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Saturday, 10 October 2009

More Acrobat security issues - try Foxit





After yet another report on Adobe Acrobat Reader and Acrobat security flaws for all of Windows, Mac and Linux, I think I'm going to switch back to the free Foxit Reader for PDF files - pictured above.

I'd lazily left it at Adobe when I had to switch my main computer last Christmas, but Foxit seems a lot safer. It's certainly faster at opening Portable Document Format (PDF) files. And did I say it was free?

The Foxit PDF reader has plugins for Internet Explorer and Firefox and, though I've not tried it yet, it seems you can manually integrate it with Chrome in Windows (see rdnetto's post here - note that on my Windows Vista system the Foxit plugins folder in fact had both DLL and OCX files in it, and the Chrome plugin folder was in C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\ - your mileage may vary). You also have to let it through your firewall too, of course.

Try it: download Foxit.

Friday, 9 October 2009

Oh the irony





A general email was sent out to a certain distribution list, containing a subject line starting with the words:

Englich courses


My lips are sealed as to the identity of the sender, or the person who forwarded the email to me!


Monday, 28 September 2009

LG Chocolate: get US$10,000 for your phone?





If you have an "old" LG Chocolate KG800 phone, check your serial number ASAP.

LG HQ have launched a new campaign, looking for 5 LG Chocolate phones globally. The campaign ends 30 September 2009 i.e. in a couple of days, so check it fast!

If you own a LG Chocolate phone with one of the serial numbers below, you will receive US $10,000 (approximately £6000 subject to exchange rate)!

The Serial numbers are:

802KPAE821224
803KPBF578597
803KPXV578330
803KPVH578503
803KPJP923836

Good luck!