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The state of the Internet, blogging and broadband – All in one big picture

nivethan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:58:59 +0000

Recently Focus Editors made a complete diagram illustrating the interesting statistics of Internet usage, Blogging, Broadband speed, mobile Internet, etc in one shot, covering many aspects. They collected the Internet statistics from ‘PEW research center’s Internet and American life project’. The blogosphere statistics were taken from ‘Technorati’s stat of the blogosphere 2009′. The broadband related statistics were taken from ‘Akamai state of the Internet’. We all are using Internet and the following questions are very likely in our minds.

What percentage of people are using Internet?
What percentage of men are using Internet?
What percentage of woman are using Internet?
How often people use the Internet at home?
How old are the bloggers?
How do the bloggers describe their style?
What is the average broadband speed in various countries?
How fast mobile Internet is?

The following diagram gives answers for all these questions!

Most watched music videos on YouTube!

nivethan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:22:12 +0000

What are the most famous music videos on youtube? Here we have listed the most watched music videos on youtube for you after doing a research for last couple of weeks. They are really amazing and especially each of them has been viewed more than 50 million times and still trending on youtube. We did not list the videos which were popular sometime back and now inactive. Now watch these most watched videos on youtube that we have listed bellow and enjoy.

1. Pitbull “I Know You Want Me” (106+ million views)

2. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (81+ million views))

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3. Vanessa Hudgens Say Ok (81+ million views)

4. Miley Cyrus “The Climb” (79+ million views)

5. Jizz In My Pants (78+ million views)

6. Timbaland – The Way I Are ft (65+ million views)

Bonus : Evolution of Dance (138+ million views))
This is the most viewed funniest video on youtube, it is worth spending your six minutes to watch it!

Access Your Facebook and Twitter from Gmail

nivethan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:57:01 +0000

You can access your Facebook & Twitter accounts from your Gmail now! You don’t have to have Facebook, Twitter & Gmail opened in multiple tabs/windows. Operate Facebook and Twitter from your gmail! Already GoogleBuzz is available inside Gmail, so are Facebook and Twitter now! It is a new feature that has been exposed by Ari Milner in his buzz post on February 12. Enjoy Facebook and twitter inside your Gmail. Follow the above steps to make it happen! From now, Facebook and Twitter also can be accessed from your Gmail like you access buzz!

To Integrate Facebook!

1. Go to “Settings -> Labs” and Enable “Add any gadget by URL“ gadget

2. Now, Go to “Settings -> Gadgets“ and Paste the following Facebook gadget URL: http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/104971404861070329537/facebook.xml

3. That’s it!

You will see the slidebar on the left bottom corner of the Gmail (Under the chat list). Click on it to maximize it! It will look like this!

To integrate Twitter, do the same procedure but Paste the twitter gadget URL instead https://twittergadget.appspot.com/gadget-gmail.xml

Twitter Search – The best way to explore the world in real time!

nivethan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:07:16 +0000

Twitter is now one of the world’s top ten websites. It is a simple and sweet social networking website with the unique and trending concept “Following a user”. The users can “tweet” any text or links of less than 140 letters and that will be visible to all of their followers in real time. Today apart from being a social networking platform, twitter has become a social marketing platform as well. Many companies use twitter as their main marketing place. You can see that all popular people and companies are having their own twitter accounts now. All top blogs (Mashable, TechCrunch, etc) and news websites are using their twitter account to give the post or news update along with the link to the complete story to all of their followers, so many users just follow their favorite blogs or news providers in twitter in order to get any updates right there. Also the companies also inform their follows their important updates, products, plans, etc. Thus we can say “Twitter is an essence of world wide web”.

Twitter has a search engine which works within the world of tweets. It works like a web search engine, but within twitter only. When you make a search it will list the matching tweets real time! The web search engines are not real time so even google has recently started listing some matching tweets with the search results. We saw that twitter is the essence of internet moreover it is real time therefore, twitter search is the most real time search in the world. If you want to know anything realtime, do search on twitter “search.twitter.com”

Besides twitter provides advanced search options as well, see the bellow image.

