6 Alternative Browsers Based on Google Chrome

Google Chrome is based on the open-source Chromium browser project. Anyone can take Chromium’s source code modify it to build their own browser. These browsers all build on the core browser and offer unique twists on Chrome.

Each alternative browser has its own focus, whether it’s security, social networking, privacy, additional features, or portability.

Comodo Dragon

Comodo Dragon is developed by Comodo, which develops Internet security, firewall and antivirus applications. Comodo touts Dragon as having “superior security and privacy” over Chrome.

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Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th

    Blizzard announced today that Diablo 3 has finally gotten a release date: May 15th. "After many years of hard work by our development team and months of beta testing by hundreds of thousands of dedicated players around the world, we’re now in the homestretch," said Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime. This comes after significant changes to the skill and rune systems in the beta, and news that the PvP system would be delayed so that they could focus on finishing the campaign. The game will be available for Windows and Macs, either via a DVD or as a direct download through Battle.net. For those interested, a skill calculator is available to get a feel for what different abilities do, and many of the skills have videos showing how they work.

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Making Silverlight Apps for Google App Engine

.NET developers who know Silverlight might imagine that they can't take advantage of Google App Engine, which uses Python. But integrating the two environments is a lot easier than you think. Scott Seely, author of Effective REST Services via .NET, shows how to do it.

Programming with interoperable, human-readable protocols opens up lots of integration opportunities. The human-readable part is really important. People understand strings really well, which is why JSON and XML became so pervasive. Most languages and platforms have ways to process these text-based formats.

Why would I focus on interoperability as the first topic in an article about Silverlight and Google Application Engine (GAE)? I have talked to people about work I've done creating a GAE-based backend for Silverlight applications. In general, they seem surprised that a Google-based framework happily supports Silverlight. Google didn't do anything special to make this happen. Neither did Microsoft. Instead, both companies support various web and other open standards. Because of that choice, everything else just works.

NOTE

Google Application Engine is Google's cloud computing platform. It offers services for hosting web applications, storing data, and running worker tasks.

Silverlight is Microsoft's .NET-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, which allows .NET developers to leverage their .NET skills within the browser.

As a demonstration of interoperability between GAE and Silverlight, I built a type of application that we've all seen at some point: a photo-management tool. The tool itself is simple. It allows the user to upload and delete images. For existing images, the user can add information about the picture: a caption and a description. Finally, users can choose to expose the image to everyone or just to themselves. To use the tool, users sign in. They manage their photos through a Silverlight interface.

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Windows 8 PC Settings [Complete Guide]

PC users have long been using Control Panel as the hub for controlling their system settings. With the introduction of Metro UI in Windows 8, this is going to change. While the Control Panel is still there for desktop mode, there has been a new hub introduced in Windows 8 called PC settings, that lets you change several important settings of your PC from a beautiful, streamlined, no-frills interface.

Today, with the release of Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we are bringing you extensive coverage of all the new features in Microsoft’s latest operating system. This post is a part of our Windows 8 Week. To learn more, check out our complete coverage of Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

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Transform The Location Bar Into A Breadcrumb Display [Firefox]

Location Bar Enhancer changes the location bar of Firefox into a Breadcrumb display, with rich and interactive features. This handy add-on displays the URL in a Breadcrumb trail manner, with visual tags for easy identification, and also provides an easy to access context menu for each part. With it, you can quickly access the original URL in plain text, either by clicking the right of the last part, or Ctrl+ hover your mouse over any part. Moreover, each part can be dragged and dropped to any location, for instance, the Bookmarks toolbar, Bookmarks folder, tab, desktop or any other folder. The add-on also Includes a feature for detecting and replacing gibberish parts of the URL with meaningful text. Furthermore, the options allow you to fully customize the add-on according to your preference.The context-menu can be opened by right-clicking any part of the breadcrumb display. This displays the related addresses and an option which can be used to copy the current address of the page, edit, delete or simply add another part after it. When you click on links that have further sub-categories, these are displayed in a context-menu. Select an option from the menu and the page will instantly be opened.

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TweakNow PowerPack 2012: All-in-1 PC Maintenance Suite, Updated

Keeping your computer safe from crashes and random BSODs is very important in order to be productive and efficient in your work. Imagine how frustrated you would get if your PC stops responding or reboots randomly in the middle of making an important presentation or working on a report. As they say, prevention is better than cure, it’s better to regularly clean your PC without waiting for it to crash first. It will only take a little out of your time, and you wouldn’t have to miss any deadlines because of lost work. Previously, we covered a PC cleaning application called FixBee that lets you clean, defragment and repair errors from your PC. Today, we have a very comprehensive PC management application called TweakNow PowerPack 2012. It is a suite of utilities that lets you manage every aspect if your computer and tweak it according to your needs. Back in 2009, we covered TweakNow PowerPack 2009, an older versions of the same application. Read on to find out about the new features included in the suite.

