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Metronome

A metronome is any device that produces regular, metrical ticks (beats, clicks) — settable in beats per minute. These ticks represent a fixed, regular aural pulse; some metronomes also include synchronized visual motion (e.g. pendulum-swing). The metronome dates from the early 9th century, Abbas ibn Firnas (810-887 AD), was patented by Johann Maelzel in 1815 as a tool for musicians, under the title “Instrument/Machine for the Improvement of all Musical Performance, called Metronome”.^{[1] – As per Wikipedia}

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Pakistan block Facebook

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Pakistan has blocked Facebook over "Draw Mohammed" Day. The Facebook page at the center of the dispute -- "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" -- encourages users to post images of the prophet on May 20 to protest threats made by a radical Muslim group against the creators of South Park for depicting Muhammad in a bear suit.

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Docs.com

Sharing documents online has been a difficult task and you either need to upload it online or sent as an attachment. Microsoft has announced a new service called Docs.com which allows you to create or upload documents, spreadsheets and presentations online and then share it with your Facebook friends. You can login with your Facebook ID and then share the docs. The shared docs are available to all your friends or you can selectively share them.

Improve privacy in Firefox

If you’re one of those people who is very particular about protecting your privacy you might find many sites on the web today very intrusive. There are some basic steps that a lot of users might be familiar with, like clearing your cookies and browsing history frequently. Here are some advanced tips on how you can improve your privacy if you use Mozilla’s Firefox web browser to surf the web.

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1. Clear a particular URL from your browsing history

Firefox tries to help out users by preserving their browsing history and offering to fill out the address of a previously browsed website as you begin to type it in the address bar. However, if you visit a specific site and don’t want your parents, spouse, boy/girlfriend etc, to find out that you visited it, you can delete just that site from the Firefox’s history.

Using Windows

Start to type out the URL, and when Firefox pops up that site in the list of sites, select it by moving your cursor over it (but don’t click) – and click the Delete key on your keyboard. NOTE: the Delete key is not the Backspace key – make sure to use the right one.

Using OS X

Start to type out the URL, and when Firefox pops up that site in the list of sites, select it by moving your cursor over it (but don’t click) – hold down the Shift key and click the Delete button on your keyboard.

2. Set smart cookie settings

There are a number of websites that don’t allow you a normal browsing experience without having your browser accept all cookies. If you are not a fan of cookies and want to browse this website there’s a nice solution to the problem. You can, of course, manually erase all the cookies after you are done browsing such a website. A smarter way to achieve this might be to use Firefox’s built in setting that deletes all cookies when you close your web browser.

Using Windows

1. If you are using Firefox 3.6 on Windows you need to go to Tools -> Options in the application’s menu.

1. Click on the Privacy tab. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.

1. Set the cookies bit to Keep until: I close Firefox

Using OS X

1. Select Firefox and then Preferences

1. Select the Privacy tab. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history

1. Make sure Accept third-party cookies is checked, and then select I close Firefox from the Keep until: menu.

3. Clear History Automatically

Like in the previous tip, you can have Firefox clear your history every time you close the browser. This is a particularly good thing to set on a publicly used computer.

Using Windows

1. To set this navigate to Tools -> Options in the application’s menu

1. Click on the Privacy tab. Under the section titled Private Data you will find a checkbox with the words Clear history when I Firefox closes.

1. You can also fine tune this option by clicking on the Settings button next to it. Here you can set what private data you want cleared. You can set Firefox to clear your saved passwords, browsing history, cookies, cache, and more.

Using OS X

1. Select Firefox and then Preferences

1. Select the Privacy tab. Make sure the box next to Clear history when Firefox closes is checked

1. You can further secure Firefox by determining what other data should be deleted when you close Firefox by clicking the Settings button. This will bring up a window with many choices.

4. Use Master Password

If you have set Firefox to save the passwords you use to login into your web accounts and want to maintain some degree of privacy while using them, Firefox allows you to set a master password which allows these passwords to be used.

