Canadian Software Lets You Turn One Computer Into Two, Completely Free

clipped from www.digitaljournal.com Using software created by an Alberta company, you can get a second computer in your house this holiday season free. In fact, the software is capable of splitting your PC into 10, saving you money and saving the environment at the same time. Digital Journal -- Canadian company Userful is now giving away its Desktop Multiplier software to anyone who wants an extra PC free. The software turns one computer into many, allowing a single computer box to support multiple users at the same time. All you need to do is connect an extra monitor, USB keyboard and mouse to your run-of-the-mill computer box, and the Desktop Multiplier software will make it possible for two people to work on the same PC at the same time. The reason Userful is giving away its software is to prove an environmental point and show just how much "un-tapped value lies hidden in today's desktop PCs," as their company press release reads.

Miro - free open source internet TV

Right at the time when it seemed that joost is gonna get ppl hooked to the internet tv addiction, there comes a new entrant which seems promising enough to offer you more.

Miro, an Open Source Application, promises to deliver better content (including HD, YO MAN!!!), with around 2500+ unrestricted channels as compared to Joost's 250 channels (DRM), it sure looks a good meal in the platter.

go check it out your self and decide...

click here

PipeBytes

PipeBytes is a simple service which allows you to send
a file to a friend.The unique benefits of this service are:

*	No software to install.
*	All you need is web browser.
*	Send files of any size!
*	Your buddy could start downloading file as you upload it. (That makes the file exchange process up to two times faster than other web-based file exhange services!)
*	It's private unlike BitTorrent or other P2P techologies. The file is not shared on Internet - it is sent directly to your recepient.
*	You can watch YouTube videos while file is being transferred!

Here is something really intersting i picked up at some website

Getting Creative with Post-it notes

We all know them. The small yellow pieces of stationary, with the re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back. For some they’re called lifesavers, for others they are just Post-its. Oftenly used to attach notes on boring stuff like computer displays and documents, here’s 17 creative uses of everyone’s friend, the Post-it:

The complete Post-It Portrait of Chris. It took 3 people about 4.5 hours and 1120 Post-It Notes to complete this.

What we did to Walt’s Jaguar on Friday.

This design was made entirely out of post-its. To increase the resolution of the drawing, I ended up cutting the post-its in 16 pieces. Putting everything up on the wall took about 11 hours.

two of my co-workers designed and built this mosaic of the king out of post it notes over the memorial day weekend.

It took 3 days, so we had to post this at night to keep the cleaning crew from undoing our work

A picture of Sonic I made out of Post-It notes on my window at work. This is six stories up and apparently quite visible from the outside.

Spaceinvaders.

Link.

Russel’s room. Amazing!

Post-it lamp

Five Marios

Over 1000 post it notes covering a 2002 blue saturn.

Source: http://www.justkeepthechange.com/getting-creative-with-post-it-notes

An interesting Post

I was just checking my emails when I recd one from my friend. He passed a link which apparently was a blog post, written on how the authors site was hacked and eventually used for promoting the hackers portals.

He realised it when his site was put off google's index and he tried to enquire about the reason for the same.

A good informative post for newbie bloggers out there.

http://justinsomnia.org/2007/08/search-engine-marketeers-are-the-new-script-kiddies/

File Swap

This is by far the most interesting website that I have put on my Blog.

Not just because it beats you on curiosity, but also on its purpose of existence.

www.file-swap.com, is a website that lets you upload a file and give you a random file in return.
These files are legitimate, spamfree, virusfree files.
Its nothing but an adventurous way of sharing files.

" On this web site you can download things like nature photos, photos of people,
wallpapers, audio files, animated icons,
videos or even pdf and text files.
Just upload one of your files and see what you get!"

This is wat the website quotes on its homepage.

So try your luck.

Myntra Custom T-Shirts

This is for the ones in India especially.
If you are a customized t-shirt crazy geek, www.myntra.com, is the place for you.

