Google has not yet built an operating system and Marissa mayer, the vice president of search products and user experience recently denied of any such possibility in future.
I still thought on this issue and just wildly thought of how the Operating system would look like. Being bad at photoshop and other image editors I thought I'd leave it to somebody else to put it on his blog, but the thing in my scope was to try and list the salient features of google OS, in case it comes. I've put a list of 5 such features.

Zero boot time : Yup, it sounds unpractical today and my XP, I feel takes an eternity to log on,more so if its AVG Antivrus starts scanning at start up. The puzzling part is that how is it achievable. Solution is simple. The PC will boot the boot OS, yes a boot OS for the OS. That boot OS will simply act as a platform for you to connect to the internet onto the google server and there your OS will lie, which will already be booted. SO you see, boot time is practically zero.

Security : My laptop is full of viruses. Even the antivirus gets puzzled figuring out what to do. Imagine gooogle using its security technology to do it for you. So you see the security lies in the hands of google and not your free antivirus.

Privacy : This seems quite vague, but let me tell you privacy could be more. Today you key in your password to log in to your laptop. Imagine a public/shared PC. Anyone can open, read and edit your documents and can take then in a thumb drive. Once you log out from your OS, the files on the server will automatically become inaccessible to all others.

License Cost : The cost of buying original softwares, word editors, antiviruses is high. Imagine all provided to free by google. The best of the tehnology for free.

File sharing : Today we email our files to send them to a remote desktop or pass them on through our thumb drive. In the google OS you will simply key in the google identity number(GIN) of your friend and simply push the file into his outdoor stack (A mail box).

Nokia has charted out a program for building the future of mobility. This plan was well explained by Bob Iannucci, SVP, Nokia CTO, Head of Nokia Research Center. The main points of the plan are as follows.

1. Creativity Unleash the creative and collaborative power of people
2. Mixed Reality Enrich and share experiences in fused physical digital worlds
3. User & Context Modeling Meet the needs of individuals on their terms
4. Physically Personal Devices Engage emotionally with devices that adapt to your lifestyle and environment
5. Human Interface Interact joyfully and intuitively through technology
6. Dynamic Wireless Liberate spectrum to expand markets
7. Scalable Service Platforms Deliver services to billions of users
8. Internet of Things Connect everything and every place

Kiwis going to polls early November : General elections of Kiwis

History is in the making as youtube election debate will be held between Helen Clark and John Key, a history-making initiative with New Zealand's public broadcaster, TVNZ.

The debate will be broadcast live on TV ONE on October 14.

This marks the first time the head of a national government and a challenger will face YouTube video questions in an official live TV debate. Read more

Apple today announced that under certain conditions the new ultracompact Apple USB power adapter’s metal prongs can break off and remain in a power outlet, creating the risk of electric shock.

Apple has received reports of detached prongs involving a very small percentage of the adapters sold, but no injuries have been reported.

Customer safety is always Apple’s top priority so it has voluntarily decided to exchange every ultracompact power adapter for a new redesigned adapter, free of charge. For more details on the exchange program please Click here.
www.apple.com/support/usbadapter/exchangeprogram

Today with terrorism on the  rise we as responsible followers of humanity can take a step forward to make the internet a cleaner place. As you browse the internet on daily basis, watch videos on youtube and do a lot of social interactivty on the web, you might have observed a lot of comments,posts and threads that are full of hate, which is baseless and is intended to harm others. As responsible internet messiahs we can flag them, it only takes a few seconds or in case of hate mails, just delete them and forward a mail to all those who have received them to delete them. It could be a small step by a small group of people but as the number of profane internet geeks are good and run into millions, a few extra seconds could actually mean destroying the efforts of a few thousand insane internet users with an intention to harm others. But beware : Do not reply back to them with an anti hate mail or a comment. it'll just serve their cause. Best is to flag it. Chao!

HOP HOP and HOP on the 1800 MHZ spectrum. You are there. Only $10. What else do you need. You have a rough and tough phone with 4 hours of talk time and 150 hours of standby time. Looks fairly ok and has embedded vibration, sim lock and keypad lock. Wow! What a fabulous approach when the world is busy selling cheaper iphones. This strategy perfectly makes sense.

