Google Wave

Google Wave is a new communication service previewed today at Google I/O. "A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."

The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

Google Wave has been designed by the founders of Where 2 Tech, a start-up acquired by Google to create a cutting-edge mapping service, which later became Google Maps.

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Free Antivirus From Microsoft: Security Essentials

    

         Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Features and performance

Microsoft touts five features of Microsoft Security Essentials:

• Remove most-prevalent malware
• Remove known viruses
• Real-time anti-virus protection
• Remove known spyware
• Real-time anti-spyware protection 

You can download this free from microsoft wesite. Click here for download.. Microsoft Security Essentials

Kaspersky Offline Updater / Update Downloader

Kaspersky Updater - Allows you to update your Kaspersky

Kaspersky Updater is a program designed to download and manually save updates and modules of the Kaspersky Lab’s software into a separate directory.

With the help of the utility you can download updates for any Kaspersky Lab’s applications installed either in the corporate network or at home. Once downloaded the updates and/or autopatches can be saved onto a flash-carrier, in a local folder or network folder connected as a disc to the computer file system.

1. Download the archive with the update utility and with the GUI - Kaspersky Update Downloader [RAR, 908KB].
2. Unpack it into the folder on any computer which has the Internet connection
3. Run KasperskyUpdater.exe.
4. Select “Download databases for the selected products” and check the boxes according to which version of base that you want to download. Click Apply then Start and it will start to download. First time will take quite a while to complete downloading but after that it should only a few seconds because it supports incremental updates.

Once all necessary updates are downloaded, you can update the selected applications from the created Updates folder.

Configure update of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 or Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 from the Updates folder, into which the updates have been saved.

For it:

• Open the application main window;
• Click the Settings button;
• Select the Update menu in the left part of the window;
• Click the Settings button in the right part of the window;
• Click the Add link;
• Select the folder into which the application databases and modules were saved by the utility (the Updates subfolder in the folder of the update utility) and click OK
• On he Source tab clear the box for Kaspersky Lab’s update servers;
• Click OK to close each window
  
• Run the update process to update the databases and application modules.
  

Need for Speed: Shift (c) Electronic Arts

     Feel what its really like to race high-end performance cars as Need for Speed SHIFT thrusts you into the heart of the action for the true drivers experience. Immersive and exciting features such as a stunningly realistic first-person cockpit view and an all-new crash mechanic deliver an unrivaled sensation of the speed and exhilaration of racing a car on the extreme edge of control. Plus, an ultra-realistic physics engine lets you feel every bump as you race around some of the worlds top tracks. Whether youre battling online or playing through your career, build your unique driver profile from moment to moment and from race to race and get rewarded for driving the way you want to drive.

* The True Drivers ExperienceAn unrivalled in-car experience and new physics engine deliver the severe G-forces, bumps, and impact of being behind the wheel of an elite race car.

* Driver ProfileWhat kind of driver are you? Your unique driver profile tracks your evolution as a race driver from event to event based on your driving skill and style. Will you be respected or feared?

* Dynamic Crash EffectsFeel your car take damage as you hit a static object or opponents car. A combination of visual and audio effects will leave you disorientated and briefly disrupt the race.

* Customize Your CarTailor almost every aspect of your car with the comprehensive customization system. Go under the hood to increase the cars performance then personalize its look inside and out to reflect your individual style.

* Take the Race OnlineYour driver profile continues to build online and helps match you against the most suitable rivals for your ability. Keep building your skills and work your way toward challenging the best drivers in the world.

Information

* OS - Windows XP (Service Pack 3) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / Windows 7

* Processor : Intel Coreï 2 Duo 1.6 GHz or faster

* Memory : XP: 1 GB RAM; Vista/Windows 7: 1.5 GB RAM

* Hard Drive : 6 GB

* DVD Drive - 8 SPEED

* Video Card : 256 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 3.0*

* Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible

* DirectX - DirectX 9.0c compatible

* Online Multiplayer : 512 Kbps or faster; 2-12 Players

* Input - Keyboard, Mouse

* Optional : USB Steering Wheel / Dual Analogue Gamepad

*Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB or greater; NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 256MB or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

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Windows Genuine Advantage

Having a genuine copy of windows is really worth it, considering support and updates from Microsoft, and even new upgrades asks for validation. But there are events reported that even genuine licence holders some times get caught in WGA trap, if forums are to be believed.

