DNS Changer malware is a trojan that changes the infected computer’s DNS (domain name server) settings, in order to divert traffic to unsolicited, and potentially illegal sites.

In plain English: DNSChanger could trick you into visiting fake sites and steal your data and money.

You are recommended to check your computer for DNS Changer malware immediately! Simply visit http://dnschanger.detect.my/ (Malaysia).

If your system is clean then you will get a message in green background (see screenshot). Else, you will see a alert message in red background and visit the removal page to fix and remove DNSChanger malware.

Visit http://www.dcwg.org/ for more information.

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What I learned from the video?

High reputation page (many incoming links) and relevant content can have higher ranking than high PageRank site.

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Have you received your Google Drive invites yet? I got mine as soon as it was launched but many friends couldn’t get their Google Drive activated until few hours later.

Instead of a seamlessly upgrade from Google Docs to Google Drive, they receive a “Google Drive is coming soon” message and a “notify me” button.

Maybe it is due to massive user requests and Google have to roll out the new service gradually. You’ll get Google Drive sooner or latter.

Google Drive invites?

Image: Friend asked for Google Drive invites

My friend asked me if I have any “Google Drive invites”. I don’t see any thing like “send an invite” on Google Drive user interface as shown below:

Image: Google Drive screenshot

I will send out Google Drive invites if it is available later.

Tip: You might like to try your luck by poking Google employee on Twitter to get your Google Drive activated faster.

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Google launched Google Drive today with 5 GB free cloud file storage. Like other cloud storage such as Dropbox (referral link) and Microsoft’s Skydrive, Google Drive allows you to sync, access and share files on the web, on your computers, and mobile devices.

Google Drive video:

For example, when you save a file in Google Drive’s folder on your PC. It will automatically uploaded to Google Drive server. Then, you can access the file on the web, your mobile device and other authorized computer(s).

Google Drive has merged Google Docs that you can share files and edit them together. File revisions are automatically saved and keep for 30 days.

With the Google search power, you can search for content by keywords, filter by file type, and more. Google Drive can even recognize objects in image and text in scanned documents (OCR).

Google Drive is seamlessly integrated with Google products. You can easily share videos and pictures in Google Drive to Google+. Instead of attaching an email attachment, you can now send a link from Google Drive in Gmail.

Google Drive on the web supports over 30 file types that you can open right in your browser without the associated software installed on your computer.

Upgrade options

Every Google Drive account comes with 5GB free storage. Google Docs and files converted to Google Docs format do not take up storage space. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for USD$2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or 1TB for $49.99/month. Up to 16TB available! Your Gmail storage will also expand to 25GB when you upgrade to a paid account.

Availability

Image: Google Drive folder on Mac OS X

Google Drive is available for PC and Mac, as well as Android devices. iPhone and iPad apps are coming soon in weeks. Linux users need to wait for Google’s future announcement…

My two cents

I am kind of disappointed that Google do not make iPhone/iPad app available at the launch date. (Maybe the app held by Apple?)

As far as I observed, the Google Drive app for Mac is only for you to upload files and access Google Drive files. It does not offer file sharing and revision view features like Dropbox app.

Google Drive is best when you work on the web: access files anywhere, open files without software, etc. Great for Chrome OS, the Google’s operating system.

Update: Some users do not get their Google Drive immediately. Read more here.

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WebsitesLike is a search engine to help you find similar, related or alternative websites.

You found a website with your favorite content. You can use WebsitesLike to find more other sites with the similar or related content. It works with keyword, too.

Simply submit the website address or keyword to find other related websites. Each search result is complete with site name, description, thumbnail, and site topics (tags).

According to WebsitesLike, LiewCF Tech Blog is similar to Engadget, Gizmodo, Slashgear.. I would say the result is quite accurate (all are tech blogs).

Try WebsitesLike now.

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Editor’s note: In this guest post by W.K. he explain what’s OpenDNS and the various benefits of using the DNS service instead of your default Internet Service Provider’s DNS.

What is OpenDNS?

DNS stands for Domain Name System and just imagine it’s a huge phonebook that contains all websites IP. The job of the DNS is to translates every queries of the human-readable website addresses (www.google.com) to browser-readable IP (216.239.51.99), so that the internet browser knows where to fetch the data from.

OpenDNS is the leading DNS provider that offers free premium DNS service to everyone instead of the default ISP DNS. It’s a relatively reliable DNS and its users have reached 1% of the total world’s internet users. Meantime, the number is counting strong due to its reputable creditability.Reputation is based on the practical advantages delivered, and this applies to OpenDNS too. It’s suffice to say that the OpenDNS is one of the best, and even to the extent of cream of the crop! Therefore, let’s keep all the ado aside, and see what are the advantages offered by OpenDNS:

1. Increase Internet Connection Speed

Each time you want to visit a website, the address you typed at the browser will be sent to a DNS, then only the DNS will tell the browser where should it fetch the data from. This is quite obvious that the DNS’s processing speed plays an important part in your internet connection speed. Without shadow of doubt, a highly optimized server like OpenDNS will definitely improve the speed.

