Tech Talk India

Samsung Galaxy Grand at Rs 21500

2013-01-23T03:41:00.001+05:30

If you were willing to buy Samsung galaxy S3 or Note and still haven't gone for it because of high cost or single sim support.. Just put your worries aside.. Samsung has recently announced to launched new galaxy phone Galaxy Grand with 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Android OS with 5" screen and 1.2 GHz dual core processor are highlighted features.

Speaking at the launch, Asim Warsi, VP, Samsung mobile said, "We continue to launch several models that Samsung is known to launch every year and is likely to go on. There are plenty of devices coming out from our side from tablets to premium smart phones to smart phone at large to our feature phones. The Galaxy Grand is revolutionary not only in terms of the great Smartphone experience that it provides but also in terms of its value proposition. I feel the Galaxy Grand will further fuel the growth of the Smartphone market in India and will especially delight consumers looking for a great Smart Dual SIM phone. The Galaxy Grand best meets the growing consumer preference for a large screen device that gives them a great multimedia experience and superior performance"

The phone comes preloaded softwares such as 'ChatOn Messenger', 'Games Hub', My Services'.
ChatOn allows users to freely share multimedia content, do group chatting with friends and create personalized animated messages. The device also comes preloaded with a host of other applications. This includes ‘Games Hub’ and ‘My Services’ that includes services like myMovies, myMusic , myMobileTV , myStation ,myReader and myEducation, which allows them to enjoy and personalize their device.

The device is available in ‘Elegant White’ and ‘Metallic Blue’ colors. Currently pre Order is available at FlipKart

Highlited Specifications :

Android v4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS
5-inch Capacitive Touchscreen
8 MP Primary Camera and 2 MP Secondary Camera
Full HD Recording
Expandable Storage Capacity of 64 GB
Multi Window
Dual Standby SIM (GSM + GSM)
1.2 GHz Dual Core Processor
2100 mAh Battery

Hack Trick : Get Windows 8 genuine at just 699 INR or $12.99

2012-11-05T22:42:00.000+05:30

If you have recently bought a Windows PC with Windows 7 then you may be eligible for a low-cost upgrade to Microsoft’s latest released operating system Windows 8. The price of the upgrade is $14.99 in the US and nearly identical in most markets, and in India it's 699 INR.

According to Microsoft, the Windows Upgrade Offer enables any individual who buys a new PC preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate between June 2, 2012 and January 31, 2013 to purchase an upgrade coupon for Windows 8 Pro for INR 699 (US $14.99). To obtain the upgrade, you must register at the Windows Upgrade Offer web site by February 28, 2013. When Windows 8 is made generally available—i.e. when the OS ships to the public, not when it is finalized, or released to manufacturing (RTM)—you will receive an email from Microsoft with a promotion code and instructions for purchasing and downloading the software. That is, the upgrade offer is for an electronic software distribution (ESD) version of Windows 8, or a downloadable file, which you can use to make bootable DVD or USB Setup media. (If you want Microsoft to send you Windows 8 on physical DVD media, you can do so for an additional charge.)

Now if you bought computer before 2nd June,2012. then......??? Windows 8 just of 699 if you already have XP, Vista or Windows 7 licensed version.

Go to http://windowsupgradeoffer.com
In the section titled – Windows 7 PC Purchase Information, enter the purchase date to any date which is about 25 days earlier to the current date. You don’t need to enter your original purchase date of computer because the same won’t be verified. Just fill purchase date with any date within 1 month. In the model, brand and retailer section, Select Other in Computer brand name, enter any model and the name of any shop.
Continue. An email will be sent to you with a discount coupon code. In the email received, there is link to windows 8 upgrade assistant. Download the software.
After downloading windows 8 upgrade assistant, launch it. The assistant will make a thorough check of your current system configuration and install programs/softwares and would notify you of the incompatible apps and solutions. Proceed ahead and then it’ll display you windows 8 order screen.
Now move to buying Windows 8 from it's official site. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows/buy the price will be shown as $ 39.99 USD or Rs1,999 . Don’t worry, press on the Order button. We’ll use the discount coupon code later when making payment.
Now choose the payment method i.e. Paypal or Credit card and proceed ahead.
Now on this screen, you’ll see a box where you can enter promo/discount coupon code. Just enter the coupon code you received in your email earlier and proceed with the payment. Do not proceed if this trick didn't. This article is not at all responsible for any financial transaction.
When payment is done i.e. successful, the windows 8 upgrade assistant will show you windows 8 serial key and will also mail you the order details along with windows 8 pro serial key. Print it or note it on a piece of paper because we’ll need it during installation.
It will then start downloading windows 8 setup. This may take several hours depending upon your internet connection speed.
After successful download, proceed with installation by following the instructions as presented.
Finish the installation and Enjoy Windows 8.

Courtesy :
http://thehackernews.com/
http://techotv.com

BSNL revised GPRS 98 pack now just 1.25 GB

2012-10-18T06:52:00.002+05:30

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has revised "98 GPRS pack" 2G data plan.

Now BSNL 2G Prepaid users opting in for the Rs. 98 GPRS pack will only get 1250 MB of 2G data instead of the previously offered 2 GB. while BSNL Postpaid user has to pay the same Rs. 89 for the pack and get reduced data usage of 1250 MB. Usage amount is quite strange because generally companies provide 1.5 GB or 1 GB but 1250 MB/1.25GB is not familiar figure for any plan.

BSNL has introduced new plan of Rs. 125 with 2 GB of 2G DATA. while the same pack of postpaid users with Rs. 111 per month.

