Monthly Archives: April 2007

IT Security

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 30, 2007
Most new age businesses depend a lot on technology for the efficient running of their operations. Security has found a new meaning for these traditional businesses. With increasing risks to networks from external threats like hackers, spyware, malware as well internal ones like their own employees, it is imperative that businesses assess such risks and [...]
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X-RayPC

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 29, 2007
X-RayPC is a nifty little tool that merges the functionality of HijackThis! and the advantage of a regularly updated online database. The program requires no installation and the download is a tiny 331 kb zip file. After a scan, the results are automatically matched with the database and an icon next to each entry tells [...]
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Presentations: An addition to Google Docs

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 18, 2007
In addition to documents and spreadsheets, Google will add presentations as well. This is surely going to be watched keenly by Microsoft whose market for the Office package will surely take a hit with users lapping up the easy and convenient option. It’s surely the age of remote hosted applications where the consumer doesn’t have [...]
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Transaction Guard

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 5, 2007
In the age of spyware, malware and other such nasty stuff, it is pretty difficult to protect your digital identity. Users need to think twice before logging in to a bank or financial services website on a public computer, or for that matter, even on a personal computer. Using the On-Screen Keyboard in Windows has [...]
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HijackThis

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 5, 2007
The revolutionary tool, HijackThis is now a part of the Trend Micro family and is christened, Trend Micro Hijack This. HijackThis continues to be freeware and Trend Micro does not offer any support for the product. This is mainly due to the fact that it’s free to download. Another reason is that the product generates [...]
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Easy Linux

By LuckyMurari | Published: April 2, 2007
OK,long back since a post is made by me.Meanwhile,kc has done some kewl posts.In this post, I am gonna tell you people how to easily install Ubuntu Linux with Windows on your PC.The reason behind me taking up the dual boot is because this is the first reason why people prefer to use windows for [...]
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April fool

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 2, 2007
My previous post about Gmail Paper was Google’s April Fool’s day joke, and I fell for it. In case you planned to start printing out your emails, you might have to consider other alternatives.
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Gmail Paper

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 1, 2007
Google has come out with yet another innovative service at absolutely no cost to the consumer. Gmail Paper allows you to select and print as many conversations as you want for free. Even shipping is free and the paper used  “is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment.” [...]
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