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1) Free, Way-Cool Desktop "Search Bar"Plus! reader Patrick Deal, at the ripe old age of 19, already is a pretty good programmer. He's developed a free custom search bar for your desktop that lets you instantly access any of 6 major search engines without having to first open your browser. Here's how he describes it:
Aside from being a pretty good programmer, Patrick also is generous: He polished his code and told me I could offer it to you, for free. I have his Search Bar running on my desktop now. Minimized, it shrinks to almost nothing as a magnifying-glass icon in the "tray" over by the clock. But even maximized, it presents a small, clean UI that takes up hardly any space. You type what you want to search for, select which of 6 search engines you wish to use, and click the search button. In a flash, Search Bar opens your browser, switches to the search engine of your choice, and feeds in the search terms. It's incredibly useful. Note that you are likely to experience delays in downloading this software due to the anticipated high volume. SearchBar was first offered to the LangaList Plus! subscribers about a week ago, and is still available to them via the speedier Plus! private site. (Plus! sign-up: http://www.langa.com/plus.htm. Plus! subscriber login: http://www.langa.com/plus/ ) Public download: http://www.langa.com/sb/sb.htm Thank you, Patrick! Click to
email this item to a friend 2) Serious Internet Explorer Security ProblemIt's another bad one: Last week, Microsoft acknowledged that an "incorrect MIME header can cause IE to execute E-mail attachment" with the result being that your system would "run code of attacker's choice." Yikes. Anyone running IE 5.12 or 5.5 needs
the patch available at There also are some manual workarounds (such as turning off File Downloads for the affected Security Zones). The above link will bring you to a full explanation, as well as to the download link for the patch. Click to
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the above is an advertisement )-------------- 3) Annoying Security Hole In "Compressed Folders""Compressed Folders" are a special kind of file that uses Zip-type compression to reduce the size of a folder's contents. But unlike Zip files, Compressed Folders appear as actual folders in Windows Explorer. To distinguish them from standard, uncompressed folders, Compressed Folders use a special icon: a manila file folder adorned with a zipper. Compressed Folder capability is built into Windows ME, and can be added to Win98 via optional, extra cost add-on software called Plus! 98 (or sometimes simply: "Plus Pack."). But there's a problem:
This isn't a huge issue, but anyone using WinME or an optional "Plus Pack" for Win98 should read the full announcement and grab the patch that corrects this problem: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-019.asp Click to
email this item to a friend 4) (Psssst! Here's A Clever Way To Access WinMag Material)I'm getting a *lot* of email from people trying to access material from the defunct WinMag site; readers keep asking if I have new URLs. I don't. You can access some material via a search at Planet IT ( http://www.planetit.com/ ) But reader Don Chapman found an even better way:
What a great idea! You also can refine the search to just WinMag.Com pages either via the advanced search or by entering the term "site:winmag.com" after your search words. For example,
will pull up all my stuff that Google previously found on the WinMag site. Then (as Don suggests) clicking on "cached" after a search result listing will call up a copy of the page stored on Google. I don't know how long Google keeps its cache active; and some of the most-recent additions to the WinMag site never made it into the cache. But there's a lot there--- and certainly better than nothing. Thanks, Don! Click to
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email this item to a friend 7) Ad-Aware Defunct?Well, not exactly Ad-Aware--- the free and excellent spyware-remover from LavaSoft. But LavaSoft itself seems to be gone: Their web site at http://www.lavasoft.de/ spewed file and server "not found" messages for a week, and now gives only a generic "Hier entsteht eine neue Internetpräsenz!" (or, loosely, "Here comes a new site...".) You can still get the software from a variety of download sites (see http://www.google.com/search?q=ad%2Daware ) but the parent company may be dead. If anyone has a lead on their whereabouts, please let me know. Click to
email this item to a friend 8) They Loaded The CodeDo you have a home page or website? (It doesn't matter what size.) Please click over to http://www.langa.com/code.htm , and maybe you can join the hundreds and hundreds of LangaList readers who have "Loaded the Code!" (If you've already "Loaded The Code" and are wondering if your site will appear here or on the Langa.Com web site, please see http://www.langa.com/link.txt ) Speaking of which: Here's another eclectic sample of reader sites--- some professional, some very personal: View A Randomly-Chosen
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marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? Reader Gord Hines goes even further:
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