Its all select, click and buy, cant get ny simpler than that.
If you are interested in bulk orders then contact me and I can get you a good deal struck ;)

Enjoy!

Finally Back

Hey all my dear readers have been extremely sorry for a large gap for which this blog had been idle. Many a things had kept me tied up but here it is back once again. So keep enjoying the stuff and i hope your gonna enjoy it just like you did before.

Ragatech's Milestone of 100 Posts

This marks the success of Ragatech, which completes today its 100 Posts, attributed to Technology.

On this auspicious day, Ragatech can not but only promise you of more informative posts to come and helping enlighten ourselves in the world of oblivious!

Go Ragatech Go!
Hip hip Hurraahh!!
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The OpenLaszlo Regime

OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.

OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and, with OpenLaszlo 4, DHTML. The OpenLaszlo APIs provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative UI. An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries.

OpenLaszlo is "write once, run everywhere." An OpenLaszlo application developed on one machine will run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems.

visit here

Ajax APIs for RSS mashups by GoOgLe Finally out!

Google has announced a new Ajax Feed API makes it possible to extract information from multiple RSS feeds with only a few simple lines of JavaScript. The API—which allows web developers to retrieve RSS data as either XML or JSON—can be used to build mashups, unique web applications that leverage multiple sources of data and display the results in a useful or innovative manner.

Google's Feed API allows developers to circumvent the same-origin policy—a security mechanism designed to prevent JavaScript code from accessing content associated with a web page from a different domain—without having to manually implement complex server-side proxy mechanisms. The Feed API transparently leverages Google's server-side FeedFetcher, the RSS capture and cache mechanism used by Google Reader.

In order to use the Google Feed API, developers will need to sign up for a special API key that is tied to a specific URL. For instance, if a developer registers a key for http://mysite.com/mydirectory, that key can only be used in pages that are in that directory or its subdirectories. Developers will have to register additional keys for web pages that are stored in other directories or domains.

In my own experimentation with the Google Feed API, I found the performance satisfactory. I initially had some trouble getting the API to retrieve more than four elements at a time, until some developers at Google pointed out that I was neglecting to use the setNumEntries method to increase the maximum number of items. After fixing my test code, I had no problems using the Feed API to retrieve XML and JSON. The Google Feed API is a useful and effective tool for client-side Web 2.0 application development, but the key registration limitations seem like an inconvenience that could hinder adoption.

Source :: http://arstechnica.com/

Powerpoint - The Google Way

No PowerPoint? Google will offer a free alternative

JEFFERSON GRAHAM, USA TODAY
Google is adding another tool in its battle with Microsoft: A free version of presentation software.

The yet-to-be-named software will be included in Google Apps, an online suite that includes free word processing, spreadsheet and calendar programs. Users will work with the program online but will be able to save files and view them offline. It's expected to be available this summer.

Microsoft's PowerPoint, part of the Office suite, is one of the most-used applications for office meetings. Companies pay upward of $300 yearly for Office licenses, making it one of Microsoft's most lucrative franchises.

At the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco, Google CEO Eric Schmidt denied, as he has in the past, that the online tools are aimed at luring people away from Microsoft.

"We believe we can bring presentations to a new level of user satisfaction," he said. "We don't think it competes with Microsoft, because it doesn't have all the functionality of Office. It's a different way of sharing information, more casual, and a better fit to how people use the Web."

Mike McGuire, an analyst at researcher Gartner, doesn't buy it. He says "it's getting harder to take comments like that at face value. Of course Google is taking on Microsoft. Microsoft has lots to worry about."

McGuire doesn't think Microsoft's large base of corporate clients will immediately abandon Office, "but for individuals, Google is offering a strong, free alternative and people will look at it very seriously."

Google announced a deal Friday to buy online ad firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, which Microsoft contends violates antitrust rules. The deal is Google's biggest ever, following its $1.6 billion acquisition of video-sharing site YouTube last year.

