Android 3.0, the version for Android Tablets, to debut!

Since Google posted an introduction video of Android 3.0 to its developers channel on YouTube there has been much of anticipation about this new version. The excitement continued when Google officially introduced Android 3.0 the Honeycomb on its official blog. The release date of Honeycomb expected early this year the moment Iconia Tab, Motorola’s Xoom or G-Slate are launched officially!

Android 3.0, also called the Honeycomb is Androids version optimized for large-screen devices particularly Tablets. According to the official Google blog, Honeycomb has "a brand new, truly virtual and holographic user interface” and a home screen that is fully customizable with a flashy 3D experience aided with completely redesigned widgets that are richer and more interactive. Honeycomb also includes Google Maps 5 that can be reliably used in offline mode on mobile devices. Goggle claims for other enhancements like elegant notifications and more refined multi-tasking. By far the web-browser received greater refinements. The browser is enabled with multi-tabbed browsing, auto-fill form, private browsing, and integrated Chrome bookmark syncing.


Who will run Android 3.0!?
Korean firm asserts that honeycomb will require at least dual –core processors .Motorola has already demonstrated its device Motorola Xoom tablet running on Honeycomb that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show this January. Motorola device features a dual-core processor 10.1-inch screen, front- and rear-facing cameras and HD video recording. LG will also launch G-Slate with the support of T-Mobile. On the other hand, Acer has also announced 7- and 10-inch Android tablets, rumored to be released this April.
It is fancied that Android 3.0 is for high-end devices, and will run on phones that satisfy the criteria of 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 3.5-inch or larger displays. Till yet, it is supposed that Samsung Galaxy S2 will run on honeycomb. PSP Phones are also believed to be released with Android 3.0.
Android 3.0 has specially stirred excitement in the market and community of developers. If all goes smooth in favor of Google, Google will easily manage to take away Apple Ipad2’s potential customers!
For more details: Google's Official blog 

Android3.0 Preview

Official Google Blog: Google Goggles gets faster, smarter and solves Sudoku

Official Google Blog: Google Goggles gets faster, smarter and solves Sudoku

Convert any web-hosted file into a Torrent with Burnbit

What is the easiest way to share a file with several users without making the file server buckle under the load of everybody trying to download it at the same time? Make a Torrent of the file, upload it to your server and share the link to the Torrent file with your users. This way each downloader will be contributing to the bandwidth needed to let everybody else download. Your users are happy, your server is happy. BitTorrent is beautiful.
Burnbit is a new online service launched today that allows anybody to generate a torrent for any file hosted online. It is targeted at people who want to share large files with multiple people, at great speeds and without consuming too much bandwidth. Users upload a file to a server and Burnbit generates a torrent file to share with the public. And because the torrents are linked to a file hosted somewhere online, it will always be accessible and never die out.

The Burnbit site will host the torrent file and provide a download page for each torrent similar to the kind provided by Torrent trackers and search sites like the infamous Pirate Bay. Burnbit users can track various stats of the torrent file, like the download count and the number of seeds and leechers, from this page. Users can also generate live download buttons that show seeder/leechers stats.
The major downside to the service at the moment is that all files are public. There is no option to add a private file, which may hold people back from sharing private stuff. Additionally, it would be nice if one could add a custom title or description to the burned files.
At the time of its launch the site already indexes more than 150,000 files which the site’s crawlers have found while browsing the web. All the files have been automatically categorized, but users can add their own categories when they upload files.
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Flash Video NuCaptcha Ready to Block Bots

CAPTCHA: the most irritating and unfortunate necessity of the Web. Spam bots have gotten smart enough to outwit most of the hoops put in place to keep them from flooding various sites with fake accounts. To stem the tide, CAPTCHAs have gotten increasingly difficult for the bots to decipher, which has the unfortunate side effect of leaving humans just as puzzled. While we're forced to pause, squint and scratch our heads at the obscure combinations of letters and numbers, the machines are only getting better at breaking them.

A new idea is to switch from static mixes of letters and numbers to videos that are more legible to human viewers, and arguably more difficult for machines to parse. NuCaptcha's NuCaptcha would play short videos of letters bobbing and scrolling across a background. A predetermined message in white would be followed by a short selection of characters in red, which a user would be asked to repeat. While it sounds great in theory, the last thing we think the Web needs is more embedded Flash videos. Check after the break for an example[Via switched]

Free Online tools to scan your website against malware, virus, and bad scripts

If you had the bad experience of having your your website affected by a virus, malware or a bad script inserted, here are 2 useful and free tools to scan your website and detect any malware on your website or hided scripts:
unmaskparasites
This is a great tool that scan your website and can detect any hided bad script  inserted in your website.

AVG Online Web Page Scanner

The AVG LinkScanner® Drop Zone lets you check the safety of individual web pages you are about to visit. You may have received a suspicious link in an e-mail — just copy the URL (web page address) and drop it into the box below. LinkScanner® will examine the web page in real time to see whether it's hiding any suspicious downloads. Even innocent web sites can contain hidden "drive-by downloads". Use the AVG LinkScanner® Drop Zone to inspect:

• Links forwarded by friends
• URLs displayed by search results
• Links containing odd characters
• Any site you've never visited before

First zero day exploit hits Firefox 3.6

Security specialists from Russia have made a Windows exploit for a previously unknown security hole in Mozilla's Firefox 3.6 available to the public. The exploit allows attackers to remotely gain control of your Windows machine. Developer Evgeny Legerov praises his exploit for Windows XP (SP3) and Vista as being reliable, however that doesn't necessarily mean that Firefox on other platforms is not affected.

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GuerrillaMail - A disposable Temporary E-Mail Address

GuerrillaMail is a  website service  that provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 60 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

To use GuerrillaMail go to http://www.guerrillamail.com/

Watch this video for explanations about how does it works :