Well I was happy with my Spam protection, i.e. Akismet. But somehow a slimy spammer named Bush pass through Akismet, who’s referred URL apparently Google.com. Well a lot of spam get passed by Spam filter, why i am so furious with this guy(or  who knows maybe chick) ? Well usually i get spam comments or trackbacks with highest 5 URL and with a decent(well at least fits within the screen) pixel size. But oh my! My! this Bush’s spam comment has more then few hundreds links and even my 1152 x 864 screen couldn’t hold it. I need 3 screen …

Bad seriously bad, when Microsoft preaching for piracy protection, copy right violation etc. on the other hand ripping off someone else creation and using as their own.   The story “Microsoft Rips Off Apple’s Workgroup Manager Icon” popped up in Daring Fireball Monday morning. According to the story Microsoft was using Icon of Apple’s Workgroup Manager in their Vista Business edition’s purchase page (after clicking Buy now). Apparently the logo has been changed by Microsoft sometimes in late afternoon. As I can see this referred page has been updated very recently, just yesterday late afternoon. You can even …

There are many uses of Google services now days. Whether you like Google or not we are living in Google era, way back sometime what used to be Yahoo! era. But I never thought Google will be used for critical decision making like “US Government to select targets for international sanctions.”  US State department recently assigned a junior Foreign Service officer to find the names another way — by using Google. Those with the most hits under search terms such as “Iran and nuclear”, when their request to CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement …

Whether you know it or not, weblog, i.e. blog is somewhat a major cyber business now. In fact you can now compare blog with early web bubble era. This booming business is getting funded by VC’s, purchased by big companies and so on. Why? Well its hard to answer why blog is booming as business. But easier to answer why it shouldn’t be left alone from business. Blog means interaction of people, unlike chat or any other social web forms through blog, blogger express their vast views, ideas, opinions, and readers as well interact with it through comments. Today’s world …

The number of bloggers in China has soared to 19.87 million in early November, up 24 per cent over a year ago, a report by a leading Chinese Internet company said. The figure represents a 24-per cent rise over from the 16 million people who wrote their own blogs at the end of November last year, the company said. Bloggers updated their blogs every 7.6 days on an average and 3.02 million were active bloggers who posted new writings within seven days. Just 4.6 per cent of web writers updated their blogs every day. The number of blog …

Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning,because some wireless access points aren’t configured to take advantage of the new operating system’s Wi-Fi power-saving mode. In a recent post to Microsoft’s official Vista blog, senior product manager Jason Leznek spelled out the company’s last-minute decision to change the default power setting of wireless adapters to “maximum performance.” “Test results from Microsoft and our customers show that some Windows Vista beta users experienced connectivity problems when connecting to public Wi-Fi hotspots,” wrote Leznek in his post. “In many cases, …

Well we are either new Blogger or hard core Blogger, but there is always a burning question. Why the heck we Blog? There are other stuffs on the net, chat, web building so many stuff. Why we hand on to Blog, what are the reason for Blogging? Blogging for express yourselfThis is most likely one of the most common uses of Blogs. That’s why many Blogs are just like diaries or journals. Blogging for CommunicationWell you can say a new form of communication. So, instead of sending out email or snail mail circulars, just …

Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s largest corporation, joined Microsoft Corp. on Monday in launching the first mobile phone in Asia and Europe to use high-speed HSDPA wireless technology. The companies said the phone “the Samsung Ultra Messaging i600” was the world’s thinnest 3G smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard. It is also the first smartphone that supports Web applications like podcasts and RSS Feeder, which scans Web sites for updates, that is impressive. The announcement was made in Hong Kong at ITU Telecom World 2006, a major convention for the telecommunications industry. The phone which can connect with Wi-Fi …

As Macworld creeps up on us (only a month away now!), rumors of the iPhone and what features the iTV will have aren’t enough for the Mac web. Because of this, in comes the smaller, ultrathin MacBook Pro rumor, which claims that there will be a new iteration of MacBook Pro that will use the 12-inch form factor—I can hear throngs of 12″ PowerBook users cheering in the distance—as well as be much thinner and much lighter than its current design. Supposedly, this tiny, thin machine will keep its optical drive (how?) and also sport a dual-core …

Over the course of time WordPress has changed a lot so are the plugins associated with it. If you compare WordPress’s earlier versions and the latest one, you will notice it’s completely different. Lots of plugins that used to work with WordPress 1.1 are no longer worked with WordPress 2+. Some of those are even no longer needed, as WordPress already have those within. Not every plugins you find in WordPress is worth adding; some of them are even irritating and might cause you a lot of trouble. In my opinion these five plugins are must have kind, because …