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Archive for February 2009

Some news from the mobile world

Posted by: manoj1987 on: February 27, 2009

It is time when the mobile giants are trying to do something different and something more to woo their customers .

Motorola ,the American Fortune 100 company ,has joined hands with Pressmart Media (“the world’s online press ” as they call themselves ) to bring live news on-the-mobile to motorola users . Pressmart is based out [...]

Its time to un-install Adobe Reader !

Posted by: manoj1987 on: February 24, 2009

Adobe Acrobat reader is a “must have ” software amongst all pc users for reading PDF docs. Of recent , Adobe has warned its users
of a critical vulnerability in Acrobat Reader 9 ,that could cause “Buffer Overflow ” ,  ultimately submitting the entire system into the hands of Hackers. Existing PDFs wont cause any issues,but [...]

Microsoft serious on “Downadup” issue

Posted by: manoj1987 on: February 18, 2009

This is a followup of my article on win32/conficker worm that has grabbed  attention through its widespread infection.
Even Microsoft seems to be hit by its spread. Recently , it has come forward to offer $250,000 to anyone who “catches” the worm authors.
One of the worst scenario of this worm affecting day to day operation ,is [...]

Install JEdit in Ubuntu : How To

Posted by: manoj1987 on: February 17, 2009

JEdit is a simple and cool looking editor designed using Java . The interface is pretty much the same in both Windows and Ubuntu. I would consider it as an alternative for kate in Windows .
To install JEdit in Windows , just download this executable.( 2.6MB)
Installing it Ubuntu is equally simpler .
You can [...]

Survival of the “Darwin”

Posted by: manoj1987 on: February 13, 2009

” Survival of the fittest ” , a phrase popular among every educated person . And no hints are needed to guess the genius who coined it . Charles Darwin is celebrating his 200th birthday this year and his findings still revolutionise researches related to evolution .The entire scientific community—the AAAS, the National Academies of [...]


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