Dekhona, An Indian attempt to mock Youtube

The immense popularity of youtube is tempting many entrepreneurs to mock (i dont want to use the word 'copy' here) it. We have seen various small video sharing sites popping up regularly.

Dekhona is one such thing but targeted for India. Indian clips are uploaded. Or at least that is what the creators thought would happen. When I browsed through the videos, I could see many non-indian videos that are available anywhere else. So the purpose is not served, as far as I am concerned.

Most of the clips are adult oriented. The admin team needs to work around to bring in many more visitors and uploaders of all ages. They need to control the videos that are featured in the home page.

The site is totally free.

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Google Earth offers Sky now. Explore the Sky from your Bedroom!

The super hit product of Google, Google Earth is now presenting a live view of the Sky.

Now exploring universe is simple and easy from the comfort of our home. Millions of galaxies are waiting to be explored and discovered.

These are the possibilities:

1. Zoom
2. Explore
3. See the planet in motion
4. Mark the space
5. Possibilities are endless.

Technical Aspect:

You need to download the latest version of Google Earth. Click on the new Sky button on the toolbar at the top of the screen, and navigate the skies!

Here is the official post: Sky: The final frontier

Some official examples: Google Earth Gallery


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Play Station 3 with massive 80GB Storage is out in market

Market leader in the Gaming Console industry Sony has started to ship its new version of Play Station 3. The news: It has 80GB storage!!

It comes with an online playable off-road racing game, MotorStorm.

The price is set to $499 in US.

The 80GB model joins the existing 60GB PS3 that has been available at retail since its launch last November.



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New form of Image verification is coming soon

Image verification process is not new to netters. The irritating, ugly distorted texts may be history soon. Microsoft is researching on the Image verification technology (also called 'Human Interactive Proofs'). The problem with the existing technology is that, it is getting old and hackers are starting to tweak their codes to fool the HIPs.

So, how the future HIP may look? May be like this:

Yes, you may be asked to identify the object. Cats and dogs will be appearing in online registration forms soon.

Again, hackers may soon find a way to by-pass this kitten technique (!?!) if the system doesn't have enough number of images to rotate (may be a million)

The research is not going to end there. They may be showing us small video clips as HIP!

Source: Kittens Could Solve Spam

Online Backup - These two tools make a great combination.

The traditional custom of believing Hard Disk for storing important files has been proved insecure. The habit of storing files online has grown drastically from the last 2, 3 years. There are tons of sites and tools available for this task. Choosing a best site is a tricky job.

The first thing that come in our mind is the reliability of the site we use. After testing many sites and tools all these years, we at TechnoPark, are using two tools constantly. Let us explain it.

1. GDrive.

This is a shell extension for windows. This tool helps us use the massive storage offered by GMail. We have earlier reported about this tool. Read here:

How to use Gmail space as Hard Disk Space

For practical usage, it is awesome. It is smooth and seamless. Works like an angel.

2. DriveHQ

DriveHQ.com is a great service for online storage. It offers 1 GB free space for every user. That is more than enough for many real time users. Registration is free. What makes this service worth is the File Manager tool they offer for free. It is an amazing tool. Everything about the tool is so good. Take a look at the screenshots:

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Both these tools are added in the context menu of Windows. It makes life easier. Just a right click. That is all you need to do. You will have a backup seamlessly in two reliable, online services.

Download links:

GMail Drive Shell Extension

DriveHQ

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The inevitable happened. iPhone Hacked.

New York Times has reported that a team of computer experts have hacked iPhone. The experts say they could hack the iPhone in 2 ways.

1. Through a WiFi connection

2. By tricking the users to visit a site with malicious code in it.

They say, once the hole is found, they were able to have total control over the phone.

The hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.

New York Times adds:

Dr. Miller, a former employee of the National Security Agency who has a doctorate in computer science, demonstrated the hack to a reporter by using his iPhone’s Web browser to visit a Web site of his own design.

Once he was there, the site injected a bit of code into the iPhone that then took over the phone. The phone promptly followed instructions to transmit a set of files to the attacking computer that included recent text messages — including one that had been sent to the reporter’s cellphone moments before — as well as telephone contacts and e-mail addresses.

This is the first of many many more iPhone hack to be followed!!

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Whats new in Opera new version? Review

Good news. Opera has released a new version 9.22. When Firefox new version was released last week, many predicted that Opera will come up with much awaited new version.

What are all has been modified?

User Interface

• Fix to allow toolbars to use bold fonts again.
• Tabs can be dragged between windows using the Windows panel again.
• Info panel title now correctly displays Web page title and mail subjects that contain HTML.

Miscellaneous

• Scripting and display fixes for the Silverlight plug-in.
• Multiple stability fixes.
• Improved stability and performance of BitTorrent.

Security

• Fixed an issue that could occur when removing a specially prepared torrent transfer, as reported by iDefense. See the advisory.
• Prevented an issue where data URLs could be used to display the wrong address in the address bar. See the advisory.
• Improved the display of long domain names in authentication dialogs. Long domain names will now scroll instead of using ellipsis. See the advisory.
• Added Trustcenter class 3 G2 root certificate.

Windows specific

• Fix for accessing certain Web sites using Windows Vista.