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The ILounge - manna for Ipod fans
2006-12-17 07:33:01
The Ipod is the world’s most recognizable mp3 player. So much that five yers after Apple released the iconic mp3 player, it’s still going strong. There’s now an 80 Gb version of the player. View the specifications here.  With all the hype and hoople surrounding the player, what customers would think of next would be to accessorize the player.  Add different types of covers, buy an extra set of headphones and so on. The Ipod Lounge , a site dedicated to the Ipod has an impressive list of accessories displayed on the site, including FM recievers, Ipod docks, the list goes on. The pick however is their 2007 Ipod Buyers Guide. The pricing of all the accessories is in US $. So  if you are in Ipod fan, checkout this site for reviews, downloads and more. The Ipod Lounge. 
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Adobe Developer Olympiad
2006-12-15 19:31:01
Adobe India is conducting a contest for students (Adobe Develop er Olympia d) on the development of Rich Internet Application using Flex /ColdFusion technologies. The objective of this contest is to get the student community excited about Adobe’s RIA products and bring out innovative ideas. This contest is open to any student of a recognized university in India and there are 3 categories where students can submit their work. For each category there is prize money of Rs 50,000 for the winner. The contest will have three broad categories: Engineering UI Components (Sample) Adapters / Libraries Applications Innovative UI and experience models [ex: Flex Store, DashBoard] Mash Up applications (Home Locator, Amazon book store) Flex ColdFusion Integration Important dates: What When Receiving the proposals 10th Jan 2007 Receiving the prototypes 31st Jan 2007 Receiving the complete implementation 27th Feb 2007 Winners announced! 10th Mar 2007   Downl...
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NewsGulp - Desi Popurl
2006-12-15 19:31:01
NewsGulp is a pretty neat aggregation of the best content around the world, specific to Indians. They cover entertainment, cricket, technology, food, podcasts, videos, pictures and even personal writings. This is something vaguely similar to the previously mentioned eNewss.com. NewsGulp brings to you an aggregation of some of the best content on the web. It is primarily aimed at the global Indian community and provides a collection of boomarks,news bits,blogs,videos,pictures and podcasts in one big gulp! NewsGulp is based on an idea originally implemented by the hugely popular popurls.com NewsGulp scores with its simple/clutter free interface and functionality. It certainly is a portal to look out for daily net bytes NewsGulp
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Give away of the Day
2006-12-14 19:30:02
Project Give away fo the Day is a new initiative to distribute some really cool and best softwares. What is the big deal? Unlike other sites which let you download a trial or limited demo, Giveaway of the Day provides you with the whole product. Everyday, one software title gets nominated. This software is available to download for the whole 24 hour period. Once you download it and install it, use an activation key (provided during download) before the 24 hour time limit and you have the licensed full version registered copy of the software legally. Now since this initiative is gaining popularity, some really hot softwares are being given away. So watch that space for something really cool might pop out. Also Giveaway of the day, gives away one game everyday. Nope, CS is not yet being given away. But you never know, someday even that might happen. So go grab your giveaway of the day!
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Login to Windows Xp without a password
2006-12-11 19:28:01
Honeytech has posted a tutorial which describes how you can log in to Wind ows Xp without the help of a password. Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes only. This site is not liable if you mess up your operating system using this tutorial.
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CNET Senior Editor and technology geek James Kim is no more
2006-12-08 07:25:01
James Kim, CNET.com’s Senior Editor is no more. James disappeared along with his family when he was on vacation in Oregon. His family was rescued two days ago but James was still missing. James’s body was found by search and rescue workers yesterday. Source   ”Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson said James Kim had walked up to eight miles in “tremendously rugged terrain,” dressed only in tennis sneakers, pants, shirt and a medium-weight parka.He walked a circuitous route up the road he had driven in on in the middle of the night but apparently abandoned that strategy and began climbing downhill. His body was found a little more than a mile from the parked car.” Source James was a product reviewer at CNET and had built a fan following over the years based on the information he dished out about mp3 players and other products. See James’s CNET profile here. CNET.com has a page dedicated to James here. Rest in peace James.
