Monday, March 14, 2011

Epic

Epic (web browser)
Epic is a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox developed by Hidden Reflex specifically customized to the taste of Indian users, which was released in July 2010.[1][2][3] Similar to Flock, the browser has several preinstalled widgets such as social networking, chat clients and email facilities integrated into the browser.[3] It is dubbed as the first web browser from India and also features the first integrated virus protection in a browser powered by ESET.[3][4]
Epic is available as a free download which currently supports Microsoft Windows platform.
[edit] History
Epic was released on 15 July 2010. It is developed by Hidden Reflex, a software company founded by Alok Bharadwaj in 2008 which is situated in Bangalore, India.[5]
[edit] Features
Epic was designed specifically for Indian users. It is bundled with lots of apps like a transliterator for Indian scripts, a web snippet tool, timer, to do list, a full featured text editor, games, Google maps, clients for chatting, social networking such as Orkut, Facebook and Twitter, email apps, and several other installable web apps. It features a huge collection of themes and wall papers featuring subjects related to India. Epic is claimed to be the first web browser featuring built in antivirus and anti phishing protection. Epic is currently available for Windows, though Linux and Mac versions are also expected.
Epic claims there are over 1500 free applications that will work with the browser,[6] as well as many themes and wallpapers.[7]
Epic currently supports 13 Indian languages including Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Oriya, Nepali, Tamil, Malayalam and Urdu. There's additional transliteration support for Arabic, Chinese, Sinhalese, Persian, Russian, and Greek.[3][5] The Epic browser is expected to be a big hit among the Indian users.
The logo of Epic browser denotes the Indian tricolor flag (Saffron, White and Green) enveloping a sphere (the earth) in a tree like fashion. The browser also encompasses numerous Indian wallpapers and themes.
Epic Browser is one of the first Indian Browsers that have been built up on the platform of the Open Source Mozilla Firefox. It has been created by Hidden Reflex which is a Software Company based in Bangalore. As per the company Epic Browser is the very first Indian Web browser which has a lot many things embedded in it.
In fact the key logo of the Epic Browser is also very attractive and eye catchy. The logo consists of a tri color ball with orange, white and green colors in a very crisp and shiny look. The logo resembles the Indian flag.
There are a number of things that make the Epic Browser very famous, like the unique inbuilt Antivirus feature. The Anti Virus in Epic Bowser immediately scans all the real time threats while you are browsing the internet. Although the features of the Epic Browser are quite similar to that of Mozilla Firefox, but still it is worth downloading the Epic Browser.
The downloading of this Epic Browser is free of cost. You just need to log on to the official website of the Epic Browser which is www.epicbrowser.com and start downloading. The company promises that Epic is going to be your new best friend.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Yahoo Mail

Yahoo! Mail (shortened to Y! Mail) is a free web mail service provided by Yahoo!. It was inaugurated in 1997. According to comScore, Yahoo! Mail is the second largest web-based e-mail service with 273.1 million users as of November 2010.[1]
Currently, Yahoo! offers two versions of Yahoo! Mail: an Outlook-like Ajax interface based upon code the company acquired from Oddpost in 2004, as well as the traditional full-page-scroll "Yahoo! Mail Classic," which continues the availability of the simpler 1997-2006 interface for the brand's considerable installed base of users. In early 2008, Yahoo! started offering unlimited mail storage to its users, in response to heated competition in the free-web mail market segment.[2]
On June 27, 2009, Yahoo! Messenger was integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta.[3] This means that Messenger and Mail are together in one place, allowing users to connect instantly with others who are online, switch between e-mail and chat, with no download or setup required. This new feature is now available for Mail Classic.

SKYPE

Skype (pronounced /ˈskaɪp/) is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phone can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features which include instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. The network is operated by Skype Limited, which has its headquarters in Luxembourg and is minority owned by eBay. Most of the development team of Skype is situated in Tallinn, Estonia for cost reasons and outsourced by the Luxembourg parent company[1]
Some network administrators have banned Skype on corporate,[2] government, home, and education networks,[3] citing reasons such as inappropriate usage of resources, excessive bandwidth usage,[4] and security concerns.[5]

