10 most costly viruses[survey]

 

No: 1 MyDoom The most devastating computer virus to date is MyDoom, which caused over $38 billion in damages. In addition to being the most expensive virus to date, its effects were far-reaching and fast-moving. When a user was infected with the virus it creates network openings which allowed others to have access to your computer. In addition, the virus also had the ability to open random programs

No: 2 SoBig Another harmful and expensive computer virus is SoBig. In 2003, the SoBig virus caused over $37.1 billion in devastation. This fast-spreading virus circulated through email as viral spam, and if exposed, the virus had the capability to copy files, emailing itself to others and causing serious damage to computer software and hardware.

No: 3 ILOVEYOU ILOVEYOU is another particularly malicious virus that spread quickly through email, websites and file sharing. The ILOVEYOU virus, or the "Love Letter" worm, affected more than 500,000 systems in 2000 and produced over $15 billion in damages, including $5.5 billion in the first week alone. The virus replicated itself and exposed itself to everyone in the owner's contact list. This virus was a pioneer for other viruses, as it was one of the first to attach to an email.

No: 4 Conficker The Conficker virus caused over $9.1 billion in damages in 2007 and infected millions of computers around the world. The virus scanned computers for weaknesses and vulnerabilities, logged keystrokes and downloaded code from hacker-selected websites and more.

No: 5 Code Red One of the most well-known viruses to date is the Code Red virus. It caused over $2 billion in damages in 2001, and had the ability to break into computer networks and exploit weaknesses in Microsoft software. Once the virus infected the machine, it actively looked for other machines on the networks to attack.

No: 6 Melissa The Melissa virus was a particularly slimy virus that sent out infected Microsoft Word documents through Microsoft Outlook, delivering viral messages to everyone listed in the Outlook address book. The messages appeared to be coming from the Outlook owner, but was really the Melissa virus at work. A tell-tale indicator that Melissa had infiltrated your Outlook is if your contacts had received an email from you with the message: "Here is that document you asked for … don't show anyone else." There would

No: 7 SirCam SirCam was a worm that caused over $1 billion in damages in 2001. This virus had the ability to compromise confidential information, delete items or use up space on your hard drive until there was not enough memory to store anything else.

No: 8 SQL Slammer SQL Slammer is a virus that greatly affected banks and caused Internet speed to lag significantly across the globe. SQL Slammer caused an estimated $750 million in damages in 2003, and affected 200,000 computers worldwide.

No: 9 Nimda Nimda is one of the Internet's most widespread viruses and among the costliest as well. The virus caused $635 million worth of damages in 2001 and caused Internet browsing time to slow significantly. Additionally, it could affect a user's email account and send out a read-me file to all contacts listed in the email address book. The virus caused traffic and Internet speeds to slowdown.

No: 10 Sasser Sasser created quite a bit of trouble in 2004 when it piled up $500 million in damages, devastated the British Coast Guard mapping system and caused numerous canceled flights. The creator of Sasser was identified as a teenager from Germany, and was quickly apprehended when one of his "friends" turned him in for a $250,000 bounty posted by Microsoft. The Bottom Line While the Internet can be a wonderful resource for doing everything from communicating with friends and colleagues to

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Blowfish12@2012 blowfish12.tk Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

Facebook Unveils App Discovery Platform: The App Center

Facebook has announced the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful.

For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something, Pinterest, Spotify, Battle Pirates, Viddy, and Bubble Witch Saga.

Everything has an app detail page, which helps people see what makes an app unique and lets them install it before going to an app.

The App Center will go live on Facebook and in Facebook’s iOS and Android apps in a few weeks. Meanwhile, developers are encouraged to update their apps before the launch to ensure they can participate.

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

[video] Google Easter egg

zerg rush

GG

 

Steps

1. go to google.com
2. type in zerg rush

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

The 10 Best Search Engines of 2012

Search tools for the every person

As of May, 2012

Most people don't want 290 search engines, especially people who are internet beginners. Most users want a single search engine that delivers three key features:

1. Relevant results  (results you are actually interested in)
2. Uncluttered, easy to read interface
3. Helpful options to broaden or tighten a search

With this criteria, 10 Reader Favorite Search Engines come to mind. These 10 search sites should meet 99% of the searching needs of a regular everyday user.