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Sony?s Blu-Ray disc player now available
2006-12-06 13:23:02
Sony has launched a disc player that runs on the much touted Blu-Ray technology.  Picture source - Best Buy Blu-Ray page   What is Blue-ray? Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). Source : Blu-Ray website A blu-ray disc can hold upto 25GB of informaion including movies, images and so on. The player was launched on December 1 and is available at all major retails stores in the United States. Best Buy is selling the player for $999. For more information about Blu-ray, the technology and related information, go to the Blu-Ray website.
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Online community for robotics geeks
2006-12-06 13:23:02
Continuing on earlier posts that were made on robotics, here’s a website called Robot ics India, an online community for Indian robotics enthusiasts. This site has news about various robotics workshops and contest held across different cities in India among other features. Go to Robotic s India, for more details.
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How important is Blog Design?
2006-12-05 19:21:02
Sobha Menon of the Economic Times has written a good article on how Desi gn of a blog is as important as the content. Some of my opinions have also been quoted in her article. Some one truly said that a blog’s design and content are like the length and breadth of a rectangle. One without the other won’t give you an area (usability). This kicked me hard cauze BotHack is so plain. Any bright suggestions to revamp the blog, is welcome
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Robotics at Kurukshetra 2007
2006-12-05 19:21:02
College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, presents “Kurukshetra 07″ ? a national level multi-disciplinary inter college technical festival to be held during January 4 - 7, 2007. With over 35 events, ranging from Robo t ics to Online Programming Contest, Business Plan Competition to the Open Kurukshetra Main Quiz, and prizes worth Rs.  9 lakhs - Kurukshetra 07 is definitely the place to be in January next!! Kurukshetra 07 ? Join the battle!! Recreate history!! For more details, visit www.kurukshetra.org.in. – By Shekar S. The author is a student of CEG, Anna Univ. and blogs at http://shekys.blogspot.co.
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Prahlad to Tour Kerala next week
2006-12-05 19:21:02
All the robotics entusiats who missed the Session by Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat at IIT M during Shaastra, here is a second chance. He is touring Kerala next week. Unlike Shaastra where Dr. Prahlad displayed a few soccer playing robots with his students from the NUS, in Kerala he would give a few sessions on his researches on Humanoid robotics, Cooperative robotics, Robot soccer systems etc. It sure is promising to be a lot of fun and a good platform to take Robotics to the next level. He will tour Kerala during 14-23 Dec 2006. Good friend Fahad Ali informed me that he would be visiting Model Engineering College, Cochin where interested people can catch his session. Now to go book my tickets. Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat - Profile, NUS Staffs page.
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Keylogging fun for C/C++ Beginners
2006-12-05 19:21:02
The examples below are for beginners in C/C++ with some basic knowledge of the windows - API. 1. Global hook Hook: A hook is a point in the system message-handling mechanism where an application can install a subroutine to monitor the message traffic in the system and process certain types of messages before they reach the target window procedure. Available hooks: WH_CALLWNDPROC WH_CALLWNDPROCRET WH_CBT WH_DEBUG WH_FOREGROUNDIDLE WH_GETMESSAGE WH_JOURNALPLAYBACK WH_JOURNALRECORD WH_KEYBOARD WH_KEYBOARD_LL WH_MOUSE WH_MOUSE_LL WH_MSGFILTER WH_SHELL WH_SYSMSGFILTER To install a hook you call this API-function: HHOOK SetWindowsHookEx( int idHook, // type of hook to install HOOKPROC lpfn, // address of hook procedure HINSTANCE hMod, // handle to application instance DWORD dwThreadId // identity of thread to install hook for ); - idhook Specifies the type of hook procedure to be installed. We choose “WH_KEYBOARD_LL” (13). - lpfn The LowLevelKeyboardProc hook ...
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Build your own security tools
2006-12-05 19:21:02
So you have read tons of tutorials, guides, FAQ’s and you have some kind of image of what computer security is. The next logical step that you should make is to start learning a programming language. I’m not going to describe each language ( its advantages and disadvantages ). Instead I will focus on just one language: Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language). This language was written for manipulating text, but it has become one of the best languages available to programmers. You can write games, web applications and about everything you can think of. I want to show you just how easy it is to write some security tools using Perl. I’m going to start with a port scanner. For those of you that don’t know what a port scanner is, here is a little definition: a port scanner is a program that checks if a certain port is open (by connecting to it). I. The port scanner # scanner.pl use strict; use warnings; use IO::Socket; $|++; my($host,$a,$b)=@ARGV; ma...
