Day: April 3, 2007

Geek Software of the Week: Tag&Rename!

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I know, this is another one that is NOT free, but occasionally you have VERY specific needs that only a shareware program like this addresses. I wanted a program that would allow me to edit tags within files of all kinds of file types, like: mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags), MusePack mpc/mp+ (APEv1, APEv2 and ID3v1 tags), Windows Media wma, asf and wmv files, Ogg Vorbis/Flac/Speex (vorbis comments), Apple iTunes and iPod aac (m4a) files including mp4, lossless m4a and protected m4p files, most popular lossless codecs including Monkey’s Audio, Flac, Wav Pack, Optim Frog, True Audio, Apple, Windows Media lossless and Wav! WOW! Plus, I wanted all file info on ONE screen, so I could see it and edit it all at once. Well, check it out!

Tag&Rename – easy to use tag editor

“Tag&Rename supports many additional tag fields including lyrics, cover art, rating, mood, disc #, part of a compilation, album artist, classical music fields (Composer, Conductor, etc.), file related URL’s and so on. With Tag&Rename, you can:

* manually edit music files tags
* automatically fix and complete file tags using online freedb database
* load titles and cover art from amazon.com server
* get tags data from file names and its folders structures
* rename your music files and folders according to its music information in a batch
* create play lists
* export files information to CSV, HTML, XML and text formats and more

Tag&Rename supports many files and tags standards in an easy and intuitive way, so you can work with music metadata and not have to think about files codecs and tags versions – Tag&Rename does it all.”

And, it supports Vista! All for only $29.95! Not bad at all! I bought it!

Microsoft Releases Emergency “Animated Cursor” Fix

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I told you about the “animated cursor” zero day exploit on Vista… well today they released the fix.

Microsoft Releases Fix for Animated Cursor Exploit

“Microsoft Corp. plans to patch a security hole in Windows on Tuesday related to an animated cursor that hackers have used to launch attacks after users click on links to malicious Web sites. Microsoft, whose Windows operating system runs on some 95 percent of the world’s computers, said it would release the patch outside of a regular monthly security update because it completed testing earlier than anticipated. ‘Microsoft’s monitoring of attack data continues to indicate that the attacks and customer impact is limited,’ the world’s biggest software maker said in a statement. Security firm F-Secure said attacks using the flaw related to cursor animation files used by Windows intensified over the weekend, with the majority tracing back to different Chinese hacker groups. It said most of the activity around the so-called ANI exploit has been via dozens of malicious Web sites but warned that on Sunday the first Internet worm, able to replicate without the user doing anything to the machine, was found using the flaw to spread. ‘This vulnerability is really tempting for the bad guys,’ said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure. ‘It’s easy to modify the exploit, and it can be launched via Web or e-mail fairly easily.'”