Cable Companies switch to digital mode

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Just a few days back fed up with the signal quality of a few channels that were put in the far end of the spectrum, I called my local cable guy and told him to remove the connection as I would be moving to DTH. He asked me to try the new digital Set Top Box that they were about to install. I agreed thinking what could I possibly lose? I was completely surprised when the new set top box was installed. The picture and sound quality was just like DTH. All my favourite channels were available…

Filed under Cable TV, Digital Cable TV, TRAI by readerszone Added 07/27/2008

Father’s of Technology

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Vinton Gray(born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is the “person most often called ‘the father of the Internet’.”His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology,the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Cerf has worked for Google as its Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist since September 2005.

Filed under father of java, father of c, father of internet by readerszone Added 06/15/2008

How is Silverlight different than Flash? Flex? Adobe AIR?

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Some of the scenarios for Flash and Silverlight usage are similar, such as rich media/video within websites, or interactive rich content for e-commerce, e-learning, or advertising. However, Silverlight uses a dramatically different approach for creating and delivering experiences in a way that aligns more with our customers’ development and deployment needs. Platform Microsoft’s client/web platform offerings span Windows to the Web, and include emerging surfaces such as the media…

Filed under Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight by readerszone Added 06/13/2008

Microsoft Offering Free Web Hosting to UK Students

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Microsoft and WebFusion partnered to provide free web hosting to UK students. This free web hosting gives a chance to UK students to develop web applications using Microsoft development tools and test all their work in real time environment. This free web hosting includes Windows Server 2008, IIS 7, 500MB disk space, 1 x SQL 2005 database Support for ASP.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, Classic ASP, PHP, CGI.

Filed under microsoft free web hosting, uk students by readerszone Added 06/12/2008

8 Steps to Better Security

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As technology is moving towards advancement the hacking movements are also.As business grows very high & gets more dependent on technology, it becomes more highlighted and easier target for hackers and others on the prowl for vulnerabilities. Data security attacks are basically done for three purposes : 1. By a person who just want the challenge of breaking into a system. 2. Most attacks have more malicious intent such as stealing credit card numbers, social security numbers or …

Filed under security by readerszone Added 06/11/2008

Gates Shows: 5 New Technologies on TechEd2008

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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on his public tradeshow keynote at the company’s TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando, shows five new technologies of Microsoft. So without wasting anytime let’s have a close look to each of these new five technologies Internet Explorer Beta 2, Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2, Microsoft Sync Framework ,Velocity and Parallel Extension to .Net Framework

Filed under teched2008, Internet Explorer Beta 2, Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2, Microsoft Sync Framework, Velocity, Parallel Extension to .Net Framework by readerszone Added 06/10/2008

Get Best Results using FeedB...r Self-Hosted WordPress Site

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To get best out of FeedBurner is direct all your WordPress blog feeds to FeedBurner, but how to do that? Google recommend the FeedBurner FeedSmith plug-in (originally authored by the legendary Steve Smith). The plug-in will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed and optionally, your ma…

Filed under feedburner by readerszone Added 06/09/2008

Twitter Mail:Send and Receive Twitter Updates as Email

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Twitter Mail is really a wonderful website that let’s user to send and receive message on Twitter by Email. It’s very easy to use; just give the user name and password of your Twitter account, Twitter Mail will generate a Twitter Mail email account, and messages send to Twitter Mail email address will be posted on Twitter and replies that you get on twitter are also receive on Twitter Mail email address. Twitter Mail Feature that I Found over their Website

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adCenter Add-in Beta for Excel 2007 with Ad Intelligence

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Spammers Taking Full Advanta...ics to Manage Spam Campaigns

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Google’s free website analysis service names as “Google Analytics” is now used by most spammer to track their spam campaigns. Spammers are taking full advantage to Google Analytics to track visitor interaction with their Websites, from where they are coming, user’s activities on spammer’s website and also spammers using Google Analytics goal conversion feature.

