Google denies reverse-engineering Vista

TECHNOLOGY:
The source code for Google's Chrome browser gave the impression that the company had reverse-engineered Windows Vista to employ a useful security feature, but the company said it didn't in fact do so.

The Chrome source code said a particular security feature available on Vista, Data Execution Prevention, can be used on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1, though it's not documented for the older operating systems. The source code also said the feature can be understood with a disassembler, a method of reverse-engineering that deconstructs a binary file--such as Windows--into instructions more easily understood by a human.
An explanatory comment in the Chrome source code mentions use of a disassembler to figure out the security feature. "Completely undocumented from Microsoft. You can find this information by disassembling Vista's SP1 kernel32.dll with your favorite disassembler," the comment says.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers, of Corvallis, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.
For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, me hearty!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy.

Bugatti Veyron 16.4, World's speediest demons

AUTOMOBILE:
Bugatti Veyron can get 0-60mph in 2.5 secs with max speed of 253 mph.

Head of Design Hartmut Warkuss and his team were faced with a Herculean task: they were to design a car that combined its classic heritage and state-of-the-art modernism in a unique and unmatched way.

A mid-engine sports car produced by Volkswagen Group' subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS, it is powered by a 1,001 hp (746 kW) W16 engine, and is able to achieve an average top speed of 407.47 km/h (253.19 mph).

The car is handcrafted in a factory Volkswagen built near the former Bugatti headquarters in Chateau St Jean in Molsheim (Alsace, France).

It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the '24 hours of Le Mans' in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm.

Megan Fox - World most sexiest woman

FASHION , MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT :
Meet the sexiest woman in the world, she is Megan Fox.
Yes, Megan Fox has been voted as the sexiest woman in the world by FHM magzine in 2008, beating out Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba.
She began her acting and modeling career upon winning several awards in 1999 American modeling and Talent convention in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
She acted in couple of films in 2001, but she is well known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith in 2004 and 2007 live action film Transformers.

Sarah Palin Gets a Wikipedia Makeover

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin got a glowing overhaul of her Wikipedia entry just hours before her nomination was announced. A mystery Wikipedia user -- under the name Young Trigg -- put in about 30 edits to the biographical article on the website. Should we believe everything we read?

The Commodore Makes a Comeback

The famous Commodore brand is to be attached to the lid of a Small, Cheap Computer. The UMMD 8010/F will be based on VIA's C7-M processor rather than an Intel Atom. It has a 10in screen, 1GB of memory and an 80GB hard drive, running Windows XP. There's a memory card slot, an Ethernet port and several USB connectors. The price is to be around the $400 to $500 range for other netbooks.

Eva Mendes: I collapsed after meeting Mick Jagger

FASHION , MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT :

Eva Mendes has revealed she was left speechless when she met Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

She met 65 year old Mick Jagger 4 years back in the lift.

'I literally collapsed when I got out of floor, He is really delicious, and he still looks really good.'

Australian Swimmer Stephanie Rice winner of three golds in 2008 Olympics

Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice currently holds the world record in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Stephanie has won Gold medals in 2006 Commonwealth Games and bronze medals in 2007 Commonwealth Games.
Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club has tranined Stephanie Rice.

Towelhead movie, story of Jasira an Arab-American girl

FASHION , MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT :
From the creator of American Beauty and Six feet under, here come another movie "TowelHead". Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening. When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this new environment, Jasira seeks friendship and acceptance from her neighbors Mr. Vuoso, an Army reservist, and Melina, a meddling but caring expectant mother. The story of Jasira, how will she adapt to all this is the movie - 'Towelhead'

Carrie Underwood...The first country American Idol

FASHION , MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT :
The first country American Idol, Carrie Underwood grew up in the small town of Checotah. Carrie began singing with her church at the tender age of three. Throughout her childhood, she also performed at functions for the Lion's Club and Old Settlers Day, and eventually at festivals in several states. Along with developing her singing, Underwood learned to play guitar and piano. She graduated from high school as her class salutatorian and majored in mass communication at Northeastern State College with an eye on a career in broadcast journalism, but continued her singing career throughout her studies.