Using Windows

· To set this navigate to Tools -> Options in the application’s menu

· Click on the Security tab and select Use a master password

· Enter your master password in both of the provided fields. Click OK when you’re done. Henceforth Firefox will ask you for this master password once for each browsing session for the saved passwords to be used.

Using OS X

1. Select Firefox and then Preferences

1. Select the Security tab and place a check in the box next to Use master password.

1. Now enter your password in both the spaces provided. Click OK. For each Firefox session going forward, you’ll need to enter your master password before you’re able to enter a user/pass on a web site.

Gmail security enhanced

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Google on Wednesday introduced a new security feature for its Gmail users that provides notification of unusual account activity.

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Simple Google Hack Gives You Free Access to Online Newspaper Articles

Online newspaper sites like the Financial Times require users to sign-in if they want to read more than one article on their site. The New York Times too had such a restriction in place earlier but they seem to have dropped that requirement now.

The Wall Street Journal, on the other hand, is a subscription-based site. They do offer free access to some of news stories but all the premium content is behind a pay-wall and therefore available only to paid subscribers.

Since these newspaper websites are part of the "First Click Free" program, someone visiting them via Google search can read the first page of the story without registering or subscribing. The first click is therefore "free" but the user will have to sign-in or register to read further.

First Click Free & Google Visitors

However, due to a possible bug in the implementation, the registration prompt gets bypassed for Google visitors giving them free access to all the news articles -- even the premium content meant for subscribers.

It works like this. You first copy the web address of any news article that is behind the registration firewall and paste that URL into the Google Search box. Now click the first Google result and you’ll be able to read the full text of the corresponding story without registering or subscribing

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Cloud computing may backfire

Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson says the tendency to rely on cloud computing may backfire in some high-profile way in the coming year. "It could be a service-outage-type catastrophe or a security-based catastrophe," he says. "It will be the kind of disaster that makes you say, if you're a [CIO]: 'That's why I didn't get involved with the cloud.'"

Cloud computing Relevant Products/Services enthusiasts be warned. Next year, computing services handled remotely and delivered via the Internet may undergo some kind of "catastrophe" that alerts companies and consumers to the risks of relying on the so-called cloud Relevant Products/Services, says Mark Anderson, chief executive of Strategic News Service, an industry newsletter circulated to senior executives at technology Relevant Products/Services companies including Intel, Dell Relevant Products/Services, and Microsoft Relevant Products/Services.

A growing number of businesses and individuals are handing storage Relevant Products/Services and various other tasks to outside providers, from photographers archiving pictures with Yahoo!'s Flickr to companies turning over complicated computing operations to Amazon. Tech prognosticator Anderson suggests that the tendency could backfire in some high-profile way in the coming year. "It could either be a service Relevant Products/Services-outage-type catastrophe or a security Relevant Products/Services-based catastrophe," he says. "In either case, it will be big enough. It will be the kind of disaster that makes you say, if you're a [Chief Information Officer]: 'That's why I didn't get involved with the cloud.'"

The warning on cloud computing is one of a handful of predictions from Anderson, who in December makes forecasts for the coming year. He also says computing wars will intensify in hardware Relevant Products/Services and operating systems, especially in the mobile arena. Growth in netbooks and smartphones and increased reliance on cloud computing will continue to transform personal computing from the market dominated by Microsoft's Windows Relevant Products/Services and to a lesser extent Apple's Mac. "The desktop Relevant Products/Services will seem like a calm island that is surrounded by chaos, where all these opportunities are with no clear winners," he says.

Anderson is particularly bearish when it comes to the cloud. "My hunch is that there will never really be a secure Relevant Products/Services cloud," he says. Businesses will view cloud services more suspiciously and consumers will refuse to use them for anything important, he says.