Furthermore, OpenDNS has 12 servers located strategically around the globe and it has cached millions of websites in its server. This cache technology will enable its user to get the instant fetch directly from the OpenDNS server rather than the far-located server of a particular website. You can experience this effect more prominently when you are browsing some famous website such as, Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, BCC and more.

2. Block Phishing Website

Phishing is a scam method to trick users to surrender their private information such as, banking information, credit card numbers, login username and password, to people who are up to no good.

The ‘phishers’ normally will set up a series of bogus websites which have the identical appearance of the legitimate website. If you’re not aware of this, and give your information as usual, then an unhappy consequences should be expected.

Fortunately, one of great effort that OpenDNS puts in is to fight against phishing. OpenDNS cooperates with one of the leading anti-phishing community Phishtank, and uses its data to prevent phishing sites from loading at your computer. Just for your information, Yahoo! Mail, Mozilla, Kaspersky, Mcafee are using the same data from Phishtank too.

3. Parental Control

The parents’ worry of the children might get access to inappropriate information is understandable, as Internet is really a huge hub of information and is a piece of cake to access. OpenDNS will take care of all the parent worries and provides one-stop solution for them to monitor their children activity on the internet, not only at individual computer, but the entire home network.

OpenDNS has 56 customizable categories of websites, in which the parents can set the filter precisely based on the category. The parent can either block the entire category or just an individual website. Or else, the easier way is just to set the filtering level to: low, medium, and high. After that, OpenDNS will take care everything.

Besides, OpenDNS also provides a thorough insight to monitor what kind of websites are being visited in the whole home network. This particularly useful as it allows the parent discover and block any inappropriate websites immediately.

4. Keep You Online All the Time

You might have encountered internet blackout caused by a lousy ISP DNS. This wouldn’t be a concern for OpenDNS at least for the history. Since service inception at 2006, OpenDNS has a remarkable record of zero downtime. As well, the bandwidth and latency wouldn’t be a factor to hold back your browsing experience while you’re protected by OpenDNS.

5. Autocorrect Typo Error

Although this has a little impact, but the autocorrect feature would still improve the overall experience. Once OpenDNS is enabled, any typo error at the address bar (www.fcebok.com) will be autocorrected (www.facebook.com) and you will be directed to the desired website too. It’s so much convenient!

Conclusion

It’s a fact that OpenDNS does offer many advantages, especially the phishing protection and parental control are the best. However, please do not expect too much from the speed improvement, unless your current connection is really a slow turtle.

The installation is a snap and it would only take you 10-15 minutes. Since it is free and so easy to set up, why not give it a shoot? After all, you have nothing to lose. Good luck and have fun!

Visit OpenDNS.com for more information.

Guest post: This article is written is by W.K, the founder of TeZeal.com and a technology enthusiast who love to crank his mind for technology knowledge.

If you would like to contribute too, please contact me.

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Lovestagram is an Valentine’s e-card maker that use Instagram (popular iOS photography app) photos as a Valentine’s Day gift.

You enter your special one’s Instagram username and Lovestagram will access Instagram API and search for the photos shot in the same location within an hour or comments exchanged.

There are 3 filters to apply to the selected instagram photo: heart-shapes, pink cameras, or candy borders, and you can add a custom valentine’s message. Then, Lovestagram will email valentine’s e-card to your lover.

Lovestagram’s behind-the-scene love story

Lovestagram is built by Kaitlyn Trigger from scratch, who decided to do something special for her boyfriend — Mike Krieger, Instagram co-founder.

…I [Trigger] built Lovestagram. I started from scratch, learning Python, Django, Jinja, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and Photoshop (whew!).

That’s amazing! And definitely a lot of love!

(via Mashable)

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Cut the Rope, a popular puzzle game on smartphones, is now playable on PCs via modern web browsers that support HTML5. IE9 users get bonus levels.

ZeptoLab, the creators of Cut the Rope, collaborated with technology specialists at Pixel Lab and with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Team, to deliver the game to online audiences with HTML5 technology and JavaScript.

The developers discuessed their technical approach and challenges that they faced in the following video found here:

There are 18 levels of the game are playable with most modearn web browsers (support HTML5) but 7 bonus levels are available exclusively to users who pin the game – by grabbing the browser tab and drag it down to the Windows taskbar – with IE9.

Play Cut the Rope online and tell us what you think.

(source: press release)

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Angry Birds coming to Facebook! After releasing the popular strategy game for almost all mobile and desktop platforms, Rovio Mobile announced to launch Angry Birds for Facebook on Valentine’s Day 2012 (14 Feb).

Angry Birds for Facebook is expected to be free to play online, incorporate social-gaming concepts and in-game purchase. From the Angry Birds Facebook trailer, I can see that there’s some “power-up” available. Angry Birds for facebook gets more power!

The company created a Facebook event to invite you to join the fun. There’s currently 121,000+ fans are joining.

Angry Birds for facebook trailer:

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BTJunkie torent download search engine has been voluntarily shut down on 5 February 2012 and left a notice on its homepage.

btjunkie
2005 – 2012
This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!

BTJunkie was the largest torrent site indexer on the web, and one of the most popular BitTorrent site.

Which sites are you using to search for torrent?

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