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

Google Maps for Mobile

clipped from www.pcmag.com Internet heavyweight Google has offered powerful mobile services for some time now. Even so, the new Google Maps for Mobile takes things a step further. If you have a Palm OS or Windows Mobile smartphone, Google Maps for Mobile gives you most of the functionality of the desktop version. Although it runs on your handset instead of a desktop Web browser, it's an exceedingly versatile and useful application. At Google's site, you can download and install either version directly onto your handheld. On a basic level, Google Maps for Mobile lets you view detailed road and satellite maps. Once you input the desired location, you can zoom in by pressing your phone's center control pad button, or zoom out again by hitting the Zoom Out soft button (at least on a Windows Mobile handheld; see below). One nice touch is that you can jump several zoom levels in one shot simply by pressing either button multiple times in fast succession By Jamie Lendino REVIEW DATE: 03.15.07

How about 3D Browsing?

clipped from ubrowser.com uBrowser is an open source test mule that renders interactive web pages onto geometry using OpenGL® and an embedded instance of Gecko, the Mozilla® rendering engine. Its primary purpose is to help me integrate Gecko into my company's software - a 3D virtual world called Second Life. What does it looks like? Introduction It's not meant to push the advantages and disadvantages of browsing in 3D although this framework might be useful as a starting point for others who'd like to explore those possibilities.

Steps to Creating an RSS feed

clipped from www.rss-specifications.com 1.) Build a Feed Publishers control what information is syndicated in the RSS feed, so ultimately it is the publisher's decision as to whether to include teaser copy or full articles. Consider what you are trying to accomplish and who your target audience is when building the feed. Software to Build a Feed - http://www.feedforall.com Tutorial for Creating Feed by Hand using XML - http://www.make-rss-feeds.com 2.) Transfer the Feed Onto Your Server 3.) Display the Feed on Your Website Using a Graphic of Some Sort 4.) Include Information in the HTML of the Web Page So RSS Readers Auto-Detect Your Feed 5.) Display the Feed's Content on a Website 6.) Submit the Feed to RSS Directories and Search Engines <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/rss.xml"> Tutorial for Displaying Feeds - http://www.small-business-software.net/display-rss.htm Be sure to replace http://www.yourdomain.com/rss.xml with the URL to the RSS feed.

The Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

I have seen many a budding students, digging the web for references regarding Algorithms and Data Structures. Hence on request I am putting this link to help all those who need a good reference.

The following resource is considered to be the most comprehensive collection of algorithms and data structures.
Please go through at your ease and comment.

http://www.nist.gov/dads/

Viacom sues Google over video clips on its YouTube site

clipped from www.iht.com Viacom has feuded publicly with YouTube and its parent Google about the unauthorized posting of its programming online. By Miguel Helft and Geraldine Fabrikant Published: March 14, 2007 Since it bought YouTube last October, Google has been chasing deals that would give it the right to put mainstream video programming on the site. Just a few weeks ago, Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, seemed confident that this courtship of old-line media companies would prove fruitful. "These things take time," Schmidt said in an interview. "There is lots and lots of talking and we have not hit any walls." Now Google has hit a wall. Viacom, the parent company of MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, filed a wide-ranging lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, accusing it of "massive copyright infringement." Viacom said it was seeking more than $1 billion in damages and an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from committing further infringement.

Song Bird - Opensource Hits the Web and Music

Songbird is the new sensation amongst the desktop web players (yeps thats the phrase...)
with play music, play web being their trademark phrase, they strive to integrate the experience of surfing and music toghether (umm..something that i enjoy personally). The call it the digital jukebox and web browser mash up


its opensource and is built on mozilla. It also supports plugins too.

for music enthusiasts and internet geeks this is worth a look.


http://www.songbirdnest.com/

10 commands you never used on Unix

Well the author of this little article boasts of giving 10 linux commands that no one may have used ever (well hypothetically ofcourse).


nyways i knew 3 of dem...try your luck and comment!


http://bashcurescancer.com/10-linux-commands-youve-never-used.html

Surf At Work

Hmm.. I rather doubt how ethical I am on posting this but I just look at it as a means to have some fun testing your company's firewall restrictions

I am sure everybody must have wished to bypass your companies firewall settings to surf through the web, havent u?

Well, then this should surely interest you. I dunno how far might this work because the firewall at my work place is rather linent on us (lucky me!).
Hence you can do this and post your comments regarding its use.

Here you will find an entire tutorial on ways to get through you company's firewall settings.

Bypass now!

Guerilla Mail

Ever wanted to have email address that would expire in say 15 minutes. (A good idea to control spam if you think about it , well also to increase them on the contrary but lets be positive.)

