lively.com Googles New Free Virtual World Service

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Lively

A new virtual world Lively.com, which Google likes to call a “Virtual Experience,” allows you to create and decorate your own virtual room, invite friends to your room and do things you have always dreamed of, like blow up oil barrels on a deserted island!!!!! Etc.

Google has created a number of sample rooms that can be copied and altered, or users can start from scratch and build their own world. Furniture and other items can be added and moved around. Avatars can talk to each other, do things like dance and shake hands, and manipulate objects. Users can also chat with each other. GTalk is the underlying chat engine.

Features:

With all these features, Lively is likely to give Second Life and other popular virtual worlds a run for their money. That’s because, like most Google products, Lively is free. Second Life charges $9.95 a month for premium membership.

You can download lively here

You can watch demo bellow

Computer, Internet, Software

How to Monitor Websites and Web Services Live for Free from PC

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NagiosYes you can Monitor Websites and Web Services Live for Free from PC Using Nagios. Nagios is a host and service monitoring tool  designed to inform network problems. When problems are encountered, the Nagios daemon can send notifications out to you in a variety of different ways (email, instant message,  etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser too.

Features of Nagios include Monitoring of network services like SMTP, POP3, HTTP, IMAP, PING, FTP, etc. This features also can be used to monitor your websites which are hosted in third party hosting servers, that’s especially from home/office PC itself!!

Setting up Nagios for your domains:

1) Installation process

You can use following commands to install components needed.

# yum install httpd
# chkconfig httpd on
# /etc/init.d/httpd start
# yum install nagios nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-all

# apt-get install apache2
# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
# apt-get install nagios-text nagios-plugins nagios-images
or
# apt-get install nagios2 nagios-plugins nagios-images

Apache:- http://httpd.apache.org/
Nagios:- http://www.nagios.org/download/#stable

Now we done with Installation next….

2) Configuring Nagios:

# mkdir /etc/nagios2/mysite

Default path cfg_dir=/etc/nagios2/conf.d to
cfg_dir=/etc/nagios2/mysite

- contacts.cfg: Defines the people who will receive the alerts in case of a problem.
Here you need to change e-mail ID and Pager ID.

define contact{
contact_name                    Admin
alias                           Administrator Name
service_notification_period     24×7
host_notification_period        24×7
service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
host_notification_options       d,u,r
service_notification_commands   notify-by-email,notify-by-pager
host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email,host-notify-by-epager
email                           admin@yourdomain.com
pager                           11111111@pager.yourdomain.com
}

define contactgroup{
contactgroup_name       admins
alias                   Nagios Administrators
members                 Admin # contact_name should be added here
}

- host.cfg: Defines the url’s that will be monitored.

##You can add as many as url’s need like bellow
define host{
host_name  jithesh.com
alias      Jithesh
address    www.jithesh.com
use        generic-host
}

define host{
host_name  jithonline.com
alias      JithOnline
address    www.jithonline.com
use        generic-host
}

#### Hostgroup_name ###
define hostgroup {
hostgroup_name  all
alias           All Servers
members         *
}

# A list of your servers
define hostgroup {
hostgroup_name    servers
alias           Servers
members         jithesh.com, jithonline.com  #Add all host_name here
}

- services.cfg: Defines the services that will be monitored for each URL.

## Hostgroups services ##
define service {
hostgroup_name                 servers
service_description             HTTP
check_command                 check_http
use                             generic-service
notification_interval           0
}

define service {
hostgroup_name                 servers
service_description             PING
check_command                 check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
use                             generic-service
notification_interval           0
}

define service {
hostgroup_name                 servers
service_description             FTP
check_command                 check_ftp
use                             generic-service
notification_interval           0
}

define service {
hostgroup_name                 servers
service_description             POP
check_command                 check_pop
use                             generic-service
notification_interval           0
}

define service {
hostgroup_name                 servers
service_description             IMAP
check_command                 check_imap
use                             generic-service
notification_interval           0
}

define service {
hostgroup_name                 servers
service_description             SMTP
check_command                 check_smtp
use                             generic-service
notification_interval           0
}

- templates.cfg: Defines some templates like the generic url, generic service and a lot of others custom templates.

In the default installation you will find files named generic-host_nagios2.cfg, generic-service_nagios2.cfg and there might be others. Just with copy and paste them into /etc/nagios2/mysite directory it will work OK. Anyway, I prefer to put the definitions on each of them into a single file called templates.cfg, but that’s a personal preference.

- timeperiods.cfg: Defines time periods which are valid for checks, notifications, etc.

The default configuration file is OK, so just copy and paste it from /etc/nagios2/conf.d/timeperiods_nagios2.cfg to /etc/nagios2/mysite/timeperiods.cfg.

So we have done with all configuration stuffs.

3)  Restart the Nagios service:

# /etc/init.d/nagios2 restart
If there is any configuration error Nagios will tell you where it is when you attempt to restart the service.

4) Monitor your URLs

By opening Nagios in browser
http://<nagios_server_host>/nagios2
user name:-nagiosadmin
passwd:-<set passwd> Most of the case root passwd itself

If you still having problems, don’t hesitate to post comment.

