Digital Prank

Often it is difficult to find the location of our friends and family members and what they are doing at the moment. We might have seen people worrying about their children, spouse, parents etc as there are no easy to ways to do that. Google Latitude a new feature for Google Maps on your mobile device helps one to find the approximate location of your friends and loved ones who have decided to share their location with you. With Google Latitude one can locate your friends’ locations in a map and share yours with them with ease and can also keep in touch with them directly through Google Talk or Gmail.

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Yesterday I happed to read an article in mXnet a free daily commuter magazine in Sydney about the release of Skype 4 but when I checked it in Skype I didn’t find any official note on Skype official website but today I am able to find one. Yes, it is official now and Skype 4 comes with great features like full screen video calling and built-in bandwidth manager to ensure the quality of the call even on low internet bandwidth.

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Launched in 2004 as invitation-only beta, Gmail has come through a long way by adding revolutionary features like increased free storage, integrating chat into your inbox etc but it still lagged in some basic easy-to-use features. Label is one such feature that was under scrutiny unlike the easy to use Folder features with other email services which is quite easier to use. Google now has now introduced a new way to label by introducing move-to feature which will help the users to move an email out of your inbox and into a label.

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Google earth which is one of the widely used and most popular application gets a dimension with the release of Google Earth 5 by introducing Google Ocean to explore the ocean layer. After introducing Google Earth, first came Google sky then the Street view and its now time to explore the ocean layers with Google Ocean. Official announcement of Google Ocean has been posted in Google’s official blog and users can download Google Earth 5 and start exploring the new options and features. Google Earth has come up with some historical images and one can now move back and forth in time to reveal imagery from years and even decades past.

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Security of emails have become so important as sensitive emails through network is considered as highly insecured as eavesdropping is always possible through any network with data that is not encrypted. Packet sniffing is always possible through any insecured network and mail sent with plain text can always be dangerous these days. Most of us are least bothered about encrypting emails for our personal usage and encrypting emails can even save you if somebody knows your inbox password as your messages are encrypted. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is one of the popular techniques used to encrypt messages. FireGPG is a very simple utility which uses Gnu PGP in conjunction with GMail to encrypt and decrypt your emails.

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