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		<title>Oracle Sues Google (Android)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fadi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle Sues Google &#8211; Oracle Corp. has filed a lawsuit against Google Inc. for &#8220;knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle&#8217;s Java-related intellectual property&#8221;, mainly in its Android OS. Recently, Oracle Corp. had acquired Java from Sun Microsystems in a USD $5.6 billion deal! Oracle is trying to make it evident from this lawsuit that they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-814" title="Oracle Java" src="http://blog.drhack.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Oracle-Java.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" />Oracle Sues Google</strong> &#8211; Oracle Corp. has filed a lawsuit against Google Inc. for &#8220;knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle&#8217;s Java-related intellectual property&#8221;, mainly in its Android OS.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently, Oracle Corp. had acquired Java from Sun Microsystems in a USD $5.6 billion deal! Oracle is trying to make it evident from this lawsuit that they are going to keep copyright infringements and license agreements in check.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Considering the hype and activity surrounding the Google&#8217;s Android OS, Oracle (and Java) risk being hit by a storm of negative criticism.</p>
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		<title>Top Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Buy an iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 10:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you planning to buy an iphone ? If so then this post is a must read for you.The much hyped iPhone 3G was launched in India a few weeks back and we have seen many issues and open security flaws in the new iPhone.Here I have some of the top reasons for which you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">Are you planning to buy an iphone ? If so then this post is a must read for you.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UU-faylKkn4/SL-Vvf9DcCI/AAAAAAAACV8/y3ll6cfC8lo/s1600-h/iPhone_3G.jpg" target="_blank"></a>The much hyped iPhone 3G was launched in India a few weeks back and we have seen many issues and open security flaws in the new iPhone.Here I have some of the top reasons for which you shouldn’t buy an iphone.<br />
<img class="aligncenter" src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i151_iphone.jpg" alt="iPhone" width="320" height="222" /></p>
<li>The worst thing is that <strong>you cannot forward a SMS message</strong>!! Don’t think that I am foolish, but really your iPhone 3G can’t forward a simple SMS. You’ll have to retype the SMS and forward it.</li>
<li>There is <strong>NO copy / paste functionality</strong>. So you need to remember the texts and type again as you go.</li>
<li><strong>Bluetooth functionality is only limited to headset use</strong>. <strong>You can’t do any file transfer over Bluetooth</strong>.So if you are planning to share your songs or photos with your friends then forget about it!</li>
<li><strong>Absolutely no camera settings</strong> – it’s just like some ancient digital camera which does only point and shoot functionality.<strong>No Flash,No Zoom functionality</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Photos taken in a VGA camera is better than that of iphone!</strong></li>
<li><strong>The iPhone 3G is simply overpriced in India</strong><strong> </strong>(Costs almost twice the price as in US)</li>
<li>It’s in built Safari web browser <strong>does not support Flash as well as Java</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>There is No office document editor</strong>. Most Nokia’s come with inbuilt editor’s for Word / Excel.</li>
<li>The iPhone doesn’t has AD2P on the Bluetooth – which means <strong>you can’t get stereo sound via Blue Tooth headphones</strong>, that’s a big disappointment for the music fans.</li>
<li><strong>The iPhone doesn’t has a Removable battery</strong>. Yes – you cannot change the battery yourself. Apple expects you to send the phone to an Apple Outlet to replace the battery. Now if you travel too much – what are you gonna do? Look for an Apple Store to interchange the travel battery?</li>
<li><strong>iPhone doesn’t has an option to send MMS</strong>. Forget about MMS.</li>
<li>Though you can’t sent MMS – <strong>You can’t receive MMS messages too!</strong></li>
<li><strong>You can’t set your personal songs as ring tones!</strong></li>
<li><strong>The iPhone’s screen is not Finger Print Resistant</strong>. Since the iPhone is a touch screen phone so it is bound to get your finger print’s each time you touch so it gets dirty very easily.</li>
<li>THE BIGGEST ONE – <strong>ONCE YOU ARE ON 3G NETWORK</strong>(Which I suppose will happen in a year in India), <strong>YOU CANNOT MAKE CALLS TO A PHONE ON 2G NETWORK</strong>. SO IF YOU WANT TO CALL A PERSON WHO IS NOT HAVING A 3G PHONE. SORRY, YOU’LL HAVE TO FIND A PCO and a 1RUPEE!!!</li>
<p>These are some of the top reasons that shows iphone’s incapability.But there are many more such reasons for you to <strong>stop buying an iphone</strong>.If you still want to buy the iphone then definitely you must be crazy?!</p>
