UC Browser 8.0 Official English (Android/Symbian) and Diwali Edition (Java) Released

The new UC Browser v8.0 has been released officially for International users. The new UC Browser 8.0 version brings all new UI and splash screen for Symbian users and a new U3 kernel for Android which make browser more powerful and beautiful.

UC Browser (Ucweb) v8.0 (Build 11102120) available for Android and Symbian currently. Though Java,Blackberry , PPC etc need to wait more. Symbian version available only for S60v3 and S60v5, coz UC has stopped the further development for S60v1 and S60v2, means no UC Browser v8.x for them. The reason is new UC Browser series based on new U3 core by developed by UC Mobiles and some old phone's hardware limit not suitable for this.

Whats New in Android Version:
1. Click to zoom and the contents you want to see automatically fit your screen.
It’s so intelligent that other browser can only zoom and the pictures and texts are disappeared to anywhere else.
2. It’s so convenient to switch UA that make you browser www. Page by phone easily.
3. Traffic statistics.
Let’s have a look at how much traffic and money UC has saved for you. Maybe you can buy a ring for your wife.

Whats New in Symbian S60 V3 / V5:
1. UC Browser 8 for Symbian supported new UI interface and splash screen.
2. More intimate guidance by adjusting the wizard contents for new users.
3. Moving Read Mode entrance to shortcut menu.

Diwali Edition for Indian Users:
The special Diwali version made for Indian user to celebrate Diwali with themes and look of this festival. Its also prepared and you'll see the changes automatically made for your installed browser using cloud technology of UC Browser. Start page changed to this occasion and also added theme in theme section. To download this version and check other Diwali special visit this UC Browser Diwali page.
Or download: 
UC Browser Diwali Edittion.jar.

Download UC Browser 8.0 Official English Version for Android and Symbian:
UC Browser 8.0.3.107.sisx (Symbian S60v5, 1.7 MB)
UC Browser 8.0.3.107.sisx (Symbian S60v3, 1.3 MB)
UC Browser 8.0.4.110.apk (For Android 2.1+, 5 MB).

Blogger Made Very Easy to Setting a Go Daddy Custom Domain

If you blogging with blogger and want to give this your own touch using a custom domain then Blogger's new system allow to setup a custom domain with the click of a button.

This new tool made setting up a custom domain name very easy for newbie and non-tech users. If you decided to buy a custom domain with Go Daddy, the largest domain name register in the world, then you are lucky here.

According to a post by Brett Wiltshire of Product Operations of Blogger, "Adding a custom domain to your blog is a great way to increase your brand identity. Setting one up, however, can sometimes be a frustrating experience, especially if you aren’t quite sure of the difference between an A-NAME and C-NAME record or where to find them.
The good news is that the folks at Go Daddy created a handy tool that simplifies the process and makes it possible to redirect your blogpost domain to a custom Go Daddy domain with the click of a button".

Now if you going go buy a new Go Daddy domain or already own a Go Daddy domain and would like to connect it with your Blogger blog, just visit this Go Daddy Tool page, and log in to your Go Daddy account.
Now simply enter your preferred domain or subdomain, click Confirm. Its done! Yes now your DNS records are updated with this new domain.

Setting a Go Daddy Custom Domain with Blogger

Now log in to your Blogger dashboard and goto your Settings page and click on “Add a custom domain” in the Publishing section. Now just follow the few instructions on screen and your custom domain will be set up and you old blogspot domain will be redirecting to this new domain within few hours. Its easy as 1,2,3.

The 25 Worst Passwords in 2011: How to Make a Strong but Easy to Remember Password

Daily we reading news about hacking or stealing data in lots of online accounts like email, sns etc but still lots of awareness people using lots of worst passwords. A new report reveal that the highly used insecure password is 'password' itself.

The 25 Worst Passwords in 2011

These very common and obvious phrases type of passwords make a compromise of your online accounts and data in it. This make it very easy to find a way to hole in security. A new report by Splashdata detailed about this truth which is posted at Mashable. Splashdata is a password management application provider and the report cleared that people using the passwords are easy to hack by simply repeating common words.