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How to get access to various FTP sites
2006-12-02 07:19:01
You all know or should know that there are SEVERAL ways to do something, they all might be right.I’m going to show you the most simple but most rewarding also (in my opinion) way to get access to ftps.You start with downloading DC++ from google. For all of you who don’t know what DC++ is then it is a p2p software to share files. It’s not like Kazaa or something so you just don’t search, you have to enter “hubs” (it’s like rooms kind of) and search for the files in there. Every hub has got its own rules, for example you must share atleast 10GB to enter it or something. But there are also hubs with no share limit so you can enter them right away, but they aren’t really the best. I would recommend to get maybe 50GB share or something because then you can enter MOST of the hubs. The better hubs you enter the higher is the chance that you will find password. Right when you’ve downloaded DC++ and made all the configurations then enter ...
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Make your own web browser
2006-12-02 07:19:01
An example of how to create your own simple web browsers with ease. This guide will start you off and hopefully you can try new things, add your own skin & more. Making a web browser is so simple. It consists of only a few lines of code they are so easy to make use. Let’s start off with starting a new Visual Basic project, a standard exe.Add the following controls onto your form: 5 command buttons 1 web browser 1 text box Now what’s left to do is put all the code into the commands, as you can see the text box is going to be where you put all of the website urls you want to visit, you could also use a combo box for this which is fine. The command buttons will do different things; the go button is used to go to the website you enter. As you can see we have got a back button, a forward button, a refresh button a stop button, these are all the basic commands, you can add more as you get more comfortable with the commands.We can now add the code into the commands then y...
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Cryptography
2006-12-02 07:19:01
Solving cryptic puzzles can be a lot of fun, provided you know the basics of Crypt o graphy. So here is a quick overview of basics of Cryptography - All in one. The infamous Caesar Cipher (shift, ROT) Ok, for all you cryptographers-in-the-making (and everyone else, for that matter), I have decided to give simple, yet educational explanations of the basics of cryptography. One of the very first methods of cryptography was the Caesar Cipher, also known as “shift” or “ROT” (rotate). The Caesar cipher is quite simple: you shift all of the letters of the alphabet down a certain number of spaces. So, if you want a rotation of 1, here’s what you’d use (the upper letters are the normal alphabet, and the lower letters are what you replace them with): ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZA So the message: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs would read Uif rvjdl cspxo gpy kvnqfe pwfs uif mbaz epht But, just to make this harder, man...
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Cloning your mobile phone
2006-11-23 07:06:01
The objective here is to have two fully functioning mobile phones while only paying one bill. You’ll need two cell phones, one with service and another without. Now the first step is to find the secret menu on your cell. www.cellphonehacks.com is one of the best places to find that out, just search for your model number and check out some of the hacks. After you enter in the secret number and enter the secret menu on the serviced phone, look for your phones ESN. ESN (Electronic Serial Number) - Each cellular phone is assigned a unique ESN, which is automatically transmitted to the cellular tower station every time a cellular call is placed. The Mobi le Telephone Switching Office validates the ESN with each call. Usually it says serial number right on it so its simple to find. After that write the serial number down along with your phone number and area code. Next on the phone that does not have service do the same exact steps to get to the secret menu and then go to the serial ...
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Zamzar - free online file conversion tool
2006-11-17 18:57:01
Zamzar is an online file conversion service which is free and offers support to a lot of file formats (Documents, Audio, Video and Images). The simple interface involves a three step process, 1) Upload 2) Set the conversion to format 3) Provide your email id (to receive the file), to get your file converted from one format to another. Only files upto 100 mb of size can be uploaded for conversion. Zamzar definitely is a boon to the people constantly working with media for its superiority, flexibility and range over the other such online conversion tools. The list of the 100+ conversions available can be obtained here. Zamzar - free online file conversion
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RAZZ mixer and mobile
2006-11-16 18:54:02
Razz Mixe r is the latest to join the zillion podcasting services available online. Though it might be late to join the band wagon, it certainly registers a good impression for its simplicity and feature. Step 1: Choose sounds by dragging them from the “more effects” drawer and dropping them onto the effects buttons. Step 2: Click record. Use your microphone to add a personal touch, mix in sound effects and background music. Step 3: Save your RAZZ and publish it to a web page (MySpace, Blogs, etc.) Imagine podcasting without having to fumble with softwares like audocity and not going thro’ the pain of downloading some small audio clips to pep it up. Razz mixer has a huge collection of sound effects that you can use on the go while recording your podcast. You can also play a back ground music while recording and have supreme control over the mixing of the bgm, the audio and the sound effects. You can get a free account where all your podcasts can be saved and a ...