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Are you still buying or pirating commercial software? Move to free open source software!

nivethan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:18:35 +0000

Now, you can do everything with open source software which are totally free. Why are you still buying or pirating commercial software?
Migrate to open source today, there you can do everything without paying any money and you don’t have to pirate any software that you can’t afford. Open Source software is always FREE. They are free because there is a huge community is working behind these Open Source Software. Many Open Source Software have surpassed their rival Commercial Software, in quality. Good example is Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome (Google chrome is not open source however, it is free under google’s license) are better than Microsoft Internet Explorer in almost all aspects. If you compare MS office and Open office.org, you will not find any significant difference in terms of functionality or usability. So are other software. There is a belief that Linux is comfortable for advanced users only, it was true a few years ago but now Linux has become a user friendly operating system, some distributions especially Ubuntu have made Linux a very user friendly operating system. Besides all of these facts It is totally free. So, why don’t you try it even once if you don’t want to move away from your Windows? I am pretty sure if you tasted open source properly you would very unlikely go back to windows.

The following software are some examples which can serve the fundamental needs and wants of a home user.

Operating System – Linux – Ubuntu or other (Good bye Windows)
Web Browser – Mozilla Firefox (Good bye Internet Explorer)
Media Players – VLC Player/Movie Player (Good Bye all commercial media players & WMP)
Photo editing – Gimp (Good bye Photoshop and Firefox)
Office – Oppenoffice.org (Good Bye Microsoft Office)
Email Client – Thunderbird (Good Bye MS outlook)
Video Editing – Openshot Video Editor
CD/DVD Burning – Brasero, GnomeBaker,k3b (Good Bye Nero)
Video Converting – WinFF (No need to buy any converter)
PDF editing – PDF Editor (Good Bye Acrobat Professional)
3D modeling/Animation – Blender (Good bye Expensive 3D software)
Vector Graphics Editing – Lnkscape Vector graphics editor
Diagram Creation/Editing – Dia (Good Bye Visio)
Partitioning – Gparted (Good bye partition magic)
Voice/Video/Chat – Empathy
All necessary Accessories and there are many other software

Viruses are a big headache in Windows. Linux is totally virus free so you don’t have to worry about any virus in Linux(A virus is a dead file in Linux). This is also a significant benefit of using Linux.

In case you find it difficult to move to Linux all of a sudden, you can move gradually one by one. Start Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, Start openoffice.org instead of Microsoft Office and so on. Thus, when you move to Linux you will have your friends or acquaintances (Firefox, openoffice.org, Gimp, etc) there to welcome you.

Top 10 tech blogs for 2010

nivethan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:38:42 +0000

What are the top 10 tech blogs? Well, here I have listed down the top 10 Technology blogs. They have been selected according to the quality of content, number of readers, visitors, number of listings, position in technorati, visibility in digg, reddit, delicous, stumbleupon, etc. It took many days to compile this report. Regular reading of useful blogs will always help you to update yourself with the fast moving technology. Enjoy viewing the top 10 technology blogs of 2010. Also, you can bookmark this link for your future reference!

1.TechCrunch

2.Mashable

3.Engadget

4.Gizmodo

5.Lifehacker

6.ReadWriteWeb

7.GigaOM

8.BoyGeniusReport

9.DownloadSquad

10.GadgetLab

What are the top 10 Information Technology blogs? It is also almost same. The above listing is the the answer for this question as well.

Nexus One : The Google Phone Released – Compare it with others!

nivethan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:50:12 +0000

Eventually, google has released the most anticipated google phone! and named it ‘Nexus One’. After a pretty long research and development google has come out with a fantastic mobile which is allegedly richer than the current most prefered mobile device iphone 3GS and other popular smart phones such as Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, etc in termes of many features. And you can buy unlocked Nexus One(without contract with a service provider) officially by paying some more. However, now it is too early to discuss if it is going to be the next king of mobile phones pushing iphone back or not. No doubt we are going to see an interesting market battle ground owing to the arrival of Nexus One! Both google and apple are famous for their unique and high quality products, let’s see who is going to win the game!

