FACEBOOK VIDEO SCAMS! HOW TO REMOVE THEM?

Few months back, this ' kind-of ' scam spread on Facebook in which almost everyone noticed some of their friends posting different types of video links in their walls. These are not videos actually.What actually happens is that when someone clicks the video, it takes you to a link where it seems like you can see but it actually install one add-on or extension to the browser. As a result of the extension, the scam video link gets shared automatically...

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ANONYMOUS THE HACKER GROUP RELEASED THEIR OWN OS "ANONYMOUS-OS"

Again Anonymous group are with a surprise. This time they are not with any hacked website, this time they are with their own Operating System named as "Anonymous-OS". Yes its true that Anonymous Hackers released their own operating system. ''Anonymous-OS'' which is live and an ubuntu-based distribution and created under Ubuntu 11.10 and uses Mate desktop. We can create the LiveUSB with Unetbootin.There are some pre-installed apps on...

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ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM BANGLADESH CYBER ARMY FOR BOTH BANGLADESHI AND INDIAN GOVERNMENT

Just when it seemed like the war ended, Bangladesh Cyber Army released another video message in Youtube. In this message, Bangladesh Cyber Army mainly mentioned how their demands are being considered by the Indian Government. The war has resulted in a few changes. Indian Government probably considered the matters like, BSF brutality and broadcasting of Bangladeshi channels in India and tried to fix them.In the message, BCA also requested Indian...

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The Work Culture at Google

Google has come a long way since Sergey Brin and Larry Page networked a few computerstogether at Stanford. What started as a modest project is now a multibillion-dollar global organization that employs more than 19,000 people around the world. Brin and Page are still very much involved with Google's operations -- they're Presidents of Google's Technology and Products divisions, respectively.In September 2008, Google'smarket capitalization figure (Google's stock price multiplied by the number of outstanding company shares) was more than $145 billion....

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All about Google: Google Equipment

Back in 1998, Google's equipment was relatively modest. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin used Stanford equipment and donated machines to run Google's search engine duties. The equipment at that time included:Two 300-megahertz (MHz) Dual Pentium II servers with 512 megabytes (MB) of memoryA four-processor F50 IBM RS6000 computer with 512 MB of memoryA dual-processor Sun Ultra II computer with 256 MB of memorySeveral hard drives (some of...

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How to change the logon screen of WINDOWS 7

If you are using windows and you constantly try to experiment with it, then this thought must have came into mind that HOW TO CUSTOMIZE THE LOGON SCREEN. In XP you had to go through various registry edits which were difficult and often very confusing. But in Windows 7, this is not the case. Microsoft people have taken care of this thing in Windows 7, so that you don't have to go through various regedits to customize the logon screen. Just one registry...

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All About How to connect your Computer to your Tv (Part IV):Computer to TV Troubleshooting

The biggest problem with connecting your computer to your TV is that, generally speaking, computers and TVs don't display at the same resolutions.(If you are reading this post I would suggest reading this first:http://techdeviant.blogspot.in/2012/03/all-about-how-to-connect-your-computer.html). For example, the closest thing to the HDTV resolution 720p (1280 x 720) is a monitor display mode called XGA (1280 x 960). Not quite the same....

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All About How to connect your Computer to your Tv (Part III) : Computer TV Cables

If you read our article "How do I know which cables to use?" then you know there is a baffling number of audio/video cables on the market. You'll have to make some sense of the different types of wiring necessary to connect your computer to your TV. First you need to figure out what kinds of audio/video outputs your computer has and what kinds of audio/video inputs your TV has. If you're lucky, you'll find a match right away. But depending on the...

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All About How to connect your Computer to your Tv (Part II):Screen Resolution and Aspect Ratio

Many people are familiar with the concept of screen resolution. Resolution is a measurement of how many individual pixels your TV or computer monitor can display at once. The old cathode ray TV (CRT) in your basement can display the equivalent of about 300,000 pixels [source: Kindig]. The latest HDTVs can display more than 2 million pixels. With more pixels, the image can be rendered in greater detail. It's the difference between painting a portrait...

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All About How to connect your Computer to your Tv(Part I)

There's something painfully ironic about sitting on your living room couch, just a few feet away from a beautiful widescreen HDTV, watching a movie on your tiny laptop. Yet this is what most of us do when we download movies or TV shows onto our computers.The same goes for showing off our latest digital photos to friends. We all huddle around the 15-inch computer display while the TV screen goes unused. And what about that PowerPoint presentation...

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Why are the keys arranged the way they are on a QWERTY keyboard?

In 1874 Remington & Sons manufactured the first commercial typewriter, called the Remington Number 1. This typewriter was designed by Christopher Sholes and used the "QWERTY" keyboardwe are all familiar with.This early typewriter used a mechanism with characters on the end of a bar. When a key was struck, a linkage would swing the bar into a tape coated with ink. When the character struck the tape, the impression of the character was transferred...

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Does adding more RAM to your computer make it faster?

One topic you might hear people discussing when they're talking shop about computers is how much random access memory (RAM) they need to add to their computer. Up to a point, adding RAM will normally cause your computer to seem faster on certain types of operations. RAM is important because it eliminates the need to "swap" programs in and out.When you run a program such as a word processor or an Internet browser, the microprocessor in...

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Google: How it Generates it Revenue

Unlike some Internet companies, Google has multiple ways of generating revenue beyond private investment or selling shares of its stock. Google uses three methods to partner with merchants and advertisers: Google Checkout, Google AdWords and Google AdSense.Google Checkout is a service designed to make online purchases easier for both the consumer and the retailer. On the consumer end, users create a free Google Checkout account....

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The Killswitch : They can remotely modify your Window 8

Last year,a Finnish software developer, was cruising Google’s Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. Google uses a little known kill switch, to forcibly removing the malicious code from more than 250,000 infected Android smartphones. It’s a powerful way to stop threats that spread quickly, but it’s also a privacy and security land...

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Windows 8 to Have 8 Versions

Remember how annoying it was that there were six versions of Windows 7? Well, you’ll be glad to know there aren’t six versions of Windows 8! … There’s eight.One of the biggest annoyances with Windows 7 was that when you went to buy a system, you had to look at which version of the operating system it came with.  Then you usually ended up having to look at a chart to remember why each version was different.  It was a bit of a pain, and one...

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Google offers $1 million reward to hackers who exploit Chrome

Google has pledged cash prizes totaling $1 million to people who successfully hack its Chrome browser at next week's CanSecWest security conference.Google will reward winning contestants with prizes of $60,000, $40,000, and $20,000 depending on the severity of the exploits they demonstrate on Windows 7 machines running the browser. Members of the company's security team announced the Pwnium contest on their blog on Monday. There is no splitting...

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INTERPOL BROUGHT DOWN BY ANONYMOUS AFTER THE ARREST OF 25 HACKERS POSTED

25 members of famous hacking group Anonymous have been arrested in different places of the world. According to Interpol, the hackers were arrested in Argentina, Chile, Columbia and Spain. Around 250 computers and other devices of hackers ranging between 17 to 40 years of age were seized by the officials. The reason of the arrest was that Anonymous is growing more powerful everyday and recently, a lot of high profile websites were shut-down by them...

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Google: Not just an ordinary search engine

Image ©Google Earth mapping service/NASA/TerraMetrics 2007 The Google Earth application Google offers a popular tool calledGoogle Maps, an online mapping service similar to MapQuest. Google uses map sources from companies like NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas, as well as satellite data from DigitalGlobe and MDA Federal, to create interactivemaps. You can use Google maps to view an address' location or get driving directions to a particular...

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