Below is a changing list of user favorites, compiled from email suggestions. The sites below are in random order, and are updated regularly to reflect changes and user suggestions.
Submit a Site: you are welcome to suggest a search engine for inclusion in this list by a comment or mail us at blowfish412@gmail.com.

1. Ask (aka 'Ask Jeeves')

The Ask/AJ/Ask Jeeves search engine is a longtime name in the World Wide Web. The super-clean interface rivals the other major search engines, and the search options are as good as Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo. The results groupings are what really make Ask.com stand out. The presentation is arguably cleaner and easier to read than Google or Yahoo! or Bing, and the results groups seem to be more relevant. Decide for yourself if you agree... give Ask.com a whirl, and compare it to the other search engines you like.

Visit Ask here

2. Duck Duck Go

At first, DuckDuckGo.com looks like Google. But there are many subtleties that make this spartan search engine different. DuckDuckGo has some slick features, like 'zero-click' information (all your answers are found on the first results page). DuckDuckgo offers disambiguation prompts (helps to clarify what question you are really asking). And the ad spam is much less than Google. Give DuckDuckGo.com a try... you might really like this clean and simple search engine.

Visit DuckDuckGo here

3. Bing

Bing is Microsoft's attempt at unseating Google. Bing used to be MSN search until it was updated in summer of 2009. Touted as a 'decision engine', Bing tries to support your researching by offering suggestions in the leftmost column, while also giving you various search options across the top of the screen. Things like 'wiki' suggestions, 'visual search', and 'related searches' might be very useful to you. Bing is not dethroning Google in the near future, no. But Bing is definitely worth trying.

Visit Bing here

4. The Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a favorite destination for longtime Web lovers. The Archive has been taking snapshots of the entire World Wide Web for years now, allowing you and me to travel back in time to see what a web page looked like in 1999, or what the news was like around Hurricane Katrina in 2005. You won't visit the Archive daily, like you would Google or Yahoo or Bing, but when you do have need to travel back in time, use this search site.

Visit the Internet Archive here

5. Yippy (formerly 'Clusty')

Yippy is a Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. Unlike the regular Web, which is indexed by robot spider programs, Deep Web pages are usually harder to locate by conventional search. That's where Yippy becomes very useful. If you are searching for obscure hobby interest blogs, obscure government information, tough-to-find obscure news, academic research and otherwise-obscure content, then Yippy is your tool.

Visit Yippy/Clusty here

6. Yahoo!

Yahoo! is several things: it is a search engine, a news aggregator, a shopping center, an emailbox, a travel directory, a horoscope and games center, and more. This 'web portal' breadth of choice makes this a very helpful site for Internet beginners. Searching the Web should also be about discovery and exploration, and Yahoo! delivers that in wholesale quantities.

Visit Yahoo! here

7. Mahalo

Mahalo is the one 'human-powered' search site in this list, employing a committee of editors to manually sift and vet thousands of pieces of content.  This means that you'll get fewer Mahalo hit results than you will get at Bing or Google. But it also means that most Mahalo results have a higher quality of content and relevance (as best as human editors can judge).

Mahalo also offers regular web searching in addition to asking questions.  Depending on which of the two search boxes you use at Mahalo, you will either get direct content topic hits or suggested answers to your question.

Try Mahalo.  You might like it enough to even become a editor there.

Visit Mahalo here

8. Dogpile

Years ago, Dogpile was the fast and efficient choice before Google.  Things changed, Dogpile faded into obscurity, and Google became king. But today, Dogpile is coming back, with a growing index and a clean and quick presentation that is testimony to its halcyon days.  If you want to try a search tool with pleasant presentation and helpful crosslink results, definitely try Dogpile.

Visit Dogpile here

9. Webopedia

Webopedia is one of the most useful websites on the World Wide Web. Webopedia is an encyclopedic resource dedicated to searching techno terminology and computer definitions. Teach yourself what 'domain name system' is, or teach yourself what 'DDRAM' means on your computer. Webopedia is absolutely a perfect resource for non-technical people to make more sense of the computers around them.

Visit Webopedia here

10. Google

Google is the undisputed king of 'spartan searching'. While it doesn't offer all the shopping center features of Yahoo!, Google is fast, relevant, and the largest single catalogue of Web pages available today. Make sure you try the Google 'images', 'maps' and 'news' features... they are outstanding services for locating photos, geographic directions, and news headlines.

