Video Blogging Made easy in Blogger with video direct uploading

Its a welcome step from Blogger team to have direct video uploading facility in blogspot platform. You can notice the new Add Video icon, near the Add Image icon.

In the earlier days, in order to embedd video we had to upload the video into YouTube or Google Videos and then embedd the code in blogger. Now we can have hassle free video blogging with this new video uploading feature.

Hats off to Blogger team. I feel this is one of the great Birthday party from Blogger.

Its a lot in a name, sun plans to change nasdaq symbol SUNW to JAVA

A name is a brand, that can spot you uniquely. As famous the name its brand value also increases and thus reach and recognized by many more hearts.
Now its Sun Microsystem, put forwarded the idea of changing the stock symbol. Yes, Sun has decided to change its nasdaq symbol SUNW to JAVA.
It is sure that, this change can bring improvements in stock performance of the Sun Microsystems. Sun has put the name SUNW, earlier, to reflect its workstations. Now the Sun management hopes that JAVA, a very close friend of software developers, can bring a better trading.

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OpenId decentralized and secure login for multiple sites

OpenID is a way of having decentralized online identity and which can be used anywhere OpenID is supported. So once you have OpenId it will eliminate of multiple user names and passwords and gives you a smoother, more secure, online experience.

Technically speaking OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity also it make use of already existing internet technology like URI, HTTP and SSL.
In order to login to an OpenID enabled website (even one you've never been to before), just type your OpenID URI. The website will then redirect you to your OpenID Provider to login using whatever credentials it requires. Once authenticated, your OpenID provider will send you back to the website with the necessary credentials to log you in.

Some of the OpenId enabled sites are : netscape.com, velog.org, altrulist.org.uk, micropledge.com, www.bodle.gr, myexperiment.org

Get your free OpenId from myopenid.com.

Create your own YouTube with Lighttpd And FlowPlayer

Here is a very interesting tutorial, that can help you create YouTube like video sharing communities using some free softwares available on the internet.
You have to add and configure some of the modules for lighttpd for streaming videos.
Here the author suggest you to use FlowPlayer a freely available flash video player for the web.

Its a very interesting article. You can see the complete details here. [ Read ]

Blogcatalog is down for maintenance to rejuvenate it's capacity

BlogCatalog is one of the premiere free blog directory, Blog Catalog, available on the internet. Bloggers can submit, search, rate and review lakhs of blogs in different categories.
They have provided specific but wide range of categories so that none of the blogs won't miss
their niche of topics.


But in order to accommodate the greater traffic and to improve the response time, they have decided to take downtime for a while. So we can expect much mightier and high responsive BlogCatalog in a short while.

But if you have some queries you can directly contact : webmaster@blogcatalog.com

Control your Notebook Hardware from System tray menu

It will be very useful if we are allowed to control the hardwares of computers, and its more important when it comes to notebooks. Here is a free Notebook Hardware Control Software developed by Manfred Jaider.
Notebook Hardware Control Software is very powerful with user a friendly program interface and free for private use.


Great things you can do with Notebook Hardware Control software

• Control the hardware and system power management
• Customize the notebook (open source ACPI Control System)
• Prolong the battery lifetime
• Cool down the system and reduce power consumption
• Monitor the hardware to avoid system failure
• Make your notebook quiet

A large number of users appreciate these advantages and Notebook Hardware Control Software becomes one of the leading programs to control the power and hardware of modern notebooks.
Download Notebook Hardware Control Software.

Software requirement:
Microsoft's .NET Framework Version 2.0

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Submit sample application online for free malware analysis

Sunbelt Software provides an online service for free malware analysis. Those who want to test any application for malware activities, can be submitted for testing. Once you submit your sample for analysis they will send you a report to the email id you provided while submitting the sample.


Currently there is limitation of 12288 KB for the application sample. But this would be sufficient, I believe. You can submit your sample here. [ Submit ]
Also please take your time to share, if you find some new malware.

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