Cooliris .... transforming browser into 3D cinema !!!

Cooliris blows up your Web-surfing experience into a larger-than-life graphical experience. It takes the images it finds on nearly any Web site, expands them to super-extra-large size, and then lets you surf through them in a classy scaling interface that we think we last saw in the Iron Man movie. Or maybe it was The Dark Knight.

Whatever the inspiration, there's no doubt that the cross-platform and cross-browser Cooliris puts the "graphic" back in "graphic user interface". Installing it places a button on the Toolbar. When you're on a Cooliris-enabled Web site, click the Cooliris button to activate the Cooliris interface. Your screen will go black, and all the images on the site will zoom past you as if on a roller-coaster. They stop soon after, and from there you can surf the site using the subtly-placed search bar at the top of your monitor. Click on an image to enlarge it. If it's a still image, it simply enlarges. If it's a video, it enlarges and starts playing.




Currently, the plug-in only supports a handful of the most popular graphics-intensive site, such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, and a few others. A WordPress plug-in allows those who use that blogging system to create Cooliris functionality, and there's a Webmaster's guide on the Cooliris site for users who host their own sites. We also noticed occasional stability problems on Internet Explorer, but they were intermittent at best. Installing the add-on is worth it just for the sweeping, futuristic way that images stream by when you browse, even though there might not be much practical application at this point.

Acrobat Replacement ...

This is the cheaper replacement of the famous pdf maker software ... Adobe Acrobat ... its Primo PDF ... but the problem is its just a PDF maker not PDF viewer ... so we can't see PDF files , we can just create it ... to view PDF files then we need some other software ... for example Foxit reader !!! Both apps are free and by combining them two , i have replaced requirement of Adobe Acrobat for my system...

More about Primo ...

PrimoPDF converts just about any file type to a PDF, using the source program the file was created with and its print command. Two new changes make the program easier to use and more useful. The interface redesign is definitely easier to navigate, and users can now choose to email the PDF instantly after its creation.

The conversion process from whatever document is on your screen to PDF is quick and efficient. Other features include a security feature, which allows the user to wrap the PDF in 40-bit or 128-bit encryption, PDF merging, and password protection. The user also can restrict editing of the new PDF, leaving comments and making other changes.

More about Foxit Reader ...

Its Incredibly small , the download size of Foxit Reader is just a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size. Its Breezing-fast, When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc. Good Annotation tool , Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document. Save fillable forms after filling them out so you can continue anytime. Good text converter, You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file. High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission while other PDF readers often silently connect.

Njoy ...

IE 7 Emergency ??

Its been not a new thing that we get time to time updates for various softwares that we use and even for our operating systems from their makes , microsoft or apple for example ... and being good computer user we keep automatic update feature "ON" so our operating system gets updated automatically ... right ?? ...

Well , its about a patch for internet explorer 7 that microsoft released just in an overnight !!! the IE7 vulnerability was such a critical that they had to act fast .. according to microsoft , the systems with OS, XP, Vista , server 2003 , server 2008 were effected.

Once exploited the IE , it downloads trojan that modify files and steals personal informations , it also downloads melicious files that infect user's PC.

So if you still haven't downloaded the patch , then its time ....

Njoy ....

Toad ... for windows !!!

Being the best DBMS software of the world Oracle is the most complex and perhaps the most difficult system to work with ... and i realized that when i took database design course for my fall '08 semester ....

Well one of the reasons why i felt Oracle difficult is may be because of lacking so called "computer science" background of mine , ( still i don't know why , i always loved database compared to programming ) ... but when our professor told us that if we do our final project using Oracle as DBMS , we will get extra credit , i jumped in !!! .... before that i had tried SQL Server 2000 , ( and now its 2008 version is already in market ) so i was a bit of lacking knowledge about complexity of Oracle ...

The main problem i faced with Oracle was , there is no GUI at all !!! ... being windows user that made my life miserable at first because , we just can't move a single step without help of Mr. Mouse !! right ??? and i guess Oracle , doesn't even know what mouse is for !! so it took me a while for getting things done .. another thing that always confused me was after defining tables , how do we know primary key or foreign key of the table ?? , and i still don't know how to do that in Oracle ....

And some day , i came to know this software ... Tool for Application Developer a.k.a TOAD ... actually there are bunch of other software are available just for getting things done with Database development and administration. i found TOAD quite handy tool for my works with Oracle , we can access database directly from TOAD with our Oracle login , and so we can do all the boring command line stuff with fully functional GUI !!! ... it has every thing that we ever need to work with any DBMS , weather its Oracle or SQL server or MYSQL or DB2 or anything ...


Njoy ...

MEWU - Scene 8 ... Change your Identity !!!

When we do "experiments" sometimes are need to hide ... or say more softly , change our MAC address. And for this , Ubuntu has very hand tool, called MAC Changer.

But first some words about MAC address... Media Access Control a.k.a. MAC is a unique identifier used to identify network adapters weather it is a Ethernet or WiFi or any Bluetooth , all networking hardware has unique ID , and with who's help those devices --- and so --- "USER" of that device can be identified. This method is used in very basic security schemes that includes mobile networks too !!!

Well, i don't wanna ask why would you ever think to change your MAC address but i know there are always "reasons" to change it for sometime. There are number of ways to change it ,

one method is ...

go to your termainal and write ,

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

it will open interface file of network , it should look like ,

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

then simply add a line after these two lines , and it will look like this ,

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
hwaddress ether 01:02:03:04:05:06

where 01:02:03:04:05:06 is a FAKE MAC address...

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

and you will see your "all new" identity.