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June 22, 2008

ConnectingForCare.com Intel’s First Online Community

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

A page called My Connections where caregivers can create a personal profile and join a variety of networks based on their specific needs and interests. Users can directly connect with other caregivers within their networks to share stories, tips and support.
Forums and message boards where caregivers can discuss issues or concerns and pose questions to the community, linking caregivers to each other in an active dialogue 24 hours a day.
Information centers on a range of chronic diseases and conditions where caregivers can search for information and connect on health-specific topics. Within these centers, users can add comments and link to the latest research and resources on caring for individuals with specific conditions, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, COPD and heart failure.
A section called Spotlight on Caregivers where patients, loved ones and fellow caregivers can share their stories and publicly honor caregivers who have touched their lives.

June 15, 2008

Google will be Nokia’s competitor in Online Mapping

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
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hbfMSVgpWQ&NR=1

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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.
httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=2f1ovS6Cvls

June 14, 2008

Edit Publish and Download Pictures for Free with Google Tool

Picasa Yes 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
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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:

To download from Picasa Web Albums, you will need a Mozilla-based browser.
Intel 386-compatible CPU
glibc 2.3 or greater
a Linux kernel >= 2.6.13 (this is necessary only if you want to be notified of file changes; if you have a newer kernel and HAL – Hardware Abstraction Layer – the new media you insert is automatically detected).
Linux kernel >= 2.6.13, HAL >= 0.56, libgphoto2 and gnome-volume-manager or equivalent are required for camera detection and integration.
Recent version of GNOME or KDE.

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

$ 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:

PC with 300MHz Pentium® processor and MMX® technology.
64 MB RAM (128MB Recommended)
50 MB available hard disk space (100MB recommended)
800 × 600 pixels, 16 bit colour monitor.
Microsoft® Windows 2000, or Microsoft® Windows XP.*
Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.01 or better (6.0 recommended). If at any time you get an “unable to authenticate” error, you should upgrade to IE 6.0.
Microsoft® DirectX 7.0 or higher (8.1 ships with XP, 9.0b recommended).

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.

June 12, 2008

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

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.
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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.

June 11, 2008

How to Install Software In Linux like Windows

CNR Installing and managing software on your desktop Linux computer has never been easier! CNR makes the finding of the right piece of software easy to accomplish, with user reviews, screenshots, descriptions, charts, and so on. When you find the software you want, with only one click, it will be installed on your computer and icons will be added to your desktop and to the Start Menu. Also, CNR notifies you when updates are available for the installed applications via the CNR.com website, which you can easily install with one click. CNR also offers dozens of commercial Linux software titles for sale and many other commercial Linux products too.

Installation and Usage of CNR Client:

Download the CNR Client from here . Save it to Desktop folder. Then run the following commands in your Ubuntu terminal:

$ cd ~/Desktop
$ sudo dpkg -i cnr-client_0.2.3848-0cnr1~hardy1_i386.deb

Now we done with CNR clint Installation.

To launch CNR Client in graphical prompt, click Applications>>System Tools>>CNR on desktop. This will open window with a list of software with its thumbnail and details. To install, you only need to click Install Now Button of any of the software/package this will install the software and ends with Installation finished window.

Like this you can install over 43,719 desktop Linux products, packages and libraries, all with a single mouse click.

Use this utility and make your life easy.

June 10, 2008

Snow Leopard New 64-bit Mac OS X with Microsoft Exchange 2007

Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard, the next major version of the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X changes more than its spots, it changes focus. Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard’s enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality. Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos.

Special Features:

“Grand Central,” a new set of technologies built into Snow Leopard, brings unrivaled support for multicore systems to Mac OS X. More cores, not faster clock speeds, drive performance increases in today’s processors.
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Snow Leopard extends the 64-bit technology in Mac OS X to support breakthrough amounts of RAM — up to a theoretical 16TB, or 500 times more than what is possible today.