Visit Google here

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

Social Networking Set To Overtake Gaming On iOS And Android

 

Games have historically taken larger usage on mobile. The app revolution has changed the way software is distributed and used among consumers.  With a perfect storm of digital distribution, free content and powerful touch screen devices, the success of mobile apps has disrupted industries from telecommunications and games to music and news.

To date, no category of apps has been more successful than Games, directly disrupting the traditional gaming industry.

But, now a sign that something fundamental is changing on the iOS and Android platforms, mobile analytics provider Flurry has found that consumers are spending as much time in social networking apps as they are in mobile games.

The last time that Flurry took a look back in January, it found that half of app sessions were spent in games while 30 percent was spent in social networking apps.

“We take the rise in Social Networking apps as a signal of maturation for the platform,” wrote Flurry’s vice president of marketing Peter Farago. “As game demand may be hitting its saturation point, consumers are also discovering other apps, namely Social Networking.”

You can actually visually see the changes on the charts compared to a year ago. Today apps like Viddy, Socialcam and Instagram are in the Top 5 free in the U.S. on iOS. These are all apps for sharing content like videos and friends. A year ago, these would have probably been mostly games.

There are probably several forces at work in addition to the ones that Flurry describes. 1) The platforms are mature and other app categories are starting to develop. 2) Apple has cracked down on more unscrupulous forms of user acquisition, which benefited developers who had the cash to spend on marketing. Pre-revenue apps like Instagram can’t really justify spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in marketing dollars. 3) Twitter and Facebook are starting to emerge as effective ways of distributing mobile apps. If you search Twitter for “Viddy” or OMGPOP’s “#drawsomething,” you’ll see that there are several tweets per minute about both apps.

Flurry also found that the time spent is affecting the revenue that apps in both categories earn. For the first time, advertising revenue for social networking apps in Flurry’s ad network AppCircle, surpassed that of ad revenue for games. The thing you have to consider, though, is that gaming apps are more dependent on in-app purchases of virtual currency. If you look on iOS’ top grossing charts, it’s still virtually all games in the Top 25.

The rise of Social Networking apps also signals the end of the era of gaming dominance within mobile apps.  While the free-to-play business model performs extremely well, enabled by in-app-purchases, it does so primarily for simulation games, a sub-genre of the total games category.  As long as the total iOS and Android installed base grows, all categories will continue to grow naturally.

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R. Reference: [Flurry] blog.flurry.com

How Facebook became a $100 billion company

Milestones of Facebook

 

1. February 2004: Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook. A social network exclusively for Harvard University

2. September 2004: Facebook launches the Wall, one of its most exciting and popular features, which allows users to post happenings on their profile pages.

3. September 2006: Facebook opens to the public and begins letting anyone older than 13 join. Earlier it was restricted to colleges, schools and companies. Also introduces News Feed, which collects all the feeds of user postings in one place. This is around the period when new user adoption explodes.

4. May 2007: The second big initiative that propels Facebook into the big league; it launches Platform, which allows programmers to build apps. Facebook explodes with a thousands and thousands of small apps that include games, quizzes and music. Platform ensures that Facebook does not to have to do all the heavy-lifting on its own but provide other companies the means to do it

5. October 2007: Microsoft comes calling with a $240 million investment for a 1.6 per cent stake valuing Facebook at an astonishing $15 billion.

6. November 2007: Facebook falters for the first time when it introduces its advertising program Beacon, a feature that broadcast user activities from external websites on Facebook. It lead to a huge backlash forcing Facebook to withdraw the initiative immediately.

7. March 2008: Facebook hires Sheryl Sandberg as chief operating officer from rival company Google. In hindsight this is one of the best decisions that Zuckerberg made helping his company scale from hot tech startup to serious corporate heavyweight.

8. February 2009: Facebook introduces its Like feature. One of the most used features on the social network, it brings user preferences into everything that they consume on the site.

9. June 2009: Facebook beats MySpace to become the king of the social networking world.

10. September 2011: Always innovating even when there is user resistance, Facebook introduces the Timeline, which is a new version of the user profile page.

11. February 2012: Facebook ends months of speculation by filing for an initial public offering (IPO)

12. April 2012: Facebook snaps up photo app company Instagram for $1 billion.

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R. Source: yahoo

Letters from Abbottabad: ‘Osama planned to target Obama’s aircraft’

WASHINGTON:

Documents recovered from Osama Bin Laden’s compound reveal how the former al Qaeda leader had planned to kill the US President Barack Obama and the present director of CIA, David Petraeus. Bin Laden had also urged supporters to leave Waziristan due to surveillance from drone aircraft.

