Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on August 07, 2006 by CyberNet.

Tracking Down Great Software For You!

BlueOrganizer is a Firefox extension that will let you bookmark items that you find on sites like Amazon, Buy.com, eBay, and more. It will read the information that is presented on the page and store images of the item along with several other details.

This free extension is great because you can have your information stored online if you decide to register otherwise it will just store it on your hard drive. If you really get into using the extension you can add your whole movie or CD collection and then publish it as an RSS feed. Then the next time your friends say “what movies do you have” you can point them to your feed and let them find out for themselves.

You will find the automated tagging system extremely useful when you are searching for an item that you have already bookmarked. One thing that you might overlook is the ability to add your own tags which makes it easy to organize your bookmarks the way you want.

BlueOrganizer isn’t going to be for everyone but is really geared towards the people who want to really organize their collections. Hopefully you will be one of the people that uses the full potential that the extension has to offer.

If you want to see BlueOrganizer in action then checkout this screencast demo which walks you through all of the great features. If that still isn’t enough for you then read through their tutorial which shows you more of the great features.

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Windows only
Don’t you hate when you’re downloading something (namely via BitTorrent) and it renders the rest of your computer nearly unusable. NetBalancer can fix this because it is a Windows program that gives you control over what apps are considered more important than others. You can, for example, designate priority to your web browser instead of your BitTorrent client. You can even specify download and upload priorities separately meaning a process can have a high download priority but a low upload priority.

The catch? The free version of NetBalancer limits you to setting upload and/or download priorities for 5 different processes. If you want to do any more than that you’ll have to buy the full version for $25, but generally I’d say there are only a handful of apps that I’d want to apply this to. So I’d say for personal use this limitation should be fine for most people.

Here’s a list of the things NetBalancer is capable of:

• Set download and upload network priority for any process. Currently supported priorities are:
  • High priority
  • Normal priority
  • Low priority
  • Block traffic
  • Ignore traffic
  • Limit traffic
• Set download and upload speed limits for a process
• Show all system processes with their in and out network traffic speed
• Show current connection for any process
• Show downloaded and uploaded traffic for any process since NetBlancer’s start
• View overall system traffic as a graph
• Show last 15 seconds traffic in system tray
• Fine tune priorities (see Level Severity setting).

This is one of the few traffic shaping applications out there that have a free version available, and being able to prioritize your traffic to ensure a quality of service (QOS) is pretty nice. Definitely worth the download if you’re in the market for such an app.

NetBalancer Homepage (Windows 2003 32/64-bit, XP 32/64-bit, Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 32-bit)
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This article was written on July 23, 2007 by CyberNet.

We’ve shown you how easy it can be to retrieve passwords stored in your browser, provided that someone has access to your computer. Well, that’s not the only way for a hacker to gain access to some of the information stored in the Firefox Password Manager. A new flaw that was just revealed late last week can retrieve some of your passwords using a very small amount of JavaScript.

How does it work? Here’s a quick example of what could happen:

1. User visits a site such as their own blog hosted on a popular network (something like Blogger).
2. They login, and have Firefox remember their username/password.
3. They visit someone else’s blog on the same domain, and a username/password form appears on the site. As expected Firefox autofills the information for the user (both the username and password) so that they can just hit enter to login.
4. The site is able to use some JavaScript to store the username and password without the user even hitting the Submit button. This is done by having the JavaScript go and retrieve the values located in the text box (document.<form>.<field>.value).

This flaw can only be used to expose the username and password that is entered into a form, and Firefox automatically does this for people who have stored a password. That means your information could be surrendered without you even realizing it.

If you want to try this out yourself, Heise has setup a demo site where you makeup a username/password, and then have Firefox store it. Then when you go to the “evil” page, Firefox will automatically fill out the form and a popup will reveal the username and password you stored.

To get around this happening, it is recommended that you either don’t store passwords in Firefox or you disable JavaScript. Of course, this is really only an issue on a “network” of sites that all have the same domain. The reason for that is because Firefox will not, for example, fill in your bank’s username and password here on CyberNet. So just be aware of what passwords you have stored, and you can always have Firefox prompt you for a master password before it autofills any information.