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6 Alternative Browsers Based on Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, so anyone can take its source code and modify it. Various projects have taken Firefox and released their own versions, either to optimize it, add new features, or align it with their philosophy.

These projects all have to release the source code to their browsers and can’t call them Firefox or use official Mozilla branding, such as the Firefox logo.

Waterfox

Mozilla doesn’t provide official builds of Firefox compiled for 64-bit systems yet. Waterfox takes Firefox’s code and compiles it for 64-bit Windows, without adding additional features or making other changes. Many plugins, including Adobe Flash, now have 64-bit versions, so using a 64-bit browser for day-to-day browsing is very possible. If you’ve already got Flash installed, you may need to download its installer to get the 64-bit version, too. The current installers come with both 32 and 64-bit plugins.

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Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers

Iran is being deleted from the world banking system Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) computers as of Saturday at 1600 UTC. Once the SWIFT codes for Iranian banks are deleted, Iranian banks will no longer be able to transfer funds to and from other worldwide banks, turning Iranian international commerce into a barter operation. SWIFT is taking the action at the request of EU members to comply with international sanctions against Iran due to its program to develop nuclear weapons. The effect will be to drastically hinder Iran's ability to execute international business transactions

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Download The Biggest Library of Windows 7 Shortcuts

We have created the biggest library of Windows 7 shortcuts. You've got almost everything you need and we are willing to expand it. Our collection now includes 129 Windows 7 shortcuts which you can download and use. They are all created in such a way that they work on every Windows 7 computer. Also, if you want a shortcut which is not in our collection, leave a comment and we will try to add it to the package.

Our collection started with 99 shortcuts and it has been expanded to 129 shortcuts, so that it includes the following:

• Administration Tools - Action Center, Backup and Restore, Character Map, Computer, Control Panel, Credential Manager, Default Programs, Device Manager, Disk Cleanup, Disk Defragmenter, Folder Options, Fonts, Indexing Options, Keyboard, Mouse, Parental Controls, Performance Information and Tools, Playback and Recording settings, Power Options, Private Character Editor, Region and Language, Services, Set the time and date, System Configuration, System Information, System Properties, System Restore, Task Manager (All Users), Task Scheduler, User Accounts, Windows Easy Transfer.
  

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RDP Proof-of-Concept Exploit Triggers Blue Screen of Death

A working proof of concept has been developed for a dangerous vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The hole stands out because many organizations use RDP to work from home or access cloud computing services. Only days after a patch was released, a bounty was offered for devising an exploit, and later a working proof of concept emerged. Chinese researchers were the first to reveal it, and security professionals have found it causes a blue screen of death in Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 machines. Many organizations won't apply the patch and many suspect researchers are only days away from weaponizing the code.

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Karmetasploit

Karmetasploit is a great function within Metasploit, allowing you to fake access points, capture passwords, harvest data, and conduct browser attacks against clients. 

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OpenSOCKS

OpenSOCKS is a new alternative to MOSA and COSMOS and is infact a mix of the two kernels. This website is here to host and provide access to documentation and source code of the two projects.

So what is Socks?

Well Socks is a open source C# kernel alternative to MOSA and Cosmos, it contains code from both and things we like about them into one kernel. Now this is just a test. The kernel is not even close to being fully finished. But you can get a glimpse of what we Pear Developers do in our spare time. 

Who made Socks possible?

Matt (civilwarrock) always wanted his own kernel, so he took MOSA and started to tweak and rewrite some things. After messing around he found that he had his own Kernel. So he made socks possible. But it is far from finished.

Screenshots

Hello world boot, Console.ReadLine() test

Code behind that screenshot?

/*

 * Wrote by: Matt, for the OpenSocks team.

 */

using System;

using iPear.HelloWorld.Tests;

using iPear.Kernel;

using iPear.Kernel.x86;

using iPear.Kernel.x86.Smbios;

using iPear.Kernel.x86.Hardware;

namespace iPear.HelloWorld

{

/// <summary>

/// 

/// </summary>

public static class Boot

{

/// <summary>

/// Entrance point of the OS.

