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Install GadgetTrak onto your USB device. If it gets stolen, when the "new owner" plugs it into his/her USB port, the device will call home. Essentially, users who fall victim to a gadget theft can flag the system to start tracking down any applicable IP information, location, usernames, and ISP deets that are found when the crook plugs your gizmo into their PC.

My latest love " Wordsource ". This would be my online dictionary and thesaurus from today. A very clean & ads free website that provides us the feature of checking words via URL directly. Confused? Type word.sc/confused it would give you the meaning of confused. Besides this, this also helps us to do advanced search via Prefix, Suffix, ZIP Code, City & Domains. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Web 2.0 would change our web habbits......

" Shelfari " a product from Tastemakers,Inc is an online bookshelves. It helps us to build virtual bookshelves and discover popular books in friends and critics. I found my first experience with Shelfari quite amazing. This website also allows me to Influence people by rating & discussing books online Participate in online book groups to further explore literature Interact with and learn from authors It also allows us to buy books online via Amazon.com . Adding to the above, I have also heard that Amazon has invested heavily in Shelfari . Learn More: http://www.shelfari.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com

I have been hearing about this book on Leo Laporte's podcasts. It's highly recommended both by Laporte & Steve Gibson of GRC Haven't found it yet. Author Peter F. Hamilton Country United Kingdom Language English Genre(s) Science fiction Publisher Macmillan Released 2001 Media type Print ( Hardcover ) ISBN ISBN 0-330-48006-5

Ever been a victim of a failed hard disk? I have .. and its not a pretty sight Had not my HDD monitoring s/w warned me about the impending failure I would have lost almost 8 years worth of data!! There hasn't been a formal study done (I don't trust the ones published by HD manufacturers) that anyone could call "truly comprehensive". What qualifies as comprehensive? A study collected from more than one hundred thousand disk drives, deployed in several types of systems. A combination of serial and parallel ATA consumer-grade hard disk drives, ranging in speed from 5400 to 7200 rpm, and in size from 80 to 400 GB in an active production environment. Who could do this better than Google. Read it and you'll be shocked! I've already started burning all my precious data onto DVDs. http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Scene 1 Location: Gurgaon Malls (Haryana, India) Occasion: Out for a movie with my wife (tickets booked online for the 4:00 PM show) Time: 3:30 PM on a Saturday (the worst you could choose) Status: Basement Parking Full, Level Parking Overflowing, Traffic Police on the prowl - still looking for a spot at 4:45 PM Result: Imagine, Go Wild! Scene 2 Location: Gurgaon Malls (Haryana, India) Occasion: Out for a movie with my wife (tickets booked online for the 4:00 PM show) [Script Change Starts] Logged into http://www.parkatgurgaon.com, booked a slot from 3:45 PM to 8:45 PM @ Rs 20/hr paid in advance using the HDFC Netsafe Card [/Script Change Ends] Time: 3:30 PM on a Saturday (the worst you could choose) Status: Drove the dusty Zen into my reserved bay at 4:00 PM, was greeted by name & a smile At 8:30 PM came back to a spotless car Result: Imagine, Go Wild! Calling entrepreneurs with a vision: Do this guys and see how your stocks soar. --------------------------------------------------

Alienware's ohhhhhh! factor killed me almost. Alienware Area-51 7500 , is here to rule. This Intel® Core™2 Duo loaded desktop is best in its class. Some key features which I liked most are: Standard Intel® Core™2 Duo with Dual Core Technology Standard NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7950 GT512 GDDR3 dedicated video memory Optional Dual NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GTX ( I choosed this one for my wishlist) Starts from $2,499 (:D) Standard High Definition Surround Sound Audio (Supports 8–channel 7.1 24–bit audio RAID: Options 0 and 1 Available for HDD Optional 2x Blu-ray Disc (BD-ROM) Reader / WriterEight Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports (6 Back / 2 Front) See more: http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Area-51_7500/area-51_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-AREA51-7500-R4&SubCode=SKU-B -Eye of the Tiger

A new item to my wishlist. Samasung 940UX , a 19'' monitor that simplifies connections by using USB. It is expected that @ CeBIT (is one of the world's most important computer expos), Samsung would introduced this cutieee. Hooking up my monitor with USB would be much easier for me ( USB are damn smooth to connect as compare to VGA connectors). Ahhhh! DigilAll world .