Snow Leopard includes support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Mac OS X uses the Exchange Web Services protocol to provide access to Exchange Server 2007.

Using media technology pioneered in OS X iPhone, Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a streamlined, next-generation platform that advances modern media and Internet standards.

Another powerful Snow Leopard technology, OpenCL (Open Compute Library), makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU). With GPUs approaching processing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they’re capable of considerably more than just drawing pictures. OpenCL takes that power and redirects it for general-purpose computing.

June 9, 2008

At last iPhone 3G with an Awesome Price tag for $199 & Features

iPhone 3G

A revolutionary phone, a wide screen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do — again also iPhone 3G to be Available in More Than 70 Countries now.

Features in iPhone 3G

*Phone
* Mail
* Safari
* iPod
* SMS
* Maps with GPS
* iTunes
* App Store
* Calendar
* YouTube
* Photos + Camera
* Stocks, Weather, Notes
* Calculator

Built into iPhone are two small but intelligent sensors that pick up cues from the environment and adjust the screen accordingly. These sensors both work to maximize the battery life and improve your iPhone experience.
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The ambient light sensor in iPhone automatically brightens the display when you’re in sunlight or a bright room and dims it in darker places.

When you lift iPhone to your ear, the proximity sensor immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches.

iPhone responds to motion using a built-in accelerometer. When you rotate iPhone from portrait to landscape, the accelerometer detects the movement and changes the display accordingly. So you immediately see the entire width of a web page, view a photo in its proper aspect ratio, or control a game using only your movements.

The 3G iPhone will sell for US$199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model. That’s a $200 discount from the previous $399 and $499 prices for the 8GB and 16GB iPhones, respectively.

Source:read

Update:

Bharti Airtel and Apple announced that they will be bringing the highly anticipated iPhone 3G to customers in India later this year too…. Read More

June 9, 2008

Best Tips to Protect your Web Sites from Hackers and Malicious contents

The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.These Web-based attacks become much more common in recent years as firewalls and better security practices by Microsoft have made it harder for worms and viruses to directly attack computers. Nowadays about 1.3 percent of all Google search queries list malicious results somewhere on the first few pages.

Criminals are getting better at this kind of work. They have built very successful automated tools that poke and prod Web sites, looking for programming errors and then exploit these flaws to install the drive-by download software. Often this code opens an invisible iFrame page on the victim’s browser that redirects it to a malicious Web server. That server then tries to install code on the victim’s PC. “The bad guys are getting exceptionally good at automating those attacks,”

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Following are some tips to get rid of this hackers or hijackers activity.

– Keep you password and username safe change it frequently only with strong password check your password with Microsoft

– Keep your PC clean from viruses and spy-wares because there are chances to hijack your PC contents and login cookies etc. Scan your PC for viruses now with NOD32 Online Antivirus Scanner

– Keep all folders and files permissions proper in your web hosting accounts/server. Never give full permission for the folders and files, that means read write and execute permission. If you are hosting sites in Linux platform never give 777 permission (read write and execute permission) to all members even for net users of file and folders. The preferred maximum permission is 755. This means write permission for root user and only read and execute permission for others.

– There are many techniques used to hack/hijack the website

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

SQL injection flaws

Site reconnaissance

Session hijacking

Application denial of service

Cookie/session tampering

To withstand from this you need “professionally well designed websites” and also powerful web sitefirewall at server end.

– You need to choose good web hosting platform or company which provides good firewalls and Security. If you are going for Linux platform better to choose Grsecurity enabled kernel Servers; especially for shared hosting.

– But not the least the best way to find the flow in website is by checking the web site stats all the day. By this you can find the links/URL which are not related to your website so that you can delete it before it spreads through search engines.

– If some one reports your site having virus then its 99% sure your site home pages are having masked IFrames at the beginning or last lines of the page, which actually downloads virus file form some other server/site. You can fix it your self by editing your home page and removing the contents which looks like as shown bellow.