/// </summary>

public static void Main()

{

iPear.Kernel.x86.Kernel.Setup();

                        Keyboard.Init();

                        Console.ReturnToTop();

                        Console.ForegroundColor = Console.ConsoleColor.LightGreen;

                        Console.WriteLine("Hello, from the OpenSocks team. This is a example os!");

                        Console.ForegroundColor = Console.ConsoleColor.White;

                        while (true)

                        {

                        Console.WriteLine("Command:");

                        string input = Console.ReadLine();

                        Console.WriteLine("You typed:" + input);

                        }

}

}

}

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Coverity

Coverity 5.5 is the industry's first developer friendly and enterprise ready development testing platform, empowering development organizations to adopt development testing as a seamless part of the development process.

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What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta Unit Testing

For those of you who haven’t been following the changes to unit testing that we first previewed back at the //BUILD/ conference, and for those you who did but want to know what has changed, this post is going to take you through the whole thing. We have made a lot of changes to testing in Visual Studio. These changes are pretty drastic in some cases, but were driven by years of customer feedback and a clarification of our focus and vision.

Customer Feedback

Ever since we first shipped unit testing back in Visual Studio Team System we’ve been given praise and criticism for what it was. It was too slow. Some called it a bad copy of NUnit. Many said we should have just shipped NUnit. There was no support for C++ or Javascript or anything else. As time went on, even though we did a lot of work to bring the performance to parity with other frameworks, the label “too slow” still stuck and more and more people went back to using other test frameworks like NUnit or xUnit.net. But then they had no integrated experience and had to use third party VS plugins to run their tests in the IDE. Additionally, our test framework (colloquially known as MS-Test) was not as fast to evolve as other frameworks, due to the nature of our release cycle and of our back-compat requirements.

Another criticism we got from developers, and agile developers in particular, was that our user experience felt like it was designed for testers and didn’t support a rapid test-code-test-code rhythm like that followed by agile developers. Again, we made small steps to improve this over time (double click to code in VS2010 was one step) but still people wanted more. It just didn’t feel like a tool for developers and agile folks.

So for Visual Studio 11, we bit the bullet and committed to changing this, so let’s see what we did…

The Unit Test Explorer

In VS11, we have replaced the old Test View and Test Results windows with the Unit Test Explorer. This new user interface has a number of important elements that let developers quickly interact with their tests.

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Newly Discovered Nostradamus Works Predict Technology Breakthroughs

BREAKING NEWS – A previously unknown book of quatrains by Nostradamus was recently discovered in a small church in Salon-de-Provence. Called “The Codex of Dyadic Sciences”, these works by the ancient French apothecary/prophet appear to predict a number of key breakthroughs in the field of information technology.

The Great Prophet Speaks Again

Most quatrains have been analyzed by a group of leading technologists and have yielded some truly amazing predictions. For example, consider this quatrain:

When the Vulpi of Fire enters its fourth dimension,

And the Cerulean Mark of the Northern Dominion passes ten,

And the steely Tri-color Sphere of the Wise Seekers enters infinity,

A new era of blissful creation will be unleashed upon the webbed craftsmen.

Experts believe that Nostradamus is describing a time when all three major browsers will fully support a set of web standards, finally making it possible to develop truly browser agnostic web applications.

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That's smoooootttthhhh... The Smooth Streaming Client SDK Beta and Player Framework Beta for Windows 8 Metro

Smooth Streaming Client SDK Beta 1 enables developers to build Windows 8 Metro Style applications that consume On-Demand and Live SmoothStreaming content w/ PlayReady protection.

Note: To build rich applications, this SDK is best used with the Player Framework which is available for download here.

Smooth Streaming Client SDK Beta 1 release supports the following features:

On-demand Basic Playback (Play, Pause, Stop, Seek)

Live Basic Playback (Play)

VC-1 and H.264 codec support

Content Protection – PlayReady integration

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CLR Supported Custom Attributes

After working with the CLR for more than a decade, once in a while I still run into surprising behavior.

It turns out that the (non pseudo-) custom attributes that CLR recognizes are only matched by name, not assembly.

So you can do this for example:

using System;

using System.Threading;

namespace System {

  class ThreadStaticAttribute : global::System.Attribute { }

}

class Program {

  [System.ThreadStaticAttribute]

  static int foo;

  public static void Main() {

    WriteFoo();

    foo = 42;

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Installing .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 8 Consumer Preview

[I am traveling today, so it might be a one-off due to low band-width at the hotel, but in case it helps others]

I was installing Live writer and got a prompt to install the .NET Framework 3.5, I agreed to do that and got a “following feature could not be installed. Error: 0x800F0906.

Fortunately, I still had the ISO from when I installed consumer preview , so I used the local sources. 

If you see the error above, try this from an elevated command prompt.

