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The Great MICROSOFT says the new XBOX Experience which is to roll out on November 17th has to do alot with NetFlix streaming movies.They claim to change the face of home entertainment for every Xbox 360 owner!

It is appropriately described as new Menu system,that has nothing to do much with revolution but to improve your experience.The ironical part of the scene is that it has nothing to do with playstation games,but just movies only.

At the Electronic Expo recently held,Microsoft confirmed a relationship with online movie rental service-NetFlix,promising that the Xbox Experience has much to stream movies and TV shows right into their living rooms.For this you have to be a subscriber to NetFlix and an Xbox live Gold member($7.99 per month),this is the great feature.

This new interface has attractive features of SONY playstation 3 “Cross Media Bar” and Nintendo’s “Wii channels”.The new menu system comes in two Files that take no longer than 8 minutes to download and install.

After being gifted with a fancy welcome window,you can choose your favorite avatar to represent yourself.Moreover adding to it is the browsing applications and and content has become more visual.The Menu items are organized into 7 categories:

>My XBOX

>Video Marketplace

>Game Marketplace

>Spotlight

>Events

>Inside Xbox

>Friends

So be ready to rock on the added features of Experience!

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It is very common that most of computers are contagious to virus,as they spread like fire from one system to another,by just a carrier-USB drive.Check this problem ,by just following the given steps:

>Connect your pen drive or USB to PC.

>Now a dialogue window pops up in your monitor ,so as to choose among the options shown in the figure.

Don’t choose any of them and exit by Cancel hit.

>Now go to Start in the task bar and —>Run option,then type cmd to open the Command Prompt window.

>Next go to My Computer and check the Drive letter of your pen drive or USB(usually H:,F:,I:)

>In the command window type the drive letter and hit enter.

>Now type dir/w/o/a/p and hit enter.

>You will get a list of files.In that list search for any of the followings:

*   Autorun.inf

*  NewFolder.exe

*  Bha.vbs

*  Iexplore.vbs

*  Info.exe

*  New_Folder.exe

*  Ravmon.exe

*  RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe extension.

If you find any of the above files,run the command attrib-h-r-s-a and hit enter.

>Now delete each of the  files,using the following command Del Filename

>Finally run any of your antivirus on the pen drive,just to ensure that your USB is free of virus.

So friends do this to let your USB virusfree!

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The Daphne is a system tray application to kill,control,debug and hide certain Windows processes.It is also known by the name ‘Task manager replacement’.Kill a process by dragging the mouse over the windows,by right clicking the process in the main process list, or by using its name with the “Kill all by name” command or again Kill menu,which is a customisable menu,each menu has a process list to kill upon activation.

The main window displays details info pertaining to:

CPU usage,

Process ID,

Process Name,

Full Path(and arguments),

Priority,Class(process/service),

Current Memory Usage,

Peak memory usage,

Current Swap usage,

Peak Swap Usage,and number of threads,

and highlighting of Process List with colors for custom,system and high CPU consumption processes.

The Daphne V1.37 can be downloaded at Daphne.

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Do you want a handy search,which is fast and displays the result in a single window?Then switch on WebFerret!

To view a web page in your browser just double click on  result.They give no annoying popups  or marketing messages.It is powered  by Search.com

The features include:

>choice of search engines to search.

>restricting the number of results to return

>duplicating results removal

>password protected filters and deciding whether results need to be stored or not in your search history.

The Webferret can be used directly from a toolbar or integrated into Internet Explorer or Mozilla Forefox Web Browsers.

The net size of the free download  of Webferret 6  for Windows 2000,XP or Vista, is 751.78 Kb

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The T Mobile USA working with Google Inc to fix the flaw in Google Android Phone,a few days after its release.The security features of G 1 phone would limit the extend of any damage.T mobile G1 mobile phone already has security levels in place to prevent further intrusion.The network security researches say that any intruder could install malicious software that can capture keystrokes from the Google phone.

A flaw in the T mobile USA G1 phone after few days of its lauch was very crucial!T mobile is working with Google Inc and other Android partners to fis the flaw.Android is the open source operating system that runs the new G1 mobile phone.Researches have made it to the public about the flaws as they are unaware about the potential threats.

