Technology on Me, Myself, and Technology

Root for Micromax Canvas HD (A116), inclusive of CWM recovery

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:20:13 +0000

It’s been ages since I posted here, but I think this post will be worth it 🙂

What we are going to achieve with this:

Update your Canvas HD to the latest *official* ROM, which includes a fix for the Flipboard issue, and the G Sensor issue.
Replace stock recovery by Clockworkmod Recovery. This will make installing future ROMs very easy, and can flash all update zips.
Root your phone. If you don’t know what this is, you probably shouldn’t be reading this 😛

Disclaimer: I claim NO responsibility to what happens to your phone by doing this. You and you alone are responsible for the consequences.

Google’s Web Browser: Google Chrome

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:33:32 +0000

Ok, this just in! Google’s planning on an open source browser based on the WebKit engine.

Via Googlesystem blog,

Google Chrome has been built in a time when browsers no longer render mostly web pages, but full-blown web applications. That’s why browsers need to be more powerful, more stable and more secure. One of the problems of the existing browsers is that a web page can lock the browser and there’s no way to isolate that tab and close it. Google Chrome uses a new process for each tab. “We’re applying the same isolation you find in modern operating systems,” says Arnaud Weber. Each process is sandboxed to prevent malware from affecting your computer.

08/12/07 – BarCampDelhi3

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:44:24 +0000

Heh, no its not a booze party 😛 From the BarCamp wiki:

BarCamp Delhi is proposed to be a camp where we get together and discuss/rant/brain-storm/share opinions about about Web technologies & trends, Mobile Internet, Hacking, Blogging, Vlogs, Social Media, … everything about the Technology that interests us. As said before, “It’s about geekery and having a focal point for great ideas.”

This would actually be the first time i’d be attending a BarCamp. Got to know about BarCamp last year through Amit of Uzanto, but missed it last year. Anyway, im surely attending it this time. Expecting to meet a lot of like minded people geeks 😛 I urge all people who can make it to the event, to register at the BarCampDelhi3 wiki page. As for those who would have to miss it, dont worry, many people would be live blogging the event. Ill also try and blog a bit about it, otherwise ill surely link you to the people who do blog about it in detail 🙂

Releases..

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:12:04 +0000

WinRAR v3.62 (Direct Link)
Yahoo Messenger v8.1.0.209 (Direct Link)
Adobe Reader v8 (Direct Link)

A 2,100 Years Old Astronomical Computer from Ancient Greece

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:31:53 +0000

A 2,100-year-old clockwork machine recovered from the sea has turned out to be the celestial super-computer of the ancient Greece.

The Antikythera Mechanism has puzzled academics for more than a century after it discovery. Latest technology revealed beneath the surface of the 82 encrusted gearwheels bronze fragments a mechanism that could predict the Sun and Moon trajectories over decades and calculate a lunar anomaly that gave headaches to Isaac Newton himself.

300GB Holographic Disc Due Next Month

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:16:15 +0000

Hitachi Maxell acquired InPhase Technologies in 2000 and the subsidiary has been working on the development of holographic media ever since. The present 300GB holographic disc is called Tapestry HDS-300R. The new DVD-like medium is being demonstrated this week at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition in Tokyo. InPhase announced the technology breakthrough in holographic storage earlier this year. The first generation of holodiscs is primarily aimed at commercial users, but InPhase plans to release consumer-grade products over the next two years, when the format should be standardized, hopefully.

Kentsfield Will Cost Less than $1200

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:17:28 +0000

The retail price actually varies from $1020 to $1218 with a medium value of $1167 per CPU. That may not be as cheap as you would expect but it will surely turn out cheaper than the offer coming from Dell: $1234 over an E6300 Core 2 Duo, when you choose the CPU that will be mounted onto your new PC.

Dell plays it cool since it probably has a sufficient amount of QX6700 CPUs, unlike most suppliers who are almost out when it comes to Kentsfield. A quad core with no less than 8MB of level 2 cache is not an easy thing to find in stores. And the situation can only change for the better with the arrival of another CPU from the same family. Q6600 is set to come out in January and will have the same attributes as his older brother but it will work at a lower speed (2.4GHz). The price tag will be of $851.

Core 2 Duo to Reach 3GHz

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:09:35 +0000

Take into account that there is still a large quantity of older NetBurst CPUs represented by the 900 series and only about 20% of the sales this year INTEL has made represent Core 2 Duo products. And thereâ€™s also the problem of availability, since high priced Conroes are pretty rare. And youâ€™d better remember this if youâ€™re planning to buy a new PC on Christmas, since youâ€™ll be lucky if you catch an Allendale CPU.