In documents released through the West Point Combating Terrorism Center by the US government, the seventeen letters are part of the correspondence OBL received, and sent to al Qaeda commanders.

In a letter sent in May 2010 to al Qaeda leader Attiyah Abd-al-Rahman, who was killed in 2011 in a drone strike, Osama Bin Laden asked “Shaykh Said” to ask “brother Ilyas” to prepare two groups in Pakistan and Bagram, Afghanistan to anticipate and spot trips by US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus.

The letter says that the groups are to target their aircraft, however, they should not target visits by US Vice President Joe Biden, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, then Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen or the now late US Special Representative for Af-Pak Richard Holbrooke. “The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there. Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war’s path,” wrote Bin Laden.

Another letter by Osama Bin Laden, also to Attiyah in October 2010, is directed to the brothers in Waziristan, and said that they should keep a low profile and take necessary precautions. “(They) should stay in the area and those who cannot do so; their first option is to go to Nuristan in Kunar, Gazni or Zabil. I am leaning toward getting most of the brothers out of the area. We could leave the cars because they are targeting cars now, but if we leave them, they will start focusing on houses and that would increase casualties among women and children. It is possible that they have photographed targeted homes. The brothers who can keep a low profile and take the necessary precautions should stay, but move to new houses on a cloudy day.”

Bin Laden also expressed reservations about the would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad telling a US court during his trial that Shahzad lied when he took his US citizenship oath. “You should know that it is not permissible in Islam to betray trust and break a covenant. Perhaps the brother was not aware of this. Please ask the brothers in Taliban Pakistan to explain this point to their members. In one of the pictures, brother Faysal Shahzad was with commander (Hakimullah) Mahsud; please find out if Mahsud knows that getting the American citizenship requires taking an oath to not harm America. This is a very important matter because we do not want al-Mujahidin to be accused of breaking a covenant.”

Critique of Hakimullah Mehsud

A letter, written by al Qaeda leaders Attiyah and Abu Yahya al Libi in December 2010 to Tehreek-e-Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, is critical of his operations. “(Of the passive behavior is) killing more people, taking them as shields without basing their action on the Shari’a killing the normal Muslims as a result of martyrdom operations that takes place in the marketplaces, mosques, roads, assembly places, and calling the Muslims apostates.” The al Qaeda leaders also mention that they are sending directives on kidnapping and ransom money. “We are sending the attached short list on what is acceptable and unacceptable on the subject of kidnapping and receiving money, and we hope that you and the Mujahidin in Pakistan will approve it.”

In late January 2011, American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn wrote a letter to an unknown recipient, critical of attacks on mosques. “And among the repulsive issues – and certainly forbidden – the targeting of mosques with explosives and others as what is happening in Afghanistan and Pakistan and sometimes in Iraq.”

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R. Source: The Express Tribune

Published in The Express Tribune, May 4^th, 2012.

Activate Spell Checking in all Text Fields [Tutorial]

By default Firefox has its own spell check. But you will find it only in text area and it checks the spelling on large text fields. Many times the blogging titles spelling is wrong, which is not checked by Firefox. In this article you’ll find a simple trick to activate spell check in text fields.

Procedure to Enable Spell Check in Text Fields

1) First open the config file of Firefox.

2) Type about:config in address bar and hit the Enter button.

3) Now you’ll be warned to avoid making changes in the config file. Click on I’ll be careful, I promise! to bypass this warning.

4) Type “layout.spellcheckDefault” in the filter field.

5) By default the value of this parameter is 1. Change the value to 2 by double clicking on this parameter.

6) Then close the config file and open any page which has a textbox and check for wrong spelling.

7) You should make sure that “Check my spelling as I type ” is checked. To get this option, go to Tools > Options > Advanced tab.

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R. Source: solidblogger.com [or] techcular.com

HTML5 Toggle to Disable HTML5 in Firefox [Addon]

 

Well everybody knows the demand of HTML5 and how it flush the need of Flash. It’s becoming a default in every browser. Many people are willing to adopt this new trend. So, more and more apps are being developed with HTML5. But it may suck your system resource for bringing your CPU to 100%. Here comes HTML5 Toggle that lets you keep HTML5 deactivated. It’s a Firefox addon that provides an option in Firefox 4 to enable or disable HTML5 support.

