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 in your friends' walls.

This can be embarrassing to the users as a number of videos that get shared are pornographic or they show some girl's picture with blood all over her face. This is actually one kind of scam trick. There is also one video scam which gets malware into windows and mac. These can be harmful for the user and can hamper their privacy.

To remove these, all you have to do is tweak some browser settings. For Mozilla Firefox And Google Chrome, we have to go to TOOLS, then ADDONS and select EXTENSIONS, then we will have to remove the extension named "YouTube Premium".

In this way, we can remove it. But it is certain that this only happens to the people who CLICK on the link. So if these types of links show up on someone's wall, think before you click them.

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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 Anonymous-OS, which are:

- ParolaPass Password Generator
- Find Host IP
- Anonymous HOIC
- Ddosim
- Pyloris
- Slowloris
- TorsHammer
- Sqlmap
- Havij
- Sql Poison
- Admin Finder
- John the Ripper
- Hash Identifier
- Tor
- XChat IRC
- Pidgin
- Vidalia
- Polipo
- JonDo
- i2p
- Wireshark
- Zenmap
and more...

Warning : It is not developed by any genuine source. So use at your own risk.

Download Anonymous-OS 0.1:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/anonymous-os/

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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 Government to consider their other demands as well. They even mentioned that they would not stop the war otherwise.

Message in the video:

Greetings to the people of Bangladesh.

We are Bangladesh Cyber Army. The first and largest hacking group of the country.
You all know that we are in a state of war against India for a few days now.
The war started in order to protest against the BSF brutality and other unjust activites of India which go against the interest of Bangladesh.
We also put forward some of our demands regarding all these which are as under-

1. Stop hacking Bangladeshi websites and stop all types of access to Bangladeshi Cyber Space completely...
2. Stop killing innocent Bangladeshi citizens at BD-India borders...
3. Stop Tipaimukh Dam...
4. Sign the "Teesta Water Sharing Treaty"...
5.Either stop broadcasting of Indian Media in Bangladesh or let Bangladeshi Media enter India...
6. Stop all Anti-Bangladesh activities of BSF and punish all offenders for their deeds against Bangladesh...
7. Last but not the least, India has to stop all activities which go against Bangladesh in any possible way...


We can see and observe that our demands are now under consideration of the Indian Government.

Firstly, BSF was warned by Human-rights commission to maintain International rules and stop their killing.
Infact, 8 members of Border Security Forces of India were sentenced to 3 months prison because of their brutality towards Bangladeshi citizens.


Secondly, Bangladeshi TV channels are now being published in Kolkata once again.
Two Bangladeshi channels are now being broadcasted in Kolkata.
It has also been assured that other channels of Bangladesh will also be broadcasted soon.

We hope the Indian Government will very soon consider the other demands as well.
It is our request that they would not overlook those demands and bring them under their consideration.

We thank the Human Rights Commission and Cable Operators for accepting our demands.
We want all our demands to be accepted. And for that, we will keep fighting. The war will continue until all the demands are accepted by the Indian Government,


United as a single ONE
Divided by ZERO
Our works are for our country
Our demand is proper justice.

We are,
Bangladesh Cyber Army.

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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. Google's stock is listed in NASDAQ as GOOG, and in late 2008 Google had more than 314 million outstanding shares in the marketplace [source: Google Finance].

Google's headquarters are in Mountain View, Calif. Google cheekily calls its campus the Googleplex -- a combination of the words "Google" and "complex" and a play on the term googolplex: One followed by a googol of zeroes. Life at the Googleplex is pretty sweet. Here's just a small list of the amenities you can find there:
Several café stations where employees can gather to eat free food and have conversations
Snack rooms stocked with goodies ranging from candy to healthy foods like carrots and yogurt
Exercise rooms
Game rooms with video games, foosball, pool tables and ping-pong
A baby grand piano for those who enjoy tickling the ivories

In addition to these amenities, Google employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes not only medical and dental coverage, but also a host of other services. These include tuition reimbursement, a child care center, adoption assistance services, an on-site doctor, financial planning classes and lots of opportunities to gather with coworkers at special corporate events. Google's philosophy also places importance on nonprofit work, and so Google will match up to $3,000 of any employee's contributions to nonprofit organizations.