Here is the list of top 25 commonly used passwords:
1. password
2. 123456
3.12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football

Tips to Creating a Highly Strong but Easy to Remember Password:
Its highly advisable to not use above types of easy passwords which may lead you to loose your online privacy or important online data. The question is "How to make a Strong but Easy to Remember Password". Here some simple tips to remember and use a strong enough password by creating a unique password addon. First you need to select some of your favourite characters, symbols and numbers. Now arrange them to made case sensitive, now add first few letters site where you setting a new password.
For exp, my favorite movie is spiderman, get sman from this. Now add a symbol, for exp sman@. Now add numbers, for exp: sman@11. Now make it case sensitive, for exp: Sman@11. Here Sman@11 is your unique addon. Now for exp we setting password for facebook, use first 3-4 letters, for exp: Sman@11face.
Its your new password for facebook. Its strong enough, secure to use, easy to remember same time and no one can track or crack it easily. When setting password for another site just replace last four letters with that site name, for exp for Google: Sman@11goog, for Twitter: Sman@11twit etc. Also you can rearrange them to make more difficult, for exp first you can use letters from site name and then your unique addon or by adding more symbol or numbers. Tell me what you think about this idea to make a strong password in seconds.

Disney's 'Pirates of the Caribbean 4' Just a Lame Cash Grab

When did the Pirates of the Caribbean movies become so convoluted? It was a shock in 2003 when Curse of the Black Pearl came out and wasn't awful. In fact, it was an adventurous, exciting time at the movies that played above and beyond the cash grab idea of Disney turning a theme park ride into a feature film. Then Dead Man's Chest provided the stuffing for that perfectly baked goose. Even still, the balance between grand imagery, exciting battles, and expansive story-telling was in check. It wasn't until At World's End that it all seemed to be out of control. Now, with the fourth and latest film of the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, a decision was made to hold back. At least on the expensive visuals.



But words on a page are cheap. Dialogue, exposition, plot turns, and catty banter is cheap, and it's something On Stranger Tides piles on in droves. In fact, it's so piled on, coupled with a jerky, kitschy, and at times graceless directing style from Rob Marshall, that this latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie looks and feels exactly what the movie-watching world feared Curse of the Black Pearl would be eight years ago. An unabashed cash grab.


The synopsis of the film should be quite simple. Johnny Depp has returned as Captain Jack Sparrow, the often-slurred speech and sun-stroked pirate who is as charming as he is circuitous. This time he's in search of the famed Fountain of Youth, but he's not the only on this quest. The Spanish, the British, even the "pirate all pirates fear" Blackbeard, played here by Ian McShane, are on the trail. See? Simple, right.


Well, leave it to returning screenwriters Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio to complicate these narrative matters about as much as Jack Sparrow complicates any given situation he's in. Deceptions and side-turning abounds in On Stranger Tides to the point where people are fighting with swords, and you really aren't sure why. Maybe it has something to do with pirates always being out for themselves and no one else, but somewhere in the mire of the dialogue and exposition, buried way down underneath the verbal brambles we have to trek through, Elliott and Rossio to think they've gotten across to their audience perfectly.


And maybe much of that can be excused - it certainly was in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End to an extent - if the overall adventure is thrilling, if the action set pieces are worthy of blockbuster filmmaking, and if there's a weight to any of the characters involved. None of these are the case. Instead, we're offered a sword fight here, a chase through the streets of London there, and a mermaid attack to toy with us that something more exciting might be just on the horizon. But none of these moments are allowed to play simply or naturally. There always has to be additional beats thrown in to fluff up the run time. At one point Sparrow is being forced to jump off a cliff, but instead of just jumping or being pushed, we have to sift through banter, then threats, then a lame version of Russian roulette, then more banter, then a Voodoo doll shows up. You just want the guy to friggin' jump!


Of course, much of these action scenes could be commendable from a visceral stand-point if they were well shot. Thank you, Rob Marshall, for not even giving us that. Much of the action is shot in horrendous close-ups, usually in dark areas to make it impossible to differentiate between the characters, and sometimes he even has a tendency of trying to shoot action around foreground objects. An early sword fight between Sparrow and someone impersonating him has more than a few basement beams and wine barrels to completely impede the audience's view. It's like parts of the movie walked off the screen and sat themselves right in front of you in the theater, only you can't move your head to look around them.


Little can be said in Depp's - or anyone else in this movie - favor. It's a phoning in of a performance the likes of which we've yet seen from him, but the good news is he's the main character this time around. There's no Will or Elizabeth to play Luke or Leia to his Han Solo, and a ceaseless Jack Sparrow is one of the last things the Pirates franchise needed.


