Where are we heading to??
Its been 2 months since we put a new life into the old thinkdigit Blog & started diGit Blog here. Since then we’ve seen a steady rise in the readership, with ever increasing blogging & more & more articles & tutorials. We thank all our readers, regulars & first-timers, for taking out time & read [...]
Paint it .NET!!
So?? Do you like MS-Paint that comes bundled with Windows? Now most of you will say that MS-Paint just sucks & you don’t like it at all. :sick: Why? Obviously you’ve tasted what Photoshop or Fireworks or Corel Photopaint or PaintShop Pro or Illustrator or Freehand or Corel Draw or Gimp cooks for you. [...]
Free Solaris?
Whoever said that there’s no such thing as free lunch should re-consider that statement!!
Sun Microsystems is now offering Solaris 10, their popular UNIX OS, touted as the best ever, for FREE!! Yes, you can either get the DVD images(there are 5 parts of 400+ MB each which will need to be concatenated upon [...]
Indiatimes.com Shopping remains Vulnerable!!
The Indian shopping portal Indiatimes.com Shopping is vulnerable against XSS attacks & can allow phishers etc. to get you to input your username, password & credit card data as well.
This security hole reported by Deep Ganatra on 29th January 2005, is still unpatched by Indiatimes after more than 4 months!! Indiatimes & its developers are [...]
Apple on Intel & OS-X on PCs!!
Apple will be moving from IBM’s PowerPC processors to Intel for its lower end models like Mac Mini in mid-2006 & higher end models like Power Mac in mid-2007, reports c|net.
Apple has been using PowerPC processors since 1994 when they switched from Motorola’s 680×0 line of processors!! The shift in processors then demanded the changes [...]
Macromedia + Eclipse = Zorn!!
Macromedia seems to be moving forward & now they’ll be joining the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse is an open-source IDE(Integrated Development Environment) written in Java, with support for a lot of things, including even Flash!!
So now Macromedia is joining the Eclipse Foundation & will be creating a next-generation rich Internet application development tool code named Zorn, [...]
MSN Korea Hacked !! Who Knows…
Hackers planted a password stealer on the news page of South Korea’s MSN which went undetected for many days.:tdown:
“Our alarms went off (Sunday). We noticed it was infected,” said Dan Hubbard, its senior security director.
The company finally learned about it and removed the nasty code. Microsoft confessed it removed the password-stealing software from the MSN [...]
Virtual Red-Light Area!!
ICANN(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on Wednesday approved to create a virtual red-light zone by giving the green light to the XXX TLDs, reports Yahoo! ICANN said that it’ll start negotiating with ICM Registry Inc., run by British businessman Stuart Lawley, to iron out technical & price issues. Apparently ICM plans to sell [...]
Photoshop Toolbar Explained!
I was just organising my bookmark when I noticed this little link. Its to a page where all the tools from the Photoshop Toolbar are explained! It has a detailed explanation for each tool along with a light video demonstration to the tools capabilities. Its great for Photoshop newbies! Here it is: simplephotoshop.com
Cordless Headphones?
So today I got cordless headphones after my 2 year old normal headphones refused to play the music. Big deal!! Yes it is a big deal, cordless headphones are still new here, not many people go with them. Reason? They are expensive! Yes, its a fact, I got this one for Rs.800 while I could’ve [...]