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We recently did a review of Windows 8 Developer Preview on Acer Aspire One ZG5 AOA 150. In a similar vein, we will be reviewing the October 13 release of Ubuntu's latest stable offering, the Oneiric Ocelot. Ubuntu's dreamy cat-leopard is available as 1) Ubuntu Desktop 32bit and 64bit 2) Ubuntu Server 32bit and 64bit 3) Ubuntu Alternate installer 32bit and 64bit The Alternate installer  is for those who cannot run the desktop version of the installer or for those whose systems failed to login after installation due to driver or other issues using the default installer. The alternate installer has a text based installer. For installation along with Windows, a WUBI installer is available. Official Derivatives: Ubuntu recognises 6 derivatives 1) Kubuntu - KDE desktop with Ubuntu 2) Xubuntu - XFCE desktop with Ubuntu 3) Lubuntu - LXDE desktop with Ubuntu 4) Edubuntu - Ubuntu for education with Unity desktop 5) Mythbuntu - Ubuntu for HTPC with  XFCE desktop...

AVG is reporting and blocking access to the website of Wampserver at wampserver.com/en citing a Blackhole Exploit Kit threat.The Blackhole Exploit Kit surfaced late in 2010 on file sharing websites under the guise of security software.  More about the Blackhole Exploit Kit at Websense .

Blogger released a Dynamic Views template recently. Dynamic Views is a set of seven(7) different ways to display the posts of a blog. The official post about the launch of the new look mentions the following benefits The Benefits: 1. Infinite scrolling: Views: Classic 2. Images that load as you browse 3. Integrated search  4. Sorting by date, label and author Views: Flipcard 5. Lightbox-style posts  Views: Snapshot, Flipcard and Timeslide 6.  Keyboard shortcuts  7. One-click sharing to Google+ and other social sites on every post Out of these features, the lightbox post view and keyboard shortcuts are new and interesting.  Gmail shortcuts work, like j and k for previous and next post respectively. The Lightbox view is available in some views. Sort by date, label and author is available in the Flipcard view only. Integrated Search(3), Infinite scrolling(1) and One Click sharing(7) Lightbox style posts in some views ...

Update November 1st 2012: Windows 8 on Acer Aspire AOA 150 Update: October 31st 2012 Since posting this article about over a year ago, the said AOA 150 is still alive, although with some changes. I have added a 500gb 7200 rpm HDD(ST9500420ASG) to the netbook. The netbook now runs a Windows 8 Release Preview with Ubuntu 12.10 as the main OS.  Windows 8 Release Preview apparently runs faster than Developer Preview. I might buy an upgrade license to Windows 8 pro, but with a resolution of 1024x600 and metro(windows 8) apps not working, I don't see much point. But I do need something to run my Nokia Music on... Other updates on Windows 8 1. License types available for Windows 8:   a. Upgrade License - $39.99 till January 31 2013   b. OEM License (The license which vendors will use when they bundle Windows 8 with your new PC)   c. System Builder License (Similar to the OEM license, but you can purchase this to build your own PC. Single PC/Virtual Environment u...

Nokia is planning to use the Windows Phone 7 OS for its future mobile offerings. That means no more Symbian and Maemo (and now MeeGo ). While Symbian had its shortfalls and had a very successful run, Maemo had just started and was(or is) a lot more promising than Symbian and even comparable to other mobile OSes on offer. Nokia going the Windows way may even turn out to be the right decision for Nokia and Symbian might have just run its course, but nipping MeeGo in the bud seems hasty and cruel.(Nokia released N9  which runs a MeeGo instance ) Wish to support the " We want Nokia to keep MeeGo " petition over at twitition. Follow the link and sign in  to support. Spread the message on twitter and facebook too.

People have had enough of 30 second (90 seconds in some places) previews before deciding whether or not to buy a song. Unless the song is on radio, which most album-only songs aren't, chances are that the only place where you could legally hear the song before buying it is if you are lucky enough to have a friend who has already bought that song. Letting somebody else listen to songs you bought on your player, is that legal?(Well that is a completely different debate!) Otherwise, let me list the sources where you could hear the song(Most common on top): 1. Youtube - Popular albums find their way to Youtube, with users uploading videos with lyrics. This is perhaps the most common place where people can listen to songs before they buy them. However, posting copyrighted songs on Youtube by third parties (users) is either a grey area in terms of piracy (at best) or blatant piracy. All most all get marked by Youtube as containing content from the particular artist, and some get remo...

Recently affiliates of co.cc might have received a "Malware Detected" page on browsing to the Referrals section of the co.cc website.The screenshot attached is from Google Chrome. On browsing to http://www.co.cc/affiliates/affiliates.php, the user is warned that the website contains content from  http://lookfeel-201002[dot]co(dot)cc  The link in question is used in a reference to an animated gif used as a display banner to promote co.cc on publisher websites. One of the embeddable links that co.cc presents on the affiliate page also includes the link in question. Apparently the website lookfeel-201002[dot]co(dot)cc that co.cc uses to serve the banner has been labelled as a site serving malware. The Google Safe Browsing advisory report gives further details.It says that the site was found to host malware and infect a website 1 time in the past 90 days. It rates the website as suspicious. If publishers have been using this embed link to promote co.cc, u...