I just saw “The Strangers” has just come out on Apple’s site. I saw this movie 2 or 3 months ago in the theater and I could not believe how bad it was. The movie is about a couple that want to an out of town wedding. After the wedding they went to his parent’s cabin in the woods then “The Strangers” came and killed them. The movie was way! to long like 2 hours too long.
Dell is soon going to ship its Netbook, Inspiron Mini 9 as Vostro A90 available in 9 different colours. 8.9″ screen and Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB HDD and 1024 X 600 display. This piece is selling in japan for $972 ! This is pretty high price and with that price, you can get a nice configured netbook of HP or any other brand. It is expected that Dell will sell at one-third of this price in UK or chances it would sell is negligible. Who insane will buy netbook for nearly $1000 when you can get it for $350 for same specs.
MSO8-067 : Microsoft has made a update to their server security issue which was reported by someone privately. The loophole in this is that if any affected server is send a RPC request, it allows access. Without any authentication for arbitrary code, the attacker can exploit it. This Critical update is necessary for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This security update actually will tell server how to actually handle special RPC request and hereby avoid get exploited by some hacker.
Kb958644 : Download this security update from Microsoft website so that any unauthenticated third party doesn’t gain control over your system. This update is applicable to Windows XP users.
Lenovo provides one of the largest range of laptops with tons of notebooks in both IdeaPad and ThinkPad series. The range is so wide that you can get almost assembled type PC in both notebooks and desktops. Lenovo also sells servers like IBM does. In ThinkPad, there are series in different price range starting from R series to X series tablet to W series. And U series and Y series and also S series in IdeaPad models. You can customize your PC online with extras and accessories like Web cam, bags, etc. and then get it shipped at your place in 2 weeks time. There are some good models in Lenovo like Elite ThinkPad R500, ThinkPad T61, etc and like IdeaPad U330 in U series of IdeaPad.
If you today exchange one dollar in India, you would get whooping Rs. 50 per dollar. XE shows Rs. 49.1 for 1 dollar and in India i know you get a rupee more than that listed at XE. So finally the mark i wanted dollar to reach has reached. I would still suggest dollar to be at Rs. 45 for some healthy rupee because this shows how weak rupee has got against dollar. I hope rupee doesn’t get weaker than this because then its not good for economy also because developing countries import major things and lower currency value means more outflow of currency. The crude oil prices have been dropping but govt. still doesn’t think its right time to cut petrol prices in this environment of inflation where most basic amenities are as much costlier by 30-50 %. Dollar value is definitely high in India currently. This means if you buy any gadget or device from US, you need to pay about 25% more than what you would have paid 3 months back when dollar value was at Rs. 40 per unit.
The latest entry in blogging service providers was Profy, a Russian startup which gave its service as social networking sort of blogging. That’s fine. Also i looked upon it promising that it would provide some very good service after its major downtime. But several weeks back everyone who had his/her blog on profy must have got message to backup their profy data as they were going for some transition period for major developments. I had contacted profy when it was just started and they said response was quite good from public. But now its seems after a long time that they have shut down their blogging platform and only thing they do is write tech news and latest web 2.0 happenings on their profy blog. I contacted again to profy why it was taking so long for their logging service to come back live and they said its still under development. Today i again tried to open and here is what i get :
The Profy blogging platform is currently suspended for transition. We apologize for the inconvenience and will appreciate your patience. Feel free to contact Svetlana Gladkova at s.gladkova@profy.com with any questions you may have.
Its seem they are now not as enthusiastic about blogging developments as they seemed when they started because i have never heard about whats going about their blogging service, when would it become live again for their users. They just blog about tech news like sites like Tech Crunch do. It seems to me as they must have felt like not favourable in blogging field and just shifted their attention towards just blogging about online news or they should have officially blogged about developments on their blogging service.
Now this is one proof which seems to say that their startup was just publicity stunt and nothing else than to promote their tech blog.
We will wait for next 8 weeks and see whether they still resume their blogging service and if not, it would be clear that they just wanted to gain popularity and readers for their blog (which is tough in today’s time) by just opening a sucking blog platform (yeah, it didn’t have much features, hmmm, no, no features at all, they were yet to add some and those social features never came).
Lenovo ‘IdeaPad’ series features some exclusive business class suited notebooks priced above $1000 range. Today i will review IdeaPad’s model 22672BU. Also model 22672AU is also available with minor configuration change. The idea of whole game of keeping so many models is to perfectly make a model which best suits you or which is almost near to your configuration you want. That is the reason these brands keep a lot of models with minor differences between 2 models.
Configuration – Intel Core 2 Duo processor P7350 2 GHz, 1GHz FSB and 3 MB L2 cache, 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM, 250 GB HDD at 5400 rpm, DVD recordable, ATI Radeon HD 3450 256 MB graphics card. Supports Wi-Fi. Battery is still 6 cell lithium ion one.
13.3 inch WXGA TFT Anti-glare and also comes with Integrated Webcam. One year warranty on parts and labor and even 1 year warranty of system battery.
Operating System – Windows Vista Home Premium. The RAM Type is DDR3 than DDR2. Model 22672AU has 3 GB RAM and 320 GB HDD. All other configuration same as BU suffix model.
Price of U330 – 22672BU – $1200
Price of U330 – 22672AU – $1300.
Lenovo ThinkPad T series has 3 models, T400 and T500. I will review T61 model. T400 had 14.1″ screen instead of 15.4″.
Configuration – Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz T8100 with 800 MHz FSB and 3 MB L2 Cache. 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM. 80 GB HDD at 5400 rpm. No Bluetooth. Ultravnav. DVD Recordable 8X, has 128 MB Dedicated NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M. Supports Wi-Fi, 6 cell Li-Ion Battery.
15.4 inch WXGA Widescreen TFT. Comes within 1 year depot warranty. The only drawback i feel is 80 GB HDD. A PC must at least have 160 GB HDD in today’s time.
OS – Windows Vista Home basic. Priced at $860 on lenovo’s official website.
Just recently, Orkut has added a new feature for users. This is ‘View this Conversation’ in you scrapbook which lets you know what conversation you had with the person you scrapped. I suppose this a cool new and helpful feature that orkut has just added.
This feature is quite helpful. Every time you scrap to a lot of people and often you receive the scrap after a time period.Maybe you forget for what reason you scrapped the person that he scrapped you back. Clicking on this ‘View this conversation’ feature will show you your conversation. Also if you are sending and receiving scraps to a person on spot, say a lot of scraps you have send and opposite person has replied and you want to anytime check your scrap conversation, simply click on this new feature in your scrapbook scrap and you will see the conversation of yours with the opposite party.
With this feature, you wont now need to figure out what scraps had you send earlier and what discussion was going on and with one click get to know all your conversation on your screen.
Like Open source OS like Linux are distributed free to all, when can we have some very good Anti-virus software free for all computers owners ? Virus and Anti-Virus have created a business in themselves. Virus and Trojan makers make viruses and other destructive things for us while users daily update their Anti-virus database or buy new Anti-Virus software for a good price. Why doesn’t government or some other body distribute Anti-Virus software free to all so that productivity of people isn’t wasted on concerning about viruses and malwares instead create a business out of this. We spend quite a amount of million every year on computer security and specially on a good Anti-Virus software. Anti-Virus software in my view should be made free for all so we can sleep better and not run after formatting our notebooks or finding viruses and infected files on our laptop. (You think i am insane now ?)
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