We already know that Firefox is the fastest and the most secure internet browser offered in the web. But did you know that you can still make your FIREFOX even faster? Consider this trick and enjoy a very fast internet browsing.

Don't have Mozilla Firefox? Download it using the FIREFOX banner found in my SIDEBAR.

Here's the trick:

1) Open FIREFOX then type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2) Alter the entries as follows: (by double clicking them)

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. (I changed mine to 100, works great.)

3) Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

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This month has been a very fortunate one since a lot of softwares are coming out for final release or for beta testings. Mozilla Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, and Windows 7 are just some of the things that need to get excited about but to add some more spice, here's another new beta release that we should be looking at. Just recently, Microsoft released a beta testing for the upcoming Microsoft Windows Media Player 12.

Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.

I'm sure you're now excited to download this beta release and see for yourself what's new with the product. Here's some preview about the product . . .

Screenshots: (Click for full size)


I know, it looks like Windows Media Player 11 for Vista OS but I'm sure there a little distinction between the two. Anyway, it's still in a beta state so expect for some changes in the future. I hope they will also change its visual style.

Here's how to download:

Windows Media Player 12 2008
RAR | 30.5MB | Windows Media Player 12 2008
Click here to download!

Enjoy! Please subscribe to my Feeds to know more about future news and updates about Windows Media Player 12! Thanks! :)

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Making tweaks with your own desktop is a very nice hobby. Not only does it improve the visual style of your desktop but also makes an inviting aura in using your computer. Here are seven (7) Premium Vista themes for your desktop! These themes almost resembles the original Vista GUI and the best of all, it's FREE!!

Important Reminders:

• Click the images for a larger view
• Click the Free Download Title (e.g. Free Download #1, #2, etc.) to be able to download the desired theme
• You must have Tuneup Utilities 2008 installed in your system. (If you don't have one, click here to download)
  
• Please leave some comments :)

Free Download #1:

Free Download #2:


Free Download #3:

Free Download #4:

Free Download #5:

Free Download #6:

Free Download #7:


How to Apply the Themes:

• Open the each link for instructions:

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http://i32.tinypic.com/25i0xzs.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/6gc094.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/ilvnep.jpg

Happy Tweaking!

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Today, I’m sharing you this very helpful ebook that I came across. If you’re still new to WIndows 7 or still planning to switch to it, then this one is for you!

Paul McFedries, "Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows 7"
Visual | 2009 | ISBN: 0470503866 | 352 pages | PDF

A practical guide for visual learners who are eager to get started with Windows 7

Windows 7 is Microsoft's highly anticipated operating system used by millions of people around the world. If you?re a visual learner and are new to Windows 7, then this book is an ideal introduction to the new features of this operating system. Seasoned author Paul McFedries walks you through the basics and beyond of Windows 7 in a straightforward manner.

You'll discover how to install and repair programs, maintain your system, set up password–protected accounts, load images from a digital camera, play music and other media files, secure Internet and e–mail accounts, and much more. More than 150 tasks are accompanied by full–color screen shots as they guide you to becoming a confident user of Windows 7.

Experienced author Paul McFedries walks you through Microsoft?s eagerly awaited new operating system: Windows 7

Clear and succinct explanations, step–by–step instructions, and full–color screen shots take you through the newest features of Windows 7

More than 150 Windows 7 tasks show you the basics and beyond, including installing and repairing programs, maintaining your system, loading images from a digital camera, and more

This book is essential if you are a visual learner who is enthusiastic about diving in and exploring all that Windows 7 has to offer!

Download it here: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows 7

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Have a laptop and want to get more battery life out of it? Windows 7 includes a hidden built-in tool that will examine your laptop's energy use and make recommendations on how to improve it. To use it:

1. Run a command prompt as an administrator. To do this, type cmd in the search box, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose "Run as administrator."

2. At the command line, type in the following:

powercfg -energy -output C:\MyFolder\Energy_Report.html

where C:\MyFolder represents the folder where you want the report to be placed.
(Note: You can change the directory as long as it is existing.)

