Google today has officially announced a new feature in Gmail which makes it easy to type email in Indian languages which includes Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. This new feature allows the users to type words the way they sound in English and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent.
It has been reported that Chinese cyber-spy network has been breaking into computers across the world accessing documents, files from government and private organizations including Dalai Lama’s office. “GhostNet”, the name of the spy network has penetrated 103 countries accessing systems containing sensitive information in top political, economic and media offices according Canadian group Information Warfare Monitor (IWM). The Canadian researchers found this as a result of conducting a 10-month investigation over the cyber-espionage claims against the Tibetan exiles.Ghost Net is said to have infected 1295 computers at NATO, foreign affairs ministries, embassies, banks and news organizations.
Conficker became famous last year by exploiting the loop holes in the Windows operating system and I wrote a article sometime back in January about Conficker Internet Worm. Security experts around the world has warned that Conficker worm could strike on April 1st, the Fool’s day at all the infected computers. The recent released variant called W32.Downadup.C with increased strengths is set to infect large number of systems across the world and experts has already started taking precautions. The first two variants of the Conficker worm have done enough damage infecting lot of computers across the world before being controlled. The funny thing about the new C variant is, nobody knows what the new Conficker.c is programmed to do.
Regular Expressions are very important part of computing in any programming language and is largely used in web programming these days. Last month I wrote an article for practicing regular expressions in real-time which talks about RegExr which is a free online as well as desktop tool to edit and test Regular Expressions in real-time. Today I am going to introduce you to one more regular expression tool called Regex Coach developed using Lisp which helps one to learn regular expressions interactively.
Everybody do change their site layout, color, change pictures, etc for better usability, better look and to even increase their earnings. But it always difficult to track which change performs better and which change attracts more visitors for the different versions of your site. For that Google gives you a free tool called Google Website Optimizer where you can test your changes and the tool will automatically show you how many visitors have been attracted by different versions of your site.
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