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Ill-effects of Internet Chatting

2011-10-28T15:09:00.001+05:30

Every Computer User Should See this Video

2011-10-21T19:51:00.000+05:30

Apple founder Steve Jobs dies at 56

2011-10-06T09:12:00.000+05:30

Click here to know more about Steve Jobs.

New Feature Rich Version of Opera

2011-04-26T10:30:00.000+05:30

Opera has released the latest version (Opera 11.10) of its popular web browser on 12th April 2011. It is being offered Free for personal computers and mobile phones. Opera is known for developing many features like Sample Mouse Gestures, later adopted by other Web browsers.

Click here to know about the latest features of the new Opera browser.

Movie Making Magic with Windows Live Movie Maker

2011-04-19T12:09:00.000+05:30

Now, you can quickly turn your photos and videos into polished movies using Windows Live Movie Maker 2011. You can add special effects, transitions, sound, and captions to help tell your story. Also, you can easily share this with your friends and family on the web, a computer, TV, mobile device, or a DVD.

Windows Live Movie Maker works great with Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows 7 libraries, so you can start making a movie from your photos and videos right away, whether they're already on your computer or still on your camera.

Click here to watch a brief demo of Windows Live Movie Maker.

To know more about Windows Live Movie Maker and to download it Free, click here.

Easy Translation with Google Translate

2011-04-07T11:23:00.000+05:30

Want to Translate a Word or Phrase?

Google Translate is a free service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section of text, document or webpage, into another language.

We can instantly translate between over 50 languages with the Google Translate gadget. Simply type/paste in your phrase and Google’s algorithm will translate it into English, Spanish, French, Chinese and more!

52 Languages Supported

Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian, Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.

Visit http://translate.google.com to know more.

Mozilla launches Firefox 4

2011-03-28T19:15:00.003+05:30

Mozilla has launched Firefox 4 - the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser on March 22, 2011.

Click here to know about the new features of Firefox 4.

Be Green, Save Green: The Rise of eBook Sharing

2011-03-20T20:19:00.000+05:30

Be Green, Save Green: The Rise of eBook Sharing

CARTOONEY

2011-03-19T18:29:00.002+05:30

The term "Cartooney" is derived from 'Cartoon Attorney' and is used for legal threats sent purely to scare the recipients.

A Cartooney contains threats of legal action, citing irrelevant or non-existent laws, and is often written by a person without any knowledge of law and without consulting any legal professional. Normally, the Cartooney sender is on the wrong side of the law to begin with.

Cartooney is sometimes spelled as "Cart00ney" to emphasize the comical nature of most Cartoonies. They are often sent anonymously, sent by fictitious lawyers or signed "Legal Department". Many promise to sue under invented laws such as the "Freedom Of Speech Law" or "International Email Law" and are usually written by spammers reacting to what they consider undeserved censure, being publicly identified or added to spam filter blocklists.

Happy Festivity

2011-03-19T07:04:00.000+05:30

SAN Services

2011-03-06T17:07:00.003+05:30

The rapid increase in IT usage has led to the explosive growth of data. Data storage has become a central component of corporate technology strategies. We need an efficient, cost-effective way to make the most of the storage technology. The goal is to create a single, massive data repository that is securely accessible to any system, application, or person across the entire enterprise.

SAN services, short for Storage Area Network (SAN) services, is a popular technology used by businesses to manage large volumes of data.

A Storage Area Network (SAN) provides raw storage devices across a high-speed network, and is typically sold as a service to customers who also purchase other services. SAN services may also be administered over an existing, local fiber network, and administered through a service subscription plan.

SANs primarily are used to make storage devices (such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes) accessible to servers so that the devices appear as locally attached to the operating system.

C R M

2011-03-04T07:33:00.005+05:30

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management.

CRM is an IT term for a specialised application software, that helps a company manage its customer relationship in an organized way.

While the term CRM is primarily used to describe a business-customer relationship, however CRM systems are used in the same way to manage business contacts, clients, contract wins and sales leads.

