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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 02:20 EDT

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SensorLog is an iOS app from Bernd Thomas for logging sensor data from an Apple mobile device - latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, course, heading, acceleration, rotation, yaw, roll, pitch, gravity and more; plus motion activity in iPhone 5s and later models, as well as altitude and pressure data from iPhone 6 models and more. Features include logging and real-time, multicolor graphing of data, sending logs by email (or downloading via iTunes), selection of sampling rates and sensors, as well as a default email recipient, and data transmission over WiFi. SensorLog 1.6 is a free, ad-supported download for iOS 8 with a $3.99 in-app upgrade to remove the ads.

iPartition is an OS X utility from Coriolis Systems Limited that can resize storage partitions without destroying their data and also create, destroy, and format partitions on internal, external, fixed or removable disks. It includes support for HFS+, HFS, HFS+, FAT, NTFS, and Boot Camp, plus the ability to convert partition maps between Mac and PC formats and convert between case-sensitive HFS+ and normal HFS+ formats. (Note that there are some limitations with Apple's Core Storage formatting, used by FileVault 2, Fusion drives and Yosemite, nor is it compatible with Drobo devices.) iPartition 3.4.5 is priced at $49.95 for Mac OS X 10.5 and up (PowerPC or Intel).

WinZip is a compression utility from WinZip Computing S.L. (part of Corel), originally designed for Windows but also available for OS X. Features include compression with a file encryption option, the ability to open commons file formats (Zip, Zipx, RAR, LHA, 7Z, JAR, WAR), support for cloud storage (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, ZipShare) and a built-in email interface. WinZip for Mac 4.0.2519 is priced at $29.95 for OS X 10.8 and up with a trial version available. WinZip for iOS 4.2 is priced at $4.99 for iOS 7 and up.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

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Adobe Security Bulletin APSB15-14 documents the latest "critical" Adobe Flash security flaws in the unending stream of dangerous vulnerabilities in the company's software:

These updates address a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-3113) that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of reports that CVE-2015-3113 is being actively exploited in the wild via limited, targeted attacks....

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