3. For about a minute, Windows 7 will examine the behavior of your laptop. It will then analyze it and create a report in HTML format in the folder you specified. Double-click the file, and you'll get a report -- follow its recommendations for ways to improve power performance.

Here's a sample of the test:



This is a tip I got from ComputerWorld.com

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Windows Aero is the graphical user interface and the default theme in most editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 , operating systems released by Microsoft. It is also available in Windows Server 2008. Its name is a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective and Open. Intended to be a cleaner, more powerful, more efficient and more aesthetically pleasing user interface than the previously used theme (Luna), it includes new translucency, live thumbnails, live icons, animations and eye candy. Aero also encompasses a set of user interface design guidelines for Microsoft Windows.

Steps:

1. Before considering turning Aero on, make sure you're computer has the following requirements:

An OS (operating system) of Windows Vista Premium/Windows 7 or better (Starter and Basic editions will not support Aero)
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB of system memory
a DirectX 9 compatible graphics processor with a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver and a minimum of 128 MB of Video RAM
40 GB hard drive with 15 GB free space

2. Now, on the desktop, right-click and select "Personalize".

3. (For Vista users): Click on "Theme".

4. (For Vista users) A window will appear, with a list of available themes in a drop-down menu, with corresponding illustrations below. The setting should be on "Vista Basic" as default.

(For Win7 users) A window will appear, showing you all the currently installed themes on your computer. In the window, there is a category called Aero Themes. Just scroll down the window if you can't see it.

5. (For Vista users) In the drop-down menu there is an option for "Windows Aero"

6. (for vista users) Click it, then select Apply then OK and you're computer will be configured to Windows Vista Aero.

(for Win7 users) Click your desired aero theme and it will automatically be applied on your desktop.

7. An important note. If you have already done all of this and aero still isn't working. Make sure your video card setting is at 32 bit. If not you will not be able to use the aero features. You can change this under display settings in the personalization menu.

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Windows DreamScene, a feature which allows a video clip, movie show, slideshow or animated image and picture to be set as the desktop background in Windows Vista has been removed in Windows 7, in favor of Desktop Slideshow wallpaper auto rotator. Although Windows 7 no longer supports DreamScane, the DreamScene function can still be manually added and installed into Windows 7 with a little hack in order to turn on and enable the DreamScene support in Windows7.

In order to enable DreamScene in Windows 7, the similar hack which allows DreamScene to be installed on non-Ultimate edition of Windows Vista such as Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Enterprise edition is used. The DreamScene installation hack has been compiled into an executable, which automatically copy the necessary DreamScene files and merge require registry keys and entries.

Note: To run DreamScene in Windows 7, Windows Aero has to be turned on.

How to Install DreamScene in Windows 7

1) Run the Windows7-DreamScene.exe as Administrator.
That's it.

All the installer does is, it will copy DreamScene.dll to %WinDir%\System32 folder, DreamScene.dll.mui to %WinDir%\System32\en-US folder and add the required registry keys and values.
Then it will automatically restart the Explorer to make the installation of DreamScene works immediately.

A Windows DreamScene folder has also been created in %WinDir%\Web\ folder. You can place any video file that you want to set as DreamScene background wallpaper here as in Windows Vista, or anywhere you like. However, the folder is less useful as Windows 7 does not support direct viewing of video or animated media in Personalization Control Panel.

Download:
Windows7-DreamScene.exe

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Data or existing files saved in the computer are very important however storing them involve certain risks. Accidental deletion, data corruption, and disk repartition are just some of the risks. If you happen to do this things unintentionally, then that causes problem. In spite of those circumstances, data recovery is already possible nowadays. The global market now offers different data recovery softwares to help you solve your problems. One of the best data recovery softwares available is PowerData Recovery Pro v4.1.1!

About the Product: (powerdatarecovery.com)

Power Data Recovery is a powerful data recovery software developed by MT Solution Ltd. It is one of the fastest and most effective programs of the data recovery software. Power Data Recovery is becoming the first choice when you need data recovery software to help you recover your lost data.

Power Data Recovery is a read-only File Recovery Software and Data Recovery Software. Power data recovery software could help you recover all your data no matter the data is lost by accidental deletion, format, re-partition, system crash or virus attack. Power data recovery is able to scan your device sector by sector to recover what ever left on your device.