On Monday, Google announced an alliance with radio broadcaster Clear Channel that lets users of Google's online advertising network buy radio ads directly from their computer.

Schmidt said he is delighted at having YouTube in the Google family, despite controversy over unauthorized video clips showing up on the service. Viacom has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google. On Tuesday, Schmidt said he thinks the company is just "negotiating" to get a settlement. He said Google will soon introduce a tool to take down unauthorized clips automatically, "which will make all of this moot."

Source:: http://indystar.gns.gannett.com/

Attribute nightmare in IE

clipped from tobielangel.com I've had this article in mind for a while, as I have fiddling with Internet Explorer's crazy handling of attributes in order to patch Prototype's $$() utility. Well, fiddling wasn't cutting the deal, so I ended up doing some large scale testing (basically running thousands of test using a sample HTML 4.01 document from W3C) to try to figure out what was going on. element.foo === element.getAttribute('foo') Obviously, that is a completely broken implementation, as getAttribute('foo') is supposed to return the attribute as set in the document, not the corresponding DOM element's attribute. To exemplify: <a href="http://tobielangel.com/index.html" onclick="alert('Back home!')">Home</a> element.getAttribute('href'); // -> "http://tobielangel.com/index.html" in IE // -> "/index.html" in well behaved browsers If you read Internet Explorer's online documentation, you'll notice that it's implementation of getAttribute() is a bit particular, as it takes a second optional argument called an iFlag.

Thinkature ! IM meets Workspace Collaboration

Thinkature is a cross between an online chat and workspace utility

It brings the potential of chatting and using the workspace along with your mates.
Whats more is that u have unlimited workspaces and the workspaces are persistent so you dont need to save them. Also they are quite feature rich and extremely flexible.
You should definitely try this one out

Using Google Maps To Get Free Phone Calls

clipped from www.thesimpledollar.com Let’s say hypothetically that I’m sitting at work in the greater Des Moines, Iowa area and I want to pick up a delicious pizza from Papa Murphy’s on my way home from work. Unfortunately, though, I can’t call out from work to non-business numbers, though I can receive phone calls. Ah-ha! I go to Google Maps, type in “Papa Murphys West Des Moines IA and see the following: See the “call” link I have circled in red? If you click that link, you’ll be asked to enter your telephone number. As soon as you click submit, your telephone will ring. Pick it up, wait a few seconds, and you’re connected for free to the business. No charges to you at all, and no outgoing call charges. This is spectacularly useful if you have any sort of long distance charges or if you have outgoing call charges on your telephone, whether it be a land line or a cellular phone. What’s the drawback? So far, I haven’t found a drawback - it’s not always useful, but quite often it can save me some cash.

Windows v/s Linux

somethng cool that I found on the Internet

It's really hard to miss how Linux and Windows are relatively judged in the tech blogosphere. Consider the following attributes and their praise or criticism, completely based on what operating system they happen to accompany:

1. A free graphics program bundled with the system.
(a) On Windows: Cool! A free paint program! Hey, everybody, check out this awesome pixel-art I did!
(b) On Linux: The interface is completely wrong! It needs to be just like Photoshop!

2. The system has a command line.
(a) On Linux: It's this archaic dependency on outdated interfaces that is holding Linux back.
(b) On Windows: The new Windows Power Shell innovation is a bold leap forward that gives Windows more power! Order your copy for $100 today!

3. The system search feature.
(a) On Windows: It's easy, all you do is type "command line folder:interactions type:doc myfile" to quickly locate your file!
(b) On Linux: This is just the problem with the command line I'm talking about! "Locate myfile" will never be something the average person can remember to type in.

4. Lots of distros.
(a) On Linux: The lack of standardization is a huge stumble. Having too many choices is confusing for the end user. Even if it were narrowed down to just Ubuntu and Kubuntu, that's still too many.
(b) On Windows: The Vista editions run to Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate, or you can stay with XP or 2000, and even NT and Me and 98 SE are still out there. Giving a consumer their choice is what makes capitalism work!

