Cyber Dimensions....

I have recently launched my website http://www.windowsVJ.com which would soon replace my blog http://cyberdimensions.blogspot.com/

Users maintaing a weblog/websites of friends can add WindowsVJ.com and If you’re managing any weblogs or websites and willing to links-up with windowsVJ.com send a message.i would be happy to consider that.

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Vasu Jain

Yahoo's popular instant messenger Yahoo Messenger version 10 Beta is available for download.A lot of changes have been included especially a greatly improved video chat and the social-oriented Yahoo Updates.Also Video call conversation support has been added to this version.Also there are lot of small changes and improvements added like sorting of Contacts according to activity or availability.

Users can choose their language from the sign-in screen with 16 languages available.Although It doesn't supports Hindi as of now but hope to see that in Final Version of YM10.

You can control the types of updates you want to see in Updates Tab.Here you can manage all the updates from a particular user like Twitter updates,Personal Info updates etc.These updates would be popped up immediately on Right side Lower corner of your screen as soon as they are posted.

Few updates from my friends are shown here ,One of then has updated his status on yahoo while other has made a twitter post.These updates popped up immediately.You can notice where they appear .A large number of services are supported, with content coming from blogs, Twitter, Last.fm etc.Changes in your personal Info are also reflected.

      

A few good themes has been added as well for Messenger.You can choose from a variety of  themes according to your mood.Checking out contact info has been made much easier now.

 

Video call feature has been integrated into Yahoo Messenger now.Whenever you choose webcam services you are prompted for option of Video call instead of webcam.There is a new “Video Call” button to start 1on1 video call.Video+Audio together would enrich your chatting experience.There are several options for managing the conversations, like swap the video windows,mute conversation, hold conversation, full screen video chat etc, on hold.
 

Chat window has some i-Candy as well.IMviorments have gone upside together with activities and photos option.

 

YM10 sounds pretty good to me.Especially the features i liked were Video Chat with Audio Support.Although this feature is limited especially to YM10 users.

Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta is available for download here.

http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/download/winbeta/

For all those who want to have a feel of Google Android OS can do so.You can run this Os on your windows using a standalone Android Emulator which is patched to run on a Windows PC as a standalone app without having to download and install the complete Android SDK.According to an article at RedmondPie XDA-Developers forum member xda2_haseeb has managed to extract and run Android Emulator on Windows which comes as a part of Google Android SDK package. Android OS for Mobiles can be tested and run on your windows now without having to download the SDK.Also You can even install Android compatible apps on it. This has been tested on Windows 7 as well.

                                    

Installation instructions for standalone Android Emulator on Windows

1. Download Android Emulator v1.5 for Windows.
2. Extract the contents of the .rar file.
3. Now rename the extracted folder to "Android-Emulator".
4. Download the patched executable files from here.
5. Copy/Paste these patched files into the newly named “Android-Emulator” folder.

Download Android Emulator 1.5 for Windows

A new Beta Build 14.0.4417.1000 of Microsoft Office 2010 has been leaked again. This Build features refreshed icons for all Office applications, slightly modified version of Backstage view, Upload Center (which most probably is for Office Web Apps) and a new logo for Office 2010.As of now no torrents or Links were available on major torrent sites.For downloading them you may have to wait for some more days, although Microsoft does not recommends you to use the leaked builds as they may contain harmful code that may destabilize your computer. Original translated text from this release along with screenshots from WZOR are as follows:

MICROSOFT.OFFICE.2010.v14.0.4417.1000.BETA.1.VOLUME.X86-64.ENGLISH-WZT
- The office in two versions of x86-64.
MICROSOFT.OFFICE.2010.v14.0.4417.1000.BETA.1.SLP.X86-64.RUSSIAN-WZT
- Russian pack for the interface in the two versions of x86-64.
SCREENSHOTS
In the corporate beta version 14.0.4417.1000 office suite introduced a new mechanism of activation, now office suite is activated using KMS server.

       

Office 2010 Beta Build 14.0.4302.1000 was leaked earlier in July 2009.Microsoft invited testers for a test build via a download link from Microsoft Connect in Mid july as well.For more information for Office 2010 check out our Office 2010 Section.

There has been a  U.S. senate bill redrafted to give President Obama the power of control to shut down the Internet in case of emergency situations. US President can stop the Internet services provided by private sector networks in case of any emergency which involves internet related issues.Bill if passed would allow control to temporary disable Internet traffic in private-sectors by US President.

According to Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which contains large Internet and telecommunication companies such as Verizon,VeriSign, Nortel and Carnegie Mellon University "A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president's power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001." He further mentioned “It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector.Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill."

This bill if passed can be a sigh of relief for all the sectors whose operations and functions have become purely Internet dependent.In fact most of the government departments and critical places where internet is being user are traffic management,Metro Trains,Power Grids,nuclear Reactors and many more .The bill thus can help protect against cyber threats and attacks on such critical infrastructures.Hackers being too active and interference of techie terrorists this can be a necessary step.

