CheatBook Issue 04/2008 04-2008

Apple released its 7th security update for this year, security update that fixes several bugs in the system, some minor security updates but also several critical updates such as a bug that allowed arbitrary code execution within the OS. The update addresses several other issues such as Weblog Server’s vulnerability, a heap buffer overflow in [...]

Many users, including myself, had problems with the Realtek sound card’s drivers on Windows Vista. The most often problem is that you have no sound in Vista, no matter what. There are many sound cards based on the Realtek Ac’97 chipset and this may become a nightmare for fresh Vista installations. However, this problem can be [...]

It’s not news that Linux became a very popular OS among the average computer users and with several good Linux distributions available, Linux has also become a preferred operating system. A such Linux distribution is Mandriva and I’m sure many of you are familiar with it as it combines the Linux power with stability and [...]

Although Firefox took a large part of the browser market, Opera is not dead, in fact, it’s alive and kicking with a new updated version, the 9.6. This latest Opera version wants to be a stability and security update, but Huib Kleinhout, Opera Desktop Team manager tells us it’s more than that:: “Opera 9.6 adds synchronization [...]

Microsoft released 2 days ago the Touchless SDK multi-touch technology. This basically means that developers will have the possibility of building multi-touch applications using a webcam and a color marker. Utilizing the webcam, applications can track the location and size of the color marker to enable multi-touch functionality without touching a surface, as stated by [...]

Media Players are essential for any computer, either you play movies or listen to music, you need a good media player to fulfill your multimedia needs. Here are the best free multimedia players of 2009, voted and favored here on FileCluster. VLC Media Player This is probably the most voted player of all, capable of playing files [...]

For managing the Mac OS X firmware password, you can use the Open Firmware Password application. This works with Mac OS X 10.1 and later. For further details regarding managing Mac OSX firmware protection, read Apple’s online documentation. There are several easy steps to disable the mac’s firmware password: 1. Launch the Open Firmware Password application 2. [...]

I can’t say I’m surprised, but I really appreciate Barack Obama’s intentions and initiatives. After social media networking websites, now, the political campaigns are brought to us directly on the iPhone. The application “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly,” as we [...]

What is Helix? Helix is a bootable live cd, full of various forensics tools for your..special needs. If you like to play CSI with your friends or possibly, your girlfriend, using Helix, you can retreive all kinds of data from any computer. Helix does not leave any trails behind it, it’s the virtual policeman you were [...]

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) got its expected update, the 2.6.0. The new GiMP 2.6.0 offers several new features and improvements, but most importantly in this version, GIMP includes support for Generic Graphics Library (GEGL). The Generic Graphics Library is a graph based image processing framework which provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non [...]