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Second Life creators Linden Lab have launched a new Second Life-compatible viewer, which the company developed with the open source community. The company’s goal was to create a "widely-used, openly developed version of the Second Life client."
Snowglobe will contain new Second Life features before they become available in the official release. That said, not all features will make it there.
An ActiveX control used to view Microsoft Access report snapshots poses a potential avenue for exploitation.
Users of the Gaia project’s open source utility for viewing the data normally available to Google Earth clients have been asked to stop using it in the wake of a cease and desist request from Google.
The viewer was designed to only play videos from Google’s servers. That restriction didn’t last for long.
Famed Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon, has taken the open source nature of Google’s newly launched, browser-based video player to heart evidently.
It was announced earlier today that Google would be releasing an in-browser video player plug-in, designed seemingly to make Google Video a more interactive experience, instead of one that searches video but returns only text (readable instead of watchable) results.
Download it. 1.1 megabytes, Windows 2000 or higher, Firefox 1.0 or IE 5.0 or higher. If you’d like, get the source code.
