SpiceBird A New Mozilla Product

Paul

Collaboration is much beyond e-mail communication – it’s a process where individuals work together to achieve a common goal. Apart from having e-mail, instant messaging and group calendaring, an ideal collaboration system should make ‘working together’ possible – like creating a proposal, launching a new product, developing software, managing group knowledge and publishing websites even while working from different continents. Spicebird – the collaboration suite developed by us, creates a platform to do precisely that. In addition, Spicebird makes customization easy and ensures that the software can be adapted to your business collaboration needs.

If you are here looking for the roadmap of Spicebird or to download it, please take a look at this blog post. Check out a preview of Spicebird 0.3 alpha:
Spicebird Demo
It’s supposed to be a way to Integrate Email, Instant Messaging, Calendar, and Blogging into one little program. I am quite curious about this little product and trying to get into the beta to see if it is all that. It also has RSS feed reader, and Message tagging. So I thought people would like to see this for themselves.

Microsoft Using YouTube To Promote Vista & Live, Leaves Comments Open

Paul

Microsoft has taken its marketing push for Windows Vista and Windows Live into enemy territory by offering demonstration videos on YouTube (example above). The new channel (link) was launched December 21.

The content itself isn’t all that exciting, but they do demonstrate various positive aspects of Vista and Live that viewers may not be aware of. The more interesting aspect is that Microsoft would use the Google owned YouTube for such as promotion; it certainly demonstrates just how powerful the market position of YouTube has become over the last 2 years that Microsoft would use it to promote their products.

[Via TechCrunch]

As you can see Microsoft is trying a new avenue of promoting Vista. I am also going to start Blogging again after being off for a week and Will start blogging from time to time, until some juicy stuff comes my way!! 😉 Sorry had to take a week off for my Sanctity!!

Anticipated Storm-Bot Attack Begins

Paul
Overview and Blocking Information

Shortly after 0000 GMT 24-DEC-2007 reports came in indicating that the Storm Botnet was sending out another wave of attempts to enlist new members. This version is a Christmas-themed stripshow directing victims to merrychristmasdude.com.

The message comes in with a number of subjects:

Subject: I love this Carol!
Subject: Santa Said, HO HO HO
Subject: Christmas Email
Subject: The Perfect Christmas
Subject: Find Some Christmas Tail
Subject: Time for a little Christmas Cheer

Updated subjects:
“Merry Christmas To All”
“Warm Up this Christmas”
“Mrs. Clause Is Out Tonight!”
“The Twelve Girls Of Christmas”
“Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells”
“Cold Winter Nights”

The body is something similar to:

do you have a min?



This Christmas, we want to show you something you will really enjoy. Forget all the stress for two min and feast your eyes on these.  ;-) 

http://merry christmasdude.com/

[the domain was interrupted for your protection]

I recommend that you apply blocks on that domain (merrychristmasdude.com) for both outbound HTTP requests and incoming emails.

[Via SANS.ORG]

Well whoever is controlling this bot net doesn’t believe in Christmas! ;P In my Previous Article: Some Important programs to prevent yourself from having viruses, I talked about how to prevent some of this if you don’t want to get a virus or a Bot, go check out it again! There are some important steps to prevent yourself from being compromised.

It is the time of Season!!

Paul

As most of you know the internet has made it easy to order stuff for Christmas for the kids, well here’s my little story of an order that went wrong!!

Dec 24,
My wife was supposed to get a package from UPS.

  • At 2:06PM it was delivered. To someone we do not know.

My wife calls UPS and they cant’ get a hold of the driver until the next business day.

  • The next business day is The day after Christmas!! 🙁


I’m guessing the driver is still new to this or had to many packages to deliver and it went to a house it shouldn’t!! My question, Should I call each of the houses around here with the last name on the deliver slip or should I wait?

These are the questions of the day. After all I’ve went through this week with Sore Throat and Fever you can imagine how this just makes the cake more sour!! 🙁 I guess it will be Up to the UPS people to find out what went wrong. Hopefully we either get it back or we get our money back!!