“Are You Kidding Me?”

A company called Vervata has released new Pro and Light versions of its FlexiSPY software for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia Series 60 phones. Running invisibly in the background and accessible only via “secret code,” both versions track all SMS messages, call logs, email, and device location, uploading the info to a Web-accessible company server for “viewing and analysis.” Pro additionally lets you turn on a phone’s microphone from any other phone. Yikes. Unethical? Not according to Vervata managing director Atir Raihan, who’s quoted in a press release we received as saying, “While spying on people may seem unethical, cheating spouses, rogue employees sharing private company data, or unsuspecting children receiving SMS messages from pedophiles are all activities nobody wants to see happen.” Interestingly, our company’s Web filter blocked access to FlexiSpy.com. Vervata says FlexiSPY isn’t a virus or Trojan, but F-Secure labels it as malware.

checkout the site at http://www.flexispy.com/

The Google of Code Search Engines ?

Many of my friends who visit my blog are coders, it seems only natural to bring you details here about the increasingly popular Krugle, a search engine specifically aimed at finding code. According to CTO Ken Krugler, developers can spend 25% or more of their time looking for lines of code that could already exist to carry out various functions. As Krugler says, why write code when it’s already written? Already boasting syndicated partnerships with SourceForge.net, Yahoo! Developer Network, and CollabNet, Krugle appears ready to take on Google as developers’ first stop to acquire lines of open-source code and related data. Beyond sporting a dead-simple interface, Krugle offers an enterprise version that’s now available in beta but expected to go live later this year.

Google’s New Features !!!

Google’s a company that never stops surprising us by introducing some really impressive services just when you think they’ve run out of ideas. They’re one company that won’t even bother charging you for these services! I figure out few new products and useful ones  you ought to try.

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iGoogle

Not too long ago, iGoogle was better known as Google Personalized Homepage. iGoogle lets you create a customised homepage that you can set as your browser’s default page with all you want to see when you fire it up.

Google offers new facilities like:

• Add the Weather Gadget
• Change the theme
• Move Gadgets Around
• Make your own Gadgets
• Add a new tab
• Add feeds to iGoogle
• View Gadget source

Google Notebook

One of the new advanced feature made available by google.

Export to Google Docs

When you’re done doing research on the Internet and taking notes, you can export these notes to Google’s own word processing service- Google Docs. To do this, click on Tools and then on “Export to Google Docs”. Google docs will then open up a new document with the notes from the notebook-all formatted and everything.

Note-taking from Firefox

Google has developed a plugin for Firefox that lets you access your Google notes. You can even download the plugin from www.google.com/notebook/download

Share your Notebook

You can share your notes with others as a Web page. Click on “sharing options”. Under “Invite collaborators” enter the e-mail addresses of other users. Clicking the Yes button under “Publish this notebook” gives you a Web link you can send to your friends.

Google Bookmarks

Easy Access through Firefox

Most users cant imagine going to and adding entries manually. Google has thought of everything and given you a toolbar that easily lets you add,edit and remove bookmarks. Visit http://toolbar.google.com to get the toolbar.

Google Bookmarks on iGoogle

You can also put your bookmarks on iGoogle.Those who dont wish to install the entire Google toolbar because you dont need all the features can choose to install only a single button and lets you add bookmarks to Google Bookmarks.

Google Co-op

Create your own Search Engine

Google Co-op lets you create custom search engines where only selected sites will be searched. Lon in to Google co-op. click on the “My search engines” link. Next, click on “Create a new search engine”. Here you first need to enter the name, description and keywords for the search engine. Enter the list of sites you want to search. Read first, and then click on ” I have read and agree to the Terms of Service”. Click Next. You can now preview to check if you get the right results.

Marking Sites

You can choose to mark sites that you come acroaa to be included in the list of sites from the custom search engine.

Google Talk

GoogleTalk’s gadget can be displayed on iGoogle. Those who wish not to run Google Talk’s software client can use the Web based client. If you are a user of both Google Desktop and Google Talk’s software client, you can have Google Talk dock into Google’s sidebar. Using the Web-based Google Talk, you can even play YouTube, Google Video and Picasa Web Albums in the chat window.

Google Picasa Web Albums 

Google’s free photo album hosting site and software allows uisers to directly download albums to Picasa, the image viewing and altering program. You have to first download and install Picasa from http://picasa.google.com

Images can be uploaded to Picasa Web Album without having to manually upload each image using the Web interface.

Enjoy the NEW FEATURES of GOOGLE !!! HAPPY GOOGLING !!!

Microsoft Gives Glimpse of Internet Explorer 8

MICROSOFT SAYS it will continue to prioritize security and ease of use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE browser and will seek to improve Web development in accordance with current standards. Microsoft plans to release IE 8 by late 2008, according to Chris Wilson, IE platform architect. “It’s clear we have a lot to do with the Web-developer platform,” he says. Specifically, Microsoft will make efforts to better comply with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 specifications.

The company also wants to make its browser object model more interoperable, making it “easier to work with other browsers and allow[ing] more-flexible programming patterns,” according to Wilson. “There’s work in the standardization bodies to do local storage and get better security models,” Wilson says, adding that Microsoft is working with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on standardizing HTML 5 and XHTML versions 1 and 1.1. Adherence to standards is  increasingly important to Web-site developers.

Because previous versions of Internet Explorer strayed from standards, viewing certain sites in new versions of Internet Explorer, such as IE 7, can result in page errors, he says. “Web-development compatibility is really crucial for building applications and…for us to deploy browsers, [but] it has to be an evolutionary step,” he says, noting that half a billion people use some version of Internet Explorer. “If we say, ‘Here is your new browser—it’s standards-compatible,’ we actually disrupt the existing ecosystem, and it doesn’t actually make it better for anyone.”