IE 6 and IE 7 Vulnerability - Security Patch

Microsoft has investigated a new vulnerability in IE6 and IE 7 on public reports. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code execution.

According to Microsoft  Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are not affected, and that Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, and Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable.

The vulnerability exists due to an invalid pointer reference being used within Internet Explorer. It is possible under certain conditions for the invalid pointer to be accessed after an object is deleted. In a specially-crafted attack, in attempting to access a freed object, Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution.

If you use any of the affected versions either upgrade or click here to know how to fix it.

Go directly to images in Google Image Search

Google Image Search is the best place to look for images whenever needed. But the way it works is irritating because you need to go through 2 pages to check the image you click. It first takes you to the website on which the image is posted and then shows the full image after clicking the link.

Using clickGOOGLEview extension for Google Chrome you can bypass the website where the image is posted and directly see the full size image after clicking it in Google Image Search.

See how it works

Before installing the extension

Open Google Image Search and search for image

Click on the image you are interested in

Click See full size image

After installing the extension

Open Google Image Search and search for image

Click the image you are interested in

Notice that the image opened in the new tab and was directly opened without going to the website from where the image comes.

To conclude, this is a great extension to fasten your image search.

Download clickGOOGLEview for Google Chrome

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Stop Buffering unwanted YouTube videos

It happens at time that you start watching a video on YouTube and pause it because you don't find it interesting. YouTube keeps buffering the video inspite of pausing it which utilizes your bandwidth unnecessarily.

YouTube has now rectified this by adding Stop Download to right click context menu of the videos. Clicking Stop Download stops buffering the video any further.

This is a small but very useful feature recently added by YouTube.

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Hide YouTube Video Comments in Google Chrome

YouTube is a great resource for videos and the comments a video gets is sometimes fun but sometimes turns out disrespectful or useless. Now it is possible to hide all YouTube video comments using No You Tube Comments if you use Google Chrome.

No You Tube Comments is a Google Chrome extension which hides the comments for all the videos watched on YouTube.

See it working

Start Google Chrome and open any video on YouTube and you can see the comments below the video

Now install No You Tube Comments extension for Google Chrome and hit F5 or Refresh on YouTube window to see the change

The comments are hidden when you install and refresh your YouTube window.

To conclude, this is a good add-on incase you do not like to read the comments on YouTube videos.

Download and Convert YouTube Videos

YouTube has become one of the most visited website for videos and everyone wants to watch the videos whether they are online or not. Incase you are not online you can download the YouTube video's while online so that you can watch them later using YouTube Downloader.

YouTube Downloader not only downloads the videos but also gives you the ability to convert them to most major formats. It allows you to convert downloaded videos for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3. You can enable/disable the sounds while converting the video.

Downloading file using YouTube Downloader

Download and install YouTube Downloader

Open the YouTube video and copy the YouTube URL you want to download

Switch over to YouTube Downloader. It will automatically paste what's copied in the clipboard in Select Video File. Simply hit Ok to start downloading the Video

It will start downloading the video file from YouTube and inform you as soon as the download is complete

Converting downloaded videos using YouTube Downloader

Start YouTube Downloader and select "Convert Video (previously downloaded) from file and select the file to be converted from your computer. Select the format in which you want to convert the file in "Convert to" drop down and hit Ok

Now, select the Quality in which the video should be converted. You can even cut the video using time frames and set the volume for the converted video.

Once you click Ok, it starts converting the video to the selected format

To conclude, YouTube Downloader is a simple but powerful application for downloading and converting videos from YouTube.

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Download Facebook Albums to your computer

Album Downloader is a cool tiny application using which you can download your and your friends Facebook Albums to your computer. You can even choose to download only the pics in which you have been tagged.

Getting started with Album Downloader

Download and install Album Downloader

Once you have installed Album Downloader it starts automatically. It will pop up a message saying it might need some time to initialize. Simply click Ok and wait for the application to start.

Provide it with your Facebook login details and click Login.

Once you are logged in, it displays you the list of your friends on Facebook. Simply check the albums you want to download, set the download folder and click Download Selected Albums.

If you want to download pics in which you are tagged, check (All tagged pics of me).

To conclude, it is a nice application in case you want to download bunch of albums from Facebook to your machine.

Read Popular Articles in Style - Google Reader Play

Google has released a new Product named Google Reader Play using which you can read Popular articles in an interesting interface. Google displays the contents over the web depending on the what you starred, liked or shared in your Google Reader articles to improve the recommendations.

