zinstall by this link :http://www.zinstall.com/products/zinstall-xp7

We live in a big world with many great countries, many great sites, and many great attractions. However, work sometimes put us in a place where the greatest attraction is the time clock.

If you are working in an environment that uses Windows 7, you can still see some of the coolest sites right there from your desktop. To do this, you will need to unlock Windows 7’s hidden themes.

You may have noticed that Windows 7 has a default country theme. For example, the Windows 7 that I bought has a United States theme listed under Aero Themes. But, it also has several other country themes stored in hidden files. Here is how you can access them.

Start by opening up Windows Explorer. Once opened, look for the Organize button located in the upper left side of the window on the top toolbar.

Click the Organize button and select Folder and search options from the drop down menu. This should open up the Folder Options window. Click the View tab. Under the section labeled Advanced settings, look for the value Show hidden files, folders, and drivers and select it.

Next, look for the value Hide protected operating and uncheck it. If prompted with a popup window click Yes, than click the OK button.

Browse to the path Windows\Globalization\MCT. Upon doing so, you should see five MCT- folders. Each folder represents a different country. Open up a folder of your choice, and open up the Theme folder located inside the according country folder.

You should see that country’s theme as AU, CA, GB, US, ZA, etc… Double click the theme to activate it and add it to your Windows 7 themes library.

Active any or all themes that you would like to install by clicking the according theme files via the MCT folders. After you have checked out the new themes, go ahead and change the Globalization settings back for Windows.

Launch Windows Explorer. Click the Organize tab and select Folder and search options from the drop down menu. Click the view tab and reselect Don’t show hidden files, folders, and themes. Also reselect Hide protected operating system files. Click the OK button.

That’s all there is to it. You should now have several new country themes available in your Windows 7 themes library. Right-click on your desktop and select personalize. You should now see your new themes listed.

Want to check out some more themes that Microsoft has released? Head on over to this page. Just find a theme you like and click the download button next to that theme.

What’s much better reminding and sensational than the countdown of a Rocket launch  ticking backwards, in the similar fashion you can have yourself notified of events to come and appointments and deadlines that you have to meet  using this Desktop utility software called Timeleft.

It has numerous features which can be enlisted below .

Reminder – alarms you about an oncoming event (you can run reminder at specific time or periodically: minutely, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually or at certain Moon phase)

Trayclock – replace your Windows’ built-in system-tray clock with skinnable TimeLeft clock

Clock displays time in different time zones

Countdown tracks the amount of time till (or passed after) the specified event

Stopwatch measures time interval

Timer measures time interval and signals its end

Sticker displays a sticky note on your desktop

Time Synchronization – TimeLeft uses atomic clock servers to adjust time on your computer

Auction Watch – you can watch and manage your online auctions (eBay etc.) using Auction Watch module

Countdown For Web – you can place a countdown to your web-page using Export to Web module

Working days/hours countdown – tracks the amount of working days, hours, minutes and seconds till (or passed after) the specified event

Floating Windows: every instance of a countdown, clock, stopwatch, timer or sticker is a separate fully customizable floating window

Zoom: every floating window may have its own size

You can also set it to replace your Windows Date/time display and it can also act as a reminder clock as it can play music , open document, launch an application, shutdown Pc and few other tasks on a specified time .

You can download it here ,

Now, no more head scratching over missing drivers, and looking on internet to download All drivers from various driver websites and your computers supplier be it Dell, HP, Compaq, Acer or anyone else. It happens most of the time that you cant find drivers for your Wi Fi card, Audio or Display even on the manufacturers website. Well then, forget your woes because the good guys at Device Doctor  have made a free utility software that is extremely easy to use and will update/ Install all your drivers at one go . 