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		<title>How to Test the Working of your Antivirus – EICAR Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 10:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered how to test your Antivirus software to ensure it’s proper working? Well here is a quick and easy way to test your antivirus. The process is called EICAR test which will work on any antivirus and was developed by European Institute of Computer Antivirus Research. This process can be used by people, companies and antivirus [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever wondered how to test your Antivirus software to ensure it’s proper working? Well here is a quick and easy way to test your antivirus. The process is called EICAR test which will work on any antivirus and was developed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR" target="_blank">European Institute of Computer Antivirus Research</a>. This process can be used by people, companies and antivirus programmers to test the proper functioning of the antivirus/antimalware software without having to deal with the real computer virus which can cause damage to the computer. Here is a step-by-step procedure to test your antivirus.<br />
<img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/t148_antivirus.jpg" alt="EICAR" /><br />
1. Open a notepad (New Text Document.TXT) and copy the following code exactly onto it, and save the notepad.</p>
<pre><strong>X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
</strong></pre>
<p>2. Rename the file from New Text Document.TXT to myfile.com</p>
<p>3. Now run the antivirus scan on this myfile.com file.</p>
<p>If the antivirus is functioning properly on your computer, then it should generate a warning and immediately delete the file upon scanning. Otherwise you may have to re-install your antivirus.</p>
<p>NOTE: Most antivirus will pop-out a warning message in the Step-1 itself.</p>
<p>You can also place the myfile.com file in a ZIP or RAR file and run a scan on it so as to ensure whether your antivirus can detect the test string in the compressed archive. Any antivirus when scanning this file will respond exactly as it will do for a genuine virus/malicious code. This test will cause no damage to your computer even though the antivirus will flag it as a malicious script. Hence it is the safest method to test the proper functioning of any antivirus.</p>
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		<title>Google Kindly Block this Service in my Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 15:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr-Hack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is with the Governments and also with the Users, No Google is just playing and earning good. Google is starting to do a very good job at making their government involvements, like legal requests to have information removed, more transparent. A new site titled “Government requests” shows a world map along with information for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google is with the Governments and also with the Users, No Google is just playing and earning good.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i138_google-govt-requests-large.png" alt="" width="453" height="284" /></p>
<p>Google is starting to do a very good job at making their government involvements, like legal requests to have information removed, more transparent. A new site titled “<a href="http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/"><strong>Government requests</strong></a>” shows a world map along with information for many countries in regards to how many government requests were received. Clicking on a particular number breaks this down into request types, such as “20 Web Search (court order)” or “15 YouTube”. <a href="http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/faq.html">Limitations to this data</a> apply, as Google mentions.</p>
<p>One reason of making this public is that Google wants it users to know if and what there Government is requesting to block, may be they can add a reason due to which the Government asked particular data to be removed. Google is also making a list of most Stingy Government Country. Brazil leads the chart with 291 requests. Germany shows at number two with 188 requests. (I’d like to see an option to sort the request number relative to the population, though based on this data we could calculate that ourselves.) Worth keeping in mind that a single request may be far-reaching or rather small in scale, so the mere number of requests does not equal overall “control scope.”</p>
