Giveaway: AnVir Task Manager

This article was written on December 08, 2008 by CyberNet.

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I know that we have a bunch of geeks who read our site, and they probably enjoy knowing every little thing that their computer is doing. The Windows Task Manager is a great way to do that, but sometimes you want to take it to the next level. That’s where AnVir Task Manager comes into play.

AnVir Task Manager is the ultimate tool for keeping track of what’s going on behind the scenes on your computer. You can view advanced information for each process that’s running, receive a threat assessment as to how dangerous something might be, view what files and/or drivers a process is using, and much more. On top of that, you can control which services are running, what items startup with your PC, and more.

If you find something that is suspicious, there are a few different actions you can take in AnVir to ensure the security of your machine. This includes performing a Google search or even uploading the file in question to the VirusTotal site, where it will then be scanned by dozens of different antivirus applications. All it takes is a few clicks.

Here are some of the features you’ll enjoy with AnVir Task Manager:

  • Full information about processes including command line, DLLs that the program uses, inbound and outbound traffic, disk load, tray icon, performance graph, internet connections, Windows, threads, open files, etc.
  • Information about startup programs and services. Integrated database with Descriptions for 70 000+ startup programs, Internet Explorer toolbars and services
  • Information about drivers, Internet (TCP/UPD) connections
  • Icons in the system tray that indicate: CPU usage, hard drive temperature and disks activity (with per-application info), network inbound and outbound traffic, memory, and more
  • Get a security risk rating that indicates the likelihood of a program being potential virus, spyware, malware or a trojan. The rating is based on behavior, code analysis, and integrated database
  • Get a notification when any program tries to add itself to the startup
  • and much more!

AnVir Task Manager Homepage

–The Giveaway–

We have 10 licenses to AnVir Task Manager (valued at $39.95 each) to giveaway today! All you have to do is drop a comment below providing both your name and email address in the appropriate fields. We obviously need your email address for contacting you in the event that you should win. Believe it or not we’ve actually had winners in previous giveaways get randomly selected, but since they didn’t provide an email address we had to pick someone else.

Just as with all of our giveaways we will be using a random number generator to determine the winners. For this round here is how we’re going to give out the licenses:

  • 1 winner will be picked from comment numbers 1 through 5
  • 9 winners will be picked from comment numbers 1 through however many comments there are.

Entries for the giveaway will be accepted up until December 11th at 7:00PM Central Time.

P.S. You can also use coupon code CYBERNET when ordering AnVir Task Manager Pro or AnVir Security Suite to receive 35% off (valid until December 31st, 2008).

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A Better Mac OS X Leopard Theme for Firefox 3

This article was written on May 21, 2008 by CyberNet.

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The features and performance of Firefox 3 have helped me fall in love with the browser all over again, but the “native” themes need some work. I’ve been keeping an eye out for a theme that is more along the lines of what Safari looks like on my Mac, and one developer has stepped up to the plate with two gorgeous alternatives: GrApple Delicious and GrApple Yummy.

At first glance the two themes look nearly the same (as seen below), but the differences lie in the details. GrApple Yummy is almost an exact clone of Safari, which is what I thought I was looking for. That was until I noticed that each individual tab does not include the site’s icon, which I didn’t even realize Safari lacked until this theme made me go back and double-check. I was very bummed because I loved the theme otherwise, but that’s when I came across GrApple Delicious which does show the icons on each tab:

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The only thing that is really different between the two themes (at least that I noticed) is the tab bar. In GrApple Yummy the tab bar hangs from the toolbar located above it just like in Safari, where as GrApple Delicious displays the tab bar in the typical old-school Firefox fashion. It doesn’t really bother me which way the tab bar is oriented as long as I have my icons on each tab, and so I’m loving the GrApple Delicious theme.

firefox leopard location bar.pngAnd the oversized fonts in the location bar… gone! As you can see in the screenshot to the right the location bar is toned down a bit in both themes by using slightly smaller fonts.

