If you are using windows XP here is a simple guide to keep your computer secure, its a simple guide and the first 5 steps are very easy to follow, apart from the steps in the guide I would also recommend that you start using Firefox as your primary browser you can also download windows defender a anti-sypware tool from Microsoft.

Link to the Guide (pcstats.com)

Don’t just kill me for saying this but but I seriously don’t hate Vista and I have been using Vista for quite some time from the beta RC builds to the current Home Premium version which is on my primary computer, I also have patched Vista with SP1 RC that was released last week and it did seems to iron out a few bugs it had earlier, so I would recommend you wait for SP1 to release officially if you are planning to upgrade to Vista.

It’s not that I …

If you are fed up like me taking more marketing / promotional calls on your mobile or landlines than actual calls then look out for the Do not call registry also know as Do not disturb registry and register your telephone numbers and hopefully after 45 days the number of marketing calls should be reduced, the only issue is that, If you have multiple numbers from multiple providers then you would have to register each of them with your provider.

The broadband revolution was kick started in India by BSNL broadband service known as Dataone around Jan 2005, Seriously before BSNL broadband, the so call broadband that was given by local cable wallas and they were proud to call 64kpbs as broadband some even advertised 32kpbs as broadband, I am glad that at least that is over now, but it’s almost 3 years from the start of broadband revolution let’s take a view how far we have reached in terms of broadband penetration in India.

So the browser wars are indeed heating up, You might already known that Firefox 3 is scheduled to come in 2008 currently the beta is available, but IE8 in 2008 is a surprise to me coz IE7 was released in October 2006, IE 7 required Windows XP with SP2 and was also later on bundled with MS Vista.

What surprises me is that IE6 was released in Aug 2001 and, it took Microsoft’s IE team about 5 odd years to get to IE7 (in Oct 2006) and now just …

* Internet Explorer is more commonly known as “the Internet” when you say “open the Internet”, you mean opening IE. You have no idea what a “browser” is, or that there are alternatives to IE.
* Even search engines aren’t excluded from the above; to go to Yahoo, you search for “yahoo” in MSN Search or Google (whichever you use as your start page).
* You’d never even think of using the Internet for leisure or learning; there’s nothing even vaguely interesting there. (Exception: chat rooms and MSN Messenger are cool. …