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ReviewMe - New age propaganda
2006-11-13 18:51:02
ReviewMe is not only a new ads service but also an interesting ad concept. The idea is fabulous -> you have advertisers and you have bloggers. Why not get the bloggers to write about the product instead of just putting irrelevant ads on their site sidebar? At ReviewMe once you register you can order reviews from other registered blogs and you can submit your blog where you earn a lot of money by getting some review orders. Once you submit your blog it goes through a screening process before it gets accepted. During the screening process your blog’s value is decided. In simple words how much is your blog worth for one order. You may end up receiving $30 to $250 per review. In the ReviewMe system, advertisers choose which blogs review them. So basically, sit back, and let the review offers come to you. If you want to pitch your product to a niche group of users, the best way is to search for blogs in that category and order a review out of a popular blog. Imagine fo...
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Gmail Inbox - New interface
2006-11-10 06:42:02
The new interface of Gmail is kinda sleek I would say. The gtalk integration had to pip in and the message box is now fixed length, even though the blue bar with the rss snippets is flexible width. A sleek menu bar with functions is also a nice touch to the whole compose mail funda Click on screen shot to enlarge it. (Oh! The message is of a hoaxed job offer from Raymond India. Don’t pay attention to it ) (Oh! The message is of a hoaxed job offer from Raymond India. Notice how the from address reads job@raymonindia.com and the reply to address reads xxx@yahoo.com. This is as good as social engineering. Watch out folks! )
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Quick Bytes
2006-11-10 00:39:01
tenaday.co.in is a website launched by a group of students from IIM A to help MBA aspirants in their CAT preparation. As the name suggests you get 10 questions a day comprising of all three sections. Quick Online Tips reports the works on FireFox 3.0. FireFox 3.0 should be out by second quarter of 2007. Windows live service will be available for Hutch users. This new move by Microsoft and Hutch will enable its users to search for news, sports etc from their mobile phone. Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Spaces will also be made available. Yaari.com an India specific social networking site has come out with a mobile version of their site, where members can interact with their Yaari friends using the SMS feature.
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Geocities - A playground for phishing
2006-11-09 12:36:01
For the past few days, Geocities proved to be the most suitable playground for script kiddies and phishers. With many social engineering geocities websites popping here and there luring people to part with their user ids and passwords, it has not been a good ride for geocities. Geocities is doing its best to pull down such attempts, but till now its all been futile. this was clearly visible when not one but three different geocities websites sported the yahoo login page. The websites became an instant hit with the college going students as the technologically challenged students (average internet user) thought this was an amazing prank to play on their co students. Little do they know the dangerous involved in this. One of my not so good friends apparently thought it was funny to send me to those fake yahoo login pages. But one look at the URL told me what I needed to know. I hadn’t been to geocities for ages and so it was a nice touch to say “To look into the page pleas...
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Orkut GTalk integration
2006-11-09 12:36:01
Now this was expected, with people (espl. student community) spending most part of their internet time refreshing their orkut homepage waiting for scraps to trickle so that they can go reply back. I would say this is a fantastic move by Google. By integrating orkut to gtalk not only are they making lives of bored souls more easier and interesting but also are pitching their not so successful product to the millions of users of Orkut . As far as the integration goes, its simple, quick and effective. (Hat Tip - TK) A screenshot: Integra te GTalk to your Orkut Account - (Requires you to be log into Orkut)
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History of Robotics
2006-11-09 12:36:01
Forbes has put up an interesting list of the 25 great moments in Robot ics History dating back from 140 B.C starting with the first water clock which marked the beginning of Robotic s. (The date for the first moment I guess should have read 140 BC instead of 1400 BC as all the events are in chronological order and the second frame reads 322 BC). A must read for all robotics enthusiasts Thanks Narain!