Google has asserted itself as one of the most dominant forces on the Internet. Still, the company says its mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" [source:Google]. With a goal that lofty, it's a good bet that the people behind Google feel their work is just beginning.

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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 memory
A four-processor F50 IBM RS6000 computer with 512 MB of memory
A dual-processor Sun Ultra II computer with 256 MB of memory
Several hard drives (some of which were housed in a box covered in LEGO bricks) ranging from 4 to 9 gigabytes (GB) for a total of more than 350 GB of storage space [source: Google Stanford Hardware]


Today, Google uses hundreds of thousands of servers to provide services to its users. Google's strategy is to use relatively inexpensive machines running on a customized operating system based on Linux. A program called Google File System manages the data on Google's servers [source: Google Cluster Architecture].

Google uses servers for different tasks. Web servers receive and process user queries, sending the request on to the next appropriate server. Index servers store Google's indexes and search results. Document servers to store search summaries, user information, gmail and Google Docs files. Ad servers store the advertisements Google displays on search pages.

Google divides the information on each index server into 64 MB blocks. There are three copies of each block of data, and each copy is stored on a different server running on a separate power strip. The blocks of data are distributed semi-randomly so that no two servers have the exact same collection of data blocks. That way, if there's a problem with one server, the data will still exist in other machines. Using multiple copies of data to prevent an interruption in service is called redundancy.

A master computer manages each set of servers. The master computer's job is to keep track of which servers hold each block of data in the event of a catastrophe. If one server goes down, the master computer redirects all traffic to the other servers containing the same data.

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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 edit and you are good to go. Just follow the steps below and you'll be able to customize it in no time.

Manually:
STEPS :
1. Press Win key+R and type regedit and hit enter.


2. Go to HKEY_Local_Machine ->Software->Microsoft->Windows->CurrentVersion->Authentication->LogonUI->Background



3. Double click on key named OEMBackground and change its value to 1.

There you go, you have done the registry part now some simple edits and the task is done.

4.Go to C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds.(If info or backgrounds folder is not present then create one).

5. Now put in any JPG file with size less than 256 kb in this folder and rename it to backgroundDefault.jpg. This file will be stretched to fit the screen, so you would want it to match the resolution of your screen so that image doesn’t look bad. You can use something like smush.it or Photoshop’s Save as/Save for Web feature to reduce image size.

With the help of tools:
Steps:


1. Download the Logon Changer from Tweaks.com, that lets you choose a image file to use as your logon background. That all what you do, just choose an image and Logon Changer will take care of everything else including the file size limit. It also makes it super easy to revert back to the default Logon Screen.

                                                                         OR

2. Download the Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator – takes the logon screen customization one step further by allowing you to select a set of images. It will then randomly use one of these images as the logon screen.

There you have it. Using any of the above method you can easily change Windows 7 logon screen to any wallpaper of your choice or that witty one liner graphic you created yourself or perhaps even one of your photos as long as they meet the requirements. Let me know your experience of using these methods and I would love to see what you have as your logon screen. Mention them in comments!

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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. And the closest thing to 1080p (1920 x 1080) is a monitor display mode called WUXGA (1920 x 1200). Again, not quite the same.

The result, in most cases, is something called overscan, where the full computer screen image doesn't fit on the TV screen. Overscan is a bigger problem on SDTVs where the native screen resolution is much smaller than your computer's display. If you're going to use an SDTV as a monitor, plan on lowering your screen resolution to 800 x 600.

HDTVs also have overscan problems, but usually only the very edge of the computer image gets cropped. A bigger problem with HDTVs is when the TV refuses to display a signal that doesn't fit its native resolution.