Also they are trying to make them aware that sophesticated smart phones face the same threats that make the PCs vulnerable from the internet.

More on Flaw:

Researches say the flaw can be exploited by an attacker who might trick a G1 mobile phone user into visiting a phishing website.This could be capturing the keystrokes ,when the user is surfing other sites.This serious threats can make hackers  steal the passwords or identity information,when the user signs into the site.

But the confident Google sounds that there are different levels of security in the phone to prevent serious intrusions.

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Search engine replaced with ‘Fetch Engine’.A mobile based search engine launched recently by ZIVA software.

Its different from usual search results as they provide you the right exact pointing information for a  search querry.

ZOOK has been built on a business intelligence tool developed specifically for mobile devices.

This doesnt require any internet connectivity on the phone!Sending the search items through free SMS.

Small mobile users have no comforts like a desktop with very large screens and guarentee of almost a total power supply.To fit the need of the mobile users ,who can visualise only a very few characters on screen and for users who spend a very little time for searches that provide the apt results.They often look for the info on move and and dont have the patience to go through the long list.So its hiogh time for ZOOK on by sending the search item  via SMS to 57575665.The accessors of GPRS/WAP/CDMA can search through the www.zook.in,by conducting the search directly.

Though the search mode is different ,the way information is served remains the same here as the key fact is the results turn out in a very few clicks.Instead of a series of searches or countless clicks,ZOOK intelligently splits the info the user is seeking into attributes that would lead him directly to the answer.

Any one can find the querry on the movie ,details of the show running in the wanted theatres,nearby ATMs,Bus stations and what not!?ZOOK has also launched recently the ‘ALERT’ feature ,which lets the users leave a message to be alerted through SMS later.Thay let him know about the event ,know abouth the live concerts or release of the movie,in their locality which makes the search very purposeful.

Though it doesnt have any searches in regional languages,it has a community assisted platform that allows language based search to be handled manually.This happens when the search term is not understood by the search engine.

The ZOOK in is really busy with the search for ringtones and wallpapers,games contents ,as they prove to be the most demanding among the MOBILE USERS!!!!

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Nokia launches its first ever Touchscreen Phone - the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It is a music phone with 3.2 inch touchscreen display and 3.2 megapixel camera supporting Flash content. It offers all the music essential functions including graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for upto 6000 tracks and support for all main digital music formats, a 3.5 mm jack and built-in surround sound stereo speakers. It has the latest version of Nokia’s Symbian operating system S60 5th edition and other features like 3G, Wi Fi, bluetooth, GPS, microUSB, etc.

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Opera has now launched Opera 9.60 for the Indian market making it available in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil also.

It is the only web browser which gives you everything you need to be fast, safe and productive online. It has unique features like the Opera Mail and Opera Link. Not just that, Opera 9.60 is faster than its previous versions. Opera link lets you synch your bookmarks, custom searches, history and notes between two computers and allows you to take your bookmarks with you on your phone.

What’s more, it is available for free download in English, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil at http://www. opera.com/download.

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Well I just thought that Engadget and Ubergizmo are at the zenith of their techy invasion. So its time to throw some light upon some of the upcoming and best tech blogs that have to be appreciated for the work that they have put in and how they, in a very small period of time have come up the ranks in almost reverse geometric progression.

I am listing some of the favourites..

insPyreIT is my first choice. Well the blog is on the roll. I saw the blog for the first time about two three months ago and at that time it did not appeal to me since it was short of good material. But the chap has put in a lot of work since then and at this instant it has a rank of 800000 or so.

Now wait a minute, I ain’t solely relying on the rank or traffic to the blog. The quality of the content is fabulous. Well, it has to go a long way, but its ubercool.

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Next comes TechDirt.

Well, I ain’t saying its sort of cool or whatever. Neither it has a good reputation like ubergizmo or coolest-gadgets. But its got a multitude of content and thats what I liked about it. Well, it shows coarseness on the content but thats about it.

If you wanna get some easy information on some down -to-earth or hidden gadgets, techdirt is the place.

