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At the time of this writing, as far as I can tell this cannot be done. What? you don't want to hear that?

I didn't either! There is a workaround though...

LinuxInsider: "A Flash Player vulnerability could allow attackers to gain control of a user's webcam and microphone, according to a security advisory issued by Adobe.

The company has issued a workaround; however a patch won't come until later."

Filed under: Internet, Security, Adobe, Browsers

ZDNet: "For the first time since the introduction of its quarterly Critical Patch Update process in 2005, Oracle has released an emergency alert to offer mitigation for a zero-day vulnerability that’s been published on the Internet."

Calendar syncing via MobileMe to an iPhone works great, except it doesn't include subscribed calendars yet. (An Apple knowledge base article makes it sound like they are working on it.) Here's a workaround that's good for static calendars, like US Holidays or Jewish Holidays:

1. Select the subscribed calendar in iCal.
2. Choose File » Export... and save it someplace.
3. Choose File » Import...
   

This week, several developers reported various bugs. In most cases, they found a workaround.

For those of you running Firefox on Mac OS X in an Open Directory environment with portable home directories, you may have seen a damnably frustrating error when you try to download a file.

From what I’ve heard it works fairly well on most distros but I haven’t heard yet how well it works with the new Flash Player 10 beta.

Despite this potential workaround eventually Adobe does need to natively support 64-bit Linux - and they will.

If you are like me and love using Safari as the default browser and also subscribe to Sprint's Family Locator service, you may have to switch to Firefox in order to access their website.

When I launched HoudahSpot this morning, the program's auto-update feature told me that there was a new version available, and listed the new version's bug fixes and added features.

One of the last features caught my eye, as it's one of the things about HoudahSpot that I didn't like: you can now set the field header background color via a hidden preference.