Maxthon launches super fast Mac browser

The competition for best Mac browser is about to get more exciting. New entrant Maxthon (www.maxthon.com), has just entered the fray and is set to make an impact on with its speed, stability and feature set.

Maxthon is aa global software company that develops state-of-the-art web browsers, announced the launch today of its new Maxthon for Mac browser (Beta). This new version of Maxthon’s award-winning web browser marks an important step in Maxthon’s plan to provide users with a seamless browsing experience across multiple platforms and devices. 

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Microsoft deems Windows Gadgets vulnerable to hacker exploits, issues fix

Gadgets were Microsoft's answer to Apple's Widgets. Mini apps that could run on top of your desktop and give you weather and news updates, flight information, stock tickers, webcam feeds, you name it

Aside from being an unwelcome reminder of the train wreck that was Windows Vista, it seems these Gadgets are extremely dangerous and should be removed completely.

"An attacker who successfully exploited a Gadget vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user," company officials declared in an advisory issued yesterday. "If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take complete control of the affected system." To be successful, they added: "An attacker would have to convince a user to install and enable a vulnerable Gadget."

Bad Gadgets! The best way to deal with this is to disable them completely and Microsoft has pulled the Gadget library altogether. In order to fix the situation Microsoft has enabled a quick fix that disables the sidebar and the widgets altogether. 

SlideShow: The many faces of Microsoft Surface

 

Here's Microsoft's bold new tablet called Surface. Running on ARM and Intel chips and sporting Windows 8. The new device brings some innovation to the tablet space (a kickstand) and borrows some popular touches (Magnetic cover, Gorilla Glass screen). This is the future of Microsoft's tablet strategy and Windows 8. This is also the fifth MS attempt at a tablet product after WindowsCE, TabletPC, PocketPC and UMPC tried to define the mobile space.

WinOnX 1.3 runs Windows programs on Macs, without Windows

One of the advantages that modern Macs have is that you can install Wintows on them in order to run Windows-specific applications or programs. This is is possible by using  solutions like Apple's Boot Camp, Parallels and VMware Fusion and then installing Windows to run alongside Mac OS. Now, there's apparently another option for running Windows apps on a Mac and it is called WinOnX.

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