Power Data Recovery provide deep scan module which can scan and analyze raw data format including Microsoft Office files, digital graphics/pictures, audio/video files. Please visit deep scan page for complete raw file format list.

Feature overview

• * Recover data after accidental deletion
• * Recover data after an accidental format
• * Recover data from an inaccessible volume (logical drive)
• * Recover data after FAT corruption
• * Recover data after repartition (fdisk)
• * Recover data from a crashed physical device
• * Recover data after an MBR corruption
• * Recover data from a hard disk drive, camera card, USB drive, Zip, floppy disk
• * Recover data for any error except physical damage

Key Features

• * Supports FAT 12/16/32
• * Supports NTFS
• * Supports NTFS compressed and encrypted files
• * Supports Dynamic Volume including Simple Volume, Spanned Volume, Stripe Volume, Mirror Volume and Raid Volume.
• * Supports RAW data recovery
• * Built-in preview function
• * Built-in resume recovery function
• * Built-in Recovery Wizard

Included in this post is the latest installer of PowerData Recovery Pro v4.1.1.

Download it here: http://rapidshare.com/files/99974662/Power_Data_Recovery_Pro_v4.1.1.typhoon.rar

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Data or existing files saved in the computer are very important however storing them involve certain risks. Accidental deletion, data corruption, and disk repartition are just some of the risks. If you happen to do this things unintentionally, then that causes problem. In spite of those circumstances, data recovery is already possible nowadays. The global market now offers different data recovery softwares to help you solve your problems. One of the best data recovery softwares available is PowerData Recovery Pro v4.1.1!

About the Product: (powerdatarecovery.com)

Power Data Recovery is a powerful data recovery software developed by MT Solution Ltd. It is one of the fastest and most effective programs of the data recovery software. Power Data Recovery is becoming the first choice when you need data recovery software to help you recover your lost data.

Power Data Recovery is a read-only File Recovery Software and Data Recovery Software. Power data recovery software could help you recover all your data no matter the data is lost by accidental deletion, format, re-partition, system crash or virus attack. Power data recovery is able to scan your device sector by sector to recover what ever left on your device.

Power Data Recovery provide deep scan module which can scan and analyze raw data format including Microsoft Office files, digital graphics/pictures, audio/video files. Please visit deep scan page for complete raw file format list.

Feature overview

• * Recover data after accidental deletion
• * Recover data after an accidental format
• * Recover data from an inaccessible volume (logical drive)
• * Recover data after FAT corruption
• * Recover data after repartition (fdisk)
• * Recover data from a crashed physical device
• * Recover data after an MBR corruption
• * Recover data from a hard disk drive, camera card, USB drive, Zip, floppy disk
• * Recover data for any error except physical damage

Key Features

• * Supports FAT 12/16/32
• * Supports NTFS
• * Supports NTFS compressed and encrypted files
• * Supports Dynamic Volume including Simple Volume, Spanned Volume, Stripe Volume, Mirror Volume and Raid Volume.
• * Supports RAW data recovery
• * Built-in preview function
• * Built-in resume recovery function
• * Built-in Recovery Wizard

Included in this post is the latest installer of PowerData Recovery Pro v4.1.1.

Download it here: http://rapidshare.com/files/99974662/Power_Data_Recovery_Pro_v4.1.1.typhoon.rar

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Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training books, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a book offers what no other book or training program does – an official training series from Adobe Systems incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Adobe Flash CS3 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Flash CS3 Classroom in a Book contains 11 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Flash, and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with Adobe Flash CS3. You can follow the book from start to finish, or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Download Adobe Flash CS3 Classroom in a Book EBOOK here!

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

The 14 lessons in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book cover the basics of learning Adobe Photoshop, the world’s best image-editing software—including how to retouch digital photos, work with layers and masks, navigate your workspace, and prepare images for the screen and print. Plus, you’ll try out the latest features in CS3, and learn new ways to streamline your workflow and showcase your images. Countless tips and techniques, extra-credit exercises, and mini-tutorials help you become more productive and adept using Photoshop. Follow the book from start to finish, or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Download Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book EBOOK here!


Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book contains 15 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Illustrator, and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with Adobe Illustrator CS3. You can follow the book from start to finish, or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Download Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book EBOOK here!

Adobe After Effects CS3 Classroom in a Book

Adobe After Effects CS3 Classroom in a Book covers the basics of learning Adobe After Effects, and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with Adobe’s market leading motion graphics and visual effects software. You can follow the book from start to finish, or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Download Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book EBOOK here!

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom in a Book

Dreamweaver CS3, now included as part of Adobe's Creative Suite 3, is the leading professional Web design and development application in the market, and is a must-have tool for any Web designer or developer. Dreamweaver CS3 offers new CSS layouts, a unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization tools that let users create interactive Web sites without having to delve into code. Dreamweaver users can now create dynamic interfaces using the Spry framwork for Ajax. (Spry is 99% HTML, so it's accessible to both designers and developers). Spry widgets (pre-built user interface components) let users quickly add common user interface components to Web pages. Each chapter in this full-color book contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of Dreamweaver, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills. Readers will learn how to customize a Dreamweaver workspace, apply cascading style sheets, enter headline and body text, insert graphics and rollovers, and add links to a page. They'll also learn how to add interactive elements to their site, such as behaviors, effects, and Flash video; add new code or code snippets; and publish their finished site to the Web.

Download Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom in a Book EBOOK here!

Adobe Audition 2.0 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Audition 2.0 Classroom in a Book contains thirteen lessons and a bonus CD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Audition, and countless tips and techniques to help you quickly become an Audition expert. You'll learn how to work and edit in a multitrack mixing environment, create audio effects and original soundtracks with loops, restore poor-quality audio, export to CD and MP3, and more. You'll also learn about Audition 2.0's new features, including low-latency mixing with unlimited tracks, ASIO support, audible scrubbing, analog-modeled Multiband Compressor, recordable parameter automation with external hardware support, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Download Adobe Audition 2.0 Classroom in a Book EBOOK here!

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Classroom in a Book

If you're like most Acrobat users--creative, business, and engineering pros who work with complex electronic documents--you can ill afford to miss a beat in your production workflow. Then again, you can ill afford being left behind when it comes to mastering the newest version of the important tool on your desktop, Adobe Acrobat 7. Not to worry: Adobe has brought the classroom to you in this handy volume, completely revised to cover all that's new and different in Acrobat 7. Through a series of self-paced lessons (each of which builds on the last and includes hands-on projects that the you can create using the files on the accompanying CD-ROM), this guide acquaints you with all of Acrobat 7's features for creating, reviewing, editing, commenting on, restructuring, and preflighting PDF files, including the newest: a tool for creating 3D objects, improved security, new tools for repairing errors in print preflight, structured bookmarks, the ability to export comments to Word docs, and more. Professional tips and techniques are scattered throughout!

Download Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Classroom in a Book here!

More Adobe Ebooks INSIDE!

Note: This is just for sample purposes. I strongly suggest that you buy the books itself rather than EBOOKs.

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When I read this first in PCWorld.com, my initial reaction was "WHAAAT??". It really made me shocked. But anyway, I don't if this is a good news or sad news but it's official already. In 2008, Bill Gates will retire from his day job as chief software architect of Microsoft, the company he founded more than three decades ago.

Gates said he is leaving gradually in order to smooth the transition of his duties to the two men who will assume them--chief technical officers Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie, who have been named chief software architect and chief research and strategy officer, respectively, effective immediately.

"Except for a little vacation this summer that's longer than normal, I'll be working as hard as I ever have over the next two years," Gates told a news conference at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

However Gates will likely be spending less time at the company, especially after Ozzie and Mundie begin reporting to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer next year.

Gates emphasized that he has no plans to ever give up his position as chairman of Microsoft's board of directors. "I don't see a time in the future when I won't be chairman of this company," he said. "I see myself as always being the largest shareholder in Microsoft. Steve is the second largest, and I think we both take a lot of pride in that."

Gates said he plans to devote more and more time to his role as chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he says "will have grown" significantly. The foundation is devoted to promoting innovation in global health and education.