This time around, though, he has Penelope Cruz to play off. She plays Angelica, a female pirate whose motives might not be altruistic. Hey, she's a pirate. And though the two are given moments here and there with which to build a connection, it never takes hold. They end up coming off like two balls in a pinball machine clanging against one another and making all kinds of unbearable racket as they go.


McShane seems lost playing the one-dimensional Blackbeard, the very epitome of a thinly constructed movie villain. Geoffrey Rush returns as Barbossa, and he's fine here even if Elliott and Rossio appear to have not idea what they were to do with him. There's a budding romance between Sam Claflin's Philip, a priest, and Astrid Berges-Frisbey's Syrena, a mermaid, but the chivalrous nature Philip shows the captured Syrena is forced to say the very least. As soon as he screams at her captors that "SHE HAS A NAME!", you just want to smack someone.


At least a smack would have been something more exciting than what On Stranger Tides has to offer. It's convoluted and tacky, and it has an ongoing tendency to bury the audience's attention with needless narrative outgrowths. A straight-forward pirate adventure full of ship battles - nary a cannon is fired in the entire movie - and melees would have been a much welcomed change of pace for the Pirates franchise. But that's not what we get with On Stranger Tides. We get bland action, frustrating plot points, and the lamest Jack Sparrow we've seen on screen. It's enough to make you thankful you're not a pirate.

                                                            My Rating: 3 out of 10

New Facebook Goof....Liftig Facebook Photos Is Like Stealing TV

An Australian reporter found himself arrested after writing about how private Facebook photos can be made public by hackers. No joke.                                               




Here's a tale of wonder from the land down under.



It seems that stealing photos from someone's Facebook account without their permission is the same as stealing televisions -- at least, according to members of the police department in Queensland, Australia. Worse, the simple act of writing about how someone stole photos off Facebook -- using one of those photos as proof -- is like receiving stolen goods and can get you arrested.


Sound like a bad made-for-TV-movie plot? It isn't. It just happened to 20-year-old reporter Ben Grubb, who found himself briefly detained after writing a story for the Sydney Morning Herald about a security flaw in Facebook.


Grubb was reporting the findings of security researcher Christian Heinrich, who demo'd his hack attack at the AusCERT security conference. Using essentially a brute force attack on external servers employed by Facebook to deliver media, Heinrich managed to obtain photos marked "private" from the wife of rival security wonk Chris Gatford.


Presumably, Gatford didn't like that his wife was the unwitting subject of Heinrich's demo. Somebody called the cops. And the cops decided, for reasons unknown, to detain and question Grubb, and to confiscate his iPad as "evidence."


The illogic of this is beyond stunning. Per Queensland Police Detective Superintendent Brian Hay:


"Someone breaks into your house and they steal a TV and they give that TV to you and you know that TV is stolen," he said.


"The reality is the online environment is now an extension of our real community and if we go into that environment we have responsibilities to behave in a certain way."


Except that this isn't like receiving stolen goods. It's more like somebody demonstrating that a Best Buy store is not properly secured against burglars by breaking in, taking a picture of a TV they could have stolen, putting that photo into a slide show, then giving it to a reporter as proof.


And then you arrest the reporter? Seriously? In what universe does that make sense?


Grubb, being 20 and a techie, tweeted as he was being detained, which aroused a lot of support among his 5K or so followers. He's also written an account of his arrest and posted an edited transcript of his exceedingly polite if baffling interrogation by the police, which both he and the cops recorded.


What's weirder: Heinrich, who at the very least broke ethical boundaries if not legal ones by making private photos public without permission, says in a tweet that he was never detained, arrested, or questioned by the police.


I am not a lawyer -- and I'm certainly not an Australian lawyer. But WTF?
 Lost in all of this is the thing that's probably most important to most people: "Private" Facebook photos really aren't. A determined enough hacker (or a security wonk with an ax to grind) can get at them. That's the lesson Heinrich was arguably trying to teach.



Instead we learned other lessons: Be very wary of the Australian police. If you go to Australia for a tech conference, leave your iPad at the hotel. And if you're going to share other people's Facebook photos, you might as well steal a few TVs while you're at it. It's all the same to the cops.

 TY4NS blogger Dan Tynan has never knowingly stolen a television, but if he did it would be one of those really massive 108-inch LCDs. Visit his eHumor site eSarcasm or follow him on Twitter: @tynan_on_tech.