Obviously these themes are targeted towards Mac OS X users, but they do surprisingly work on other operating systems. The only issue was that the menu (File, Edit, etc…) layout was a bit off from what it should be, but that can quickly be cured with an extension such as Personal Menu. If you want to install it on an operating system other than Mac OS X you’ll need to do so from one of these two pages: GrApple Delicious or GrApple Yummy.

Get the GrApple Delicious or GrApple Yummy Firefox themes

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Another Big Patch Tuesday For Microsoft

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

Another Big Patch Tuesday For Microsoft

Microsoft had a large set of patches that it released in June (totaling 12) and they have another 7 patches this month. These patches will be released next Tuesday and four of the patches will be for Windows. The other three patches are going to be for Microsoft Office and sources expect two of those Office patches to be for Excel. A flaw was found in Excel just a few weeks ago that could allow a hacker to gain full control of a user’s system.

Of course I think that 7 patches is a lot but I can only imagine the number of patches flying out after Vista makes its way to store shelves in January. It will be a hacker’s paradise!

News Source: BetaNews

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Gallery 2.2 Released – Host your own Image Gallery

This article was written on March 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

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Gallery 2.2 is now available to the public and it offers some new features that are sure to be a crowd pleaser. The software is used to host your own photo galleries on your own site instead of using a service like Flickr. To setup Gallery you will need to have PHP installed on your server, which is almost standard for all hosting packages these days. If you don’t already have a hosting package you can checkout the page that Gallery has setup for recommended hosts.

Here’s what Gallery 2.2 has to offer you:

  1. Downloadable Plugins – It is all done straight from the administration interface now. Before you had to upload any themes and plugins to the server before you can enable them.
  2. Added support for themes to display dynamic albums
  3. Watermarking changes
  4. New themes: Carbon and Ajaxian
  5. New WebDAV module to mount Gallery as network device on your computer. This allows you to easily manage your Gallery with any WebDAV client like Windows Explorer.
  6. New module to send Ecards
  7. New Digibug module for prints from digibug.com
  8. Added support for Flash Video and Windows ASF video
  9. Photo auto-rotation based on camera sensors or on settings from other applications

Gallery 2 is a great way to share your photos with the world, and it serves a large variety of purposes. You could create a site where people can upload their own photos to share with you, or you can just use it for personal reasons.

There are several different themes available, and each of them has an online demo. You can even play with the two newest themes, Carbon and Ajaxian, and between the two, Ajaxian definitely takes the gold. Just like the name says, it uses Ajax to retrieve photos among other things so that the user receives nothing short of a great experience. Most of the themes do have color packs available as well, so when you’re looking for a theme, choose it because of the layout and not the color choices.

I used it for quite awhile to share photos with my family, and I just created a generic account and provided the username/password to them. Then they could view whatever galleries I chose to give them permission to.

It is really easy to setup the software, and uploading images can be done several different ways. You can browse for a single image to upload, select a directory on your server that already contains all of the images and Gallery will import them, or you can upload a ZIP file that has all of the images in it and Gallery will automatically extract the contents of that file to get the photos.

I don’t use the software anymore because I just bought a Flickr Pro account since they added the collections feature. The reason I wanted to use Flickr instead was because of all the external tools that it has available to make uploading images and even synchronizing my account extremely easy. Even with Flickr I can control who can and can’t see my images all while taking advantage of the hundred or so online and offline tools available.

If you’re looking for your own image gallery solution then Gallery 2 is by far the best one that I have found.

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AIM 6.8: Real-Time Instant Messaging

This article was written on January 11, 2008 by CyberNet.

AIM Real Time Messaging AOL is embarking on new ground with their next milestone release of the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Just yesterday they released AIM 6.8 Beta to the public with a new feature that I’m guessing more people will hate rather than love. That’s why it’s a good thing it’s optional!

The new feature is real-time instant messaging with your buddies. If you and your friends are all running AIM 6.8 Beta you’ll be able to see what the others are typing before the messages even get sent. As seen in the screenshot, when the user is typing the message it is highlighted and the timestamp reads “typing.” After the message has actually been sent the highlighting will be removed, and it will look like any other message.

