Following our release of the popular Hping2 software for Linux based hand-held devices, The Hypervisor Lab team has developed a plugin for the open-source WordPress content management software to make it easy for users to login and logout of WordPress powered websites.
Although WordPress comes with a similar feature, called the “Meta” widget, the built in [...]

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Hping is open-source network testing software, and some time ago one our software gurus compiled a version of Hping to run on the Sharp Zaurus, which is a fairly ancient Linux based mobile device. Although the Zaurus may be long in the tooth, the software should also work on other Linux based devices that use the StrongArm [...]

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Over the last few years the Apple iPhone has changed our expectations of how a mobile phone should look and work. But while the iPhone comes with an exceptionally good web browser and a range of other software, years after its launch the options for push email are still disappointing.
Blackberry was the first major vendor [...]

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Corporate customers and software developers were unable to access Microsoft’s MSDN benefits portal for much of today. The portal provides MSDN subscribers with access to downloads of Microsoft products and license keys. Although Microsoft has not issued a statement about the problem, the problem came to light in The Hypervisor Lab when one of our [...]

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In a head to head test of AVG and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009, The Hypervisor lab results show the Kaspersky suite discovered and removed more Trojan and virus software than AVG. However, neither package was able to completely clean our PC and we needed to format the hard disk and reinstall Windows to fully fix the [...]

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I’ve recently been working on a project to make Lotus Notes email available to users of the Apple iPhone.
It turns out there’s quite a few commercial products that claim to do this, but most of the ones I’ve tried seem to not work properly. Perhaps this is because IBM recently announced support for direct connections [...]

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We’ve heard reports of one user that is seeing a 50x reduction in the amount of storage space needed for backups of their virtual machines thanks to data de-deplication, or dedupe, technology from DataDomain.
In this case the DataDomain dedupe tool was integrated with Vizioncore vRanger Pro backup software, so the user simply needs to tick [...]

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You may have noticed that printing full page Google maps in portrait mode is often impossible.
With most PCs the best you can hope for is to be able to print around half a “letter” or “A4″ sized page (see image).
Well, Hypervisor Lab technicians have been hard at work on the problem and have come up [...]

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Windows Vista security features can cause browsers such as Firefox to fail to open web pages when when a link is clicked in another program such as Outlook.

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The first thing we noticed about Windows Server 2008 is that installation is generally much simpler than with previous versions.
As the forthcoming WS2008 is not yet supported by VMware, we created a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition virtual machine (VM) using VMware Workstation 5.5.5. Having done this, we booted the new VM with our WS2008 [...]

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