June, 2005 Issue

Microsoft has released a toolkit for Windows XP designed for administrators with little or no IT experience that operate shared computers in public places.

Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building so-called AJAX applications, or Web applications with sophisticated graphics.

Amid conflicting reports on the extent of sniffing activity on TCP/IP Port 445, the port associated with a recently patched Windows vulnerability, security experts are warning that exploit code targeting a known Server Message Block flaw has been posted on the Internet.

Google on Monday launched its new Web-based video search service, which allows people to use keywords to search the company's indexed database of video from Unicef, Greenpeace, CNET Networks and others that have uploaded content since April.

Rumors flew about last week when a product listing on EBGames.com listed Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter as the title for the upcoming chapter of the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series. While product pages can't be relied on for total accuracy for leaked information, they're often right about simple changes to titles.

Grokster and StreamCast Networks can be held liable for copyright infringements committed by users of their peer-to-peer file-sharing software, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The decision in the case Grokster v. MGM is a major win for the motion picture and recording industries, which took the case to the nation's highest court after losing in lower courts over the past two years or so.

Searching for the truth

RTF to XHTML Converter 1.4, as the name implies, is powerful conversion engine, capable of converting thousands RTF files to HTML in a little over a minute. The software holds unofficial title of the fastest RTF to HTML converter in the world, but the speed isn't the only benefit of the program.

StimulReport.Net 1.20 is a new, 100% .NET managed reporting tool set created for programmers and .NET specialists who need to add professional, customizable and feature-rich report building module into their applications and assemblies.

StaffCop is a new employee monitoring software package that helps managers and business owners improve worker productivity and optimize PC use by employees. Contrary to what the name may suggest, this is not just another Big Brother/The Bossman Watches You type of application.

Search challenge

Keeping your life in order is simplest when you only have to look in one place for your schedule, your contacts and your reminders, rather than juggling a datebook, an address book and all the little notes you leave for yourself in a hundred places. Angelic Software has the solution wrapped up in its personal information management package, Info Angel.

New keylogger records everything – key strokes, screenshots, clip board contents, print activity, even disk changes.

It used to be that when the phone rang, one simply picked it up and asked "Who's calling?" to know the source of the call. Then came Caller ID, which answered that question before we even needed to speak, and then came the Internet, with its millions of connections every second but with an equal number of opportunities to obscure identity. Tialsoft has designed Magic NetTrace as a thorough IP tracer tool which assists with connectivity and e-mail troubleshooting, tracks the sources of spam, and can trace the geographic location of web servers and ICQ buddies, among other identification tasks.

WireChanger may not be a household name, but it sure is creating big waves in the small community of wallpaper collectors and creators. The reason for that is a new feature that does what all "wallpaper experts" thought was impossible – the software allows users to run animated wallpapers, while having sticky notes, calendars, Flash clocks, search boxes or screenmates displayed at the same time on the desktop. But that's certainly not the only unique feature invented by the developers of WireChanger.

How to go coral reef scuba diving during office break with no scuba gear ... and no ocean.

NetLeaf Limited has released NotJustBrowsing v1.0.4, a PC based web browsing

Belgorod, Russia – Tokyo, Japan - 7 June, 2005 – BinarySense announces the appearance of HDDlife – a utility for monitoring hard disk health and safety of your data storage – on the Japanese software market with a support from ActiveWave Inc. (Japan).

Since the diminish of the Amiga platform many animators who relied on the ease of use and directness of Take2 have been searching for a suitable replacement. While there are several solutions for linetesting for the Windows platform, animators who have been longing for the Take2 approach to linetesting will be pleased to hear that Take5 has finally arrived.