Features of Device Doctor

 

Device Driver Database

• Provides drivers for every major computer hardware and device manufacturer
• More than 3 terabytes (3,000 GB) of drivers currently in the database
• We cache all drivers so downloads are quick and work every time
• Fast hardware scan takes mere seconds

Consistent Updating

• Constantly updated to include new driver versions as soon as released
• Every driver is human reviewed using specialized compatibility tools
• Learns from other users to recommend better drivers every day

Future-proof with Windows 7 and 64-bit Support

• Designed for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Thousands of drivers coming in weekly for Windows 7
• Full support for 64-bit systems, as well as 32-bit systems

Other Big Deal Functionality

• Provides device names for unknown devices before updating drivers
• Can be used offline – scan results are saved so you can move them to a connected computer and download there
• Updates WHQL (Microsoft certified) and non-WHQL drivers
• Yes, it is completely free with no adware or malware!

Also, they have two versions  a straight forward installer and a Portable edition,  I would recommend downloading the portable edition as it would be useful on any Windows computer .

You can use the portable edition without installing .Just copy past to your Hard disk or USB Drive and start the program .

I’m sure this software would turn out useful for you .

Easily get rid of all the unwanted items from your MSCONFIG startup items menu that stay there even after you have deselected them , using this small utility software which automatically cleans up startup entries from msconfig ( Microsft configuration Utility ) .

For those of you , who do not know what MSconfig is then in essence it is a utility to manage some important windows configuration and settings like startup items and services and boot process. You can launch it by going to Start-> Run  and  type in msconfig   and press enter .

Download this utility here around 700 KB in size .

Trying to reconnect your internet connection with some batch script or command line code then , yes you have a saviour the RASDIAL utility, which can easily connect or disconnect your Dial up modem or a PPPOE broadband connection. It works in both XP and Vista

just go to your command line or inside your batch script add these

Suppose you have a Internet connection named BSNL with username- vivekz and password- secret123  .

Now to Disconnect from it use,

rasdial BSNL /disconnect

To connect to Internet through BSNL connection type in

rasdial BSNL vivekz secret123

ie. rasdial <connection name> <username> <password>

Hope that helped you out as I was stuck with the same issue and I was using the rather general purpose nircmd utility for it .

We all know that windows has a lot of Download accelerators for it, but same is not true with Linux and Mac , although their are alternatives like Kget and wget in Linux , but still they are not that effective as they can not be integrated with Firefox, do not have multi-threaded download feature etc.

wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that it can split a file into several pieces and download the pieces simultaneously.

Features

• Faster downloads (with Segmented/Multi-threaded/Accelerated transfers)
• Download resuming (Pause and restart where you stopped)
• Download scheduling
• Organizes files you have already downloaded
• View server messages.
• Available in multiple languages and easily translated. Now available in Portuguese [Brazil], Spanish, English, German, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian and Dutch
• Connection to HTTP/FTP servers which require a password
• Calculates the MD5/SHA1 checksum of downloaded files so they can be easily verified
• Metalink support
• Firefox integration through FlashGot
• Can be used as a portable download manager (Windows only)
• Can be used over proxy servers(HTTP proxy support)

Website

http://dfast.sourceforge.net/index.html

Download links for various OS

Windows XP Binary – wxDownloadFast_0.6.0.exe ( ##For Windows)
MD5: ad4af1eb70ea42d2bbae264b1403c79a

Windows XP Binary (portable) – wxDownloadFast_0.6.0_portable.zip
MD5: c8d5de542df1f080db8d3585fafdebcd

Source Code – wxdfast_0.6.0.tar.gz
MD5: 05c2a71cc8f811d1ad5916fce29b7b3a

Debian Sid Binary Package – wxdfast_0.6.0_i386.deb  (## for Ubuntu)
MD5: 5a9facc805574b9d3e2314cea0978515
Or add the line "deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main" to your sources.list and use: apt-get install wxdfast

Ubuntu Edgy i386 Binary Package – wxdfast_0.6.0-1_ubuntu_i386.deb
MD5: 5f5572c221a0eff912ce1e59ed07e7c0
Package created by a user called Mallo Blenne.

Ubuntu Edgy AMD64 Binary Package – wxdfast_0.6.0_amd64.deb
MD5: 83b05adb42bf7526cc91e41e0f48a15b
Package created by a user called John Clark.