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Yahoo! Messenger for Mac Beta 3

Yahoo has released beta 3 of Yahoo Messenger for Mac. Any Yahoo users will be happy to know they have added voice to it.This is the only client for Mac that has video and voice that works well. Plus, unlike it’s Windows brother, doesn’t pack a load of advertisements.

Major additions:

• Free voice conversations with other Messenger users on both Mac and Windows.

• Cheap PC-to-phone calls: make calls from Messenger to landline and mobile phones at low rates with Yahoo! Phone Out.

• Receive phone calls: get a phone number for your Messenger and start taking phone calls on your computer with Yahoo! Phone In. Plus, choose your area code!

• Forward calls and voice conversations to another phone number.

• Get voicemail by email.

• Numerous improvements to stability and user experience.

Download : YM for Mac Beta 3 (16.9MB)

Apps : NetNewsWire 3.1

Looking for an easy-to-use RSS and Atom reader for your Mac? You’ve found it! The Eddy award-winning NetNewsWire has a familiar three-paned interface and can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs.

Features include in New Version 3.1 :-

• New! UI update with new toolbar icons.

• New! Performance and memory enhancements including an improved Combined View which uses multiple pages to display long lists of items.

• New! HTML Archive feature - saves news items as HTML files on disk. These files are compatible with any web browser.

• Desktop integration – Address Book, iCal, iPhoto, Growl, Twitterrific and more.

• Great new look – improved Combined View, feed “cover art”, full-screen mode, and tabs with thumbnails and animations.

• Synchronized clippings – read your saved articles from the web or another NewsGator reader.

• Automatic download of podcasts and transfer to iTunes.

And many more…

Requirement :-
Mac OS X 10.4 or greater. Universal binary.

NetNewsWire is now free! You can get all the cool features of NetNewsWire at no cost.

Download NetNewsWire 3.1

MacBook Air hacked in less than 2 minutes ?

Mac OS X’s reputation for security was tarnished Thursday when a team of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) managed to hack a MacBook Air in two minutes using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari 3.1 Web browser. The ISE security researchers — Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel — were participating in the “PWN to OWN” competition at the CanSecWest security conference, which began Wednesday in Vancouver, British Columbia. “Pwn” is computer gaming slang for “own,” as in conquer. The “p” typo serves to heighten the humiliation of defeat by emphasizing that the loss came at the hands of a youth who can’t even spell or type correctly. The term has also come to be used in security circles.

Contest participants had their choice of trying to hack an Apple MacBook Air running OS X 10.5.2, a Sony Vaio VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10, or a Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1. During the first day, when attacks were limited to network attacks on the operating system, no one managed to compromise any of the systems. That changed Thursday when attacks on default client-side applications — Web browser, e-mail, IM — were allowed. The ISE team won $10,000 from security firm TippingPoint Technologies for compromising the MacBook Air. The undisclosed vulnerability in Safari 3.1 has been shown to Apple and no further information about it will be revealed until Apple can issue an update, TippingPoint said.
Source: [[ CRN, InfoWeek ]]

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