We have reviewed several applications like Google Map Buddy , Offline Maps or Google Map Saver in the past that allowed the user to download Google Maps so that the maps can be viewed offline. GmapCatcher is another offline maps viewer that supports not only Google Maps but also Cloud Made and Open Street Map.

AMD and ATI today released the Catalyst 10.3 driver package for download. By itself, this is unremarkable – ATI drops new graphics card drivers once a month, and while they normally bring a host of small fixes, performance improvements and tweaks, they’re rarely more noteworthy than that.

Yesterday, two researchers at the Pwn2Own hacking contest walked away with a nice sum of $10,000 each after they managed to bypass important security features in Windows 7. Both Peter Vreugdenhil of the Netherlands and a German researcher who only would give his first name of Nils, managed to find ways to disable DEP (data execution prevention) and ASLR (address space layout randomization) in Windows 7. Two features that have been well publicized in Windows 7’s anti-exploit features.

No I’m not kidding!

A (rather useless and boring) video of the Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8 exploit used at pwn2own 2010 I removed the most boring part at the beginning so it skips from 8% to 95% saving you almost 2 minutes of waiting.

Even though I have Windows7 installed on my machine, in the classroom where I teach, I have the need to use Windows XP for some operations that Windows7 can’t perform. In my situation, I have Server 2008 virtual machines that won’t run on Windows 7, but they will run on Windows XP. I have created a dual boot partition with Windows7 and WinXP for those occasions if in need to use one operating system vs another.

By default, in Windows 7 & Vista, Windows Backup notifies end-users to configure Windows Backup. Notifications can appear in the Action Center after seven days without having configured Windows… For more visit The Windows Club

An unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 is increasingly being exploited. The flaw, first reported two weeks ago , was initially used in limited, targeted attacks. It is now evolving into something more widespread and indiscriminate