5. Charity.
(a) On Windows: Gates gives away a portion of income to charity, so I know I'm doing something good for the community just by buying Windows.
(b) On Linux: The whole damned operating system is free in the first place so you can donate your own money how you want? Well, then, that just goes to show that they're all anti-establishment hippies, doesn't it?

6. Support.
(a) On Linux: Nobody knows it, nobody understands it, it's too difficult to learn.
(b) On Windows: Anybody with a copy of "Windows for Dummies", an MSCE certificate, and a paid-up per-incident MS Live support account can administer this baby.

7. User education.
(a) On Windows: Sure I had to re-learn how to do everything going from Word 2003 to Word 2007, but it's worth it for all the extra features and improvements in it.
(b) On Linux: It doesn't work just like Windows! Waaaahhhhhhh!

8. Tabbed Browsing.
(a) On Linux: Yeah, yeah, so Firefox has tabs. Can somebody get the fanboi out of here, please?
(b) On Windows: The IE 7 tab feature is a Microsoft innovation that changed my life forever.

9. Daylight Savings Time.
(a) On Windows: The heroic efforts of the developers and system administrators to apply all the patches in time was a touching moment in IT teamwork.
(b) On Linux: Yeah, yeah, so the system automatically corrected itself while you slept! Can somebody get the fanboi out of here, please?

10. Cost.
(a) On Linux: Mysteriously, the fact that the software is free somehow causes training and support costs to be 100x as much as for Windows, wherever it's reported.
(b) On Windows: Mysteriously, the additional cost for installing each piece of commercial software, having to upgrade hardware, lost productivity due to downtime, buying an anti-virus program, and taking the box to the shop every two weeks to clean it out is never mentioned anywhere.

UPDATE: A comment in the Ubuntu forums linking here does mention that the Daylight Savings Time change did have some glitches on some systems. All I can say is that my 3 installed Linux boxen (Slackware, grml, and Damn Small) handled the change nicely (I keep them updated). But then I just have a home set-up, not an enterprise-class network.

Cool Site Design

There are only a few websites on the web that make me go "Damn! Thats Sleeek!!!"

Here is just one of them
Its a very neatly designed site plus has a great concept have a go.

http://specials.washingtonpost.com/onbeing/

For The Google Map Addicts

I was strolling the web when i found this blog. For all the avid enthusiasts of google maps and those who want to follow it very closely heres a very neat blog. I have no idea who the author of the blog is but he really is crazy about google maps i reckon. I enjoyed my visit on the blog and i am sure you would too.

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

BeleniX

clipped from www.genunix.org BeleniX is an OpenSolaris Distribution with a Live CD (runs directly off the CD). It includes all the features of OpenSolaris and adds a whole variety of opensource packages. It can be installed to harddisk as well. BeleniX is free to use, modify and distribute. The BeleniX LiveCD allows you to test drive OpenSolaris in less than 2 minutes. BeleniX can also be installed to USB thumb drive allowing you to carry your operating environment, apps and data in your pocket. The LiveUSB boots even faster than the CD ! BeleniX 0.5.1 DVD Edition Released! belenix.org: Website Revamped BeleniX 0.5.1 Released Belenix boots from a USB drive ! BeleniX 0.5 Released BeleniX is released under the CDDL license version 1. However all the software in BeleniX are covered by their respective licenses (eg. GPL, LGPL, BSD etc).

