Login Multiple Google ( ie Gmail / Orkut ) Accounts Using Firefox

May times we have multiple Google accounts of Gmail or Orkut or Google Groups etc. & we wish to access them simultaneously. One solution can be login into different accounts using different browsers but if you want to access the accounts using the same browser, then go for the trick below.

Step 1:

Open System properties ( Right clicking my computer >> Properties), choose tab advanced, click to environment variables button. In system variables section, click new. Type this information to each textbox.


variable name: "moz_no_remote" (should be all small letters and without quotes).

variable value: 1

Step 2:

open Firefox Shortcut properties (create a shortcut of Firefox and right click on it, goto properties). Add extension -p to command line (like "c: \ program files \ mozilla firefox \ firefox.exe" -p). Press Ok.

Step 3:

When you will open Firefox it will prompt for profile selection create a new profile, open Firefox using new profile, login to Gmail / Orkut.

Create as many profiles as you want to access different Google accounts. Remember, new profiles will have default network settings and other settings.

Private Networks Accessible Via Browser!

Traditionally darknets have always been regarded as the dark underbelly of the internet, but now it seems as if accessing a darknet will be as simple as having a web browser. HP researchers recently demonstrated a darknet - essentially a closed private network - that can be accessed through a browser. Some earlier darknets such as Freenet, Tor and WASTE have gained notoriety for having all sorts of objectionable content supported by the veil of anonymity they provide. These darknets need a client to access them. Finding such clients installed on laptops would often raise alarm bells for security authorities as they can be used for virtually untraceable communication aiding even terrorists.

The HP researchers however say darknets have their legitimate uses. Their creation aptly named ‘Veiled’ can be used for anonymous whistle blowing and will also bring anonymous communication to the mainstream. Darknets maintain anonymity by scattering files as fragments across thousands of servers. They also use something known as onion routing that tunnels communication through a network of relays so web sites can’t determine your location. In a podcast with Security Wire Weekly, Matt Wood one of the developers of Veiled said, “We’re leveraging what browsers have become lately, to access some of the functionality offered by darknets”.

A simple PHP file is supposed to connect the client to the rest of the darknet. The user on the other hand has to just go to a URL. The PHP file downloads JavaScript code into the browser. To understand this concept imagines a whole bunch of servers with this one PHP file on them. All of these PHP files together create the infrastructure for the Veiled darknet. Clients will then connect to each one of those nodes. The PHP files act as repeaters to all the JavaScript clients out there. The JavaScript is the one doing all the communication between clients. If, for instance, a chat were to be sent out, it would be dispersed among the darknet users. There is going to be encryption involved too. The best part is once you close your browser, your footprint vanishes instantly. It should be interesting to keep an eye on this to see if any productive applications do come out of it.

Google Wave

Google Wave

Google wave is a cool piece of technology that centers around live and concurrent editing and workflow management. What this translates into is a personal collaboration and communication tool that is fun, and perhaps an extremely powerful a platform that can be used in many different ways. Now, there is an hour and a half long presentation available on the Google wave web site. But without going through it for you to get an idea of what wave is lets put forth this analogy. Think of a blank canvas. You and a bunch of other folks are simultaneously working on it. But you’re not just using paint and brushes. Instead, you have a multitude of tools at your disposal such as videos, pictures, maps and so on that you can pin up to the canvas to better present your point. And all this happens in real time. Say one of your fellow ‘artists’ leaves. He or she can come back and rewind and playback the flow of work to see what was missed. Okay now lets get down to the real world. Your canvas is actually based in HTML5 and can be run in several of today’s browsers. To speed up communication and give added functionality it features a spell checker that auto corrects on the fly. The spell checker draws on a huge contextual linguistic model, so it knows the context of words being used and corrects them appropriately. The interface consists of panels which they call – you guessed it – waves. These waves contain conversations that can be edited in real time! Forget about hand picking text to first quote and then reply. You can just pin up your response to any part of the original communication. What you’re typing gets bounced off a server straight to the other recipients of participants of the wave. If you wish to add new participants to a wave its as simple as dragging their picture from a contacts panel on the left.

All this free for all communication might just not go down well with those who are a little reticent. That’s one of the first things that comes to mind when you watch the wave presentation; “hey I don’t want people to see what I’m typing while I’m composing a mail”. Understandable. And the developers of Wave are not unmindful of that. They’ve incorporated a feature that hides you from the rest of the Wave. Perhaps the best thing about wave is that it can be embedded on other sites. Another interesting feature of wave is that discussion and content collaboration can be done on documents in the same tool i.e. wave. So you don’t have to follow the traditional Wiki and document format.