Once you have installed HTML5 Toggle, simply drag the button from the customize window to the navigation bar. You can enable or disable from Tools –> Disable HTML 5 or simply add the HTML5 Toggle button to a toolbar. You can add this button by going to View –> Toolbars –> Customize, and dragging the button to a preferred location on the browser. Then click on this button to enable or disable HTML5.

In fact HTML5 Toggle disable the parsing rules, which I realized after testing it. I’m still able to enjoy HTML5 apps and games. But the sad part is that, it work in some pages and doesn’t work every single time. But still it’s a good way to enable and disable HTML5 with ease.

Install HTML5 Toggle

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

Find Friends Who Use WordPress

Are you curious to see how your friends are using WordPress? Give the new and improved Friend Finder a try to connect with your Twitter, Facebook, and Google contacts who have WordPress sites!

After authorizing WordPress.com to use your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account to find your friends (don't worry -- none of this account information is saved!) you'll see a list of people you know who have WordPress sites.

Click Follow and each time your friend publishes a new post it will show up in your Reader under Blogs I Follow.

If you have multiple blogs, make sure to set the Primary Blog in your Settings so the correct blog is shown to friends when they find you.

If you're interested in finding more cool blogs to follow, browse our collection of Recommended Blogs and try adding some topics to follow in your reader using the box in the bottom left.

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R. Source: Wordpress

Fact for the day: 2-05-2012

Did you know that:

- An user has an average of 25 online accounts

- An average user has 6-7 different passwords

- 66% of the US users have only one or two passwords

- An average user logs in 8 times a day

- The average password length is 8 characters

- The most commonly used password is password1

- 54.9% of the users use personally meaningful words

- 28.6% of the users use the Remember my password function

- 15% of the users write down their password

- The average time users maintain the same password is 31 months

Hyperwords for Faster & Better Search [Extension]

 

Hyperwords is a cool extension that makes every word on the web interactive. It’s an extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. You can use it to Search, References, Conversion, Translation , Shopping, Blogging, Tagging, Email, and many more with a single click. With it you can perform an interactive task (like searching) after highlighting a sentence/word/phrase. It comes with some advance options and it’s damn faster.

To get started with Hyperwords, first install it and then highlight a term. Then a small orb will appear, simply hover your mouse over it and you’ll see the menu. First you’ll find the Search function from where you can search in Google, Bing, Yahoo, Images, and Videos. You can also find a reference in Wikipedia, Britannica, Wolfram Alpha or Google Definition.

When you hover your mouse on a link, a popup window appears showing your desired results. From here you can obtain the information. After that you can close the popup and read the previous page. You can also share content in Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks instantly. For the first time you have to grant permission for it to publish to your Twitter/Facebook account.

Install Hyperwords

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

Compile servlet program without setting path

 

We might be tired of setting the “paths”  for compiling the servelt program using the JDK (java development kit) (Works on any version of java). (or) we might also be having difficulty in remembering the different “paths” to be set in order to compile the servlet program.

Here is a simple way to compile the servlet program “without the need of setting the path”.

Instructions

[1]. Move to the directory “tomcat\lib”.

[2]. Copy the file “servlet-api.jar”.

[3]. Traverse to the directory “java\jdk\jre\lib\ext”.

[4]. Paste the file “servlet-api.jar” in there.

[5]. Now you will be able to compile the “servlet file”.

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Note: “java” is the directory  where java has be installed .

“tomcat” is the directory where tomcat is installed.

Video

tomcat configuration

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Blowfish12@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

Top 10 BitTorrent Search Engine Sites

You find a lot of movies, games, and software on the internet. Have you ever wanted to download them, but don’t know the process? Your friends download latest movies and games, but why can’t you? Many people think that downloading a movie or a game is very simple. Just type ‘download (movie name) or (game name) on Google and hit the search button. In fact it is simple, but it isn’t as easy as I said above. The best way is to use BitTorrent search engines and websites that typically allow users to upload, download, find and get applications, games, movies, audio, video, and many other types of files online.

