Added support for additional AMD 1xh Family processors and additional Intel Nehalem and SandyBridge Family processors, Better online database support and Online Results speed optimizations. This update also brings updated GUI, few bug-fixes, and several new features as Temperature monitoring diagram, Enhanced benchmark, Enhanced CPU information with clock monitoring, and others. Enjoy this free application!
We are glad to announce that Meather (a.k.a. My Weather) has been released to the public (as version 1.0.) Meather is a “simple” application which stays near your clock in Windows Tray area and monitors (every 15 mins) local weather conditions. The current temperature is shown in Tray area icon, while additional details and four-day forecast are available in popup dialog. Very easy to configure; just type in your city name, and optional country name. Weather information is provided by (unofficial API) iGoogle. Have fun!
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More than a year ago we had announced Yubiii and said it’s really close to a public preview release. So we thought a brief explanation is necessary. For those who are not familiar, Yubiii is aimed to allow Windows Log On, Computer Unlock, and other features to be enhanced with YubiKey OTP strong authentication abilities. Later on, after a discussion with YubiKey CEO, Stina Ehrensvard, we renamed the product to ybWin.
Closed Beta 1 was send to Yubico support and test team for review, which they did providing us with a good overview plus detailed observations and recommendations. Thank you for that!
The product reached Public Beta 2, which however was not actually released to the public.
The reason for that was the issues with password-protected Windows Screensaver implementation. Then a completely different approach was started to target this, which didn’t succeed either. So we had two choices – to release the Beta 2 with disabled support for password-protected Windows Screensavers, or to continue looking to a solution. Obviously, we choose the latter. However, the “public” Beta 2 release brought some nice features as support for multiple Yubikey per user (with some limitations):
The original idea was that the product (ybWin) is going to be aimed on the consumer market, i.e. individual users but enthusiasts, who can handle AES private keys properly, and what’s more – understand the importance of the information they are dealing with. Although the product offered some administrative features as the possibility to alter almost all of the settings remotely (via Administrative Template), then some key Enterprise application aspects were actually missing:
Thus a decision was made to postpone the public release until some of the issues were resolved, or rejected. As of today, we can not name the exact date of when such release will be available. It is quite possible that a stripped in version pops up, aimed at the single-user environment, providing two-factor authentication functionality for older OS-es as Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It is also possible that we split ybWin into two separate products.
Stay with us for more news on the subject.
New maintenance and security update OpenID-LDAP is available for downloading right away. It addresses the security issue with empty password authentication. But it also features enhanced logging requested by the community. Once again, thank you for your feedback. The new version is available after the jump.
The latest version of our free software product FFT-z (Processor Stress Test tool) was reviewed and awarded with 5 Stars certificate by FiberDownload. Here is the stamp and the link to the Editor’s review:
The recently updated OpenID-LDAP package features several improvements mainly contributed by the community. Thank you for your input. It has been a while since the previous update, so go and grab it right now.
Clean Temporary Places (Cle) has been updated to version 1.2.4 which brings a new cleanup option for deleting Microsoft Updates uninstall files.
FFT-z, the processor stress-test tool, has been updated. This version respects user’s privacy, as requested on SF.net, and allows computer’s host name to be hidden when uploading results to FFT-z online database. It also caps AMD CPU-s maximum temperature to 65′C by default. Warning and shutdown levels were adjusted as well. Enjoy it!