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Try Windows Vista online for free

Posted: June 13th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Tools/Service | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »

Windows Vista demoWant to upgrade your Windows XP to Vista but not sure if it worth the upgrade?

You can take Windows Vista Ultimate edition demo online for free. You can actually use and explore a lot of features of Windows Vista in the demo. The features are categorized in four categories as safe, easier, reliable and versatile. Under these categories you can view and explore new interface, Internet Explorer 7, instant search, Windows BitLocker drive encryption and many others. Advanced user can explore features like remote desktop, group policy, account, firewall management etc.

Although, you require good Internet speed to see Windows Vista in action but this is really cool. check it out.


Firefox 3 Download Day- June 17th, 2008

Posted: June 13th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: News | No Comments »

Mozilla today announced the final release date of Firefox 3. The final version of Firefox 3 would be available for download on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008.
Your beloved browser has got just better. The new smart address bar, more secure and plenty of other new features. See the overview of new features in Firefox 3
Download Firefox on download day and help Mozilla create a world record for most download.


Online travel portals more prone to fraud

Posted: June 12th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: News | No Comments »

A recent report from MarkMonitor, a US based brand protection firm reveals that online travel portal are more prone to brandjacking. Brandjacking (brand+hijacking) is a relatively new term which includes cyber squatting, phishing, false brand associations, pay per click scams or domain kiting. via Livemint.
Read the complete report


Vakow.com- Indian twitter?

Posted: June 8th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Tools/Service | 1 Comment »

Vakow the SMS forwarding portal has transformed it into micro-blogging on tunes of Twitter. Now, you can create your SMS blog on Vakow! and post your micro posts through SMS. Another new feature in new Vakow is you no more require score of +2 in order to send SMS to your subscribers (oops..now they call them followers).

If you are twitter loyalists in spite of their frequent downtime then also Vakow has a solution for you. you can tweet to your twitter account using Vakow and it’s money saving as Vakow has a 10 digit number 99015 54321 unlike twitter’s 5566511, which is a premium number on which you are charged from Rs. 2-3 depending on your service provider.

Way to go Vakow!