Funniest Post I Ever Saw

Another desperate guys attempt to prove why linux can never overtake Windows

As quoted by him
"Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Posted by: jerryleecooper Posted on: 03/14/07 "

CryoPID - Linux Process Freezer

clipped from cryopid.berlios.de CryoPID allows you to capture the state of a running process in Linux and save it to a file. This file can then be used to resume the process later on, either after a reboot or even on another machine. CryoPID consists of a program called freeze that captures the state of a running process and writes it into a file. The file is self-executing and self-extracting, so to resume a process, you simply run that file. See the table below for more details on what is supported. Current features are: Can run as an ordinary user! (no root privileges needed) Works on both 2.4 and 2.6. Works on x86 and AMD64. Can start & stop a process multiple times Can migrate processes between machines and between kernel versions (tested between 2.4 to 2.6 and 2.6 to 2.4). Latest version: [i386] http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/wacky/cryopid-0.5.9.1-i386.tar.gz [x86_64] http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/wacky/cryopid-0.5.9.1-x86_64.tar.gz PAX must be turned off if you have it (chpax -xperms <target program>) Very undocumented.

Speed Up Your Mozilla FireFox

Mozila’s Firefox browser can browse much faster than other browsers. Why wouldn’t you make it even faster? To speed up Firefox you have to make a little minor tweaking. You can make Firefox perform up to 40% faster for page transfers. With just a few clicks and some typing, you can experience faster browsing and surfing Firefox.

1. Open the Firefox “config” page: click into the Firefox address location bar, and type about:config , press Enter.

2. The “Config” file will appear in the Firefox browser as a page with hundreds of lines of code in it. Now, we start by enabling some advanced tabbed options:

3. Locate the line browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs . (tip: press “b” on your keyboard to quick scroll).

4. Double click on browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs . This will set its toggle to “true”. Now your advanced and enhanced tabbing should be set.

5. Next: we will increase the “pipeline” RAM ability for Firefox to accomodate more packet transfer. In the same config document, scroll down to the line that says network.http.pipelining . Double click this line to set it to “true”.

6. Lastly, we will increase the maximum pipeline requests to 100. Find the line that says network.http.pipelining.maxrequests . Double click on it, and a dialog box will pop up. Change the setting from 4 to 100.

7. No need to save this file. Simply close and restart Firefox, and you should see an immediate 10% to 40% increase in web page transfer speed, and faster opening of your tabbed windows! Enjoy!

Source :http://www.mozila.pl/blog/speed-up/

ForstWire - P2P extended!

Frostwire is a new P2P utility in town it features a lot of features along with its better speed promise. So does it satisfy you needs is a question. Why not give it a shot.



Features:

	Completely free & open-source		Firewall-to-firewall transfers		Built-in community chat
	No bundled software of any kind!		Connects to more sources		Creative commons license support
	Max. speed network connections		Junk result filters		Turbo-Charged download speeds
	iTunes integration		BitTorrent support		Proxy Support

Want to Cancel Your AOL Account - Think twice!!!

Heres how Vincent Ferrari, a user who wanted to cancel his account had to go thru!

Play Any Media You Want

Rules Player is the new player on the block, which promises to play any media under the sun. Well obviously the known ones.

Quoting of what the site has to say about it

"RulesPlayer is a clean and easy-to-use GUI for MPlayer under Windows, written in D and DWT. rulesPlayer supports most popular media files (AVI, 3gp, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV QuickTime, MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia, DivX plus many more ) supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even can watch video files while you are downloading them!rulesPlayer also has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well."

You can get a copy for free yourself here!

Changing Your Mac Address In Window XP/Vista, Linux And Mac OS X

I am sure many of you are desperately hopping around to find this, but fear not. Heres a walkthru as to how you can change your Mac Address on Windows XP/Vista, Linux and Mac OS X

The resource is meant only for educational and informative purposes, any malusage of this resource is strictly forbidden.

Click here!

Googles Fool Day Announcement ... umm yet again

N. Nagaraj

The Hindu

Chennai, April 1.: Google has announced two new services: Gmail Paper for Gmail users; and, Google TiSP for internet users.

Gmail Paper was announced in the Gmail home page. It is a new facility through which one can request paper prints of specific email that one has received. Google will (snail) mail the prints to you. Just choose the messages you want printed out and click the “Paper Archive” button in the menu and allow 2-4 business days for the prints to arrive. Picture attachments are printed on photo-quality paper.