Luckily, most HDTVs have the ability to scale incoming signals to match their native screen resolution. This involves either upconverting lower-resolution signals in the attempt to bring the resolution up to high definition or downconverting higher-resolution signals for lower-resolution screens. It's not perfect, but for most casual viewers, there's little to no noticeable loss in image quality.

In rare cases, the HDTV won't recognize the resolution of the signal sent by your computer. When you connect an external display to your computer, most graphics cards will automatically try to find a good match for the display's native resolution. If this doesn't work, you will probably need to edit your resolution with third-party software.

Two programs are considered the best solutions for solving connectivity problems between a computer and a TV: PowerStrip for Windows and DisplayConfigX for Mac. Both of these programs allow you to match your graphics card's resolution precisely with the native resolution of your TV. If your HDTV is 1080p, you can go into one of these programs and switch your computer's resolution to 1920 x 1080, even if this wasn't previously an option.

Avoid increasing the refresh rate on your graphics card, unless you have a 120-hertz HDTV. If you send a signal with a refresh rate over 60 hertz to a normal HDTV, you could damage the TV [source: Komando].

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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 type of equipment you own, you may need to get creative.

First, let's talk about which cables you'd use to connect a computer to a standard-definition TV. The most common video inputs on an SDTV are composite, S-video and component video. On computers, the most common video output is S-video. On a desktop PC, you'll find the 9-pin S-video jack on your graphics card next to where you connect your monitor.

Some Windows laptops also have S-video-out jacks, but most have 15-pin VGA jacks for connecting to external monitors. Luckily, it's easy to find adapters and special cables that have VGA connectors on one end and S-video connectors on the other. Apple also sells a wide variety of adapters to connect Mac desktops and laptops to the S-video or composite jack on SDTVs.

Even if you have an old TV that only accepts coaxial video cable (the one-pin variety that's mostly used for cable TV and satellite connections), you can use something called an RF converter box that can convert S-video or VGA input into coaxial output.

For connecting a computer to an HDTV, it's the same story. The most common HDTV inputs are component video, DVI and HDMI. If your graphics card doesn't have one of these outputs, then you'll need to buy a special converter box or adapter. For example, if your computer only has a VGA jack and your HDTV only accepts HDMI, then you'll need to buy a small box that will convert the signal for you.

If you're serious about playing high-definition content from your computer on your HDTV, then you should upgrade to a graphics card with a DVI or HDMI output. Most newer Apple laptops come with a Mini DisplayPort video output that easily connects with the DVI or HDMI inputs on an HDTV.

All of the cables that we've mentioned so far are video-only cables, which means that you'll need separate cables to handle your audio. The easiest solution is to connect some computer speakers to your audio card's headphone or audio-out jack. If you want to use your TV's built-in speakers, then you'll need to buy a 1/8-inch stereo mini-plug-to-RCA cable.

For the best possible audio, you'll need to invest in an audio card for your computer with either an optical or digital coaxial audio output. These connections carry high-bandwidth digital audio signals using cables that can be plugged directly into your home theater receiver.

Even if you have the right cables and have done your homework about resolutions, you still might have some problems connecting your computer to your TV.  Read the next post(http://techdeviant.blogspot.in/2012/03/all-about-how-to-connect-your-computer_1862.html), to know about some troubleshooting tips.

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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 with a thick sponge block or a small, delicate brush.

The standard way to classify TV resolution is with numbers like 480i, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. The bigger the number, the greater the screen resolution. The little "i" and "p" stand for interlaced and progressive scan. This has to do with the way in which the image is rendered on the screen. Refresh rates on TVs andcomputer monitors are measured in hertz. A refresh rate of 60 times per second translates to 60 hertz. An interlaced-scan TV refreshes half of the screen image 60 times per second. It refreshes the odd-numbered horizontal lines first and then the even-numbered lines. The result is that the full screen refreshes 30 times a second.



