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The Android x86 Project is a project to port Android open source project to an x86 platform (computer).    If you would like to try it out, use Oracle’s VM VirtualBox (formerly VirtualBox).

VirtualBox How To

Android x86-16 r2 VDI for Oracle’s VM VirtualBox

Screenshots

Blog and News of Android Project

Hopefully Oracle leaves VirtualBox free for home users… well Oracle VM VirtualBox.

VirtualBox Version 3.2.0 is a major update and is available now. The following major new features were added:

• Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, the VirtualBox is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox and all references were changed without impacting compatibility.
• Experimental support for Mac OS X guests
• Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)
• CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information)
• New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
• Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
• Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see the manual for more information)
• USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available
• LsiLogic SAS controller emulation
• RDP video acceleration
• NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage
• Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system
• OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard

Ubuntu continues to grow and the ease of installation and stability are excellent for any user.   With VirtualBox, Ubuntu can be ran on Windows 7 with ease while using very little resources.

The setup of VitualBox is easy and fast.  The 70mb download comes with a wizard for installation that even a novice can understand.   By downloading the Ubuntu ISO and copying it to a folder; a user only has to point to the downloaded file after clicking on the NEW OS and following the step by step instructions.   The configuration of VirtualBox is also simple and  is designed for novice users.

VirtualBox 3.1.8 Manual

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Google: The Accidental Spy

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NTOP is a great network monitoring tool used primarily with Linux based system.  However, in 2006 NTop released NTOP-XTRA which was designed for Windows XP.  This excellent tool works with Windows 7 and can be used to monitor your network.  Not as detailed as the Linux versions of NTop today, NTOP-XTRA for Windows is still an excellent graphical program.  NTOP-XTRA must be ran with firefox.

Note:  If you find and download the software below for Windows, you will start the OPENXTRA Commander services and open Firefox’s browser to http://127.0.0.1:3000

Because NTOP-XTRA installs Winpcap, you may elect to NOT install their version and download the lastest version here.

NTop_XTRA_3_18_0.exe

Experimenting with Linux is a great way to learn the operating system.  It is essential that you learn Linux if you are going to be in Information Technology.  Here’s a pictorial on installing Fedora Linux on VirtualBox.

VirtualBox (Wiki)  is free product from Oracle and can be used to virtualize operating systems within your operating system (regardless if it is on a laptop, desktop or server).

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(Picture – Left to Right)

 Read our Article on Running VirtualBox on a webserver as a cloud OS

Slax is an excellent utility to run on a usb stick with your favorite malware removal tools.  Get Slax

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

By selecting your modules online, your ISO will be built for download (customized to your needs).  Excellent and very creative.

Forbes has a great slide show on best paying jobs for women.  Several of the jobs are in the computer industry.

Link

Some of our most successful students are female.  Alumni Highlights

Once again cybercriminals are challenging end users with a link or file to check your computer for Windows 7 compatibility.   Don’t click on these links or files.  This is a nothing more than a ruse to get information from the users.  Good article over at BitDefender.

(A link to some of their removal tools)

Rick over at Whats On My PC (blog) once again has found a great free software program.  Paragon backup and recovery has dozens of features allowing you to keep your data safe.  Go over and read his review.

If ‘New Folder’ is missing in the right click option, you can run the registry fix listed below -

Folder Fix

Download the above file to your desktop, unzip and double click.

The registry information it changes is found below- if you don’t download from above, you can copy and paste this information into notepad and save as folderfix.reg.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}]
@=”CLSID_ExecuteFolder”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}\InProcServer32]
@=”ExplorerFrame.dll”
“ThreadingModel”=”Apartment”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New]
@=”{D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder]
@=”Folder”
“EditFlags”=hex:d2,03,00,00
“FullDetails”=”prop:System.PropGroup.Description;System.ItemNameDisplay;System.ItemType;System.Size”
“ThumbnailCutoff”=dword:00000000
“TileInfo”=”prop:System.Title;System.PropGroup.Description;System.ItemType”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore]
“MultiSelectModel”=”Document”
“BrowserFlags”=dword:00000022
“ExplorerFlags”=dword:00000021

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,72,00,61,00,74,00,65,00,2c,00,2f,\
00,65,00,2c,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,\
2c,00,25,00,4c,00,00,00
“DelegateExecute”=”{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open]
“MultiSelectModel”=”Document”
“BrowserFlags”=dword:00000010
“ExplorerFlags”=dword:00000012

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,72,00,61,00,74,00,65,00,2c,00,2f,\
00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,2c,00,25,00,4c,00,\
00,00
“DelegateExecute”=”{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}]
@=”PDF Column Info”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\BriefcaseMenu]
@=”{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Offline Files]
@=”{474C98EE-CF3D-41f5-80E3-4AAB0AB04301}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\DragDropHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\DragDropHandlers\{BD472F60-27FA-11cf-B8B4-444553540000}]
@=”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\BriefcasePage]
@=”{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\Offline Files]
@=”{7EFA68C6-086B-43e1-A2D2-55A113531240}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\ShellNew]
“Directory”=”"
“IconPath”=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\
00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,\
00,00
“ItemName”=”@shell32.dll,-30396″
“MenuText”=”@shell32.dll,-30317″
“NonLFNFileSpec”=”@shell32.dll,-30319″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\ShellNew\Config]
“AllDrives”=”"
“IsFolder”=”"
“NoExtension”=”"

Physical security is very important with Linux boxes.

Verizon-Google Tablet: Five Burning Questions

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Layar uses your mobile phone’s camera, compass and GPS data to not only identify your location and what your camera ‘sees’, it also retieves data based on those coordinates (GPS/Compass and overlays that data on your camera’s view.

Thwapr allows you to share a video from your phone to a phone or to Facebook and Twitter.  Free

FEMA supplies flood maps to the general public.   These maps break down areas based on historic past along with rivers, streams, ponds and other data.  The technology featured on the web helps land owners, builders and businesses plan for the future.

FCleaner is a powerful program that is freeware.  Cleaning all browsers and over 100 applications, FCleaner is an excellent way to keep your computer running like new.

FCleaner cleans your windows installation, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and SeaMonky along with Application Plugins.  FCleaner is also a great uninstaller program and Startup Manager organizer.  With an option to automatically clean on startup and dozens of other features, FCleaner is one of the best programs to keep your computer clean.

A great malware removal tool that helps to get rid of the malicious software that infects computers is A-Squared.  A-Squared along with Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware Portable is a great arsenal for any computer tech or home user.

With A-Squared on a flash drive, you can use the software anywhere.  With both A-Squared GUI and a command line scanner, A-Squared on your flash drive can run against any malware.