<p>When We say Google makes this data “neutrally” transparent then that’s perhaps just on the surface. Governments more often than not prefer to keep control instances in the dark, because exposed in daylight they lose some of their power. (Imagine a government’s lists of censored URLs being revealed – such censorship measures would now backfire because censored URLs might gain more prominence. <a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/police-raid-wikileaksde-domain-owner-theodor-reppes-home-over-censorship-lists/story-e6frfro0-1225715392660">Not a mere hypothetical example, either</a>.) Implicitly We would say Google is showing they’re on the side of the countries’ citizens, i.e. the Google users. Those favoring the governments on the other hand might find some of Google’s recent moves to be less humble.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogoscoped.com/files/hamburg/large/7.jpg"><img class="alignnone" title="Google Rules" src="http://blogoscoped.com/files/hamburg/large/7.jpg" alt="" width="436" height="581" /></a></p>
<p>Between the lines, and this time even nearly on the record, you might also read a “help us with this issue” stance. Google says, “At a time when increasing numbers of governments are trying to regulate the free flow of information on the Internet, we hope this tool will shine some light on the scale and scope of government requests to censor information or obtain user data around the globe – and we welcome external debates about these issues that we grapple with internally on a daily basis.”</p>
<p>On the other hand, we need to keep in mind that there is still a long way to go before Google really makes their government involvements all transparent. For many requests in the past on that subject, I received a “no comment” answer from Google. Also, not all countries get a number plate on Google’s new map. China appears with a prominent red box with question mark on the world map, the web-infamous irony here being that the more you try to hide something the more visible it becomes. (China is also singular in Googleworld because it’s the only country receiving a special page listing <a href="http://www.google.com/prc/report.html">which Google services are inaccessible</a> from that location.)</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/t139_china.JPG" alt="china.JPG" width="150" height="92" />And china happens to be the only country which treats there <a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/139_china.JPG.html" target="_blank">censorship demands as state secrets</a> and feels uncomfortable showing them publicly.</p>
<p>Another point of interest is that Google sometimes looks as though they’re doing more than strictly requested. Take their explanations of the German censorship, for instance:</p>
<blockquote><p>Germany’s numbers are also high relative to other countries. A substantial number of the German removals resulted from court orders that relate to defamation in search results. In addition, we receive lists of URLs from BPjM (BPjM-Modul), a federal government youth protection agency in Germany, for sites that contain content that violates German youth protection law, like content touting Nazi memorabilia, extreme violence or pornography, and we may remove those search results from google.de. Approximately 11% of the German removal requests related to pro-Nazi content or content advocating denial of the Holocaust, both of which are illegal under German law.</p></blockquote>
<p>The BPjM is, by its name – often not by its implementations and actions – specifically aimed at <em>youth</em> protection; the “j” in BPjM stands for “jugendgefährdend”, which translates to “harmful to young persons.” This would imply that when I turn off the SafeSearch option in Google.de, I would get all those results in full. (Google introduces SafeSearch like this: “Many users prefer not to have adult sites included in search results (especially if kids use the same computer).”) That, however, is not the case.</p>
<p>Google has previous transparency efforts in this direction. For one thing, some countries link to a page showing more details when web results are amiss (the link goes to a site called Chilling Effects). And even when the fact of removal is not linked to more details – in China it’s not linked – the mere existence of a notice is already more than what much of the tech competition in search is willing to offer to users. In a way, this can all be seen as tying into Google’s general “open” strategy: requests transparency, stopping China blocking, the Google <a href="http://www.dataliberation.org/">data liberation efforts</a>, Google’s many open source projects, Google’s <a href="https://www.google.com/dashboard/">user data privacy dashboard</a>. I could imagine that even within Google, motivations for these acts differ. Some may argue that for net age long term success you can grow big but never big and scary, while others may have reasoning grown out of Google’s “we should do better and be different” DNA. Also, that “free flow of information on the Internet” which Google mentions on their new site is good for users, but at the same time partially the basis of Google’s revenue. But if it’s the case that commercial and ethical interests happen to be aligned, should we even complain?</p>
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		<title>Is your Nokia Cell Phone Original</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 14:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukesh Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nokia is one of the largest selling phones across the globe.Most of us own a Nokia phone but are unaware of it’s originality.Are you keen to know whether your Nokia mobile phone is original or not? Then you are in the right place and this information is specially meant for you. Your phones IMEI (International [...]]]></description>