On a progressive scan television, the entire screen refreshes 60 times a second. The result is that progressive scan TVs have a noticeably smoother image when watching sports or other video with fast-moving action. All computer monitors are progressive scan [source: PCMag.com]. Some even have refresh rates faster than 60 times a second. This is why interlaced SDTVs make for lousy computer monitors. When you scroll, the image can't refresh fast enough to keep things smooth. As a result, you see that telltale flicker.

Resolution is important, but you must also take a screen's aspect ratio into account. Your goal when hooking your TV up as a monitor is to make the entire image fit within the boundaries of the TV screen. SDTVs use a 4:3 aspect ratio -- the ratio of the screen's width to its height is 4 to 3. HDTVs have a native 16:9 aspect ratio. While many computer monitors share those aspect ratios, not all of them do, and your computer may support many different screen resolutions with different aspect ratios.

In fact, your computer's preferences are unlikely to tell you the aspect ratio, and instead will tell you the resolution. The horizontal x vertical measurement is also the most common way to label computer monitor resolution. Some typical monitor resolutions are 640 x 480, 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768. If you don't know your monitor resolution, you can find out by going to whatismyscreenresolution.com. If you aren't connected to the Internet and you're using a Windows PC, right-click on the desktop and choose Preferences. Then choose the Settings tab. On a Mac, go to System Preferences and click Displays.

The trick is to find the resolution that best fits the TV's aspect ratio. This may not be as big a deal as it sounds, though. Modern operating systems can usually match the attached monitor's aspect ratio automatically. If your computer doesn't, you can manually adjust the settings in your computer's preferences to make it fit.

But there's more to hooking these two machines together than resolution and aspect ratio. You still have to get the information from the computer to the TV. In order to do that, we've got to solve the cable conundrum. Read the next post( http://techdeviant.blogspot.in/2012/03/all-about-how-to-connect-your-computer_5932.html ) to know more about it.

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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 you just gave at work? Wouldn't it have looked 1,000 times better on the wall-mounted plasma display in the conference room?


There are many compelling reasons why we want to connect our computers to our televisions, especially now that HDTVs are so popular. Everything from movies to photos to work presentations were made for the big-screen experience.

The first personal computers used TVs for monitors, but computer graphics technology quickly outpaced the image quality on standard-definition TVs (SDTVs). The typical modern computer monitor has the ability to display images at a much higher resolution than a regular TV. A computer monitor can display more individual pixels than an SDTV.

Even today, hooking a computer to an SDTV only makes sense if you want to use your computer as a DVD player. If you try to use an SDTV as a monitor, you'll have a hard time getting your full desktop to fit on the screen.

But with the advent of high-resolution, high-definition TVs like flat-panel LCDs, plasma, LCoS, and DLPdisplays, televisions now make excellent computer monitors. In fact, that's what the manufacturers of PC-based media centers are trying to achieve. The tricky part is figuring out exactly which TVs work with which computers and how to connect them all together.

Read the next post(http://techdeviant.blogspot.in/2012/03/all-about-how-to-connect-your-computer_04.html) to learn more about bringing your small-screen life to the big leagues.


You can also watch the video on How to connect your computer/Laptop to your TV.
Link : http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tech-tips-and-tricks/dave-taylor-hdmi-article.html

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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 onto the paper, which was positioned behind the tape.

Sholes' original prototypes had a problem with the bars colliding with each other and jamming. So the story goes that he arranged the keys with the most common letters in hard to reach spots, to slow typists down and try to avoid this problem.


Whatever the reason for the QWERTY layout, it seems pretty unlikely that one of the first keyboard layouts invented would be perfect. The QWERTY keyboard is very different from the Dvorak keyboard layout. The Dvorak keyboard layout tries to minimize the distance traveled by the fingers. It also tries to make the typist alternate hands on consecutive letters as often as possible.

