Is Google+ Better than Facebook?

Google has again entered into the social networking game with new strategies. Google’s new social networking platform Google plus has been released as an “Invite only” release and this is a popular marketing techniques nowadays to intensify the users’ urge to join while doing the beta testing with a limited number of users. I got an invite from one of my International business peer and explored it for a while and all I can say is Google+ is really cool. However, at this stage it’s very hard to predict if the Google plus vs Facebook competition will make sense. Because, social networking is a market that closely works on peoples’ psychology giving them a virtual world with an environment...

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Convert Your Scanned Images or PDFs into Editable Text Format.

Do you have PDF documents or images (e.g. JPG, PNG, TIFF) that were created using a scanner, and that you wish you could convert to editable text? Free Online OCR is a web service that can perform optical character recognition (OCR) on your scanned images and/or image based PDF documents, in order to generate a “normal” text that can be subsequently edited or used in other applications. What is OCR? OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that extracts the text from an image or a scanned document so that it can be edited, formatted, searched, indexed, automatically translated or converted to speech. OCR can be used to convert books and documents into electronic format and to automate ...

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Run Any Software in your Browser.

The technology is called Roozz. It can take most programs and recast them as web apps in a matter of hours; the only requirement for the user to be able to use the browser-based apps is to install a browser plugin. Although this might seem like a disadvantage compared to other web app technologies, Roozz professes to have a significant edge in performance/speed as well as the fact that the conversion process itself is quick and does not require re-programming. To see this in action, install the Roozz plugin first (found on this page), then check out their web based version of free image editing app PhotoScape, or take a look at the web version of freeware favorite IrfanView. If you’re a gamer, try their rendition of Serious Sam or Duke Nukem 3D (You will agree, I am certain, that...

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Is Your Computer Part of a BotNet?

What is BotNet? A BotNet, also known as a zombie army, is a computer connected to the Internet that has been set up to forward transmissions (including spam or viruses) to other computers on the Internet, without the knowledge of the computer owner. Malware has a few different intentions when it infects your computer. It could want to: show you ads to make money (adware) Watch where you go on the web and steal your passwords to either use your accounts for sending out spam or access your bank/credit card account Make you think you have a virus so you pay them to fix it (scareware) Make your computer part of a botnet Joining your computer to the botnet might not actually give you any symptoms like the other options would and sometimes it’s just one of the many side effects of becoming...

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