Naturally both parties have to agree to the real-time chat session before AIM will activate it. It can be initiated by going to the Actions Menu at the top of the IM window, or by pressing Ctrl+R on the keyboard.

Now I want to hear what everyone thinks about this. Would you use it? Think about how many times you’ve typed a message and in the end decided not to send it. Would you want to reveal your poor spelling before you have had time to re-read the message?

And yes, ICQ did have this feature back in the day.

AIM 6.8 Beta Homepage

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CyberNotes: What is a .docx file?

This article was written on July 02, 2007 by CyberNet.

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Microsoft Monday

With the introduction of Microsoft Word 2007 came a new file extension. Prior to Word 2007, documents were saved in the .doc file format. Now by default, documents are saved in the .docx file format. The X attached to the end signifies that it is in the Open XML format which was developed by Microsoft specifically for Office 2007. While most people welcome the change because it is based on open XML standards and reduces the file size, some have found it frustrating.

The problem? Well, if you create a document in Word 2007 and then email it to someone who has a previous version of Word, they won’t be able to open it with the new format. Luckily there are several options to fix the problem.

Save Your Documents in Word 97–2003 Format

As mentioned, if you’re using Word 2007, your documents will automatically be saved in the .docx file format unless you specify otherwise. One easy solution to this problem is to just save all of your files that you could potentially be sharing with others in the Word 97–2003 format.

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To do this, just click on the Office Orb (previously known as File), then mouse-over the “save-as” option. You’ll notice that one of the options says “Word 97–2003 Document” and explains that using this option, you will save a copy of the document that is fully compatible with Word 97–2003. Problem solved!

Compatibility Pack

Microsoft wanted to make sure that there was an additional way to solve this problem. They created the compatibility pack so that those using older versions of Word can download t and install it so that they can read the newer file format.

The compatibility pack allows users to create and edit Open XML files using Office 2000, Office XP, and Office 2003. After installation of the Compatibility pack, you’ll have no problems viewing the files.

When using the compatibility pack, keep in mind that there may be some instances when you won’t be able to change some of the content because of either new or enhanced features.  One example that they give is that equations will become a graphic, and you won’t be able to change it.

Download Compatibility Pack Here.

What about Mac Users?

As of mid-May, there’s a “.docx” file converter available for Mac users. Much like the compatibility pack above, the converter can convert both .docx files and .docm files into RTF (Rich Text format) so that they can be opened in Microsoft Word 2004 and Microsoft Word X.

Download Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac

OppenOffice Open XML Translator

Last but not least, what about those using OpenOffice.org? Well, they haven’t been forgotten either.  Novell has put together a translator that will provide support for those trying to open and save “.docx” formatted documents using OpenOffice.org.

Download OpenOffice Open XML Translator

Wrapping it up

With just about every area covered, there should be no problems for those of you who send .docx files to friends and colleagues who do not use Word 2007. And just the same, for those of you who don’t have Office 2007, but you receive files from Word 2007 in the .docx file format, it should be smooth sailing with one of the listed solutions; whether it be saving the file in the Office 97–2003 format, or using a converter.

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Download uTorrent 1.7 Beta

This article was written on April 05, 2007 by CyberNet.

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It has now been several months since BitTorrent, Inc acquired uTorrent, but it looks like there is still some hope for uTorrent after all. Right now uTorrent 1.7 Beta is available (Download Mirror) and is the first version to incorporate new features since the acquisition took place. To my surprise they kept the BitTorrent client rather simple which all uTorrent users will definitely like.