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:h:\sources\sxs 

where “h” is the drive where you have your win8 installation files (or where the iso is mounted, replace the path appropriately ).

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Windows 8 – Network Teaming

Windows 8 introduce a new feather that allow you to configure a network teaming, without a need for third party utility.

The default settings for a new network teaming is Active/Active mode, but more advanced feathers can be configured (e.g. Standby adapter etc.).

Also, the network teaming can be connected to unique VLAN by using a VLAN tagging mechanism. For general knowledgebase, the network teaming  is implemented by “Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexer Protocol “.

To setup a new network teaming you can use “Server Manager” and choose “Network Adapter Teaming”.

Then, in the left left side choose “Task”  -> “New Team”.

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Android Development with Mono for Android 4 - Training via AppDev

My Android Development with Mono for Android 4 Video Training Series via AppDev is out and available.  That's right, .NET/C# developers can now write native apps for Android devices. I hope that this is helpful to you as you get up to speed with Mono for Android.  Here is some info on the training:

This course will show you how to use Mono for Android 4 by starting with how to install Mono for Android 4, introduce the SDK tools and then debugging of applications. The course then will show how to use the Emulators for items like interface design and controls. Next are the different types of Android devices and how to support them. Application Activities and lifecycles are covered and then Menus, Tables and Data. The course will then show the soft keyboards, advanced controls, user notifications and working with the contacts lists. The course will conclude with working with device hardware for directions, multimedia and Geo location.

In this course, you will learn:

How to set up an Android Emulator

About Android application framework support

How to debug using profiling with Traceview

How to setup a virtual device for Android emulation

To design screen layouts for Android tablets

About the basic set of controls

What are the different Android application states

How options menu is used with Action Bar in Android 3.0 and higher

About the different types of virtual keyboards

What is a Toast Nortification

What media types Android supports

Prerequisites: This course assumes that you are comfortable developing applications using Visual Studio 2010 and C#. Mono Android requires Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher (and will not work with Visual Studio Express editions).

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Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts!! (Full List)

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What are TCHAR, WCHAR, LPSTR, LPWSTR, LPCTSTR (etc.)?

Many C++ Windows programmers get confused over what bizarre identifiers like TCHAR, LPCTSTR are. Here, in brief, I would try to clear out the fog.

 

In general, a character can be 1 byte or 2 bytes. Let's say 1-byte character is ANSI, using which English characters are represented. And let's say 2-byte character is Unicode, which can represent ALL languages in the world. 

 

VC++ support char and wchar_t as native datatypes for ANSI and Unicode characters respectively.

 

What if you want your C/C++ program to be Character-mode independent? 

Use generic characters. That means, instead of replacing:

char cResponse; // 'Y' or 'N'

char sUsername[64];

// str* functions

with

wchar_t cResponse; // 'Y' or 'N'

wchar_t sUsername[64];

// wcs* functions

 

You can simply code it:

#include<TCHAR.H> // Implicit or explicit include

TCHAR cResponse; // 'Y' or 'N'

TCHAR sUsername[64];

// _tcs* functions

Thus, when your project is being compiled as Unicode, the TCHAR would translate to wchar_t. If it is being compiled as ANSI/MBCS, it would be translated to char. Likewise, instead of using strcpy, strlen, strcat (including the secure versions suffixed with _s); or wcscpy, wcslen, wcscat (including secure), you can simply use _tcscpy, _tcslen, _tcscat functions. 

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Unreal engine 3 портирован на flash

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The Mystery of the Duqu Framework

While analyzing the components of Duqu, we discovered an interesting anomaly in the main component that is responsible for its business logics, the Payload DLL. We would like to share our findings and ask for help identifying the code.

Code layout

At first glance, the Payload DLL looks like a regular Windows PE DLL file compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (linker version 9.0). The entry point code is absolutely standard, and there is one function exported by ordinal number 1 that also looks like MSVC++. This function is called from the PNF DLL and it is actually the “main” function that implements all the logics of contacting C&C servers, receiving additional payload modules and executing them. The most interesting is how this logic was programmed and what tools were used.

The code section of the Payload DLL is common for a binary that was made from several pieces of code. It consists of “slices” of code that may have been initially compiled in separate object files before they were linked in a single DLL. Most of them can be found in any C++ program, like the Standard Template Library (STL) functions, run-time library functions and user-written code, except the biggest slice that contains most of C&C interaction code.

This slice is different from others, because it was not compiled from C++ sources. It contains no references to any standard or user-written C++ functions, but is definitely object-oriented. We call it the Duqu Framework.

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