BillShrink has made a comparison chart comparing the features of Nexus One, iPhone 3GS, Palm pre and Droid which are currently leading in the market. Look at it and enjoy!

The number one brand of 2009 – It is iPhone

nivethan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:29:31 +0000

iPhone has been known as the most popular mobile phone in the world, besides iPhons has been awarded as the most popular social brand of 2009. Yesterday(04-01-2009) Virtue, a well known social media management company has released its top 100 social brands list of 2009. And iPhone continues to maintain the first place. You would have known that it was awarded the number one brand of 2008 as well. And this time Diseny has seized the second place from CNN and CNN is in the third place now!

Visit virtue’s official blog post here to view the top 100 brands of 2009

Chrome vs Safari, Google eats apple!

nivethan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:43:03 +0000

Google Chrome, the web browser introduced by the web giant google has acquired the third place in the browser market. Safari, the web browser of apple has lost its third place to chrome and gone to the forth position. Microsoft Internet Explorer remains first and Mozilla Firefox remains second as they were and Internet Explorer is loosing its market to Mozillz Firefox little by little. Chrome has become a big completer of Mozilla Firefox and it is being observed that the vigorous growth of Mozilla has been mitigated by Chrome. However, Internet Explorer is on its way and usually the Internet Explorer users are the people who never tried to install any new browser into their windows desktop/laptop, so it is still a question if they will bother installing chrome, but the the way google push chrome could make them do it. Google is very happy as chrome has captured a considerable market portion within a very shorter period. Although the future of the browser market is somewhat obvious, let’s wait and see! There will be an interesting competition among Chrome, Firefox and IE! Have a look at the following graph for detailed illustration.

Browser Statistics Graph : from Global Stat Counter

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How to hack facebook accounts- Social Engineering is the best possible way

nivethan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:36:03 +0000

Hacking facebook is one of the most wanted secret today not only for hackers but also for many many others. According to the traffic ranking provided by alexa, now facebook is the second most popular website in the world (first is google). You can see many forums and websites which have been discussing seriously about the ways to hack facebook but at the end of the day you would gained nothing from them. You might have tried to get into another person’s facebook account in many ways and I am pretty sure that all your technical efforts would NOT have worked at all. The reason is, facebook is very well secured and no one can break into it. Don’t even think that anyone will be able to gain access to the facebook server! Because even an ordinary website is not hackable technically as long as it follows the very basic security measures. Otherwise the sustainability of world wide web and Internet would have become a joke today. On the other hand, you might wonder if is it possible to capture a user’s password when it goes to the facebook server from the client’s browser for authentication, but that is also impossible at all as the password is encrypted in the browser itself by the secured http (https) and then sent out. Thus, without any doubt there have no ways been left for sniffers or hackers to capture the password.

Well, Then how some users are loosing their passwords? The only qualified answer is, hackers dupe the users by using possible social engineering techniques and capture their credentials. That is the only possible way(It is the easiest and most successful way of hacking). Since facebook and many other websites are secure enough, Social Engineering only possible way to hack them.

The above fact not only applicable to facebook, but also to many other websites such as gmail, yahoomail, hotmail, myspace, twitter, wordpress, etc.

Websites are very secure on their side and only and most possible way to hack is, “Try to get the password from the facebook using social engineering techniques”. As users, you should be very careful about social engineering possibilities in order to be safe.

Best answer for the question “How to hack facebook accounts“ :

Create a fake login page and have the victim login into it, store the username/email or password in a database or file and redirect him to the facebook’s “Incorrect Email/Password Combination page” . His/Her account is yours now! This is all about how to hack a facebook account profile.

Others, please be careful, this is how you could be cheated and your passwords could be stolen. The main intention of this post is to give a security advice to the users so that they will be aware of the basic web security issues.