This comes in effect from 1st Oct, 2012.

Hands on: Microsoft Surface Review

2012-06-21T12:06:00.000+05:30

Microsoft’s Surface tablet PC made a big splash on the market. its highly publicized launch of a new tablet computer, I was really excited about it. Surface comes with two different model with different OS : Windows RT and Windows 8

Hardware

Powered by an Nvidia ARM CPU, Surface has a few ports peppered around its sides, notably a USB 2.0 socket and a microSD card slot. The resolution of the 10.6-inch screen is unknown. Seeing as it's marketed as a ClearType HD display, while the beefier Pro model (out 90 days later and likely to be considerably more expensive), is pegged as Full HD, I'd wager this is a 1,280x720-pixel panel. What we can confirm is that it'll have a 16:9 aspect ratio, making it ideal for watching movies.

OS

Standard Windows 8 replaces the fragmented versions of Windows 7 Home and Home Premium and will probably be the operating system of choice for the vast majority of you. Windows 8 Pro, as the name suggests, is for the professional user, and adds better encryption, PC management and domain control -- that's all the stuff your IT department will be concerned about.

Windows RT is the version you'll find pre-installed on tablets and devices based on ARM chips. These chips are smaller and use a lot less power, so you wouldn't want the same processor-heavy software from your PC running on your less capable tablet or phone. (Courtesy : CNET)

"The Surface" is ideal Windows 8 experience, as Google has their Nexus line of phones (and soon tablets) and if you've seen Apple's Smart-cover on the new iPad 3, then this method of connection won't be a surprise – it's another move that shows Microsoft is intending to go toe-to-toe with the Cupertino brand in the tablet arena.

Outer Look

Surface was designed to be your go-to-device. It comes with a precision crafted VaporMg casing that protects the vital technology inside and leaves a high quality finish and feel. The Windows RT-powered Surface will have an HD display which could indicate a 1366 x 768 resolution, however the Windows 8 Pro Surface will have a Full HD display

Connectivity

While both tablets have Wi-Fi, there’s no mention of Bluetooth in either of the Surface versions. You also don’t get the option of a 3G SIM slot with Microsoft’s offering.

Storage

The ARM version of Microsoft Surface has storage options at 64GB. The Surface with Win 8 Pro however will max out at 128GB, Approx 10GB will be used just for the OS itself.

Official Specification by Microsoft : http://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/renderingassets/surfacespecsheet.pdf

Facebook available in 8 Indian languages on mobile

2012-04-04T17:19:00.001+05:30

Social networking website Facebook today announced a facility for its users to access the site in eight Indian languages from mobile phones.

This will be rolled out in phases over the next few weeks, it said.
Facebook Country Growth Manager Kevin D’Souza:

With over 50 million people in India on Facebook, we want to make sure that everyone has a great Facebook mobile experience regardless of the device that they choose to use.

The languages — Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali and Marathi — have been added to the ‘Facebook for Every Phone mobile application’, which will also support Hindi, Malay and Vietnamese.

Earlier, users could access Facebook only in English. The application was originally launched in July 2011 and now works on more than 3600 Java-enabled phones around the world.

Update Blank Status on Facebook

2012-03-12T14:22:00.002+05:30

Today I have learnt a new thing.. that is how to update your status as blank on facebook., and I am sure your friends will be surprised to see this. :-) Following are the steps to do so.

First of all login to your FACEBOOK account.

Now type this code in your status bar and click on post

You have done, your blank status has been updated..

Please Make a comment And share with your friends...

BSNL tablet gets over one lakh requests in preorder !!

2012-02-29T02:41:00.001+05:30

India's number 1 telecom company and largest Public sector telecom operator, BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) announced on 23rd February 2012, to launch extremely low cost tablets along with two mid range tablets, has got a tremendous response from Indian consumers. The three tablets, bundled with its connection, are in the price range of Rs 3,499 - Rs 12,500. They are manufactured by Noida based Pantel Technologies. These tablets are designed keeping in mind the students need, the tablet come with a promotional offer of 3 month free data download. BSNL is also giving 2G SIM along with all the tablets.

"Pantel technologies has managed to get more than 1 lakh pre-booking orders in just 3 days! This is even more than the pre-booking status of Aakash 2 tablet when it was opened for pre-orders. BSNL has hit a jackpot with a device which is yet to be released publicly." said by BSNL on it's official tablet site http://bsnltablet.in/

Following is the comparison between three bsnl tablets

Tablet	T-Pad IS701R	T-Pad WS704C	T-Pad WS802C
Processor	ARM11 IMAP210, 1GHz	ARM11 IMAP210, 1GHz	ARMv7 Cortex-A8, 1.2 GHz
RAM	256MB DDR2	512MB DDR3	512MB DDR3
Battery	3000mAh	4000mAh	4200mAh
Operating System	Android 2.3 Gingerbread	Android 2.3/4.0	Not available
Camera	0.3 MP front	0.3MP Front + 2.0 MP Rear	0.3MP Front + 2.0 MP Rear
External memory	T-Flash (upto 32GB)	T-Flash (upto 32GB)	T-Flash (upto 32GB)
Network	Wi-Fi only	Wi-Fi+GPRS via SIM card	Wi-Fi+GPRS via SIM card
Phone Call	No	No	No
Touch Screen	7-inch, Resistive	7-inch, Capacitive	8-inch, Capacitive
Screen Resolution	800×600	800×600	800×600
Audio jack	3.5mm	3.5mm	3.5mm
GPS	No	Built-in	Built-in
HDMI	Yes	Yes	Yes
G-sensor	Yes	Yes	Yes
Support for Office files	Yes	Yes	Yes
USB ports	Regular	Mini / Regular USB port	Mini / Regular USB port
No.of USB ports	1	1	1
Price	Rs. 3,250	Rs. 10,999	Rs. 13,500

WHERE TO BUY :
You can buy BSNL tablet from
http://www.pantel.in/product19-tpad_is701r.aspx
Note : You may face server down issues as it's BSNL ;-) lol.. technically pantel.in wasn't ready to get such a huge traffic but now more stable than before..

