Researchers at heise-security have found a flaw in the new Mac OS Leopard’s mail client. It has to do with the way apple mail handles image attachments.

Files on a Mac can contain additional information like what program should be used for opening a file. The OS store these in the file system in “resource fork”, which is linked to the file. This type of informatin is most cases limited to the local system but for emails the MIME format apple allows resource forks to be attached which are then automatically read by Apple Mail.

Attacker can easily create an attachment with .jpg extension with a JPEG icon. But when a user opens the picture, mail will automatically execute the command depending on the resource fork. This can harm the user’s computer without the user even being aware of it.For more info visit heise-security.  

Accelerinvaders is a Space Invaders Clone game for the N95 and other S60 phones with accelerometer. You can control the movement by tilting your phone and click on the center key on D-pad to shoot the invaders.You will need to install the accelerometer plugin first.  Download Accelerinvaders now. 

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There is a an overview about the new firmware for N95 at symbian-freak. The new firmware (v20) looks quite promising. Personally, for me N95’s biggest limitation is the amount of available ram. By including  Demand Paging with this firmware, nokia has been able to address the biggest complaint with N95. Demand paging will allow around 30MB of free RAM after booting, which I feel is around sufficient (although I will take 90MB of free ram as in the newer N95s).Summary of features are:

• Demand Paging - which may give us around 30MB of free RAM after booting.
• Active Screen has search App.
• UI got the new folders and new applications. 

What features do you want to see in the new firmware?

Firefox 3 Beta is now available for download. I downloaded the Mac OS X version for my macbook. It looks more closely integrated to the OS than previous version of Firefox.This has been one of the deviation from previous versions where they tried to keep same look and feel across different platforms.

Summary of features of Firefox 3 includes

• Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.
• Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista and Mac OS X.
• Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart search bookmark folders, direct typing in location bar searches your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, ability to register web applications as protocol handlers, and better customization of download actions for file types.
• Improved platform features such as: new graphics and font rendering architecture, major changes to the HTML rendering engine to provide better CSS, float-, and table layout support, native web page form controls, colour profile management, and offline application support.
• Performance improvements such as: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 300 memory leak fixes, and a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks.

Note: This download is only recommended for testers and developers