End of Windows xp ???? - 8th April 2014

Microsoft to stop support for Windows XP on April 8, 2014

Microsoft’s one of the most popular operating system running desktop computer systems, will stop getting any support from the company after April 2014.

Microsoft has provided support for Windows XP for the past 11 years. But now the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources toward supporting more recent technologies so that we can continue to deliver great new experiences.

As a result, after April 8, 2014, technical assistance for Windows XP will no longer be available, including automatic updates that help protect your PC. Microsoft will also stop providing Microsoft Security Essentials for download on Windows XP on this date.

If you continue to use Windows XP after support ends, your computer will still work but it might become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses. Also, as more software and hardware manufacturers continue to optimize for more recent versions of Windows, you can expect to encounter greater numbers of apps and devices that do not work with Windows XP.

For those who are on this old version of operating system, they need to shift to the new OS soon.

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx

Different types of servers. . . we must know this. .

12 Type Of Servers And What They Do!

1. Real-Time Communication Servers
Also known as chat servers or IRC, and sometimes known as instant messaging (IM) servers, these servers are meant to allow huge number users to exchange information instantly.

2. FTP Servers
This is one of the oldest of the Internet services available. The FTP or File Transfer Protocol allows the users to securely transfer one or more files of any size between two computers.

3. Collaboration Servers
In many ways, collaboration software, once called 'groupware,' demonstrates the original power of the Web. Collaboration software designed to enable users to collaborate, regardless of location, via the Internet or a corporate intranet and to work together in a virtual atmosphere.

4. List Servers
List servers lets users better manage their mass mailing lists like open interactive discussions or one-way lists to deliver newsletters, announcements or advertising.

5. Telnet Servers
The Telnet server lets the users on to a host computer control and work on remote computers.

6. Web Servers
At its core, a Web server serves static content to a Web browser by loading a file from a disk and serving it across the network to a user's Web browser. This entire exchange is mediated by the browser and server talking to each other using HTTP.

7. Virtual Servers
A virtual server is a web server which shares its resources with multiple users. It's another way of saying that multiple web sites share the resources of one server.

8. Proxy Servers
Proxy server is a server which acts as an intermediary for requests between the users and the servers. Client connects to the proxy server and the proxy server evaluates the requests sent by the users simplifies them and control their complexities.

9. Mail Servers
Mail servers help in moving and storing the e-mail over a network via LANs and WANs or across the Internet.

10. Server Platforms
Normally used in same context with that of operating systems, server platforms are the platforms that are under the hardware or software of a system and the hence in the engine that drives the server.

11. Open Source Servers
Similar to server platforms, Open source server are referred to the underlying open source operating system used in the IT infrastructures of the companies.

12. Application Servers
Application servers are a type of middleware which connects the database servers and the app users.

How to Disable USB port - ( brainblasttechnews.blogspot.in)

Disable USB port:

1. Goto run

2. Type 'regedit' without quotes

3. Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

4. goto SYSTEM

5. Click on CurrentControlSet

6. Click on services

7. Goto USBSTOR

8. Double click on 'Start' where value is 3

9. Now change the value data with 4

10. Now press ok and refresh your desktop your USB port is disabled, to enable the usb port replace the value 4 with 3.

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7 Free E-books On Android Development!

Android App Development can fetch you some big bucks, so if you are a developer who is planning to step into Android Development or if you are a newbie who has chosen to start with Android, here are some ebooks that should be perfect for you. These books on Google Android development can help you to start coding an Android app without even having any Android-dev knowledge

1. Beginning Android Application Development by Wei-Meng Lee

This full-color guide offers you a hands-on introduction to creating Android applications for the latest mobile devices. Veteran author Wei Meng Lee accompanies each lesson with real-world examples to drive home the content he covers. Beginning with an overview of core Android features and tools, he moves at a steady pace while teaching everything you need to know to successfully develop your own Android applications.

2. Professional Android™ Application Development by Reto Meier

This book is for anyone interested in creating applications for the Android mobile phone platform. It includes information that will be valuable, whether you’re an experienced mobile developer or making our fi rst foray, via Android, into writing mobile applications.

It will help if readers have used mobile phones (particularly phones running Android), but it’s not necessary, nor is prior experience in mobile phone development. It’s expected that you’ll have some experience in software development and be familiar with basic development practices. While knowledge of Java is helpful, it’s not a necessity.

3. A first look at Google Android by Tomas Katysovas

The purpose of this report is to present to the user the new and promising mobile platform based on the Linux operating system and provided by Google. Additionally, I introduce Open Source infrastructure which not only supports development, but also has the potential to become a main business activity in the future.

4. The Android Developer’s Guide

The Dev Guide on the Android Developer’s site is quite helpful. It offers an Android Basic’s section to get you started.

