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Facebook Spam On The Rise

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:04:26 PDT

Most of us use facebook on a daily basis and im pretty sure you are aware of the current scenario present in facebook. Facebook spam is definitely on the rise the amount of spam on a person's...

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Get Facebook Notifications As RSS Feeds

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:37:44 PDT

This feature has been there since quite a while. I just read about it recently and i find it really useful to get my facebook notifications as RSS feeds instead of email notifications . If your an...

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Over 50 Malware Apps On Android Market

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:49:55 PST

TO be honest , i was expecting this . The Android Market has been growing exponentially every single day and there were talks of the android market going past the apple store.This makes android...

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Get Repositories For No Longer Supported Ubuntu Versions

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:48:22 PST

If you are a kind of person who hates jumping from one version of ubuntu to another every year then this post is for you. Typically versions of ubuntu which are not LTS have only around 18 months of...

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GSMARENA Phone Finder Tool

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:43:39 PST

A lot of times whenever we start phone hunting we do a lot of searches online to find the phone which suits our needs , most of the services aren’t reliable as they either provide false information...

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OpenDNS Launches new server in Singapore

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:59:41 PST

It’s been a while since opendns powered up a new server in Singapore for DNS requests. This is great news for asian countries especially India as previously all our DNS requests were going to Europe...

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Playing With The Arduino Microcontroller

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:31:41 PST

I recently have this sudden craze to play around with microcontrollers and i must say its been quite a ride . Arduino is one such microcontroller which has so much support that it becomes really fun...

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Reliance Broadband NetConnect Plus Review

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:44:42 PST

Its been a while since i've been using the reliance broadband netconnect plus . I did do a lot of searching on the internet before i decided on this product. Here's more on this : The reason i...

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Download All your Facebook Content To your Desktop

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:04:25 PST

Facebook has come out with a whole bunch of new stuff apart from their usual policy changes and privacy settings . One such new feature is the option for you to be able to download all your facebook...

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat - Released

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:18:11 PDT

Ubuntu recently released its latest version ubuntu 10.10 on 10/10/10 . This version of ubuntu doesnt seem to have too many changes unlike the previous version which had a whole bunch of new stuff and...

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Facebook Skype Integration - Skype calls between Facebook buddies

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:27:19 PDT

Talks are going on between facebook and skype for a possible integration of the two services . Facebook plans to use the facebook connect option to allow users to login to skype with their facebook...

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Google Android - The Future Of Mobile Operating System

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:08:10 PDT

There was a time when windows mobile was one of the best mobile Operating systems which had a lot of features including exchange,3rd party apps etc. Then there was symbian as well as the all time...

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Burrp TV - Find Schedule TV shows movies

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:52:27 PDT

I had reviewed burrp sometime back as to how you can use burrp to find places like restaurants , saloons etc.. Burrp has another service called burrp tv which again is very useful and is something i...

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Voice and Video Chat for Gmail Now On Linux

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:07:53 PDT

The gmail voice and video chat feature where you could do a voice and video chat right in your gmail window was so far only possible in windows but there is some really good news for linux users ....

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Google Web History

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:13:38 PDT

Google has come up with something new which i recently noticed on the top bar of google's webpage. Its called the google web history. This service is a very interesting service as it has its pros and...

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How To Trace A Phone Number

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:21:36 PDT

I'm sure there are a lot of times you get a call on your cell phone or any other phone and you want to know more about the caller so you will have an idea who it might be or whether you can totally...

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Staying Away From Scams And Protecting Your Privacy

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:26:19 PDT

Almost all of us receive scam emails almost all the time . You could also receive such messages via SMS on your phone . I got one yesterday and i had thought of doing a small google search on this...

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Burrp - A great place to find places

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:22:03 PDT

Im a big fan of burrp and use their service quite a lot. Burrp is a website which helps you find places be it restaurants,salons,gyms etc .. It has a rich database of all these places with some...

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Google Maps Street View Review

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:40:27 PDT

I am a big fan of google maps . I use it almost everyday for some reason or the other . It really helps you to find out exactly where a certain place is on a map and the satellite view makes it even...

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Pidgin Audio And Video Chat Improved and Working

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:32:52 PDT

There was a time when all that pidgin could do is just chat . But now pidgin comes with loads of addons which makes pidgin a very powerful tool . Pidgin since recently started audio and video chat...

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How To Be Invisible In Google Chat in Pidgin

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:44:51 PDT

By default for some reason , pidgin doesn't allow you to be invisible with gtalk. If you choose invisible the other protocols like yahoo etc would go invisible but google chat wouldnt . So here is a...

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Mobile Number Portability In India Is A Big Joke

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:51:59 PDT

Mobile number portability as you all know is a way by which you can change your cell phone carrier without changing your cell phone number . So for example you can move from airtel to vodafone...

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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Review

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:51:08 PDT

It's been quite a while since ubuntu released their latest version Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx . I've been trying this version on a test machine for a few tasks and i am pretty happy to see some...

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Transfer Facebook Birthdays and Events To Google Calendar And Cell Phone

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:24:54 PDT

A lot of us are on facebook and have friends on facebook and im sure it means a lot if you remember your friends' birthday and wish him/her on that day . Well considering that all of us have a LOT of...

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Cairo Dock - Rocket Dock Alternative For Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 01 May 2010 23:29:16 PDT

Cairo Dock is similar to the rocket dock which is a eye candy application launcher which lies at the bottom of your desktop . This is similar to the dock present in MAC . I think this is a very...

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