[UPDATE] LinkedIn Starts Showing Group Activity Progress

With updates flying throughout various sites, LinkedIn has started updating it website by showing you group activity and you progress through a progress bar.

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[UPDATE] Google Does Away With "Display Images Option" in Gmail

In an unexpected move, Google has gone head and removed the option of clicking the link "Display Images Option" in Gmail and has taken upon itself to keep out inboxes clean on unwanted spam email messages with unwanted images.

A good move indeed.

[NOTE: The article "[UPDATE] Google Does Away With "Display Images Option" in Gmail" first appeared on the Komputer Knowledge Blog.

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[UPDATE] Tradus, Indian Online Retailer Revamps Its eCommerce Site

It was long time coming and when most of the online retailers are upgrading their websites Tradus was lagging behind on that front. It now seems more appropriate for the site to have moved on from it's previous incarnation to its new avatar and truly become a Web 2.0 company.

Tradus' First Page Asking For Your Pincode

Tradus' Welcome Page

Tradus' Welcome Page With New Search Options

A Simple Search For DSLR Cameras & Various Options

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[UPDATE] Google Updates Terms of Service (TOS) Across Its Sites

It seems as if it's the month of updates, and as if all the companies are trying to one-up each other by providing updates every other day. First it was LG announcing that it would be providing flexible displays and then Samsung came along with a curved phone itself. Yahoo announced major changes to it's email service by providing 1 TB space, POP/IMAP facility for emails, more email filters, Microsoft introduced the "Sweep" feature for Outlook.com, and now Google has gone ahead and updated its Terms of Service (TOS) with major changes to Google+.

If you log on to Google today you'll see a pop-up on the page at the top highlighting the change and also for you to click-through and read the updated TOS.

You can read the updated TOS at the link below:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/changes/

Google's Updated Terms of Service (TOS)

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[UPDATE] Sneaky Google Goes Back to RSS Feeds for Alerts

When Google announced the closure of its RSS Reader some months back, people were disheartened at the news. It seems now that Google has backtracked and has gone back to enabling RSS feeds in its alerts.

Also of note is that while RSS feeds are enabled, the option "As-it-happens" is disabled.

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[UPDATE] Google online Maps updated for better visibility, simplicity, and better loading [OVERVIEW]

Google seems to be on and update spree and is pushing out updates to all of its products in a timed manner. For Chrome users there is some good news.

Google is testing new features for quite some time as part of experiments it is running on Google MAPS.

Below is the screenshot of Google MAPS asking you to try the new MAPS features and the new interface of MAPS.

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[UPDATE] Google Updates YouTube View Load Times for Chrome Users Using HTML5

Google seems to be on and update spree and is pushing out updates to all of its products in a timed manner. For Chrome users there is some good news.

Google is testing new features for quite some time as part of experiments it is running on YouTube. It has to do with changing the way content is loaded when users switch pages or click on a new video while on YouTube. The old way of doing this was to reload this page fully, which meant that all content of the new page was loaded from cache or a server even if the content does not change at all.

With the new experiments in tow the element of the interface that are not changing are kept to speed up the page loading times. HTML5 enables web developers to change the links without reloading the entire page. Even though that is the case, a back-button is also created so that you can go back to the previous page without any issues.

Many of you would have noticed this in all browsers that support this feature. While Google has been testing this in different browsers, it has been enabled in Chrome for the current time being.

This is most evident by the fact that in the Chrome browser when you are vising YouTube, the site displays a red bar just underneath the address bar when you click on a link to another video.

Red Loading Bar Underneath The Address Bar

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[PC Basics] Where You'll Get Hacked: Common Mistakes, and How to Prevent It [INFOGRAPHIC]

Where You'll Get Hacked: Common Mistakes, and How to Prevent It

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[PC Basics] Avoiding Viruses the Smart Way: Disabling Autorun Feature

Through the course of this article, I will help you avoid viruses by disabling a system feature that has its roots from the time PCs became mainstream.

An autorun.inf file is a text file that can be used by AutoRun and AutoPlay components of Microsoft Windows OS. For the file to be discovered and used by these components, it must be located in the root directory of a volume.

The AutoRun component was introduced in Windows 95 as a way of reducing support costs. AutoRun enabled application CD-ROMs to automatically launch a program which could then guide the user through the installation process.

By placing settings in an autorun.inf file, manufacturers could decide what actions were taken when their CD-ROM was inserted.

The simplest autorun.inf files have just two settings: one specifying an icon to represent the CD in Windows Explorer (or "My Computer") and one specifying which application to run.

A simple example:

[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.exe,0
label=My install CD

- Via Wikipedia

VIRUSES & MALWARE

Autorun.inf can be exploited to allow malicious programs to run automatically without the user knowing.

If you have been infected with the autorun.inf virus, each time you insert the removable media and double-click your drive to open it, the virus file begins executing and infects your computer, which spreads itself on to the computer by making multiple copies of the autorun.inf and .exe files on every drive of your computer.

When your computer is infected, viruses might connect to malicious websites and install key loggers on your PC. Key logger steal your private information like usernames, account numbers, social security, passwords, credit card information, as well as other sensitive information.

It is very important that you remove the virus from the computer to avoid further spread.


AVOIDING VIRUSES & SAFETY

In this modern day and age, very few people have any use of this feature and it is best to disable this so as to avoid being infected with a virus that can propagate itself each time the removable media is inserted.

A very useful tool to remove or to nip it in its bud is to disable this feature altogether and not have Autorun run itself when removable media such as DVDs, USB drives, CDs, or Memory Sticks are inserted in the first place.

The easiest way to disable Autorun in just a few minutes and which will potentially save you from getting infected with a virus that takes time (or money) to clean is by downloading the utility “Disable Autorun.”

Click on the link and download and install the tool. Once it's installed, right click the shortcut on the desktop and click Run as Administrator.

Choose from the following options:

Disables AutoRun on drives of unknown type
Disables AutoRun on removable drives
Disables AutoRun on fixed drives
Disables AutoRun on network drives
Disables AutoRun on CD-ROM drives
Disables AutoRun on RAM disks
Disables AutoRun on all kinds of drives

I would recommend that you select all available options and, if you’re not sure of which options to pick, check the option "Disables AutoRun on all kinds of drives."

Click the Apply button and restart your computer to save and apply the changes. Repeat on other computers around you home or send to a friend to do the same.

[Note: this program must be run with administrator privileges, or you can right click the program and click "Run As Administrator" to run this program.]

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My New Minimal Homescreen Theme For My S3

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[NONSENSE] The Most Detailed Technical Information Ever

The most detailed technical information ever, circled in red.

I seriously have no idea on what to make of this and as to what the "Numeric Code 7" means.

When you are as big a company as Google and would like to give out information for reference or to clear doubts one would expect that the information provided is simple and to the point.

It would have rather been better that Gmail would have just written what the problem was in the first place and be done with it.

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Gmail New Features

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