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    May 22

    The World’s Thinnest Notebook - MacBook Air

    Apple® unveiled their MacBook® Air on 15th January. This notebook is known as world's thinnest notebook.Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. MacBook Air has a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight® video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support so users can pinch, rotate and swipe. MacBook Air is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1.
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    MacBook Air has a vibrant 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display that is energy efficient, and its spacious trackpad offers multi-touch gesture support for pinch, rotate and swipe, making it more intuitive than ever to browse and rotate photos or zoom into web pages in Safari™. MacBook Air features a full-size keyboard design in a sleek and durable aluminum enclosure.

    MacBook Air delivers up to five hours of battery life for wireless productivity and includes AirPort Extreme® 802.11n Wi-Fi networking, which delivers up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g*.

    MacBook Air is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors running at 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz, and includes as standard 2GB of memory and an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive. An optional 64GB solid state drive contains no moving parts for added durability.

    The new MacBook Air embodies Apple’s continuing environmental progress with its aluminum enclosure, a material highly desired by recyclers; Apple’s first mercury-free LCD display with arsenic-free glass; and brominated flame retardant-free material for the majority of circuit boards as well as PVC-free internal cables. In addition, MacBook Air consumes the least amount of power of any Mac, and its retail box, made primarily from 100 percent post-consumer recycled material, is 56 percent smaller by volume than the previously smallest MacBook packaging.

    Configuration:
    • 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with 1280x800 resolution;
    • 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache;
    • 800 MHz front-side bus;
    • 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
    • 80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor;
    • Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100;
    • Micro-DVI port (includes Micro-DVI to VGA and Micro-DVI to DVI Adapters);
    • built-in iSight video camera;
    • built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
    • one USB 2.0 port;
    • one headphone port;
    • multi-touch TrackPad with support for advanced multi-touch gestures including tap, scroll, pinch, rotate and swipe; and 45 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.
    Moreover MacBook Air has proved that Windows XP SP2 & Vista SP1 can run medium-fast speed within the Apple OS(LEOPARD) via Apple booting software called "Boot Camp".

    So is this worth to buy?
    May 16

    Atlast Godaddy Supports ASP.net 3.5

    Godaddy is one of the cheapest web hosting provider around the world. They provide Windows Hosting Plans(IIS) and LINUX Hosting Plans(APACHE) affordable prices. GoDaddy.com hosting plans are ideal for most individuals and small businesses with a 99.9% network uptime commitment and 24/7 support.

    Checkout their Plans Now!

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    So what's the big issue?: A great unfair with old customers
    Godaddy doesn't support ASP.NET 3.5 runtime by the time Microsoft released it. Many customers of Godaddy sent mails to them. But their reply says that; they don't have any plans for allowing ASP.NET 3 or 3.5. And because of this customers were disappointed and few of them decided to wait for few days to see an upgrade from Godaddy.

    29th February 2008 was a good and bad day for the customers who were waiting for a positive comment from Godaddy.
    The notice they published on 29th Feb, says: 'As of February 29, 2008, this is only applicable to new hosting accounts'

    After Godaddy's unfair, many of the customers decided to leave Godaddy. By the time other providers were taking advantages of this bad decision.
     
    However, After having a loss, again Godaddy published a new decision on March 23,2008 11:04 PM.

    Their notice says: 'ASP.NET 3.5 runtime is backward compatible with versions 3.0 and 2.0'

    Now users are allowed to run all frameworks of ASP.NET. Why don't you upgrade youre' account now?

    May 04

    Cyber-crime on the rise in the Maldives says FBI

     
    Cyber-crime using credit cards are on the rise in the Maldives according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. Two experts from FBI are assisting the Maldives police with cyber-crime projects. According to the agents, online credit card fraud is a difficult crime to track it's nearly impossible to stop it. However, they said that it is important to trying stop it.
     
    Maldives police also said that they had noticed a rise in cyber crime in the country and that is the reason for the close cooperation with FBI. Police also said that they were drafting a Cyber Law bill to enable them to apprehend such criminals. In addition to that, police also said that criminals, including paedophiles are also taking advantage of the easy access to internet in the country.
     
    Child abuses via chat and social network websites, child pornography, credit card fraud and identity theft, are common cyber crimes faced by internet users. Most developed countries now have mechanisms in place to deal with such criminals and many have been convicted.
     
    Parents need to be vigilant and must not let their children surf the web freely. Taking such precautions and use of parental locking software goes a long way in tackling such crimes. Also, use of a reliable internet firewall is essential for safe and secure use of the internet.

    Windows XP SP3 still AWOL, but resides on Microsoft servers

    Though Windows XP SP3's official release has been delayed, it can be found on pirate sites and well as Microsoft's servers

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    While Microsoft makes users wait for the official version of Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3), the update has been widely distributed on pirate sites and can still be found and downloaded from Microsoft's servers.
    On Tuesday, in a low-key announcement on a support newsgroup, Microsoft said it would delay the release of XP SP3 because of data corruption issues between the updated operating system and its retail point-of-sale software. The week before, when it had touted the service pack's completion -- in its nomenclature, SP3 had reached the "release to manufacturing," or RTM stage -- Microsoft had said it would offer the update via Windows Update on April 29.

    Days before that, however, copies of the RTM build had leaked to the Internet and were easily available through Rapidshared search sites such as Warez-bb. Currently, there are several language-specific versions of Windows XP SP3 RTM showing in search results on that site. Some have been tagged as Build 5512, which Microsoft manager Chris Keroack confirmed earlier this week is the official designation for XP SP3 RTM.

    Wednesday, ZDNet blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes posted a collection of links to 12 XP SP3 installers, including those for the Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish versions of the operating system. Those links led to executables on Microsoft servers.

    Earlier in the week, Microsoft had cautioned against downloading such files. "It's possible that some third party websites are linking to the Windows XP SP3 software that we have published for MSDN and TechNet subscribers," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail Wednesday. "Since we cannot confirm the source of every link, our recommendation is that customers wait until we've published Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update and the Download Center."

    Microsoft, however, has not pulled the standalone installers from its servers; as of today, the links were still live.

    Computerworld downloaded the English-language installer -- a 316MB file -- used it to install XP SP3, and confirmed that the result is Build 5512 of Service Pack 3.

    In response to a query, a Microsoft spokeswoman said the company had no new information to share about when it would add XP SP3 to Windows Update and post an official standalone installer to its download site.

    This article prove, all Windows XP SP3 versions in different torrent and rapidshared sites are not officially released versions. So I suggest all my fellow friends to wait for Microsoft to Publish official version on their Download Center.