The company is forthright about the revenue model: non-intrusive targeted ads printed on the back of the sheets in red bold 36 pt Helvetica. The messages are printed on eco-friendly paper and the company encourages one to recycle. For more details, please see the Gmail Paper page (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html).

For technophobes who took it seriously and immediately logged in to their accounts to request copies of email (like this correspondent), it was a cruel prank to play: one is disappointed just trying to find the “Paper Archive” button.

The second announcement, made in the google home page, is for a free in-home wireless broadband service, called TiSP (Toilet internet Service Provider). The press release says: `For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities.’

Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Fore more details, see the TiSP overview page (http://www.google.com/tisp/)

This is not the first time that Google is making new service announcements on Fool’s Day: Last year, it was Google Romance (http://www.google.com/romance/), which encouraged you to “Pin all your romantic hopes on Google”. In 2005, it was the Google Gulp (http://www.google.com/googlegulp/) to “Quench your thirst for knowledge.”; It was also the year they announced unlimited storage in Gmail. In 2004, it was the advertising of jobs in the Google Copernicus Center (http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html) in the moon. In 2002, it revealed the secrets of its search engine (http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html) and PageRank. And in 2000, it unveiled a revolutionary MentalPlex search technology (http://www.google.com/intl/en/mentalplex/) that read the user’s mind about the search query so one wouldn’t have to type it in.

Up-File ... Upload, Tag, Share,Download, Delete

Well so you have email accounts with 2 gb space. Big Deal!!! Whats the maximum attachment size.. Muhaahahaha..caught you.

With massive mail boxes and meager attachment limits. Huge File transfers are still an issue. With rapidshare and other hosts having their own issues of time limits, bandwith limits and stuff.

Heres a good solution
Up-File, is a file upload and share utility that allows you to transfer as good as 1GB of file. Well wats more is it will give you a download link and a delete link, to allow you to pass the download links to your friends and then delete it at convenience. It also allows you to email your uploaded file info to your friends so that you dont have to go thru the hassles of email your friends on putting it on th IM.

It also features file tagging so that you can easily browse thru the files that you are interested in and shared by other users. It also features web hosting, but something it is not known for.

Anyways its a good utility to have a look at.

KeepVid

Hmm... so you watched a video on youtube or anyother video streamer. You pretty much enjoyed the stuff and thought you might want to keep it eh?

Well heres the solution,

KeepVid Offers this functionality of choosing to save and download various streamed files on the internet. All you need to do is this


1. Choose the site you want to download from.
2. Copy the link of the page with the video on it and paste it in the textbox above.
3. If you download an flv file, you need an FLV player.

It supports any website,
with major ones like

Google
Youtube
Break.com

iFilm
Putfile
Angry Alien
ArtistDirect
Blastro
Blennus
Blip.tv
Bofunk
Bolt
Castpost
Dailymotion
DevilDucky
FindVideos
Free Video Blog
Grinvi
grouper
Hiphopdeal
LuluTV
Metacafe
Midis.biz
Music.com
MusicVideoCodes.info
Myspace
MySpace Video Code
Newgrounds
PcPlanets
Pixparty
REVVER
sharkle
StreetFire
That Video Site
The One Network
VideoCodes4U
VideoCodesWorld
VideoCodeZone
vidiLife
VIDNET.com
Vimeo
vSocial
Web62.com
ZippyVideos

all inclusive. So what are you waiting for give it a try today here

The Best Place to Find, Evaluate and Install Linux Software

Yeps you heard it right, atleast thats what they claim it to be. Who?
CNR, at cnr.com, say

"Utilizing 5 years of CNR development in one-click software delivery, CNR.com will provide a standardized process for finding, evaluating, installing, and updating desktop software for the most popular Linux distributions, both Debian and RPM based.

Launching in the 2nd Quarter of 2007, CNR.com will be a free on-line digital software warehouse and one-click delivery service designed to solve the complexity of finding, installing and managing software applications on your Linux desktop computer. CNR.com will be the most extensive resource available anywhere for desktop Linux software. Search from tens of thousands of Linux software products, packages and libraries by title, popularity, similar software, category, author, or function, and then install the software with just one click of your mouse."

