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Apple releases iTunes 8.2.1 today.
iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update. iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.
iTunes 8.2.1 provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices.
iTunes 8.2.1 is available for Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.7, 10.6 and Windows XP/Vista.
Of course a lot of people are speculating and reporting that iTunes 8.2.1 breaks Palm Pre syncing.
A lot has happened for the past week and I’m still catching up.
Monday comes and there’ll be a lot more post here.
Quick post!
Testing some raw clips from AVCHD camcorders, and I found out the the current incarnation of Windows 7 can play AVCHD without any additional codecs/programs.
The VideoLAN project has officially released VLC 1.0.0 codenamed Goldeneye. Download it now.
VLC 1.0.0 is a cross-platform media player, available for Linux, Mac, Windows and other Operating Systems.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.
Tuesday July 7th, 2009.
It is the first Tuesday of the month, so there will be no regular updates from Microsoft today. Instead on Monday Microsoft released a warning regarding a serious security hole that affects Internet Explorer on Windows XP and Server 2003.
It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims’ machines. The victims don’t need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that’s been hacked.
Security experts say criminals have been attacking the vulnerability for nearly a week. Thousands of sites have been hacked to serve up malicious software that exploits the vulnerability. People are drawn to these sites by clicking a link in spam e-mail.
The so-called “zero day” vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft affects a part of its software used to play video. The problem arises from the way the software interacts with Internet Explorer, which opens a hole for hackers to tunnel into.
According to reports, currently there is no fix available from Microsoft, but there is a workaround.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890#FixItForMe
Interestingly Microsoft might use this announcement to convince people to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Sun Microsystems has just released VirtualBox 3.0 earlier this week. VirtualBox is a multi-platform open source virtualization software.
New on VirtualBox 3.0:
VirtualBox 3.0 article from ArsTechnica.com.
VirtualBox 3.0 is available for Linux, Macintosh, OpenSolaris and Windows Operating Systems.
After two week wait, WordPress for iPhone OS 3.0 is finally approved and available for download/update on iTunes Store.
Don’t be fooled with the version number embedded in the app itself. It might say version 1.21.1 and the iTunes App Store says version 1.3. All that matters is it is iPhone OS 3.0 compatible now.