End of world? Experiment to recreate Big Bang underway

The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.

Scientists in Geneva on Wednesday launched preliminary experiments to test the Big Bang theory of the universe's origins and other beliefs about how matter and mass formed.

For the tests, engineers built a giant contraption called the Large Hadron Collider. The unit is designed to smash sub-atomic particles into each other at extremely high speeds. They hope to use the LHC to crash protons into each other and create events that are similar to those that supposedly occurred when the universe formed.

The process aims to test the Big Bang theory and the belief that the Higgs boson particle—the so-called God particle--is the origin of matter and mass. It could also provide evidence of dark matter, or invisible matter in between galaxies.

BRITNEY is Back....

Britney is backkkk. One year after her disastrous performance, Brit looked smoking hot, rosy and healthy as she accepted three moonmen at Sundays show.
She is working on another album, which is set to release on december and she mentioned that 'it's her Best work ever'.
Apart from this album, second thing on Britney's agenda is the Big Birthday party for her son's birthday. Her two sons Jayden and Preston's birthdays are on Sept.12 and Sep. 14 respectively.
A Spears insider also revealed that her "goal is to regain joint custody of her sons as soon as her dad Jamie's status as her conservator ends."

Ike gains strength over Gulf, heading towards Texas

Hurricane Ike is gaining strength as it slowly makes its way into the Gulf of Mexico, on a path toward the southern U.S. state of Texas.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Ike's center was in the waters off the coast of western Cuba this Wednesday morning. Forecasters say it was traveling at a speed of 13 kilometers per hour, with maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers an hour.

On its current path, Ike could reach the coast of Texas early Saturday.

Authorities in Texas have begun making preparations. Governor Rick Perry has declared 88 coastal counties disaster areas, and several towns in the region have been told to prepare for a mandatory evacuation.

Oil companies have begun evacuating workers from their offshore drilling platforms.

Forecasters say Ike still is producing strong tropical storm conditions in western Cuba. It could dump as much as 50 centimeters of rain before leaving the area, and could cause life-threatening floods and mudslides.

The storm first made landfall on Cuba on Sunday, killing at least four people and forcing more than one million people to evacuate. Ike struck Cuba again on Tuesday, sending debris flying through the streets and soaking the capital, Havana, with heavy rain.

Ike also caused flooding in Haiti that killed about 70 people, adding to an estimated toll of 500 people killed by storms in recent weeks.

Microsoft closing it's owned studio : ENSEMBLE

Microsoft would be closing its internal developer Ensemble Studios upon the completion of sci-fi real-time strategy game Halo Wars. In a statement issued today, Microsoft confirmed that Ensemble will be shut down once the Xbox 360-exclusive RTS set in the best-selling Halo franchise ships out early next year.

"The team at Ensemble has made invaluable contributions to the games industry with their Age of Empires and Age of Mythology games and with the highly anticipated release of Halo Wars.This decision does not reflect at all on Ensemble’s talent or the quality of Halo Wars--in fact, many people who have had a chance to test drive Halo Wars agree that it is on track to being a fantastic game."

Though Microsoft will close the studio, Ensemble brass plan to soldier on. As part of today's statement, Microsoft said that Ensemble's "leadership team" will form a new development house, and has already entered into an agreement with the publisher to continue supporting Halo Wars post-launch, "as well as work on other projects with Microsoft Game Studios."

Commenting on the reason for the closure, Microsoft said, "This was a fiscally rooted decision that keeps MGS on its growth path. While the decision to dissolve Ensemble was not an easy one, Microsoft is working to place as many Ensemble employees who do not move to the newly formed studio into open positions within Microsoft as possible."

As noted earlier today, the Age of Empires brand has sold more than 20 million units since the first installment debuted on the PC in 1997. According to the NPD Group, Ages of Empires III for the PC has sold 1.15 million units in the US alone through July 2008, with The Warchiefs expansion tallying nearly 305,000 more.

Federer wins 5th straight Open, 13th major title

After Federer lost the French Open and Wimbledon finals, people all around the world offered good wishes, medical advice, even tennis advice to Federer.