Cloud computing experts note that high-profile security breaches have already occurred. "Clouds don't make applications fail-safe," says Chris Hoff, director of cloud and virtualization Relevant Products/Services services at Cisco Systems. He points to Magnolia, the social bookmarking service that crashed and lost all its data Relevant Products/Services earlier this year. "There will be other events like these in 2010, as there were in 2009 and 2008," Hoff says.

Still, many companies will conclude that the benefits of network Relevant Products/Services-delivered outweigh the risks. "Even if there is an outage, it won't affect adoptions," says Rich Mogull, an analyst at Securosis, a security research firm. "Providers who compete with the vendor [that) goes down will come around and tell everyone how they're different. There will be some pullback but no dramatic change in adoption of the cloud."

Also on the horizon for the coming year, Microsoft will face multiple operating system challenges, including competition from a resurgent Mac OS, Google's Chrome OS, mobile operating systems from Android, Nokia's Symbian mobile OS, and others. "Two years ago it would have seemed like Windows had this all locked up forever, and now tell me who will win on all those hardware platforms," Anderson says.

Netbooks will gain in popularity and within a couple years will become the biggest segment of the personal computing market, Anderson contends. As netbooks and smartphones and Web tablets take hold, content in all forms will continue to break free from long-held restrictions, becoming substantially more mobile-friendly than ever. First-run TV shows and movies will be as readily available on handheld phones as they have been elsewhere -- for a price.

Apple's iTunes, which sells not only music and TV shows, but also mobile applications, has proven Relevant Products/Services that people are willing to pay for content on their phones, Anderson says. "They'll pay a small amount of money, but they'll happily pay," he says. "Some things will be free, but increasingly they won't be."

Online Content Will Finally Earn Cash

The willingness to pay for mobile content, in turn, will drive adoption of small payments, or micropayments, for content, Anderson says. Those over 35 who perceive value to content will be willing to pay. Those under 35, who are accustomed to getting content for free, won't, he believes. As consumers age, Anderson predicts their attitudes will change.

News media will also become increasingly willing to charge for content online. In recent months, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has said the company will start charging for content on its newspaper sites. "I hate to say it, but Rupert is right," Anderson says. "People who have things of value in the media business damn well better charge for them."

And while software giant Microsoft will continue to dominate on the desktop, Anderson believes the company will lose relevance in the consumer electronics and mobile markets -- except in the gaming arena. "It's time to say it: Microsoft has lost its play for consumers," Anderson says. "This is mostly about the phone."

The most important mobile players will be Apple, Nokia's Symbian, and Google's Android. Microsoft is going to have difficulty finding new revenue streams, Anderson holds. "It doesn't mean its going to stop growing, but it does mean that its growth is going to be pretty moderate and then it may taper off," Anderson says.

How accurate are Anderson's prognostications? Last year he predicted that voice-activated applications would come to smart phones, harnessing computing in the cloud. He forecast that the wireless industry would settle on a technology standard known as LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, for its next-generation technology. And mobile applications such as those on Apple's iPhone, he said, would catch on like wildfire.

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Hotmail Stolen Password Review

IDG reports that security researcher Bogdan Calin analyzed the 10,000 stolen Windows Live Hotmail usernames and passwords that were leaked late last week and found that users are still using simple, common and downright stupid passwords.

Passwords that used simple number sequences such as 123456789 made up half of the top 10 most common passwords. The other half of the list is made up of names alejandra, alberto, and alejandro, which lead Calin to believe that the passwords were stolen by a phishing kit targeting Latinos.

Security sites recommend that passwords should contain a combination of letters, numbers and other characters. Calin found that just 6 percent of the Hotmail passwords met such standards of complexity, but more than 60 percent were either lower case letters only, or numbers.

Interestingly, the longest password Calin found was "lafaroleratropezoooooooooooooo".

The top 10 passwords were:

1. 123456

2. 123456789

3. alejandra

4. 111111

5. alberto

6. tequiero

7. alejandro

8. 12345678

9. 1234567

10. estrella

Source : computerworld.com

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Google announces Push Email support for mobiles

Google has announced that push Gmail support for Google Sync.