Whats on the other side

On the other side is a phone that costs you more and only has a screen. This phone is screen less phone or to say a faceless phone and only has a keypad. It is a cordless phone with a good range and sim in it. Lets see what the world goes for and are they willing to put an extra 0 in their budget to buy a cellphone. 

Youtube: What makes you stay longer

A glance at the watch and oh! you've just spend an extra hour on youtube, the world's third largest visited website. 

A cool video that you checked out let you to another video and that led to another and this continued till you realized that you had just spent some extra time, tubing on youtube.

I decided to look into what it was in the design that made us watch the extra videos and here is what I found.

#1 Related Videos concept

This is the section which is the on the right side of the video you are watching and contains the videos related to the current one. The advantage of this section is that it helps you find a video that might be more relevant or a in relation to what you are looking for.

#2 Videos recommended for you

This is something which went un-noticed since I used to directly search what I wanted. On the front page of Youtube this section comes below the featured video. The best part of this section is that it recommends you videos based on the those  you have watched previously.

#3 Your Candidate

This part I thought is one of the best things Youtube has given to this world. Your candidate's channel on Youtube. Before the elections we get to know about the candidate only through news channels and party rallies. A Youtube channel of the candidate, where your candidate expresses his ideology and his agenda is something very valuable in-order to give a mass appeal. And yes, you can also contribute through Google checkout. Although I can't say much about the Obama-Hillary campaign, but I can surely say that at this pace youtube might soon overtake other video sources(television).

#4 Featured Video

The featured video is another cool feature.It helps you look outside you tube scope

#5 Most Active videos

Lastly, you can also see what the world has been watching. This is not one of the best things, I'd say about Youtube since the most active videos have the most freaky titles, which could lead you to an embarrassing situation.

 

Anything else that you think has kept you glued to Youtube, let me know

Nokia is one the market leaders in mobile phones in many countries. It success has been largely attributed to its simple design, menu and robustness. Now Nokia has taken the lead in mobile green revolution. The GPS system in the Nokia’s phones is already a hit. The navigator which is assisted by the local GPRS connectivity makes the GPS system even more useful. The Nokia’s most sold phone today as confirmed from local sources is the GPS enabled Nokia navigator or the 6110. Moreover people today understand the need for such a system in the metropolitan areas. But you might be thinking about the relation of GPS and the green revolution. The relation is pretty simple. Most of us are caught in traffic jams today. These traffic jams cost us a lot of time and money. The fuel spent (wasted) in these jams is just what the centre of the problem is. A navigator has a traffic option. It helps you reach your destination by two ways, the fastest and the shortest. Shortest has no meaning since it’ll simply take more time due to a traffic problem. Once you choose your option (fastest), it will guide you to the destination. The result is that you save time, money, energy and you still have your peace of mind. The oil prices in the recent months have shot up like popularity of Hillary and Obama. After costing around $108 per barrel, traffic jams seriously began to hurt most countries. Looking at the time aspect and peace of mind aspect we realize that suddenly we have more time to work, party and rest and hence it improves our efficiency. If our efficiency improves, automatically our company’s efficiency increases resulting in better profits and improving the growth of the company. Such growth is reflected in the stock prices and we can say that overall the country’s economy is improving

I would like to share with you the 2 hidden facts of gmail, which you can use to your advantage in filtering various emails

First Fact : The plus(+)advantage

1. For example your email id is myname@gmail.com.
2. You need to give an email id for your banking information.
3. Normally you would give myname@gmail.com and then once you receive an email, you might apply a filter.
4. Now you can simply give your email id as myname+bank@gmail.com.
5. Similarly you can use any number of names by appending a "+" sign followed by the name.

Second fact: The dot(.) advantage

1. Again taking the same email id myname@gmail.com
2. You can add as many dots(.) in your email as you want
3. You can give your email id as my.name@gmail.com and the email will come to you
4. Or you can simply write it as my.n.am.e@gmail.com

It is important to keep your computer free from malware for a better and a safer computing experience. There are 10 tips i would like to share that are a bare minimum for safe computing.

1. Updated antivirus
• Keep an updated antivirus in your PC. You can go for AVG free online edition and download it from download.com. It is useful and has the auto update feature
  
2. Anti spyware
• Keep an anti spyware installed. Most of us think an antivirus is OK. But some antiviruses don't come with an antispyware.
  
