I would try to share what I have learnt Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:46:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.chotocheeta.com/2011/06/02/1st-official-pre-view-of-windows-8-user-interface/ http://www.chotocheeta.com/2011/06/02/1st-official-pre-view-of-windows-8-user-interface/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:46:52 +0000 Choto Cheetahttp://www.chotocheeta.com/?p=2527 Microsoft already said that Windows 8 UI would be a major shift from the ongoing UI which is continuing from Windows 95. This new User Interface or UI would be compatible and easy to use with all the different computing platform and would take advantage of today’s modern applications engines and internet connectivity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I

Microsoft has also launched a website, http://www.buildwindows.com/ in which they would continue to provide more details of ongoing Windows 8 development and preview.

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One of the largest and trusted mobile security vendor Lookout, released a statement with list of newly discovered android market apps containing malware or harmful codes.

These applications, which are being distributed via official Google android market, targeted to infect users who chose to install them on their android device.

The list of infected applications (by developer name) includes:

Magic Photo Studio

• Sexy Girls: Hot Japanese
• Sexy Legs
• HOT Girls 4
• Beauty Breasts
• Sex Sound
• Sex Sound: Japanese
• HOT Girls 1
• HOT Girls 2
• HOT Girls 3

Magic Studio

• Floating Image Free
• System Monitor
• Super StopWatch and Timer
• System Info Manager

E.T. Tean

• Call End Vibrate

BeeGoo

• Quick Photo Grid
• Delete Contacts
• Quick Uninstaller
• Contact Master
• Brightness Settings
• Volume Manager
• Super Photo Enhance
• Super Color Flashlight
• Paint Master

DroidPlus

• Quick Cleaner
• Super App Manager
• Quick SMS Backup

GluMobi

• Tetris
• Bubble Buster Free
• Quick History Eraser
• Super Compass and Leveler
• Go FallDown !
• Solitaire Free
• Scientific Calculator
• TenDrip

The security giant have reported the issues to Google, and hopefully they (google android team) would pull these apps out of market soon, but till then users are on their own to stay inform and avoid installation of these apps.
Read More -> http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/05/security-alert-droiddreamlight-new-malware-from-the-developers-of-droiddream/
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Microsoft will offer Free XBOX 360 to students who would purchase a Windows 7 PC costing USD 699 or above.

Offer valid for US / Canada and France.

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2011/05/12/students-we-ve-got-you-covered.aspx

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When you proceed to install Windows 7 on a clean hard disk, at the time of creating new partition, Windows 7 installation would create a 100MB or 200MB system reserved and hidden partition to store certain Windows restoration features.

To some advance users, the extra partition is waste of system resources and to some its also matter of concern for a place to hide malware.

Windows 7 installation process doesn’t offer us any easy way to avoid this action, the commonly used work around for the process is to install Windows 7 on a previously partitioned hard disk thus not doing the partition process from Windows 7 installation process.

How to avoid / what is the work around for the 100MB or 200MB system reserved partition created at the time of Windows 7 installation ?

One easy work around would be create a small partition of 50MB and then extend it to your desired system drive size. For example, if you want your Windows installation partition to be 30GB, then do directly create a 30GB partition, rather create a 50MB partition and then extend that 50MB to 30GB. This action would force Windows 7 installation process to avoid creating the extra 100MB or 200MB system reserved partition.

Step 1

Create a small 50MB partition from the unallocated disc.

Step 2

Increase that small 50MB partition to your desired size needed for your installation drive.

Now you may proceed towards installation of Windows 7 as installation process wont create that unwanted 100MB or 200MB system reserved and hidden partition.

Do you know any better way ?

If you know any other easier or better way to perform this action, then please do share the information with us by leaving us a comment.

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Performance and unmatched reliability is one of the key pillars of Google’s success and sainthood. However, recent events show, even god can bleed. The worlds most popular blogging service, Blogger, one of the Google’s most important web related product after the search engine is down for more than 30 hours.

