WebAssembly Not Automatically Blocked by Browsers

WebAssembly is a type of code designed to run in modern web browsers.  It is designed to run alongside JavaScript using WebAssembly JavaScript APIs - creating an option for performance critical functionality.

As WebAssembly increases the browser's attack surface, so browsers contain WASM inside the browser's sandbox and restricts system access. 

A risk maybe breaking out of the sandbox. Adobe Flash was a product sandboxed after a bunch of exploits, and after sandboxing exploits still occurred.

Transmission of WASM does not require TLS, HSTS or any other transport layer security mechanism making it susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Integrity checking is also impossible as WASM modules need not be signed by the author.

Some security-focused browser configurations can block WASM.

Rotate a Scanned Document in Adobe

Control-Shift-Plus     Rotate Clockwise
Control-Shift-Minus Rotate Anti-Clockwise

Don't forget to re-save the document if appropriate!

Pdf Files in Windows 8 and when not to use Windows Reader

Pdf files are opened automatically by Windows 8 Reader which has built in PDF support. This is neat for casual reading. The catch - not all features of PDFs are supported. Worse still, if you resave the file in Reader, you are likely to lose functionality. You may therefore need to install Adobe Reader and set the default PDF application on your files to link to Adobe.

The World According to Adobe - ADM and other Adobe Specific Acronyms

Adobe is rewriting the world of the Windows user by introducing awesome new Adobe-specific acronyms.

ADM - Adobe Download Manager
MUI - Multilingual User Interface
X - Version 10

The ADM is also an AWESOME advertising platform for Adobe's partners. How cool is that? Get adverts streaming to your desktop as you download! It's user friendly and won't affect the performance of your machine much either. Howzat!!

Dot Net Posters

Christmas has come early for C# programmers with the Visual C# 2008 Keybinding reference poster. Truly awesome shortcuts, such as Shift-F12 to "Find all references", and Cntrl-ML (to "expand/collapse all") will save you hundreds of thousands of mouse-clicks in the long-run.

When you open the pdf in Adobe Reader (mine is Version 8.0), hit Control-L1 to display the poster Actual Size and in full-screen mode.

There is a really AWESOME, voice-synthesis feature in Adobe Reader (click View->Read this Page Only).