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TECH NEWS in a CRUNCH

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Every hour brings something new in technology, getting hard to catch it all!

 

Cnet.com NEWS:

 

Orange goo to add protection to British troops!




Softens bullet shock and impact!

 

Skype announces Voice-to-Text messaging!




WOW!

 

Obama unseals Bush-era wiretap memos




After 9/11 terrorist attack on U.S.A, Bush administration decided to wiretap the WHOLE INTERNET and TELEPHONE CALLS without limitations, restricting FREE SPEECH!

 

Microsoft to start testing new service




Expected update to Live search!

 

Square root Holiday 3/3/09!




Similar to Pi Day!

 

Flickr to include HD to videos for paying users and free users get just videos! (MASHABLE)




Well, its FREE!

 

Facebook fights new Koobface worm!




PLEASE BE CAREFUL!

 

Contractors force Amazon to include text-to-speech on Kindle!




Ya, now we listen!

 

Techcrunch.com NEWS:

Oodle on Facebook!




Now we can buy and sell stuff from PEOPLE WE TRUST!

 

Doodle launches API!




HELPS WITH PLANING APPOINTMENTS, ETC!

 

Twitter CEO interview!




Find information on twitter!

 

White House dumps youtube for different service!




Youtube was very popular during the election!

 

White house cool with Youtube!




Just experimenting!

 

Foxmarks changed to Xmarks!




Much better!

 

CC:Betty!




For LONG email threads, this is HELPFUL!

 

In other news:




Girl fired because she said she was 'BORED' at work on Facebook!

 

THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

 

TECH NEWS in a CRUNCH!

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Cnet.com News:

Interview about compromised plans of Marine One!

Is it safe to post stuff on P2P networks?

A new view on 3D home theaters!

How soon would 3D home theaters come ALIVE?!

Techcrunch.com news:

Flirting without sitting on computers is now possible from SKOUT!

Now shy people can flirt too!

Mashable.com news:

6 ways to publish your own books!

Go sites to help AUTHORS get a career STARTED!

Skittles get a new social makeover!

If you haven't checked out their site, check it out NOW!

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

Marine One

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Got a detailed Interview on the company that discovered the leak on President's Obama Helicopter Marine One.

Follow the link:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10184785-60.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0!

I found this question interesting:

Q: I would have assumed military contractors would use more secure networks to communicate.
Hopkins: Everybody uses (P2P). Everybody. We see classified information leaking all the time. When the Iraq war got started, we knew what U.S. troops were doing because G.I.'s who wanted to listen to music would install software on secure computers and it got compromised.

(FROM CNET.COM NEWS!)

THATS ALL FOLKS!

News!

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Cnet.com News:

Judge orders defendant hard drive be decrypted!

Is he truly guilty of CHILD PORN!?!?

That's all folks!

Security

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Security, drives anyone who isn't tech-savvy CRAZY! Well, found this really cool plug-in that delivers simplicity to the matter. WOT, if you haven't heard of it, you need to pay a bit more attention to the web! WOT stands for Web of Trust, as the name goes, everyone has a say in security! It warns about websites which could have Malware and Spyware and etc. I find it simple enough for non-tech-savvy users! Try it!

Another site you might consider to check is http://ow.ly/vPw! Its about security softwares that go for computers!

Have FUN!

New idea!

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Instead of having you look at a bunch of post on different software, web apps and yada-yada, I am sing a new feature I call TECH IN A CRUNCH! Basically I put a bunch of post into one and to try it out, I will do just that!

Cnet.com News:

Data from Marine One breached by P2P 

Obama's helicopter breached and its design exposed to Iranian IP address!

Sony: PS3 to hard to develop for -- on purpose

Anyone developing a game for PS3 might reconsider the technical details!

Facebook opens up to public vote and debates!

Users vote on facebook current and future plans!

Investigative Journalists: first casuality on the Net!

Newspapers vs. E-newspapers!

Amazon retreats on Kindle's text-to-speech issue!

Kindle text-to-speech LEGAL?

Mashable.com News:

5 great IMs across Multiple platforms!

For different platforms, keep social!

THATS ALL FOLKS!

WOW!

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Been MONTHS since I have blogged! Well, what can I say? Lots of stuff has happened!

Ok, kidtechguru transferred his site to techxav.com!

New viruses, security issues!

New WEBSITES, try out www.camspace.com!

...... and i could go on!

Get the latest on techy news at news.cnet.com and mashable.com!

Promise to write a post every 2 days!