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<p>Nokia is one of the largest selling phones across the globe.Most of  us  own a Nokia phone but are unaware of it’s originality.Are you keen to   know whether your Nokia mobile phone is original or not? Then you are   in the right place and this information is specially meant for you. Your   phones<strong> IMEI</strong> (International Mobile Equipment Identity)  number  confirms your phone’s originality.</p>
<p>Press the following on your mobile <strong>*#06#</strong> to  see your Phone’s <strong>IMEI</strong> number(serial number).</p>
<p>Then check the <strong>7th</strong> and  <strong>8th</strong> numbers</p>
<p><strong>Phone serial no. x x x x x x ? ? x x x x x x x</strong></p>
<p>IF the Seventh &amp; Eighth digits of your cell phone are <strong>02</strong> or <strong>20</strong> this means your cell phone was assembled in Emirates which is very Bad  quality</p>
<p>IF the Seventh &amp; Eighth digits of your cell phone are <strong>08 </strong>or <strong>80</strong> this means your cell phone was  manufactured in Germany which is fair quality</p>
<p>IF the Seventh &amp; Eighth digits of your cell phone are <strong>01</strong> or <strong>10</strong> this means your cell phone was manufactured in Finland which is very  Good</p>
<p>IF the Seventh &amp; Eighth digits of your cell phone are <strong>00</strong> this means  your cell phone was manufactured in original factory which is the best  Mobile Quality</p>
<p>IF the Seventh &amp; Eighth digits of your cell phone are <strong>13</strong> this means your cell phone was  assembled in Azerbaijan which is very Bad quality and also dangerous for  your health.</p>
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		<title>Google says &#8220;Make your Website Chrome Friendly&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and Elsewhere: &#8220;Make your website Google Chrome-friendly&#8221; Google at the top of their webmaster guidelines page – which instructs people on what to do to be found, giving quality guidelines, content issues, how to be   indexed and ranked by Google search – added a blue box reading: Turns out this box (worded [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and Elsewhere: &#8220;Make your website Google Chrome-friendly&#8221;</h3>
<p>Google at the top of their <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769">webmaster guidelines page</a> – which instructs people on what to do to be found, giving quality guidelines, content issues, how to be   indexed and ranked by Google search – added a blue box reading:</p>
<p><img src="http://blogoscoped.com/files/chrome-friendly.png" alt="Make your website Google Chrome-friendly - Web developers, find resources to make your site look good in Google Chrome." /></p>
<p>Turns out this box (worded in a way that gives preferential treatment to Google’s own software) is now stamped across a whole lot of Google’s webmaster help pages – the particular appearance on a page about Google’s rankings, which I guess Google wants to appear neutral, causes an odd juxtaposition.</p>
<p>We Have Chrome, Firefox and IE &#8230; out of these three 2 are supporting the Google product and wants sites to run good on Chrome &#8230; Right now Google is not pushing Chrome but wants webmasters to start working to make the websites more &#8220;fit&#8221; in Google Chrome in other words the CSS should be compatible with the <a href="http://webkit.org/" target="_blank">Webkit </a> on which Chrome is based on just like Safari</p>
<p>So we Use Google to Search , Orkut as our Social Network, Gmail as our Email, Chrome as our Browser, Gtalk as our Messenger, Adsense/Adwords  as our Ad choice, Analytics to monitor .. and it keeps going on and on.</p>
<p>Google what are you up to ? <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif' alt=':twisted:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Google Ranking is Influenced by Site Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google announced that a website’s speed is now one of the many signal’s used to determine that site’s ranking in Google results. Google in their blog post suggests a couple of tools with which you can test your site speed – which they define as “how quickly a website responds to web requests” – including the Webmaster [...]]]></description>
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<p>Google announced that a website’s speed is now one of the many signal’s used to determine that site’s ranking in Google results. Google in their <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html">blog post</a> suggests a couple of tools with which you can test your site speed – which they define as “how quickly a website responds to web requests” – including the <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home">Webmaster Tools</a> → Labs → Site Performance app. (Ironically, some of the speed optimizations that app will suggest revolve around minimizing DNS lookups&#8230; caused by external resources like Google’s own Analytics tracker script.) <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/">Google Code Speed</a> offers more resources.</p>
