Short and sweet:
An important out-of-band update to WordPress has been released; 2.8.3 includes a security patch to fix unauthorized privilege escalation issues.
Since you all have 2.7 or higher (right) and online updating is easy… do it now!
Tags: IT Security, Software, WordPress, WordPress 2.7
Well, TweetDeck is my current fave 3rd party Twitter tool to manage Tweets…
TweetDeck 0.25 was released and the online upgrade from 0.21.5 was quite smooth – actually seamless.
One of the most notable features I noticed is being able to select if your tweet will be posted to Twitter, Facebook, or both. This is a most welcome feature as I offer Twitter several times during the day and night, but don’t necessarily want to integrate those Tweets as part of my FB status…
Here’s a list of TweetDeck 0.25 feature updates from the official changelog: (more…)
Early rise this Monday morning…
So I’ve been testing the beta version of Windows 7 (Build 7000 at the moment) on a Dell Inspiron 6400… so far, I’m fairly impressed. But that’s not the subject of todays thought – or mystery.
After downloading the 43MB technical preview of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8 (AKA KAV 2009) for Windows 7, it goes through a fairly straightforward installation process. It politely asks if you want to disable the built-in Windows firewall and use Kaspersky Anti-Hacker instead. I chose to leave the Windows 7 firewall intact and running.
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Tags: IT Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8.0 Technical Preview, Russian Federation, Software, Windows 7 Beta