Gates admitted he has no real sense of what it will be like to leave Microsoft after so many years. "I don't know what it will feel like not to come in here every day and work for 10 hours," he said. "It's a little bit of an unknown there." But he has two years to prepare, he added, so "I'll see what that's like when I get there."

Even as he announced his retirement plans, Gates sounded as enthusiastic about Microsoft's future as he has since he became an international icon for the age of personal computing. "The shape of computing and how software will change entertainment and business--we really are just at the beginning of that," he said.

source: www.PCWorld.com
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Microsoft will ship Windows 7 sometime in or near Jan. 2010, according to a letter company senior vice president Bill Veghte sent to Microsoft customers Tuesday.

The letter, sent to enterprise and business customers, will eventually be publicly posted on Microsoft's Web site. In the letter sent to "Windows Customers" and titled "An Update on the Windows Roadmap," Veghte said "our plan is to deliver Windows 7 approximately three years after the January 2007 general availability launch date of Windows Vista."

Veghte wrote, "You have told us you want a more regular, predictable Windows release schedule" and he said that was the impetus for setting the 2010 the ship date.



Vista has been slowly gaining steam, but is still drawing fire from critics who say it has not lived up to promises.

Veghte went further in addressing customer concerns over application compatibility, which had been a problem shortly after Vista's release.

"You've also let us know you don't want to face the kinds of incompatibility challenges with the next version of Windows you might have experienced early with Windows Vista. As a result, our appro ach with Windows 7 is to build off the same core architecture as Windows Vista so the investments you and our partners have made in Windows Vista will continue to pay off with Windows 7. Our goal is to ensure the migration process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward."

Veghte's discussion of Windows 7 was part of an effort to clarify the June 30 XP deadline that will see the operati ng system removed from retail shelves and OEM hardware, and to tout the virtues of Windows Vista. Veghte also thanked customers for their loyalty and support.

For more information about enterprise networking, go to NetworkWorld. Story copyright 2008 Network World Inc. All rights reserved.

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Microsoft Corp. is thinking outside the box when it comes to futuristic computer designs - literally. A new system is designed to offer users a 360-degree view and touch-screen access

The company today is showing off a prototype of its Sphere computer at Microsoft's Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Wash. The Sphere, which is a research prototype and not a finished product, is a multi-user, touch-sensitive display. An orb replaces a traditional flat-screen monitor.

Hrvoje Benko, a human-computer interaction researcher with Microsoft Research, wrote in his blog that the system combines touch capabilities with a projector and an infrared camera. The projector sends images to the inside of the sphere, and can also sense when something touches the outside of the sphere. It's designed to offer a 360-degree view and touch access.

Applications that have been built for the Sphere include a picture and video browser, along with interactive globe visualization, finger painting, and omni-directional video-conferencing applications, according to Benko.

Microsoft would not comment on the project today.

"It's important in that someone is spending time and money to look at different ways to design and use computers," said Dan Olds, principal analyst with the Gabriel Consulting Group. "While some of the form factors, like a sphere, seem to only lend themselves to very simple uses, like an interactive globe, you never know where this type of exploration might lead."

Olds, however, also noted that he can't picture a non-rectangular computer display sitting on his desk - not now anyway. But he likes the idea.

"This type of experimentation and exploration is important because it advances the industry mindset past the static idea that computers are boxy things, monitors are rectangles, and you always use a keyboard and mouse to work it," he added. "The innovation that Microsoft is fueling might result in new Microsoft products, but, more likely, it will fire up someone else's imagination and they'll come up with something that is a radical departure from the status quo, highly useful, and, probably, very cool."

This prototype comes more than a year after the unveiling of Microsoft's touch-enabled, tabletop Surface computers. The company introduced that project in the spring of 2007. It's a computer the size and shape of a coffee table with a flat, touch-screen display. This spring, AT&T disclosed that it has signed up to be the first company to use Surface computers as customer-service kiosks in stores.

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Technews courtesy of www.computerworld.com

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Google released a new Google Labs experiment related to image search: Google Image Swirl. The service "organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface."

