Google celebrates Bar Codes Anniversary

Google's Home Page on Bar Code's Anniversary

The picture added above has taken from the Google's homepage today. The new doodle of Google marks the 57th anniversary of the Bar Code's patent on October 7, 1952.

As per Wikipedia.com, "A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data". First US patent 2,612,994 owners were Joseph Woodland, Bernard Silver, and Jordin Johanson. The basic Bar Code consists of parallel lines at different widths & spaces as you can see in the picture, even though Bar Code could be in different shape & size.

Ten thousands of Hotmail Account hacked

Change Your MSN/Hotmail Password Immediately

Do you think I am kidding? No, I am not. I just got to know that over 10,000 of @msn.com, @hotmail.com & @live.com accounts ID & password has been leaked online. According to tech news site neowin.com Microsoft have confirmed the story too. An anonymous user of pastebin.com posted the user name & password of those accounts on 1st October. The post was removed later on by pastebin.com, which basically shares code snippets by developers. Neowin.com also confirmed that those user name & passwords were genuine & mostly based in Europe. Neowin.com recommended Windows Live Hotmail users to change their accounts password immediately.

How to use Yahoo Messenger for Multiple ID

Two Yahoo Messenger Running at a time

Yahoo Messenger is one of the most famous & widely used IM software for a long time. I have three different yahoo ID for different purpose. So I was looking for something that I can use to log into all of those IDs at a time. I have found Pidgin to be the best Yahoo Messenger alternative but problem was I couldn't use lots of features that Yahoo Messenger supports, such as Voice chat, Chat room, Internet radio etc. But finally I have found some trick to use the Yahoo Messenger for multiple Yahoo ID. Remember this trick worked in Windows XP, Vista platform (I didn't test on Windows 7 yet), with Yahoo Messenger 8, 9 version. If you have Windows 7 installed on your PC & this trick works please let me know. I will update this post as soon as I can hear from you.

This is how You have to edit from "Registry Editor"

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Step by Step Procedure

1. Click Start > Run > type "regedit" & hit "OK". It will open "Registry Editor" Window.

2. From "Registry Editor" Window go to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" & locate "Software" sub menu.

3. Select "Yahoo" from "Software" sub menu.

4. Go to "Pager" & Locate "Test".

5. Now select "Test" & look at the right hand side of the Window.

6. Put your Cursor within the white Window & Press "Right Button" of your mouse.

7. From the "New" menu create "String Value" & rename it as "Plural".

8. Now select "Plural" & press right button of your mouse.

9. Select "Modify" from the menu & put the "Value Data" as "1". Close Registry Editor.

You are done with your trick. Now you can open Yahoo Messenger with one of your ID. Click on Yahoo Messenger once again that will open another Yahoo Messenger, you should have been able to log into YM using another Yahoo ID. This way you can actually open as much YM as you want to open. If you like my post subscribe me & click on the ADs below this post. Enjoy & Happy chatting.

Just Released : AVG 9

User Interface of AVG Anti-Virus 9

Popular Anti-Virus software creator AVG Technologies updated two of their Security Program today. AVG Anti-Virus & AVG Internet Security 9. Not to mention AVG Anti-Virus Free edition is one of the most popular Anti-Virus program in the World. Unfortunately they didn't update their Free edition program.

What's New

AVG Technologies claimed these new versions as major update. As per their claim the scan time should have been 50 percent faster than the previous version (version 8) which I have found pretty much not true even though it is faster than their previous version. To test their claim I have scanned over 100 thousands of files (includes Word, Excel, MP3, Notepad, HTML, Images, Video clips, Exe files) using both (8 & 9) the versions from my PC. In this regard I would say, you will notice 10-20 percent improvement.

Memory usage is also expected to be 10 to 15 percent better too which is true. As a part of their major improvement they made installation process little shorter than the previous version. They have slightly changed the icon of the Security components. On Internet Security version they have added some whole new feature, one of them is Identity Theft Recovery Unit (ITRU) which I have found very interesting & a serious job. It's expected to be free only for the user of United States. This new feature is added as of their business partnership with Identity Guard which basically provides consumer identity theft solutions. ITRU will work as a toolbar of your web browser that will include Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox only.

Pricing

AVG Internet Security 9 is available for $49.99 & AVG Anti-Virus will cost $34.99. Both of these program comes with One year license & 30 day trial period.