Red MOTORAZR V3i to Fight AIDS

Following Apple’s red iPod Nano, Motorola has released red Motorazr V3i’s to help raise funds to fight AIDS in Africa. Motorola will be donating £10 from each handset and 5% of the monthly phone bill.

Rarz’s features aren’t so attractive with Quad Band, 1.23 Megapixel camera and 10 MB of internal memory, but it looks so good that anybody will be tempted to buy it. Red V3i should effectively increase Motorola’s V3i sales as well as help raise funds charity. This handset is been made exclusively available at Carphonewarehouse.

via TechDigest

How to Watch Remote Live Cameras

Thesedays security Cameras are so cheap. Anybody can get one and connect it onto the net and start streaming it unprotected (without passwords). They do this so that they can keep an eye over their place from office, cafeteria or wherever, but they never know that Googlebot is spying over them

You can access these remote camera with a mere Google Search for “inurl:/view.index.shtml”. Some results might return a time out error and some might ask for a password, but keep trying.

The intention of this post is not to help you gain access to someone else’s camera, but to wake up those who have connected unprotected cameras to the net.

MySpace Worm Spread through QuickTime

Websense reports that a QuickTime is spreading worm through the insanely popular Social Networking Site, MySpace. The worm is associate with a QuickTime video which triggers a javascript when viewed on Internet Explorer. This worm will change links within the infected user’s profile and points towards phising sites. Viewing videos on these profiles will infect the other profiles also. Infected profiles can be easily detected as navigation menu has been modified from the standard one.

With lots of people addicted towards MySpace, lots of Malware developers are trying to target MySpace.

eBoy’s Pixilated Web 2.0 Poster for Sale

This cool poster illustrating the pixilated web 2.0 logos is created by eBoy. The full size (size: 841 x 1189 mm/23.3 x 33.1 inch) poster is available sale for a price 18.56 Euro (approx 24.6 USD, 1098 INR) PayPal is accepted.

A larger preview of the photo is available here

Why Stumblers are Active During Weekends ?

From the past couple of weeks, I’ve been closely monitoring my statistic. I have revealed that Stumblers are quite active during weekends. During weekdays I get around 150 - 300 hits from StumbleUpon’s referral, but it kicks upto 3500 - 4000 hits during weekends. Why makes them so active ?

My Theory: Most surfers use School, Office computers and obviously they won’t have StumbleUpon installed. At weekends, all school, office goers sit at home, they feel bored, so they use StumbleUpon to discover something new. StumbleUpon has always been my favorite timepass. When I have nothing to do, I keep stumbling randomly. I think everybody uses it the sameway. Don’t you ?

You can encourage all your readers to install StumbleUpon Extension (works with both IE and Firefox) or you can place a StumbleUpon badge below every post. Unlike Diggers, Stumblers read your blog, if the content is good and they keep coming back.

Million Dollar Homepage Comes Back as Pixelotto

Alex Tew, a million dollar man behind the insanely popular Million Dollar Homepage who generated million dollars in a few months by his new pixel advertising concept where pixels were sold for 1$ each. It was huge success and he sold his last 1000 pixels on eBay for 38,000 to wrap it up.

TechCrunch reports that he is coming back again with Pixelotto which is schedule to go live on December 5th, 2006. This time its $2 per pixel and he is running lottery where the winner who clicks on the right pixel ad gets one million dollar. Alex has sent emails to his previous customers to reserve their pixel ad before the rush begins.

With a chance to win million dollars, visitors would be randomly clicking on ads and make advertisers happy. Pixelotto will surely repeat his previous success. He has found the right lane to success, its just money, money, money…

Create Customized Headline Animator

You might have come across Feedburner’s Headline Animator as Email, Forum Signatures or on any webpage. It scrolls five of your latest post and helps you to promote your readership. Now you can customize headline animator by changing elements such as colors, width, font or even background image. You can drag title, date and headline to re-arrange on the canvas and build your desired Headline Animator. Here’s an sample:

This is awesome, you have complete control over its appearance. Remember that if you change your Headline Animator, it will be changed everywhere. However said they are working on multiple style for single feed.

Potential Vulnerabilities Found in Adobe Reader and Acrobat

In the latest Security Advisor, Adobe has warned its users about a potential vulnerability in Internet Explorer’s ActiveX Controls that could allows hackers to use Adobe Reader, Acrobat to hijack you PC and it may also cause applications to crash. Only Adobe Reader, Acrobat Standard and Professional 7.0.0 and 7.0.8 running on Windows Platform is said to be affected.
Solution:

1. Exit Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader.
2. Browse to :\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX.
Note: If you did not install Acrobat to the default location, browse to the location of your Acrobat 7.0 folder.
3. Select AcroPDF.dll and delete it.

I use Foxit PDF Reader for viewing all my PDF document, its free and fast.

via TechTites

Get Digg Widget For Your Blog

David has created a nifty little flash widget (see the preview below) which scrolls stories from Digg and helps you promote them in your blog / website.



You can use this widget to scrolling dugg, submitted, commented or promoted stories from you or your friends. This widget can be restricted to a particular category, so that it shows stories only from that category.

This widget is bit bulky and won’t fit in your sidebar, but can be place anywhere above or below your content region.

Link: Digg Toolbar

Yahoo to Launch Branded Portals

Yahoo has launched a Wii Portal for fans which aggregates Flickr Photos, Avatars with Wii Gear, Links from Del.icio.us and MyWeb, Games, all Wii related stuff from Yahoo Answers and ofcource links to buy the console and games from Yahoo’s Shopping Site. Wii Portal is just a first example of branded portals, there are 100 more brand portals in the pipeline for 2007.

Some of the future portals might include “American Idol” and “Lord of the Rings”. Yahoo isn’t seeking any affiliation or approval from these brands (Yahoo is just providing free promotion, why would they object ?). Yahoo was born as a portal and its good to see them get back to their original business.

Firefox with 101 Extensions

This how your browser might look if you install 101 extensions:

The above image is just a snapshot of the bigger version. With these may extensions, it looks somewhat like a Web Editor. His browser might take ages to start up !!

Installing lots of extensions makes your browser terrible slow and unstable, so take my words and restrict yourself to under 15 or 20 extensions.

via Digg