Posted by Saad Hamid on March 18, 2008 —

I know how hard it is to keep a PC safe from viruses and trojans as nearly every USB stick carries some undetectable and auto-multiplying virus. Especially in university, where I have to constantly exchange USB sticks, it becomes hard to keep my USB stick safe and clean.
Mostly the viruses that multiply through USB sticks use the autorun function of ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 18, 2008 —

Raymond, the free software giveaway king, is now back with another walkthrough to help you get a free 1 year McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 license. It would normally cost you $40 for a year so if you want to save some money, act fast.
McAfee VirusScan Plus and SiteAdvisor prevents malicious activity on your PC. This security software bundle offers anti-virus, ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 17, 2008 —

Even after Google has created iPhone versions of almost all Google sites and services, it was interesting to know that Google has not still created a Google Talk app for iPhone and iPod Touch. After I got excited with the Twitter app for iPhone, my next goal was to find a Google Talk app for iPhone and iPod Touch but ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 16, 2008 —
Over the last few months, Picsopedia has bugged me a lot. It all began when I decided to move Picsopedia from DreamHost to HostGator and then from HostGator to Hostony. Just imagine how hard would it have been for me to transfer the whole 5GB big backup from one server to the other.
In all this time I managed to discover ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 16, 2008 —

I am sure that most of you who use Wordpress as their blogging CMS would have probably seen the Wordpress Bookmarklet at the bottom of their "Write Post" page.
The interesting fact is that almost all Wordpress users know or have seen the Wordpress Bookmarklet but only very few know its actual use. Today I decided to play with some of ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 15, 2008 —

Pranjal has shared a list of the 7 must have apps for your Jailbroken iPhone and I was so pleased to find out that a Twitter app for iPhone and iPod Touch also exists. It has been there for around 8 months and I am surprised to know how I never got my eyes on it.
Though there are some other ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 14, 2008 —
Internet censorship is becoming a big disaster day by day. I never imagined that my own country would adopt this practice one day but when recently Pakistan blocked YouTube I realized that I cannot even trust my own ISP and decided to take the matters in my own hands (well kind of)
Over the year I have shared a number of ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 14, 2008 —

Doubting the glory of the Chinese reverse engineering technology would probably be the last thing one would ever do. They mimic electronic products with so accuracy in features and design that it becomes totally impossible for one to differentiate the original product from the Chinese duplicate.
Gizmodo has recently shared the pictures of a Chinese mobile that is not like just-another-iPhone-clone. ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 14, 2008 —

Engadget is reporting that Microsoft has officially confirmed the launch of Windows 7 to take place somewhere in the year 2010. While we already know that the launch of Windows 7 was expected to be somewhere in the mid of 2009-2012, the recent confirmation by Microsoft does not seem to be wise.
It will take at least 2 more years for ...
Posted by Saad Hamid on March 13, 2008 —

Almost a week ago, I posted a trick on How to watch high quality videos on YouTube which seemed to be working quite well and today CyberNet News has again shared the same trick only with the difference that you no longer need to add any argument at the end of any YouTube video URL rather you can just go ...