Secunia Personal Software Inspector

Secunia, one of the largest security companies, has released a new version (ver. 0.1.0.2) of its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) that fixes installation problems on Windows Vista. Although with the first release coming out in the end of July 2007 and still being in beta stage, PSI detects almost 8000 applications and categorises them as either Insecure, End-of-Life, or Up-To-Date, thus helping a user to keep an eye on the existing software vulnerabilities and be able to download updates for them.
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notMac challenge – free .Mac alternative

For those wishing to have a cheap alternative to Apple’s .Mac service the wait might be over. The “notMac Challenge” that has been going for a while and seems to be nearing the end with Ben Spink submitting a notMac application that seems to have quite a full feature set to challenge Apple’s .Mac and is based on a “lite” version of a commercial program CrushFTP.
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Linksys WAG354G v2 1.01.54 firmware

I have upgraded my Linksys WAG354G v2 firmware to 1.01.57 and then to 1.01.58 the other day and that’s where the things got sour: wireless network has suffered a slight decrease in access range and wireless clients started failing authentication using encrypted WPA-PSK.

Upon further investigation, I found out that several people have also reported the same problems. Unfortunately, Linksys web site offers only 1.01.57 and 1.01.58 revisions of the firmware, and unfortunately, they both have the same flaw with wireless network. A temporary workaround that I have found was going into router’s settings and hitting the ‘Save settings’ button on the wireless settings page – that seemed to kick things back into action, but not for long. Increasing the group key renewal time didn’t help either.

After two days of talking to Linksys tech support using LiveChat on their web site, I was able to finally get my hands on the 1.01.54 rev.004 firmware. After downgrading from 1.01.58 back to 1.01.54 things went back to normal – wireless authentication is working again flawlessly.

To make things easier for people with the same problem, I have decided to upload the firmware for public download:

Download Linksys WAG354G v2 1.01.54 firmware

Microsoft RDC client for Mac

It’s been a long time coming, and it’s finally here. Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has released a universal binary of their remote desktop client for Mac OS X.

The client sports features as:
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SonyEricsson P1i iSync Plugin for Mac OS X

For those looking to jump the SonyEricsson wagon instead of the iPhone one and worrying about phone compatibility with OS X, fear no more: SonyEricsson has an iSync plugin for P1i available that allows synchronisation of iCal and Apple Address Book on Mac OS X with your phone’s Calendar and Contacts using Bluetooth.

The plugin requires iSync, version 2.3 or newer, which is included in OS X Tiger. Oh, and make sure you update your P1i’s firmware from the SonyEricsson support site before installing the plugin.