Windows Genuine Advantage is Microsoft anti piracy tool that verifies if the licence you use for your windows is genuine or not. It comes included in a few upgrades, or as a update online in windows update, or is asked to get validated in case you download something from Microsoft. The tool upon verification of licence, if it fails sets up a startup process that pops up  a window that informs that you use a pirated version of windows, on logon screen and toolbar on desktop as well, making it really annoying.

Lets be on right side and believe you got caught in this issue even though you hold a genuine license , here is solution that stops the annoying process while you get the issue solved from Microsoft.

The hard way- The startup application uses files wgalogon.dll and wgatray.exe . To get started, go to folder options-view and un-tick hide extensions of known file types. Apply and exit. The process of stopping it consists of two steps-

i.                    Cutting the database- Go to C:\windows\system32 and search for a file named wgalogon.dll . Rename it to wgalogon.dll.bak . Create a new text document and rename it to wgalogon.dll . Upon saving, a confirmation is asked to change extension, confirm yes.

ii.                  Now in same directory search for a file wintray.exe . Using killbox, while ending explorer shell, delete the file. Restart the system. The pop up will no longer come.

The soft way- A software counterfeiting error may also be generated  even when we change the original key with a software generated key, resulting in conflict. So, in case you have the original key, use the magic jelly bean key finder tool. It not only displays the current key, but you can also go to options and change the key installed as well. Just change the key to original one and the pop up should no longer appear.

The easy way-  There are programs available that can remove WGA error on a click. For novice users, it’s a bliss. You Can Download Here..   Windows Genuine Advantage Crack

In case you haven’t get troubled yet, and don’t want your windows verified, just run MSCONFIG, go to services and disable automatic updates and also security centre (else it pops up error that automatic updates are disabled). A little disconnected from Microsoft, you can continue your secret life!

Torrent - The Basics

A .torrent file is a file that contains the basic information about a file or set of files. This includes the file names, sizes, the date created and some other information. The torrent file also contains an info hash – which is basically just a unique code for that torrent. No other set of file(s) will have the same info hash as this one. The final thing contained inside the torrent is a list of trackers. If you have some torrent files, you can’t open them in a text editor because they are encoded. You will need to open them in torrent client software.

A tracker is a computer on the Internet. The tracker’s role is to manage live torrent files and keep track of statistics. When you open a torrent file in your client software, your client software contacts the tracker specific to that torrent. You client tells the tracker how much of the actual files (described by the torrent) that you currently have.

A seeder is a person who has 100% of the files described by the torrent. If a torrent has no seeders, then no one (currently talking to the tracker) has anything to give.

A peer is a person who is looking for the files described by the torrent. The more peers the more people are actively looking for the files described by the torrent. A peer while downloading the file uploads it as well. When he finishes his download, he continues to upload it, thus becoming a seed.

A leech is a person who initially acts as a peer but after he finishes his download, leaves the swarm, freeing his part of bound bandwidth. Hence, if more and more people start to leech, older torrents will die out since there will be no seeds left.

A Bit Torrent client is any program that implements the Bit Torrent protocol. Each client is capable of preparing, requesting, and transmitting any type of computer over a network, using the protocol.

Working: To share a file or group of files, a user (seeder) first creates a small file called a “torrent” (e.g. MyFile.torrent). This file contains metadata about the files to be shared and about the tracker. Peers that want to download the file must first obtain a torrent file for it, and connect to the specified tracker, which tells them from which other peers to download the pieces of the file. Then the peer opens the file in a torrent client, which analyses the data stored in torrent file and downloads it from the seeder and other peer. Depending on number of seeds, and no of peers having data more than you, your download speed will be proportional. More the seeds and more the peers having more data, your download speed will be higher. But if no of peers become too high, then it causes a negative impact since there is more competition for bandwidth of seeds.