You can learn a lot more about it on their website mentioned above

A Desperate Guys Linux Report

I am heard many excuses to lure people outta microsoft and shift to Linux. I am an ardent follower and FAN of BOTH the operating systems as each is an expert in ITS domain.

However, I just couldnt help posting this link here as how desperately one can attempt to influence others on to changing their microsoft OS, with all detailed analysis and reports. People may find it INTERESTING.

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/writings/lfa.html

Free Proxy Servers List

I just stepped upon this free proxy servers list on the web thought they might be usefull to you all
You may find it at.

http://www.stayinvisible.com/proxy_lists.html

Possible threat over Windows vista

clipped from news.softpedia.com Windows Vista is wide open to remote code execution via a flaw in Windows Mail. Designed as a successor to Outlook Express, the free email client is an integer part of Windows Vista, shipping by default with the operating system. On March 23 2007, a client-side vulnerability allowing for remote code execution in Windows Mail was published on Full Disclosure. The report claims that the vulnerability was successfully tested on a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate. Microsoft did not confirm the validity of the vulnerability, but it did acknowledge the fact that it is investigating the issue. “Remote Code Execution is possible if a user clicks on a malicious prepared link. Vistas Mail Client will execute any executable file if a folder exists with the same name. There is for example a CMD script by default in C:WindowsSystem32 named winrm.cmd (and also a folder named winrm inside System32),” Full Disclosure informed. Through a client side vulnerability in Windows Mail Oiaga, Technology News Editor

Opensource meets academics

I found this really cool link which talked about opensource utilities that were used by students in their acedemics which are really comprehensive as compared to their branded fellows. Do have a look at them.

Link Courtesy: http://www.unico-arts.de/

The following programs are some of the most common used by college students and their OSS alternatives or equivalents.

1. Open Office---instead of Microsoft office, this alone could save you $200-300. And Open Office has equal if not better features, including a word processor, spreadsheet, multimedia presentation, drawing, database and more.
2. Scribus--This desktop publisher can create documents such as term papers, research papers and more, for much less than Quark Xpress which costs $749.
3. Maxima--Chances are you'll need some type of math software and for higher math and algebra, and why pay for Mathsoft when Maxima is free?
4. BRL-CAD--If you are in an engineering or technical field, you know what TurboCad costs. This software developed by the US military Ballistics Research Laboratory, will cost you nothing.
5. ClamWin--Developed to work with Windows, this antivirus program includes automatic downloads and programmable scanning, just like Norton Antivirus which costs $70
6. Gimp--For GNU Image Manipulation Program, this program or its newer brother Gimpshop can equal Photoshop which retails at $650.
7. SciCraft--For statistics and data analysis, this software rivals SPSS.
8. Kompozer--Built on Nvu, this newer version can provide web design features like Dreamweaver which costs $400.
9. Banshee--For your music needs, instead of iTunes, why not check out this software with iPod synchronization as well as music players, burners and playlist features?
10. Mozilla Seamonkey--Instead of Outlook, this software is an email service and internet browser with Chatzilla features. And you've got to love the name! Now that you know OSS is available, the choices are endless. There are literally hundreds of software programs out there for free or minimal costs. There is even a compilation called "Software for Starving Students" that includes over 40 programs, including games. This software is available for Mac OS X or Windows and includes OpenOffice and Firefox.

Beryll - 3D'ize you desktop

After a few requests that i recieved in ragatech's review and via a couple of emails I am posting Beryl's video on the blog from youtube.

To mention a short few things about the Beryl is that Beryl is an OpenGl application that makes your desktop 3D

It is doing high rounds amongst Linux users since a very long time

Heres a short video on what to expect.