SPECIAL TARIFF launched for Tablets only
http://www.bsnl.co.in/service/3G/3G_files/ipad_dataplans.htm

How to put embed webpage to your blog using iframe

2012-01-07T04:10:00.000+05:30

Sometimes you want to show other website page on your blog.. may be for reference or as people don't like to click on href much.. generally developer like to show most of links with visualization only.

Now.. to put iframe on your blog just two easy following steps:
1. use HTML to edit your blog
2. copy following code to your HTML part of blog
<iframe src ="URL of the website you want to embed" width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0">
<p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>

You can put an IFrame in either a blog post, or in a special page element. It's a dynamic window; when you change something in the blog contained in the window, the contents of the window changes too. Just refresh, and you can see the change.
here we have put <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p> because if your blogger solution or client browser doesn't support iframe instead of showing them blank screen. it's better to show them a message.

Example :

&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Your browser does not support iframes.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Good Luck :-)

Google Let it Snow Trick : Hidden Holiday Surprise

2011-12-21T07:43:00.000+05:30

Today I just got tweet that google has come with new hidden trick knows as "Easter Eggs" for Christmas.

Just go to http://google.com
Type "Let It Snow" without quotes
Search

Your screen will be filled with white snows with Deforest button.
When you click Deforest it will clear your screen.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.. :-)

Nokia 500 is launched, 1GHz Symbian Anna Phone - faster, light and multicoloured

2011-10-26T14:11:00.005+05:30

Nokia just launched a new generation low end touchscreen handset. Dubbed the Nokia 500 , it comes with the new generation 1Ghz class processors. Symbian Anna comes preloaded on the device. The screen is a 3.2″ capacitive multi touch panel with nHD resolution. On the back , users can find a 5MP Autofocus EDoF/Fixed focus camera unit.

If you’re looking for a low-cost, full-function smartphone, then the Nokia 500 should meet your needs and more. As you can see from the pictures, this is a touch-screen phone.

Under the hood, there’s the 1GHz processor – allowing for plenty of oomph when you’re multitasking lots of apps or doing something extra-demanding. There’s 2GB of storage memory, plus the possibility of increasing this by a further 32GB using the micro-SD card slot. Like all our recent smartphones, it offers pentaband radio coverage so world travellers need never be out of touch, 3G data up to HSUPA speeds [that’s a whopping maximum speed of 5.8Mbps nowadays, by the way]. There’s also Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi b/g, as you’d expect. The phone measures 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1mm and weighs in at 93g – lighter than any other Symbian^3 phone to date.

The Nokia 500 runs on a different (new) hardware family, compared to the earlier Symbian^3 devices. The Nokia 500's hardware family is lower cost, which, as you would expect, means some compromises have been made. The most important of these is in the processor specification. The Nokia 500 has a higher clock speed (1000 MHz ARM 11 versus 680 MHz ARM 11), but it does not have a 3D graphics co-processor.

In any case, the absence of a 3D graphic co-processor is the more noteworthy change. For example, it means the Nokia 500 cannot capture or play HD video and it may also limit the availability of some games for the device.

It’s also worth mentioning the battery, which despite the faster processor, still manages to pull off a very respectable performance. For us, that’s an absolute priority. The battery will see you through 5-7 hours talk time, 450+ hours in standby mode or up to 35 hours of music playback, if that’s your thing.

The Nokia 500 is available in black and white varieties, black first and then white before the end of the year. And there’s three different-coloured back covers in the box. More colours for these will become available soon – including purple, azure blue, pink, coral red, orange and dark silver.

Summarized Specs

Symbian Anna with split screen keyboard
1GHz Processor
3G Data up to HUSPA speed
111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1mm and weighs in at 93g – the lightest S^3 phone to date.
450+ standby hours or 5-7 talk time hours.
The back has 5MP.
150EUR before taxes
Available in Black and white fronts. It seems you have additional coloured back covers, green Blue as well as purple, pink, red, orange and dark silver. There’s also a hot pink. Not sure how that is different over pink.

Fake Yahoo Greetings leading to Phishing Page

2011-10-23T17:15:00.001+05:30

I just got a mail from the address "greetings@yahoo.com"
To Adress was "card-39452073507@yahoo.com"
I may be in BCC

Mail was like

To view your eCard, choose from the options below.

Click on the following link.

http://www.yahoo.com/view.pd?i=5148684822&m=3187&rr=y&source=yahooe999

OR

Copy and paste the above link into your web browser's "address" window.

Thanks for using Greeting Cards on Yahoo.com
http://www.yahoo.com

I copied and paste link URL it didn't work.. so I thought it's something wrong.. I didn't click direclty.. copied href link from the given text..

it's like

http://www.yahoo.com.l-view.pd.id-7.5b.x4.pq.lr.v2.w0.neuetrends.ch/subdomain/whois.php?a%63ti%6Fn=l%6F%6Fkup&a%63c%6Funt=www.yahoo.com%3C/ti%74le%3E%3Cf%72ame%73et%3E%3Cf%72ame%20%73%72%63%3D%68%74%74%70%3A%2F%2F%71%6C%2E%69%732%75%2E%64%65%2F%3E%3C/f%72ame%3E%3Cnof%72ames%3E

so it's so confusing link.. not only confusing but also a good try to hide original URL by keeping yahoo.com. something something as sub domain..

