Archive for February, 2006
Paint .NET is back on stage (not a beta)
Yes, It’s no longer a Beta program now. If you wonder WTH is Paint.NET ??? It is a small (3.1 MB) application, which was written by students of washington state university. Paint.NET is being considered as a serious compitetor for many of the comercial photo editing software available right now.
The things i liked most in [...]
Beware of any Digital Video Content
That’s because digital video content is expected to provide the next major
opportunity for computer hackers.
According to Search security" Consultants Robert Baldwin and Kevin Kingdon told an 2006 RSA Security
Conference audience last week that video and audio content that bypasses
firewalls and security software to play directly on a consumer’s machine is
particularly dangerous."
Read more here
technorati tags: security, [...]
Awesome ASP.NET RSS Toolkit
This is just awesome and a one stop toolkit , if you are planning to use RSS in your ASP.NET applications.
Via Scottgu
technorati tags: rss, asp.net2.0, whidbey, rsstoolkit
First moments with google pages
I liked it ! very much…very clean and simple…I have created my first page here…
http://sudhakar.googlepages.com/home
I had seen a demo of Microsoft Office Live Essentials on officelive.com, and found a similiar concept of creating your home page with just clicks. But i think if I try to compare these two services, it will be like [...]
Go Flock : Revitalized
The web 2.0 featured Flock is back on stage again…This time it looks quite impressive with lot of bug fixes, inbuilt blogging and flickr features. Flock comes with a search box defaulted to Yahoo !. That’s a quite noticable :-). The features I liked most in Flock are…
Inbuilt blogging with technorati tag support
Flickr support (Drag [...]
Help BBC with your CPU
SETI Home, Google helix and now it’s BBC turn to ask for your CPU time for one of the big distributed computing projects "BBC Climate Challenge project", all you need to do is, to install a 10 MB satellite software which downloads chunks of data from servers and analyzes using your CPU’s Idle time.
I am [...]
Are you Egocentric ?
Wired reports the Secret Cause of the Flame wars in the world of email trails. Which is nothing but egocentrism. I think this is a very common problem in the world of uncertainity and untrust. There are two things to notice here..When you read a mail…
01. You cannot interpret the email in exactly the same [...]
Windows Defender Beta 2 is out !
Yes, the re-incarnated Microsoft Anti Spyware is now available as Windows Defender Beta 2 for customers. The web site shows that it has got 25+ million active customers. That’s not a bad number. You can download WDB2 here
Before you install this, I suggest you to read this and comparision chart of other anti spyware software [...]
Yahoo readies Ajax library for developers
Excerpt :
Yahoo ! UI Library : "The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer’s interface to [...]
Now, It’s Motorola’s turn…
This is one more good win from Microsoft’s windows audio and mobile. Now it’s Motorola turn after Palm to line up with products using MS technology. Motorola is now going gear up thier mobile phones with windows media technology. more on REUTERS.
Now the war between WMA and AAC is going to be more interesting…:-)