CRM consists of:

Helping an organization to enable its marketing departments to identify and target their best customers, manage marketing campaigns and generate quality leads for the sales team.
Assisting the organization to improve telesales, account, and sales management by optimizing information shared by multiple employees, and streamlining existing processes (for example, taking orders using mobile devices)
Allowing the formation of individualized relationships with customers, with the aim of improving customer satisfaction and maximizing profits; identifying the most profitable customers and providing them the highest level of service.
Providing employees with the information and processes necessary to know their customers, understand and identify customer needs and effectively build relationships between the company, its customer base, and distribution partners.

Fast Changing Web Technologies have not only impacted CRM strategies but also changed customer buying behaviour. CRM offers new ways for companies to communicate with customers and collect data about them.

Many organizations turn to CRM software to help them manage their customer relationships. Recently, mobile CRM and the open source CRM software model have also become more popular.

SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft are some of the companies providing CRM software. SUGARCRM is one of the most popular open source CRM software.

Everything About PPC

2011-02-25T12:46:00.000+05:30

PPC stands for Pay Per Click.

PPC is very popular Internet marketing system used on websites to price online advertisements.

In PPC system, the online advertisers will pay Internet Publishers the agreed upon PPC rate only when an ad is clicked on, regardless if a sale is made or not.

With pay per click system in search engine advertising, the advertiser would typically bid on a keyword phrase relevant to their target market. So, the PPC rate changes depending upon the number of advertisers willing to associate their advertisement with that keyword.

On content websites, the site publisher would usually set a fixed pay per click rate, also called cost-per-click (CPC).

Cost per click (CPC) is the sum paid by an advertiser to search engines and other Internet publishers for a single click on their advertisement, which directs one visitor to the advertiser's website.

Websites that utilize PPC ads will display an advertisement when a keyword query matches an advertiser's keyword list, or when a content site displays relevant content. Such advertisements are called sponsored links or sponsored ads, and appear adjacent to or above organic results on search engine results pages, or anywhere a web developer chooses on a content site.

Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the three largest and popular PPC providers.

Earth Hour 2011

2011-02-10T21:33:00.001+05:30

Google Launches Body Browser

2010-12-23T08:50:00.006+05:30

Body Browser is a detailed 3D model of the human body.

Google's approach is a new educational tool called Google Body Browser. Launched on the Google Labs website, Google Body Browser uses HTML5 technology to let you examine the human body in fully layered, three-dimensional detail.

You can peel back anatomical layers, zoom in, and navigate to parts that interest you and click to identify anatomy, or search for muscles, organs, bones and more.You can also share the exact scene you are viewing by copying and pasting the corresponding URL.

Google Body Browser probably won't load in your browser. The app uses WebGL, a plug-in-free programming interface, to power its 3D graphics. WebGL is a relatively new standard, and most major browsers are still testing its implementation.You will need a web browser that supports WebGL, such as the new (free and publicly available) Google Chrome Beta.

When you open Google Body Browser in a WebGL-enabled program, you're greeted with an image of a woman standing face-forward wearing minimal workout attire. Controls on the left side of the screen let you zoom in and out and rotate the woman's body. You can also just click and drag with your mouse to spin her around 3D-style.The most interesting part is when you start using the Google Body Browser layering tool. Located below the zoom controls, the layering tool lets you peel back layers of the body to see detailed views of the human anatomy.

Currently, it displays a female model but Male model also is coming soon ! Watch the video below to know more about Body Browser.

Shortcut Your Shortcuts with a Click !

2010-11-28T09:17:00.000+05:30

Learn to Love the Right Click !

Memorizing keyboard shortcuts is unnecessary once you’ve mastered the art of the right-click.

Click here to get familiar with the handy menu of shortcuts that pop up when you use your mouse to right-click in many Microsoft programs.

What is BLOB?

2010-10-26T13:04:00.000+05:30

BLOB stands for Binary Large OBject.

It is a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management systems (DBMS). BLOBs are mainly used to hold multimedia objects such as images, videos, and sound.

