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Andrew Cushman, senior director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft said that people should use updated web browsers when they surf the Internet. and need to do follow things. to stay safe online. 1. Keep your firewall turned on. 2. Keep all your software and your operating system up-to-date. 3. Keep your antivirus software up to date. 4. Keep your antispyware technology up to date. For more information and detailed instructions, Visit Microsoft Security   website. Main image courtesy: microsoft.com/security

App Inventor for Android  is a free platform to design Applications. You do not need any programming knowledge to design apps because designing goes on visual interface.

You can find simplified navigation bar at the left side of your Facebook's home page.  You can find the regularly used News Feed, Messages, Events and Friends links at the top of the side bar, and below of it you can find six links to your Applications, Games and other bookmarks you used often. The remaining apps and bookmarks are dropped to More   Link. You can drag your favorites to top list by clicking 'More' and then edit button. (make sure to click Done button after dragging ) If you con't use an application for 30 days it will moved down to  More  link.

PortableApps.com released Mozilla Firefox portable edition 3.6.8 in 16 languages. Y ou can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions along with you. It can easily integrates with Portableapps suite. And  PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5  users need not download this one just  click 'Check for Updates' in your PA.c Menu to update to the new version. You can also try recently released Firefox4 beta portable apps. which is available @ http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test

Google Voice (US Only service) launched an enhancement to the   Google Voice mobile app  for  Android and Blackberry phones, which makes placing calls much faster. This ' Direct access number' feature assign a unique phone number to every person you call and uses this number every time you call that person, previously Google voice app had to make a request to the Google Voice server every time you wanted to make a call to send Voice server the number you wanted to dial. But this new application uses direct access number to call, so calls will be made much faster than before. The app is presently available For Android and Blackberry devices only. You can get them at Android Market and Blackberry users should need to point their mobile browser to http:/ / m.google.com/voice to get this app. Watch the below video to know abt Google Voice

Microsoft Security Essentials 2 beta is available to download @  http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ This new version comes up with new scanning engine,better defense against network-based threats, IE integration for blocking web-based threats, and improved integration with the Windows firewall. So download it and enjoy the risk free system. You don't need to download this latest version if you already using MSE, It will automatically updates it. And you can check your version by opening MSE in your PC in the update tab. Main image courtesy: microsoft.com/security

Google Image search is about to rolling out with new user interface in next few days. Which will refine our search Visually,  This new interface includes  a new layout on the search page cramming many more images together and stripping away most of the other content on the page with 1000 image results on a single page.  The results will be shown in Large sizes in high resolution screens.  When we mouse over an image it shows a larger preview, about the image and other image related things along with a link to 'similar images'. Once we click on an image, we are taken toa new landing page that displays a large image with the website where the image is hosted. This new interface was designed to work with standard web keyboard shortcuts such as Arrow Marks, Page Up/ Page Down.  And Google also launching a new ad format called Image Search Ads. These ads appear only on Google Images, and they let you include a thumbnail image alongside your lines of text. These new features will be 

Avast! offers Antivirus 5.0 free for home users. It will provide great protection against viruses, spyware and better protection against the latest and constantly changing internet threats. You can download it here .

Today, Google announced a new web indexing system called Caffeine. The new system will deliver 50%  fresher results for web searches than the previous system. that means you can find latest published content much sooner after it is published, the previous system took two weeks to index newly published things in Google Index. Caffeine analyze the web in small portions and update Google search index on a continuous basis you can read more about this new Indexing system at  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html

Google Fellowship program   to support graduate students was introduced last year for the United States students by Google Research and Special Initiatives , but this year the program extended to Europe, Israel, China and Canada.  The students will receive fellowships consisting of full coverage of tuition, fees and stipend for up to three years. Following is the list of PhD students for receiving Google Fellowships in 2010. Google European Doctoral Fellowships Roland Angst, Google Europe Fellowship in Computer Vision  (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland) Arnar Birgisson, Google Europe Fellowship in Computer Security  (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Omar Choudary, Google Europe Fellowship in Mobile Security  (University of Cambridge, U.K.) Michele Coscia, Google Europe Fellowship in Social Computing  (University of Pisa, Italy) Moran Feldman, Google Europe Fellowship in Market Algorithms  (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Neil Houlsb

Microsoft Security Essentials offers a free Antivirus which will protect your PC from Viruses, Spyware and other Malicious software. You can download it from Microsoft Security Essentials site. It is easy to download & Install, it kept updated automatically so you need not to do any thing, it finishes everything. When you open the software in you PC the green title bar indicates your system is safe and under control. It runs in the windows background so you may not face any interruptions from the software.

The Facebook Gift Shop  is closing on Aug 01,  Jared Morgenstern  Facebook's product manager for Gifts and Products mentioned in his blog post . You will no longer be able to give new gifts from Gift Shop. The Gifts you have already received and sent  will  remain visible. People can send Gifts from other third party applications    such as   Birthday Cards ,   Hallmark Social Calendar ,   Pieces of Flair   and   someecards .

As the generation changes the way of teaching is also changes. Here is the new alphabetical system to teach your children ABC's

Bee careful when your browser asked you to update your Adobe Flash player. According to Barracuda Labs  -"some sites offers visitors to update Adobe flash  with an official-looking Adobe Flash update page. Even though this page looks convincing, downloading this ‘update’ only provides the user with a nasty piece of malware that McAfee currently classifies as Downloader-CEW.f." And it is recommended that one can update their Flash player at  http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer . only And here is an example from Barracuda Labs " How it happens" - Performing a quick search for a breaking news topic, such as LeBron James opening his own Twitter account, starts the process. Searching for “LeBron James Twitter” gives the highlighted result a rank of 62. Google Results for trend topic "LeBron James Twitter" Clicking on the highlighted result  sends the user directly to the fake upgrade page. Note that the actual domain is registered in the  Cocos Islands .  Also not

Now you can add your own type of signature to your sent mail with this new rich text signature, visit the settings page you'll see a rich text editor in the signature section. Here, you can customize your signature by adding pretty formatting, links, and images — or decide to leave things nice and simple. Gmail also now supports a unique signature for each email address associated with your account. So, if you send mail using a custom "From:" address, you can use a different signature for that address. From the Settings page, you can edit the signature for each account by changing the email address that appears in the dropdown menu.

Mozilla released the first beta  of the Firefox-4. It comes with new features like New tab location, an improved add-on manager, supports Webm  along with Html-5 to watch HD videos and it will protect your privacy first. You can download this beta version here .  you can also learn more features of this new product @ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/features/