Koobface - facebook virus

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"You look funny in this new video", thats the subject for the mail you get in your facebook inbox. Please do not open it, its a VIRUS(WORM). It gives you a link and when you open it, it says "an update of Flash is needed before the video can be displayed", Then If the viewer approves the Flash installation, Koobface attempts to download a program called tinyproxy.exe. This loads a proxy server called Security Accounts Manager (SamSs) the next time the computer boots up. Koobface then listens to traffic on TCP port 9090 (To know more about TCP, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7_4ot-Dzs) and proxies all outgoing HTTP traffic. For example, a search performed on Google, Yahoo, MSN, or Live.com may be hijacked to other, lesser-known search sites. Good news, only a few people were attacked, Instructions on how to remove the virus is on http://www.facebook.com/security.

Credits to CNET News! http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10113981-83.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

Feed reader

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I got a cool tip from http://kidtechguru.blogspot.com/ which would help you get the the latest feed from your favorite site. You simply cpy the RSS site and paste it into feed burner, and you get it!

Power

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We are in the 21st centuary and we need to socialize. The problem arises when you have multiply social accounts. With Power.com you can be on them, we are still tasting it. Its easy, fast and free. Give it a try and let us know if you have any concerns.

Weebly

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Weebly.com is a very interesting website. It lets you create a website, but what highlights its features is that you can create a site with no knowledge of computer language. It also lets you make a blog and it is easy for everyone. Am creating a test site and will tell you when thats done.

Mumbai Help

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If you like to get through to relatives in Mumbai whom might be affected by the attacks, try Mumbai Help @http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/

MUMBAI - Internet advantage at this time

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Mumbai was under attack last night! Here's live news - http://a779.l2584224778.c25842.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/779/25842/v0001/reflector:24778

& http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/video/video_live.aspx?id=0

Credits to TWITTER and a good quote by Mr. Stutz "Thank goodness for the internet", Check out his blog @http://www.stutzfamily.com/stutzblog/2008/11/27/we-are-ok/

Photo trick

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If your bored of searching for photos or you want fun, heres a trick. Go to google images and search any image, click on that image, click see full-size image and in the url box(address box where you type the web address) type this:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName('img'); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+'px'; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+'px'}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

And something amazing will happen, its not a virus but a trick.

CREDITS to Xavier Lur, check out his blog @http://kidtechguru.blogspot.com/2008/10/crazy-google-image-trick.html

Dandare

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Captain Dandare(Bottom Left) orginated from Britain during the 1960's and lasted till date. It features a British Sci-Fi hero who goes into outter space and fights aliens in Venus. He had an enemy called Mekon(right), whom ruled the Treens(further right) in the northern Hemisphere of Venus. The southern part liked Earth and was at peace with it. They were seprated by flamelands, it bascially divided the planet in two. Its main focus is advanced rocketery in the future. You can get episodes online if you want to watch it. Its action packed and entertaining.

British Tech through the ages

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"War brings advantages", thats the 1st thing that comes to my mind when i think of this video from http://www.silicon.com/ which features old technology and how they revolutized the British forever. Its a brief look at Britain, which went from Tea cups and guns to Automic guns, Airplanes and radar. Here's the link @http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39352005,00.htm

Credits to Silicon! Comments are apprecited!

iPhone 3G ad Ban

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If you think only little kids get scolded, then you haven't seen iPhone. In the U.K, the new Iphone 3G ad which displays speed as really fast. In plain details, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in U.K put a ban on the new advertisment from iPhone showing the new iPhone 3G surfing the web at a fraction of a second, which 17 constumers says is misleading. iPhone in its defense said that the speed varied in different places, but ASA said that not everyone will undestand the techincal details. This isn't the 1st time either that they have got scolded at, it was the same with the iPhone 2G which claimed that users could view all the web contents but in fact, users couldn't use Flash and Java. So you see, even big companies get scolded at. Read more @http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10108679-37.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 and don't forget to comment.

Credits to Natasha Lohman at http://www.cnet.com/

Youtube

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Youtube has INCREASED video sizes from 4:3 to 16:9 ratio, which means MOVIE SCREENS for those who don't like fullscreen. But, No worries if your video is 4:3 format, they add black bars at each side to give it equality.

Credits to Cnet!

Yoowalk

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Yoowalk is a fasincating virtual 3D community that lets you create an avatar, surf the web in 3D and is provided FREE! I am still experimenting with it but it is good. You have virtual villages and each has a online sites, popular sites mostly and you can chat with people. Comment you when I know more. Special thanks to Mrs. Krembs our librarian and you can check out her blog @ http://dearlibrarian.edublogs.org/

Comment and we would be happy to help!

