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‘Who is Checking my Facebook Profile’ [Scam]

Raju — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:20:49 +0000

Off late I am being bombarded with loads of notifications on my Facebook profile and most of them are about me being tagged in a photo and a comment following that. And as you see in the screenshot above, they are about my friends checking ‘Who is glancing through my profile?’ or ‘Who has seen my profile?’

Yes, Facebook provides me an option to Hide and free myself from all such alerts. But the issue is that I see that there are many such apps (with different names) but doing the same thing. The app lures the users by promising to reveal which of their friends are checking out their Facebook profiles recently.

You must know by now that Facebook clearly states that such a thing is very much against their privacy policy. But somehow these apps are making their way into the Facebook app directory and (un)surprisingly find enough ~~stupid~~ innocent people to install them and get fooled. The names of some of these apps have SPAM written all over them. http://apps.facebook.com/azklaukfwucevsz/ is the name of one such app!

It seems, there are some Facebook pages as well which promise to reveal the identities of all those who are checking their Facebook profile, but I am very sure that they are nothing but fake and scam as the users are forced to complete surveys after surveys.

Why I think all these apps are fake? Because most of the notifications I get from Facebook are from those friends whose profile I have never checked. I checked this with a couple of other friends who also shared the same view as mine!

I am not sure what is the process followed by Facebook before approving these apps, but they certainly need to buckle up and evaluate each of them before giving a go-ahead signal.

Update: And now, within minutes of publishing this post, I see one of the apps taken down

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Apple Cannot Monopolize the Letter ‘i’ – iGood!

Raju — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:27:16 +0000

iPod, iPhone, iMac and now iPad – iApple has managed to set a trend in naming their devices. No wonder the letter ‘i’ has become synonymous with Apple, but now, Apple has been dealt a severe blow having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter “i” as part of the name for its products.

An Australian trademarks tribunal has rejected Apple’s bid to stop a small company, manufacturing laptop bags and cases for Apple products, called DOPi from trademarking its name since Apple believed DOPi is way too similar to iPOD, Apple’s popular portable music player.

Apple has always been known for its over-zealous legal team plunging on any individual or company it sees as infringing on its copyright and trademarks (who turn blind eye when Apple itself crosses the line with trademarked names like iPhone and iPad).

Apple argued that punters might be confused into thinking that they were buying an Apple product because of the letter ‘i’ in DOPi, but the tribunal said, Apple overlooked the fact that there were already a large number of products that have the “i” prefix, for example iSkin and iSoft to name just two, all of which are operating in the same class of electronic goods as Apple.

Of-course this doesn’t mean end of all legal battles pertaining to Apple trademarks, but is surely a huge dent to Apple’s legal team’s reputation.

[via]SMH

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‘Genuine’ iPhone 4G Pictures Leaked

Raju — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:16:51 +0000

The rumors about Apple releasing iPhone 4G has been making rounds for more than a year now and the latest one to join the fray is a set of pictures released on Spazio Cellulare which is an Italian forum for gadgets.

The ’supposedly leaked’ pictures of iPhone 4G seems to have been taken in some dodgy warehouse to make it look realistic! It is interesting to note that the box carries the name “iPhone 4G” on it. I wonder if Steve Jobs would decide upon a name as straight-forward as that!

There are no specs accompanying the so called ‘leaked’ pictures of iPhone 4G.

Anyway, I am not complaining. All you creative souls, keep trying and keep coming out with more such amazing designs and colors for the next iPhone release.

[via]Techradar

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Airtel Users in India Gets Free Broadband Upgrade for IPL

Raju — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:46:46 +0000

You must be knowing by now that all matches of IPL 2010 will be streamed live online on Youtube, starting today, 12th March 2010! This means people across the world can watch all the T20 matches right on their computers for free!

That is great news, no doubt! But what if your internet connection speed is not good enough for live streaming. As you know, for viewing live streaming video, the net connection has to be at-least 1Mbps or above. Well, if you are in India and using Airtel broadband, here is some good news and bad news for you.

Good news first! Airtel has announced that they will be automatically upgrading the broadband plan of all its customers to a speed of 2 Mbps for FREE during the entire duration of the IPL tournament without you having to do anything. That means no more “buffering” stoppages while watching live cricket videos on your computer! One has to note that the speed upgrade works only for Youtube, while other browsing other sites will be based on your existing plan.

Upgraded speed of 2Mbps applicable only for content streaming on youtube.com/ipl page and not for other YouTube content.

Now comes the bad news, when you are upgraded to 2 Mbps, the data transfer limit will still be governed by your current broadband tariff plan. So, watching cricket matches on higher speed internet connection might provide glitch-free viewing, but too much of IPL can quickly exhaust your data limits and then you will have to pay per byte which is often not very cheap.

This is a smart calculated move from Airtel and I suggest the users to be careful about the bandwidth consumed.

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Get F-Secure Internet Security 2010 6 Months Free License

Raju — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:49:11 +0000

F-Secure has been one of the most popular and most effective antivirus and internet security solutions over the years. F-Secure Internet Security 2010 combines antivirus and firewall with beefed up Web security, parental controls, spam filtering, and behavior analysis. Now, you have a chance to get a free license of this premium security suite by just commenting on their blog post.