Wave is open source. That means that developers will get their hands on a set of external APIs with which they can build widgets for wave (which they call extensions) and even discover better ways of using its functionality. App developers only have to worry about coding XML on the client side and the server takes care of updating over the wire. Collaborative games are also on the drawing board amongst other things. There is also the scope of developing server side extensions using bots. Google demoed one such bot “Rosy” that can translate 40 languages on the fly! Since Google is keeping the much of the code open source, other corporations are free to come up with their own deployments of the wave system. By the time Wave formally launches, in a year, it might very well become a refined and extremely powerful tool. We’re eagerly waiting.

Making your own FONT is EaSy!

Have you ever wanted to make text appear just like your own handwriting, but never found a font that could do the trick? Is a little personalization all you need to complete that card you just designed, but all the handwriting fonts seemed too common to use? Here’s how to get your own handwriting font using Font Capture.

First, head on to the web site (www.fontcapture.com), click on “Create your font now” and download the font template available as a PDF file. Print this sheet and write on it with your handwriting as directed and then scan the sheet (use 200 dpi or higher). Save it as a JPEG or PNG file and upload it on the web site. Name the font to identify it. You can then download your own font!

The quality of the font depends upon how you fill the template sheet, so we should keep a few things in mind. In any piece of text (say “Digit”), the baseline is the imaginary line on which all the letters sit. The uppercase letters fit between baseline and (1) – which gives us the cap height, whereas most of the lowercase letters are between baseline and (2) – which gives us the x-height. A few characters have ascender and / or descender (like ‘d’ and ‘g’ respectively), which may cross the x-height.

The template has small guide marks to roughly giving you an idea about how high the ascender can reach, the baseline, and how low the descender can reach. Try and keep the letters inside the top and bottom lines to prevent them from being cut off.

What makes a font look different from another is how the x-height and cap height are varied. As evident in the above example, the non-uniform baseline and varied x-height makes the font look more like rough handwriting, whereas uniform baseline and nearly similar ascenders and x-height will give the font a smooth, pleasant feel. Also, for making your font legible, use a black marker / gel pen and avoid using very thin strokes throughout the font, though a few elegant fonts do have varying the stroke thickness.

After a few tries, you’ll be able to get a font that nearly looks like something you’ve written on paper. But that isn’t all you do with FontCapture. It can represent alphabets using anything that you fill in the template sheet, which means you can creatively use a few characters that you don’t use often to represent some special symbols. In fact, you can use your own symbols to represent letters and send across coded messages!

One of the main limitations of FontCapture is the lack of space: you can’t add fancy frills to a character because the template has a small fixed space for each one of them. Getting a running handwriting font takes a while to master, for which you must start and end the characters at same height. Also, you can’t have overlapping characters or even simple cursive characters which might extend into another character’s area, which doesn’t leave much room for creativity. But you can still come up with many interesting fonts. Possibilities are endless!

5 Unusual & Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

Windows is the most used Operating system on earth no matter what you say, it covers 90% of the general market (I don’t want to take any favour) and all those who use it, always try to get their work done faster. So, there you go with 5 unusual shortcuts for windows.

1) Copy content from windows dialog boxes

How many times has your non-techie uncle from far away come across an error dialog box, which he wanted you to look into? Rather than explaining him to do a print screen and all the other rigmarole. You can ask him to click anywhere on the dialog box press Ctrl + C and then Ctrl + Vinto notepad or email

2) Bring up Systems Properties dialog

Wanted to see your system information? Just use Win Key + Pause/Break

3) Bring up File/Folder properties dialog

Select any number of Files or Folders and press Alt + Enter to see the properties.

4) Navigate to your “Home Folder”

Usually by default the “Home Folder” in windows is C:\Documents and Settings\ to go there without navigating the whole way simply go to Start -> Run and type “.”

5) Save time cropping your screenshots

Use Alt + PrtScrn to take a screenshot of only the active window, saving you countless hours of cropping fun

Indian-origin scientist 'solves one of world's most complex math problems'!!!

Computer scientist Vinay Deolalikar claims to have solved maths riddle of P vs NP - one of the world's most complex and intractable mathematical problems.

Deolalikar, who works at the research arm of Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California, said that he has proven that P is not equal to NP.

The solution, if right, could earn him 1 million dollars as prize money.

P vs NP is one of the seven millennium problems set out by the Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematical Institute as being the "most difficult" to solve.

Deolalikar claims to have proven that P, which refers to problems whose solutions are easy to find and verify, is not the same as NP, which refers to problems whose solutions are almost impossible to find but easy to verify.

Scott Aaronson, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pledged on his blog to pay Deolalikar an additional 200,000 if he is right.

"If P not equal to NP has indeed been proved, my life will change so dramatically that having to pay $200,000 will be the least of it," The Telegraph quoted him as saying.

For instance, calculating how to accommodate 400 students in 100 university rooms.

The Clay Mathematical Institute says, "To complicate matters, the Dean has provided you with a list of pairs of incompatible students, and requested that no pair from this list appear in your final choice.

