Author: Sankaranand

Have you ever wonder that your computer might be vulnerable to hackers and virus, or do you know that open ports in your computer can exploit all information ? Well although you use Anti-Virus software, it is recommend to use a Firewall inaddition to the Anti-Virus. Some Av’s come with in-built Firewall but some use an external firewall, but what makes us to think is whether your firewall actually works ? or what does it do ?

There is an answer for all your questions, Go ahead and test your computer or firewall in free firewall test sites. Actually these sites scan your computer ports and let you know if any of the ports or open or if your firewall really blocks the unwanted incoming traffic or not. They try to send packets of information to your computer.
Some of the sites listed below will allow you to scan your computer for any open ports or if your computer firewall is working well. The sites listed below are my favones where i usually test if my firewall works and insure that all my ports are in stealth mode.

• Shields UP! – Internet Vulnerability Profiling
• HackerWatch – Test your Firewall
• AuditmyPc – Firewall and Port Scanner

Comment your Test Results here so that we can know how safe your computer is.

PhazeDDL is one of a Famous Warez Search Site that indexes all the Warez site. One can say its a google of warez site, but while visiting that page, i found that google gives page rank for that site, it has given 5/10 for that warez site. Its a Suprise that google gives page rank even for a warez site. Not only PR but when i tried to find all the index pages of this site via google it returned about 29,000 results in 0.05 seconds. The results are as follows

Phazeddl fulldownloads, games, warez & movies, NOD32 Anti-virus v2.51, AVG Anti-virus, Logi XML, Nero Ultra Edition 7.0.1, EMS Data Generator etc..

And the Funniest Thing is Google helps you find warez easily just type the following keyword in google searchbox

site:phazeddl.com software name

Example site:phazeddl.com norton, site:phazeddl.com mcafee…

LastWeek you might have heard an article that google indexes microsoft protected pages but it not indexes protected pages but also helps users to find warez… Google must take some steps to prevent this..

One of a blog says that the user has tried to Create a label but the name of the label was denied. He used “voicemail” as label name but google denied the request as invalid.

There is no Doubt that google is already offering voice over ip in its Gtalk and in the Future google will enable users to save voicemails like yahoo did. It wont be more surprising that the Competition on Voip Biz is Very big so i think providers will do thier best to enable features.

Lets wait for this feature from google…..

[update] Google Released the new version of Google Talk….

Download Google Talk here. Now You can use voicemail and filetransfer.

Google Adwords are testing on a new method of getting feedback from users about the sponsered links they display on google search engine

When i was searching for notes on EDGE Technology of GSM and i just found the Sponsered link with a Question asking Was this link Useful ? . Generally users click no to show thier negative feedback and i think google will not be satisfied with this feature.

Eventhough that link was useful i feel no one would have desire to accept it.. Google users will discover new changes and releases of google in this year..

Whats max ? – “Max is a Freeware, actually its not a product but Today Max lets you make beautiful photo slideshows to share with your family and friends. And it recently began showing you the latest news updates from around the world. What will Max do next? Stay tuned! ”

This is what microsoft says …. i think its an opportunity to try an exciting new user experience from Microsoft… More will be Released under this name..

You can Download Microsoft Codename from Microsoft MAX Website.

Google BSD Search Engine is a powerful search engine for Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The logo of the Devil Looks cool but the page seems to need some formatting. Although the Google Bsd Page
is live at Google.com/BSD , i think google is still working with the interface of the page. The main page of Google BSD does not contain much description about the search and its been not publicized well like other search products. Some never even heard about it. Try to search unix in both the google.com homepage and google bsd page, the results are clearly different…..

While i was trying to index all the pages from google.co.in, i found google.com/ie and google.co.in/ie ! when i tried to click it i got a google search page that looked like below.Well does anyone of you have any idea of what purpose this special kind of search engine used ?

when i tried to search in it i got some unformatted results, i could say that i got only the title of results not the description. You can watch the live site at either
www.google.com/ie
or
www.google.co.in/ie
And please reply your feedback … The search box doesnt have a fixed width, and the google logo is small, is that a test server or what ? What i could see is only a google toolbar ad which when clicked re-directs to toolbar download page, maybe i think its a starting page for prompting Internet Explorer users to download Google Toolbar.

Well, its Firefox time and i found an interesting extenstion called Ajax Yahoo mail Extenstion, Designed by Vivek Jishtu. By Using Ajax Technology, it lets you to preview your message with single click without leaving your inbox.
But Unforunately the new yahoo comet users dont need it, and useful only for classic yahoo mail users. If you feel that Yahoo mail beta is not fit for you, then you can install this Firefox Extenstion from Mozilla Site and make your mailing experience easy…
You can Even Download attachements with single click and send back message using Instant Reply…

This Extenstion works well with Firefox 0.9 – 1.6 all

CityCita is a powerful group-organizing tool that allows users to get together online and meet face to face locally wherever they may be. This Website has been launched just some weeks before..

The Gui is simply nice and it has good features and same like orkut or google groups, but unforunately it allows user to join only in not more than 5 groups and to create not more than one group.

But i have found a way to create more than one group,

After registering with http://citycita.org, create a desired group then you will be the organizer of it, now unsubscribe from that group, then go to account settings and destroy your account and re-register.

Now after Re-Registration, you can create another group, then after creating another group, search for your previous group then subscribe to it.

You might see that no one will be subscribed to the old group, so when you subscribe to the group, you will be asked for confirmation whether you want to organize the group or not, confirm it and you will now be able to organize more than one group in CityCita.

You can Repeat the Steps above, if you want to create more groups…