Hasta La Gadget!

So the whole world has made the jump from black and white to color, and now we have higher and higher resolutions, moving from Standard Definition to High Definition, and for notebooks, tablets, and smartphones, a new standard has emerged – Retina Display level sharpness, thanks to Apple for kicking off this apparent feature that has gotten everyone talking. Software needs to be re-written and modified to accommodate this higher resolution, and we are proud to say that VLC 2.0.2, one of the more popular video players on the Mac, PC and Android platforms, was recently updated so that it can play nice with the MacBook Pro’s Retina Display.

This app has also gone one step further with the update, where the application can view the 4K video in addition to deliver a more crisp viewing experience whenever your VLC window is scaled down. Last but not least, VLC has done away with the font cache so that faster loading times are achieved while your continue loading your entire shebang of fonts.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: VLC for Android Beta downloadable via Google Play, VLC player for Android to go official soon,

Finding yourself a new desktop PC? Why don’t you take a look at this Lm-iH530X2 from Mouse Computer. Powered by a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-3770 (4-core) processor, the system sports an Intel H77 Express Chipset, a GeForce GTX 560 1GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 500W 80PLUS GOLD power supply and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS. The Lm-iH530X2 can be yours for 79,800 Yen (about $999). [Product Page]

There’s a reoccurring foreboding in many
fairytales, that says: magic comes with a price. The Evil Queen that offered
Snow White the poisonous apple received her comeuppance in the end, and hopefully Orbitz
will be served a does of the same, when the traveling public learns
that Mac users are charged more than those using Windows. Yes, in this
case, you can think of Orbitz
as the Evil Queen! And the 30 percent higher rates they are offering to
Apple device owners, the fruits from their poisonous tree.

Kaspersky Labs released a report today about a new malware on the Mac OS X today that spreads itself through zip file attachments. Costin Raiu of Kaspersky Labs said that they were able to “intercept” the new advanced persistent threat or ATP using a new MacOS X backdoor variant targeted at Uyghur activists. Uyghur are a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. On Monday this week, a group of Uyghur activists were reportedly beaten up by the Chinese police forces while holding a peaceful demonstration. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Mac OS X trojan attacks websites from your computer, New Trojan infects Mac OS X and Windows,

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In Evansville, Indiana, a Police SWAT team has executed a search warrant on a home in full tactical gears. The reason: threats perpetrated against local Police forces over the internet, threatening the officers lives, their family, including the mention of home-made bombs. The Police needed no more to quickly find what Internet address was used to send the threats, and what physical address it was linked to.

But when they executed the search warrant -with flash bangs (sounds/light grenades designed to disorient) and all- they found an innocent family that had no idea of why this was happening. Shortly after, the Police realized that they were misled by the IP address from the threat message, and that they got the wrong folks. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: eHarmony confirms password breach , Radio Tactics’ ACESO Kiosk mobile data extraction to be used by London Police,