Apple TV Launched

"Apple made its biggest move yet into the living room on Wednesday by starting shipments of the Apple TV box, a gizmo that lets people take music, photos, and video stored on your computer and play them on a television screen

The samll siver box with a white Apple Logo costs 200 dollars and boars of a 40GB Harddisk that can store upto 50 hours of video, 9000 songs and 25000 photos. A remote control lets users watch movies or TV shows bought from Apples itunes store, view photo slide shows or listen to music.

One of the chief complaints is that Apple TV does not -atleast for now - record TV shows."
-Reuters


To Feast your eyes we have this Comprehensive demo taken from youtube

Google Phone - All but a rumour?

clipped from news.com.com March 22, 2007 4:32 PM PDT Despite all the rumors and speculation about a Google Phone, the Web search company is working on software to run services on mobile phones rather than building its own phone, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray says. The head of Google in Spain and Portugal confirmed last week that Google is working on a mobile phone, but she gave no details. Google spokespeople in the U.S have refused to provide further comment, except to say: "Mobile is an important area for Google and we remain focused on creating applications and establishing and growing partnerships with industry leaders to develop innovative services for users worldwide. However, we have nothing further to announce." There have been reports that the Google Phone would be a Blackberry-like device and that Google was partnering with Samsung, and other reports that Google was in talks with France Telecom Group's mobile-telephony division Orange. Google bought mobile software maker Android in 2005

Fast API Search

This is dedicated to all the programming geeks out there who need to know APIs to programming languages for quick reference to perform various tasks.

This is an excellent site to get the reference. With AJAX based intellisense that categorises results as you type accd. to the programming launguage this one is going to help all thee greatly.

http://start.gotapi.com/

Ballmar Laughs at the IPhone

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This post is to report an excellent website thats available to solve your common problems.
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This is a good resource worth a look
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Another Internet Explorer Vulnerability

clipped from gatzet.info This is another vulnerability issue of Internet Explorer 7. Even though this version is more secure than version 6, in connection with a constructional defect in this specific local help it is possible so that an attacker conducts phishing attacks against IE7 user easily. According to Aviv Raff On this bug affecting Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows Vista and Windows XP. In order to achieve a phishing attack, an attacker one can in particular manufacture a crafted link that makes local assistance of navcancl.htm that connection with an index contained falsified of the reliable place of as indicated in the link (for example banks, paypal, MySpace). Find out more of Another Internet Explorer 7 Vulnerability

Linux Incompatibility List

Heres presenting to you the Linux Incompatibility List.

Its a list of hardware and et all stuff that is NOT compatible with linux.
The article is posted courtesy leenooks.com

you can visit the site and see a host of hardware that does not work with linux (and some that didnt use too). Its a list maintained collaboratively by the site and the users.
You can add hardware and remove it from the list if you find somethings missing or something that has just made it to the compatibility segment

So go and have your say. Its good information to be updated with.

Google Summer Code Projects

This is to inform that google has started taking registrations for its summer code projects. Details of which can be easily found by googling. Their current page currently faces a few issues but it would be getting ready yet again in a while.

All those coding gurus and geeks, do make utmost use of your skills.
All the Best!

SightSpeed 6.0 - Internet Video Calling

clipped from www.pcmag.com With full-motion video at 30 frames per second, SightSpeed offers the best free Internet video calls around. Version 6.0 also adds an improved interface as well as some new features, such as the ability for Pro users to record a video call locally. Excellent video quality. Unlimited free video calls to other SightSpeed users. Windows and Mac support. Low-cost calls to traditional landline phones. Voice-only calling mode. Chat features are not as full-bodied as those of dedicated IM programs. Version 6.0 further cements SightSpeed's position as the top provider of free Internet video calling. This release features some subtle but noticeable changes to video quality, Windows and Mac compatibility, and a new, streamlined interface. Under the hood, it boasts totally revised code, which is now fully SIP-based. These improvements to SightSpeed's already excellent service are more than enough to garner the app an Editors' Choice. By Davis D. Janowski