Techno-tips

Let 2007 be a year of high hope and success to everybody.
By bye 2006!!

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According to the orkut statistics page,Brazil still dominates with 59.01%,while united states is second with 16.50%,India gets the third position in the list.Interestingly 36% has no answer on Relationship status(hmm...).Luckly just 18% people in orkut are here for dating(Thank god!).while 18-25 age group dominates orkut with over 60%.you can go to the live statistics page by clicking here.mean while orkut server went off yesterday(30-12-2006) everybody thought orkut was upto giving a new year surprise with new designs,but unfortunately it dint.

What are you gonna do when you cant see your lovely blog as the government puts a ban on blogs?.The answer is simple just go to www.pkblogs.com type in your blogs name or the blog you want to read there and click the access now button.Pkblogs website was launched as the governments of India,Pakistan and some other countries blocked blogspot.there was wide spread protest from the Indian blogging community against the government,when the goverment put a ban on blogspot blogs just after the Mumbai blasts recently.The indian blogosphere was completely paused for a while,with nobody able to view their blogs,as part of a preventive measure to fight further bans in future pkblogs website can be used.

K750i happens to be one of the best and economical model with a lot of features in the indian market.A new set would cost you around nearly Rs 10000,with it's cool features the price tag is just a teaser.K750i comes with a whole lot of cool features.k750i comes with a great camera with a 2 Mega pixel camera,but beleive me the camera is so sharp and clear that you can take great photographs with it.Camera also has auto focus feature and video recording feature.An advanced digital music player,Fm radio and fast download,Impressive graphics and super quality sounds are some of its very cool features.The sony ericsson k750i weighs just 99gms or 3.5 ounces.Available in colours 'Oxidized black' and 'Blasted silver'.screen is 176 x 220 pixels.One of the disadvantages of this phone is that it has a slightly older memory card version.

Features
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• Integrated 2.o mega pixel camera with 4X digital zoom
• Advanced digital music player with great sound quality
• Plays streamed audio and video
• Music Dj software
• GPRS
  
• Mega Bass
• Bluetooth and infrared
• Plays Radio FM
  
• Wap 2.0
• USB support & synchronisation with PC

• Memory Stick Duo™ support
• Memory Stick PRO Duo™ support
• Phone memory 34MB(Expandable)

• No EDGE support
• Lower quality touch orientation of keypad
• Camera shutter sound cannot be switched off on some versions
• Menu animation cant be switched off

Playstaion 3 is on the stands and it comes with a slick design.

Sony Playstation 3 happens to be sony's 7th generation video game console.Third in the playstation series.Playstation 3 seems to be facing some good competition already from Microsoft's X-box 360 and Nintendo's Wii.

Playstation 3 was first released in Japan on november 11th,and later in the US,Canada,Hong Kong and Taiwan on november 17th. But sadly the PS3 will be available in Europe and Australia only after march 2007.The basic configuration of the PS3 console has a 20gb internal hard drive,While the premium version comes with a 60Gb Serial ATA harddisk.
Let us take a look at the features of premium and Basic configured PS3 console's:



PS3 Launched 15 game titles including Need for speed Carbon.It would take a long time for PS3 to reach india mean while try the X-Box 360 out.

Yet another battle in the Internet space,but this time it is between two giants from the browser world.Two of the world's best Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer,both have released their new versions Firefox 2.0 and IE explorer 7 respectievely.IE explorer 7 is microsoft's browser update after 5 year's.

Let us take a look at their advantages:
Internet explorer 7
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• Built in Tabbed browsing[Already their in firefox 1.5]
• Antiphishing technology
• RSS reader
• Redesigned favourites center

• Built in Antiphishing technology
• Session restore
• Inline Spell checking
• Search Engine suggestion's
• Tabbed browsing already in firefox 1.5
• Available for Window's,Mac and Linux

• Limited to WINDOWS XP SP 2 User's
• Installation requires a reboot
• Doesn't yet comply with current Web standards
• Cant Match the features of Firefox and Opera
• Reuses the old internet explorer 6 code

• Doesn't yet pass the Web Standards Project Acid2 test.
• 1.5 version add-ons break in 2.0
• No thumbnail previews

• Firefox offer's you more security than Internet Explorer.
• Firefox is faster than Internet explorer
• Better browsing experience with tabbed browsing etc...

The Battle has begun between two Giants Microsoft and Apple corp.The reason?,The Launch of the Zune [The new portable mp3 player from microssoft].Zune is all set to release in the US on November 14th,The news was declared by microsoft officials on September15th.Zune will be a Challenger for the Apple corp's ipod which has been a hit with music buffs.But initial hearing's suggest apple's ipod is better than Zune. Zune is scheduled to be released in Europe by late 2007 or early 2008.