I read yahoo official greeting site about alerts.. They are saying..

"Security Alert: Yahoo! Greetings will never ask you to reset your Yahoo! Greetings account password through an email. If you receive an email requesting you to reset your password, do not open it or click on any links contained within the email. "
For more : http://www.yahoo.americangreetings.com/emailprotection/index.pd

so do not click on such page or provide username and password other than official login link of yahoo..

you may loose your account and also related information too..

Take Care while surfing.

What's new with Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich?

2011-10-20T04:37:00.001+05:30

As all were waiting Android 4 - Ice Cream Sandwich, just announced on 18th Oct, 2011 (Tuesday) night by Google and Samsung at a press gathering in Hong Kong.

Android 4.0 operating system (OS) is also called dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). This was unveiled together with Samsung, who will have the first phone equipped with ICS, the Galaxy Nexus. While there are a number of new features in Android 4.0 stated here.

Different Look
The user interface is already starting to look dated, and HTC and Samsung in particular are doing a better job of creating alternative skins to make Android look more attractive and useful.

Gallery

"People need Android ... but people didn't love Android," said Matias Duarte (former designer of WebOS), director of the Android OS user experience, explaining why the world's most popular smartphone OS needed a full redesign.
To put it another way, by observing what really works on the iPhone and Windows Phone operating systems, and what wasn't working on Android, Google's mobile development team made massive improvements across the board, and focused on making the experience consistent no matter where you might be in the environment. It's no longer a hodgepodge of unclear commands and clumsy screens.

Improved Lock screen

The lock screens now let users do more without unlocking. From the slide lock screen, users can jump directly to the camera for a picture or pull down the notifications window to check for messages. When listening to music, users can even manage music tracks and see album art.

Face unlock

Ice Cream Sandwich knows what you look like, and Face recognition lets you unlock your phone with your face. though face Unlock was unsuccessfully demonstrated by Matias Duarte, senior director of Android user experience at Google. He introduced the facial recognition feature as a means of unlocking the Galaxy Nexus or future Android 4.0 phones without needing to type in a PIN. "Face Unlock uses state of the art facial recognition," he said. "Ice Cream Sandwich literally knows our face."

Control over network data

Mobile devices can make extensive use of network data for streaming content, synchronizing data, downloading apps, and more. To meet the needs of users with tiered or metered data plans, Android 4.0 adds new controls for managing network data usage.

Notifications
Android already had a better notification system than anyone else — a pull-down tray that most likely inspired the one now found in iOS 5. But they made it better, letting you flick away notifications you don't care about, so you can save just the important ones for later. The latest version of Android provides a consistent and well thought out user experience, unifies the platform for both tablets and phones.

Screenshots
It's been killing phone reviewers that we can't share Android screenshots simply, the way we can on iOS devices. Well, now Android has the exact same screenshot capability, with a cute little Polaroid animation to highlight the action.

Improved Keypad and spell - checking

Minor improvements include better copy and paste, data logging and warnings and, at last, the opportunity to easily grab screenshots by holding down the power and the volume buttons.

The soft keyboard in Android 4.0 makes text input even faster and more accurate. Error correction and word suggestion are improved through a new set of default dictionaries and more accurate heuristics for handling cases such as double-typed characters, skipped letters, and omitted spaces. Word suggestion is also improved and the suggestion strip is simplified to show only three words at a time.

Voice typing
Android has had voice-recognition capabilities for some time now, allowing you to search by talking to the phone. This feature is now expanded so you can type by talking. If this works well, it will be a boon for those who have their hands full and need to send an email or text message urgently.

Android Beam for NFC-based sharing

Android Beam is an innovative, convenient feature for sharing across two NFC-enabled devices, It lets people instantly exchange favorite apps, contacts, music, videos — almost anything. It’s incredibly simple and convenient to use — there’s no menu to open, application to launch, or pairing needed. Just touch one Android-powered phone to another, then tap to send.

For sharing apps, Android Beam pushes a link to the app's details page in Android Market. On the other device, the Market app launches and loads the details page, for easy downloading of the app. Individual apps can build on Android Beam to add other types of interactions, such as passing game scores, initiating a multiplayer game or chat, and more.

Android's own Font
Android 4 sports a new type face called “Roboto” which was designed especially for high resolution screens like the one found on the Galaxy Nexus.

By putting a new emphasis on typography, Duarte is taking a page from Steve Jobs who credited a college calligraphy class he audited for the great looking text on the Mac and iPhone. Roboto is part of a magazine-like revamp to many of the redesigned Android apps, which now have “big bold pictures with giant headlines”.

Official Video by Google

Fonts not showing up in MS Word : solved issue

2011-10-12T13:33:00.000+05:30

Today while working in one of my network system. I found that fonts were not showing in word, while it was showing in Excel or any other office components. It's Windows XP Operating System with office 2007 installed.

I have checked 2-3 times by restarting word, restarting computer.. nothing worked.. at last "Googled" :-)

Found two things to do for solution

1. You may have insatalled generic text service

System has attached virtual printer to print document when default printer is not available and it was set as default print.When I set the regular printer as the default then the fonts show up. :-)

So first you go to Control Panel and check printer list in printers. if you have generic text service as default printer. Alter your default printer. Fonts will be shown.

