TOKYO (MacHouse) – VideoLAN has released an updated version of its open-source, cross-platform media player. According to the organization, this update will fix a security issue that makes the user vulnerable for integer overflow attack (Windows’ version only) over the Internet. It will also fix four bugs.
Click on the button for more information on this update. 
TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. has updated its digital music and video software to 7.7. According to the company, this update allows iTunes users to download applications at the iTunes Store for iPhone and iPod touch with firmware version 2.0 or later.
Click on the button to download iTunes 7.7.
Click on the button for information on updating firmware on iPhone and iPod touch.
Yesterday, we started a new, short video tutorial series for simple audio editing techniques. Throughout this video tutorial series, we use HairerSoft’s Amadeus II. But you can use Amadeus Pro, Soundrack Pro, Peak Pro or whatever you feel comfortable using it with.
Again, we have an audio clip from the documentation video that we released the other day concerning an online advertising network called Clicksor. Just like before, this audio clip also contains a soft click sound.
If you can’t hear a click sound, you may want to increase the system audio volume up to Level 6 or 7. Continue reading
Over the next several days, we intend to release several video tutorials that introduce simple techniques in audio editing. We use HairerSoft’s Amadeus II to edit audio clips. You won’t be confined to this Mac software title. You can use any Mac or Windows audio application that you are comfortable with like Apple’s Logic Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Berkley Integrated Audio Software’s Peak Pro and so forth.
This video tutorial series is not about how to remove a systematic noise. For example, if you listen to this audio clip (Right-button-click on it and choose Open Link in New Window. You may want to raise the system audio volume to Level 6 or higher.), it contains an annoying motor-sound-like noise. In fact, we often run across video tutorials created by software developers that contain this sort of noise. And we won’t touch this subject in this audio editing video tutorial series. If an audio clip contains a similar noise, the person who recorded
The first video tutorial of the series involves an audio clip that contains a click sound, which we want to remove.
Making video tutorials is not that easy. We edit the audio track every time we make a video tutorial. By the way, the sample audio above comes from a documentation video that we released the other day at our SEO section. (See References for more information.) Continue reading
In conjunction with the freeware title called sharedSecrets that we introduced yesterday, another problem in joining multiple websites is to generate random passwords. A few weeks ago, an advertising network company we are affiliated with started delivering porn ads to our system. They’ve eventually screwed up our account. So we’ve been looking for new ones these days. Some of them are too slow in responding. Some of them cannot be trusted. So we’ve ended up creating close to a dozen accounts. If you do it 10 to 12 times, it’s not fun manually generating random usernames and passwords, you know?
So we need help in generating random usernames and passwords as much as we need to comprehensively manage them. A couple of days ago, we ran into a freeware title called Password Builder. It looks nice. It even supports Greek characters to generate strong passwords. But… It will run only under Leopard. Hmm… So what are other choices do OS X 10.4 users have?
And we found another Mac freeware title called RPG (Random Password Generator) by David Kreindler. That’s what this software review is all about. So let’s see how RPG works. Continue reading