An alternative that xpgeek pointed out in the forum is to install the Secure Login extension to prevent Firefox from automatically filling in password forms.

Note: This vulnerability also affects the Safari browser.

– What’s the Most Secure Browser? –

I decided to lookup on Secunia, who tracks vulnerabilities for more than 14,000 applications, to see which browser is currently the most secure. Here’s what I came up with:

• Opera 9.x has had 8 advisories, all of which have been patched. [source]
• Firefox 2.0.x has had 13 advisories, and there are 6 that have not been patched. [source]
• Internet Explorer 7.x has had 14 advisories, and there are 8 that have not been patched. [source]

You can take that information for what it’s worth, but it goes to show that most browsers constantly have security-related flaws.

Source: Heise Security [via Slashdot]

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This article was written on February 14, 2007 by CyberNet.

Web Browser Wednesday

One of the things that really seems to draw people to CyberNet is the posting of Firefox Portable builds for pre-release versions of Firefox. Right now Mozilla is testing out Firefox 3 Alpha builds, and the ability to play with it appeals to a lot of people. A while back I wrote a guide on setting up your own version of Firefox Portable, but that was still when the application was called Portable Firefox.

I receive requests all of the time for providing nightly builds of Firefox 3 in a portable fashion so that there is no fear of messing up your stable profile. Heck, I’ll even show you where to copy the contents of your existing profile to in the Firefox Portable so that it is really easy to see if your extensions will work. Let’s go ahead and get started…

–Setting Up Your Own Firefox Portable–

1. The first thing that you’ll need to do is download my “blank” Firefox Portable ZIP file. I say that it is blank because it doesn’t include the actual Firefox files that are needed to run the browser. You’ll be adding those in a few steps from now. Also, it is important to note that the installation I am providing to you is setup to not show a splash screen and to allow multiple instances of Firefox to be running side-by-side. That means you’ll be able to run your nightly build at the same time you’re running your stable build! See this article for an explanation on how I did that.
2. Extract the contents from the file you downloaded in Step 1 which should result in a folder called “FirefoxPortable“.
3. Download the latest nightly trunk to play with the bleeding edge version of Firefox. This is the most recent that you can get, and to find the file that you want to download look for the most recent date that has a “win32.zip” extension.
4. Extract the contents from the file you downloaded in Step 3 which should result in a folder called “firefox“.
5. Drag the firefox folder from Step 4 into the FirefoxPortable -> App folder from Step 2:
   
6. That’s all, now just go back to the FirefoxPortable directory and run the FirefoxPortable.exe file. This is what your directory structure should now look like:
    
7. Note: For future reference, you can update Firefox Portable the same way that you update regular Firefox by going to the Help Menu -> Check for Updates.

–Copying Your Current Profile To Firefox Portable–

When you’re testing out Firefox, it would be nice to just copy all of your settings, bookmarks, and extensions over to the portable version so that you can see what works and what doesn’t. No problem! It just takes a few steps to copy everything over:

1. Locate your existing profile:
   Windows 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Profile name>\
   Windows Vista: C:\Users\<Windows login/user name>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Profile name>\
   
2. Copy ALL of the files and folders of your existing profile into the FirefoxPortable -> Data -> profile folder (make sure to delete everything in that directory if it is not already empty):
   
3. That’s all, the next time you start Firefox Portable it should run your existing profile.

–Overview–

That is basically what I do each time that I test out Firefox builds. Similar things can be done using the portable versions of Thunderbird and many other applications. After you have done it once you’ll be able to do the whole process in a matter of seconds because it really is that easy. The thing that takes the longest to do is download the files. Enjoy!

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This article was written on June 18, 2006 by CyberNet.

If you are an Internet Explorer user than hopefully you don’t place valuable data on your clipboard. A default option in Internet Explorer allows Web sites to access your clipboard without any user intervention. You can easily disable Web sites from having access to this information by following these two steps:

1. Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security
2. Click on the Custom Level Security Setting and uncheck the option “Allow Paste Operations via Script.“

Once you performed those two steps above then you should get an “undefined” result from this test. If you use a browser besides Internet Explorer then you don’t have to worry because this only affects Internet Explorer, like always.

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