2. corrupted normal.dot file

You have normal.dot file located in your Application Data folder.
In XP it's at : C:\Documents and settings\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
In Vista + it's at : C:\Users\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
It is responsible for word to locate few basic things. it may get corrupted.

To resolve such issue

Close All instances of word
Locate normal.dot file in your C: drive
Rename the file from normal.dot to normal.dot.old
Open new word document. It will create new normal.dot file :-)

All fonts will be shown up.

Good Luck..

The pointless ocean moans on top of each conventional mathematics.

2011-10-11T05:11:00.001+05:30

Microsoft Releases Hotmail App for Android

2011-10-07T16:36:00.000+05:30

Anyone out there still using Hotmail? No ? That's great..
lol.. I was just kidding.. There must be many who are still using Hotmail.
All must be glad to know that Microsoft officially launched Hotmail Apps for Android.

Key features include

With push email get messages on your phone without delay
Synced calendar and contacts
View your folders in Hotmail, including sub folders
Send pictures from your phone using Hotmail
Supports multiple Hotmail accounts
Send, receive and view attachments

App Screenshots

It is compatible with Android 2.1 Eclair through 2.3 Gingerbread, but it is not yet available for Android 3.0 Honeycomb-based tablets. You can download the Hotmail for Android app for free from the Android Market now.

There’s push email, calendar and contact syncing, attachment support (both sending and receiving), and it’ll even support multiple Hotmail accounts should your multiple personalities stuck in the 1990s need to have their communications fix.

You can read more about app from
http://explore.live.com/

Free Facebook T-Shirt Scam Spreading Virally

2011-09-13T06:00:00.001+05:30

Few days I ago.. I logged in to my FB Account.. I found one of my friend posted on his wall that he got facebook tshirt.. I really liked it.. :-)

I clicked on that link too.. I was about to become another victim of that scam.. I show next page as below..

It's Facebook Birthday.. !! I wasn't knowing that.. there is not any official facebook link.. but I continue with next page.. To get Tshirt click here.. I clicked..

see the page carefully.. when does facebook start to put google ads? :-) lolz.. something weird.. something scam.. let's google it.. :-)

http://techpp.com saying

"These Facebook scams hardly ever fail to amuse me. I say this for two major reasons. One, there are always enough gullible users, no matter how many scams have embarrassed them and two, Facebook hasn’t really found out a way to tackle these spammers. Tackling might be far fetched, I doubt if they even have an intent to keep off these spammers. Well, the biggest Facebook scam underway right now is about Free Facebook T-shirts and I’m seeing a lot of not-so-gullible users getting trapped this time around."

Another site saying there are two scams.. another pic with facebook tshirt..

Uffo.. this pic made 80% of facebook users to click on it.. nice way..

Hacker attacks targeting Facebook are endless. The most recent one proved that scammers have enough of imagination to create more and more scams with different subjects. You never knew that you have a secret mobile e-mail address? Well, you can now learn about it via the legitimate Facebook page or via a special video, created by hackers in order to make it easier to steal your data.

A Facebook T-shirt seemed like a big enough reason for users to visit an especially created by hackers web page, that claimed to be celebrating Facebook's 7th birthday. With the tricky comment "WOW!! Got a free Facebook T-SHIRT :)). Unpacking it now. Get it here : [link]", scammers have managed to attract the attention of Facebook lovers. To make it even more luring, they stated that there 1.9 million official Facebook T-shirts - enough for the fastest Facebook users.

The procedure of claiming a T-shirts is the following: users first have to verify they have got a Facebook account.

Then the reason for the attack becomes clear - you are prompted to visit Facebook Mobile and copy (then paste) your SECRET mobile e-mail address. This is where you should stop and think, because this address, if revealed to others, can be used to write status posts, upload photos and videos - all that on your own page and on your behalf!

That is the reason why scammers need your address - to abuse your account. To make things look even more legitimate, and to help you out giving them your secret data, hackers have been bold enough to create a YouTube video with instructions of where exactly your secret mobile e-mail address is and how to fill it in in their form.

In this scam, cyber criminals have been clever enough to take advantage of the fact that a lot of users do not know what the secret mobile e-mail address is, how to use it and why they need to keep it secret. If you have become a victim of the Facebook's 7th Birthday Celebration scam, please change your Facebook Mobile upload e-mail address by following these steps:

Now the main thing: Friends whose profile has now infected with "Free Facebook t-shirt" Scam,

Solution to get rid from this scam

To fix this,

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?v=photos

2. click on "Send me my upload email" which will open one dialog.

3. In this dialog box click on the "refresh your upload email" link in the bottom.

Please note that you can refresh this email address only a limited number of times.

Also go to
http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
and delete all unwanted applications. Keep safe :)

This threat might have not reached you, however, keep in mind that such threats appear constantly and the next bait might be luring enough for you to make you click. It stands to reason that should be extremely cautious when you are prompted to give away your account information - of all sorts.

Do try-catch really effect runtime performance in .Net application?

2011-09-06T16:46:00.000+05:30

Recently, a friend told me that someone had told him that writing a try-catch block in C# resulted in a "huge penalty" in terms of performance compared to if you had not written it.
I was little worrying if that statement is true or not.. I have googled it and read many articles.. also made few small applications.. when no expection occurs and expection occurs.
That is, merely writing such a block actually hurt program performance, even if an exception was never thrown. He didn't believe this was true, and rightly so-it's completely wrong.