Key Features of F-Secure Internet Security 2010

* Easy to install and use
* Real-time blocking of viruses, spyware and other malware
* Instant protection against new threats (DeepGuard)
* Firewall for protection against hackers
* Browsing Protection identifies dangerous websites and protects your identity online
* Protects children from inappropriate web content
* Spam & phishing e-mail filtering

F-Secure has launched a new blog called, Safe and Savvy, which is run by the woman employees of F-Secure across the world. To promote the opening of the new blog, F-Secure is giving away free licenses to users who comment on this blog post.

Now, that is as easy as it can get. No crappy forms to fill, no registration required, no surveys to complete. All you need to do is leave a sensible comment on their post and you will be eligible for a free license of F-Secure Internet Security 2010 valid for 6 months! Only a few licenses are up for grabs, so go ahead and try to be amongst the first ones to leave a comment.

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HP & Adobe Take a Dig at Apple iPad with Flash Demo

Raju — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:38:18 +0000

Just when Apple is preparing for a grand launch of ~~iBad~~ iPad on April 3rd, HP and Adobe have released a video demo of HP Slate running Adobe Flash, like ability to play videos anywhere on the internet (and not just Youtube), playing flash games etc.

Also, Flash will allow users to access other content-rich applications on the web such as magazines and casual Flash-based games. Not just Flash, Adobe demonstrated HP Slate’s ability to run Adobe Air applications as well. This is a clear signs of Adobe moving away from Apple-Flash fiasco and investing more time and energy towards other tablet computers.

HP is yet to disclose the pricing, availability and specification details of HP Slate, but these videos add enough traction to the growing interest of this tablet which is one of the very few ones which can run Windows 7 OS.

HP Slate Adobe Flash and AIR Demo

HP Slate Commercial

The HP Slate commercial looks ridiculously similar to the iPad ad which ran during Oscars 2010. The demo features just the screen and a pair of hands swiping and pressing the Slate’s screen.

What do you think? Does the HP Slate seem like a much better alternative to the Apple iPad?

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Google’s Latest Tool to Search Public Data

Raju — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:49:50 +0000

Google has just launched their brand new tool called Google Public Data Explorer, which is an experimental visualization tool in Google Labs aimed at providing an array of data in visual form based upon the statistics gathered from World Bank and other firms.

Google announced that Public data explorer tool will help people find reliable data and statistics on a variety of subjects. Yet again, Google has analyzed anonymous search logs to find patterns in the kinds of searches people are doing in order to prioritize which data sets to include in their public data search feature.

There are more than 80 most popular data and statistics search topics like School comparisons, unemployment, population, salaries etc. Check out the complete list in this PDF.

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Apple iPad [Wi-Fi] Coming on April 3

Raju — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:21:51 +0000

Here ends the suspense. Apple has announced that ~~iBad~~ iPad will be coming to US on Saturday, April 3! Only the Wi-fi version of iPad will be released on April 3rd, while the Wi-Fi+3G models will be available in later April.

As for the countries other than US, Apple announced that all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.

iPad pre-ordering will be available from March 12 onwards for the US customers. The pre-ordering for both Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi+3G models will be available on the Apple’s online store.

The pricing and availability are the same as announced: Wi-Fi models will be available for a suggested retail price of $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available for a suggested retail price of $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB.

Will you be booking one?

[via]Mashable

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Google Nexus One Mini Coming to India?

Raju — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:36:57 +0000

Google’s Nexus One might be coming to India very soon, but not in its US avatar. It will be a “mini” version of Nexus One which may not have all the features of Nexus One, but will certainly be lesser priced than it’s US counterpart.

This was revealed by Shailesh Rao, the Indian head of Google during an editorial meet with Ankit from CNBC-TV18. This is what Ankit had to say on Twitter

Nexus One will not come to India in its US avatar, the India specific Google Phone may be a stripped down version and priced lower!

Historically, Smart phones never had a huge market in India, but now, the Indian market is opening up for smart phones like never before. Google understands that pricing has to be right for Nexus one to succeed. Apple failed to garner any major sales with iPhones when they released the 3G version way back in 2008. Apple never released iPhone 3GS in India, majorly due to the pricing concerns.

This is a nice move from Google if they manage to get the mini version for a price of around INR 15k ($330 approx). The bigger version sells for $530 in US, which converts to INR 25k. So a drop of 10k should lighten up Indian consumers a great deal.

Would you buy a Nexus One Mini if released in India?

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New RemoveWAT Windows 7 Activation Crack Bypasses KB971033

Raju — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:57:12 +0000

Less than a week back, Microsoft released a WAT Update (KB971033) aimed to disable Windows 7 Activation Cracks like RemoveWAT and ChewWGA. And now, RemoveWAT has been updated to a new version which bypasses the new fix provided by Microsoft via KB971033 update.

RemoveWAT 2.2.5 is possibly the easiest and most effective crack amongst all Windows 7 cracks available. It allows illegal activation of Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 by removing WAT completely from the OS, whilst still retaining the genuine status and receiving all updates as normal.

This comes as a huge blow to the reputation of Microsoft as the hacker was able to bypass their new fix within few days of it being released. What’s shocking (for Microsoft) is that, the latest version of RemoveWAT claims to disable the shutdowns on 90 day trial builds of Windows 7

Now provides total WAT protection and fully disables the timebomb in evaluation copies

I expect Microsoft to come back strongly this time around with a quick fix to their KB971033 update. As always, we won’t be providing any links to download RemoveWAT 2.2.5. This post is for informational purposes only. Be safe, avoid piracy.

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