List of Top 10 BitTorrent Search Engine Sites

1) The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay (TPB) is a Swedish website that provides magnet links. It is “one of the world’s largest facilitators of illegal downloading”. The Pirate Bay has been in the news a lot recently, mostly due to the lawsuits that have been filed against them. But it’s a good site to download your favorite stuffs. It allows you to find binary torrents of your favorite movies, games and music. Once these torrents are found, they must be downloaded using a separate torrent downloader, these are software packages you need to install. You can also browse recent torrents, TV shows, music or top 100 downloaded files.

thepiratebay.org

2) KickassTorrents

KickassTorrents is one of my favorite places to get movie torrents, books, documentaries, and more. It tends to have a better selection of available and actively seeded torrents then even The Pirate Bay. It lets you have all the torrents of the leading websites with none of the malware or viruses.

www.KickassTorrents.com

3) BTJunkie

BTJunkie is the largest and most advanced BitTorrent search engine. Get everything what you are looking for. It has a massive database and over 2.5 million active torrents and from 5,000-25,000 torrents is added daily. Apart from it, you can have torrent email updates of new additions, Twitter updates, and useful reporting and comment features.

www.BTJunkie.com

4) Torrentz

Torrentz is a meta-search engine for BitTorrent that is run by an individual known as Flippy. It indexes torrents from various major torrent sites such as Mininova, BTJunkie, and The Pirate Bay. The “verified” filtering feature of this site makes it one of the best downloading source. It compiles various trackers per torrent that are not necessarily present in the default .torrent file. This allows other trackers to do the work, when a tracker is down.

www.Torrentz.eu

5) ExtraTorrent

ExtraTorrent has picked up the pace, quickly skyrocketing to become one of the Internet’s top contenders among public torrent indexers. It has over 200 million torrents downloaded to date and 350,000 unique daily visitors. This promising new public BitTorrent site includes nice features like trusted uploaders, detailed torrent descriptions, bookmarking, one click hosting links, and so on.

www.extratorrent.com

6) IsoHunt

IsoHunt has over over 1.7 million torrents in its database and 20 million peers from indexed torrents. It is the most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine on the web. It ensures safe and secure torrents from the web.

www.isohunt.com

7) YouTorrent

YouTorrent specializes in legal torrents, and has a very elegant presentation and clean interface.  It searches other sites for you. It really provides outstanding service to its users.

youtorrent.com

Nowtorrents

It’s a unique search engine that filters out fake/dead torrents in real time. The date-range searching feature lets you search for specific years of content. Whether you are seeking obscure older torrents, or very new torrents, this search engine comes very handy.

nowtorrents.com

9) Torrent Pond

This meta-searcher site has been recommended by several users. It scours other sites for you, filters out old and fake torrents, and then offers you an easy-to-browse list. You can also view the recent torrents.

torrentpond.com

10) Fenopy

Fenopy offers some friendly methods for browsing and discovering movies and music. It is fully integrated with IMDB and Last.fm radio and has some compelling features. The fake finder feature is very useful for avoiding bad files.

fenopy.eu

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Blowfish@2012 Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

Advantages of CSS Templates

 

Comparing to conventional table-based designs, CSS templates is clearly a better choice when it comes to web development. In addition, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), recommends the use of CSS templates to replace table-based designs as tables are not meant for designing in the first place. The following discuss some of the advantages in using CSS as web page templates.

Advantage Of Css Templates

Flexibility
CSS layouts separates presentation from coding. By using an external stylesheet for a website, designers can now amend the layout through this stylesheet and all the pages will be updated accordingly. For example, a simple class for paragraph can be used control the appearance of the paragraphs, padding and margins. If the appearance of all the paragraphs must be changed, the designer only needs to update a single file- stylesheet.

Codes Rendering
CSS layouts reduce the amount of codes in a file as compared to the traditional table-based designs. This reduction in codes will improve the website performance in the user-end. As some users may be using dial-up connection, web pages designed using CSS will definitely reduce the time required to load a web page. The total amount of file size is also reduced to minimum with the help of CSS templates.

Accessibility

Accessibility is very important as it make sure a web page can be properly interpreted by all users. A user reading a table-based design web page with the help of a screen reader will be having a great problem understanding the logic, just imagine the reader goes through columns by columns in those deeply nested tables. CSS templates also helps in arranging the layout logically to both the developers and all the users.

Box.net provides Extra Storage Space on your Android Phone

 

These days there are loads of useful and cool apps available for Android phone. It is obvious that the demand for storage space is increasing, even it doesn’t matter if you have 64GB of storage space in your Android phone. Unlike the physical memory card that you use, you can use a cloud storage service to increase the storage space on your Android. In this article I’ll let you know how to gain extra storage space on your Android phone by using Box.net.

