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Airtel challenges iPhone Hackers 2008-08-24 23:05:40 Airtel
and Apple have worked closer together on the iPhone
3G than previously known. In an interview with Indiatimes, Bharti Airtel’s CIO and IT director Jai Menon claimed that the Airtel version of the iPhone 3G was hacker-proof. Apparently the Airtel-specific applications on the iPhone have been developed closely with Apple and “suitable levels of security” have been taken to Read more:Hackers
View All Network Resources (Shares) Available through LAN 2008-08-24 22:50:22 NetResView is small free utility which when executed gets the list of all available network resources that are available through LAN. This includes even the admin and hidden shares from all workgroups and domains.
This is a pretty useful tool that you can use to find all the list of available resources available in the network that you are connected. Another feature that I liked about this softwar Read more:Resources
Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services for Free 2008-08-24 22:19:43 Microsoft has offered the download of SQL
Server 2008 with advanced services for FREE, but only suitable for learning and building desktop and small server applications, and for redistribution by ISVs.
If you are still confused if its full featured download, here is what Microsoft SQL Server
2008 Express
with Advanced Services
means:
* SQL Server database engine - create, store, update and ret Read more:Download
, Microsoft
Data Plans for iPhone 3g in India 2008-08-24 01:25:30
The Apple iPhone
3G which was launched in India
on Aug 22nd, and the official service providers, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone reveals their respective data plans for subscribers.
The Airtel iPhone 3G data plans reveal that the phone can only be used with an Airtel connection. Customers enjoy free 500 MB of data download / month for 12 months and charges beyond this usage will be Rs 0.30/50 Kb. Afte
Torrent Search Made Easy - Usniff 2008-08-23 13:59:23
BitTorrent
’s popularity is increasing with new sites seemingly launched every day. Usniff is one such site, offering a fast real-time torrent search engine where users can search eight of the most popular BitTorrent sites.
Usniff combines a great looking design with fast, real-time search results. It will query 8 different torrent search engines including:
The Pirate Bay
BitTorrent
Mininova
Is Read more:Search
Nokia N96 - Technical Specifications 2008-08-23 07:56:31
Operating Frequency
* WCDMA2100/900 (HSDPA) / EGSM900, GSM850/1800/1900 MHz (EGPRS)
* Automatic switching between bands and modes
* DVB-H Class C, 470-750 MHz
Dimensions
* Volume: 92 cc
* Weight: 125 g
* Length: 103 mm
* Width: 55 mm
* Depth: 18 mm, locally up to 20 mm
Memory Functions*
* 16GB internal flash memory, plus microSD memory card slot (hot swappable) for expandability and flexibil Read more:Nokia
, Technical
Embed Subtitles into Movie Files with DivXLand Media Subtitler 2008-08-23 01:11:17
While many media players can play subtitles that are separate from a video, some of the old CD/DVD players have trouble processing a separate subtitle file.DivXLand Media Subtitler helps you to embed subtitles directly into a ripped or downloaded movie file. It has support for over 30 different subtitle formats and 15 different video formats including MPEG, DIVX, and XVID, you’ll rarely com
How to Watermark Your Photos? 2008-09-15 22:48:09
If you ever want to watermark your photos and if you are looking for the easiest way to do so, then PicMarkr is for you! It is absolutely hassle free : no signups required, you just need to
Upload a photo (from your HDD or Flickr account).
Choose the size of image for resizing.
Choose the type of watermark for your photo, text, image or tiles, and there position as well.
Download the waterma
Check Your Internet Speed with Speed.io 2008-09-15 07:00:53
There have been umpteen number of sites offering speed testing services for your internet connection, but some of them are bogus and most of them are inconsistent and unreliable. I bumped across a service which is free, reliable, consistent and almost accurate.
Check
out Speed
.io
From their web site: “speed.io measures your current internet speed to the nearest server (we have almost 50.000 Read more:Internet
Find your Lost CellPhone - Findyaphone 2008-09-10 05:15:05
If you’ve lost your phone and can’t seem to find it anywhere or if you are stuck with someone you don’t like and need someone to ring you up, but there’s no one available, check out Findyaphone.com. This service is currently available only in Australia, but will soon add more countries. It will let you call your phone to know where it is.
