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Orkut infected with Bom Sabado worm

Vishwajeet Singh — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:24:58 +0000

Orkut has been hacked and flooded with Bom Sabado worm, this is another hack which exploited XSS(Cross site scripting)

The word "Bom Sabado" means "Good Saturday" in Portuguese, which is the also the official language of Brazil, one of the last remaining Orkut bastions in the world.

The worm seems to be posting scraps with content "Bom Sabado" and it also include adding affected users to new Orkut groups.

Such XSS attack is not new to orkut and it has been done past too.

Gmail Priority Inbox: Another Innovative Feature

Vishwajeet Singh — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:52:27 +0000

Just browsing through my emails I noticed Try Gmail Priority Inbox on top right hand corner just after my user id. Out of curiosity I clicked on it and I got to see this video

I clicked on try and what I saw after that was just fantastic, Gmail rightly classified my mails and gave me an option to make changes to it. Once I was done it took me to priority inbox and I was amazed to see the way mails were arranged. Everything was neatly arranged in three sections important unread, starred and others.

In others section important conversations were marked as “this conversation contains an important message that is archived.”

At the bottom there were two icons – and plus to make email’s important & not important.

Over all I am impressed by this feature and ability to classify mail, just loved it.

New Orkut Version Inspired heavily by Facebook

Vishwajeet Singh — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:18:07 +0000

As always Google silently launched new version of its one of most popular application that is Orkut, I don’t exactly when it was made available as I noticed it couple of days back.
I thought to give it a try and realized that the features added are heavily inspired from Facebook, its quite apparent that Orkut was seem to be loosing to Facebook on many aspect so redoing the Orkut was always on the cards and they have done a fare job but still I haven’t found many people using the newer versions and you can not use newer features like commenting which is one of the most used features of Facebook unless other person is also on newer version.
Lets see what strategy is used by Google to move to people to newer version. One thing I liked and appreciate about changes done by Google is that you always have option to hop between versions very unlike Facebook which shifted me to lite version without my knowledge and only switched back after a month or so.

Google Chrome shouts Malware on Orkut

Vishwajeet Singh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:24:52 +0000

Chrome malware warning on Orkut

Is Google Chrome Just Another Browser ?

Vishwajeet Singh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:20:41 +0000

Google today released windows installer for windows as stated in there blog. It is available for download from the google’s website.

Many people like me must be having this question is this another browser in the race of already packed crowd or it will stand loud and tall amongst it’s competitors like firefox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer to name few. As per google’s blog we can soon expect the binaries for Linux and Mac as well. Let’s take a first cut look into the browser:

Downloading the browser is pretty easy you can download it from google’s website; intensity of Google pushing with chrome shows up with the fact that the promotional link for chrome can be found on the google.com page; which has been empty till today; no promotion and ads; break the rules if it serves and I really don’t see why Google should not do it.
As Google has been adding value to the users with gmail; google suggest to name a few here comes another tool from Google’s arsenal chrome is no exception when it comes to giving the best to users.
There is something for everyone whether you are end user or a developer
As an end user you can experience the classic color combination which is soothing to eyes; memory usage is pretty low when compared with firefox; it consumes around 1/3 to 1/4 when compared with firefox.
As developer you can view source at your disposal; debug javascript and javascript console is also available separately
It also gives pretty handy functionality called task manager which gives you amount of physical memory consumed by different tabs
The best thing which I liked is installer asking you to make google.com as your default search engine or choose some other search engine to be made default.
You don’t need to have separate search box for searching; you can search from address bar itself

If I look at the browsers which I have used Chrome stands a strong chance of success and is a clear winner for me in many aspects; this may embark a new era in browsers history.

Points mentioned above are not exhaustive neither they cover all functionalities available in Google chrome; this is just a first cut look at the browser.