Guerrilla mail gives you the option to do that. It provides you with a temporary email address which you can cannot select by the way. its a random email box that is given to you.

The lifetime of this mail box is 15 minutes. You can view the emails you recieve within this 15 minutes, needless to say you can also send them. After the above span, the account destroys itself and is as good as it never existed. Whats more, this address will never be generated again for anyone else!

You can get one for yourself at http://www.guerrillamail.com/

Linutop the diskless computer

Posting the Home page description of www.linutop.com

Linutop is a Linux-based diskless computer. It offers a completely silent, low-power operation in an extremely small package.

Its main purpose is to surf the internet

Linutop is ideal for everyday Internet usage in:

- Libraries, Schools and Universities,
- Business and Government offices,
- Hotels, Hospitals, Internet cafés, Living rooms.

Beyond Internet surfing,

Linutop is a developer-friendly platform that can be easily adapted to other uses:
- Public Information Displays, Point-of-Sale Terminal,
- Embedded PC (car, boat, plane),

100 Oldest registered Domains

Heres presenting the 100 oldest registered domains in the history of WWW


Create date Domain name
1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16= 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
16= 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18= 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
18= 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40= 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
40= 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
42= 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65= 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
65= 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73= 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
73= 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76= 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
76= 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
81= 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
81= 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
97= 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
97= 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

What Should I Read Next?

This is the question everyone asks himself after finishing reading a great book! Then we go by reviews of our close friends, and then pick one without having an assurance if it fits your taste or not.

Well this is a thing of past now!

We all now have the convenience of just putting the book that we just read and on the basis of your reading taste you will be suggested a host of other books, which come by a analytic survey of thousands of people. You thus know that you are in better chances of liking what is being suggested.

whatshouldireadnext.com brings you this utility. Just have a look at it and i am sure you wont hate it :)

Ubuntu Studio

Hail O Linux users who double as music enthusiasts and were looking for a music and video editor. Promising a host of features this little baby is planning to step foot this april.

To quote from their words " Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional."

You can visit the site at ubuntustudio
you can also view their wiki there.

Open Source for Mac and Widows

Ever wanted to know what open source utilities are available for your mac and windows machines today on the market. Well this post will make things simpler for you.

Feature Open Source Utilities in categories like

1. Web Browsing
2. Video Player / Video Podcasting
3. Instant Messaging
4. Email
5. RSS
6. P2P
7. Video Playback
8. Word Processing / Office Suites
9. Sound Recording
10. Graphics Suite
11. FTP / SFTP
12. HTML / Text Editing
13. IRC
and many more...

you will be amazed by the options of opensource utilities available to you.
There may be a few that you may already be using , Firefox as an example. But then nevertheless its worth a mention.

Visit here to preview and download these utilities

Mac
Windows

The Classic Software Development Problem

I am sure you agree too!

clipped from www.linuxkungfu.org

Fleck - Lets annote!

As Quoted at Firefox addons,
"Fleck allows you to add Notes and Bullets to websites. You can then share these annotated pages with other people.

After installation a small button will appear in your browser. Click that button when you visit a website and you will get a toolbar at the bottom of the page you are visiting.

Add a note or bullet and enter some text, then click the share button and enter the emailaddress of one of your friends.

Your friends will receive an email with a special URL to the annotated webpage. They can annotate too without needing to install anything!"


Find it here

Happy Womens Day

On this special Occasion, Lets review a little bit of woman vocabulary

Yes -> No

No -> Yes

Maybe -> No

We need -> I want

I'm sorry -> You'll be sorry

We need to talk -> I need to complain

Sure...go ahead -> I don't want you to

Is my butt fat? -> Tell me I'm beautiful

Do what you want -> You'll pay for this later

I'm not upset -> Of course I'm upset, you moron!

Are you listening to me? -> Too late, you're dead

You have to learn to communicate -> Just agree with me

You're so.. manly -> You need a shave and you sweat a lot

Do you love me? -> I'm going to ask for something expensive

It's your decision -> The correct decision should be obvious by now

I'll be ready in a minute -> Kick off your shoes and find a good game on TV

How much do you love me? -> I did something today that you're really not going to like


All said and done, its just a joke to have some light moments here at Ragatech apart from the techno jargon.

Happy Womans day to all our readers, Keep reading, keep gaining!

YouTube banned in Turkey

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk

A holding page on YouTube informs users in Turkey that "Access to this site has been denied by court order!"

A court in Istanbul has issued an order denying access to the video-sharing
website YouTube. The state owned Turk Telecom implemented the ban today
after an escalating dispute between Greek and Turkish users of the site.