3. Don't download EXE files
• You might get an exe file in your email as attachment or while downloading a software. Be careful while doing so. You can be downloading a possibly deadly virus.Check out the website/source you are downloading and when you are 100% sure, then only download it.
  
4. Go for a routed traffic
• If you are connecting to the internet through a broadband service and you do not have a router, go get it. They are cheap
  
5. Allow OS auto updates
• Let your windows or your MAC OS be updated. They contain bug fixes and also seal several loopholes that might allow the hacker to break in to your PC.
  
6. Activate the hardware firewall
• Your router should support SPI. SPI is Stateful packet inspection, whihc distinguishes the good internet traffic from the bad harmful ones
  
7. Don't mix multiple firewalls
• 2 is better than 1 does not go well with firewalls. It does not increase your safety quotient. It just calls for headaches.
  
8. Go for one antivirus
• Again the same thing. Go for one antivirus. Two will just slow your system and add headache
  
9. Use a bi-directional firewall
• It comes standard with Mac OS and Windows Vista. The old windows users can get a third party firewall(check point's zone alarm)
  
10. Don't use auto fill for filling passwords
• Auto fills can be a disaster waiting to happen to your email account. Better remember your password and write it somewhere.This becomes even more vulnerable, when using a shared or an office based PC. You can use the master password in Firefox. In Internet explorer you can go to content tab and then to autocomplete settings to disable.

Gone are the days when viruses were restricted to the computer. The virus era has moved forward with the viruses finding their way to your business/smart phone. To protect ourselves against these mobile viruses, that could give us a big time head ache, I found one by F-secure.

Features

• It enables a secure mobile computing experience
• Easy installation
• Integrates Antivirus and a firewall
• Device resident feature allows it to protect you from any type of attack
• Works on s60

Download details

size : 876KB
file type:sisx
File name: mobile-security-s60-os91-fsc-oem.sisx
Click here to Download

Google says that it will dump one section of the end-user licensing agreement that gave the company "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through" the new browser.

Several Web users raised copyright and privacy concerns about portions of the licensing agreement shortly after Google launched Chrome. Some critics suggested the language would allow Google to use any Web content displayed in Chrome without getting copyright permission.

Google said it borrowed language from other products, "in order to keep things simple for our users," when it inserted the copyright provision in the Chrome licence. Read

Three browsers on the web, the archaic Internet Explorer, the featured Firefox and the Gusto Chrome, compete for what could change the dynamics of web for ever. The browser war was earlier between internet explorer and google backed mozilla, which was more of a turf war between two industry giants. Now google has introduced its lethal weapon, which if hits the right spot, could simply kick out microsoft out of the web world.

Contest

You can join this browser war and make it colourful by making and emailing your imagination in the form of images of a browser war to sk.insync@yahoo.com

Keep the subject as "Browser War Logo" and email it and I'll feature it on Techreef.

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I downloaded Chrome yesterday and despite all attempts by my hectic schedule and MBA preperation, I have finally managed some time to write a small post on Chrome fairs on day one. Back home from work, tired and exhausted I checked out my percentile of the mock MBA entrance test I gave last sunday. Although I just managed a 81 percentile, quite less from what I expected, there was something more in what i was viewing. The small bar on top of the browser made it possible for me to see the whole page without scrolling down, something which was good. It was just like watching a movie on your big screen TV. It is far better than the small cramped screen. The same was felt here. Chrome won the battle on day one as my Mozilla almost chocked my 512Mb RAM notebook. It would be still too early to stay that the success of Chrome is inexorable, I'd still say, it is very much on the cards.

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Gone are the days of Microsoft’s archaic web browser, the Internet Explorer that tried to monopolize the market of web browsers by bundling it with their windows. Now comes the progenitor of the internet search industry, Google with its new web browser, Chrome. The operating system developers are now facing stiff competition from the gods of search. Chrome has a panache, which was lacking in Mozilla firefox and in the internet explorer. Although I found nothing new in it, 

which was missing in the firefox, its just the style, after all we need to try something new. As the leader of the web world, google does things with élan and now chrome has broken into the browser industry with éclat. This comes as blow to the beleaguered explorer that is now trying to explore its way back into the browser market.I wouldn’t go all ga ga about Chrome as it is new and various bugs may come into limelight in a few days. Overall it has outweighed Mozilla in terms of design and style and IE8 is way behind in utility.Download Chrome

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