The Dvorak layout places all of the most commonly used letters in the home row so your fingers don't have to move at all to hit these keys. The left hand has all of the vowels and some consonants and the right hand has only consonants. So there are very few words in the English language that can be typed with only one hand on the Dvorak keyboard (two are "papaya" and "opaque"). Both "pumpkin" and "minimum" can be typed with one hand on a QWERTY keyboard -- give it a try.

This site shows the layout of the Dvorak keyboard. If I had typed this article on a Dvorak keyboard, my fingers would have traveled 30 meters versus the 54 meters they traveled on the QWERTY keyboard I use.

Some argue, however, the Dvorak keyboard is no more efficient than QWERTY. An independent study in 1956 showed that QWERTY typists and Dvorak typists had about the same rate of speed, and continued studies don't show a clear winner between the two. This may explain why QWERTY is still the standard.

If you want to see for yourself, you can switch your keyboard to a Dvorak configuration just by changing a setting on your computer's operating system. Depending on your keyboard, you may even be able to pry off the keys and rearrange them in the Dvorak layout.

Which layout would you have preferred if qwerty was not widely used. Leave your comments below.

Source : HowStuffWorks

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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 your computer pulls the executable file (.exe) off the hard disk and loads it into RAM. Large programs like Microsoft Word or Excel use large amounts ofmemory. The microprocessor also pulls in a number of shared dynamic link libraries (DLLs) -- shared pieces of code used by multiple applications. The DLLs take many more megabytes.

Then the microprocessor loads in the data files at which you want to look, which might total several megabytes if you are looking at more than one document or browsing a page with a lot of graphics. So a big application can easily take 100 megabytes of RAM or more, which can slow your system down significantly if there isn't enough memory. On your machine, at any given time you might have the following applications running:

• ­­­A word processor
• A spreadsheet
• An e-mail program
• A drawing program
• Three or four browser windows
• A fax program
• A Telnet session

Besides all of those applications, the operating system itself is taking up a good bit of space. Everything together may need more RAM than your machine has. Where does all the extra RAM space come from?

The extra space in your computer's RAM is created by an important operating system component called the virtual memorymanager (VMM). The VMM looks at RAM and finds sections that aren't currently needed. It puts these sections of RAM in a place called the swap file on the hard disk. For example, let's say you have your e-mail program open, even though you haven't looked at e-mail in the last 45 minutes. The VMM moves all of the bytes making up the e-mail program's .exe, DLLs and data out to the hard disk. That's called swapping out the program. The next time you click on the e-mail program, the VMM will swap in all of its bytes from the hard disk, and probably swap something else out in the process. Because the hard disk is relatively slow compared to RAM, the act of swapping things in and out causes a noticeable delay.

So should you just keep adding more RAM until your pockets are empty or your computer can't hold any more? If you have a very small amount of RAM (say, 256 megabytes), then the VMM is always ­swapping things in and out to get anything done. In that case, your computer feels like it is crawling. As you add more RAM, you get to a point where you only notice the swapping when you load a new program or change windows. Once your computer has more RAM than the software running on the machine uses, the VMM has plenty of room and you should never see it swapping anything. After that, adding more memory would have no effect.

Some applications -- like Photoshop, many compilers, most film editing and animation packages -- need large amounts of RAM to do their job. If you run them on a machine with too little RAM, they swap constantly and run very slowly. You can get a huge speed boost by adding enough RAM to eliminate the swapping. Programs like these may run 10 to 50 times faster once they have enough RAM.
 Leave comments below if you have any doubt and queries or simply want to comment on the post.

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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. Part of the account creation process includes entering a credit or debit card number, which Google stores in a secure database. When the user visits a retailer that subscribes to Google Checkout, he or she can click on the checkout option and Google facilitates the transaction. This means that the user doesn't have to enter a card number every time he or she makes a purchase.

Retailers can set up Google Checkout accounts for free, but as of August 2008, Google charges a 2 percent plus 20-cent fee per transaction. For example, if a customer buys a $10 item from a merchant, Google will charge that merchant 40 cents for that transaction.

