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Nokia Website Defaced!

About 7 or 8hrs ago, defacer Dr.Jr7 defaced the Nokia.ca website. The website is down at the moment.

These defacers have too much time in their hand. The zone-h report says that Dr.Jr7 has defaced many serious websites.

Found on: Digg

Top 10 Places Your Email Can Be Intercepted – WildID Report

Since everybody knows that billions of people around the globe surf WWW everyday, obviously, not all of them are good people. The Internet is full of dangers if you don’t stay aware. No matter if you use the Internet just to send and receive emails or you are running an online business, you aren’t safe. You must stay aware while surfing the WWW because your one mistake can allow someone to breach your security. The WildID Report will show you how to send and receive emails safely.

The Internet has radically changed the way we communicate with each other. Email is obviously an extremely valuable and ubiquitous form of communication, but with this technology comes certain pitfalls that should be understood. The path that an email message takes to reach its recipient is a complex and varying one, and while in transit that message may come under the potential scrutiny of numerous different people and organizations.

You may want to follow this link to read the complete report.

[tags]Security, Email Security[/tags]

Palm OS is Now Garnet OS

Access, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets announced that the Palm OS will now be known as Garnet OS.

The renaming is part of a process begun in October 2006, when Access announced that its subsidiary, PalmSource, the developer of Palm OS, would also take the name Access.

According to the official press release (January 25, 2007):

SUNNYVALE, Calif., January 25, 2007 – ACCESS CO., LTD., today debuted the new ACCESS Powered logo and announced it is renaming Palm OS to Garnet OS. The new ACCESS Powered logo replaces the Palm Powered logo and is now used with products from both ACCESS and PalmSource, Inc. (now known as ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc.).

Last October (2006), ACCESS announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, PalmSource, Inc., had begun the process of changing its name to ACCESS. As part of that process, along with its previously announced agreement with Palm, Inc., to sell PalmSources rights in the Palm Trademark Holding Company to Palm, ACCESS is renaming all products that originally had Palm-based names. The first product to be renamed is Palm OS, which is now known as Garnet OS.

[tags]Palm OS[/tags]

Wonderful Tutorial Resource: AJAX, CSS, Photoshop, PHP and More

Smashing Magazine is full of nice and useful articles.

In this article, you can find over 200 Ajax, CSS, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, RSS, XML as well as ASP, C++, Perl, Python and Java tutorials.

Some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials are listed here.

[tags]AJAX, CSS, Flash, JavaScript PHP, MySQL, RSS, XML, ASP, C++, Perl, Python, Java, Photoshop, Tutorials[/tags]

YouTube Introduces Exciting New Features

Via YouTube Blog , I came to know that the YouTube team has rolled out some key changes and enhancements to the site. I’ve underlined the major changes/additions.

Official New Feature Release Notes:

MESSAGING IS BACK IN BUSINESS: Messaging should really truly be fixed now, including messages that contain e-mail addresses and URLs. Thanks for your patience as we worked out kinks related to an over-enthusiastic spam filter.

GOOGLE SEARCH!: Thanks to, ahem, a certain parent company, our search is now vastly improved so it should be even easier to find your favorite sleeping kitty video exactly when you want to show it to grandma. Moreover, YouTube videos are now indexed on Google Video Search, which means more potential viewers for your videos!

B-B-B-LOCK THA HATERS: Stopping the haters in their tracks is now easier than ever. Not only is there the Block User feature on each persons Channel page, but now you can instantly zap anyone you like by using the new “Block User” feature next to each comment on your video.

CHANNELS ARE EVEN MORE CUSTOMIZABLE: Dont want to show folks who your subscribers are? Would rather not have Favorites display on you page so your own videos can get all the glory? Now you can turn modules on or off by going into the Channel Design area under My Account and choosing to show or hide various boxes. You can also select one video to display at the top of your page (go into Channel Info to do this).

VIEW VIDEOS THAT HAVE THE MOST RESPONSES: Under the Video browse tab, theres a new page showing videos that have the most responses. Go to the Most Responded >> All Time to see a great set of videos that have inspired other users to post their own clips.

NEW AND IMPROVED HELP CENTER: The contents of the Help Center have tripled and its hopefully easier to read and navigate. Plus now you can search within the Help Center, see the Top 5 questions most asked by users, and let us know whether the information was helpful or not.

MORE ROOM FOR YOUR FEATURED VIDEOS: The categories page got a facelift and now shows two featured videos for each topic. But then, when you click through, brace yourself: weve got room for count em 20 featured videos within each section. More space for your incredible work! Sadia, whom you’ll meet soon, is the editor in charge of this area, so write to her with feature requests.

MEET THE GURUS: Theres a new type of Channel for people who create how to videos for fitness, cooking, video production, guitar playing and more. So if youve got a special skill, sign up for your Guru account now!

POST TO DIGG, DELICIOUS, FURL AND MORE: If you click on “Post Video” under a video, you will see a row of icons that lets you quickly post the video to these neat-o bookmarking services.

[tags]YouTube[/tags]

Possibility to Run Mac OS X on a non-Mac Box

According to this article posted on Download Squad, Parallels is planning to design its upcoming version of the software in such a way that by coincidence will make it easier to run Mac OS on a non-Apple computer.

Lets see what happens in the future.. I wish they dont cancel this plan! If its really gonna happen, Ill surely be waiting to buy a copy of this software.

Further Readings:

>> CNN Report
>> Engadget

[tags]Virtualization, Parallels, Mac OS X[/tags]

Powerful IP Address Lookup and IP Locator

My IP Address Lookup and IP Locater is a web service that looks up your IP address automatically, and using Google Maps it shows you where it believes your location to be.

You can use this service to check the location of any IP address. I checked mine and was amazed to see the details fetched by this service.

[tags]IP Locator, IP Lookup, Tools, Bookmarks[/tags]

Wikipedia Adds Nofollow Link Attribute

Recently, Wikipedia added the nofollow attribute to all external links. The reason for this change is to battle spam and blackhat SEO tricks.

You may want to follow this link to read the original article posted on Google Blogoscoped.

[tags]Wikipedia, Nofollow Link Attribute[/tags]

WordPress 2.1 (stable) Released

The WordPress team is amazing. I just upgraded to WordPress 2.0.7 and after the upgrade, I read an announcement note in my WP Administration panel that WordPress 2.1 (final) has been released.

The official WordPress improvement list for the WordPress 2.1 (stable) release:

  • Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
  • Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
  • The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
  • Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
  • New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldnt ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
  • You can set any page to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
  • Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
  • Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
  • Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
  • More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
  • Pages can now be drafts, or private.
  • Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
  • The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
  • Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
  • Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
  • The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
  • A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.

Well.. After knowing about all these great new feature additions, Ill be upgrading from the WP 2.0.7 to the WP 2.1 final shortly. You may want to try it out to see whats new in the latest release.

[tags]WordPress 2.1[/tags]

WordPress Theme – Internet Music

Internet Music is a modern WordPress theme in shades of grey and red. I liked its two column design as well as the uses of rounded corners.

The theme is widgets-ready and has been tested with WordPress 2.0.7 on FireFox 2.0 & IE 6. If you want to see its live demo, visit this link. :)

[tags]WordPress, Theme[/tags]

JetMan – Human Got Wings

Science is wonderful! If you ever missed the lack of wings in your body, you might feel happy to know that someone has invented Jet Wings. Now, a human can fly in the sky wearing wings in his/her body. It’s not any dream.

If you are excited to know about this wonderful invention, visit this link.. :)
Jet Man



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