Besides for Vista support, here is what new features uTorrent 1.7 Beta brings to the table:

  • Outgoing port range, via advanced settings (net.outgoing_max_port)
  • List number of pieces we have in General tab (as part of Pieces:)
  • Mark unavailable pieces as red in the Files tab (like in the general tab)
  • Auto uplink throttling (beta)
  • List web seeds in General tab
  • Web seed support for single-file torrents
  • NAT-PMP support
  • Local Peer Discovery
  • Option to configure whether rate limits apply to local peers (bt.limit_local_peers)
  • Support for HTTPS links in RSS feeds
  • Next Piece display
  • Remembering the last selected tab in the main view
  • Remembering the last selected tab in the preferences view
  • Vista font scaling support (DPI aware)
  • Secondary column sorting should now be supported by all list viewsNew treeview-based add torrent dialog
  • Added Reboot and Quit on Finished options
  • Tracker “warning message” support

I’m not sure how many of you have stopped using uTorrent because of the acquisition by BitTorrent, but I’m still using it to download and manage my Torrents. If the software ever becomes bloated then I am sure I’ll be switching to another client, but for the time being they are still keeping it pretty slim and fast.

So what’s everybody using when it comes to a BitTorrent client right now?

Download uTorrent 1.7 Beta (Download Mirror)

Source: gHacks

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Firefox 2 Beta 2 Now Scheduled For August 30

This article was written on August 22, 2006 by CyberNet.

Firefox 2 Beta 2 The first release candidate for Firefox 2 Beta 2 made its appearance the other day which made me think the August 23 release date was plausible. It looks like they are pushing the release back a week, to August 30, to help fine tune some things (probably mostly with the visual refresh).

Mozilla has not announced this delay on the Developer Center yet but the calendar does reflect the new date.

Is the delay good or bad? I don’t think it is good that they are running into so many unexpected problems but I am glad they are not rushing to release a version that would be unusable to a lot of people. Being that it is still in Beta there will be some bugs but I would expect most of them to be “under-the-hood.” By this point I hope many users will be able to use Beta 2 as their everyday browser. I have been using Firefox 2 as my primary browser ever since Alpha 1 and I have been amazed at the stability that the nightly builds have had (with the exception of a few versions that crashed a lot :) ).

Just like Windows Vista we need to give Firefox 2 some time to fully develop itself. In my opinion this will be the best version of Firefox that has ever been released and the same goes for Vista.

Thanks for noticing this James!

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Conceptual interface brings gesture-based data transfers to medical realm

It’s pretty clear by watching the demonstration video (which is lurking in the read link, just so you know) that this stuff is still pretty preliminary, but we could definitely see it going places with the right people behind it. The Interface Database Concept was dreamed up by Alan Sien Wei Hshieh, and by utilizing a relatively simple set of Javascripts, he was able to overcome traditional platform incompatibilities that can so often hamstring medical hardware / software in day-to-day usage. The creation aims to enable “seamless and intuitive data transfer” and to “define a set of gesture and multitouch commands that will override controls and input devices that may be difficult to use on medical devices.” The aforementioned vid shows off gesture-based transfers and even an accelerometer-based cross-platform transfer, both of which make you forget that we’re just talking about X-rays and blood tests.

[Thanks, Kara]

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How to Upload Photos to Flickr using Picasa

This article was written on June 01, 2007 by CyberNet.

There are all kinds of tools available for managing your Flickr photos, many of which will even upload them for you. The problem is that most of the tools available aren’t even close to being a comprehensive photo editing application. You can’t do things like edit a photo before you upload it to Flickr, well, you could but that would require another program.

That’s where Google is ahead of Yahoo! in my opinion. Google has their Picasa photo management software that can both manage and edit your photos, which can then be uploaded to the Picasa Web Albums service. I’ve really been getting into Flickr lately (I even purchased a pro account to host family photos) and it is much better than Picasa Web Albums.

Picasa2Flickr

Now there is a way to get the best of both worlds! Picasa2Flickr is an open source project that adds an upload button to Picasa. When you click on that button a window will popup asking for the information needed in order to upload the photos (tags, privacy, etc…).

This button goes through a website (picasa2flickr.4now.net) to do the uploading, which is actually kind of nice. That means any upgrades that are done don’t require you to update your computer! All they have to do is update the script on their server, and then you’ll be using the latest version.

Picasa2Flickr Homepage (Download Page)

Source: Lifehacker

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