"This is an example of what computer scientists call an NP-problem, since it is easy to check if a given choice of one hundred students proposed by a co-worker is satisfactory (i.e., no pair taken from your co-worker's list also appears on the list from the Dean's office), however the task of generating such a list from scratch seems to be so hard as to be completely impractical.

"Indeed, the total number of ways of choosing one hundred students from the four hundred applicants is greater than the number of atoms in the known universe.

"Thus no future civilisation could ever hope to build a supercomputer capable of solving the problem by brute force; that is, by checking every possible combination of 100 students.

"However, this apparent difficulty may only reflect the lack of ingenuity of your programmer. In fact, one of the outstanding problems in computer science is determining whether questions exist whose answer can be quickly checked, but which require an impossibly long time to solve by any direct procedure." (ANI)

Rich Indians Should Donate!!

Philanthropist billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet will approach rich people in India and China to urge them to donate at least half their wealth. The move is part of Gates-Buffet initiative, launched in June, that originally aimed at asking American billionaires to pledge that their wealth would be donated either during their lifetime or upon death.

The two now plan to take the idea beyond the US borders. "Mr Buffett said he and Mr Gates in coming months will meet with wealthy individuals in China and India to talk about the pledge in the hopes of adding more names from outside the US," The Wall Street Journal said.

On Wednesday, 34 people joined six billionaires, including Gates and Buffet, who have taken the pledge. They included New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Director George Lucas, David Rockefeller, and media mogul Ted Turner.

US has 403 billionaires the most in the world, and New York tops the list within the country. The number two spot is taken by to China, which is followed by Russia.

This year, the Forbes list of the richest people features two Indians in the top ten. Industrialist Mukesh Ambani is at the fourth spot with a networth of USD 29 billion, followed by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal who has a networth of USD 28.7 billion.

Although China has larger number of billionaires, ten of Asias top 25 rich are from Indian, while China has one. These include Ambani and Mittal in the top two positions, along with Azim Premji (USD 17 billion), Anil Ambani (USD 13.7 billion), Shashi and Ravi Ruia (USD 13 billion), Savitri Jindal (USD 12.2 billion), Kushal Pal Singh (USD 9 billion), Kumar Birla (USD 7.9 billion), Sunil Mittal (USD 7.8 billion) and Anil Agarwal (USD 6.4 billion dollars).

Gates with a networth of USD 53 billion dollars is the second richest man in the world after Mexican telecom czar, Carlos Slim Helu who has a net worth of USD 53.5 billion. Buffet comes in third with 47 billion dollars and has pledged to donate 99 percent of his wealth.

"In 2006, I made a commitment to gradually give all of my Berkshire Hathaway stock to philanthropic foundations. I couldn''t be happier with that decision," he wrote in a pledge letter.

"Now, Bill and Melinda Gates and I are asking hundreds of rich Americans to pledge at least 50 per cent of their wealth to charity." Bill and Melinda Gates have given more than $28 billion to their foundation since it was founded in 1994 that focuses on health and education.

"We have committed the vast majority of our assets to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help stop preventable deaths such as these, and to tear down other barriers to health and education that prevent people from making the very most of their lives," Gates wrote in his pledge.

Super Seller Alto Gets a Facelift

In the wake of a soaring competition in the small car segment and a nose-diving market share, India’s largest carmaker Maruti has launched a more powerful version of its largest selling model Alto. The new Alto K-10 is powered by a bigger 1-litre (998 CC) K series engine that also powers the Estilo, A-Star and Wagon R.

Maruti’s move will bring cheer to those customers who thought the largest selling five-seater car was underpowered. Currently, the Alto’s top-end Lxi model contributes to 70 per cent of sales and competes with the Rs 2.7-lakh Hyundai Santro standard and the Chevy Spark that costs Rs 3.23 lakh. The new Alto is claimed to return 20.2 kmpl and can accelerate from 0-100km/h in 13.3 seconds.

Maruti has refurbished the suspension and braking system to cope with the enhanced motor. Moreover, it’s is longer by 125mm to accommodate the bigger K-series engine. It has a new aggressive front, with a differently styled combination of dynamic hood, bold eagle-eye headlamps with crystal-clear lens.

“With the AC switched on and five people in the car, the engine of the Alto seems short of power although its light weight contributes tremendously to the fuel-efficiency of around 18-20 kmpl. The new Alto can wipe out these problems without hampering fuel-efficiency too much”, says an auto industry expert. (Business Standard)

While the existing Alto will continue to serve customers across India, the new sibling, Alto-K10, is specifically targeted at those customers, who are looking for premium features and performance in an economical package. The car will be priced between Rs 3.03 and Rs 3.16 lakh

Stay Healthy this Monsoon

During the monsoon, people tend to fall sick, develop a cold, cough, fever and respiratory tract infections. Others experience indigestion, gas and bloating. One needs to be careful about the food and water they consume.