Computer, Internet, Linux, Security, Software

ConnectingForCare.com Intel’s First Online Community

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ConnectingForCare

Intel Corporation unveiled ConnectingForCare.com and ConnectingForCare.co.uk for United Kingdom, the first online community of its kind for family caregivers, nurses, social workers and others to share information and provide emotional support, filling a void in today’s healthcare system.

ConnectingForCare.com provides various ways for caregivers to find information and interact with one another.

Internet

Google will be Nokia’s competitor in Online Mapping

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Nokia-Map

Nokia is taking on the world with the latest addition to their online social website Ovi.com. Nokia revealed an early version of their new Map software on Ovi.com.

The demo is impressive. Unlike most web-based mapping applications, the screen refreshes rapidly, enabling you to pan, tilt, and spin your view of the map while the screen refreshes almost instantaneously. zoomed around a yellow-and-blue map of San Francisco with an aerial abandon that felt like flying over the city, in comparison with Google Maps’ pokey dirigible. Nokia gets that speed by using vector-based maps and doing the redrawing computation on the user’s computer, rather than the servers.

Demo Video here


The company is planning on publishing an API for developers to create various applications that will allow this software to interact with other software on the PC or mobile phone.
Computer, Internet

Edit Publish and Download Pictures for Free with Google Tool

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PicasaYes Edit, Publish and Download Picture for Free with Google’s Picas. The Picasa 2.7 is packed up with features like web album upload and download, localization in many languages, folder hierarchy views, better RAW support and more. Google contributed to Wine’s development, by contracting with CodeWeavers to improve Wine to run Picasa 2.2 in a proper way. Google also asked some interns to work on some areas of Wine, such as widl, msi, riched20, etc.

You can download and upload images from and respectively to Picasa Web Albums, in a simple and easy manner and you can distribute your Picasa Web Album URL to your friends too. When you want to share some photos, let’s say you took on a trip, you can post them online by using the new “Web Album” button. The albums can be downloaded directly into Picasa by using Firefox. The photo edits you do can be saved to disk, and you can revert to the original file, in case you do something wrong.

You can work with RAW files from cameras like Canon 30D, Nikon D200, with Adobe DNG files and much more. The photo import from a camera to Picasa is much faster now. Larger thumbnails, better caption editing, ability to configure the row of buttons, a special “Starred Photos” album are only a few of the new features and improvements of Picasa 2.7.

Picasa really shines when it comes to organizing pictures, with improved search capabilities and a time-line slide-show function for beautifully displaying your photo collection. It also automatically resizes your photos for e-mailing. You get several options for storage and sharing. You can burn albums to DVD or CD, print pictures at home

The Picasa package is made up of the Picasa application, Wine and the web page rendering engine Gecko. If you want to use Picasa, you must have the following Requirements

For Linux:

Download Picasa 2 for Linux right now from Here….

Installing Picasa :

If you’re using a recent version of Linux, you should be able to pick “Open With Default Application” or double-click on the downloaded .rpm file to install.

If that doesn’t work, open a terminal window and install with a command like

$ sudo rpm -Uvh /path to rpm file/picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386.rpm

or

$ su
# rpm -Uvh /path to rpm file/picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386.rpm
# exit

After installation Start Picasa by looking in your Linux distribution’s Graphics menu. If you can’t find it there, give the command

# /usr/bin/picasa

in a terminal window.

For Windows:

Download Picasa 2 for Windows right now from Here….

Double-click on the downloaded .exe file to install then run it form program files.

Now you can use the application for editing the images and publish it to Picasa Web Albums. Also you can download images which ever you missed or deleted from you PC from Picasa Web Albums. Remember its also an absolute free service from Grate Google.

Computer, Internet, Linux, Software

Opera9.5 Final Released with baidu to grow footprint in China

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Opera 9.5

Opera Software today released the final public release of its flagship Web browser Opera 9.5. Making its desktop debut in Opera 9.5, Opera Link blurs the boundaries between computers and mobile phones by enabling a seamless Web experience from device to device. Opera 9.5 is available for Linux, Mac and PC computers and with more than 30 languages. Get Opera for free here.

Also Opera made Baidu as the default search engine in Opera’s desktop browser in China. Now anyone accessing the Internet using Opera’s Chinese language desktop browser can immediately enjoy Baidu’s powerful search directly from the browser start page.

Since its arrival in Beijing, China,Opera. A leading handset manufacturer and popular consumer brand in China, has chosen to pre-install Opera Mini on three new handsets. Starting immediately, Haier’s N81, N82 and N86 handsets will come loaded with Opera Mini via its partnership with KongZhong, allowing Haier customers to access all their favorite Web sites. Similarly, TCL, another well-known brand in China, has opted to pre-install Opera Mini, Opera’s lightweight and fast mobile browser, on its upcoming A800 handset.

According to analytics firm Bango, China has fast risen up the mobile Web surfing charts, securing the position of one of the top six countries in the world to access the mobile Web. Such statistics clearly highlight the rising demand for full Web browsing. So Opera grows footprint in China in good way too.

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