<p><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_o5Na_9269nA/S79pfWkKtCI/AAAAAAAAD6o/9M-g3VSN8Gc/s1600/Picture+83.png" alt="" width="488" height="189" /></p>
<p>On the surface this signal seems to make sense. In the hypothetical case where two sites are of equal quality in all points but one is slower, then it’s better for the user if they’re served the faster site on top of the rankings. It will save searchers time and avoid frustration. Then the real question is how strong this signal should be factored in the overall ranking mix&#8230; because in the opposite hypothetical case where one site is faster but delivers slightly worse quality, and another is three seconds slower but delivers great quality and perhaps makes its point 10 times as quick, users wouldn’t fare well being served the faster site on top. Google suggests that the speed signal is not a very strong one. It’s one of the “200 signals” affecting “fewer than 1% of search queries”, Google’s Matt Cutts suggests, adding “you don’t need to panic”.</p>
<p>There are webmasters who use the approach of preloading the website data normally it is used in image related website &#8230; e.g. a user opens one image the next in the gallery will be preloaded so that the user do not wait for the next image and so on. But this technique is considered as &#8220;Slow page loading&#8221; in the Google speed test therefore doing a bad impact on the Site ranking. In reality altough the page is not slow at all or maybe we can expect the google to be wise enough to understand such techniques which is yet not much known or expected out of Google.</p>
<p>As a side effect, Google’s announcement adds a more constructive field to SEO: optimizing a client’s site loading speed. SEO in a way was always about usability and accessibility and site quality&#8230; because unless you resort to spamming, improving your site’s quality should be one of the most important parts of getting more links to it, which increases your ranking. And a part of a site’s quality was always its serving speed. Google’s new statements just make this issue within the quality mix more explicit. One issue I wonder about though: if a site’s slowness were already causing it to get less backlinks due to its resulting lower quality, then wouldn’t it now be penalized twice by Google – once by the backlinks count signal, and once by the site speed signal? If we again take the hypothetical case of two identical sites where one is slower though – then wouldn’t the faster of the two sites already have a higher PageRank because people are more likely to link to it?</p>
<p>So we can say in the end that &#8220;A slower website will have less back-links making it rank lower and lower &#8221; that makes the Google PR system a bit unjust as it is driving two aspects for ranking the site which are inter linked.</p>
<p>There are many Possibilites why Google whould like to make Speed as a ranking signal. maybe they want the site owners to improve there website speeds OR may be&#8230;.Google has made a decision to push sites in order to increase average internet speed, as an editorial judgment. This does raise some concerns: Even if we agree that a faster internet is good, should Google push this just because they can? If yes, how about pushing other issues that are considered good, say whether a company running a web site has a good recycling program? Is that Google&#8217;s job? Secondly, are there other ulterior motives for this, say pushing people in the direction of Google products such as their DNS optimizations and other web site software that will over time lock them in? &#8230; If we consider this as an option only then this makes some sense after all we know that Google is getting devilish with its intentions.</p>
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		<title>Google Suggestions are what People Search !</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well Google search engine suggest only what people search. By no way these are my views blame the laughter on me but the anger let it go on to Google please . Now for example George Bush was U.S President for quite some time right ?&#8230; but the only thing people search with his name is : Bush is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Well Google search engine suggest only what people search. By no way these are my views blame the laughter on me but the anger let it go on to Google please <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</em></p>
<p>Now for example <strong>George Bush</strong> was U.S President for quite some time right ?&#8230; but the only thing people search with his name is :</p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/123_googlebush.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i123_googlebush.JPG" alt="googlebush.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="502" height="377" /></a></p>
<p>Bush is remembered and search more with the &#8220;Shoe&#8221; Context ..</p>
<p>Now lets don&#8217;t make this assumption that the majority of the internet users (which means same if we say Google users) are the uneducated one&#8217;s who just like to have some fun &#8230;</p>
