Revealer
Password Revealer (only 65 kB – Windows 95/98/Me/NT) is a utility that can show you most passwords that are typed in a password edit box (those that hide the password and show asterisks instead).
Bring the password box on the screen, run Password Revealer, and click the button to reveal the password. That’s all.
Please note that Password Revealer does NEVER work with the following passwords, because they use special edit boxes:
- user passwords in Windows NT User Manager (this includes user passwords in Windows 2000, XP and 2003).
- site passwords in Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher (such as Hotmail or AOL passwords)
- most passwords under Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista and Server 2008. Microsoft got smarter!
Currently, we DO NOT have a solution for these passwords.
Password Revealer doesn’t come with an installation program, to keep it small for downloading. Just select the appropriate destination folder when downloading.
WARNING: some antivirus programs may mark this program as a “Potentially unwanted program”. This is to let you know that if it is left on your computer without you knowing it, that someone with access to your computer may have used it to reveal your passwords.
Please note that Password Revealer is NOT a virus, nor does it contain viruses if you copy it from a reliable source, and if it has not been infected in another way. Password Revealer will not secretly send passwords over a network, it will reveal them on the screen only.
Firefox 3.1 with private browsing
Despite the enedible take over of Googles chrome because of it’s less nazi like (ssl) system and better performance then Firefox… Firefox still holds it’s own. (For now)
Mozilla has announced the official release of the second Firefox 3.1 beta. This version introduces the new private browsing mode feature and several other noteworthy changes.
The 3.1 roadmap began to coalesce after the release of 3.0 earlier this year. Firefox 3.1, which is codenamed Shiretoko, will include many improvements and several important features that were originally planned for the 3.0 release but were deferred for various reasons. Mozilla released the first 3.1 alpha in July with some new CSS features, AwesomeBar completion enhancements, and a new user interface for switching between tabs. The second alpha, which arrived in September, introduced support for the HTML 5 video element.
The most significant addition in beta 2 is the new private browsing mode, which will not store any of the user’s session information while it is enabled. The feature is similar to the Incognito mode that is offered in Google’s Chrome browser and Safari’s Private Browsing. The feature was first requested for Firefox back in 2004, but extensive reengineering was required to make the feature work.
The developers drafted a functional specification to document the expected behaviors. Developer Ehasan Akhgari, who participated in making the private browsing feature, wrote several blog entries about the feature at various stages of development. In October, User interaction expert Alex Faaborg discussed some of the relevant user interface issues and revealed that Mozilla would be using a mask icon as the visual metaphor for privacy in Firefox.
Private browsing mode can be toggled by selecting an item on the browser’s Tools menu. When the mode is activated, the browser will save and close the user’s current session and display an empty window with the private browsing launch screen. The screen also has a button that will allow users to clear their recent history. When the user disengages private browsing mode, their previous session will be fully restored and the browser will not retain a record of what the user did while private browsing mode was active. I have tested the feature extensively in nightly builds leading up to this release, and I have found it to be reliable and effective.
Another major change in this release is that Mozilla’s high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is now enabled by default. The new engine has been included for several releases now, but users who wanted to take advantage of it had to manually enable the feature in the Firefox configuration pane. Now that the feature is enabled by default, users could start to notice a performance boost on web sites that use processor-intensive JavaScript. In benchmarks, it provides a significant improvement over Firefox 3. Firefox’s Gecko rendering engine has also gotten some rendering and layout optimizations that could increase performance.
One of the most significant user interface changes that was planned for Firefox 3.1 was a new tab switching implementation. Originally introduced in the first alpha, the new tab switcher displayed thumbnail previews of pages and also changed the behavior of the default tab switching shortcut so that it would rotate through tabs based on most recent usage. Although these user interface adjustments were very promising, the developers determined that more work will be needed before the graphical tab switcher can be included. It was pulled out in this beta release and probably won’t be in the final release.
A few other minor enhancements are also available in beta 2, including support for hyperlinks in the source viewer. This is a very strong beta release and reflects the rapid pace at which 3.1 is maturing. Mozilla plans to do one more beta release before it launches the 3.1 release candidate.
Microsoft Midori
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 might just be the salve to soothe Windows Vista ouchies, but what Windows fans really want is something that hasn’t yet been announced. Mary-Jo of All About Microsoft says that internally, there’s a project called Singularity that’s designed to solve all kinds of shortcomings in current operating systems, upending the traditional way of thinking in favor of something dramatically different. And while Singularity won’t be released to the public, Midori, which takes a lot of cues from it, will.
According to Microsoft 2.0:
“There’s a seemingly related (related to Singularity) project under development at Microsoft which has been hush-hush. That project, codenamed ‘Midori,’ is a new Microsoft operating-system platform that supposedly supersedes Windows. Midori is in incubation, which means it is a little closer to market than most Microsoft Research projects, but not yet close enough to be available in any kind of early preview form.
“What’s also interesting about Midori is who is running the project. One-time Gates heir-apparent Eric Rudder is heading up the effort. Midori is being incubated under Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie’s wing. ‘Everyone under him (under Rudder on Midori) is a multi-year vet, has a super fancy title, and is going back to their roots and writing code like they probably did in the old days,’ one Microsoft tipster told me.
“When and how Microsoft will roll out Midori is still a mystery. But it sounds like the company thinks the project is serious enough to dedicate a considerable amount of time/people/resources to it.”
So it won’t be in Windows 7, but from the sounds of it, Midori might be far enough along to make it to Windows 8. Will they still keep calling it Windows to hold onto the brand, or will they call it something different to illustrate how dramatically separate it is from what we’re currently using?
Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1
Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the delayed first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10, code name “Intrepid Ibex”: “Welcome to Intrepid Ibex Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.10. Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The primary changes from Hardy have been the re-merging of changes from Debian and the upgrade of the Linux kernel to a pre-release version of 2.6.26. As with the beginning of any development cycle, the Intrepid one has seen the merge floodgates open once again. This merge not only brings in lots of new version of various packages, but also a fair number of totally new applications.” Read the release announcement and release notes for further details. Only the “alternate” installation images have been made available with this release; download them from here: intrepid-alternate-i386.iso (698MB, MD5, torrent), intrepid-alternate-amd64.iso (697MB, MD5, torrent). Also released: Kubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 and Xubuntu 8.10 Alpha