Mac Software Review: Roxio Crunch 1.0

Roxio Crunch
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Sonic Solutions, the developer of Roxio Toast Titanium, quietly introduced Roxio Crunch 5 days ago. What is it for? Roxio Crunch is a video exporter. More specifically, it is an MP4 transcoder. Roxio Crunch allows the user to decode video (MOV, AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, ISO, Video_TS, DVD) and then re-encode it with a different video compressor (MPEG-4 Part 2 or Part 10) under MP4 format (.m4v). Transcoded movies are iPod and Apple TV-ready. Continue reading →

Notice from Site Administrator

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The number of exploited websites of American colleges and universities is so huge that MacHouse is no longer able to notify each department, each college and each institution of affiliate spam problems. We wrote to Association of American Colleges and Universities several days ago and asked them for their cooperation in combating affiliate spam surrounding high education systems. But our request has been ignored.

If you are from a college/university whose website has been exploited for affiliate spam, we advise that you stand up, talk to other victims and form a cooperative body to hunt down whoever is responsible. For removing spam pages will not solve the problem at all.

Furthermore, MacHouse has proceeded to destroy some of spam domains, which we hope will soon be inactive in a few days. We regret to inform that we resign from this volunteer work in securing safe Internet enviroments.

Therefore, from now on, we will spend less time taking care of other people’s business. MacHouse needs to go back to its expertise. It’s time for us to concentrate on producing video tutorials for Mac users and its members.

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Google-Backed Porn Super Highway Under Way?

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Until now, we didn’t find anything that connects Blogger’s hundreds of porn websites to its parent company Google. Anyway, I took a close look at one of the porn websites hosted at Google-owned Blogger. This website is very graphic. So I turned my eyes away from pornographic images and looked at the title of the page, which said “amateur home sex video.” Then I entered this exact key phrase and asked Google to find anything with it. Continue reading →

A Network of Exploited Websites of 21 Academic Institutions Discovered

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Exploring the exploited website of Solono Community College led us to a network of more abused websites for pharmacy spam. The exploitation list includes Lewis-Clark State College (Lewiston, Idaho), Cerritos College (Norwalk, CA), Grossmont College (El Cajon, CA), Oklahoma State University The Fire Protection Society (Stillwater, OK), Modesto Junior College (Modesto, CA), Seton Hall University (South Orange, NJ), Valdosta State University College of Education (Valdosta, GA), Southern New Hampshire University (Manchester, NH), University of Idaho College of Agriculture (Moscow, ID), University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management (Amherst, MA), Kennesaw State University Georgia Educational Technology Training Center (Kennesaw, GA), Minnesota School of Business Globe College (MN), University of Wisconsin Stevens Point School of Education (Stevens Point, WI), Yildiz Technical University (Turkey), Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX), Vanderbilt University Institute for Software Integrated Systems The Generic Modeling Environment (Nashville, TN), Loyola University New Orleans (New Orleans, LA), Texas A&M University Commerce (Commerce, TX), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (Cambridge, MA), Cleveland State University (Cleveland, OH), Winthrop University College of Education (Rock Hill, SC). Continue reading →