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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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Apple Adds Explicit Category to iPhone App Store

Raju — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:47:39 +0000

All those who were saddened by Apple’s decision to remove 5000+ racy apps from its app store earlier this week can begin to rejoice! It looks like Apple has decided to backtrack on its decision yet again. Initially, the company sought to purge any overtly sexual applications due to customer complaints and its own decency standards.

But, the decision to remove those applications didn’t go well with many especially since several apps such as Playboy, Victoria’s Secret, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2010, FHM, and Maxim remain in the App Store, while others got purged all of a sudden. Meanwhile, Cult of Mac reports that a new category labeled “Explicit” has appeared to developers interested in submitting apps for approval.

The change could signal that Apple is preparing to launch an adults-only section of the App Store that would segregate potentially offensive content from the remainder of applications. The category is not yet in the App Store but it is likely a way to keep some of those “racy” apps in the store without disturbing parents and (17 year old) kids.. This coincides with the launch of iPad tablets sometime later next month.

Apple gave no warning to developers before pulling the apps, and similarly has not made any announcements regarding the addition of an explicit category. It has not told developers whether or not banned apps can be reinstated under a new system.

I already see few people rejoicing!

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TechCrunch’s Clarification on Comments Deletion

Raju — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:17:53 +0000

The big daddy of Tech Blogs – TechCrunch has released a clarification on its policy and status of deletion of comments on its older posts, saying all the comments are still safe in the database and will be reinstated soon. This comes soon after Amit Agarwal, from Digital Inspiration wrote a post late yesterday on possibility of removal of comments in bunch on all the older posts of TechCrunch.

Robin Wauters writes that

The title of that post left little to the imagination: it read “TechCrunch Removes Reader Comments From All Older Blog Posts”.
That allegation in itself is inaccurate, as is most of the rest of the article, so I felt compelled to respond quickly and offer our side of the story.

Though Amit says that “Your comments have not been deleted from the actual WordPress database but they aren’t putting them on the site anymore“, the title of the post which goes like “TechCrunch Removes Reader Comments From All Older Blog Posts” has not gone well with TechCrunch and hence they has come up with a quick clarification post.

According to Robin, this is a direct consequence of what happened in January this year when Techcrunch was hacked.

We were amongst the first to report the hacking incident, and if you remember, on the very same day, in the very same post, we noted the discrepancy in comments on TechCrunch.

I believe that the assumption of TechCrunch removing comments on older posts in order to minimize the page load time was too far fetched. It is true that they get 100+ comments on almost every post they write, but I am sure someone like Techcrunch would come up with better ways of minimizing the load time (like comments pagination) than removing the comments all-together!

Robin’s post confirms the technical glitch being faced at TechCrunch with respect to the user comments on older posts. I am sure Arrington has a great team of technical personnel and they should be able to bring the blog to normalcy very soon. A clarification post like this helps readers to know and understand what really is happening at the back end!

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Instantly Turn Your Office Paper Into Toilet Paper!

Raju — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:52:15 +0000

The title might sound ridiculous, but surprisingly enough, it is true! A Japanese company has unveiled a machine which would shred the useless office paper and then transform it into toilet paper!

It shreds the paper, which is then dissolved in water, thinned out, dried and wound into toilet rolls

If you found the news funny, the name of this unique machine must knock you off the chair! It is named White Goat!! The White Goat stands 1.8m tall and weighs 600kg. It’s been in development for years and will go on sale in Japan this summer.

The company says it costs around 10 cents to churn out 1 roll, and regular usage of this machine will save up to 60 cedar trees annually. Quite cool isn’t it? But wait, can you guess the cost of the machine? Hold your breath – it is $100,000.

Pop in 40 sheets of regular paper, and a half-hour later, out comes a roll of toilet paper. Check out the video proof below

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How to Uninstall/Remove ESET Nod32 Antivirus Completely?

Raju — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:32:14 +0000

I personally adore and recommend ESET Nod32 Antivirus / Smart Security suite for everyone. But there are times when you want to test some other antivirus solution on your PC or may be want to use a different version of the same ESET antivirus and that would need you to uninstall the current Nod32 antivirus totally from your PC.

If you are facing problem to uninstall or remove ESET NOD32 antivirus, or if you want to totally remove NOD32 from your computer or if you need to uninstall NOD32 and need to install another antivirus, this article gives a detailed description to remove ESET NOD32 antivirus form your computer. Just follow one of these simple methods.

Steps to uninstall or remove ESET Nod32 antivirus completely

Method 1: Uninstall NOD32 by using Windows uninstaller

1. Click on Start → All Programs → ESET → Uninstall. After you uninstall, you will need to restart your computer.
Warning: Do not attempt to uninstall your ESET security product using the Windows Add or Remove Programs utility from the Control Panel.

2. After restarting, confirm that you can see hidden files and folders by clicking Start → Control Panel → Folder Options → View and select the Show hidden files and folders option.

3. Click Start → My Computer and then navigate to and delete the following folders:

C:\Program Files\ESET
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ESET
C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\ESET

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users must delete the following folders:

C:\Program Files\ESET
C:\Program Data\ESET

NOTE: The uninstaller may remove the above folders automatically. If you are unable to find the folders after selecting Show hidden files and folders, the removal is complete.