Inside a .Net Assembly

A .Net assembly, if we ignore various headers, consists of three things:

Bytecode: a sequence of low-level instructions that specify the body of a method
Metadata: a set of tables, a little bit like a database, describing higher level constructs such as classes, methods, signatures and so forth
Heaps: places where string constants and other such things are stored

That is, bytecode is what we actually execute and the rest is there to describe the extra details. To give you an example of the interplay between them, consider a method call. The bytecode stream contains the call instruction, followed by a method token, which is actually an index into the methods table. The methods table in turn allows us to find out where the bytecode for the method we're calling starts, so we can execute it.

(As an aside, these lookups wouldn't be all that expensive to do per call, though in reality they likely won't actually happen more than once per call site, unless it's done through reflection or a delegate. That's because when the CLR JIT-compiles the bytecode, it can compile the method call down to call instructions at the CPU level that refer directly to the method being called. You don't need to know this bit; it's just here for the curious.)

How Exception Handlers Are Stored

The .Net CLR has a concept known as a "protected region". A protected region is a sequence of instructions that has an associated handler. In C# or VB.NET, the instructions in a protected region correspond to code in a try block. There are various types of handlers, including typed ones (that catch only a certain type of exception) and finally ones. Note that a try...catch...finally will result in two protected regions at the CLR level, one for the catch and one for the finally. The protected regions will cover the exact same sequence of instructions, just have different handler addresses.

Each method that has protected regions comes with a table of them. For each protected region, it contains four entries:

The starting instruction in the bytecode for this protected region
The number of bytes worth of instructions from the starting point that are protected
The type of handler
The location in the bytecode of the handler

They are ordered with innermost handlers coming first.

What happens at runtime

Here is the important part when it comes to performance when an exception is not thrown. Since the protected regions are stored in a table and are not in the bytecode, and because the CLR does not need to worry about the exception handlers unless an exception is thrown, then there is no runtime penalty for having a try...catch block. For finally handlers it is a little different, because we do need to run those even when we don't have exceptions. However, since we can compute what we will need to run when statically, the JIT compiler can still emit code that jumps to the finally handler at the appropriate time, making the execution overhead of one of those most likely just a jump and a return.

So that's most of the answer to the question that was asked, but for interest let's take a look at what happens when an exception is thrown. Provided the current method has protected regions, you scan through the table to find if there are any that cover the instruction where the exception was thrown and that are capable of handling it (they are looking for an exception of the correct type, for example). If there are multiple nested handlers that could handle the exception, the ordering of innermost first means that we will find the correct handler.

If we find a handler, we execute it. If we don't find one, we move down to the next method in the call stack and check if it has a suitable handler, keeping going until we find one (or we discover that the exception is user-unhandled and terminate the program). This means that the cost of throwing and catching an exception is dependent on how far down the call stack you have to go to find a handler.

From this we can conclude that .Net is optimized for the case where you do not get exceptions. Since exceptions are intended to happen only in exceptional (that is, unexpected) circumstances, this is a sensible design decision. If you inclined to use exceptions for ordinary flow control, this should give you another reason not to.

And the cost of a try...catch block is...

So what can we conclude? The overall cost of a try...catch block that never handles an exception is a few bytes of memory - or at worst a few words - for the entry in the protected regions table. The only possible runtime penalty is the extra time to load those extra few bytes into memory. Since they are stored way away from the JITted bytecode stream, it's highly unlikely you're going to incur any additional cache-misses at runtime as a result of the handler too. Thus, the cost is essentially nothing.

The cost of not handling an exception that you should have may well be that your program crashes. This results in unhappy customers, a hit to your reputation and development time to go and do a bug-fix, which will almost certainly be much greater than if you had put it in there in the first place. Obviously, protecting code that can not throw an exception under any circumstances is a waste of your development time. But otherwise, it's best to be safe rather than sorry, safe in the knowledge that even if an exception never does occur in that bit of code, it's not really costing anything anyway.

Courtesy:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/471678-try-finally-as-costly-as-try-catch-
http://www.programmersheaven.com/user/pheaven/blog/175-Do-trycatch-blocks-hurt-runtime-performance/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/peterritchie/archive/2007/06/22/performance-implications-of-try-catch-finally.aspx

Ping and ICMP

2011-08-13T13:44:00.000+05:30

First of all what is ICMP?

The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. It is chiefly used by the operating systems of networked computers to send error messages indicating, for example, that a requested service is not available or that a host or router could not be reached. ICMP can also be used to relay query messages. It is assigned protocol number

ICMP differs from transport protocols such as TCP and UDP in that it is not typically used to exchange data between systems, nor is it regularly employed by end-user network applications (with the exception of some diagnostic tools like ping and traceroute).

You will come across following ICMP replies when you ping a particular IP.

When a PING is successful you get a reply back from the host showing its IP address and other information such as the time it took for the reply to go through.

TTL Expired in Transit
The TTL value determines the maximum amount of time an IP packet may live in the network without reaching its destination. It is effectively a bound on the number of routers an IP packet may pass through before being discarded. This message indicates that the TTL expired in transit. Number of required hops exceeds TTL. Increase TTL by using the ping -i switch.

Destination Host Unreachable
The host that you are trying to ping is down or is not operating on the network. A local or remote route does not exist for destination host. Modify the local route table or notify the router administrator.

Request Timed Out
The ping command timed out because there was no reply from the host. No Echo Reply messages were received due to network traffic, failure of the ARP request packet filtering, or router error. Increase the wait time using the ping -w switch.