Zune comes in just one version initially.which has up to 30GB memory,that can hold Music,Videos and Pictures.The price is set at $249 same as that of one of the ipod model's.Zune has many advantages over ipod they are:

• Larger screen
  
• Can exchange song's wirelessly with other zune's
• Built in FM RADIO
• Good Interface with user
• Few Buttons and easy to navigate

• 60% Larger and 17 % heavier from it's counter part from Apple ipod
• Less Battery life than ipod
• Less clarity on screen than ipod
• Cant share music between zune and computer
• Online store offer's just 2 million song's compared with 3.5 million from itunes store

• WMA, MP3, AAC, JPEG,WMV, MPEG-4, H.264 media playback
• Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) connectivity
• 30 GB Hard Drive
  
• White, Black, and Brown Colors
  
• FM Radio
  
• Dedicated song download site zune.net
  
• Podcast playback
• Updateable Firmware
  
• Tested 13 hr battey life for audio, 4 hr video
• 3 day playback of Wi-Fi transfered songs from friends
• XBOX streaming
• XBOX (Microsoft) points compatability
  
• Preloaded music videos
• Over a dozen accessories at launch
  
• 5.6 ounces in weight, 4.4 x 2.4 x 0.58 inches size
• Metric: 158 g, 112 x 61 x 14.7 mm size
• Custom background images
• WiFi transfer of photographs
  
• Tag based storage system (Will not appear as drive)
• PC Compatability (no Mac client at launch)
• Zune tag enabled
  
• Horizontal and vertical video orientation

Audio Tracks

• Band of Horses, “Wicked Gil” (Sub Pop)
• Bitter:Sweet, “The Mating Game” (Quango Music Group)
• CSS, “Alala (Microsoft edit)” (Sub Pop)
• Darkel, “At The End of The Sky (edit)” (Astralwerks)
• Every Move A Picture, “Signs of Life” (V2 Records)
• Small Sins, “Stay” (Astralwerks)
• The Adored, “Tell Me Tell Me” (V2 Records)
• The Rakes, “Open Book” (V2 Records)
• The Thermals, “A Pillar of Salt” (Sub Pop)

Music Videos

• 30 Seconds to Mars, “The Kill” (Virgin Records)
• BT, “1.618” (DTS Entertainment)
• Chad VanGaalen, “Red Hot Drops” (Sub Pop)
• Coldcut featuring Roots Manuva, “True Skool” (Ninja Tune)
• CSS, “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” (Sub Pop)
• Fruit Bats, “Live: The Wind That Blew My Heart Away” (Sub Pop)
• Grandaddy, “Elevate Myself” (V2 Records)
• Hot Chip, “Over and Over” (Astralwerks)
• Kraak & Smaak featuring Dez., “Keep Me Home” (Quango Music Group)
• Kinski, “Live: The Snowy Parts of Scandinavia” (Sub Pop)
• Paul Oakenfold featuring Brittany Murphy, “Faster Kill Pussycat" (Perfecto Records)
• Serena-Maneesh, “Drain Cosmetics” (Playlouderecordings)

Short Films

• 5boro: “A New York Skateboarding Minute” (Skateboarding)
• Radical Films: “Kranked — Progression” (Mountain Biking)
• TGRTV The North Face (Skiing/Snowboarding)

Images

Variety of images to personalize a Zune device, including 12 classic rock posters from “Art of Modern Rock”

Yahoo Messenger user's beware,a virus infecting yahoo messenger is on the loose.Avoid clicking on suspicious links that friends might forward,it could be a virus.The virus is spreading fast.The virus sends links from a user's id to his friends,when their friends click on it they will get infected.Yahoo messenger being used by million's world over,thus helps virus spread faster.60 million yahoo user's are at risk.that doesn't mean you should panic.I have been receiving this links for about a month now,but luckily i dint open it.

If you are infected with it what is going to happen ?

1: It sets your default IE page to nsl-school.org, you can’t even change it back to other page. If you open IE from your comp some malicious code will automatically executed into your computer.

2: It will disables the Task manager / reg edit. So you can’t kill the Trojan process anymore.

3: Files that are gonaa installed by this virus are svhost.exe , svhost32.exe , internat.exe.

you can find these files in windows/ & temp/ directories.