The court order was issued yesterday and most internet users logging onto the
site in Turkey are met with a holding page with a Turkish message, which
translates as: “Access to this site has been denied by court order ! ...”.

Macs 8 core Macs arriving soon!

clipped from www.gadgetell.com

Black iMacs, 8 core Macs coming next month?

According to MacScoop, Apple’s got “tons of Mac hardware releases for Q2″ due out next month. Sources tell them we should be expecting a black 24-inch iMac and 8-core Mac Pros. Now, we can’t vounch for the rumors, but a black iMac would definately go along with Apple’s strategy. In fact, they’ll probably introduce the black iMac and charge a $100 premium for it… you know, because they had to use all of that black paint and stuff. We’ll keep you updated as the rumor mill gets started back up moving into the second quarter.

ClipMarks - Only the best part of the page

Ever wondered if you could clip segments of the page that you liked the most and then put them to use just as if they were individual pages by themselves.
If you get the feel of what i am talking about ClipMarks 2.0 is just the tool for you. Featured as the Product of the week at PC Magazine this one can come handy a lot of times..

You can not just clip the pages but also save and share them, post them as blog or just use them as regular pages.

Ragatech Ratings 3.5/5

Reader Post of the Week - Your Visual DNA!

This weeks reader post of the week goes to Vinay Kannan, a great friend and a blogger by hobby.

you can visit his blog at dreamsunited
====================================

The internet is flooded with users that are like minded and not so like minded people. All that sets this phenomena about each of us is wat is termed by a community who claims to design a visual DNA for you, which is nothing but a profile that is made after studying your habits,views and opinions..
so wat are u waiting for ...make your Visual DNA today!

http://dna.imagini.net/friends/

Yugma, Free Web Conferencing

For all the people who are into web conferencing, this tool may not be new, but just moving out of its Beta, this little baby has great things to offer.

Yugma, is all about web conferencing and the best part is that its free, forever. Yugma offers you a great deal of options when it comes to web conferencing.

You can choose to have a one to many conference or a many to many conference.
One to many allows you to make a presentation like a broadcast, handy when you want to make those sales presentations, training, etc.

Many to many option allows you to share desktops, like in a meeting. The host can setup multiple clients and then assign control to one of those as and when required.
This lil baby also integrates well with your skype accounts which you can use for voice conferencing.


You just need to go to www.yugma.com and download the installer on to your machine. Once that is done all you need to do is start a session and then share the session id to all those who you want to join the session.

After joining the session everything is just intuitive and easy to work around with the control pretty much like a messenger. People who have dealt with net meeting will rather work around easily.

It has truck loads of features which can be explored after you install the machine. So do review it today and do suggest your comments.

Quoting from what the website says about its product
"What is Yugma?

Yugma is a free web conferencing service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet and to collaborate using any application or software, using both Windows and Mac. Businesses can connect on-demand and real-time with clients, prospects or employees whether they are across the city, nation or even the globe.

Popular uses include presenting sales proposals, product demonstrations, conducting training, project management, customer service, team reviews, remote support and troubleshooting, and collaboration by web communities such as Skype, Jotspot and Salesforce.com.

Yugma is reliable and secure; adapting to organizational security models like AD or LDAP.

The name Yugma is a word from the Sanskrit language meaning "the state of being in unified collaboration." Yugma, Inc. is a privately held venture-backed company headquartered in Minnesota, USA and has offices in Minneapolis and India."

You can view IBM's case study about Yugma here

Ragatech Ratings: 3.5/5

Happy Holi!

Ragatech and Jhamkudi wishes all its readers a very Happy Holi!
May the festival of colours fill your life with all its colours and bring joy and success to you all!


For the readers that are not from India, probably do not know about the festival.

Holi - The festival of Colours!
Holi, a festival based in India, is celebrated with great fun all over the country. The festival depicts unity in diversity, appropriately signifying the unity that the country is known for.

On this auspicious day, Indians light a big fire, and then apply a colours to each other as a token of their affection to the other.

Lets all unite on this special day against the vices in the world and make this world a better place to live on.

UltraPatient? Crack Vista!

The news has finally arrived, with Microsoft claiming high regards for its new Vista activation feature, this news has sure been a surprise.

With not yet again, people desperate to prove Microsoft wrong, a user proved Vista activation was vulnerable to Brute Force Attacks.
As quoted by PC world magazine
"A user can apparently crack Windows Vista's activation process by applying brute force to come up with valid product keys"
The news caught fire when a website posted a tool yesterday, which actually claimed to work. However its not so easy as it seems. It did apply BruteForce which they claim to extend to billions of years...umm yeah you heard it right (I wonder if nyone would be using it dat long hehehe), even after validating 20000 keys an hour.