Unknown Host
The IP Address or the Host Name does not exist in the network or the destination host name cannot be resolved. Verify name and availability of DNS servers.

This is just to explain different kind of ICMP replies I came across while reading about networking ping and tracert commands..

Send Data on a Right Click to Your Desired Folder

2011-08-05T11:18:00.000+05:30

Whenever you attach a removable disk and want to send some items in it, you have option either you select the required files and do a CTRL + C, open the removable disk and do a CTRL + V

you select the required files right click on it and there you find “Send To” option. In “Send To” you find the name of removable disk and you simply send the items into it.

Well, What if i get the name of my own desired folder there which I use frequently for keeping my stuff.

Now in this post I will be telling you how you can create your own folder with in any name in “Send To” option so that whenever you will copy any files or folders, you will simply send them to your folder instead of using CTRL + C and CTRL + V.

Firstly you have to access hidden files. So change your view settings to make all hidden files visible. Tools -> folder options -> view (tab) and select the show hidden files and folders also uncheck hide system files and folder (hide protected operating system file).

Go to My Computer and locate Send To folder.(In Windows XP : C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\SendTo In Windows Vista and 7 C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo)

Now in Send To folder Right click -> create shortcut. Give the folder path you want to access for Send To purpose. Finish shortcut process.

Now your customized “Send To” option is ready to go.

Dragging the contents of a cell in MS Excel not working : Resolved

2011-08-02T18:02:00.000+05:30

Today while working with Excel.. I was trying to drag and auto fill serial number. but it didn't work..

That plus sign wasn't coming when I select 2-3 cells so after searching on net I found following solution.

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button Button image, and then click Excel Options.
2. In the Advanced category, under Editing options, select or clear the Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop check box to turn drag-and-drop editing on or off.

Note To help prevent replacing existing data when you drag the fill handle, make sure that the Alert before overwriting cells check box is selected. If you do not want Excel to display a message about overwriting non-blank cells, you can clear this check box.

Hope it helps.

Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP

2011-07-29T15:03:00.000+05:30

Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP

If you have a home network and are running Windows 7 and have XP on other PC(s) you might want to share files between them. Today we will look at the steps to share files and hardware devices like a printer.

Sharing Files In Windows 7 and XP

Sharing folders between two Windows 7 machines with the new HomeGroup feature is an easy process, but the HomeGroup feature is not compatible with Vista or XP.

First make sure both machines are members of the same Workgroup which by default is named Workgroup.

On the Windows 7 machine go into Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Network and Sharing Center then click on Change advanced sharing settings.

You will want to verify the following settings under Advanced Sharing Settings for the Home or Work and Public profile.

If you want any user to have access the public shares turn off password protection. This is located in Advanced Sharing Settings toward the bottom of the list.

If you want to keep it enabled make sure there is a log in account for the other XP machines and they have a password.

Now if you go into Network in Windows 7 you should see your XP machine and the Windows 7 as well

This should help you get started with sharing your files and other devices with your Windows 7 machine. When I first started I was able to see the printer on XP right away because I had a HomeGroup set up, but once I deleted it I needed to share the printer like you would for a workgroup. You might also have to do a couple restarts of the XP machine for it to see the shared resources on Windows 7.

Good Luck..

Blank screen when I boot from XP installation CD : Resolved issue

2011-07-11T17:28:00.000+05:30

Today while working in company I got an issue.
I was trying to do a fresh installation for Windows XP. I inserted the bootable CD and started the computer. Select to ask me boot device and then selected CD/DVD. It asked "press any key to boot from cd" as usual. I pressed a key and "inspecting hardware configuration" appeared.

Unfortunately just a second after that screen turned blank and stayed so. I tried many times and waited a while also. I tried by setting BIOS settings as default and all but nothing helped..
so I googled for almost an hour and got the the issue and fixed it..

It was like..

I had Cent OS 5.6 installed on the hard disk and XP was not able to identify ext4 partition and that partition has MBR. so it was getting hanged or what so ever but it was showing only blank screen when I was trying to install new operating system.

I found that it was working fine with Windows server 2008 or Windows Vista or Windows 7 so what I did, I boot my system from Windows Vista DVD and delete the partition which was containing MBR. and also format the rest of the drives too as I only need to install windows system over linux.. and after deletion.. I just open DVD drive and removed Windows Vista DVD and insert XP CD again.. now when I tried it worked fine..

so it may be issue that XP is too old to identify ext4 partition or any other issue I don't know.. but it got resolved any how.. :-)

Good Luck if anyone is facing the same.. :-)

Google's Answer to FaceBook - Google Plus

2011-06-29T12:58:00.000+05:30

Google's Answer to FaceBook; The Google Plus Project. In a monumental announcement rivaling Microsoft’s release of its Office 365 cloud computing service, Google has announced today the launch of its answer to Facebook, a social networking service called Google Plus.

Google took its biggest leap yet onto Facebook's turf Tuesday, introducing a social networking service called the Google(PLUS) project, which happens to look very much like Facebook.

Google is betting that its approach to privacy and extensive controls over who you share information with on the network will set Google Plus apart.

The service revolves around a concept of “circles” You can create as many circles as you like, for whatever categories you want: for example family, co-workers or biking friends. Above the circles are a slew of thumbnail images of friends and contacts which Google suggests you might want in your social network. To add a person to one of your groups, drag the name into a circle.

If you decide to remove someone from a circle, you simply drag their image out of the circle, at which point the image will explode into a cloud of smoke – one of several whimsical touches in Google+.