Method 2: Uninstall NOD32 by NOD32 removal tool

This is the easiest way to remove NOD32. Follow the following steps:

1. Download NOD32 removal tool by clicking here [Download NOD32Removal].

2. Install the Nod32 removal tool

3. After finishing uninstallation, Restart your computer.

Method 3: Remove NOD32 manually

This method is the most complex amongst all the methods. Apply this method, when all of the above methods fail:

Restart your computer and start Windows with Safe Mode. Press the F8 key while rebooting and choose Safe mode from the list.
Click on Start menu and then click on Run.
Type regedit and hit Enter key of your keyboard.
From the registry editor find the following keys and delete them:

[a] HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESET
[b] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ESET
[c] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\egui

Click Start → Control Panel → Folder Options → View, Select Show hidden files and folders.
Go to C:\WINDOWS\inf folder and delete INFCACHE.1 file from that folder.
Now. Restart your computer and after reinstallation, delete the following three folders.

C:\Program Files\ESET
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ESET
C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\ESET

By following the above steps, you can easily remove ESET NOD32 antivirus totally from your computer.

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Get the Whole of Wikipedia in a Single CD

Raju — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:48:33 +0000

Wikipedia, the free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project is probably the best source for all the information on the internet. And now, an Argentinian group has managed to shrink virtually the full content of Wikipedia onto a CD which can be read with on-the-fly compression.

According to PyAr, the Argentinian Python Users’ group, this has been done to distribute the CDPedia CD to remote schools which lack internet connectivity. The CD contains the full Spanish-language Wikipedia for either a 680MB CD-R or a 4.5GB DVD-R. Bittorrent is used to distribute the ISO images, which can be burned to a CD-R, as well as a larger version that fits on a DVD-R.

There’s a copy of the Python language – available on Linux and OSX – included on the disk for Windows users. Content, obviously, is frozen at the point the disk was finished – mid-2008. It has been named as CDPedia.

The DVD9 version has all 448,038 articles of the Spanish Wikipedia that were dumped to html in June 2008, and 98 percent of the images. The CD version carries a big percentage of these articles and the images of the most relevant articles

Accoring to PyAr, a more up-to-date version would be available by the end of March. The code of the scripts used to generate CDPedia is free software, licensed under a GPL license and available at http://code.google.com/p/cdpedia/

I would expect someone would build the English version of Wikipedia in the same way. You will be the first to know when that happens! Note that there is a similar project from Wikimedia foundation – called Wikipedia-on-dvd, but that version contains just around 2000 articles from Wikipedia.

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Download WinPatrol Plus for Just 99 Cents [29th Jan Only]

Raju — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:52:34 +0000

I am not sure how many of you have actually heard about WinPatrol Plus. Just in case you don’t know, WinPatrol is an amazing security software which is known for to be extremely lightweight and equally competent intrustion detection program.

I don’t intend to prove why I regard WinPatrol so high in this post (would do a proper review post later on). But you can read go to this post to understand why you must try WinPatrol Plus.

Now coming to the actual point of this article – For a very limited time (just 24 hours) starting at midnight EST on Jan 29th 2010, WinPatrol Plus will be available for just $0.99! Everyone can buy this amazing software for less than a dollar! Normally, WinPatrol Plus costs $29.95 per license.

Best thing about this deal is that once you buy the software on Jan 29th, you will be entitled to receive ALL the future updates for absolutely free of cost! I honestly believe this is a great app to have at such a small price! Mark your calendars and make sure you visit winpatrol.com on Friday, 29th Jan 2010 to get your very own lifetime license of WinPatrol Plus for only $0.99!

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Google Wakes Up – Https by Default for all Gmail Users

Raju — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:49:23 +0000

There is certain amount of laxity when it comes to completeness or readiness of a product or a service. I am talking about Google, the big daddy of Internet. Be it Feedburner or Google wave or even Orkut, Google seems to be lethargic in fixing the bugs. Same with Gmail as well. All these are high quality products, mind you – leaders in their area of use, but still far from being perfect.

Especially Gmail, possibly the most popular free email solution on the web currently, has had lots of complaints with respect to security. Let us get it straight, no product is fool-proof, no email solution is hack-proof, but I simply fail to understand why it took so much time for Google to enable https by default to all Gmail users? It’s been more than 20 months since we wrote a post tipping our readers to Always Use HTTPS to make Gmail more secure. A month later Mike Perry demoed a utility called Gmail Hacking tool which showed how easy it is to break Gmail’s security.

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Better late than never. Google is now rolling out default HTTPS for everyone. The total HTTPS connection will just ensure that none of the conversation between the GMail servers and your PC will be unencrypted. It must be understood that HTTP is not a secured protocol in its own. But HTTPS which is a Secured form of HTTP protocol encrypts your Data while it is transferred from your Client Machine to the Web Server. So if any Third-party malicious user interrupts in your connection then the encrypted data remains secure and cannot be recovered.

The whole thing is a direct result of the attempted hacking of some Gmail accounts in China. It’s good that Google takes its security seriously, and they’ve made that more clear by announcing that all Gmail accounts will now default to the encrypted version of the service.

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