heard of Google Pack? well Google Pack is "a one-stop software package that helps you discover, install, and maintain a wide range of essential PC programs" ... they are the ones that are tested by Google, free (not even trail) and helpful softwares specially selected by Google.
It includes:
1. Google Earth
  

2. Google Tool Bar
  

3. Norton Security Scan
  

4. Spyware Doctor Starter Edition
  

5. Google Desktop
  

6. Picasa
  

7. Mozilla Firefox With Google Toolbar
  

8. Google Photos Screensaver
  

9. Adobe Reader
  

10. Google Talk
  

11. Skype
  

12. RealPlayer
  

13. StarOffice
  
 
So what are these? is it a means of ads? i dont think so. Google promotes free softwares, and these are all free, and useful. But i suggest Google Pack does not include Google softwares itself... it should be softwares from outside Google...
So

All images from Google Pack site, copyright remains with the respective owners

Another cool gadget made by Google. This gadget can have many clocks, that can show different time zones. Its very useful when you have group works in which people around the world are involved. Here you can see a screen shot of the Gadget running on my PC, time zones are:
Kamal Singh - US
Kailash Nadh - London
Yannick Stucki - Switzerland
Teodor Mihai Filimon - Romania
Myself - India



Download This!

As you can see, its very easy to track my friends around the globe. 

well, its September 27th... 9 years back, 2 friends, started off their journey to change the world. They started the company called "Google" in a garage, and now its one of the biggest establishment of the world. So on this memorable day, let me wish a very Happy Birthday to my dear Google.....

8 GB iPhone has been unlocked and is on sale over internet for Rs.34,999.00 ie. nearly 835$. Its claimed to have tested to work with all Indian GSM Netrwork Providers including:- Airtel, Hutch, Idea, and BSNL / MTNL.


And what they say is:
- This is the 8GB version of the unlocked iPhone
- The phone is now 100% software unlocked not hardware.
- Visual voice mail will not work on this iPhone as it is a carrier dependant feature
- The phone is in 100% brand new and a test call has been made with it
- The phone has been upgraded to the lastest firmware version: 1.02
- Do not update or restore the firmware of this phone as it may lead to the phone becoming locked
- We will not be held responsible if the user re-locks the phone after purchase

Click here to buy it

Following is an article came in some sites.. my friend had some problems with accessing orkut and using Firefox. So i googled about it and got the following remedy.
Name of the worm is w32.USB Worm It is spreading through Pen,USB,Thump disk thats why the name It shows messages like
"I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE..."
"USE INTERNET EXPLORER U DOPE"
"Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!" with title ORKUT IS BANNED

To Remove
1. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and go to the processes tab

2. Look for svchost.exe under the image name. There will be many but look for the ones which have your username under the username

3. Press DEL to kill these files. It will give you a warning, Press Yes

4. Repeat for more svchost.exe files with your username and repeat. Do not kill svchost.exe with system, local service or network service!

5. Now open My Computer

6. In the address bar, type C:\heap41a and press enter. It is a hidden folder, and is not visible by default.

7. Delete all the files here

9. Now go to Start --> Run and type Regedit

10. Go to the menu Edit --> Find

11. Type "heap41a" here and press enter. You will get something like this "[winlogon] C:\heap41a\svchost.exe C:\heap(some number)\std.txt"

12. Select that and Press DEL. It will ask "Are you sure you wanna delete this value", click Yes

13. Now close the registry editor.

14. Restart the computer

Now the virus is gone. But be sure to delete the autorun.inf file and any folder whose name ends with .exe in the pen drive.
Some reported that after this fix they were not able to see their Hidden folders and files if you have that issue try the folowing
1. Go to REGEDIT
2.[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
3. set the DWORD "NoFolderOptions" to 0 or just delete it..
4. Restart the computer
Try the following links also

1. http://www.freewebs.com/mgsujith/worm/remove.html
2. http://www.jeba.in/posts/w32usbworm-lets-remove-this-worm-manually/
3. http://mgharish.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-dnt-hate-mozilla-orkut-is-banned.html
4. http://my.opera.com/krishnan/blog/index.dml/tag/Orkut%20is%20banned%20you%20fool

So after a small gap i am posting my next article.. about the Spam protection offered in Gmail, Yahoo mail and an easy way to identify spam mails and the orginal. Spam spam spam.. everyone hates that word. So what in the world is a spam mail.. its just unwanted, unsolicited email. Such mails usually comes with the name of big companies like eBay, PayPal, etc... and also another funny way is by telling that you won a lottery and asking you to give your details to get the money and all. Aleast once everyone would have fallen in such pranks... lol.. The spammers get the emails from several sources. If you display your email in a public site, they can get the email easily (as far as i know its done by some softwares). So inorder to getrid of such spammers, we uses several measures like replacing "@" symbol with [at], "." with [dot] etc.. and also making images of email address instead of ordinary text (http://www.pingoat.com/goat/email_antispam ) . Such emails will look like this:

but these days those are also not so protective...

How to find whether an email is spam or not....
As you know, the spam emails contain links and it will direct you to an unsuspected site.. in most cases my this little trick will work mainly for outlook users. See the following screenshots of mails i got to my mail, stated to be from Ebay, Paypal etc... Ebay and PayPal are not spammers. Spammers use their name for making people believe that the mail is not spam.. and also use the graphics same as the company emails. When you place your mouse pointer on any links (mostly "click here") just have a look to the status bar... the link will be directing you to some ip(s), or other sites.. (ex: (dont click please) http://adsl-68-76-253-206.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net:81/ws/eBayISAPI;..... blah blah blah goin on like that) Thats the way to identify most spam emails. Another thing is that, they also place the verified signs (verisign etc..). I have some screenshots taken from outlook displaying how the link is directing us to spam site...


eBay fake mails



Paypal fake mails



Orginal mails
And now the orginal emails. If the sender is known to you, then dont worry. Or if u subscribe for newsletters and all. Also the status bar will show some links in the same domain.. (ex: clicks.ebay.in/... like that) This is a trusted mail:


Spam filter of Yahoo! mail
I had used Yahoo! Mail around 3 years back.. then i use it only for messenger. So after a while i used to delete the mails comming to yahoo. Then i noticed that most are not real mails.. but spam mails. Thus i started collecting a bunch of those.. now i think there are around 3000 spam mails in my INBOX.. thats the funny thing. Yahoo has a folder named SPAM. Its empty always. but instead my Inbox is flodded with the damn spams.. here are a few screen shots of the spam mails got in yahoo mail..


Spam filter of Gmail
I found the spam filter in gmail as effective than that of Yahoo Mail.. as on my experiance, i havnt got any.. absolute any, spams to my Inbox. but all got dumbed into Spam folder itself.. but instead i could find some non spam email, only a few, in spam folder... see the screenshot of the gmail spam folder..


From this article im not intending to say that Gmail is the best.. and Yahoo is the most people used mail. And both has its own features. i intend to show what the spam mail looks like and how to identify them, also i must say that yahoo must improve their spam protection.

This article is completely my view points and not taken from anyother sites. Original Date : Aug 12 2006
Screenshots are nearly 1 year old. But the status of Yahoo mail and Gmail are still the same. I have nearly 5000 spam mails in my Yahoo Inbox now and Gmail has not yet let any spam mails to my Inbox.

Yep, thats right, 10 MB HDD only for $3495. well i was long back in 1980. Its fun to dig the history of computers. btw the ad looks cool