4: It will sends the secured & protected information to attacker


The code for infecting virus is hidden in the html pages,and once you open it your pc will get infected.The virus is known as "nsl-school.org"it is because the url of the virus link ends with it.The virus can be avoided by ignoring all

• "nsl-school.org" links
• "myglobalnews.org"links
• "lottery-news.info" links
• "vnol.org"links
• "ie-protector.com"links

• Saying your friend has won a lottery
• "Damn she is so cute"along with link
• saying"Check this link for me"
• Asking to vote for a Vietnam beauty

1. Close the IE browser. Log out messenger / Remove Internet Cable.
2. enable Regedit
   
   Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)
   
   REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
3. To enable task manager : (To kill the process we need to enable task manager)
   
   Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)
   
   REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
4. Now we need to change the default page of IE though regedit.
   
   Start>Run>Regedit
   
   From the below locations in Regedit chage your default home page to google.com or other.
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
   
   HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
   
   HKEY_USERS\Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
   
   Just replace the attacker site with google.com or set it to blank page
5. Now we need to kill the process from back end. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del
   
   Kill the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running.. check properly)
   
6. Delete svhost32.exe , svhost.exe files from Windows/ & temp/ directories. Or just search for svhost in your comp.. delete those files.
7. Go to regedit search for svhost and delete all the results you get.
   
   
   Start menu > Run > Regedit >,
8. RESTART COMPUTER, NOW YOU ARE VIRUS FREE!!
   

Yes gahooyoogle is a search engine with a difference.It combines two Giant search engines Google and Yahoo.I have been looking for a site like this,where i could search both yahoo and google.I firmly beleive that google is better than yahoo by all means.Google gives you the most relevant pages first,while i think it is meessed up with yahoo.Gahooyoogle brings search results from both Yahoo and google,The screen get's split to yahoo search and google search.Htis website is less time consuming.this website is proving to be convenient for many net surfers,who are busy to search both yahoo and google.it gives a wide range of services,like adding the gahooyoogle search bar to your blog/webpage etc,just like the one below:

Google introduced a Mobile version of its Email service known as Gmail on thursday.While youtube is set to go mobile within a year.Gmail Mobile is downloadable ,Free Java application,which has been designed for mobile devices like cell phones.the java application acts like an interface on the gmail site>it includes google's search features,a conversation window and auto sychronisation with google's desktop version.



Google says that the mobile client is 5 times faster than accessing Gmail from a mobile browser.the java application reduces the no clicks and time needed to click,compose and search for mails.

“We made the client application very fast,” said Tony Hsieh, a product manager- mobile team at Google. “When you start up the application, rather than just downloading the first 20 headers, you also download the first 20 bodies, depending on the phone’s memory. For most people, those are the common things people read, so it will be instantaneous.”

the application resizes pictures to make it viewable on
a mobile device screen.The application can be downloaded by pointing your mobile browsers to gmail.com/app .The program will work with phones having J2ME support.

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Apple computers had earlier this year developed a red ipod nano to raise global funds for fighting AIDS in africa.Now Apple computer's are introducing a 8GB red ipod nano.The red campaign started in the US in october with the support of Un secretary general kofi Annan.A portion of the sales from these products will go towards the Global Fund to Fight AIDS in Africa.

The 8GB red ipod nano is similar to the 4GB version in many ways.The new one can hold twice as much as the old 4GB one.It can hold upto 2000 songs at a time. The product is available for $249(i.e about 11000 indian currency).For every Red ipod purchased $10 will go towards global fund to fight AIDS in Africa.

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Wanna Buy an ipod?
go to http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?family=iPodnano

Yeah google bought youtube from the youtube owners for 1.6Billion Dollar's,Now google own's youtube.What happen's next is a big question mark,will google fuse youtube with google video??,if that happen's what will be the new name??,will it be Yougle(youtube+google),jus kidding.wonder what google is gonna do with youtube.but it is always nice to see two giants combine.take a look at what chad and steve the owner's of youtube had to say:

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wanna upload your files on the net for your friends to download??.want free file hosting service??.If your answer is yes then sign up with fileden now.Fileden is a free file hosting service with a maximum upload limit of 500Mb.if u want to share pictures and videos with your friends this site would be perfect.There are four plans available at the site namely Free,Silver,Gold and Diamond accounts which gives you upload limit of 500MB,5GB,10GB and 15 GB respectively.
Disadvantages of the free plan are:

• Max download speed 100kbps
• Max download per month reduced to 5GB

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Interested in singing??.wanna showcase your talent on the net?.need people to see your stuff.the best place for you would be www.castpost.com.it gives you space to host your podcasts.the service is free and you will be able to upload a maximum of 100 mb.your bloglink
will go like www.blogname.castpost.com. it allows you to host video,audio,flash presentations etc.
It also offers a mini html embeddable player which helps you to put your audio podcast on your
Other blogs.Which looks like this below.

If you really wanna become a podcaster signup with castpsot now!!.Castpost podcast uses streaming methodology just like youtube.