But torrent clients have this option which can limit the upload limits of data when they are acting as peers or seeds. Hence, some users misuse it to merely download and upload near nothing. Bittorrent network works on a principle of give and take, that is users who share more data while acting as peers or act as seeds once downloads complete are awarded with more download speed, while punishing those who don’t and lechers. But when a peer joins a swarm, he has no data, thus cannot seed. Hence, theoretically, he should be getting any data from seeds and other peers. But Bittorrent network has this feature of Optimistic Choking, which provides an initial bandwidth to new users, letting them download without uploading.

A few lines on downloading using torrents:

1. The first step is to download the torrent. They are available at sites of trackers. Eg, Pirate Bay, ISO hunt, Mininova, etc. Search in these sites for your required data.
2. When results turn up, choose the torrent that has maximum seeds and minimum peers, ie, greater seed/peer ratio. They help you attain more speeds. Also read comments, they are really helpful, avoiding embarrassment after having downloaded the data!
3. Having downloaded the torrent, you need a torrent client. I prefer utorrent, feature rich, light and zippy …. A good interface when compared to other clients, and equally feature rich. Compared to others like Azureus (now Vuze), it has simple settings, which can easily be tweaked. Download and install utorrent.
4. Open the Torrent file in utorrent, just double click on the file, it opens. It automatically starts downloading.
5. Depending on speed, torrent download finishes and it starts uploading itself. Do upload for a while, since there are a many users who now depend on you for the file. The more you upload, the more you get back in terms of speed. If everyone starts to leech, the torrent will die.

Scheduling torrent download tasks:

For the limited bandwidth plan users, it’s a curse to wake up late in night and start the download and again early in morning to stop it. Though utorrent comes with a scheduler, but off the happy hours, keeping utorrent active will cause long time seeding, also adding electricity bill if you keep your PC on, and waiting for happy hours.

Slow Running Computer? Speed it Up With CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

Cleans the following:

• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Opera
• Safari
• Windows - Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
• Registry cleaner
• Third-party applications
• 100% Spyware FREE 

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Convert your Files with Total Video converter

     Would you like to convert your Audio or Video format for mobile or ipod? Or Burn for the DVD.Here is the very powerfull software named as Total Video Converter is a complete solution for video conversion which supports reading, playing all kinds of video and audio formats and converting them to the popular video formats. Total Video Converter includes a powerful media conversion engine internally so that you can convert media files with very fast speed.

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  Main Features of Total Video Converter:

•  Convert all kinds of videos to mobile videos or audios (mp4, 3gp, xvid, divx mpeg4 avi, amr audio) which are used by cell-phone, PDA, PSP, iPod, iPhone, Xbox360, PS3 etc.;
• Photos slide show combines multi-photos and musics with more than 300 photos fantasy transition effect;
•  High compatibility and high efficiency for Importing RMVB or RM video/audio;
•  Convert various videos to MPEG videos compatible with standard DVD/SVCD/VCD;
•  Burn the converted videos to DVD/SVCD/VCD;
•  Rip DVD to popular videos of all sorts;
•  Extract audio from various of videos and convert which to all kinds of audios (mp3, ac3, ogg, wav, aac);
•  RIP CD to audios of all sorts directly;
•  Support using with command line;
• Combine several video and audio files to one video file;
• Demultiplex or extract video and audio;
• Multiplex video and audio to one file; 

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VLC Player - is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even some rare formats.

A Beginner's Guide to BitTorrent

What is BitTorrent?

BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT') is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.

What is a torrent?

A torrent is a file that is used by a program called a bittorrent client, which then uses the file to download the actual file you want. Basically, it's the middleman of the download process. You don't really need him, but still he remains.

Bhuvan Online Earth Mapping service

ISRO has launched Bhuvan the Indian Earth Observation Visualisation tool on the Internet. Here are some basic steps to download and install Bhuvan in your computer.

Bhuvan is the free web based 3D mapping image portal by ISRO. It displays satellite images of various historical, tourism, and other important places all over India in 3D format.

How to install Bhuvan - Get Started

1. Visit the Bhuvan website at http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/

2. Register by filling up the registration form found at the website for free.

3. Download BHUVAN plugin. This is a 10.7 MB setup executable file(exe) which requires 1-2 minutes to download in an 1Mbps broadband connection

4. You can select Run to install the plugin to your computer

5. After successful installation go to http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/ and login with your username and password

6. You will be directed to the Bhuvan Indian Earth Observation Visualisation home page

Note:

1. Bhuvan is available at the link http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in and not www.bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in

2. Bhuvan is a heavy graphical application like Google earth and may require a high speed internet connection with a high RAM / Processor powered PC for maximum performance.

