Cars: Chrysler, voluntary recall for 600,000 jeeps and minivans

Chrysler, recently confirmed the recall of 683,000 Wrangler Jeeps and minivans. The voluntary recall is due to the brake-line and power sliding door issues. Previously, Toyota, suffered much over the "sticky accelerator" pedal with some reported road accident due to that failure.

Now, Chrysler is stepping ahead by informing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about the recall. Though, there have been any related road accidents prior the recall, Chrysler just announced over a potential failures discovered on 2007~2010 Jeep Wranglers and 2008~2009 Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans.

The potential failures for the Jeep Wranglers, is that, the brake line could come in contact with the inner-fender lining. That could lead to reduce braking performance over time. While for the minivans, an interior wiring could come in contact with the sliding power door and thus could result to short circuit which could also lead to fire.

Internet Security: Adobe's Flash, reader loophole exploited

This was an update that was released last Friday. Reportedly, Adobe's Flash reader, vulnerabilities, were exploited by Cyber attackers and left the latest version of its player, the 10.0.45.2. If it does affects the latest version, so as the older versions of Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris media players.

Also vulnerable: PDF viewer Adobe Reader 9.x and PDF creation software Adobe Acrobat 9.x on Windows, Macintosh and Unix.

According to Secunia, a Danish bug tracker, the latest threat is extremely critical. A critical threat indeed, that, it made the US computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) on the alert and posted security warnings for the threat.

Sounds Alarming but it is that really a critical mess that these attackers have discovered within Adobe's Flash Shell?

According to Jobs, iPad is Magical. But Ballmer says it's a just another PC

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, countered the idea, that, the era of PC is waning. Maybe he can't sleep over the idea, a PC being a big old farm truck. That carries nothing but stacks of hay. Compared to the automatic and sophisticated cars in the city, Steve Jobs could mean that the PC has no longer a place in the current technology trend.

But, Steve Ballmer says otherwise. The iPad is just another PC with a different form factor. What the Apple did with the b was indeed magical. But then, at the end of the day, users send e-mails, surf the web and create documents in a PC. PC's are not created equal. With the iPad's limited functionality, it just can't do as much as a PC does and not everbody could afford it.

Shrek themed Glasses Pose Danger to Kids

Shrek Forever After debuted last May 21. The animated comedy features the voice of Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey, Antonio Bandera as Puss in Boots and the voice of Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona. The Ogre was cute and so are the Fairy Tale Characters on that movie. But, wait, let’s not get carried away.

It was good movie and I guess a nice treat for your kids. Yet, this latest news may not sound GP to you. McDonald's, the burger giant, had to recall 12 million of Shrek themed glasses. It was recalled due to cadmium content, discovered, on the painted design.

Oh no, these $2 - 16 ounce drinking glasses are really not cute. It's pretty cheap, but, not thanks. I don't want to end digesting those Cadmium content, especially to my kids.

How To: Fix a Lousy Mouse Scroll Wheel

Is your mouse has a scroll wheel on top of it? Are you experiencing some lousy scroll with it lately? Have every wondered what's the life span of the Mouse wheel for its effective function? Now, don't just throw away your mouse, if, it has been such a headache when you try to scroll over a page.

The symptom is intermittent, actually, and I will share to you a clever tweaks or repair that have I done to similar defect. The root cause with such defect actually is a worn out rotary scroll wheel axle socket. The fittings were already “lossy” and the axle cannot grip the socket to drive the rotary switch into motion.

You will need a Precision Screw Driver, and a couple of thin strips of adhesives and a scissor for cutting a tape into strips.