Computer scientist Brian Mastenbrook has discovered a fairly serious bug in Safari’s RSS feed handling that can allow a maliciously-crafted web page to access personal information without any knowledge or intervention of the user. The information can include—but isn’t necessarily limited to—e-mails, passwords, and information stored in browser cookies.

This vulnerability affects any Mac OS X user that has Safari set as the default feed reader in Safari’s RSS preferences. You can be affected by it even if you don’t read RSS feeds or regularly use another browser such as Firefox. As for Windows users, the vulnerability only affects those who use Safari to browse the web.

Solution/Workaround for this problem is very simple.

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Preview application in mac Leopard does lots of things ( eg. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 ) . One of the thing it does is reading PDF files without having to install Adobe reader for Mac. I prefer using Preview for opening PDF files than Adobe reader because preview is quick and i feel it light as well. But today i found one limitation of Preview as a PDF reader though there may be many more preview cant do which Adobe’s PDF reader can do. 

The limitation is in Preview if you have a multiple paged PDF document open and try to select a Large text . You cant just do it. Try it. By Large text here i mean that text extending in multiple pages say text in more than 1 pages or so. Preview can only select the text which is currently being displayed. You try to select the text with mouse and go down the page in the document Preview wont Scroll down as expected to select more text. Even without using mouse and instead using Shift+Arrow key combination the Preview wont let the PDF document scroll and you cant select text in the area not currently shown in front of you. This is so irritating. I had to download Adobe reader just to select the texts in the PDF document i was reading.

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Well i have setup Spaces and Expose in my Mac . I have also configured mouse gestures to invoke Expose and Spaces in my Mac so that when i move my mouse pointer to upper left corner i see all of the open Windows . And similarly when i move my mouse pointer to lower right corner of Screen i see the Spaces. I frequently use the Expose than Spaces . 

But today i kinda found a bug or limitation in the Expose of Mac. When i miniminse one of the open Windows and just within a second if i move my mouse to top left corner to invoke the Expose so that i can see all the windows Open . In this case i still can see the blank window space representing just minimized window . The occupying space of that window doesn’t have anything visible but when the mouse points hover over that particular space seems Expose gives information of the just minimized window and when clicked the minimized window gets focussed. 

This doesn’t happen when i move the mouse pointer to invoke Expose after a Window which i minimized has completely minimized and stayed in the Dock. May be you couldn’t visualize all the things i have explained here — The below screencast should give a clear understanding about what i am talking about here.

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Well today i quickly noticed some kind of bug ( or a neglected thing ? ) in iTunes Latest version thats iTunes 8. I downloaded a Podcast video and was watching it . I went full screen ( Command + F ) . When i wanted to come out of the full screen mode ( again Command + F ) to normal mode it didn’t actually come to normal mode but it showed me the downloaded Podcast file instead of the video playing in smaller screen . As compared to Quicktime its not similar and i suppose its a bug or something which is neglected in iTunes 8 ?

At my office, i had some HTML things to work with .It was about dropdown combo box with more than 1 visible items ( this means HTML Select tag with size more than 1 like <select name=”macphobia” size=”2″> ) I was playing around with the w3cschools’ tryit editor in different browsers . It was working fine with expected results in IE , Mozilla firefox in my office Windows XP machine but i did the same thing in Safari in Windows the result was not what expected. Safari was not showing the number of visible items in Dropdown to what i had defined the HTML select tag rather it was showing all the elements in the drop down options. This was weird and surprising to me . Below are different results of my tries . It seems that whatever the number of size you give as visible items Safari will always show 4 itmes . Continue reading »