On the one hand, we're told to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. But eating them during the monsoon becomes questionable. Fruits and vegetables are exposed to microbes while being delivered after harvestation. In addition, pesticides sprayed also stick to the surface. Fruits and vegetables need to be washed thoroughly, especially ones that are eaten raw.

Stay clean

-You can wash fruits and vegetables under running water with a soft brush. Most of the dirt and pesticides are washed away in this manner.

-You can also soak fruits and vegetables in a pot of water (approximately 2 litres), add half a cup of white vinegar and 2 tbsp of salt.

-You may also choose to spray them with in a water-vinegar solution (1-1).

-Another easy way is to add 4 tbsp of salt to 1 glass of lemon juice, put it in a pot of water (approximately 2 litres) and soak for 5 mins. Then rinse under running water.

-To make a stronger solution mix 4 tbsp of salt with the juice of 1 lemon, put it in a pot and with approximately 2 litres of water and 100 ml of vinegar. Soak the fruits and vegetables for five minutes and then rinse under running water.

-You may also choose to use potassium permanganate to clean fruits and vegetables. Soak them in potassium permanganate for about five minutes and then rinse. This is very effective in washing away germs, bacteria and pesticides.

Health is key

-Avoid street fruits, golas, chaat, pre-cut fruits, chutney, leafy vegetables, pickles, pakodas, and juices from roadside vendors.

-If you are eating out, make sure the place that you have chosen confirms to some basic standards of quality and hygiene. Else you may contract a serious infection or water borne disease.

-Avoid cooking in bulk as it may get spoilt. Also, freshly prepared food tends to be more nutritious.

-Avoid greasy meals and fried foods, and reduce your intake of non-veg food.

-Have lighter meat preparations like soups and stews.

-Make liberal use of ginger, pepper and pipli to improve your digestion. Garlic, asofoetida, sonth, turmeric, coriander and jeera enhance your digestive power.

-Eat moderate quantities of food as the body finds it harder to digest if you overeat. -Drink warm beverages; add mint or ginger, or dry ginger powder to tea.

-Moong dal is easy to digest and should be your dal of choice.

-Avoid eating food straight out of the fridge. Fresh foods are the best, but if there's food stored in the fridge, heat it before eating.

BlackBerry can be hacked!!!

Research in Motion's resistance to giving governments access to its BlackBerry network misses a major point -- authorities could probably hack the data on their own if they want it badly enough, security experts say.

Indeed, a major attack against BlackBerry users by a telecom in the United Arab Emirates employed that very tactic a year ago, according to RIM. Experts say other malicious programs are likely to be lurking around, readying to be sprung.

India, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates say they need RIM's cooperation so they can decode messages scrambled with BlackBerry's proprietary technology. They have threatened to restrict RIM's operations if the company won't meet their demands, which they say are driven by national security concerns.

But if RIM doesn't back down, the governments themselves could instead choose to hack into the BlackBerry network.

"I could design a good hundred ways to gain access," said Bruce Schneier, a security expert who is chief security technology officer for BT.

Officials with Canada's RIM did not respond to a request for comment.

Security experts say they'd almost certainly attack at the network's most vulnerable points: the BlackBerry smartphone itself and the BlackBerry server. Those two pieces of equipment sit at either end of the network where they offer would-be hackers access to unscrambled data.

Last year's attack in the UAE is a good example of how a hacker might work. It employed spyware created by SS8, a closely held U.S. security firm, RIM says.

Emirates Telecommunications Corp, the UAE's largest telecoms operator, sent the program to its BlackBerry disguised as a software update. It told its customers that the it would enhance the performance of their equipment, but RIM says it was mainly intended to tap into their communications.

The telecom declined comment at the time.

RIM said it quickly discovered the so-called "malware" because of a glitch in its implementation, and told users not to install it on their phones. But hackers might go undetected, experts say.

To prove the point, a security researcher named Tyler Shields released a spyware program earlier this year for attacking BlackBerries via the handset. It allows hackers to intercept messages that reach the device and use its microphone to tap conversations in the immediate vicinity of the phone.

"I wanted to demonstrate that BlackBerry handhelds are susceptible to spyware," said Shields, who works for the Burlington, Massachusetts-based security firm Veracode Inc.

The program, dubbed TXSBBSpy, did not include installation software as Shields never intended it to be used. He only wanted to show the BlackBerry was not unhackable.

A successful attack on a Blackberry Enterprise Server could prove even more devastating because each server manages data for hundreds of users.

Hackers could write code to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the software that runs those servers, said Chet Wisniewski, senior security adviser at Sophos, anti-virus software maker. Such a program would allow outsiders to view messages from all the users hooked up to the computer via their handsets

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