3. Bhuvan installs a Skyline TerraExplorer application in your system. You can directly visit the http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/ for launching the application

4. Bhuvan is best viewed in IE 6.0 or higher with an ideal resolution of 1280 x 1024

5. You need Windows OS and Microsoft DirectX8 or higher version to view the application.

6. You will have an online internet connection to access Bhuvan.

Shutdown Windows Remotely with Twitter- TweetMyPC

We have seen many simple free application to shutdown Windows, now here is another simple tool which can shutdown/logoff/restart your PC remotely with a tweet. TweetMyPC is a free utility that lets you shutdown/restart/LogOff your windows PC remotely. The usage is really simple and the application checks for new tweets every one min. So you can Tweet either shutdown, restart or logoff with your account and this application will detect it automatically.

How to use this application;

1. Create a new Twitter account for your PC and this can be used only for the purpose or shutdown or restart.

2. Download the application and install it on your Windows.

3. Log in with the newly created twitter ID and password.

4. Now whenever you want to restart/shutdown the PC, update your Twitter account with the keyword. The keywords are- shutdown, restart, logoff.
Click for More Command.

The application runs from the Windows system tray and checks for any new tweets for the keyword

Microsoft is ready with Windows 7

Microsoft (MSFT) said yesterday that the code for the next version of its immensely successful operating system is done. Windows 7 will replace Vista as the company’s flagship operating system when it goes on sale in PCs at the end of October.

Windows 7 may be more important to the future of the world’s largest software company than anything it has released in years.

Vista was a very limited success. A number of customers, both individuals and businesses, elected to stay with Windows XP, an earlier version of the operating system. Vista did not work well on older PCs. It was different enough from XP that many people found it hard to adapt to new futures. It was expensive. Customers could stay with XP and save the cost of upgrades.

Windows 7 is supposed to be such an important improvement over Vista that current Microsoft customers will want to get the new OS. Microsoft has dropped its pricing below what it charged for Vista. It has worked with the global software development community to assure, as much as it can, that the product will be well accepted. Early reviews of Windows 7 have been positive.

A great deal of the recent media coverage about Microsoft has been about the success of its new search engine, Bing. Microsoft’s search business is tiny compared to its software franchise. Microsoft’s online efforts also lose money while its software business has tremendous margins. Bing may be exciting, but from an earnings standpoint it is a sideshow.

Google (GOOG) has launched a number of products meant to compete with Windows, but they have a very limited number of features. A successful launch of Windows 7 would set Google’s plans back, perhaps for years.

Bing can take Microsoft’s share of the search market in the US from 9% to 20%. It can even move ahead of Yahoo! as the No.2 search company. None of that will matter much if Windows 7 is a flop.

Google Chrome OS To Be Released 2010

There is a lot of news lately with Google. What is the Google brand? Is it a Search engine? Advertising network? Free online services? A browser? Has Google now become an Operating System?



Google announced their Chrome OS to be released in 2010. Initially, it will be installed on light-weight portable NetBooks. Google Chrome OS is followed after the Chrome Browser.

Google’s primary business is search and advertising. To do so they have to get a lot of eyeballs. That is why they created the Chrome Browser. What is the point of having another browser? Well, first, the look and feel is very stripped down. Secondly and most importantly, it has true multi-threading for each tab. If a webpage you visit crashes due to a plugin, it doesn’t crash the entire browser and all your other tabs since each tab is running its own process. This is important as cloud computing becomes more and more popular. It is no different than if you are running an application on Windows XP or Mac OSX and it crashes. It should not crash your other programs as well. Once HTML 5 becomes a full standard, web applications will have just as much power as client programs and thus require stability.

The threat Google faces is competition from other companies like Microsoft. If Microsoft has another monopoly over NetBooks, they could theoretically ship a lite version of Windows with only a limited set of programs without Google. Google is playing chess and foresees this years ahead and is positioning itself to be THE online platform which it has been dominating with Gmail, Google Docs, Search, and AdSense. If a company can control the operating system or browser platform, it can be culturally significant for the future.