Box.net has been developed by a cloud based storage company. It’s a no-frill app with simple interface. This app is just a simple implementation of its web interface. Once you’ve logged in, you can access or upload files to your web folder. You are allowed to create media content from within the app. To do this, click “Menu -> Create” and then create either audio, video, or image file. The free version of this app offers 5GB of storage space.

Features

• View and share files on-the-go.
• Find files fast with built-in search.
• Browse through files and folders.
• Upload files from your phone to Box.
• Supports devices with Android OS 2.0 and above.

 

Install Box.net

Roughly 37 Percent of US Android Phones are 4G-Enabled

 

4G is the next communication that every Mobile users going to have in short time. This future connectivity adopts the new high-speed protocols at a service of 100 Mbit/s. Localytics, Boston based software company has recently analyzed the hottest data in the third quarter of 2011 that the US Android phone users supports 36.6% of 4G network.

4G technologies include WiMax, LTE, and HSPA+ in US as ITU announced in December 2010. Looking at the chart we can analyze that the use of 4G have rapidly increased with a growth rate of 50 % i.e. the full third of the Android ecosystem. In the first quarter we can see that the bar has raised 22.6%  less compared to second quarter which positions 31.2% in the chart subsequently 36.6% in the third quarters.

As we can see the US 4G popular Android devices list and explore that HTC Thunderbolt by Verizon is ranked 1 and the HTC EVo 4G by carrier Sprint stood second in the popularity list. Samsung Epic 4G by sprint and so on listed continues with other 6 stupefying 4G Smartphones by T-mobile & AT&T respectively. We can glimpse more of Sprint’s and Verizon’s 4G Android Smartphones in the list.

Along with the foremost U.S. carriers, Verizon Wireless has been on blaze undulating exposed its 4G LTE network, success more than half of the country as of last month. AT&T has been a bit of a lazybones, just newly debut LTE in 5 diverse cities with strategy to wrap 15 in sum by the end of the year. We can also see iPhone 5 is going get 4G network support but it can set hitch of shorter battery life that can bump off the benefit of speed networking.

Each US carrier has a different 4G services with variety level of bandwidth such as T-mobile & AT&T run HSPA+; Verizon draws on LTE and WiMAX used by Sprint. Each of them is using 3G speed networking or a long time. Of course the app developers can play much more as 4G is going to be wide spread piece of technology. The bigger bandwidth brings the more of apps to enjoy.

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Is the Gideon Sundback Google doodle Firefox unfriendly?

 

If you are a Firefox user, you might not be allowed to play with the new, interactive zipper Google doodle. This is because the new zipper Google doodle does not seem to be fully compatible with the Firefox browser.

To mark the 132nd birth anniversary of Gideon Sundback, Google posted an interactive doodle on the home page that features a giant zipper running down the centre of the global search engine's home page. And if you drag your mouse down to unzip the zipper, it will split the screen, including the search textbox and reveal the relevant results for the name Gideon Sundback.

But some of the Firefox users have reported that on unzipping, the page turns white and no search results appear. They have claimed that on unzipping the Google.com home page on the Firefox browser, they are provided with nothing but a blank page, while some users are facing the same error on the google.co.in page.

However, the error is intermittent and seems to affect only Firefox users.

We checked the same issue on other browsers including Google's own Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari, and it seemed to work fine on them.

Google is believed to use advanced JavaScript and HTML5 elements for many of its fun and interactive doodles, but some of the code isn't always compatible on all modern Web browsers.

Google has been pushing its Chrome Web browser in a big way, including advertisements in the mainstream media and outdoor hoardings. Advertising approaches that we do not usually associate with Google. Chrome is now the most serious contender to Internet Explorer in the battle of the browsers.

WordPress v2.0.1 Now Available for Android [Video]

As we all knew that WordPress is a free open source tool for bogging where you can write new posts, edit content, and manage comments on your WordPress blog. This blogging contrivance had doomed other tools like Joomla, Drupal, Concrete5 and many more and in present it is competing with BlogSpot which is one of my favorite open source tools for blogging. WordPress had been offering its capabilities to iOS, BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone 7 and webOS but now Android is also been stacked too. In Android you can write new posts in .com or in .org which is a self-hosted and manages all comments with built-in notifications. The mobile app is awesome that covers almost all the authors you want to do on phone with user friendly interface layout which of course reasonable.