<p>For Example <strong>Bill Gates</strong> suggestions don&#8217;t show us anything like this</p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/124_googlebillgates.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i124_googlebillgates.JPG" alt="googlebillgates.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>This way we know that its some reality in the suggestion right ? well not always  <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Let see what google suggests about </span></strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari"><strong>Zardari</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/125_googlezardari.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i125_googlezardari.JPG" alt="googlezardari.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>Yup he is Loved by everyone <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Lets check out suggestions for the Countries &#8230;.</p>
<p>America comes first as per Alpha Order&#8230;</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Why are Americans&#8230;</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/126_googleamericans.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i126_googleamericans.JPG" alt="googleamericans.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t know they were afraid of Dragons <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Why are British &#8230;&#8230;</span></strong></p>
<p>﻿<a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/127_googlebritish.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i127_googlebritish.JPG" alt="googlebritish.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>Now people have some serious complains from them &#8230; &#8220;Why are British TV seasons so short&#8221;  <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':razz:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Why are French &#8230;.</span></strong></p>
<p>Believe it or not French people get appreciated</p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/128_googlefrench.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i128_googlefrench.JPG" alt="googlefrench.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>now you didn&#8217;t expect that there wont be anything wrong did you :p</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Why are Indians &#8230;</span></strong><br />
I dont write anything don&#8217;t want to get flamed  <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif' alt=':mrgreen:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/129_googleindians.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i129_googleindians.JPG" alt="googleindians.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>aah great &#8230;was taking the screenshot and msn alert came in, too lazy to do it again <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Why are Pakistanis &#8230;</span></strong><br />
Well i had to add this, it wouldn&#8217;t be fair otherwise with my neighbor country   <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />   &#8230;</p>
<p>﻿<a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/130_googlepakistan.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i130_googlepakistan.JPG" alt="googlepakistan.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>Remember when i said that sometimes Google Suggestions are not true ? &#8230; thats the Case above which i referred to <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Let see some General Google Suggestions &#8230;.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Lawyers are &#8230;</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/131_googlelawyers.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i131_googlelawyers.JPG" alt="googlelawyers.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>Google thinks that not me <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Doctors are &#8230;</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/132_googledoctors.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i132_googledoctors.JPG" alt="googledoctors.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>Anyone is spared or not ?</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">My Husband is &#8230;</span></strong><br />
let see what generally the wifes search about there husband thats why Google is suggesting it <img src='http://blog.drhack.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/133_googlehusband.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i133_googlehusband.JPG" alt="googlehusband.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>Not even a single good remark &#8230; thats bad Ladies they cant be all that Bad.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">My Wife is &#8230;</span></strong></p>
<p>Let see how and what the husbands think about</p>
<p><a href="http://userbar.drhack.net/show.php/134_googlewife.JPG.html"><img src="http://userbar.drhack.net/out.php/i134_googlewife.JPG" alt="googlewife.JPG @ .:: Hackology UserBar ::." width="553" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>they got  praised&#8230;</p>
