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Didn’t take long for Safari to take the headlines again. Yesterday, Safari generated a fair amount of press by releasing a Windows beta version. For better or for worse, this brought about the close scrutiny of many people. Naysayers were quick to respond, telling that even Mac users don’t use Safari.

To make matters worse, security experts tested and subsequently released information of its vulnerabilities - for both OSX and Windows beta. Porting to Windows represent a double edged sword, you’ll get a slice of the market share while security exploiters will pay more attention as well. Were it not for the decision to port Safari to Windows, we believe that Safari would’ve remain relatively more secure (in the ’security by obscurity’ sense).

Sources:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=283
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9728500-7.html
http://larholm.com/2007/06/12/safari-for-windows-0day-exploit-in-2-hours/
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.html

You read it right - we never thought it would happen but it did. Safari now supports Windows (XP & Vista). It is released under public beta 3 so expect a some bugs here and there. With this latest move, Apple has up the browser wars a notch.

Our experience with it has been quite good overall. Take note that we’ve never used Safari before so there might be a few things that we’ve missed.

While browsing DivX’s website, we’ve noticed a posting on their ‘DivX Labs’ section along the lines of “Want to beta test some super-secret DivX stuff?”. The post was accompanied by a blurred logo … playing hard to get are we? Never one to turn down an indirect challenge of intellect, we put on our cyber-detective hats and hacked into their system and obtained the unblurred logo. By hacking, we mean checking the source code, and noticing:

No joke, DivX is secretly giving away their DivX Pro version (worth $19.99 USD) for free - but only for a
limited time of 1 day on 8th June apparently. Can’t find any mention of it on the official main page. Go get it now, Windows and Mac version available. Install it and enter your email, they will then send you an email with the serial number. Too good to be true

The pro version comes with
DivX Converter
DivX Pro Codec
DivX Player
DivX Web Player

why are you still here?
get it before it’s gone

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