How to enable color profiles & color management in Firefox 3

Photographers and photo enthusiasts will be happy to hear this. Firefox 3 now supports color management. No more viewing flickr using Safari. You have to explicitly enable it though. Read on to know how.



Here is the link to the official test site for ICC v4. Go ahead and open it in a new window.



If your browser does not support color profiles or has it disabled, here is what you'll get:





If your browser does support color profiles, this is what you'll get:





Here is how to enable Color Management on Firefox 3:

1) Open Firefox 3 browser.

2) On the address bar type the following:



about:config



3) On the search bar type the following:



gfx.color_management.enabled



4) Confirm it is now set to true, then restart firefox.



That's it! Go back to the test site and confirm that you get the proper image.



Now, if only they had turned this on by default...

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Securing Ubuntu

ProShield is a system administration/security program for Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux. It helps insure that your system is secure and up-to-date by checking many different aspects of your system. Whether you are a Linux novice or a system administrator with a dozen servers, ProShield is designed to be usable by all. Its main goal is to help secure a newly installed computer, as well as maintain the security of an existing machine. It's part security and part security administration.



The main features of ProShield are:

    * Helps you backup your system weekly.

    * Checks for new software releases, in order to see if installed software is reasonably up to date.  Smart-suggestion to upgrade if an important package is released.

    * Disk-space check to find any partitions that are 70% full or more.

    * Checks for extra root accounts.

    * Checks account & password files for correct access control permissions.

    * Makes sure a few security-hazardous packages are not installed.

    * Checks to make sure a packet sniffer is not running.

    * Removes unneeded packages from the local package archive.

    * Checks to see if 'apt' is fetching unnecessary information when checking for software updates.

    * Makes sure system time is accurate.

    * Checks to make sure the user isn't logged into the system (GUI) as root.

    * Checks the configuration of the ssh server ([sshd] if installed) for insecure settings.

    * At runtime, ProShield will also check to see if there has been a new version released, and can download and install it at the user's preference.



When the program is done analyzing your system, it displays an "advisory report", and then (if necessary), guides you through a series of interactive questions to help you solve any problems it found.

ProShield is released as a Debian package, ready for easy installation.  After installation, type "proshield" to start the program (you need to do this in a shell/terminal).



Download the latest version: ProShield v3.8.19



Easy Install:

If you don't know what a Debian package is, or you'd just like to install ProShield painlessly right now, you can paste this command into a shell/terminal: (you should also use this if you intend to install the ProShield package from the command line, as this method will resolve dependencies)



wget http://proshield.sf.net/ps-install 

sudo sh ps-install

rm ps-install

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Hacking arrests doubled in Japan in 2007

Arrests associated with unauthorized access to computers more than doubled in Japan in 2007 compared to the previous year, according to figures released by Japan's Ministry of Justice.

During 2007 a total of 1,442 arrests were made, up 703 arrests a year earlier, reported the ministry in its annual White Paper on Crime. The figure is 10 times the number of arrests made in 2003 for violations of the same law.





The country also saw a rise, although a much more modest one, in the number of crimes involving computers. There were a total of 3,918 arrests for such crimes, up 9% on the year.

Within this category arrests relating to violations of the copyright law jumped 11 percent to 165, while arrests for distribution of obscene literature climbed 6 percent to 203. There was a drop in child pornography-related arrests from 251 to 192, but arrest for child prostitutes soliciting or solicited online rose from 463 to 551.



The figures come against a backdrop of increasing broadband and cell phone penetration in Japan but generally lower crime.

At the end of 2007 there were 28.3 million broadband connections and 100.5 million cell phone subscriptions. Those figures are up respectively 10 percent and 6 percent on the beginning of the year.

Overall reported cases dropped 7% compared to last year. It was the fifth year in a row that the number of cases dropped. They stood at 2.7 million in 2007 against the record high of 3.7 million hit in 2002.

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How to Change Google Chrome Theme Easily

Google Chrome has received a good response despite of the criticizes it got.It is quite fast and uses less memory.But still it has not much support for customization and other things in its beta stage.So here’s a Google Chrome Theme manager which will allow you to change Google Chrome Themes easily.

You can download xChrome theme manager from http://elitehudson.com/XChromeP5.zip .XChrome is a theme manager for Googles Chrome browser, it allows users to install a skin in seconds without having to move default.dll around and it allows you to view the author and various other details before installing.



                                                                     XChrome also allows users who do not have XChrome install to install themes by double clicking the themes .exe file, they are prompted to install the theme, they agree the theme is copied to Chromes Default.dll .You can install a theme by selecting the theme and clicking install button.



You can get xChrome Theme Manager from here

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Google Friend Connect - Ready to Launch

Google Friend Connect is a much-awaited service from Google that lets you add social features to any website or blog. For instance, your blog readers can join your site (remember MyBlogLog) via their Google Account and then add comments, rate pictures or even interact with other members who are part of your blog.

Google earlier opened Friend Connect for a limited number of users only but I suspect that the public launch of Friend Connect may happen very soon. That’s because Google today released a new video that gives a short introduction to Friend Connect and unlike previous videos, this one is more inclined towards marketing the service to the non-developer crowd.



Google generally introduces new products or new features in existing products through short YouTube videos and this Friend Connect video may therefore be a hint about the public launch.

If you like to see Friend Connect in action, go to Orli Yakuel’s blog and check the Friends widget in the right sidebar – that’s an OpenSocial Apps powered by Google Friend Connect. The Google blog has more details about how Friend Connect works while this press release touches upon some more possible uses of Friend Connect

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Scan and Remove Virus Without Starting Windows

Dr.Web LiveCD is an anti-virus emergency aid disk that would restore a system that became non-operational due to activities of malware. If a workstation or a server running Windows or Unix won’t boot from a hard drive, Dr.Web LiveCD will clean a system of suspicious and malicious files and will also try to cure infected objects.

All you need to do is to download the 66MB ISO image from the link at the end of this article and burn it to a CD. Then boot up the computer with the CD by setting your computer as the first boot device. As loading starts a dialogue window will prompt you to choose between the standard and the safe mode. Make sure that the first option DrWeb-LiveCD is selected and hit the ENTER key. Once finished loading, you will be presented with a really cool nice looking screen that has Start Menu.



 it is  the only antivirus that receive the Platinum Malware Treatment Award



 Download Dr.Web LiveCD

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