Reader Post of the Week - IE7, FF shared logic flaw

this is an excellent email that was sent to me by a friend Kristopher N. , which i could not help but share it with you all.

they following links explain and demonstrate critical flaws in IE7 and Firefox logic.
http://news. softpedia. com/news/ IE7-and-Firefox- 2-0-Share- Vulnerabilities- 47439.shtml
http://lcamtuf. coredump. cx/focusbug/ ffversion. html
http://lcamtuf. coredump. cx/focusbug/ ieversion. html


Way to go Kris for the wonderfull Resource

Visual Thesaurus - A Tech Approach

Quoting from the sites header

What is it?
The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary
and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning.
You'll understand language in an exciting new way.
To understand the power of the Visual Thesaurus, you really need to see it in action.
Type in your favorite word and give it a try!

The site is desgined such that when you give a word for it to search it will search all its immediate meanings, these meanings are then classified on the basis of their use, which are then taken as nodes.

thus you see a node graph of all the immediate meanings of the word inputed.
Well the story just doesnt end here. On every node that is created you can double click it to also find the INFERRED meanings of the same. Thus you not only get the meanings but you can get the right meaning in the right reference of your context, all this in a sleek presentable format.

However, there are many issues regarding interlinking of nodes, when things get a bit complex, it is just a anamoly for a few words and mostly people will never end up there.

This is currently availble for a web use at apprx. 20 dollars a year. It is really worth the moolah we suggest.

Ragatech Ratings : 3.5/5

Panama to the rescue!

Project Panama Yahoo's new advertising system has finally come to its rescue in capturing its loosing space in the ads industry. A very delayed release, but it has been rather effective, is really working for it. With Panama now in place, in only its second phase yahoo saw a significant increase in its site ads click-through rates. In an article quoted on Information week

"Yahoo also saw more clicks directed at sponsored search ads, which generate more revenue than algorithmically generated ones. Sponsored clicks represented 10.6% and 11.1% of total click volume in the weeks ending February 11 and February 18, respectively, up from 10.1% during the week of February 4, according to comScore.

Last month, during a conference call detailing Yahoo's Q4 2006 revenue, CEO Terry Semel predicted that Yahoo would see the revenue impact of Project Panama in the second quarter of the year."

Heres just a preview of what the new system looks like

For a more detailed report visit
Ragatech Ratings: 4.5 /5

Cisco and Apple settle for sharing the trademark "iPhone"

With Cisco already having the trademark for iPhone, it issued a law suit over Apple for using it for their newest product. Apple considered the lawsuit to be "silly" and argued that the term was being used with other products as well.

The six week old battle however came to an end over the settlement that both would share the trademark. No financial details for the settlement, however, were released.

For a Detailed Report Visit here

77 routers of Cisco vulnerable

77 routers of Cisco were identified to be vulnerable to the drive-by pharming attack.
This attack was exposed by Symantec last week around.

According to a report by iTWire which quoted "The attack can be launched through malicious code on websites that can reach into your router and modify its settings, exposing you to phishing attempts to get your banking username and password, other login information or other data on your computer – but only if the default username and password haven’t been changed.

Once the username and password have been changed, the drive-by pharming attack won’t work – unless hackers try to use some form of brute force attack to guess your username and password. But for now, that’s more difficult to do or hide"


Report Courtesy www.itWire.com.au

Skype into Broadcast TV

Skype has announced its interested in broadcast tv.
After its massive success in voice over IP based services, skype now ventures into the Broadcast TV arena. Officially named as Joost, the setup is still under tests and invites beta testers for its system.

You can register to be a beta tester at www.joost.com
for further details visit the site :)

LG PRADA Phone - Competition to iPhone?

LG and Prada have launched their new phone in collaboration which the call it as The Prada Phone KE850.

With the iPhone just making it in town comparisons between the two is nothing but obvious.
Heres a sneak peek at what they call the Prada Phone.