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Internet Browser Timeline

Microsoft responded with its browser Internet Explorer in 1995 (also heavily influenced by Mosaic), initiating the industry's first browser war. By bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft was able to leverage its dominance in the operating system market to take over the Web browser market; Internet Explorer usage share peaked at over 95% by 2002.[4] The usage share of Internet Explorer has declined from over 62.1% in January 2010 to 57.1% in December 2010 according to Net Applications, and it continues to decline.[5]
Opera first appeared in 1996; although it has never achieved widespread use, with a browser usage share that has fluctuated between 2.2% and 2.4% throughout 2010,[5] it has a substantial share of the fast-growing mobile phone Web browser market, being preinstalled on over 40 million phones. It is also available on several other embedded systems, including Nintendo's Wii video game console.
In 1998, Netscape launched what was to become the Mozilla Foundation in an attempt to produce a competitive browser using the open source software model. That browser would eventually evolve into Firefox, which developed a respectable following while still in the beta stage of development; shortly after the release of Firefox 1.0 in late 2004, Firefox (all versions) accounted for 7.4% of browser use.[4] The Firefox usage share has slowly declined in 2010, from 24.4% in January to 22.8% in December.[5]
Apple's Safari had its first beta release in January 2003; it has a dominant share of Apple-based Web browsing, having risen from 4.5% usage share in January 2010 to 5.9% in December 2010.[5] Its rendering engine, called WebKit, is also running in the standard browsers of several mobile phone platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, Nokia S60 and Palm webOS.
The most recent major entrant to the browser market is Google's WebKit-based Chrome, first released in September 2008. Its market share has quickly risen; its usage share has nearly doubled from 5.2% in January 2010 to 10.0% in December 2010, and appears to be gaining further in the coming months.[5]

Internet Browser Timeline






Sunday, January 30, 2011

My Dinagyang Day.......

                   My Dinagyang is the day of my life because i enjoy only at home watching TV.Because i have no enough money to dagyang-dagyang in Freedom Grandstand.But its Ok because when the night comes's me in with my friend we do are dinagyang day at San Miguel.We got drunk and drunk until we got sleepy.hehehehahaha

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

             TOP TEN COMPUTER VIRUSES

1.      Mellisa Virus- the Melissa computer virus tempts recipients into opening a document with an e-mail message like "Here is that document you asked for, don't show it to anybody else." Once activated, the virus replicates itself and sends itself out to the top 50 people in the recipient's e-mail address book.
2.      ILOVE YOU- The ILOVEYOU virus initially traveled the Internet by e-mail, just like the Melissa virus. The subject of the e-mail said that the message was a love letter from a secret admirer. An attachment in the e-mail was what caused all the trouble. The original worm had the file name of LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs. The vbs extension pointed to the language the hacker used to create the worm.
3.      THE Klez Virus- The Klez virus marked a new direction for computer viruses setting the bar high for those that would follow. It debuted in late 2001, and variations of the virus plagued the Internet for several months. The basic Klez worm infected a victim's computer through an e-mail  message, replicated itself and then sent itself to people in the victim's address book.
4.      Code Red and Code Red II- ­The Code Red and Code Red II worms popped up in the summer of 2001. Both worms exploited an operating system vulnerability that was found in machines running Windows 2000 and Windows NT. The vulnerability was a buffer overflow problem, which means when a machine running on these operating systems receives more information than its buffers can handle; it starts to overwrite adjacent memory. 
5.      NIMDA-The Nimda worm's primary targets were Internet servers. While it could infect a home PC, its real purpose was to bring Internet traffic to a crawl. It could travel through the Internet using multiple methods, including e-mail. This helped spread the virus across multiple servers in record time.

6.      SQL Slammer/Sapphire- Many computer networks were unprepared for the attack, and as a result the virus brought down several important systems. The Bank of America's ATM service crashed, the city of Seattle suffered outages in 911 services and Continental Airlines had to cancel several flights due to Electronic ticketing and check-in errors.

7.      MY Doom- The My Doom (or Novarg) virus is another worm that can create a backdoor in the victim computer's operating system. The original My Doom virus -- there have been several variant.

8.      Sasser and Netskey- The Sasser worm attacked computers through a Microsoft Windows vulnerability. Unlike other worms, it didn't spread through e-mail. Instead, once the virus infected a computer, it looked for other vulnerable systems. It contacted those systems and instructed them to download the virus.

9.      Leap-A/Oompa-A-For the most part, that's true. Mac computers are partially protected from virus attacks because of a concept called security through obscurity. Apple has a reputation for keeping its operating system (OS) and hardware a closed system -- Apple produces both the hardware and the software.

10.  Storm Worm- The latest virus on our list is the dreaded Storm Worm. It was late 2006 when computer security experts first identified the worm. The public began to call the virus the Storm Worm because one of the e-mail messages.      

 

 

                                                                Chris Marvin Tugado

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