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VOX - A new Blogging platform
2006-11-08 12:33:01
Vox is the new free blogging platform which graduated recently from the Six Apart Lab. At first sight I knew it lived up to the Six Apart reputation. Why does VOX score? Simply for its simplicity and features. Imagine blogger + livejournal + wordpress + flickr + orkut/myspace + youtube + amazon + listables + odeo + a lot more services bundled in an uncluttered manner for a layman to use and have fun with. The idea is definitely incredible. Vox is for the average internet surfer who wants to enjoy the world of blogging without having to meddle with the CSS/HTML/JAVA or worrying about service integrations and those two line javascripts that one has to include in their sidebar to get those effects. Vox has a beautiful collection of templates and the template customization is ajaxed with a  minimal hand full of options such as on the fly selection of the number of columns, the arrangement of the same and the tagline for your blog. The best feature I liked was a page in the dashboard whi...
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Google Wordmasters Challenge - Interesting theories?
2006-11-05 12:30:01
With Google India failing to announce the results of the Google Word masters Challenge , many bloggers have expressed their frustration on the callousness of Google India. But a few of them took this as an opportunity to let their creative juices flow. One of them came up with an interesting theory (Quoted from the blog.outer-court forum): “this was NOT a wordmasters challenge, this was an effort to build a stronger parallel corpus for machine translation of the indian languages by examining usage of english terms and variants as they interpreted by humans ? this is a subtle form of annotation of a corpus for insertion into a model. this is not a new approach, but the fact that they did not reveal intentions is disturbing.”
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Chennai goes WiMAX
2006-11-05 12:30:01
Chennai will shortly become the first city in the world to be totally WiMAX-enabled. WiMAX or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, technology allows wireless internet access across large areas and even across entire cities, unlike Wi-Fi which offers wireless access within a smaller zone. Aircel Business Solutions is implementing the project. The project has been in beta trial stage. With trails conducted successfully over a period of twelve months, the system is already functional in 70 percent of the city. Over 200 SMEs in Chennai are already using WiMAX. The remaining 30 percent will become operational withing 90 days promises Ram Shinde (Business Head, Aircel Business Solutions). Once the system successfully kicks off in Chennai, Aircel Business Solutuions will deploy WiMAX across 44 cities including Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Coimbature, Hyderabad etc. by 2008. I just can’t wait for this to become fully functional… Source - Business Today Technor...
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Gmail for mobile devices
2006-11-05 12:30:01
Google launched a new version of Gmail Mobile (Java application) which is up to five times faster in access and use, thanks to automatic pre-fetching of messages and drastically reduced clicks and scrolling to access email. If you go to gmail.com/app, on your Java-enable mobile phone and download the small application, you’ll be able to use Gmail. Attachments, including files and photos are viewable and automatically resized to fit the user’s phone. It’s a small download, but one that might make you look at email on your phone in a different way — maybe like Gmail did for email when that first appeared. Download it now and decide for yourself! You should check the requirements, the most important being J2ME (Java) MIDP2. Gmail Mobile is also available from your browser if you go to gmail.com (or m.gmail.com) on your mobile phone, but you won’t get these features. You can get all this info if you just visit gmail.com homepage where the sidebar contains t...
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Sony unveils the worlds lightest Notebook PC
2006-11-05 12:30:01
Weighing a mere 898 grams this Carbon cased ‘type G’ Vaio lappie manages to fit in a 12.1 inch LCD screen, Bluetooth, Wi-fi, finger print reader, 512MB of RAM, 40-80 GB hard disk drives and a mighty battery life. The laptop can run for 12.5 hours on a single battery charge in stamina mode. The laptop will be available only in Japan as of now and would be sold at a price of 220,000 yen (approx eq. $1,881 or £985 or Rs. 85,000). The laptop will be available in a stylish grey and blue and carbon finish. Sony [Japanese] (via) Technorati Tags: sony, vaio, laptop, notebook pc, electronics, japan
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