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Security Firm Warns of using Adobe Acrobat Reader

Posted by Gavin in Software on April 24, 2009

An interesting read about how security firm F-Secure is advising users to switch to an alternative PDF reader until Adobe fixes the security problems in it’s software.

Of the targeted attacks so far this year, more than 47 percent of them exploit holes in Acrobat Reader while six vulnerabilities have been discovered that target the program, Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of security firm F-Secure, said in a briefing with journalists.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10224449-83.html

But what alternatives are there?

A quick google search brings up a couple of examples:

And it seems there are many more. Head on over to PDF Readers to see a more exhaustive list of free alternatives.

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Xobni – Inbox Plugin for Outlook

Posted by Gavin in Just for Fun, Software on March 27, 2009

We’ve been testing this on our Office for a good number of months now. It’s a very powerful plugin for Microsoft Outlook.
Finally out of Beta we believe it is the right time to be recommending it to our clients.

The main reason we started using it was for it’s excellent search feature. Still on MS Outlook 2003, we had been using Lookout as our search indexing plugin of choice, but it was annoying having to remember all of the little commands to do certain search queries.

The nice thing about Xobni (inbox backwards in case you’ve not yet noticed) is the way it creates a little profile for each of your clients – pulling together usfeul information such as telephone number, recent conversations and who is in their email network. Select an email and you can immediately see that persons recent emails, file attachments and even their profile photo – if they are on facebook or linkedin.

Think of it like having social network features in your mailbox.

Find out more about Xobni