Getting started with Google Reader Play

Go to http://www.google.com/reader/play in your web browser and click Get Started button

If you use Google Reader click Sign In and login using your Google credentials to get recommendations related to your likes, shares and starred items in Google Reader. If you don't use Google Reader you can still use Google Reader Play. Click the next arrow to move to the next recommendation or click any item on the filmstrip below to directly move to a specific recommendation.

You can click the title of the article to visit the homepage where the article comes from.

Google Reader Play by default does not show your subscribed articles in Google Reader, but you can check them using the URL http://www.google.com/reader/play/#stream

To conclude, Google Reader Play is a fun way to read articles and get recommendations.

Merge PDF files online

At times it happens that we have multiple PDF files which need to be merged and created as a single PDF file. A single PDF is easily to maintain instead of having multiple PDF files. Now you can merge 10 PDF files of 5 MB each into a single PDF file using http://www.mergepdf.net. It is a great and simple to use online tool to merge your PDF files.

Getting started with Merging a PDF

Visit http://www.mergepdf.net

The UI is pretty simple with 2 buttons for picking the files which need to be merged and button which actually merges the PDF files.

Click Pick Files... to add files to the merge list and select the PDF files from your computer

Once you are done adding the PDF files to the merge list click Merge PDF ! button to start merging the files

Merge PDF displays you the status of the merging and the time remaining for completion. Once the merging is complete the you can open the file using PDF Viewer installed on your machine or save merged PDF file to your machine. Merge PDF automatically opens the Save File pop-up on merge completion.

Merge PDF does not store any PDF on their servers. All PDF's are removed once the processing is complete.

To conclude, it is a great tool if you want to merge your PDF files online.

Make Firefox speak for you

Ever thought how great it will be if your browser reads the text on a webpage for you?? We read huge articles on internet. How amazing it will be if instead of reading them we can simply listen to them?? It happens that while reading we come across a word which we find difficult to pronounce. How easy it will be if our browser reads it for us to understand how it needs to be pronounced??

Well, it is now possible in Firefox using Text to Voice add-on which simply reads the selected text for you. It seriously makes your life simple in many ways.

Lets start with Text to Voice

Install Text to Voice add-on for Firefox

Restart Firefox once the installation completes.

Open up any webpage and select the text you want to convert from text to voice and click the button on the bottom right corner.

Clicking on the button opens up another tab which would create an mp3 out of the text selected.

Once the mp3 creation is done it will start playing the mp3 file for you.

You can even save the mp3 file generated on your machine for future references by clicking Download mp3 link and specifying the path where it needs to be saved.

To conclude, this is really a must have add-on for people who read lots of articles over the internet. Very helpful as you can save the mp3 files and listen to them later any time you want to.

Font Size and Font Family on Right Click Context Menu in Firefox

It happens that you love a font used on some website and are curious to get its details. If you use Firefox, Context Font is the add-on which helps you with this. After installing this add-on for Firefox you get the font-family and font size in the right context menu for the selected text.

Steps to use

Install Context Font add-on for Firefox

Once installed Restart Firefox. Select and right click on the text whose font details are needed and it displays them in the right click context menu.

To conclude, it is a great add-on for font lovers, web designers to quickly know about fonts on any website.

Rename your Facebook friends - Firefox add-on

MyFacebook is a Firefox add-on using which you can rename your Facebook friends easily. You can simply right click any of your Facebook friend and rename them with whatever nickname you want. Isn't that fun???

How it works

Install MyFacebook add-on for Firefox

Login to your Facebook account

Right click the friend you want to rename and select Rename

Type the name you like for your friend and click Rename

That's it! Your friend will be renamed in Facebook. You can even Undo Rename once you have renamed any of your friends.

Check the video below to see it working.

What do you Suggest - Google Suggest

I've already spent hours exploring on whatdoyousuggest.net. For some reason I just keep wanting to come back to have another play.

Lets see it working

When you load up the site it tells you to Start Here - or - choose from one of word, letter or question. Lets take "Strange" as the seed. Just type Strange in the text box and hit enter. From there, it takes whatever you've given it and gives back Google's suggestions for the next word in your sentence.

The suggested words appear in the order in which Google suggests them and are each connected by a line of varying thickness representing the number of search results you could expect if you did a Google search on the phrases which that word, its predecessors and ancestors in the tree would create.

The suggestions provided by Google Suggest represent real searches which in all likelihood have been performed millions of times each by people from all around the world. 

Lets click Facts and see what it returns

Lets click Of and see what it returns

In the end lets click Life to get the search results

To conclude this site is real fun and uses Google Suggest very well to give you the next keyword suggested by Google.

Visualize the tabs using thumbnails in Google Chrome

Earlier I had written about 3D effects to Firefox Tabs with FoxTab which gives Firefox tabs a totally refreshing and 3D look.

