Protect yourself from the Conficker computer worm

Microsoft has released a news about a new virus is going to release on April 1st 2009. This is called Conficker computer worm and this worm can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction.

Most antivirus software could detect and block the Conficker worm, so if you have updated antivirus software on your computer, you are at a much lower risk of being infected by the Conficker worm.




So double check you are running any virus protecting program in your computer and make sure it is up to date.

If you need more information about this computer virus please visit http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx web site.

Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft has releases their latest web browser Internet Explorer 8 last week. According to a PC world blog post IE 8 managed to break the 2 percent mark within a day of its release last Thursday. But after that with a steady decline, Internet Explorer 8 dropped down to 1.86 percent of the market by Monday morning. With this IE release, browser's market share for IE has fallen down little bit and Safari, Opera and Firefox web browsers have gain slight while Chrome has remained constant.





This version of IE has better tab handling, a niftier search bar, a more useful address bar, and new tools that deliver information directly from other Web pages and services. IE8 has also been tweaked for security and includes a so-called "porn mode," new anti-malware protection, and better ways to protect your privacy.

If you like to try this product visit Internet Explorer 8 home page.

Intel Atom CPU

Atom is a new dedicated Intel processor for MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) such as netbooks and nettops. It has most modern functions like EM64T, SSSE3, etc. The Atom is the first in-order x86 since the Pentium. But don’t expect a competitor to Core 2 Duo from this Atom CPU.

Atom is a different architecture in the sense that it was designed to reduce power consumption and that the processor uses a totally new design. It isn’t an adaptation of an earlier architecture. So it's using less power Consumption than the all other processors.

Latest Atom processors such as Atom 330 is a 1.60 GHz (FSB533) dual core processor.

How to extract 001 files

Recently I have downloaded some files from Rapidshare and all files were named as follows. name.001, name.002, name.003 etc. I have tried to play them but none of the players recognize the file type. So I decided to search about this file format and I got to know that these files are just split by a file splitter, without compression.

How To Follow a Blog

You can follow and view all the new updates for your favorite blogs using following option under your blogger account. To follow a blog it should have a followers gadget placed on the blog. According to the Google social web blog nearly three million blogs have this gadget and someone following a new blog every second.




At the end of February 2009 Google Friend Connect and Blogger joined together and introduced a newer following gadget. Visitors will be able to follow a blog using their Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID account, just as they can on any other site with Friend Connect. Watch the following video and start following blogs including my one today.

Find Your Product Keys Using Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder

The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware open source utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 family of products. It also has a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product keys for many other applications.

Data Recovery With Get Data Back For NTFS

Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media formats such as hard disk drives.

So, think that you have accidentally format or delete a partition on your hard drive. Maybe you have accidentally deleted a folder or a file. With the help of Get Data Back For NTFS program now you can recover all your lost data on your hard drive.

Atomic Alarm Clock V 5.85

Atomic Alarm Clock is a software that alert yourself about important events with different alarms and replace your Windows tray clock using different skins. You can set this program to play your favorite mp3 song as the alarm sound and it can also run a program, log off, wake up, reboot, and even shutdown your computer.

Atomic Alarm Clock is also an advanced replacement for Windows tray clock. See the time, seconds, day, date, countdowns, percent of memory in use and system Up Time in different skins. Displays the time for any of the time zones. You can even display two time zones on your clock which is a cool feature. You can use over 130 skins which automatically installed during the setup. You can make your clock to automatically synchronize with a internet time server.

Follow Day to Day Technical help on Twitter

Twitter !! There is nothing new about it. But for me it's new. I heard about twitter long time ago but I didn't want to dig more about it. But with the growing popularity of twitter I decided to take a look at it.

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service. It enables its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. According to the Compete.com blog entry ranks, Twitter as the third largest social network (MySpace would be second and Facebook would be the largest in the world), and puts the number of users at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visitors at 55 million.




So I have created a twitter profile for me from the twitter website. It was easy. But after that I have no idea what to do. My goal was promote my technical blog using twitter. So I have searched the internet to see how I can accomplish that. I found this nice article on problogger.net website. While reading that article I found that I can automatically send my blogs RSS feeds to twitter using twitterfeed. This is my first post after setting up the twitter account. I hope this will work for me.

Watch this video if you are new to Twitter also.

DDR2 VS DDR3 Memory

DDR2 (Double Data Rate 2) is the current standard for the Ram’s (Random Access Memory) in your computers. For me, I’m still using DDR1 Ram’s because I have an old computer. But it’s going to replace with this new memory standard now. It’s called DDR3.

So, now you may think should I change my Ram’s to DDR3 now? No you don’t have to. But in the future you may want to change it. If you are a regular PC user, just browsing internet, doing word and excel documents you don’t need to change your memory. But if you are playing computer games and doing over clocking on your computer you definitely need to switch over to DDR3.

CPU-Z (Display your computer configuration)

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. I know most of computer users don’t know anything about their computer configurations. This is my personal experience. Even lot of my friends doesn’t have any idea about the Processor, Rams and mother board that they have on their computer. They just buy a computer that’s looks nice to them.

So most of the time when they can't run an application or Game they call me to check it. Most of the time, it's related to their system configuration. The application they try to run requires more system requirements than they have on their computers. So if they can tell me their system configuration information, for example CPU type and Speed, amount of ram they have, it will be really easy for me to determine the problem even through the phone. That might save lot of time for me.