Recently, when I checked out my home computer after several months I found it does not have Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) installed, The first thing I did was to install MSE and scan whole system. After the scan I kept getting a Trojan:DOS/Alureon.E threat in MSE Potential Threat details.  Even after clicking Clean to remove [...]

Facebook, your favorite social networking website, 9Gag, your favorite website for fun. What if you can use 9gag memes in your Facebook chat ? Yeah its true. It all started when yahoo in early 2000’s introduced chat smileys. The smileys and those emoticons became a major symbol to represent one’s emotions in as few characters [...]

Recently while I gave my order for my business Cards the Card printers goofed up and they printed my email id as ###@live.com instead of ###@live.in . To save myself from the pain of tearing all the cards I thought to get a live.com account as well. But getting it was not easy. I was [...]

Last year, Government of India standardized the official symbol of India currency Rupee and made the India Rupee one of the few currencies to join an elite group of countries like US dollar, euro, which have a distinct symbol of currency. Microsoft has released an update to support the new currency symbol for the Indian [...]

Google has been trying pretty hard these days to make a solid impact in the social networking. Their previous attempts were not very much successful and popular and the failure of these products sky-rocketed the popularity of the rival social networking website Facebook. In their attempt to get something new, Google has introduced another social [...]

Facebook smileys and their chat emoticon codes are the text codes which when entered correctly into the input field of a Facebook chat get them changed for pictures of smiling, sad and other kinds of standard faces. These smileys are very similar to one present in yahoo messenger, although just like Yahoo Messenger, the chat [...]

While using Reliance NetConnect USB Modem for my daily and official requirements, I many a times was required to work on two laptops. Having a single Internet connection could have been hindrance had it not been a feature present in Windows 7 to share the Internet. To enable Internet Sharing of USB Modem in Windows [...]

A shocking blog post title, but a bitter one to ingest. Last week one fine day when I woke  up I found a mail from PayPal in my Inbox which stated : Upcoming changes to PayPal User Agreement for India? With effect from 1 March 2011, you are required to comply with the requirements set [...]

Many a companies have been following GO Green ! funda nowadays. Be it an IT company or a non – IT Company, emphasis is made on using the resources wisely. One such resource is Paper. Printing of emails and various books in companies have been restricted and advised to use wisely and only if necessary.  [...]

In a webcast @ Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Facebook announced a messaging service coined as ‘Facebook Social Messaging’ which he introduces as not e-mail, but modern messaging which is said to be seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple and minimal.  With over 550 million users, Facebook has been in news from quiet a few [...]