Announced last year, Google Sync lets you synchronize your Gmail contacts and your Google calendars with your iPhone, S60 devices and of course, Windows Mobile devices. Yesterday, Google announced another feature for Sync that a lot of people are likely to jump at: Push Gmail support.

Those of you panicking about having to Sync your contacts and calendars too, don't need to worry. You can pick and choose what you want to synchronize so if you just want you mail, that's totally okay.

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Facebook Grows Rich

The world's largest social networking site just got bigger with the announcement it has 300 million active monthly users from around the globe.

Facebook also revealed that it had started making money ahead of schedule.
The company had not expected to start turning a profit until sometime in 2010.
"This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a strong independent service for the long term," said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
"We are succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable way. We are just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone.
"We face a lot of fun and important challenges that require rethinking the current systems for enabling information flow across the web," Mr. Zuckerberg said in a blog post.
'Milestones'
The news that Facebook had passed these two benchmarks was made at TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco, a conference for start ups.
Facebook hit the 250 million user mark back in July. It is estimated that the site is gaining about five million new users a week, or 50 million in the last 75 days.

More than 70% of users are outside the United States
"Passing these milestones to me means we can continue to fund our development and our innovation and be self sustaining as we grow this network," Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's vice-president of engineering, told BBC News.
"We think 300 million is a just a step on the way to get as much of the entire world on the social network communicating with the friends and family and the people they want to communicate with."
"That Facebook is able to continue this growth and build a "cash-flow positive" business is an impressive feat," said Nick O'Neill of AllFacebook.com.
"If the company can cover the cost of scaling to one billion users and still manage to break even, there's no doubt that the company will have a great opportunity to rake in billions," added Mr. O'Neill.
Facebook's Mr. Schroepfer said the company had worked hard to get more money flowing in than out.
"The growth of the network has certainly helped us go cash-positive and the engineering team has done a lot of innovation on our ad products, as our business is primarily advertising-funded.
"As more and more of the world gets on the network, people and advertisers realize the power of sharing information, whether it's about a movie preview or a car," said Mr. Schroepfer.
Look out Twitter, said Ben Parr, who is associate editor at the social media blog Mashable.com.
"If Facebook continues to open up its platform and adopt Twitter's best features, it could spell trouble for the Twitterverse. The world's largest social network is on the warpath," warned Mr. Parr

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Fast Flip for Google News

Google is testing a service that will let newshounds read Web pages of magazines and newspapers like they were flipping through an old-fashioned paper copy.

Fast Flip is being tested in partnership with 36 publishers, including The New York Times, Newsweek, and Salon.com, which will get a portion of the revenue from ads that Google plans to sell alongside Fast Flip pages.

Fast Flip gives publishers more of what they want: a chance to share in the ad revenue generated by Google News combined with the spotlight and traffic that comes along with inclusion in Google News

But Fast Flip requires publishers to showcase more of their content than a simple Google News listing requires, which could allow readers to completely skip clicking through after getting the gist of the story from the first few paragraphs

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Facebook Lite

Facebook has just launched a new version of the site, called Lite, to give users a simplified, faster-loading experience than the traditional www.facebook.com. The company has said it’s intended to help new users, especially people with with poor internet connections, have a better experience than they have had so far. The app is only live in the US and India, according to Facebook developer Blake Ross, but a worldwide rollout doesn’t seem too far away.

As anyone who has tried to access Facebook on a slow connection already knows, features like photos can take forever to load, or even not load at all.

But more generally, the design aesthetic of Lite is appealing. The news feed includes a simple top toolbar, just items from your friends and a few obvious buttons for posting updates or media. The profile page is similarly bare. However, there’s no bottom toolbar for any third-party apps. There are currently only a few crucial in-house apps available. Facebook’s own Photo and Video apps are located within the profile page, while Events is available in the top toolbar.

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