Another way Google generates revenue is through a pair of Web advertising services called AdWords and AdSense. With AdWords, advertisers can submit ads to Google that include a list of keywords relating to the product, service or business. When a Google user searches the Web using one or more of those keywords, the ad appears on the SERP in a sidebar. The advertiser pays Google every time a user clicks on the ad.

AdSense is similar, except that instead of displaying ads on a Google SERP, a webmaster can choose to integrate ads into his or her own site. Google's spiders crawl the site and analyze the content. Then, Google selects ads that contain keywords relevant to the webmaster's site. The webmaster can customize the location and color of the sidebar containing the ads. Every time someone clicks on an ad on the webmaster's site, the webmaster receives a portion of the ad revenue (Google gets the rest).

With both AdWords and AdSense, Google's strategy is to provide targeted advertising to users. Google believes that by providing advertising relevant to the information for which the user is already searching, the chances of someone following the ad are greatly increased [source: Google].

Google Trivia: Google isn't just famous for creating and providing useful services -- it has also bought a few innovative companies and integrated them. These include YouTube (a video-sharing Web site), Blogger (a weblog service), Picasa (a photo-sharing service) and Jaiku (an SMS and micro-blog service).

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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 mine.



With the rollout of the Windows 8 operating system expected later this year, millions of desktop and laptop PCs will get kill switches for the first time. Microsoft has confirmed that they have remote kill switch installed in to Windows 8 apps. using this access, they can disable and even remove an app entirely from a user’s device. This piece of information was released along with other details of the upcoming Windows Store for Windows 8.

Anyone worried about Microsoft having complete access to your computer can rest easy for now. The company has stated that they can only “kill” programs downloaded from its new Microsoft App Store. This is what the company has to say about it in official terms: -“In cases where your security is at risk, or where we’re required to do so for legal reasons, you may not be able to run apps or access content that you previously acquired or purchased a license for,”.

Any software loaded from a flash drive, DVD, or directly from the Web will remain outside Microsoft’s control. Still, the kill switch is a tool that could help Microsoft prevent mass malware infections. “For most users, the ability to remotely remove apps is a good thing,” says Charlie Miller, a researcher with the security company Accuvant.

Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s vice president of Android engineering, says the search company reserves the use of the kill switch for “really egregious, really obvious cases” of harmful content. Microsoft’s Biggs says the company has used the functionality in its smartphones only for “technical issues and content issues.” Apple declined to comment. Amazon did not respond to several messages.

Nonetheless, a “kill switch” for curators of online applications marketplace is common as companies try to protect users of the platforms they develop from malware or hacking attempts implemented through applications.

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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 that you hoped might go away in Windows 8.  Sadly, Windows 8 Beta has learned differently.  After digging around in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview that was released the other day, they found screenshot you see above.  In short, there will be eight versions of the next iteration of the Windows operating system, and they include:

• Windows 8 Enterprise Edition
• Windows 8 Enterprise Eval edition
• Windows 8 Home Basic Edition
• Windows 8 Home Premium edition
• Windows 8 ARM edition
• Windows 8 Professional edition
• Windows 8 Professional Plus edition
• Windows 8 Starter edition
• Windows 8 Ultimate edition

If you’ve installed the Consumer Preview you can locate this list at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing\PackageIndex\Product.

The only one that puzzles us a bit is the Enterprise Eval edition which we suspect may be short for “Evaluation,” and may be more like trial software.  We just don’t know yet.

What we do know, however, is when you head out to buy a Windows 8 machine once they are launched, you may want to take a comparison chart with you of all the features.

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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 of winnings, and prizes will be awarded on a first-come-first-served basis until the $1 million threshold is reached.

Now in its sixth year, the Pwn2Own contest at the same CanSecWest conference awards valuable prizes to those who remotely commandeer computers by exploiting vulnerabilities in fully patched browsers and other Internet software. At last year's competition, Internet Explorer and Safari were both toppled but no one even attempted an exploit against Chrome (despite Google offering an additional $20,000 beyond the $15,000 provided by contest organizer Tipping Point).

