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[Video] - A three year old kid can use Windows 8 like a champ, can't you ?

We have seen users bashing Windows 8 for it's Metro UI, but in reality the changes are not that drastic as propogated and can easily be learned. Here is an interesting video showing a three year old kid working with Windows 8 proficiently - and if he can, why can't you ?

The Future Of Technology And Education

Mankind has progressed and evolved at an impressive rate in past few centuries, but our education system is still teaching kids using a 20th-century paradigm. According to visionaries in this video, the old system was meant to train kids like an product with a specific job, the education system today is same - tuned like a factory which aims to spit out the same type of product - like the ones needed for an army.

[EXCLUSIVE GIVEAWAY] 1AVCapture - ultimate video and audio recorder worth $59.99 for FREE

PCWinSoft is giving away exclusive free copies of 1AVCapture to our readers, Priced regularly at $59.99 1AVCapture is the ultimate video and audio recorder and broadcaster software for Windows PCs. It can capture and record anything you can see and hear on your PC be it images, video, or audio from any source.

While, most similar programs that record video - only records video, but 1AVCapture is different in that respect, It also records audio alone so you can record songs from the Internet to WAV or WMA.

What else can I record with 1AVCapture? The possibilities are endless but here goes a quick list: Streaming video from inside websites and from inside media players, narrated tutorials of screen activity, TV tuner input, devices connected to the TV tuner card via S-Video or Composite or HDMI, you can record your webcam, you can record your preferred songs from the web, you can record your voice, and whatever else you can see and hear on your PC, 1AVCapture can take a copy of it for you.

1AVCapture

1AVCapture is also a powerful video and audio broadcaster: The program broadcasts real-time audio and video right from your PC to the World: You can broadcast your own podcasts, you can broadcast your desktop screen over the net for tutorial purposes, you can broadcast movies in high definition to your friends, and the best about it is that 1AVCapture is easy to configure, there are no command-lines, or codecs or parameters, you don’t have to be an expert to get a professional broadcasting going: 1AVCapture works with Windows media profiles which are easy to configure and 1AVCapture allows you to edit profiles, create new ones, all within an intuitive user interface.

Grab six month legal antivirus licence of many popular brands for PC, MAC and Mobile

FB AV

Computers and internet is a big part of our social life today, as we increasingly use the online media we have greater chances to encounter security threats related to it. Facebook the leading social-networking website understands this security need well, and has launched an initiative to help user understand online security better. To safeguard users from online threats facebook is collaborating with major security software providers offering six month licences for users to products like Kaspersky Pure, Norton Antivirus, McAfee, AVG, Panda and many more for free - better, this lineup is not limited to PC only as security products for MAC and mobile are also provided free of cost.

Kaspersky Pure Security

Solution to Windows XP inability of connecting to WPA and WPA2 encrypted Wi-Fi Networks

While Microsoft Windows 7 is the mainstream Windows OS in use now, people still prefer and use Windows XP. I recently came across an Windows XP specific issue, where the computer detected security enabled WiFi networks but failed to connect with them as shown below.

Wifi error

As evident from the error message above and pretty descriptive error-icon shown below, Windows XP SP2 is having issues trying to negotiate security certificate. To fix this, enabling WPA and WPA2 encryption support on Windows XP in Wireless Group Policy (WGP) we need to install KB917021 update from Microsoft.

XP WPA2

Free online virtual disk with unlimited bandwidth and storage space

BookMyCloudOnline storage of your documents and media files not only provides a secure backup but also enables faster sharing and anywhere access.

Almost all popular cloud services like SugarSync, DropBox, SkyDrive offer a free usage tier with paid upgrades for higher storage usage. However, a new cloud service provider BookMyCloud is offering Unlimited storage and bandwidth in the cloud with various advanced features like Multiple Repositories for Multiple Departments/Projects, unlimited virtual folders, unlimited password protected shared folders, publicly downloadable file-links with expiry, ability to view and edit documents online and support for custom domains and free sub-domains to access your online virtual disk.

The interface is simple to use and streamlined with drag-n-drop support, view-n-edit support for documents, code and image files.

Watch Porn and Save Panda's !!!

Despite “Sex” being the top word searched on Internet and an online industry generating 100 Billion of yearly revenues, pornography is something which is not labelled as ethical and morally good.

Well, Come4.org is conceptualized to make it change. Aimed to be an ethical porn movement, the service will allow users to consume free porn and in-turn select a cause (like saving pandas) - any revenue generated from the advertisement linked to that content will go to the support of people, ethical causes and non-profit foundations selected by the user.

COME4

Fixing SMTP connection error when connecting to Google Servers from PHP

Google offers an excellent free email service to website owners where they can use custom domain names (yourchoice@yourdomain.com) to offer full-fledged Gmail styled email service with personal customization's and branding to their users.

To use Google's SMTP servers for sending emails, webmasters must configure there servers and application/scripts to use it instead of the default SMTP server configured on the system. While configuring the same for this drupal blog using SMTP Authentication Support Module, the following errors were shown resulting in repeated failures.

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]:
unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in SMTP->Connect()

SMTP Error

Free one year subscription of BullGuard Mobile Backup 12

Our mobile phones contain important data - be it our phone-book, pictures, videos or other documents. Things can get really messy in-case of a lost or non-working phone, and online mobile backup services are the answer to this problem.

BullGuard Mobile Backup 12 is one such handy service, the utility is supported on all major mobile operating-systems - Apple iOS, Google Android and Nokia Symbian. The subscription based service offers seamless, encrypted, automated and hassle-free mobile data backup in the cloud with web-access. Best of all - it supports seamless data migration between two different devices.

BullGuard Mobile Backup 12 is now available for free (2GB Plan) for 12 months under a limited quantity promotion, just follow the instructions and grab your own online mobile backup account for free.

Bulldog Mobile Backup

Samsung Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean Update Coming Soon to India and other countries

Google Android users are eager to get there hands on the improved buttery smooth, Jelly Bean 4.1 update on their devices. While not all Android devices are able to handle the JellyBean upgrade - the latest ones like Samsung Galaxy S3 have enough horsepower to get going.

Samsung has now officially confirmed the dates for Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) upgrade via Kies, the update has already been pushed out in some European countries and India is scheduled to get official Android Jelly bean upgrade from 20 October, followed by push to American countries.

Galaxy SIII and Android Jelly Bean
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