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"Siri" - the only exciting new feature introduced in Apple iPhone 4S has now been hacked and decoded by developers allowing them to program custom handlers for different actions. The "Siri Proxy" hack allows developers to easily add functionality to Siri making it do cool voice controlled actions not built-in natively by Apple.

Developer's can now create "Siri Proxy Plugin's" allowing users to issue custom commands via the "Siri - voice assistant", an excellent demo is shown below where a "plugin" allows the developer to control his computer and a thermostat.

For some unknown and strange reasons my "Windows 7" installation stopped recognizing my DVD drive and "Windows Device Manager" showed an exclamation icon next to the DVD/CD-ROM drive, on further opening the device properties page the error shown is :

"Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)"

The error signifies that an registry error has occurred with the device in question, you can find a working solution as demonstrated below.

Gone are the days when Apple's Mac OS desktop operating system was considered safe without an anti-virus solution, Mac OS specific malware threats are already in the wild and having an software security solution is demand of the time. Leading computer security vendor Kaspersky has predicted the demand and released "Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 For Mac" - Kaspersky Antivirus Scanner for Mac is designed to protect against all types of malware. The anti-malware scanner will not only detect and remove Mac viruses but also non-Mac viruses using an automatically updated malware database, when not scanning the software will not use any CPU resources ensuring maximum performance.

In last tutorial we demonstrated how to use cross-platform Heimdall flashing utility to get the latest stock firmware "Google Android 2.3.5 XXJVT" on Samsung Galaxy I9000, if you are a power user you must know the benefits of rooting your android phone and here is how you can root this latest stock firmware using ever popular Chainfire root and ODIN.