Friday, February 25, 2011

Now Lock your vehicle using a Password

Have you spent sleepless nights worried about the safety of your vehicle? Well, now you can be at ease. G Sankar Narayana, a technician in the Indian army and currently attached to the Queen Mary's Technical Institute (QMTI) at Khadki, has developed a security solution to prevent vehicle thefts.
The kit, developed by Narayana, has the facility to unlock and start the vehicle by entering a password which can prevent vehicle theft. The kit priced at Rs 270 has been developed using parts available in the local market. According to the police, on an average 3,000 cases of vehicle thefts are registered every year in Pune, which has a vehicle population of 20 lakh.

Narayana belongs to 127 Sata Regiment of Artillery (ARMY). Following an accident in Bikaner five years ago, he has been placed in a low medical category (LMC). He then enrolled at QMTI for a rehabilitation electrician training course.

According to Narayana, the idea of the kit came while observing his family at home. "At home my wife forgets to switch off kitchen appliances and my son plays with these equipment. I always worry that he might get injured, so I developed a 'password kit to control the mixer grinder'. Now, switching on and switching off the grinder is far safer," he said.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

What users should know about new internet protocols IPv6

Many web surfers don't know it, but the introduction of new internet address standards might change the way they get online.
Since the supply of usable addresses governed by the IPv4 standard (internet protocol, version 4) has been exhausted, IPv6 has now been introduced. This will allow a previously impossible variety of addresses, says Christoph Meinel, a professor at Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute.
But what does this change mean for everyday surfers? Here's an overview.
Why are IP addresses necessary?
In order for internet-capable devices to share information, they need a unique machine-readable address. These addresses are assigned based on a standard of internet protocols.
But, since humans have a hard time remembering these strings of numbers, websites are also labelled with domain names, like www.google.com. When these addresses are typed into browsers, special servers translate them into IP addresses for the benefit of the computers.
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
Until now, IP addresses have been assigned in blocks of four numbers with up to three numerals each: 217.79.215.248, for example. The new IPv6 standard won't convert the numbers into the decimal system, rather a hexadecimal system, recognized by its combination of numbers and letters.
The new standard can be recognized by its eight blocks, separated by colons - 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:1428:57ab, for example.
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12 new file formats in the Google Docs Viewer

The Google Docs Viewer is used by millions of people every day to quickly view PDFs, Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations online. Not only is viewing files in your browser far more secure than downloading and opening them locally, but it also saves time and doesn’t clutter up your hard-drive with unwanted files.

Today we’re excited to launch support for 12 new file types:
  • Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX)
  • Apple Pages (.PAGES)
  • Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
  • Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
  • Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
  • PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
  • TrueType (.TTF)
  • XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
Not only does this round out support for the major Microsoft Office file types (we now support DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS and XLSX), but it also adds quick viewing capabilities for many of the most popular and highly-requested document and image types.

In Gmail, these types of attachments will now show a “View” link, and clicking on this link will bring up the Google Docs Viewer.
You can also upload and share these files in Google Docs, so that anyone can view the content using their browser.
And as always, the Google Docs Viewer is available for use on any website, with both a full Chrome and embedded option. More information can be found here
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Micromax EG333 Dual Sim Phone active (CDMA+GSM) with EVDO CDMA 3.1Mbps

Micromax EG333 Dual Sim Phone (CDMA+GSM) Features & Specification:

Micromax EG333 is first dual sim touchscreen mobile phone which offers high speed EVDO CDMA (3.1 Mbps) and GSM connectivity at the same time @ affordable price in India. 
 All those who have been waiting for a dual sim active phone, your wait is over. Checkout the unboxing of EG333. Its powered by Tata photon!

  • CDMA EVDO (Rev. A) Download speed up to 3.1 Mbps
  • GSM/GPRS/EDGE
  • 3.2” inch Touchscreen Display
  • 2 Megapixels Camera
  • Expandable Memory storage
  • Nimbuzz Multi-Instant Messenger
  • Pre-Loaded Opera web browser
  • Bluetooth + A2DP
  • SMS/MMS/Email
  • Snaptu for quick access to Facebook & Twitter
  • JAVA Support
  • MP3/MP4 Player
  • Polyphonic Ringtones
  • Games
The price of the EG333 has not yet been announced but considering it is a Micromax phone , one can expect it to cost below Rs.8000
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    Download your Facebook photo on desktop

    Now you don’t have to upload all of your photos to a public website to share them. You probably have thousands of photos and that would be a big problem. We don’t think it makes sense. With Fotobounce you can manage all of your photos on your desktop or laptop computer, and share only the photos you want to share. Version 3.0 of Fotobounce allows you to create a network with your friends and family. A private network where you are in control and define what is to be shared.
    Fotobounce has always employed advanced photo organizing techniques including the use of face recognition to save time tagging your photos. Our organizing style is people-centric because that is how we believe people manage and share their photos.
    You can also connect to your photos remotely from an iPhone or Blackberry using Fotomobile. You can export your photos to a USB stick or a digital photo frame. You can create masterpiece print products such as photobooks, posters, calendars, and mugs through our print partners.
    You can connect to Facebook, Flickr and AirSet with full two way transfers of photos. Fotobounce is still the best solution around for working with Facebook. With the help of this apps you can upload our photo to existing album or create new album or download current photo of yours and your friends locally on your desktop.You can view slideshow of album without downloading photos locally .
      Create private photo sharing networks
    • Transfer full resolution photo images
    • Identify and tag family & friends
    • Built-in face recognition
    • Organize your photos by People
    • Facebook, Flickr and AirSet integration
    • View photos from your mobile device
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    iWEBLEAF Laptop @ INR.5000 or less

    Orrisa based company iWEBLEAF has recently launched a mini laptop with INR 5000 or less .Earlier this company has launched USB 3G device with price of 1300 INR which is very less than current market price
    Below are the snap of this laptop released by company. We are eagerly waiting for the 3G device of this company and their laptop in open market




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    Thursday, February 17, 2011

    Shorten your URL and know if email has been read

    The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. For example, the short URL goo.gl/hzCLX is a convenient shorthand representation for the http://www.todaytechtalk.info .This feature is help full to find out whether someone has read your mail or not.If you are sending you email then just shorten a URL and ask the recipient to click. If recipient has clicked then it will be logged. suppose you have sent a short URL like http://goo.gl/hzCLX and asked the recipt to click it ,if it is being clicked then you can see the status by just adding + to the shorten URL like this http://goo.gl/hzCLX+ .you will able to see the graph when it was clicked and what is traffic status like from which location it was clicked what is OS used etc. Hence you can easily know know that user has seen your mail.
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