Google and many professional bloggers, often identified as web publishes generate heavy revenue via the blogs which are based on blogger. Also worlds media too depend on blogger to collect data from the blogs which are maintained by the users of almost every country which has access to internet.
Officially Google said a faulty update made the system unstable and hence service was pulled out of internet. One may visit their status website to find more details about the restoration process, which now is in its second day.
http://status.blogger.com/
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If you are feeling bore in office and wish to do little time killing, this is the game for that and now its available via browser that too free. Keep on playing till your IT department puts the game URL as in its firewall restriction.

Angry Birds -> http://chrome.angrybirds.com/

• Worked with Internet Explorer 9 (Win 7 SP1)
• Worked with FireFox 4
• Worked with no audio under Opera 11

]]> http://www.chotocheeta.com/2011/05/12/play-angry-birds-free-online-using-your-web-browser/feed/ 0 http://www.chotocheeta.com/2011/05/11/35-years-of-tech-history-via-a-personal-collection/http://www.chotocheeta.com/2011/05/11/35-years-of-tech-history-via-a-personal-collection/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 22:39:41 +0000 Choto Cheeta http://www.chotocheeta.com/?p=2500 Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton have no intention of creating a tech museum but his personal hobby of collecting technological devices is giving us a tour in past via his 35 year old collection to allow us to view how the technological market evolved, and how certain devices got popular while other ideas went extinct.

His collection is now so important that Microsoft is displaying it in their home page.

Look at the collection and then try and convince me that our slow rate of progress is due to a lack of technology rather than a lack of imagination.

—Bill Buxton

Take a look -> http://research.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection

The website takes help of two Microsoft Research products, Microsoft Pivot and Microsoft Tag to showcase the collection to the world via a virtual gallery and unique user experience.

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Some may have predicted that NetBook market would soon die infront of the raising market demands of the tablets like iPAD (Apple iOS) or motorola XOOM (Android). However due to their low end pricing and powerful hardware, NetBooks are far from being phased out.

HP recently came up with a 1.3kg (3 lbs) netbook with some impressive features.

The HP Mini 210

• Intel Atom Dual Core 1.5 GHz
• Intel HD graphics 3150 sub-system with broadcom video accelerator
• 2GB DDR-III
• 500GB 7200 RPM HDD
• 10.1″ LED Display with 1366 x 768
• Bluetooth / Wifi 802.11n / WebCam / LAN Port / USB Port
• Integrated GPS receiver (optional 3G data plan in US Only)
• 1.3kg / 3lbs
• Windows 7 home basic
• Available in 4 color options.

All this priced at around USD 350.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/store_access.do?template_type=series_detail&category=notebooks&series_name=mini210_series

Hopefully, other system builders will follow the trend and should upgrade their range of NetBooks to offer us some more option and competitive pricing.

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Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 costing USD 50 a year is now offered free for first year license. The Security suite includes a VB100 certified Comodo AV engine along with award wining firewall and other protection features.

Download one year free subscription -> http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/internet-security-pro.php
The Software supports Windows XP / VIsta and 7 under both x86 and x64 platform. Also at the time of installation you may chose to install the needed modules (AVS / Firewall) as a stand alone.
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Microsoft has launched a new advertisement campaign against Apple MAC. Aiming towards the upcoming summer sessions, this campaign offers an in-depth comparison of a MAC (all the range) with similar PC counterparts to show the price and configuration difference and available options on the PC platform.

Starting from 11″ MacBook Air to the highest end 27″ iMAC, every single MAC has been put up in comparison with their respective PC counterparts. It seems Microsoft is mainly concentrating on the price factor and choice of different hardware vendor in terms of PC building.

• Contemporary MAC machines cost double the price of PC, where as PC bags more powerful hardware
• With MAC, you have just Apple as hardware provider, where as with PC, you have multiple renowned hardware vendors to chose from.

However, this comparison avoids one of the most heavily debated factor of PC vs MAC. The OS X vs Windows. Since many users prefer mac and pay the high price, just to stay on OS X platform.
Do the Math -> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows7/products/compare/pc-vs-mac/do-the-math?macCode=005
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