You can program the site to call you at certa
How to Find Your Feedburner ID 2008-09-08 13:36:05 After moving this blog to a new host, I installed some new Wordpress plugins which required me to know the Feedburner Id of my RSS feed. But my RSS URL () doesn’t contain any ID as such.
Then I got to know that the Id is a numeric sequence such as 2263754. To find your Feedburner Id:
Login to your Feedburner account
Click on My Feeds
Click on the name of the appropriate feed (if you have mo
How to Fix svchost.exe Memory Hogging Issue? 2008-09-08 04:59:32
More often than not, after windows start-up, my PC was getting too slow and unresponsive. When i saw the task manager, I noticed that there were quite a few instances of scvhost.exe process and CPU usage was nearly 100% due to them.
Svchost.exe is actually a system process belonging to the Microsoft Windows Operating System which handles processes executed from DLLs. Some time ago, Microsoft star Read more:Memory
How to Make Google Chrome Consume Lesser Memory? 2008-09-08 04:31:46 One of the most irritating thing for me in GoogleChrome
is the way memory and process management is done. Each tab opened, will have a separate process running. Shafqat Ahmed has found that Chrome supports other process models as well. Here are the process models for Chrome browser
1. Process Per Tab (default model)
2. Process Per Site: One process per website. For example a user with two tabs op Read more:Lesser
, Memory
What each DTH Player is Upto in India? 2008-08-29 14:14:01 Direct-to-home (DTH) television is no longer just about digital picture quality. Companies are competing to offer more channels, games and attractive packages for subscribers.
Dish TV - regional programming
Zee’s Dish TV claims to transmit the maximum number of channels with 225 channels on offer. They have 12 transponders which means that they have the capacity to show over 400 channels. D Read more:India
IE8’s ‘Porn Mode’ Already Busted! 2008-08-29 13:12:15
I pity Microsoft. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released just a few days back and one feature which was making all the headlines was the new “porn mode” in IE8, where the browser erases all traces of what you browsed after your session is over.
And like any other Microsoft product, even this has been proved DUD. According to the website Webwereld.nl, forensic experts in Holland foun Read more:Busted
How to Add Your Gmail To Windows Live Mail 2008-08-29 12:48:50 Few days back I had told you how to Use GMail to send mails from other Email IDs. Today we will take a look at how to get your GMail into Windows
Live Mail.
Note: This is for Windows Live
Mail and not Windows Mail which replaced Outlook Express and is included in Vista.
For checking a GMail account with different clients you do need to make sure your GMail has POP enabled. Go into your GMail \ Se Read more:Gmail
, Windows Live Mail
Shrink Your Images with SmushIt 2008-10-04 08:25:43
Yahoo has come up with a web-based tool Smushit, which can perform multiple operations to shrink the graphics file sizes without any loss in clarity or visual appeal.
Smushit can be used to -
convert GIF images to the PNG format;
reduce the range of colors used in PNG files;
strip out textual metadata from JPEG images.
Web developers can upload images to the site, send it a Web site address, Read more:Images
[How to] Add “Save as PDF” Button to your Website? 2008-09-28 15:09:47 If you are wondering how you can make your website or blog visitors save the web articles as PDF documents, then you must check out PDF online.
You just need to add a small JavaScript snippet in the blog templates, visitors can click the “Save Page as PDF” button and the current web page will be rendered as a PDF document.
The site is still in beta, but you can test out the service by
[How to] Create a Favicon for Your Website 2008-09-24 15:03:17 Favicon refers to favicon.ico file which is an icon file of a website which appears in Favorites menu of the browser and the location bar as well.
How to Create a “Favicon.ico” File
Create an image 16X16 pixels in size. Yes, it is really small and you can’t really draw much in it. You should also restrict yourself to the standard Windows 16 colours, although I suspect that 256 c
Note down your GMail Verification Number 2008-09-21 23:43:12 In the past few weeks, many people’s GMail accounts are getting locked out for no apparent reasons. If your account is also locked out, what would you do? Google says that since it asks for so little personal information when you sign up, verifying ownership is difficult when they’ve locked down an account because it may have been compromised. But there’s one interesting tidbit t Read more:Number
, Verification
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