Its the first time i saw this thing but a good feature in Firefox.Recently i had a windows crash and after that  firefox had some problem recovering from those tabs.Till now browsers did not provide an alternate option but now it provides a page which has “Well this is Embarrassing” text and below 2 options are also provide.

• Either open a new session
• Try to recover from the last open tabs.You can restore particular tabs.

Well , you may be confident that Firefox provides you a backup of recent tabs in case of crash in the Recover Tabs .

So tweeting a few tweets every day or scrapping out a lot.Well that may affect your job prospects and increase.Being socially active over internet has more benefits than you can see,and a helpful hand in job prospects is a indirect benefit.

According to an article @ theHindu more number of American employers are turning to such sites before zeroing in on the right candidate for employment

A major chunk of the US employers are banking on social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, to research on a candidate before recruitment, says a survey.

Nearly half of employers surveyed in the US by job portal CareerBuilder showed that 45 per cent of them use social networking sites to research job candidates. Last year, the same stood at just 22 per cent.About 11 per cent are planning to start using social networking sites for screening.Moreover, about 35 per cent of employers reported that they have found content on social networking sites that made them decide not to hire the candidate.

The survey was conducted online within the US by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com between May 22 and June 10, 2009 among 2,667 hiring managers and human resource professionals.

Going by the findings, Facebook is the most preferred among employers with 29 per cent of the employers using that site for online searches or background checks before recruiting candidates.Besides, 26 per cent of respondents use LinkedIn, 21 per cent surf MySpace, 11 per cent search blogs and 7 per cent follow candidates on Twitter for information.

The industries most likely to screen job seekers via such sites or search engines include IT (63 per cent) and professional and business services (53 per cent).

"Social networking is a great way to make connections with potential job opportunities and promote your personal brand across the Internet," CareerBuilder Vice-President of Human Resources Rosemary Haefner said.

Among those surveyed, 53 per cent respondents said candidates have posted provocative or inappropriate photographs or information, while 44 per cent said that many candidates have posted information about drinking or using drugs.

As per the survey, 35 per cent of respondents found that candidates bad-mouthed their previous employer, co-workers or clients and made them decide not to hire such people.Interestingly, 14 per cent of employers did not hire a candidate because he/she send a message using an emoticon such as a smiley face while 16 per cent decided against recruiting a candidate for using text language such as 'GR8' (great) in an e-mail or job application.

On the other hand, nearly 18 per cent said they found content on such sites that helped them hire a candidate.

So Best of luck for your Tweets & Scraps .May be that can land you up into your dream job.

Stuck in a problem while working on your windows…or some plug-in is giving you a trouble or you need to set some functionality on or off…

If you are yelling SOS and no one is here then you can get help on Microsoft Answers Windows live site.

Experienced people like MVP’s,Certified people would be there to help you.You can post your problem or querry in the community and these people will try to give you the best solution.Also you too can voluntarily take part and help others in solving their problems.

 

According to ComScore, a marketing research company, Gmail is now the third largest email provider in the United States.Gmail grew a remarkable 46 percent, from 25.3 million to 36.9 million users. Gmail is now on pace to overtake Windows Live Hotmail, at 47.1 million users, in around seven months.Yahoo Mail continues to lead the pack when it comes to U.S. email providers with 106.1 million visitors last month.

via Neowin

 

You can customize more of your twitter account.There is a website ,twibbon by which you can add small ribbons in your display picture that reflects your interest or represent your community or if you wish to support something you can have them.Say an AIDS Awareness twibbon on World Aids Day.Or, Flag,or Windows logo.

A Twibbon is like a bumper plate sticker for your twitter avatar. It is used to promote a cause on twitter by overlaying an image on your profile picture to show your allegiance to the Twibbon cause.

A Twibbon cause can be anything from a protest, memorial, event or even a popular person or band, for example:

• http://twibbon.com/join/IndonesiaUnite to support the fight against terrorism in Indonesia
• http://twibbon.com/join/RIP-Jackie-our-BH-sister to remember Jackie, a New Kids on the Block fan
• http://twibbon.com/join/I-Love-McFly to support the band McFly
• http://twibbon.com/join/WineBloggersConfrence to show you'll attend the Wine Bloggers' Conference

List for all the twibbons : http://twibbon.com/list

The Windows Club is organizing its Best Windows Website Contest 2009, to discover and to recognize some of the best Windows bloggers and website owners.

Bored of your old Twitter Background?Cant seem to find enuf of those provided by them?

Google has launches some nice themes for Google Chrome.

It is very common that we have hyperlink that redirects to mailbox of
a person, on many a webpages.Say you have a website for Transport,the
admin must have given a hotlink that when clicked redirects to mail of
that person.Till now the default client for opening a webmail from the
browser was Outlook only.Using some external application like yattach
or gattach could have changed the things as well or changing setting
in Internet options.But for laymen it wasnt a very easy and
comfortable aspect.
With tha Firefox 3.5 the feature which has been embedded in the
browser is that whenever we click on mail hyperlink there pops a
window with options to choose the mail client for the operation
concerned.You can choose from Outlook,Gmail,Yahoomail or you can
choose some other application for mail operations.
Nice Feature i must say.

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