Now in Android Market you can get the newest version of WordPress 2.0.1 with few changes done to spread smiles on all bloggers blogging through mobile portable Android devices. The improvements are meant to be dragged into the apps because to go with the desktop WordPress Tool. We can see that the consistent editing function of iOS under the formatting toolbar and then such as the upload function and other details of the repair. The original tool in iOS of version 2.9.3 looks good with smooth editing and managing blog but now the newest version of Android which is totally different featuring the posh toolbar and icon design has raised the standards. We believe that it will go on surprising us with classy open source benchmarks.

The v2.0.1 has featured new UI with action bar and background screen where all the operating functions are placed in the same place, when logged in through the app in your portable device you can see the background management interface. It offers the way in to touch a button typically used with the management functions like creating fresh article or sight statistics. You can able to view how many have been verified comments in the statistics and in this new version fast camera and its keys have been added to quickly turn on your camera so you can shoot instantly and place upload that photo in your WordPress and publish. Through the action bar the users can toggle the blogs and update from the current page or hop straight to the admin page.

The story editor has also been improved to allow you to edit the articles easily and conveniently. You can format the toolbar and add content, links too above the keyboard. In addition to this you can also add the desired media files, edit the titles and the location & image size. In the full-screen mode you can edit so that you can see the editing log of the contents clearly.

Not only the Smartphone users can take the privilege of WordPress as the tablet users are allowed officially to install the app and start editing their articles through WordPress in the big screen and it is portable too to use anywhere anytime.  In the tablet you can browse articles, pages, comments and scroll the list on the right side that shows the details of the currently selected items. It will work wonderful in KindleFire, Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 easily. If you have any of one of these tablets then start using this open source WordPress easily publish it and feel free to edit anytime.

WordPress v2.0.1 for Android Updated List:

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   New Button has been added to the dashboard for self-hosted blogs.


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   Geo-tagging and self-hosted stats are fixed.


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   QuickPress shortcuts and dependability has been improved.


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   Before we had to face some problems to remove post password which are now fixed with sharing images from other apps to WordPress has been fixed.


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   In landscape mode the formatting bar can be seen. WordPress for Android supports both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (3.0 or higher) blogs.

If you are already using the WordPress App then you must update it to take the privilege of using the latest updated version or if you haven’t used this app then scan the QR code below to get the direct link to Android Market. Before that gaze through the video below to know more about it and then a QR scan waiting to be scanned.

Wikipedia App Released in Android Market

Wikipedia, the name is sufficient to describe what it can do for us. We had really missed Wikipedia App in Android and now our quest is finished because Wikimedia Foundation had officially released Wikipedia app for Android a week ago. It has just put its baby steps into the market and hope it will show its maturity in time with new modifications, features and customization. This encyclopedia contains more than 20 million articles in 280 languages. Isn’t it amazing!

The Wikipedia is the most widespread app and widely used reference and we use it every day to clear our doubt on any topic from nature, books, gadgets, celebrities etc. It’s interesting to know that Wikipedia receives 2.7 billion monthly page views from the US alone. Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 and now in 2012 we got an app of it for our Android device. Such a long time to wait but at last we got our sweet fruit. Few days back Wikipedia went to Blackout for a day for protest and after a day they were back with the message.

‘Thank you for protecting Wikipedia. We’re not done yet.’

And you click on the message then it leads individuals to another message that was:

Your voice was loud and strong. Millions of people have spoken in defense of a free and open internet.’

Features available in this newly launched Wikipedia App:

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   Search full screen in your Android Smartphone/ Tablet.


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   Supports 280 languages, so read article in your own language.


3. 
   
   Search articles nearby.


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   Check the history.


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   You can save articles to read later, means in offline.


6. 
   
   View the saved pages in offline.


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   Share articles using Android ‘Share’ function.


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   You can share page using verity options.


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   There is a ‘Forward’ option but it’s not working properly.


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    You can select any text by clicking on the ‘select text’.


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    In setting you can only find the language setting for Wikipedia will be seen.


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    In ‘About’ page it will show the official copyright page.

Wikipedia is indisputably best app you can have in your Android device for reference and research. The information is more accessible to anyone with Smartphone/tablet and an internet connection is must. The app is in its current 1.0 version and it requires Android 2.2 and higher version to get download. Already 5 stars have been given and you can see the popularity of this app and already 50, 000 users had installed in their device and it’s your turn, so scan the QR code given below. All the screen shots are given below.