Convert PDF to Word

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Many times i get similar question, can you convert this PDF document to Word document. There are many services to do these but a highlighted site you might want to try is http://www.convertpdftoword.net/. This site lets you upload PDF than lets you download the word document.

Credits to Xavier Lur at www.KidTechGuru.blogspot.com

Comments are Accepted!

Google Lively

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Google lively is an interesting 3D world created by google. Its free but needs download. You get to have 3D rooms and you can chat and play games with people. Sad news is that google is closing it down on December 31th. Google said that it didn't much people's attention. You can still play it @ http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html.

Credits to Cnet.

Portable battery

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Your typing and your computer says low battery and you have nowhere to charge, you have no extra battery, what would you do? Well, what i will do is plug in my back battery which can make it last about an hour and use that. This new battery is still not in the market but officals have BIG plans for it. If you want more, check out http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10098739-54.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1 

Credits to Cnet

Internet in space

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In the nearby future as NASA builds moon bases on the moon, the Internet would get an upgrade. The technology is still being developed but the Military and some other organizations have their eyes on it. The idea is to send packets through satellites into space and radio stations on the moon will bounce it that back. This would help with geotagging, submarines would get information quicker and enable communication with the moon or other objects in space.

For more information, http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10102081-2.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 

Credits to Cnet.

Obama

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President-elect Barack Obama is going to hand over his most trusted gadget over. If you haven't heard the news, you sure have now. Any guesses on what it might be?

Comment with the answer, first person gets a post about them and their achivements!

Animoto TEST!

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I created a TEST video to experiment with Animoto features and it was good, check it out @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbDRNJrQqEI, comments are ACCEPTED!

Animoto!

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If your one of those users that don't like using Windows movie maker to make videos, heres a another choice. Animoto is an application that "jazzes up" your videos. It analyzes images, feels your music and customizes a video. I am trying it out right now and I will report as soon as I have enough. Special thanks to Mrs. Krembs and check out her blog @ http://dearlibrarian.edublogs.org/ and don't forget to comment

Here's Animoto's site http://animoto.com/. if you have any comments or concerns what so ever, please comment and we will be more than happy to help. To learn More visit http://animoto.com/#learn-more and lets not forget the most important bit, ITS FREE!

Adobe!

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Adobe is expanding itself to phones. The list of phones in general are Nokia's Symbian operating system, Microsoft's Windows Mobile, and Google's Android operating system, But not on iPhone YET. This version is called Flash version 10, I used the beta on my PC and it ran smoothly.

Mesh Beta

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While i was researching on some tech news and reading Gmail, i stumbled up to something called Mesh beta. It lets you store files online and synchronize data with your PC. You can share files with other members too. It uses Windows Live Log in. Its still in beta but new features are gonna be added on soon. Questions, concern of any kind are all welcome!

Twitter

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Twitter was first named "twttr" because the cofounder Biz Stone saw the application that was created by Jack dorswey in 2006, this reminded him of the way birds communicating using short bursts of information, chirping happily to each other. Later they added vowels to make it simplier. Heres a video in youtube to explain twitter:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

KidTechGuru

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If you happen to come across any good tech sites, please comment and we will put it up here. Xavier Lur is our mystery kid behind KidTechGuru. Xavier Lur is 14 years old and is posted in Shangai. He has about 4.5 thousand followers on twitter, that's a WOW! He has a personal site, http://xavthoughts.blogspot.com/, be sure to check out it along with http://kidtechguru.blogspot.com/.

Background Switcher

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You like being creative and have loads of interesting pictures to show but you have to do it manually, then you should try John's Background Switcher @ http://www.johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher/. This funky tool is a free software whoch lets you select a folder with all your favorite pictures in it and lets you change your desktop background to preview them. You get pictures from a website and time the intervels between each picture. I have been using it and it is amazing. You can get it or download @ http://www.johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher/. Please leave any comments of concerns what so ever and we would be more than happy to help.

Digsby

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Digsby is a Multi IM messenger that lets you chat, read mail and post all at once. Its designed for simplicty and you get regular updates everyday automatically; as soon as you restart your computr and load disgby up, you have the upates. I have been using Digsby and I find it interesting and fun to use. Digsby is free to download at http://www.digsby.com/. Have fun and explore, leave comments for any concerns what so ever that you might have and we will be more than happy to help.

Symmy

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http://www.symmy.com/ is a site that offers a lot of features including webchats, phone apps, pc apps, etc. It lets you uses file sharing, call, chat, text messenging, etc. Explore and give feedback!

FreeRinger

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FreeRinger is owned by talkster and is powered by Flash. FreeRinger gives you FREE phone calls over the internet. I am still checking it out and i will let you know more. Special thanks to KidTechGuru.