Filed under Google analytics, spammers using google analytics by readerszone Added 06/05/2008

Track Phone Calls on Windows Vista

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Think you are working on computer and suddenly your phone ring and for just checking the caller id you have to go and receive the phone and you away from your computer. In this situation Caller-ID, free windows vista software comes handy. Caller-Id integrates with Windows Vista and you can easily track the incoming phone calls without stopping your ongoing computer work. Caller-ID also offers a Windows Home Server Add-In. The Add-in integrates with the Windows Home Server Console in perfe…

Filed under Caller-id on vista by readerszone Added 05/16/2008

Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack infected with Trojan horse

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Everyone who downloaded the most recent Vietnamese language pack since February 18, 2008 got an infected copy. While we cannot determine the exact number of compromised downloads, there have been 16,667 total downloads of the Vietnamese language pack since November 2007, so we anticipate the impact on users to be limited.

Filed under Firefox Extension by readerszone Added 05/08/2008

Top 12 technology CEOs of World

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Geotag Photo’s With Free Microsoft Pro Photo Tool

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A Microsoft Pro Photo tool is a free 32 bit photo editing tool.Microsoft pro photo enable photographers to add geotagging information in there photographs. Geotagging is a feature that is not supported by many digital cameras yet but it will surely be a very powerful feature in the coming years. The current version enables you to quickly geotag your photos, view and edit metadata, and more, leveraging the power of Windows and Microsoft Live Local. Microsoft Pro Photo provides easy access …

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BitLocker for Windows Vista SP1

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BitLocker for Vista Ultimate and Enterprise editions now enables end users to take advantage of a multi-factor authentication method which is designed to bundle a key protected by the Trusted Platform Module with a USB stored Startup Key. BitLocker now supports full drive encryption, before this BitLocker only supports the encryption of bootable drives. Microsoft has made available for download a number of three tools focused on BitLocker

Filed under BitLocker by readerszone Added 05/01/2008

Microsoft Report on SQL Injection Attacks on IIS Web Servers

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On April 17 hundreds of thousands domains from USA and from UK are infected with the SQL injection as well as IFrame injection attacks. Including some of the .gov domains also. Many of these websites are serving the malicious web pages using the JavaScript and IFrame. These web pages tried eight different ways to hijack the end user computer and trying to install some malicious software on the end user computer. SQL injection and IFrame attacks are mainly ended up redirecting users to mal…

Filed under Internet Explorer, SQL Injection, IFrame Injection by readerszone Added 04/28/2008

How to Backup Firefox Profiles

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Taking backup of Firefox profile is really a painful job if you try to it manually. It’s very easy also to by just locating the Firefox directory on your computer and copy that Firefox profile and take a backup and now you can use this Firefox profile to some other computer or you can can use it your own computer. But there is also one free utility available that can do all the backup and restore task for you. it’s MozBackup. MozBackup can also be used to take backup of Firefox,Thunde…

Filed under Firefox, Backup Firefox Profile by readerszone Added 04/28/2008

Steve Ballmer: XP May be there After 30 June

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Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer is saying the company could re-consider phasing out of its most widely-used operating system — Windows XP — after June 30, if customers so desire. Ballmer was speaking at the Louvain-La-Neuve University in Belgium.

Filed under Windows XP by readerszone Added 04/27/2008

New features introduced in Google Docs-2

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Google docs team working very hard to add more and more features in Google’s online office suite. Now Google docs comes up with three new features in Google docs. Add Speaker notes for your presentations ,Inserting YouTube videos into slides and View your presentations and spreadsheets offline.Speaker notes for your presentations is answer from Google to Microsoft Office Powerpoint. Google making Microsoft Office life harder by introducing more and more new features in their online offi…

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How to extend Vista grace period to 120 days

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Although its always good to buy any software, instead of piracy. No one recommends piracy anyways. But then, Every Vista DVD includes the ability to install any edition of Vista without a product key. When you install without a product key, you get an automatic 30 day evaluation period. So, that’s not a news right. But, then what if, you can use it for more than that, 120 days to be precise. Yeah, that’s true, and ofcourse helpful too. But, then how to do it. That’s why you land in …

Filed under How to extend Vista grace period by readerszone Added 04/27/2008