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Slashdot??? Well, you have definitely heard about it. But let me tell you, this is good in giving the latest news in all domains, exclusively technology. And its good for the way we perceive and want to receive information. Well, this is cool in a different aspect….

If you want a whole article on some particular small and petty thing, slashdot is the place to get it. Well its not that it is rare and exquisite in its venture, but it gives importance to both the big and the small…

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Now the idea was incepted into my mind when I found that although we have been provided with the latest softwares for download, that too free of cost, some people never leave their old and trustworthy tools in order to look out for better ones. This might be a problem for techies who always change for better softwares and tools for enhancing their working capability.

Take me for example. Most of the times I blog from my uncle’s firm and sometimes help him out. He is a rookie user of technology. Here, as may be the case with many of us, we use Microsoft Office 2003. So when someone sends us stock orders for products and sales in Microsoft Office 2007, we are screwed. The files require conversion, and neither do we have the time to download all the softwares for all the conversions b/w the two versions of Microsoft Office.

More problem is encountered when at home, I try to play media files of several different formats in the laptop. Using different media softwares for playing different File formats is ridiculous, since we have several formats available and most of them are exquisite ones like divX and Xvid and rip, whatever it be.

My point is for such conversions, I tried to look over the web when voila! I came across a series of websites that I saw could find a permanent place in my bookmarks list. Well, atleast most of them. For your information and for my documentation, I thought that I might list them out…

Lets start with the good ol’Zamzar..

Zamzar has alleviated all my problems of document conversions as of now. But I found one flaw in the site. The site responds too slowly when its overloaded and we get the converted document very late. Please Zamzar, do something about it.

But like other sites, we do not require to sign-in in order to convert files, hence no registration is required(for files of smaller size). But if the files are larger and we want faster conversions, its possible only if we register in Zamzar.

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Site no. 2

iconv is another site that blew my head away by the variety of file conversions that it offers.

Whats new here? Well, its nothing much except that we can know the format of a file whose format if not known, does a file transfer using FTP for converting pesky end-of-line characters to normal new line characters (like ^M), converts DOS to UNIX formats, converts MAC to Unix formats, PDF to text, phew! Want more? I will give you…

File sorting  in ASCII order for the records in files, ASCII to EBCDIC, fixed record format to delimited data conversion and vice-versa,  Differentiate between the contents of two files and show which lines in the files differ, mp3 information in mp3 tags,etc. Still want more? Okay…

iconv also lets you to convert several b/w exquisite audio formats and also converts metadata like iTunes XML for iTunes playlists to M3U records for giving playlist information to other players.

Do check it out for Unix File conversions as the conversions are pretty accurate…

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Next in the list comes media-convert. This file conversion site is a really cool one, especially because the conversions are really fast and spontaneous without much user interaction, just like zamzar.

The online conversion steps are cited in the conversion page itself and the best thing about this site is that we can transfer the converted file directly to our mobile phone. I have not seen such a large choice of supported file formats in any other site.

The site also encompasses the facility to club videos together, thumbnail making, audio-splitting, and a whole glossary of file formats supported by various cell phone models…

Maximum file size is 150MB

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Get down the Google page and you find Vixy, a trademarked FLV file converter that converts your FLV Youtube files and stores them to the disk in several audio and video formats. This is nothing great as compared to other sites though the conversion quality is cool enough.

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videocodezone is another online conversion  tool. The tool has been able to get into my list because, it is used for converting videos from all the major online downloadable video stores like video.google.com, youtube.com, dailymotion.com, ifilm.com, myspace.com, metacafe.com, break.com, etc…

The conversion mechanism is highly simple but there have been complaints about the video quality. I liked the site for its simplicity.

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Netvibes is another file, audio and video conversion site. The good thing about this site is that it provides a conversion widget to users that will do the conversion, after users install the widget to their desktop. I tried it, but although the conversion has no complaints, I would suggest that you should mot opt for the widget if your internet connection is slow, since that causes conversion problems and the converted file may float in the internet space if the connection breaks or if it shows limited connection. What I would do in such a situation is that I would opt for something like media-convert.

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These are the best of all the conversion sites that I think will be of some help to you. If you have come across any good conversion sites apart from these that I have stated, feel free to contact me or comment it in my blog.

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