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MorphThing is a cool website which helps you to combine two people faces and create a new figure having all facial characteristics from the uploaded pictures. It is a free and simple process that anyone can do in a matter of minutes with a very funny result. You’ll never know how the final figure will look like and it’s always a surprise.
All you need to do before starting to morph things is to create an account on the website. After that you will follow several easy guided steps to combine your favorite images. You won’t need any graphic design knowledge or to know how to work with complex programs similar with Adobe Photoshop. And there is also no maximum image size requirement.



To morph two uploaded images you have to prepare them, as i said earlier, by placing small green dots on specific face points, indicated by the guide, used to define each the face characteristics. You will start with the upper point of the face, continuing to the bottom, and placing dots on the eye, nose and hair margins.
MorphThing advices you to choose the two pictures with people looking in front, preferably with the mouth shut, and having the same head position, these to avoid unpleasant results.
Pictures also should better have 300 x 400 pixels to minimize distortion, and you should try to find faces with no eye glasses, heavy makeups, cigarettes or other things.



The morphing process will always be a fun thing to play with in your free time, and consists of distorting an image while fading it into the second one by marking key points and vectors on both images.



There are other websites that perform morphing of two images and MorphThing is one of the best and friendly.

As Christmas is close, I thought to recommend you a nice screensaver I have just found on the Internet, with this feast theme.



It is a superb screensaver meant to spread the Christmas fragrance into your house, with its beautiful colors and specific music.
In the middle of your screen you will have the big and impressive Christmas tree decorated with flashing lights, warm candle lights, a snowman and elves.
If you add some sound effects and tree moving effects you will surely be introduced deeper in the Christmas atmosphere.




You can customize what you see by accessing the menu by clicking the right mouse button. You can start with moving the clock shown in the center, or turn the sound off, but maybe it is nicer to let it on and see how the spectacular lights are flashing according to the sounds.
Customize colors or lights and even lights’ shapes like rays or spirals. Add or remove some of the cones, make the snow fall in bigger quantities.



Coming from 3D FairyTayle, the latest version, 1.75, is a shareware version compatible with Windows 98/ME/ 2000/ 2003/XP.
What the latest version brings with are Musical Lights and the option to get music from your computer directly, like your favored Christmas songs.
For running it you need to have a 3D accelerated graphics card and at least version 9 of DirectX. For DirectX 8 I recommend you to get the previous version of the screensaver, Christmas Tree Screensaver 1.73.



You can download the demo version of this screensaver you can do it from here, and later if you would want to get rid of the nag-screen, have the possibility to save your own menu settings and to get free e-mail technical support and updates, you will have to order it for $14.95.

At this year’s edition of the Extend Firefox contest, the Firefox team invites all talented developers to show up with new plugins ideas for the popular browser.
A group of specialists formed by people from Mozilla, Yahoo, StumbleUpon, Netvibes, del.ici.ous and Adaptive Path, will review the projects and decide who will be rewarded with:



-The Grand Prize for 3 people, each receiving the Ultimate Firefox Developer Kit which includes:

• Travel and accommodation to a Mozilla Developer Day of the winner's choice, anywhere in the world
• Development gear, including a brand new 15" Macbook Pro with VMware Fusion and ActiveState Komodo
• 1 Year Unlimited Access subscription to O'Reilly's Safari Library
• Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag stuffed with t-shirts, books, stickers, mugs, and more

-The Runner-Up Prize for 12 people that will receive Firefox Pack each, including:

• Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag stuffed with t-shirts, books, stickers, and more
• ActiveState Komodo, mug, and t-shirt
• A $200 Gift Certificate for O'Reilly Books

All qualifiers will receive a Limited Edition Extend Firefox T-Shirt.
The Extend Firefox contest will last until the end of the year.



Besides this developing contest, there is another one initiated by Firefox, and that is Operation Firefox.
It consists of recruiting 50 future agents that will have the honor to place huge Firefox stickers in places like the Everest Mountain or NYC Rush-Hour Bustle.
We will wait anxious to know the winners.

The version of the Gozi Trojan was discovered this Tuesday while Russian hackers started to spread malware-tainted PDF files used to hijack computers remotely and steal all financial-related data.
This way, the Adobe PDF Reader is transformed into a malware installer that loads the Trojan on the computers.

Don Jackson, a researcher for SecureWorks, warns Adobe Reader’s and Acrobat’s users to upgrade immediately to the newest version.
He also highlighted the fact that only 26% of the antiviruses are offering protection against this malware type.

Here are a few names under it can be detected: OrderGun, Germ, Orderjack, Pinch, Small.BS, Ursnif, Snifula and CWS.

The Gozi Trojan is based on Winsock2 functionality that permits it to snoop on traffic even when it is protected in Secure Socket Layer sessions.
More than that is using customized server/database code to collect the sensitive data.

Read more details about how it acts here.

According to a post on ITBackbones website, some Windows XP users are confronting with a new malware targeting Adobe versions that have not been upgraded yet.
If you receive in your inbox a PDF under a title like YOUR_BILL.pdf or INVOICE.pdf, do not access it.

This is what Andrew Clarke, Senior Vice President of Lumension Security, one of the leading security management companies, declared about the problem:

“It seems the race is on for Windows XP users to protect their PCs - both at home and in the office. Hackers are often looking to exploit holes in software once a fix has been made public by the software vendor and before the user has time to patch. And, it is often human curiosity that proves the Achilles heel of security matters. Computer users need to be suspicious of any Adobe documents named as a ‘bill’ or ‘invoice, until they have applied the latest patch.
As the receipt of bills and invoices over email becomes more commonplace, it is likely that some unsuspecting users will fall victim to this latest attack. To avoid infection, computer users need to download the latest version of Adobe 8.1.1 to secure their PCs.
Upgrading to the latest software can be done at the touch of a button for consumers, making it simple to protect against this attack. However, the inconvenience of not being able to use an application straight away makes some users click the ‘apply later’ option, leaving them exposed for longer. For businesses, applying the latest patch is not so simple - as software alterations must be tested against the individual infrastructure before it is applied. Applying a piece of code that conflicts with your current system could lead to a period of downtime for the user.”