The mail.nitt.edu Phishing mail

I have been using Google Mail (aka Gmail) all this time and i have not been stumped by any spam/phishing email more than this one. The reason being, the mail that i received had in it the sender’s name in bold “mail.nitt.edu” – which is the mail portal of the university where i study. Although [...]

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Google Wireless Transcoder aka Google Proxy

I stumbled onto this article about Google Wireless Transcoder. It is a service which strips a webpage of its styles (i.e formatting, css, etc) and serves it onto the browser just as plain Text and Images. It has a simple to use user-interface (UI) with a text box to enter the url and a ‘Go’ [...]

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Latest twitter status hack

I was jobless, and as the saying goes “An idle mind is a devil’s workshop”, i thought i would do some arbit cool makeup for my blog. Now, what could i possibly put in so that my blog is a little more entertaining? Hmmm.. Twitter came to my mind without further delay. The previous twitter [...]

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Origin of Names … Read ON!!!

Apple Computers
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San [...]

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Google Chat’s Hidden Smileys – Uncovered !

Attention people! This goes to all you google fans out there… Be amazed by the hidden smileys that many dont know about. As you all know, google has transformed its traditional text animations and given it a whole new makeover… a colourful one that is… lol
Here it is :

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