Just when I thought I had seen it all, my fellow blogger sent me this IM. I was in the middle of something important, but since he has this uncanny ability to come up with stuff that makes you look twice, I decided to check it out . Swarmthe?? The name lacks cool factor but thats that only thing about this site that isn't. You got to take a look for yourself to believe. It uses anonymous usage stats (remember that Google Toolbar option??) to show in real time who's visiting what and how!! Amazing!! right? I had to literally force myself to close it and get back to work. And yes, I posted this from home ;)

This is something that has been around for years and is a simple solution to avoid hackers executing code using buffer overflows/overruns. From the MSKB 875352 Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies that perform additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system. In Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, DEP is enforced by hardware and by software.The primary benefit of DEP is to help prevent code execution from data pages. Typically, code is not executed from the default heap and the stack. Hardware-enforced DEP detects code that is running from these locations and raises an exception when execution occurs. Software-enforced DEP can help prevent malicious code from taking advantage of exception-handling mechanisms in Windows. Software DEP is crap! You need to have a DEP at a processor/bios level. To check if you do, just try this little app by Steve Gibson. http

Awe---some !!! My first reaction when I checked Zilo for the first time. This website helps us to choose our own products (from ZiloShop) and earn commissions on each sale ! This venture has recently been launched in US by Centralcast (Owned by Jeremie Berrebi & David Levy). Zilo has already created a success story in France with its country specific website. I'm sure we would have a great time with this new kid on the block....... Realated URL: http://www.zlio.com/ http://www.zlio.com/?page=about http://thefrenchtouch.zlio.com/

Yahoo!'s Mixd (the group texting and photo sharing via mobile phone) is going down on 25th Feb. So far Yahoo! Mixd is only available for US phone carriers. But, I would prefer to see such services/projects (with Yahoo! Mobile) for other countries also.

Licensing issues allow limited number of MS Office installations. Online office portals are very popular and till now I hadn't come across anything close to Google Docs. Enter EditGrid It allows online collaboration that I dearly used to miss in Google Spreadsheets. Other USPs are: 1) User Contributed Templates 2) Chat 3) Remote Data (pull data from other sources) 4) Add-ons and many more... Here's how the workspace looks like: Please do comment about it.

I've come across many home-office setups that I drool over, but this one took the cake. I came across Stefan Didak's HO setup on one of Chris' feeds. And there started my next quest. I'll try a multi-monitor setup at home. Check-out the link and you'll fall in love!

My excitement about Yahoo! pipes took a beating for the first few minutes. Reason? Internet Explorer 6.0. Yahoo! Pipe pages do not render correctly, some options are not visible and the worst part, I cannot save a pipe!!! Recommended Browser : FireFox Happy mixing!

Yahoo has decided to make a solid comeback in 2k7. After Yahoo Our City , we have a new RSS feed remixing tool Yahoo Pipes . Yahoo Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code. It's a beta service from Yahoo Team and the name seems to be inspired from Unix pipes. Good Luck My Old Champ "Yahooooooo"

Chris Pirillo. The creator of Gnome Dex and self inspiring, self made man. He used to host "Call for Help" I have been getting the Lockergnome newsletters for almost three years now and I've recently started getting Pirillo's Picks . I discover something everyday, something worth sharing with others. So I guess its time I shared Pirillo's Picks with you. This is what you need to do to subscribe: 1) Send an email to: picks@lockergnome.com 2) Add the feed at : http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo to your RSS reader/browser

Yahoo OurCity (India) is a new launch from Yahoo India team. Our City is a dynamic representation of content created for DELHIets (& Banglorians also). There is a lot to Explore and learn on this website. Currently, Yahoo OurCity offers information about Delhi & Banglore (Indian Silicon Valley) only. Hope Yahoo would be able to tap more Indian web surfers with such concepts. Good Luck Yahoo Team.