Technology,Security,Software Review
Apple has released the iPhone 2.2 software update late Thursday, offering major upgrades to the Maps application and adding support for the direct downloading of podcasts.This iPhone 2.2 software update is for both generations of the iPhone and iPod touch. Users can easily get this updated version via iTunes by connecting an iPhone or iPod touch and clicking the Check for Updates button and it is approximately 250 MB in size.
Six Apart has introduced the updated TypePad. Now it has come up with improved community features so that becomes more attractive than before. The most attractive thing in TypePad that you will get to know is comments display features means better and clean display of comments with icons and simpler comments entry interface. TypePad is a blogging service from company Six Apart Ltd, and the largest paid blogging service in the world. TypePad is based on Six Apart’s Movable Type platform, and shares technology with Movable Type such as templates and APIs.This updated TypePad comment system can be embedded on non-TypePad blogs, means this service can automatically install on WordPress.org, Blogger, and Tumblr sites. HTML code is given to put the comment system on other blogs also.
Ammyy Admin is the system of remote desktop access. It’s secure, reliable and accessible way of providing remote desktop assistance and remote teaching for your friends, family members, clients or employees in any place of the world. Only 128KB size Ammyy Admin takes few seconds to access remote desktop. It does not require any installation or configuration. For the security perspective it uses recent crypto-operation algorithm, means it transfer only encrypted data by AES algorithm. It has the Full compatibility with Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008, 32-bit and 64-bit. Ammyy Admin will route its screen-sharing traffic over the developer’s servers and Ammyy Admin is a free download for Windows systems only.
Wolfram Research has developed Mathematica 7, its a new version that contains computational software for Mac OS X and other platforms. Mathematica is well known for science, engineering and technical computing from long time. Wolfram has developed more than 500 new functions in the new version named Mathematica 7.
Microsoft’s Malware protection website has published a list of 11 rouge antivirus programs that may harm your computer. All of these antivirus programs have different file names and directory structure but the purpose of all these program is same. some of Fake scan screen skins look similar to the Windows Security Center.
List of 11 Rouge Antivirus
Apple is finally started working in terms of security in their products and they have launched a new version of their Safari web browser with Anti-Phishing protection. The Anti-Phishing protection comes as software update from Apple for existing users of Safari web browser. This new update fixes a number of security issues that are present in Apple’s Safari web browser including unexpected application shutdowns and public disclosure of personal information, and addressed various vulnerabilities such as arbitrary code execution and denial of service.
According to Apple
is recommended for all Safari users and features protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses.
After looking to the latest update for Anti-Phishing protection in Apple’s Safari web browser there are a number of features are missing like users don’t have any control over the choosing the database of fraudulent websites. There is also not much control is there on Anti-Phishing protection, users can simply turn on the feature by clicking the turn Anti-Protection button.
Users running OS X can update their Safari web browser using the software update mechanism, Windows users can get this update by running Apple Software Update tool available. If you are not using Safari web browser you can download then
You can also download full Safari 3.2 installation for Mac OS X Leopard and for Windows Vista/XP.
Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.1 uses Distributed File System (DFS) to maintain Universal Naming Convention (UNC) paths and to simplify the consolidation and migration process. Many organizations today are consolidating older file servers to reduce the cost of managing multiple file servers and to increase the efficiency of storage allocation and backup tasks. When organizations migrate data to file servers running Windows Server® 2003 and Windows Server 2008, they can take advantage of new features, such as Shadow Copies for Shared Folders and the Volume Shadow Copy service, and enhancements to other technologies, such as Distributed File System (DFS).
File Server Migration Instructions
Download Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.1
Microsoft DreamSpark is a program that offer students to full access of Microsoft development software’s to technical students. Microsoft has launched the DreamSpark program to in India also. So now with this program students studying in India technical institutes are also eligible to get DVD’s of all major development software’s from Microsoft.
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Apart from all these software there are a lot of other free software’s are available for students as free download.
There are two ways to get all these developer software’s Online and Offline
Get Microsoft Professional Developer and Designer Tools online
Get Microsoft Professional Developer and Designer Tools offline
You may be prompted to sign in using a Windows Live Id. This step will associate the verification key to your Live Id
and complete the verification process.
Microsoft is also planning to launch it’s DreamSpark Program for School student also.
The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 4.0 is the revised version of the original Microsoft Security Risk Self-Assessment Tool (MSRSAT), released in 2004 and the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 2.0 released in 2006. Security issues have evolved since 2004 so additional questions and answers were needed to ensure you had a comprehensive toolset to become more aware of the evolving security threat landscape that could impact your organization.
The tool employs a holistic approach to measuring your security posture by covering topics across people, process, and technology. Findings are coupled with prescriptive guidance and recommended mitigation efforts, including links to more information for additional industry guidance. These resources may assist you in keeping you aware of specific tools and methods that can help change the security posture of your IT environment.
There are two assessments that define the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool:
The questions identified in the survey portion of the tool and the associated answers are derived from commonly accepted best practices around security, both general and specific. The questions and the recommendations that the tool offers are based on standards such as ISO 17799 and NIST-800.x, as well as recommendations and prescriptive guidance from Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group and additional security resources valued in the industry.
After completing an Assessment, you will gain access to a detailed report of your results. You may also compare your results with those of your peers (by industry and company size), provided that you upload your results anonymously to the secure MSAT Web server. When you upload your data the application will simultaneously retrieve the most recent data available. To be able to provide this comparative data, we need customers such as you to upload their information. All information is kept strictly confidential and no personally identifiable information whatsoever will be sent. For more information on Microsoft’s privacy policy, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/info/privacy.mspx.
Download Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 4.0
Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services and devices. Developers can build sync ecosystems that integrate any application, any type of data, using any protocol over any network.The Microsoft Sync Framework provides a platform for taking web services and databases offline. In addition, it provides optimized P2P sync of any type of file including contacts, music, videos, images and settings. The extensible framework includes built-in support for synchronizing databases, NTFS/FAT file systems, FeedSync compliant feeds (formerly known as Simple Sharing Extensions), devices and web services.
Microsoft Sync Framework is available as free download from Microsoft website and Microsoft has said that it will license the spec and source-code porting kit to developers who want to make it available on non-Windows platforms
Sync Framework Highlights
Sync Services for ADO.NET
Sync Services for ADO.NET is a Microsoft Sync Framework powered solution for synchronizing ADO.NET enabled databases in offline and collaboration scenarios. Sync Services for ADO.NET allows developers who are familiar with the concepts of ADO.NET to apply that knowledge to data synchronization through a very similar set of APIs to that of ADO.NET. Sync Services for ADO.NET provides the flexibility of a programming model like offline datasets and a richer synchronization feature set like that found in Merge replication. Sync Services for ADO.NET also supports synchronization over services, such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
Sync Services for ADO.NET Highlights
Download Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0