Vista is Over-Hyped says Torvalds

In a conference recently at linux.conf.au event in Sydney, Torvalds had a few blows on Vista.
Quoting from his statements "I dont think that something like Vista can change how people work, that much. I think it, to some degree, has been over hyped as being something completely differently and new and i dont think it actually is. One of the things we probably would notice is that the hardware requirements are obviously much higher and that could end up helping Linux just because people notice that you can run Linux on machines and have it work very well even on the same machine that could not run Vista at all!". Also he did mention they are facing the greatest of all challenges in capturing the desktop market.

Reader Post of the Week

Starting from this week, we now have the reader post of the week posts every monday. The authors of these posts also get to advertise on the blog for an entire week.

Siddharth Shanbhag, a dear friend, sent this email (not as an entry though :D), couldnt help but sharing this with on the blog!

Thanks Sid!

Presenting Apple's IPhone!

Damn Small Linux - Not

If you thought small is out, at least in Operating Systems, heres just one you should really think otherwise!

Damn Small Linux Not (DSL - N) is an OPERATING SYSTEM that runs from a PenDrive (also runs from a CD). DSL-N is a bare bones operating system. However, the phrase bare bones is just an understatement to the capabilities of this operating system.

Some of the features of this wonderfull baby are:

• Boot from from a CD as a live Linux distribution (LiveCD)
• Boot from a USB pen drive
• Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
• Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
• Run fully in RAM
• Modularly grow -- DSL-N is highly extendable without the need to customize
The applications in DSL-N were chosen because they are functional, usable, and relatively compact. Unlike DSL, DSL-N has GTK2 applications, that means DSL-N will need more ram and CPU cycles than DSL. To have a pleasant experience, we recommend at least 64MBs and 300MHz.


They also have a DSL edition that is not pleasing to the heart as compared to this darling.
Do not expect too much from this baby as it is not meant to be a PRIMARY operating system. However it is of great use for people on the move and the list may be seemless.

Visit http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/ for more details...

RagaTech Ratings: 4/5

Happy Valentines Day

Ragatech, in association with www.jhamkudi.com, wishes all its users a very Happy Valentines Day!

May the sweet days stay for ever.

How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs

This is an excellent article that I tripped upon while scampering the net. My current experiences with Java with respect to web services and web interfaces just make me agree to this in the entire context.

Just have a look at it and comments would be welcome.

(Do Remember that the article stresses upon Java's application towards rich interface applications and not otherwise, hence it does not directly or indirectly state that it is crap)


http://ajaxworldmagazine.com/read/333329.htm

What Mac OS X has to say about Vista!

It would just be unfair to write nything about it..just watch it and enjoy!

Donate Food For Free!

Imagine a world with no food, no water, no life basic necessities available.
Scary isnt it?

Well there exists a world like it. Only that we dont know about it.
Contribute to the cause to provide food to this underpriviliged people by visiting

www.thehungersite.com

for every click that you make a cup of rice is fed to someone in need.
Lets play our role on the planet and be human :)

AnyBody Ajax

If Ajax has really boggled you and with toolkits that are just bombarding the internet, all one needs is an IDE

yeah you heard it right and IDE for javascript, css, xml and html, primararily made for ajax enabling websites

How about an IDE, that almost incorporates all the ajax toolkits on the globe and with implementation as good as a drag drop.

Additionally a javascript debugger and easy to work with envioronment
Available in windows, linux and mac platform and also as a plugin to Eclipse

All this sounds wonderfull and too good to be true right!
well, I guess there exists one then.
www.aptana.com is where you need to go!
really cool IDE for all those ajaxians out there!

RagaTech Rating : 3.5/5

Midomi, The Web's Answer to Karoake

Ever wanted to let the presense of your voice being felt across the globe.
Well... www.midomi.com is the answer.
Although efforts have always been to make the perfect karoake portal, even this one is not it.
However , it is a great inspiration to the fact that such a concept can materialize in the near future.

Just create your account.
Choose from the various album options available, and sing your song
It behaves like a community portal however with a difference

There are many things that could have been added to this baby but then its not a perfect world, wat say!

Its just the beta so i guess every issue we see is seen by them as well
Hoping you have a great time

Ragatech Rankings : 3/5