TGraf

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Graffitiare images or letters vandalizing publicly viewable surfaces such as walls or bridges. But, contrary to popular belief this group will accept civilized technical & tagged version of Graffiti or Technology Graffiti (TGraf)

Tech Products

This section focuses on new breakthroughs in IT viz. browsers, add-ons, applications, gadgets etc...

• BELENIX (Name inherited from Celtic God of light BELENUS)

Its a Open Solaris based distro and is an outcome of programmers of Sun Microsystem's India Engineering Centre, Bangalore. For Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) visit: Belenix FAQ

• DEKOH

Dekoh is a free software platform that allows you to organize all of your media in one place, on your desktop—and share it with people you choose. There's no uploading to a website, so storage is limited only by the size of your hard drive. You can share as little or as much as you want, with one friend or 100.

• Google Gadgets

Google Gadgets API is a simple way to create little applications that run on multiple sites viz. iGoogle, Google Desktop, Google Page Creator Google Gadgets reach tens of millions of users every week; even better, Google provides free hosting, free bandwidth and an easy way to submit your gadgets to the official directory, where users from all around the world come to find them.

Tech News

Amusing but usable information ranging from computer hardware to computer application including warnings about threats(viz. virus, trojans), security vulnerabilities should find a place here

• In Microsoft Windows operating system, no folder can be named as either CON or con anywhere in the computer. Surprisingly, Microsoft team including Bill Gates has no answer to this !

• Google Desktop 3 contains a new feature called "Search Across Computers" pose serious security threats. By storing copies of a user's files on Google's servers, Google Desktop allows users to search through them from any other computer. The files that Google stores include web history files (from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, and Mozilla), Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, and text files in the "My Documents" folder.With "Search Across Computers" enabled, any document from the above list, when opened or edited, is stored on Google's servers. There are options for configuring what data is stored but, if incorrectly configured, users can unknowingly transmit copies of restricted data to be stored on Google's servers. It is possible to manually purge all your files from Google's desktop servers. However, simply uninstalling the program can leave data on Google's servers for up to 60 days. More info at University of Berkeley, California

• Open Source Software Repository is an excellent compilation of free/open software.