Chrome is currently the only browser eligible for Pwn2Own never to be brought down. One reason repeatedly cited by contestants for its lack of attention is the difficulty of bypassing Google's security sandbox.

"While we’re proud of Chrome’s leading track record in past competitions, the fact is that not receiving exploits means that it’s harder to learn and improve," wrote Chris Evans and Justin Schuh, members of the Google Chrome security team. "To maximize our chances of receiving exploits this year, we’ve upped the ante. We will directly sponsor up to $1 million worth of rewards."

In the same blog post, the researchers said Google was withdrawing as a sponsor of the Pwn2Own contest after discovering rule changes allowing hackers to collect prizes without always revealing the full details of the vulnerabilities to browser makers.

"Specifically, they do not have to reveal the sandbox escape component of their exploit," a Google spokeswoman wrote in an email to Ars. "Sandbox escapes are very dangerous bugs so it is not in the best interests of user safety to have these kept secret. The whitehat community needs to fix them and study them. Our ultimate goal here is to make the web safer."

In a tweet, Aaron Portnoy, one of the Pwn2Own organizers, took issue with Google's characterization that the rules had changed and said that the contest has never required the disclosure of sandbox escapes.Pwn2Own will commences on Wednesday, March 7.

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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 as a protest of shutting down Megaupload.

As a retaliation to this, the website of Interpol which is interpol.int was brought down by Anonymous. The website was unavailable for half an hour on Wednesday. This Distributed Denial-of-Service attack was co-ordinated using a botnet and the message was published in Twitter. Though the website is back online but the it is taking a comparatively longer time to load.

The Anons demand the hackers to be released and probably they will strike again very soon if that is not done.

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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 destination.

Google Maps has several view modes. The map view is a basic road map, satellite view overlays a road map on top of

satellite photos of the region, terrain view creates a topographic map with a road map overlay, and the traffic viewuses red, yellow and green to indicate congested major roadways in the area. Street view mode is available in several U.S. cities. Selecting street view in such locations as Orlando, Fla., gives you the option to view photos taken from street level. You can navigate through the city by clicking on arrows in the photographs, and you can rotate your view 360 degrees.

Google Maps can also integrate business information. You can use Google Maps like a search engine to find a business, such as "HowStuffWorks, Atlanta, Ga.," which will show you our office's location. You can also search for general businesses. If you're in the mood to eat sushi in San Francisco, Calif., you can type "sushi, San Francisco," and with a click of the Search button, Google Maps will display a map of the city with several sushi restaurants tagged.

A product related to Google Maps is Google Earth, an interactive digital globe. It uses the same satellite images licensed for Google Maps, but you must download the application and install it on your computer to access all of its functions. Google Earth requires an Internet connection to be fully functional, though you can still view locations on the globe even if you aren't connected. A scaled-back, Web-based version is also available -- you can even embed it in existing Web sites. To learn more about this program, read "How Google Earth Works."

The Google Toolbar is another handy add-on available for Firefox or Internet Explorer users. The toolbar has customizable buttons. Each button maps to a particular function, which can include anything from viewing a Web site's PageRank to translating a word from one language to another.

The Google Desktop application

Google Desktop is another application you can download for free. This program lets you search your computer the way you would search the Internet using the Google search engine. You can also choose to download Google Gadgets, computer programs that integrate seamlessly into your desktop. Each gadget does something different. Gadgets include clocks, calendars, news feeds and weather reports.

SMILE, YOU'RE ON STREET VIEW!

Some people feel that Google's street view function is a violation of privacy. For example, homeowners who were behind in their yard work became worried that anyone viewing pictures of their home through Google would see a messy house, making it harder to sell the property in the future. Several individuals and communities have filed lawsuits against Google, demanding that the company remove images of certain areas from street view.

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