Category: Technology

Google talk has an auto sorting feature of buddy list which we might have not realised or ignored. The main part of it is that google talk automatically sorts the buddy list based on the status of user and thier activity.

Whenever a buddy list is displayed in gtalk they are sorted based on thier alphabetical order as second category and status as first category. For example check the screenshot on the left.

In the screenshot the top list of buddies is naveed, since his status is available he is displayed in top and in the second list it is thakur who uses a busy status and so he is sorted next to available status. And the last status is anandh who is simple idle and so he is listed at the last of the buddy list.

We might have never noticed that google talk has this interesting feature, that automatically sorts the list. Soon more features will be discovered keep updated with my blog if you like my posts…

Srinivasan, one of my friend was researching with unicode supported applications. Many of us were not aware of Unicode (a Encoding technique with 64 bits of Character sets) that are native in some of our OS. Generally most of us are using Windows XP, in which the support for unicode is much wider. According to Srinivasan, one can use thier own languages in any unicode supported applications. Some of Unicode supported applications are Gtalk, Msn Messenger etc.

He used Tamil a south indian language as default language for instant messaging. We are never aware of this great feature by which we can use Instant messengers like gtalk, msn for communicating in our own language. He has written a detailed tutorial on how to use tamil in unicode supported languages in his blog. His tricks works well for Tamil Language only.

For other Languages, you can go to Tavultesoft Keyman and select your language keyboard but for installing this keyboards you need keyman console. After installing both of them, you can use your regional languages in any unicode supported applications. I just tried using hindi in gtalk and it works fine………..

When i opened a mail which seem like spam, i was just wired looking at the mailbox. Check the below screenshot, actually the test was wrapped out of container

and the sender information and more options are displayed at the bottom of the mail. Gmail is yet not ready to come out of beta and it should work out bugs.. This bug appeard both in regular gmail and gmail for your domain. There are still other bugs to report.

Does that mail look wired without any sender information or more options at the top ?

Nowadays Phising and Fraudlent mails has become familiar in the word of Internet and users who are technically illiterate were unaware about it. You might have heard about many fraudlent cases about nigera and paypal scams. There are some sites that was born upon to do Forgery.

When i came across a security site, i found this Mcafee SiteAdvisor Add-in for Browsers. This add-in is available for all type of browsers.

This add-in helps you by protecting from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, phishing, online fraud, and identity theft.

This add-in monitors your surfing all the time and searches its database with your stats and ensures you whether you are browsing a genuine site and alerts you when you signup or visit a fraudlent pages.

From my view i think every internet user should install this handy tool which is not less than 100 kb. This Add-in works perfect for me and it even reviews all the search results of google and yahoo.
The other best thing is its free and available for different versions of browsers.
You can download this Extenstion from the link below

• Download link for Firefox
• Download link for Internet Explorer
• Download link for Other Browsers

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.