Blobs can also be used to store programs or even fragments of code. But, all the DBMSs don't support BLOBs.

FAVICONS

2010-10-17T21:34:00.000+05:30

Would you like to display your own icon on the browser address bar and browser tabs when visitors view your web pages? You can do it using Favicons.

Favicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) is a feature that makes it possible to associate a special logo or other small graphic with a web page. Favicons are used to personalize or brand your web sites.

A favicon (short for favourites icon), also known as a website icon, or URL icon, is a 16×16 or 32×32 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage.

Browsers normally show the favicon before the page's title on the tab as well as in the browser's address bar and next to the page's name in a list of bookmarks.

A web designer can create such an icon and install it into a website (or webpage) by several means, and most graphical web browsers will then make use of it.

The favicon files have the extension .ico. We can even have the animated favicons with the extension .gif.

Microsoft was the first to introduce the favicon in Internet Explorer 4.

Blind Type : Accuracy in typing not required

2010-10-05T20:48:00.003+05:30

BlindType compensates for typographical errors in realtime by estimating the intended key-presses on a virtual keyboard, simply with distances between two points on the screen – in effect, guessing what the user wanted to type.

According to BlindType, its typing tool is a revolutionary system that :

Eliminates touch typing frustrations

Allows for super sloppy typing

Helps you type easier and faster

Constantly adjusts to the user's "perceived" keyboard and typing style

Just type the way you are used to - no gestures, nothing new to learn!

Click here to know more.

Internationalized Domain Names

2010-09-27T12:53:00.003+05:30

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are domain names represented by local language characters.

Such domain names could contain letters or characters from non-ASCII scripts (for example, Hindi, Arabic or Chinese). Many efforts are ongoing in the Internet community to make domain names available in character sets other than ASCII.

Watch this Video to know more.

Malicious HTML in Your E-Mail Increasing

2010-09-27T06:19:00.002+05:30

Spammers have suddenly cranked up the use of malicious HTML file attachments in recent days, according to security company Barracuda Networks.

Using a number of search engine optimization-driven subject lines, the latest campaign tries to get recipients to click on "harmless" HTML attachments which launches an obfuscated Javascript attack that sends users to a variety of websites peddling everything from bogus CODECS to pharmacy.

One in particular, a standard advertisement for fake antivirus software, installs a back door -- even if the browser is closed so by the time the HTML file has been clicked it is already too late. (See also "How to Spot an E-Mail Scam.")

The only defenses against this sort of attack are either for it to be filtered at the gateway so it never reaches the user, or for the user to disable Javascript in their browser. Security software on the PC might catch the exploit.

Spam built around HTML is nothing new, but does seem to have become a hot technique in the last year or so with some spammers. A popular variant is the bogus "Delivery Status Notification Failure," a sneaky way to get the attention of a user without arousing suspicion.

More recently still, the spammers started embedding the Javascript inside the HTML file (rather than as a simple file attachment), to spread the horrible Zeus banking Trojan.

"So yes, a seemingly innocent HTML email attachment can do plenty of damage, and while quite stealthy, definitely not harmless," concludes Barracuda Labs' researcher, Dave Michmerhuizen.

Since attachment attacks became a favorite tactic, spammers have tried almost every common format in existence, sometimes moving to obscure ones in an attempt to get around spam filters.

Microsoft Maths : Tackle the toughest Math and Science problems with ease

2010-09-23T17:12:00.004+05:30

From basic math to precalculus, Microsoft Math helps you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before. It gives you step-by-step instruction, while providing you with a better understanding of fundamental concepts.

Microsoft Math includes:

Step-by-step instruction to help solve difficult math problems with the Step-by-Step Equation Solver.
A full-featured graphing calculator with large 2-D and enhanced 3-D color graphs to better illustrate problems and concepts
The Formulas and Equations Library—a resource with more than 100 commonly used equations and formulas to help you identify and apply the right one for your problem
The Triangle Solver—a graphing tool that helps you explore and better understand triangles and their parts
The Unit Conversion Tool—a handy tool that quickly and easily converts units of measure including length, area, volume, weight, temperature, pressure, energy, power, velocity, and time.
Ink Handwriting Support that works with Tablet PCs and Ultra-Mobile PCs and recognizes handwritten problems.