Once you find the group of images you're interested in, you can click on the thumbnail and a cluster of images will "swirl" into view. You can then further explore additional sub-groups within any cluster.

For more information about this new Google technology, refer to this official Google blog post in their official blog HERE.

Try it now: Google Image Swirl

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A second iPhone exploit has been identified by security vendor F-Secure, which claims the new worm has botnet capability and is more threatening than its predecessor.

Mikko Hyponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, said in a blog post that the new worm, like the first, affects jailbroken iPhones with SSH (secure shell) protocol enabled and unchanged default passwords. The Finnish security company has yet to give a name to the new threat.

Ikee, another threat that was discovered earlier this month, is said to infect vulnerable phones in Australia. When Ikee strikes, it alters the iPhone's wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley with the message "ikee is never going to give you up".

"The worm is not widespread, but it is much more serious than the first iPhone worm as it seems to try to steal information from the devices," Hyponen said about the new worm in the blog post.

Altered password recovered

Paul Ducklin, Sophos' head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region, in a blog post Monday that the new worm he dubbed "Duh" changes the root password which is hidden from users.

Using a password cracker, Ducklin identified the new password as "ohshit". Using this password, users of infected phones can log back into their iPhones and remove the virus, he said.

In a follow-up e-mail to ZDNet Asia, Ducklin said users should upon login check for a directory named "/private/var/mobile/home", which hosts the viral files. Files named "inst", "cydia.tgz", "duh", "sshd" and "syslog" ought be be removed to deactivate the malware, he said.

"Don't have an 'ohshit' moment. Don't give jailbreaking a bad reputation. Change those passwords now," he urged. "Duh changes any password which is currently 'alpine', not just the root password. So fix any user accounts as well."

The latest worm, Ducklin pointed out, was "not unexpected" given the chain of events leading up to it. "A Dutch guy hacks into iPhones--using 'alpine' [as password]--to ask for 5 euros to explain how to secure your phone. There's a reaction.

"Two weeks later an Aussie builds on this idea by writing Ikee, a self-replicating attack, in what he blithely claims to have been an experiment gone wrong," he noted. "And two weeks after that, someone else builds on Ikee with the 'Duh' virus--using Ikee's idea for copying itself to other devices combined with a botnet-based command channel."

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In preparation for the beginning of 2010, the Intel Core i9 should embody the new high-end depth and become caliph instead of the caliph. The chip Gulftown on which it rests provides for this to make two significant improvements. On the one hand, it has six hearts and the other belongs to the Westmere architecture inherited from the Nehalem architecture, but using the new method of burning house in 32 nm.

The Polish website PC Lab has released an early test. Using a pre-series Xeon, based on the same chip Gulftown under-clocked to 2.8 GHz, they could get an idea of the benefits of a Core i9 compared to a Core i7 same frequency. The Bloomfield chip on which it relies for recall involves 4-core 45nm.

If performance is no surprise proportional to the number of cores, with a gain of 50% predicted, provided that the applications take advantage of multi-heart, the issue of consumption and heat dissipation, which derives its overclocking potential was less obvious. Thus, not content to consume as much energy at rest in spite of 50% of additional transistors, the Gulftown has the luxury of reducing its consumption of over 9% (24 W) compared to the Core i7. He also less heat.





It is expected that Intel architecture formalizes Westmere at CES to be held in Las Vegas from January 7 to 10, 2010. The founder of Santa Clara should be launching this brand new Core i9 based on the chip Gulftown, but also Core i3, i5 Core and Core i7-based chips and Clarkdale Arrandale for laptops and desktops.

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Kaspersky Internet Security version 8 (or most commonly know as 2009) is an all-in-one security solution that offers a worry-free computing environment for you and your family. Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 has everything you need for a safe and secure Internet experience.


