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Sending Trojans through the email is so Web 1.0, that the cyberattackers have jumped the bandwagon of the Facebook and MySpace generation. They have included Trojans into the apps and widgets available in these sites. According to researchers at Finjan, cyberattackers are now going to these social networking sites such to get more victims.

“Attacks will become more sophisticated by combining several services in order to heighten infection ratios and decrease the detection rate, while providing more robust and scalable attack frameworks,” Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer, Finjan, said in a news release. “The focus will be on trojan technology as it enables maximum flexibility in terms of command and control. This adds another potentially malicious element to the ‘legitimate’ web traffic that needs to be examined by security solutions.”

In short, before installing the app or widget that your friend sent you, confirm if it came from them. If it didn’t, kindly delete it immediately. If it did come from them, research on the app or widget from previous users.

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Google has released their first ever mobile version of its Google Gears web browser plug-in enabling users of the rich mobile applications online and offline. Google Gears enables all offline access to the web applications by allowing all of them to cache data on the entire device through a SQLite-based database engine that would periodically synchronize with all the services needed when connected to the internet. The initial version of the Google Gears for mobile is intended for all the use with Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices.

A cool presentation will always earn you extra brownie points whether from your boss, your teacher, your client or from anybody you would want to impress. With Zoho Show, you can now create, edit, publish and show presentations online. Think PowerPoint but then you do it online. Owned by network management software company, AdventNet, Zoho Show is an easy-to-use application that lets you access, edit and share your presentations from anywhere and anytime. All you need is a browser and an internet connection to edit and share your presentations with anyone you want. You can also choose to embed your presentations in your blog or website for your readers. With Zoho Show, you won’t have to worry again how to show that well-prepared presentation of yours.

Line Rider is an online game developed in September 2006 by a university student in Slovenia (and was originally released in deviantART) where players draw a track and then ride it with a sled. Players can draw a surface on the given interface for a little character on a sled to slide upon. Just click on the play button (triangle pointing to the right) after drawing the surface to watch the ride. Bosh, the little character on the sled, will ride down the tracks that were drawn using gravity. When the ride is too rough, he will fall off the track though he can also make jumps. There are three kinds of track, blue tracks are normal, red tracks accelerate the sled and green lines are for scenery. The objective of the game is to design creative tracks and share them with other users. No registration is needed to play this unique and fun webtoy.

NewsGator Online is a free web-based RSS newsreader service and is the latest product from NewsGator, an RSS company which offers products and services that lets users to synchronize data streams and news feeds across multiple websites. NewsGator Online users can browse a whole host of news feeds or subscribe manually to their favorite feeds by copying and pasting and RSS link from their favorite sites. Since NewsGator Online is a web-based newsreader, users can view all their favorite news and media feeds from anywhere with internet access. Registration only requires your name, a username and e-mail and you don’t even have to verify your e-mail before trying out this great web application.

Since Windows Vista have come out to the market, so has the demands for its applications, so here come Windows Vista Media Applications. Everything looks new, but not too different from other Windows products, they just updated/upgraded some of them. The following multimedia and applications of Vista includes: Windows Media Player 11, Windows Media Center, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Vista Games (Mahjong Titans, Purple Place, Chess Titans, Inkball, Hold ‘Em Poker) and Internet Explorer 7! The applications mentioned above will surely bring out most of your music, photos and videos/movies and other digital media experience.

Games are made to pass the time or for fun and relaxation. I guess the word relaxation should be removed, once you get hooked on Reflex games. The Reflex Arcade site (http://www.reflex.com/) has games that will both test your patience and your hand and eye coordination. The games here can be downloaded as an application to your computers, but wait, it’s not free. You have to pay for it and you will get the code to play it unlimitedly, although, you can also play some of the games online. For games that need to be bought to get played, you can still play it for free, for only sixty minutes, just to see how it goes.

The concept has been in use in the land of the ever technologically advanced Japan where people have been using their cellular phones to pay for everything from a can of soda, a bowl of noodles or a ticket to ride the trains as you go to and from work. Now, the concept is taking aim on a bit larger market, the micro-pay system called Boku. The system works by having you pay with your cell phone rather that having to pull out your wallet, look for your card, present it, it gets swiped and you sign the receipt for your transaction. Besides, we always seem to have our mobiles in hand, ready for the next call or sms, and it makes sense. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody knows that the world evolves around some major search engines, either Bing, Google or Yahoo (and some other minor ones) but there is growing competition on the internet when it comes to real-time searches. These aggregators present you up-to-date information regarding the social net, Twitter being one of the best examples of the social internet is one of th sites indexed and searched in real time to present you with the latest social event that is happening anywhere on Twitter. Twitter has it’s own search engine but experts call it quite “dumb” and with a chronological search method, it really is quite primitive for it to be called a full-fledged search engine. Read the rest of this entry »

Love seeing those nifty paper stick-on notes you have all over your desk at the office or at home. Ever want to get it onto your smart-phone to give it a more homey feel, then steeky notes is for you, a virtual Post-it of sorts that has notes stuck in the background of your iPhone.With a million 3GS iPhones out already, and add to that the previous two versions, they are a lot of phones and you just can’t seem to have enough apps for use and just about any purpose for your gadget. Read the rest of this entry »