Federer needs a help was everybody's opinion.

But on monday night federer proved that he know how to win major tournaments by easily beating Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 to win a fifth consecutive U.S. Open championship and 13th Grand Slam title overall.

Federer said "I felt like I was invincible for a while again, I always knew that if I were to get one Slam under my belt, especially the last one, things weren't looking that bad, like everybody was talking about.I didn't feel I was under pressure to prove myself in trying to win here, but this definitely feels very sweet."

Federer is the only man in tennis history to win five straight titles at two major events.

He moved within one Grand Slam title of tying Pete Sampras' record of 14.

iPod touch...watch videos, listen music, surf with touch of finger

iPod touch is a reality after all. While we initially assumed that Mr. Jobs wouldn't be so kind as to bless us all with two new full-fledged iPods in a single day, we're elated that he had other ideas. The new flagship iPod has "the same size screen as the iPhone, but it's even thinner" (eight-millimeters, for those taking notes), and it also touts the "same multi-touch interface" found on the firm's handset. Additionally, it boasts a 3.5-inch widescreen display, the ability to "flick through your photos," and you even get the "slide to unlock" feature, too.

As for battery life, the touch is said to last 22-hours when playing back audio and 5-hours when watching video. The iPod touch will be arriving in 8GB and 16GB flavors and will be priced at $299 and $399, respectively.

Mukesh Ambani , Fifth richest person on planet

Mukesh Ambani is an Indian businessman and the world's fifth richest man, with a net worth of approximately $43 billion. He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company.

Mukesh and Anil Ambani, India's billionaire brothers have been named together among the world's 100 most influential and powerful people by British fashion magazine Vanity Fair. The duo had earlier made their way into the league of richest persons.

The warring Ambani brothers are ranked at the 67th place in the 100 list which is topped by Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin while media baron Rupert Murdoch is in the second spot.

The founders of search engine major Google -- Sergey Brin, Larry Page --and its CEO Eric Schmidt have been ranked at the third spot. Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs has cornered fourth rank, while legendary American investor Warren Buffet follows him to take the fifth place.

Google Chrome.... New Web Browser from Google

Two days back Google released the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome

I was very curious about it so I searched about it and found that it's simply amazing.

When you think about any google application, you expect that they will give you something which will be really usefull to you and which will make your life easy.

I was trying to get the thinking process of google Developers while they were working on Google Chrome.

What google developers thought that people are spending an increasing amount of time online, and they're doing things never imagined when the web first appeared about 15 years ago. so they started building the web browser from from the scratch.

It may sound that Google has paid me for this review :D, but I really like this browser.

Following points make it different from other web browsers:

New Tab Page: Every time you open a new tab, you'll see a visual sampling of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs

Application shotcuts: Use web apps without opening your browser. Application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps

Dynamic Tab: You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish -- quickly and easily.

Crash COntrol : Every tab you're using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won't take anything else down

Incognito mode: Don't want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing

Safe Browsing: Google Chrome warns you if you're about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website

Simpler Downloads: No intrusive download manager; you see your download's status at the bottom of your current window

All in all, try to get feel of it. You will surely like it :-)

Rock On ! Awesome Bollywood Movie...It's about Rock music and Friendship

I have seen Bollywood Hindi Movie ' Rock On '. Rock On is about life of 4 friends, Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Luke Kenny.
They are all very close friend and has only one ambition to be a famous and successful band Called 'Magic'.
But how one misunderstanding ruin their dream and separate them. After 10 years Farhan's wife, Prachi Desai acts as a catalyst and angel to unite them and make their dream come true is the story of this movie.
For the first time You love Hindi Rock songs. Awesome work by music director Shankar Ehsaan and loy. Hats off to them.
The best thing about this movie is this movie is all about friendship and Love for Music.
On top of that all actors have given justice to their roles, I think everybody has excelled in their respective role.
What to learn from this movie. Now i wont be preachy but I think I should tell you here when life gives you second chance make it worth.
Love life, life is beautiful.