Click here to know more about Microsoft Maths.

Explore the Beauty of the Web with Internet Explorer 9 (Beta)

2010-09-23T13:25:00.011+05:30

Most of the websites and browsers use only 10% of the PC's processing power. Internet Explorer 9 tries to unlock the remaining 90%.

Internet Explorer 9 taps into your PC's graphics processor through Windows to exploit the full potential of your PC.

Internet Explorer 9 tries to make the HD video smoother, colors truer, graphics clearer, and websites more responsive. Combined with the new JavaScript Engine, the web now performs like an application direcly installed on your computer.

Click here to know more about Internet Explorer 9 and to download it.

Technology, Teaching and Learning: From the Frontline

2010-05-28T14:29:00.001+05:30

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Technology, Teaching and Learning: From the Frontline

View more presentations from David Peter.

Software that Learns by Watching

2010-05-22T16:01:00.000+05:30

KarDo learns how to perform common IT support tests by observing what the experts do.

Overworked and much in demand, IT support staff can't be in two places at once. But software designed to watch and learn as they carry out common tasks could soon help--by automatically performing the same jobs across different computers.

The new software system, called KarDo, was developed by researchers at MIT. It can automatically configure an e-mail account, install a virus scanner, or set up access to a virtual private network, says MIT's Dina Katabi, an associate professor at MIT.

Crucially, the software just needs to watch an administrator perform this task once before being able to carry out the same job on computers running different software. Businesses spend billions of dollars each year on simple and repetitive IT tasks, according to reports from the analyst groups Forrester and Gartner. KarDo could reduce these costs by as much as 20 percent, Katabi says.

In some respects, KarDo resembles software that can be used to record macros--a set sequence of user actions on a computer. But KarDo attempts to learn the goal of each action in the sequence so it can be applied more generally later, says MIT post-graduate Hariharan Rahul, who codeveloped the system.

When IT staff want KarDo to learn a new task, they press a "start" button beforehand and a "stop" button afterwards. During a "learning phase," KarDo will attempt to map each of the actions performed in the graphical user interface, such as clicking on particular icons or buttons, with system-level actions, such as starting or closing a program, or opening a Web page. This allows a task to be applied across machines running different software, says Katabi. "I can go to my desktop, click on the Internet Explorer icon, go to a website, and then click on a particular link to download a file," she says. The same actions could then be applied by KarDo on a machine running a different Web browser like FireFox or Chrome. KarDo compares actions performed during the learning phase with a database of other tasks.

KarDo is able to reliably infer how to reproduce each of the subtasks after watching it being performed just once, says Rahul. For example, after watching an e-mail account being set up using Microsoft Outlook, it can do the same on other computers running different e-mail software. KarDo has been tested on hundreds of combinations of real tasks by IT staff at MIT and was found to get tasks right 82 percent of the time. When KarDo doesn't perform a task correctly, the results aren't serious, Katabi says.

The ultimate goal is for KarDo to intervene completely automatically, although this has not yet been tested. The idea is that when a user sends a request to the IT department , KarDo would perform the task automatically.

This sort of "programming by demonstration" is not a new idea, says Stephen Muggleton, an expert in machine learning at Imperial College London. But the approach has remained very much a research curiosity, he says. "An obvious concern from a user point of view will be the accuracy of the learned model," says Muggleton. Normally it takes relatively large amounts of data to generate error-free machine learning models, he notes.

"There's a great deal of promise in learning procedures and plans by watching," says Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. However, in general, this is very challenging to pull off. It is usually hard to do anything useful without constraining the nature of the task, says Horvitz.

KarDo was announced last week as the winner of the Web/IT track of MIT's $100K Entrepreneur Competition.