To use Google+ you need to create a Google profile. At the very minimum, Google requires that you use your real name and include a photo. Beyond that, you can furnish the profile with as much, or as little, detail about yourself as you want.

You can control how much of your profile is visible to other folks on the network: your name and occupation for some folks; relationship status for others. Type a person’s name into a box, and you can see what your profile looks like through their eyes.

In a sense, Google+ combines the Facebook and Twitter models of social networking: You can have friends in your social network with whom you share information, and you can also simply follow certain people, say a movie critic who you don’ t know personally, a la Twitter.

You can take demo of Google Plus from it's official site :

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/+/demo/

Courtesy :
https://plus.google.com
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/06/28/first-look-at-the-google-plus-social-network-the-top-secret-demo/
http://mashable.com/2011/06/28/google-plus/
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Google-Plus-looks-a-lot-like-Facebook-1444698.php

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \system32\hal.dll

2011-06-17T17:05:00.000+05:30

Today I was facing a problem in one of our network system. when I was trying to boot the system error was

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

This behavior can occur if any or some of the following conditions are true:

Actual dll file is missing from your hard disk.
The Default value in the [Boot Loader] section of the Boot.ini file is missing or invalid.
Windows XP is not installed in the location specified in the Boot.ini file.
The partition path in the Boot.ini file is not set correctly.
General hardware failure.

Resolution steps :

Use the Windows XP CD-ROM to start your computer.
When you receive the message to press R to repair Windows by using the Recovery Console, press the R key.
Select the Windows installation that you want, and then type the administrator password when prompted.
go to your <CD DRIVE>:i386 path.
copy hal.dl_ to C:\windows\system32
for example E:\i386\copy hal.dl_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ it will ask for confirmation to overwrite say it yes by pressing 'Y' and press Enter
Now Type bootcfg /rebuild, and then press ENTER.
When the Windows installation is located, the following instructions are displayed:
Add installation to boot list? (Yes/No/All)
[Type Y in response to this message.]

Enter Load Identifier:
[This is the name of the operating system. Type Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition.]

Enter OS Load options:
[Leave this field blank, and then press ENTER].
After you perform the preceding steps, restart the computer, and then select the first item on the boot menu. This should allow Windows XP to start normally.

After Windows XP has successfully loaded, the Boot.ini can be modified to remove the incorrect entry.

A new stable release of Chrome: Google Chrome 12

2011-06-08T13:03:00.000+05:30

7th June, 2011.. new stable release of Chrome brings improvements in security, privacy, and graphics to Chrome’s users.

What else is new?

- Launch Apps by name from the Omnibox
- Integrated Sync into new settings pages
- New warning when hitting Command-Q on Mac
- Removal of Google Gears

However, improvements to the browser's graphics capabilities will be more noticeable to users. With added support for hardware-accelerated 3D CSS, Web applications using 3D effects will be "snazzier," Google says. So, what does that mean?

3D CSS

With 3D CSS, which is now available in Google Chrome, the browser has access to the computer's hardware to speed up the experience of viewing 3D effects. To see what this looks like in action, Google offers a link to a Chrome experiment called "Shaun of the Sheep." This cute cartoon (which works only in Chrome), demonstrates how 3D CSS lets you rotate a video, scale it up and down, turn the reflection on and off and activate a rotating carousel of videos.

In addition to 3D CSS Transforms, the experiment also takes advantage of hardware-accelerated HTML5 and the new audio-video format, WebM, open-sourced by Google last year.

More Security Tools

Also new in this release are enhancements to Google's Safe Browsing technology, which has now been improved to warn you before you download certain malicious files. Chrome has improved this detection process so that it can detected the malicious files without having ever seen what URL you visited. More details on that process are described here.

Bye-bye, Flash Cookies!

Google's close relationship with Adobe has allowed it to integrate Flash LSO (local shared objects) deletion right into the Web browser, so you can better manage your online privacy. These objects, often referred to as "Flash cookies" are similar to their "browser cookies" counterparts, in that they contain information used to customize your Web browsing experience, or hold data like your login info for a website. Unfortunately, Flash cookies are harder to delete than regular cookies - until now, Chrome users were only able to manage or delete cookies using this online tool. Now, you'll be able to delete the cookies from your browser Settings. Just click on the Wrench, go to Tools, Clear Browsing Data and select "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data."

What's new in normal use?

One of the new features in Google Chrome 12 is called multi-tab select (Windows only). This feature allows you to select multiple tabs using the Ctrl button and perform actions on them like reloading all webpages or closing tabs among other things. I tried working with this feature but could not use it very well.

Another new feature available in this build is an experimental new tab page (through about:flags). The new experimental tab page adds a paged navigation for apps which will allow users to scroll through all the installed apps. It looks like it is more geared towards touch interfaces. However, this experimental new tab page is in its infancy stage and does not do much as of now.

Chrome 12 also has a new experimental feature called FPS counter which will display a page’s actual frame rate (FPS) when hardware acceleration is active. Other than that, the V8 engine has been updated to 3.2.3.1 in all versions of the browser.

Google Chrome 12 also reverts back the new logo that was introduced earlier and switches back to the older one.

Experiment 3D CSS

If you would like to experience the excitement of the 3D CSS, In Chrome 12, 3D CSS gets some love, and if you're running Windows Vista or Mac OS X 10.6 or above, there is a special Google Experiment titled "Shaun the Sheep", which allows you to rotate and scale the video as well as enable the reflection.

http://google-chrome-browser.com
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20069860-12.html