So What does Microsoft say about it?
Microsoft's Kochis also downplayed the threat. "Our product activation servers perform a more rigorous analysis of the keys that are sent up for activation than the local key logic does," he said. "Producing keys that will ultimately activate is less likely than just hitting upon one that will pass the local logic."


For a more detailed report read

Yahoo turns 12

Yahoo celebrated its 10th birthday on March 2nd, 2005. Little do we know this is its 12th birthday accordingly :D

Great Going.
On the special occasion of its 10th birthday yahoo had earlier released 100 glorious things that hit the web till 2005. I just happened to trip on it today and was surprised to find its yahoo's birthday today :D

nyways this link is worth a watch if you wanna celebrate great things (memorable) that have come in these years.

http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

Philips Photonic Textile.

Now that is what you call Technology, and that is why its on Ragatech ;)

Will BitTorrents Legit Stand withhold its Users?

With BitTorrent Announcing its legit stand on media, the idea seems quite a fair one. However, with all the assumptions that BitTorrent makes about their forecasts really makes you think otherwise.

Boasting of about 4500 plus titles on their list and with major tie ups with 20th CenturyFox, Lions Gate, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. HomeEntertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios,Inc. (MGM) their library sure seems to rock. Some of these films are even pre-DVD release as according to an article.
That just makes BitTorrent a great resource for legal content.

So whats the Big Issue
Well, BitTorrent talks of 1.5 hundered million users (approx.) who have actually installed the software onto their machines. But, these users primarily uses the p2p for illegitimate content forwarding and how many of those would be willing to go legit and pay for these is still a question


So will the big gamble pay off? I guess its just a matter of time we found out.

The Philips Drag and Draw Technology

Lo Behold! Do not stop your kids from scribbling the walls with colours. Well..umm only if you have the Drag and Draw technology in place. The innovative technology empowers you to draw with light on any wall, in multiple colours that you can even mix. With an inbuilt system and projection mechanism, it also adds a good animation and background to support your drawing.

its definitely worth giving a look!
Ragatech Ratings : 4.5/5 ( am I being biased, ofcourse ;) )

The Future - RFID

With a lot of buzz thats going on around these days with RFID's, I thought giving you a foundational glimpse of what RFIDs are capable of. I tripped over this video today and it really gives you a great conceptual view of what RFIDs can do to you production business.

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

The Software Museum...

Have you ever wondered where could u get all the older versions of most computer softwares and utilities. Well if that has been a worry for you, OldVersion is just for you.

Because newer is not always better being the motto of the the portal, the site features a good amount of older versions of almost all computer utilities, used widely.

Visit today and download for free.
http://www.oldversion.com

Calling this just a laptop would be Unfair!!!

The Alienware Aurora m9700 is out now.

With Sleeks looks and mind boggling performance, one doesnt dare call it just a laptop.

With features like 400 GB hdd, AMD Turion 64, 17 '' display, 1 GB Graphics Memory, this baby just steals the show single handedly.
For product Specs visit here

The Ultimate Consumer Gaming PC

Presenting the Alienware Aurora ALX Desktop
This ones sure is a breath taker. With an ultimate configuration up its sleeve which includes


1) The AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 dual core processor supercharges the system with new AM2 DDR2 memory technology

2) Double Barreled Graphics
The new NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GTX with SLi dual GPU technology is, simply put, unstoppable. The NVIDIA 8800 GTX carries 768 MB of GDDR3 memory, for a total of 1.5 GHz of dedicated GPU memory, and is the world’s first Direct X 10-compliant video card as well as HDCP ready. With this kind of dual GPU firepower at your disposal, you better start planning the post-victory smack talk now.

3)More than ever before space
Cram all your digital pictures, movies, games, and music, into the massive hard drives on the Aurora ALX and still have room to spare. With up to 2.5 terabytes of storage you’ll never have to worry about storage space.

4) World’s First Physics Processing Unit

5)Blu-ray Disc Technology
are just FEW of its features... well theres on more grandeur that is pinned to this king, its worth 6000$ ONLY!



For complete product specifications visit here

Imagine Cup 2007 by Microsoft

The Battle Begins...

The most awaited competition in a teamed project development battle has now arrived
Imagine Cup, a Microsoft endeavor, is in its first stage. You can register yourself and your team and represent college for this competition. Prizes are worth thousands of dollars and an opportunity to get placed in Microsoft, winning this one is a dream of many a budding talent.

For Registration and Details...
http://imaginecup.com/Registration/Default.aspx?ReferralCode=IC07IN91ragatech