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5 Steps to Securing Your Windows XP Home Computer

                            Most people are aware that there are continuous security issues with Microsoft's Windows operating system and other programs. However, what most people do not realize is how easy it is to significantly improve your computer's security and reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim to ever increasingly sophisticated threats that lurk on the internet. These steps should take less than a couple of hours to complete and should not clean out your wall 1) Windows Update – the first crucial step you need to take to make sure that all your Microsoft applications have all the latest product updates installed. These updates or "patches" address security vulnerabilities and other issues. Microsoft usually issues these updates on a monthly cycle. Visit the Microsoft website or switch on automatic updates from the Windows Control panel. Even if your "new" computer is second hand this is still a critical first step. If you buy

New features of iPhone 4

                                   Plus thing about the apple is they always come with the new things and latest model. So now they come up with the iPhone 4.                                       iPhone4 is said to be the reincarnated version of iPhone and contrary to the expected release, before Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs opened the model design it somehow got released and thus got involved in the controversy but still its true release took place at 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference by Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs in the conference claims to offer over 100 new features in the iPhone4 including high-resolution display, a faster processor, and video calling. But what caught the eyes of everyone was the addition of new antenna and a gyroscope. iPhone4 will be available in two model color which are white and black and in two memory storage 16GB which will cost a fair of $199 and the other with 32GB at $299. Thus the hope of all iPhone users are held with the eagerness of a more

Sun technology for your kids

                             Have you heard the word “Broiler Chicken?” if not than these are the tag names for those kids who carry thick glass even more thick than your window glass on their eyes and have body structure of a ball. Yes they are the most criticized kids who spend most of their time in home after the school playing video games and other modern gaming on their personal computer.                                Thus now you would know the secret of their fatter glass over the nose and the stored fats on their belly. For these kids their personal computers are their best friend and best buddies. If you spend even half an hour with them they will talk about gaming, Wikipedia and mails instead of footballs, playground and hide and seek. They are those pity kids who know essence of flowers not with petals but with the brands of perfume that have the smell of flowers from their parents’ dressing table. They have complete knowledge of Wikipedia through heart but

Turn your Body into a Touchscreen Interface

                     “Finding the keypad on your cellphone or music player a bit cramped? Maybe your forearm could be more accommodating. It could become part of a skin-based interface that effectively turns your body into a touchscreen ,” notes from NewScientist . What is being addressed is “Skinput,” a technological project developed by Chris Harrison from Carnegie Mellon University, and Desney Tan and Dan Morris of Microsoft Research. Read more about it here. Notes about Skinput (retrieved from official research document):                            We present Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as an input surface. In particular, we resolve the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. We collect these signals using a novel array of sensors worn as an armband. This approach provides an always available, naturally portable, an