New phone Nokia N70

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:41:48 +0000

Finally after a month of planning, i bought the Nokia N70! Im *very* happy with it! The sound quality in the headphones is simply amazing! The camera is also of amazing quality! Hopefully this phone should satisfy my appetite for another 2-3 years 🙂

Tech Specs of Nokia N70

WinRAR 3.60 Beta 3 relased

Mon, 08 May 2006 22:23:26 +0000

RAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ, and others. It offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a cheaper price as well as supporting long file names, disk spanning, and self-extracting file creation.

Latest Changes:

Previous beta version could create duplicate copies of same file when updating an archived file with high ASCII characters in file name
SFX module crashed if single string length in “License” or “Text” block exceeded 4096 characters

They are recruiting software professionals. I’ve joined their mailing lists so ill keep you updated.
Get it here.

Sony Will Ship Blu-Ray Media

Mon, 08 May 2006 22:21:40 +0000

Sony Electronics announced that it had begun to ship its single-layer blank Blu-ray optical media and that it would start delivering dual-layer discs at the beginning of June. The company also confirmed the rumor saying that the manufacturer plans to equip its computers with Blu-ray disc drives.

Sony is shipping 25-GB BD media, which will retail for about $25 each disc. The 50-GB versions

It seems that, later this year, Sony will also release the internal BWU-100A drive, which will be able to handle both 25-GB and 50-GB discs, burning a full 25 GB disc in about 30 minutes. Retail pricing for the BWU-100A drive will be available later this year.

VideoLAN Player v0.8.5 released

Sun, 07 May 2006 09:54:26 +0000

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. (business web hosting).
Release: VLC media player 0.8.5 (2006-05-066 May 2006) This new Release features many improvements, including MacIntel support, a statistic system, the support of DV inputs on Linux, improvements in the Audio CD playback (CDDB), many new and improved video filters, a new AJAX HTTP interface, Winamp 2 Skins support, a Mozilla plugin on Mac OS X (PowerPC only), a new default skin..

Mozilla Firefox v1.5.0.3 released

Wed, 03 May 2006 08:21:35 +0000

The award-winning, free Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence – Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Download Firefox now and get the most out of the Web.

Firefox 1.5.0.3 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

Free Download Manager v2.0 build 423 released

Tue, 02 May 2006 12:07:25 +0000

Here’s the best FREE download manager. This is the download manager of my choice. It has every feature of paid counterparts and more..

Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. It is absolutely free! Using this software product you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never before!

KAV/KIS v6.0.1.309 beta released

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:56:39 +0000

Seems to be a fixed build.

Changelog:

Build [309]:
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0
09069 ODS: “Run task if skipped” option sometimes work incorrectly
10000 ODS: Missing an alert “Active Threat Found” if the product started from a network share
10118 Crashes upon first product startup, on build 308

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 FS
06626 Trusted Proc: Proccesses added from a different computer are not properly trusted

Build [308]:
New:
1. Settings for ABS on all tasks for ODS (On Demand Scanner)
2. Setting “don’t display icon in the main window”
3. Support tab is now customizable via the Admin Kit
4. Wizard for On Demand scan task creation

Making Winamp sound better

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:28:05 +0000

Though Winamp has by default a very good mp3 decoder, it lacks many features such as replaygain, resampling, higher bit-depths, etc. Here is where the mpeg123 input plugin by Otachan comes in. This plugin is considered to be the best decoder for mp3 so far. The sound quality is crystal clear. The main plus point is that it supports ReplayGain. ReplayGain is used to make the volume of all audio files equal. I recommend MP3Gain to analyse your MP3 collection. MP3Gain will store the ReplayGain information into the ID3 tag.

85% of the Internet Could be Destroyed

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:02:23 +0000

The Internet is extremely vulnerable because of the chain of dependencies between the computers that hold different parts of net addresses. As a result, this main characteristic of the so called web could lead to several hacker attacks, it is said in a study of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University.

It seems that all simple attacks combined could lead to the take-over of 85% of the Internet, because of the huge number of computers that have to be consulted in order to trace the exact location of a web site.

KGB Archiver

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:51:52 +0000

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. Unfortunately although its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human.

Bit Comet v0.66

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:03:35 +0000

BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.

Changelog:

v0.66 2006.4.27

Core Improved: more program run-time error can be detected by the crash report
Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the sometimes program will crash when display chat message

Avoiding “FORMAT C:”

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:57:58 +0000

This is the worst nightmare for any of us. Having to Format and re-install windows. And no matter how careful you are with installing software, a time comes when some software does not uninstall properly, or messes up your system, or even a virus attacks windows! There are many cases where Formatting is the only option left. Formatting the PC takes at least around 2 hours to get back everything to normal working conditions, as in re-installing all software, setting them up, just the way you like it. But here, im gonna tell you a trick which does all that within 5 minutes! Interested? Read on! We will use disk imaging to create an image of our windows partition. But its just not that! The key is to create a good image, and keep it organised. A list of software we would need:

Nero v7.2.0.3b released

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:43:30 +0000

Ah! Another release! Now i gotta download it again 😛 Still, NO official changelog!

