Google Desktop Search as default in Vista

Starting with Service Pack 1, Vista users will be able to set a third-party desktop search engine, such as Google’s Desktop Search, as their Windows default, replacing the OS’s integrated search. Microsoft released documentation in September detailing the syntax and other commands that will let third-party apps use the search functions in the Start Menu and Explorer windows and enable users to set them as their default search applications. The change was prompted by Google’s accusations earlier this year that Microsoft’s search was too tightly integrated into Vista. Google saw this as a violation of the 2002 antitrust settlement in which Microsoft agreed to make it easier for customers to choose third-party software in Windows. SP1 does not, however, allow users to disable Vista’s indexing service, another one of Google’s gripes.

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Make money out of your blogs !

Now that blogging took the online world by storm, every individual has started creating his own blog. What’s blog exactly? – Online Journal, publication of personal thoughts, to catalog someone's personal life or what . . . . In fact you can’t find a single precise definition for it, as there is no exact definition for a blog. A Blog is whatever you do. Ok, you have created a blog; you have shared your experience and provided the world with some useful information, now what?
Get paid for what you have done so far. Log on to some blog advertising sites, post your opinion or review it and make money. Blogsvertise.com is one such site, which offers some cool plans for making some serious money! So what are you waiting for? Jus log onto the blog advertising sites and make money now!

HD on DVD?

DCA Inc., the specialists in mastering have for the first time, saved 135 minutes of HD film on a traditional double-layer blank DVD. The format officially approved by the DVD forum bears the name "3X-DVD-ROM" and is a part of the HD-DVD standard. VC1 and H.264 are used as codecs as in case of HD DVDs, but then, longer films generally fit on the disk only in the low 720p-resolution.
The disks play on any HD-DVD player as well as in PC DVD drives with a minimum of 3X speed. Its special feature is that 3X DVD-ROMs can be burnt without a problem on any PC using an appropriate burning program and a DVD burner. With this, the disk could become what the VCD was to the DVD--a cheap entry in the new technology, till HD-DVD burners and blanks become cheaper. So, sounds like just the perfect thing for the Indian market which is always looking for cost effective measures and simulations of the real thing!

Cheers to the beyond!

While we hear about the rave parties going bust all over, this is one with more than a fairly legitimate reason. A reason that surrounds each one of us and our most gorgeous beyond space Rave parties are usually about all things psychedelic and there's nothing that can really be compared to the high-saturation purples, pinks, blues and all colors fluorescent that we fins in each inch of our vast solar system.
To commemorate Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight in 1961, NASA opened up a hangar at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View. They called it 'Yuri's Night World Space Party' and it happened on the same day in 126 events across 35 nations across the globe. It was NASA's tribute to 'global heritage of space exploration' which was celebrated with techno-rave music, futuristic dances and mind-blowing psychedelic light shows.
To give the party a rather good boy image, NASA had also put up science-imagery program called World Wind (software) besides a telescope aimed at Saturn. There was also an exhibit by artist Pierre Comte of how it feels to paint in low gravity. Besides, all of this there were some great dancers and other space monuments splashed in every nook and corner of the venue, and to say this was just one of the 126 events!

The Sage

McAfee, Inc. recently announced its second issue of sage, a semi-annual security journal designed to update and inform technical personnel and security executives on cutting-edge topics that can help them make better informed security decisions. the new issue of Sage includes articles from an all-star cast of McAfee researchers, managers and evangelists, on topics including cybercrime, Microsoft Windows Vista security, spyware, spam, cell phone security, data leakage and security risk management.
Sage is available for download through the McAfee Threat Center. You can access it at http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/default.asp.
Sage examines the near-term future of the security business--the threats, defenses and issues security professional will face over the next five years. Today, the majority of cybercriminals target PC users, but we can expect more attackers to branch out to other areas of technology, such as voice over Internet protocol and radio frequency identifications (RFID), as those technologies become more widely adopted. This journal also gives insight on the future of securing applications which is one of the biggest concerns of the manufacturers and the consumers.

Although programmers add some security measures during development, new spyware technology often far surpasses the best planning of even the most diligent engineers, opening new fronts of attacks. Spyware will follow us into new technologies, such as Bluetooth and RFID. This has also been taken into consideration in Sage besides topics like Vista and its security in the near future which is actually a great concern as more and more hackers will try to disrupt it as time goes by.