5. Head First Android Development by Jonathan Simon

Whether you're a seasoned iPhone developer who wants to jump into the the Android Market, or someone with previous programming skills but no mobile apps in your resume, this book offers a complete learning experience for creating eye-catching, top-selling Android applications.

6. AndBook: Android Programming Book by Nicolas Gramlich

AndBook is a non-commerical book to learn programming for Google’s Android as a ‘hands on’ process. As mentioned in the book, “This document was written for developers who have worked with Java™ before and want to start developing for the Android Platform. I tried to make this as much “hands on” as possible, placing example codes everywhere it fit. Also I tried to insert as many picture as possible, because they liven up the learning process and relax the reader’s eyes.”

7. Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Jonathan Stark

If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop Android applications. This hands-on book shows you how to use these open source web standards to design and build apps that can be adapted for any Android device - without having to use Java. You'll learn how to create an Android-friendly web app on the platform of your choice, and then convert it to a native Android app with the free PhoneGap framework. Discover why device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and start building apps that offer greater flexibility and a broader reach.

Microsoft launches women’s safety app

HYDERABAD: Microsoft India today said it is introducing Guardian, a new safety application (app), available exclusively for Windows phone users in India.

Incidents such as ‘Nirbhaya’ prompted the global IT giant to come out with an app aiming at protecting women, Microsoft-IT India managing director Raj Biyani said.

Explaining its features, Biyani said Guardian enables users to switch on a ‘track me’ feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs. Guardian users can call for help through an ‘SOS’ alert button and also connect to security agencies, police and hospitals easily via this app in times of distress.

The app was developed over six months by a group of enthusiastic Microsoft employees in India, within the Microsoft Garage. Microsoft Garage is a global employee innovation initiative that gives Microsoft employees an outlet to explore ideas in their free time, Biyani said.

“Our employees wanted to do something to enable people to feel safer in our cities. So they used their spare time to develop Guardian. It is a robust personal security app with more safety features and capabilities than any other comparable app available to Indian smartphone users today,” Biyani told reporters after launching the app.

To use Guardian effectively, users need to add the names of friends, family members and security groups to the settings and in an emergency situation, the app can be used to alert them, via the SOS button. All the user has to do is tap the SOS button, a Microsoft official said.

“The phone then sends a distress SMS to all buddy mobiles, notifying them of the emergency along with location details. At the same time the SOS button also sends emails to buddy email IDs and posts to private Facebook groups, if registered,” the official said.

Guardian uses Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs extensively and can help security authorities and medical teams track the user. The phone can be traced even if it is broken. The application is capable of one touch video recording that may be used later as evidence, the official added.

- Source : http://techie.jobsplane.in/2013/12/microsoft-launches-womens-safety-app/

Interesting And Lesser Known Facts About Google!

Google is indeed an inseparable part of everyone's life today. let's accept that we all are curious to know interesting things about the company, which has brought big things like, Google search and Android. So, we bring to you 40 interesting facts to bring you closer to 'our favourite' Google!

                         


1. The Google Guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met first in 1995 at Stanford University when Sergey was asked to show Larry around the school. Google was first created as a private company on 4 September, 1998, and its first initial public offering was held on 19 August, 2004.

2. A Google employee is termed as a Googler, while they like to call a new employee “Noogler.”

3. Based on Alexa, Google is the Internet’s most used website globally.

4. Google aims to organise the world’s information and “make it universally accessible and useful.”

5.The earlier version of Google which was developed at Stanford could only analyse 30-50 pages a second. Today, the count has increased to millions of pages per second.

6. Google was sued by a former Google sales executive, Christina Elwell, on the grounds of job discrimination, when she was pregnant with quadruplets. The court granted Google's request to move the case to arbitration rather than to a public trial.

7. Creators Page and Brin thought if of naming Google as "What Box." However, Brin thought that it sounded similar to "wet box," which sounds like some kind of porn.

8. Critics opine that the Internet might still be in its pre-Hellenistic Age sans Google.

9. During the Egyptian crisis in 2011-2012, Google launched its special service, which allowed people with no Internet to send tweets by dialing a phone number and dropping a voicemail. The voicemail was automatically translated as messages on Twitter.

10. Facebook users spend the most minutes on the Internet, with over 250 billion minutes in a month. This data is for the month of May 2011. Microsoft and Google came in second and third with 204 billion and 200 billion minutes, respectively.

11. A fellow graduate Sean Anderson asked Page and Brin to name their site as 'Googolplex'. Page thought they should shorten it to 'Googol,' which means number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. Anderson mistyped 'Googol' as 'Google,' which was an available name. The name reflects Google’s mission to organise the massive amounts of information on the web.

