Author Archives: Prithvi Mandava
WordPress upgrade and other issues
If you have a WordPress installation and have been experiencing issues with Auto-upgrades, Plugin installation/upgrading, taking backups, it could be a problem with your server. A lot of 1and1 users will be familiar with this. The issues are caused with the server having both PHP 4.0 and 5.0 installed. The workaround for this is very simple …
Issue with Google Talk Show Current Music Track and Winamp
A lot of people have (including me) have been facing a series of crashes when using the ‘Show Current Music Track’ feature of Google Talk and Winamp (5.531 in my case). I Googled and found that there were a lot of solutions that did not work, including one from the folks at Google itself which …
Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome
Aditya K Sood from the EvilFingers community, which disclosed the first Chrome DoS vulnerability at the beginning of the month, has released a proof of concept demonstrating a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability affecting Google’s Chrome versions Chrome/0.2.149.30 and Chrome/0.2.149.29 : “The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to memory exhaustion based denial of service which can …
Panasonic’s Atom-based medical tablet
An Atom-based tablet from Panasonic. (Credit: CNET) This product is so new, it doesn’t even have a name. Yet. During the announcement of the new ToughBook notebooks, Panasonic also took the opportunity to show off one of its upcoming Intel Atom-based tablets. This white unit is meant for use in the medical field. Aside from …
uTorrent for Mac leaked
A pre-release alpha version of a Mac version of uTorrent, the popular BitTorrent client for Windows, has been leaked to the public. The details window of uTorrent’s Mac client, now confirmed to be in alpha. (Credit: TorrentFreak) Available from the Swedish torrent Web site The Pirate Bay, the Cocoa-based client has been expected since 2006 …
Google phone to hit Indian stores in December
Taiwanese handset major High Tech Computer is planning to launch the Android platform-powered phone (popularly referred to as the Google phone) in India this December. The price, however, will be higher than the US debut tag of around Rs 8,200 ($179). Ajay Sharma, country manager, HTC (India), told Business Standard: “We would prefer a mobile operator …
Pazera Free Audio Extractor Rips Audio from Any Video
Windows only: Pazera Free Audio Extractor extracts audio from virtually any video file and outputs it to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, or WAV formats. Just plug in your video file (it supports AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, and more) into the program, choose your output type, and let it rip. Pazera takes care of the conversion …
Battle of the Linux Distros
In theory, any computer running Linux can be custom-built and tweaked down to the very last bit. In reality, a first-time Linux user wants to grab an install CD, get a working desktop, and do their own thing from there. Lots of Linux distributions make claims about being easy to use, fast, or stable, but …
Cool Timer Helps You Stay on Task
Windows only: Stop wondering where the time went and start using a timer to be more productive. Cool Timer is a small timer application with three modes: countdown, stopwatch and alarm clock. You can customize the color scheme and size of the clock to make it easier to see it at a distance, and you …
Top defrag utility: IOBit Smart Defrag
One of the remedies I often recommend for a sluggish system is to defrag the hard drive. For those unfamiliar with the term, defragging involves reorganizing your hard disk by placing files closer together so your operating system can find them more quickly. Your Windows operating system comes with a disk defrag utility of its …
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