Full Features of the Product:

Essential Protection

· Protects from viruses, Trojans and worms
· Blocks spyware and adware
· Scans files in real time (on access) and on demand
· Scans email messages (regardless of email client)
· Scans Internet traffic (regardless of browser)
· Protects instant messengers (ICQ, MSN)
· Provides proactive protection from unknown threats
· Scans Java and Visual Basic scripts

Extended Protection

· Two-way personal firewall
· Safe Wi-Fi and VPN connections
· Intrusion prevention system
· Intelligent application management and control
- automatically configured application rules
- security rating is assigned to unknown applications

- access to the user��™s resources and data is restricted for unknown applications

Preventive Protection

· Scans operating system and installed applications for vulnerabilities
· Analyzes and closes Internet Explorer vulnerabilities
· Disables links to malware sites
· Detects viruses based on the packers used to compress code
· Global threat monitoring (Kaspersky Security Network)

Advanced Protection & Recovery

· The program can be installed on infected computers
· Self-protection from being disabled or stopped
· Restores correct system settings after removing malicious software
· Tools for creating a rescue disk

Data & Identity Theft Protection

· Disables links to fake (phishing) websites
· Blocks all types of keyloggers
· Virtual keyboard is provided for safely entering logins and passwords
· Prevents the theft of data exchanged via secure connections (HTTPS / SSL)
· Blocks unauthorized dial-up connections
· Cleans up any traces of user activity (deletes temporary files, cookies etc.)

Content Filtering

· Parental control
· Improved antispam protection (plugins for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, The Bat!, Thunderbird)
· Blocks banners on web pages

Usability

· Automatic configuration during installation
· Wizards for common tasks
· Visual reports with charts and diagrams
· Alerts provide all the information necessary for informed user decisions
· Automatic or interactive mode
· Round-the-clock technical support
· Automatic database updates

Requirements:

· Intel Pentium 300 MHz or higher (or equivalent)
· 256 MB available RAM
· 50 MB free space on the hard drive
· CD-ROM (for installation of the program from CD)
· computer mouse
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Microsoft is ready to start expanding its AdCenter engine to allow at least some publishers to include contextual advertising from Microsoft on their site.

According to a letter detailing the program and published on TechCrunch, Microsoft is doing a pilot program that allows smaller publishers to use contextual advertising from Microsoft, putting it potentially in competition with Google's AdSense and Yahoo's publisher network.

In a statement provided to CNET News on Thursday, Microsoft confirmed the trial.

"Microsoft's self-serve advertising offering for publishers is still under development and is currently in a private pilot phase, being tested by select publishers who met the participation requirements," Microsoft said. "The private pilot phase began earlier this year."

Microsoft pointed publishers interested in the pilot to sign up for the trial.

"It's our intention to continue to expand our high quality network and relevant audience gradually and intelligently over time for our advertisers," Microsoft said. "We will evaluate customer interest and product performance as we move through the private pilot, but we have no specific launch plans to announce at this time."

Microsoft has already struck deals with larger publishers to use its contextual advertising, most recently with Rodale.

Amusingly, the letter posted to TechCrunch talks about participants in the program needing to sign a confidentiality agreement and not blog about the program. However the letter itself provided some details ahead of any such agreement, a decision I'm sure Microsoft now regrets.

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As I was browsing a technology forum just this morning, a bold red title post caught my attention saying "*TESTED AND 100% WORKING BY ME! MY INTERNET SPEED IS MUCH FASTER NOW!". As I install the product and tried it myself, I was really amazed about noticeable effects it brought to my PC. The software is called Full Speed 3.3! Though the product is not that famous, it's performance is really superb. This is not a joke and I mean it! For a 1Mbps internet connection, I normally experience an average of 20-50 kbps download rate before but after I installed it on my laptop, I'm now getting a MINIMUM of 100 kbps download rate. Take it from me... this program is really awesome! If you are fond of downloading a lot of stuffs in the internet (such as videos, pictures, mp3 files, installers, etc.) then this software is really for you..

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Charter. All opinions are 100% mine.

As an IT student and a future IT professional, the presence of the web or the internet is pretty much important in my field. Part of my IT life is always surfing the web for researches, gathering of technology-related news & updates, telecommuting, social networking, video-streaming, and application downloading. Much of these tasks really require fast and powerful internet connection speed for me to be able to carry out them all. But with an internet speed of up to 60Mbps (the first of its kind), I can do them all simultaneously and even perform additional tasks without experiencing any slow down at all.

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Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.

In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of more than 25 million peers at its height.