<p>That will be all for now .. i think there are millions of such funny Suggestions &#8230; Tell us what funny combination you found out &#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the naysayers can feel free to eat their hats.  Apple finally revealed the device we’ve all been whispering about for a good year or more. The Sasquatch of gadgets is real. We’ll update this with all the details as they happen Looks like a big iPhone to us. 1GHz Apple A4 processor (custom) 0.5″ [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All the naysayers can feel free to eat their hats.  Apple finally revealed the device we’ve all been whispering about for a good year or more. The Sasquatch of gadgets is real. We’ll update this with all the details as they happen</p>
<p>Looks like a big iPhone to us.</p>
<ul>
<li>1GHz Apple A4 processor (custom)</li>
<li>0.5″ thick</li>
<li>1.5 pounds</li>
<li>9.7″ Capacitive touchscreen (1024×768)</li>
<li>16-64GB of SSD storage</li>
<li>3G available but not in all iPads</li>
<li>$14.99 for 250MB, $29.99 for unlimited data on AT&amp;T (no contract)</li>
<li>3G iPads are unlocked, have GSM micro SIMs</li>
<li>Accelerometer, Compass</li>
<li>802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1</li>
<li>Runs iPhone apps in window or pixel doubling</li>
<li>Hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics</li>
<li>SDK out today</li>
<li>$499 for 16GB base model, $830 for all maxed out</li>
<li>Dock with hard keyboard available</li>
</ul>
<p><img title="ipad" src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ipad2.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="401" /></p>
<p>There’s a very custom interface that I won’t bother describing — . Needless to say it’s very good looking. Prices start at $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. Adding 3G costs $130.</p>
<p>We’re seeing lots of great-looking apps from the live coverage of the event, including 3D games, a really sweet-looking calendar, a nice email app, and a New York Times app that looks really stunning.</p>
<p>Concerns, though:</p>
<ul>
<li>No camera so no video chat</li>
<li>Limited space — 64GB may be a lot for an iPod, but when you’ve got movies and such, it’ll disappear real fast</li>
<li>Multitasking?</li>
<li>No SD or multi-card reader means that’s all the storage you get</li>
<li>It’s obviously no more customizable than the iPhone</li>
<li>iPod dock connection only means no easy connection of USB devices</li>
</ul>
<p>Our minds all just got blown by the $499 starting price, though. I was thinking way more for sure. Nice move, Apple.</p>
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<p>Looks interesting</p>
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		<title>PlayStation 3: Firmware 3.21 is not April Fool Prank</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fadi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PlayStation 3 had been trying from day-1 to keep piracy at bay. But finally, people had found a way to run non-original copies of games on their PS3 consoles. Sony usually tends to launch new firmware releases only for the purpose of adding features to their consoles. However, this time Sony released the 3.21 firmware [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-710" title="PlayStation 3" src="http://blog.drhack.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PlayStation-3-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" />PlayStation 3 had been trying from day-1 to keep piracy at bay. But finally, people had found a way to run non-original copies of games on their PS3 consoles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sony usually tends to launch new firmware releases only for the purpose of adding features to their consoles. However, this time Sony released the 3.21 firmware specifically for the purpose of combating piracy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hackers had found a way to use &#8220;Install Other OS&#8221; feature to install an OS other than the PS3&#8242;s and use that to run pirated games.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, Sony came up with a simple solution &#8211; disable the Other OS feature altogether !! What a cheap and easy fix :p</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is a really bad news for the Other OS feature users but a delight for software and game vendors of PS3. The users of this feature might choose not to install the 100MB firmware upgrade, but then, they will be missing out on the following features.</p>
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<li>Ability to sign in to PlayStation Network (PSN). This will eventually lead to the non-availability of  network features that require the PSN, like online features of PS3 games and chat.</li>
<li>Playback of PS3 software titles or Blu-ray Disc videos that require PS3 system software version 3.21 or later.</li>
<li>Playback of copyright-protected videos that are stored on a media server (when DTCP-IP is enabled under Settings)</li>
<li>Use of new features and improvements that are available on PS3 system software 3.21 or later.</li>
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<p><strong>PS:</strong> If you want to upgrade to PS3 firmware 3.21, make sure that you backup all your previous data on the PS3 because after upgrading, this data will not be accessible to you.</p>
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