Google Chrome has come up with a similar extension named Visual Tabs which can make navigating though tabs easier and fun. Its not as powerful as Firefox Tabs for Firefox but a good add-on to have for Google Chrome if you love 3D thumbnails.

Using Visual Tabs for Google Chrome you can:

1. Navigate through the tabs easily with the help of thumbnails

2. Navigate through the tabs by scrolling your mouse

3. Change the background color of the window which displays the thumbnails

Start using Visual Tabs for Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome and Install Visual Tabs extension for Google Chrome

As soon as the extension is installed you are ready to start using it. Just click the icon for Visual Tabs next to the Address Bar in Google Chrome to start.

You can switch between the background colors by clicking the color you want of the available six colors. Lets see how White and Yellow looks in the background.

To conclude, as said before this add-on is a real treat for people who love their tabs in 3D views.

Monitor who accesses your Shared Folders

It might happen at times that you share a folder for a person to copy certain things and then forget to unshare it. People having access to this folder can access it anytime without you being notified which might end up hitting your computers performance. Moreover there could be chances of sharing files with people which you don't want to.

ShareWatcher is a simple application which sits in the System tray notifying you whenever someone tries to access a file/folder on your machine.

Using ShareWatcher you can further see the users who are currently accessing shared folders on your machine and the folders being accessed by them.

It also shows the Logs of users who accessed the shared files/folders with date time stamp.

You can further customize how ShareWatcher should behave from Options --> Settings. You can mark Ignore self to ignore notifications when you access the shared folders. Checking "Only Show Files" wont log or notify you when folders are accessed. You can add list of files you want to ignore.

To conclude ShareWatcher is a nice tiny application if you want to keep an eye on who accesses the files you have shared.

Download ShareWatcher for Windows

Forgot attaching files to Outlook emails?? Not any more with FAD

It happens at times when we write email in a hurry and send them forgetting to attach that important file mentioned in the same email. Then we reply back to all recipients with apology and attaching the file. Forgotten Attachment Detector is a great free add-on for Outlook from OfficeLabs which helps you avoid such embarrassing situations. 

Whenever you send an email containing terms such as attachment, attached, enclosed etc. but does not actually have a file attached, it alerts you before you send your email.  Then, you can go back and add the attachment you intended to before you actually send the email.

Start using Forgotten Attachment Detector 

Download Forgotten Attachment Detector. Click Try It on the page to download the setup file. Once you have downloaded the file, go ahead and install it. Its better you exit Outlook before installing the add-in.

You can uncheck the checkbox in the above screenshot if you do not wish to participate in Usage metrics and Auto updates.

Carry on with the setup till you completely install the add-in.

Once the installation is complete start Outlook. At the first start of Outlook after installing FAD, Outlook asks you to verify that you want to install the add-in. Click install and you will be ready to use it.

Now, whenever you compose a new email and mention anywhere in the email about attachment but don't actually attach a file FAD will display a pop-up alarming you about your act.

Clicking the Show Snippet button shows you exactly what text in your email triggered the alarm.

Customizing Forgotten Attachment Detector

FAD adds a button to your Outlook Menu using which you can customize the way FAD works.

Using the setting you can add or remove the keywords that triggers the alarm for attachment. You can add / remove keywords and phrases depending on which FAD will alarm you about attachments. FAD can also notify you about emails missing Subject Lines which can be enabled/disabled from settings.

To conclude Forgotten Attachment Detector is a cool utility rarely used but saves you from huge embarrassments.

Desktop Notifier for Google Services - Google Calendar

Google Code has come up with a piece of software which notifies you about updates of your Google Services. For now it supports Google Calendar and would soon be supporting Google Reader updates too. Click here for an alternative for Google Reader as of now.

Google Services Notifier is a simple .NET utility which uses Google's API to notify you about updates. Google Calendar is the supported application from various Google Services as of now.

How to use Google Services Notifier

Download Google Services Notifier and install it on your machine.

Once installed start Google Services Notifier from the Start Menu. It silently sits in the System Tray. Right click Google Services Notifier icon and select "Change user name/password".

Specify your login credentials for Google Services in the Credentials window

That's It!!! You are done configuring Google Services Notifier and now its time to enjoy it.

Whenever an appointment on your Google Calendar comes up it notifies you about it with a small pop-up in the System Tray.

Other than notifying for next events you can also get a list of today's/tomorrow's/week's events. It also takes you to your Google Calendar by clicking Go To My Google Calendar.

To conclude Google Services Notifier is a nice application if you use Google Calendar for all your appointments. It will gain more importance once development on Google Reader notifications is complete.