These are some of the tips which really helps to protect yourself from Hackers and Malicious contents

June 8, 2008

Tips to Protect your PC from Malicious Sites Using McAfee Siteadvisor Plug-In

McAfee SiteAdvisor, a plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, tests, analyzes and rates websites in detail for unsafe or annoying practices such as dangerous downloads, spamming, misuse of personal information and browser hijacking. This helps you sidestep possible identity theft or fraud traps. When searching with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor’s easy-to-understand safety ratings too

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1) Browser tool bar

As you browse Site, a small button on your browser toolbar changes color based on SiteAdvisor’s safety results.
Red (Danger)

McAfee tests revealed some serious issues that you’ll want to carefully consider before using this site at all. (Example: The site sent lots of spam e-mail or bundled adware with a download).

Yellow (Caution)

McAfee tests revealed some issues you should know about. (Example: a site tried to change browser defaults, or sent a lot of non-spam e-mail)

Green (Safe)

McAfee Tested the site and didn’t find any significant problems. (Secure sites.)

Gray (Not submitted site)

The site has not been tested, or is in the process of being tested also you have option to submit the site to test also.

You have a menu options on SiteAdvisor’s toolbar which let you customize SiteAdvisor or see a site’s detailed test results too.

2) Search Page

When you search with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor’s safety ratings appear next to search results. Ratings—Red indicates dagger that means this site reported virus downloads and also linked to malicious sites which already rated Red in Macfee database.

You can also get more information about the site by keeping the mouse pointer on the alert symbol; it will show a popup in search window it self, which gives summary of the sites status.

3) Detailed Test Results

Also a detailed test results for every site are available by clicking on the more info link; in that you can see the external sites which are linked to this site as shown bellow.

So it will be very hand if you installed McAfee SiteAdviso in your PC while surfing the giant www network.

Download it here….

June 5, 2008

Install KDE 4 on Windows

KDE-win

The preferred way of installing KDE apps under windows is the KDE-Installer. Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista are supported.

The installer is a small piece of software which pulls the required packages from the remote repository and installs them on your Windows machine. It also automatically downloads any packages which are required to satisfy any dependencies which makes it very user friendly. Detailed installation instructions as follows…

* Installer Download it here..
* Download and save the latest version to a directory, e.g. C:\KDE4
* Run the installer, download what you need [see Download needed packages below].
* Add a KDEDIRS environment variable [Start >> Control Panel >> System >> Advanced >> Environment Variables, click [New] User variable and create Variable name KDEDIRS with Variable value the directory where you installed KDE4, e.g. C:\KDE4].
* Add your lib directory and your bin directory to your Windows %PATH%. (Start >> Control Panel >> System >> Advanced >> Environment Variables, double-click the Path System Variable and add “%KDEDIRS%\lib;%KDEDIRS%\bin” to your path separated by semicolon.]
* If you don’t have Visual Studio 2005 installed, download and install the “Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)” [1]
* Try running a Qt application in the bin directory, such as linguist.exe
* If that works, try running a KDE application such as kwrite.exe.

The download for me took a long time since the installer had to pull in over 400 MB of packages. But once all the necessary packages finished downloading, the installer then proceeded to install all the packages in the specified location.
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There are a number of applications already such as the KDE games, KWrite, Konqueror, Dolphin file manager and so on and all of them worked on my machine. I have to concede that other than the KDE games which played quite well, most other software is at the least, still buggy. Konqueror and KWrite guzzles up memory like there is no tomorrow. The Konsole (KDE terminal) has yet to be ported to Windows and so you cannot access the terminal from within Konqueror. Dolphin complains that it cannot find the home directory each time I open it in Windows. KWrite is a lot slow in opening up and so on.

Update:1 [02/15/2009]

Simple steps to uninstall Windows KDE from Windows XP or Vista……