Get it here.

Google unleashes new tool!

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:20:21 +0000

Hmm.. Google is one company which is known for innovation and uniqueness in their software.. The latest offering from the Google stable is Google SketchUp! Google SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. And once you’ve built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. Google SketchUp is free for personal use. No registration is required.

New P2P Virus

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:26:14 +0000

Win32.Polipos

SYMPTOMS:

Size of executable increases with about 60-70 KB.
There could be detected unusual network activity.
Suspect activity for the running processes (searching and modifying executable files).

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION:
Win32.Polipos.A is a dangerous, polymorphic file infector, with a worm-like spreading capability. It’s targets are EXE and SCR files.

It is a memory-resident virus, because once executed, it injects code in the running processes. The first files it infects are those located in %ProgramFiles% and %WINDIR% directories. But it hooks imported functions for the infected proceses, so that all executables accessed by those processes will be infected.

Nero v7.2.0.3 released

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:13:21 +0000

A new version of nero has been released. Version number has gone up from 7.0.8.2 to 7.2.0.3. Seems to be a major update. No official changelog as of yet though. I didnt find *much* difference as usual 😛

Get the update here.

Michal Zalewski Announces A New Bug for Internet Explorer

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:08:32 +0000

Michal Zalewski, the researcher who announced in March an Internet Explorer vulnerability whose exploitation could crash the browser, has some news for Microsoft and the companyâ€™s security experts wonâ€™t be too pleased with them.

The bug comes not long after Microsoft plugged numerous security holes with the April patches.

Secunia has rated the bug as being â€œhighly criticalâ€ (the last but one alert level used by the security company) and has warned that its successful exploitation could compromise a system.

New Bluetooth Virus

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:03:59 +0000

A newly detected mobile phone virus is charging mobile phone users $5 to send a premium rate SMS message, security experts warned today at Infosec Europe 2006.
F-Secure explained that this type of attack had been reengineered to make money illegally from mobile phone users.

F-Secure warned that users are still leaving their mobile devices and laptops open to attack by using unsecured Bluetooth connections, despite the company’s warnings at trade shows such as CeBIT.

Yahoo Messenger v7.5.0.811

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:58:37 +0000

The much awaited yahoo messenger v7.5 is finally out of beta! Grab it here!

Online Malware Scan

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:53:30 +0000

Just thought i’d let you know about this site, http://virusscan.jotti.org. Its a site using multiple anti-virus scan engines (15, as of yet, new engines being added regularly!) to scan files uploaded by users from across the globe. If you are suspicious of some file, and you think your current anti-virus is not detecting it, you can upload it to this site to get a second review on it! Basically, i just love it for the live stats it provides. The stats update every minute or so, depending on the activity on the site. Great effort Mr Jotti!

KIS/KAV Beta v6.0.1.307 released

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:20:30 +0000

Changelog:

Build [307] Resolved:

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 FS
06273 Missing functionality for server connection for the user
08884 Events: Incorrect event type
Feature Corrected locking when modules load
Feature Exceptions around AV signatures code are removed for diagnostics

Build [306] Resolved:

Anti-Virus 6.0
04777 ODS: Progress bar is not correct for “StartUp” object scan
09039 Crashes when working Quarantine files
09399 ODS: Delayed cure is reported as “Logical sector” and not as “File”
09851 GUI: Incorrect protection status reporting in SecurityCenter
09932 Exceptions are broken in Trusted Zone
09941 ODS, GUI: Alert “Active Threat” is not coming up again
09954 OAS: WIN98 File-Antivirus does not start
09958 GUI: From OAS a tab with new settings is missing
09965 GUI: Unloading KAV from OAS, schedulling settings are not remembered

My Rig

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:55:56 +0000

So.. Here’s my PC configuration..

AMD Athlon64 2800+ (754 pin)
MSI K8NM (nForce3 250) Motherboard
1GB DDR400 Kingston RAM (Timings: 2.5-3-3-7)
Nvidia FX5700LE Graphics Card with 128MB RAM (Gainward)
Maxtor 120GB 7,200 RPM SATA-1 Hard Disk
BenQ DW1650 DVD Re-Writer
Sony CRX-320E DVD Combo Drive
ViewSonic E70f 17″ True Flat CRT
350W SMPS (Mercury)
Samsung Multimedia Keyboard
Samsung Optical Mouse (800 dpi)
3,600W (PMPO) home theatre system
5.1 Audio on-board
Airtel 128kbps *unlimited* connection
APC 500VA UPS
24 hour power backup via 2.5KVA Genset 😛