Updates

The Google Chrome dev channel has been updated to 5.0.322.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms All [r38242] Don’t crash when a theme specifies a nonexistent image. (Issue: 31719) Mac [r38319] Honor modifiers for clicks on home button – cmd-clicking the home button now opens your home page in a new tab. (Issue: 34900) [r38204] Implemented writing direction context menu in text input fields. [r38504] Add local storage nodes to the cookie manager (Issue: 33068) Linux ...

Making good on a promise delivered just about one year ago, Facebook announced that its popular chat feature can now be accessed through any Jabber (XMPP)-compatible desktop instant messaging software, including AIM, iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda, Trillian and… Users can simply connect their Facebook account with their instant messaging client of choice and they can then chat with Facebook friends without having to stay logged into the social networking site. ...

Security blogger Brian Krebs is reporting that some Windows XP users are reporting blue screen of death on reboot after installing Microsoft’s Tuesday patch KB977165 (MS010–15: “Vulnerabilities in Windows kernel could allow elevation of privilege.”) “Turns out, a non-trivial number of XP users are reporting that their systems suffer from the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) and fall into an interminable reboot loop after installing the latest batch of patches from Redmond,” ...

Google launched the Mac version of its Chrome browser in Dec 2009. A new beta build is now available which offers new features like extensions, bookmark sync, and more. Now you’ll be able to install any of over 2,200 extensions currently available in Chrome’s extensions gallery. Extensions can add useful, informative,fun, or quirky functionality to your chrome browser. It also adds bookmark and cookie managers in a way that feels completely at home on the Mac ...

Adobe has published a security bulletin about security vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. In all versions up to the recent 10.0.42.34 Flash objects could evade the Sandbox which would allow for unauthorized cross domain requests. The vulnerability is rated critical. The updated version 10.0.45.2 as well of a fixed build of Adobe AIR 1.5.3.1930 is available in the flash download center and the air download center, respectively. Users should apply the update ASAP and administrators in companies should roll the fixed software out soon, too. ...

The Google Chrome stable channel has been updated to 4.0.249.89 for Windows. Security Fixes and rewards: Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix. Congratulations to Timothy D. Morgan on receiving a Chromium Security Reward for bug 32718. Note that Timothy elected to donate the reward to the Haiti relief effort, so Google raised the donation to $1337. ...

February 9th will bring numerous Microsoft Updates, 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. All versions of Windows are affected. Looks like a busy Tuesday is ahead. See Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2010 for additional details.

Valentines Day is coming and people are getting ready with preparation and plans to gift some thing different to their loved ones. In this race how can Windows stay behind? So it has released an official Valentine theme to change you desktop to a festive mood. Here is a screen shot of this theme. You do not need any other modification to install this theme as it is not a third party theme. This theme also includes complete sound pack, to move you with the rhythm. Just download the theme and double click it. ...

After lots of Beta and RC releases, uTorrent, the most popular and lightweight BitTorrent client has now been updated to ver. 2.0 which is the final stable release. The user interface has also improved with a set of new icons. Release Notes: Added UDP tracker support! uTP has been improved significantly 1.8.5, with many bugs fixed and performance improvements. It can be found in the preferences as “Enable bandwidth management” (but don’t worry, you can still control caps!). The setup dialog has been overhauled to make it much easier to use and with a built-in speed test. More presets were added and it automatically scales settings for high-upload connections. A new transfer cap feature has been added to track bandwidth usage, along with graphs to show your usage. Note – The program asks you to install Ask Toolbar which you can ignore during installation. ...

Microsoft Corporation has almost started assembling the final build of Office 2010 aka (MS office 14) RTM version. As per the news leaked on Wzor, Development of OFFICE 2010 software package has come to its last stage.The build is codenamed as Escrow with build number 14.0.4734.1000 According to Wzor, This RTM Escrow Build 14.0.4734.1000 has already been circulated within Corporation and is available to company employees and partners. Few days before, when Build 14.0.4730.1007 was leaked on Torrent network, its EULA (License Agreement) read that its a RTM version but apparently it was just a Pre RTM build. Testers are still working on it and if there no problems, it will move to RTM version. ...