12. Google CEO Eric Schmidt got into controversy when he told Google users that the future of the web is headed towards complete transparency and no anonymity. He said that if Google looked at a person’s messaging and a person’s location, it could predict where a person will go. Additionally, according to Schmidt, if a person has just 14 photos on the Internet, Google could accurately identify the person.

13. Schmidt raised eyebrows when in a 2011 interview, he said that he doesn’t think people want Google to answer their questions, rather they want Google to “tell them what they should be doing next.”

14. Google is criticised by its competitors that it manipulates its search results, it uses others’ intellectual properties, it consumes big amount of computer energy, and for monopoly, antitrust, and restraint of trade issues. The company is also criticised for promoting sexism and ageism.

15. Google has on-campus daycare centers for the children of the employees. These are based on a philosophy called Reggio Emilia, which is a self-directed learning program. In 2008, the company realised that they are spending $37,000 on each child per year, where as getting a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford costs $34,000 a year.

16. Google has reduced its tax rates by billions of dollars by intelligently taking advantage of offshore tax havens such as Ireland and Bermuda. Top corporate income tax in the U.S. is 35 per cent. Where as in Ireland, it's only 12.5 per cent, and in Bermuda it’s zero.

17. Google Inc.’s first employee was Craig Silverstein, a fellow computer science graduate student at Stanford. He was hired September 1998. He currently serves as director of technology at Google.

18. Google was originated at the Stanford School of Engineering with an attempt to catalog and analyse the World Wide Web. The process first ran at Stanford with the user name “google.stanford.edu.”

19. Google, on an estimate, generates approximately 20 petabytes of user-generated data every day. 1 petabyte is approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.

20. Google hires goats to eat brush and reduce fire hazard in fields at their California Mountain View headquarters.

21. About 1 million computers are used for Google's operation and about 1 billion search requests are handled every day.

22. Google is a dog-friendly company as per its Code of Conduct. They state in a quirky way, that it is a “dog company...as a rule we feel cats visiting our offices would be fairly stressed out.”

23. Google’s first-ever Twitter post was: “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010."in February 2004. Which is binary for “I’m feeling lucky.”

24. Google started the tradition of April Fool jokes in April 2000, when it brought the “MentalPlex,” which said Google has ability to read a person’s mind as he visualises the search results he wants.

25. If you use are using Google Calendar, "Google knows more about you than your mother." Google know your schedule, all the books you’ve read on Google Books, all the videos you have watched on YouTube. Google also remember all your search queries, the date and time of every request, your IP address, your SMS messages, your browser and its set language, the cookies used for advertising services, and third-party application data. Scared yet?

26. In the year 1998, the Google's homepage used a Yahoo like exclamation mark in its logo.

27. In the year 2007, the Forbes magazine showcased Google as the best place to work in the U.S.

28. In the year 2007, Google with NORAD decided to follow Santa Claus on Christmas Eve using Google Earth in 3D.

29. In the year 2010, Google accepted that in the previous three years, they have mistakenly collected the data sent by people over unencrypted wi-fi networks.
30. In January 2003, the American Dialect Society said that the word 'Google' is the is the most useful Word for 2002.

31. In June 2006, Google was added as a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

32. Google received a record 75,000 job applications for 6,000 openings in one week in February 2011.

33. Remember “Googolplex,” which was earlier being considered by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as the name of the company, which means 10 to the power of googol. The name was later adopted the for their corporate campus in Mountain View, California.

34. Page and Brin decided that the total number of words on the homepage of Google should not exceed 28.

35. Not willing to leave the school to devote time to their new search engine, Page and Brin tried to sell google.com for $1 million to AltaVista. Fortunately, Alta Vista was shut down and Google had by then surpassed other search engines.

36. The “Chief Culture Officer” is actually a job title at Google and his or her main job is to retain the unique culture of the company, which includes flat organisation, lack of hierarchy, a collaborative environment, and keeping Googlers happy.

37. The authors of 'A Billion Wicked Thoughts' crunched some data from Google, Bing, and Yahoo! ranking the most popular sex terms used for search. The top 10 terms were: 1. youth (13.5 per cent) 2. gay (4.7 per cent) 3. MILFs (4.3 per cent) 4. breasts (4 per cent) 5. cheating wives (3.4 per cent) 6. vaginas (2.8 per cent) 7. penises (2.4 per cent) 8. amateurs 9. mature 10. animation.

38. Google was pressurised by the U.S. government to provide Google usage records for further investigations into online pornography.

39. Googleplex have Google bikes parked throughout the campus that employees can hop on and ride. None of these bikes are locked and employees can simply take them whenever they need them. Google is also known for its "20 per cent time," which states that one day a week employees can take simply to work on something that interests them.
40. After introducing “Did you mean...” feature, Google's site traffic doubled.