Despite this success, The Pirate Bay operators today decided to pull the plug and close down the tracker permanently. The evolution of the BitTorrent protocol has made trackers redundant they say, as BitTorrent downloads work well with trackerless solutions such as DHT and PEX.

“Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well,” the Pirate Bay crew write on their blog.

Aside from this shutdown, there is also another major development quietly under discussion.

TorrentFreak has learned that behind the scenes the Pirate Bay operators are talking to other BitTorrent site owners to encourage them to follow suit and completely ditch torrents in the future. BitTorrent has reached a point where trackers and torrents are no longer needed to download files successfully. Supported by all of the major BitTorrent clients, DHT and PEX can handle the transfers and Magnet links can largely replace traditional torrent files.

“We’re talking to the other torrent admins on doing magnet links and DHT+PEX for all sites. Moving away from torrents and trackers totally – like pick a date and all agree ‘from this date, we’ll not support torrents anymore’,” a Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak.

Switching to trackerless and torrentless downloading on public BitTorrent sites does indeed seem to be an option. Previously, many people thought that BitTorrent would collapse if a dominant tracker like the Pirate Bay went down, but this doomsday scenario never unfolded. In fact, the recent downtime of the tracker did not slow down or stop many transfers, as DHT and PEX seamlessly took over.

Those BitTorrent users who don’t want to go trackerless just yet can of course still use OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent, or indeed one of the many other alternative trackers currently available.

Whether or not The Pirate Bay and others will move away from torrent files in the future, the closure of the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is nevertheless a milestone in the history of the Internet. Starting today, the Pirate Bay has changed its tagline from “The world’s largest BitTorrent tracker” to “The world’s most resilient (magnetic) BitTorrent site.”

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Intel and others are planning to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology for quite sometime now. A revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.

Intel is working fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the USB 3.0 specification.

In an interview, Gelsinger said there's typically a one- to two-year lag between the release of the specification and the availability of the technology, so USB 3.0 products should likely arrive in 2009 or 2010. A prototype shown is working now, and USB 3.0 will have optical and copper connections "from day one," he added.

The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per second. Many devices don't need that much capacity, but some can use more, including hard drives, flash card readers and optical drives such as DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD. The fastest flash card readers today use IEEE 1394 "FireWire" connections that top out at 800 megabits per second.

In addition, USB 3.0 will offer greater energy efficiency, Gelsinger said. It will be backward compatible, so current USB 2.0 devices will be able to plug into USB 3.0 ports.

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Toshiba on Tuesday launched a new ultraportable laptop that it claims is the world's lightest, putting it in contention with vendors including Apple and Lenovo.

article by PCWorld

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World’s first Blu-ray Disc enabled notebook computer Sony has launched the world’s first Blu-ray Disc enabled notebook computer - the VAIO AR. The VAIO AR comes in two different configurations - Premium and Standard. The AR Premium version plays Blu-ray Disc high-definition content, so you can enjoy movies in full 1080p HD resolution. The notebook has a17-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200) widescreen display and uses Sony's XBRITE Hi-Color LCD technology.

In addition to supporting HD playback, the VAIO AR notebook presents several multimedia features with the capability to record high-definition camcorder content to Blu-ray Discs in a native 1080 resolution.

VAIO also has the latest Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology for processor-heavy multi-tasking and high-definition video editing, Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition 2005, a built-in standard-definition NTSC, TV tuner and onboard TV controls, so you can watch and record live television.

The AR Premium has an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics card featuring 256MB dedicated video memory, which is perfect for handling high-definition content, television broadcast and DVD playback and bringing gamers closer to the action. The AR series furthermore carries a camera and a microphone, allowing users to chat online with friends and family.

The AR Standard model will start at about $1,800, while the AR Premium Blu-ray Disc enabled model will go for about $3,500.

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Wanna have some 3D effects in your desktop? Try this cool program that will help you convert your boring desktop into a attractive, 3d view of your own desktop. Tested in Windows Vista Ultimate, and windows XP home edition, but could work in all other windows versions. All thing is that it needs DirectX 9 or later versions to fully maximize the potential of this program.

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