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Popular Micro-blogging site Twitter is under DDoS attack and has been down for over 2 hours. The message posted on the status blog is

“We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.

Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.”

DDOS attack is an evil deed done by some of those hackers who use a large number of computers to send unwanted requests to the victim’s site (here in this case Twitter) with the sole aim to take down the servers of that particular site. These unwanted requests cause too much load on the servers of the victims’ sites and make them unresponsive.

ESET has finally introduced its new versions of ESET Smart Security 4 and ESET Nod32 4. Both the versions come with a new look and some new features to protect you even more efficiently online. ESET Smart Security is a pack of a good firewall and antispam technology along with the ever popular Nod32 antivirus.  While Nod32 new version 4 is even more faster and more efficient than the previous version. The new version adds removable media security, new diagnostic and recovery tools, and more advanced heuristics. I have just downloaded and installed the trial version of Nod32 4 to see how good they have improved it. I will update you with my review in a day or two.

If you are new to computers and all the stuff, probably you don’t know it yet. You can change the action of what your computer would do when you press the power on/off button of your CPU (Not the restart button, but the (big) button above it). Windows XP normally offers 5 options to be done when you press the power button of CPU.

1. Do nothing (Yopu certainly don’t want to select this option, LOL)
2. Ask me what to do (with this option it presents you with 3 choices, 1. Stand By, 2. Turn Off 3. Restart)
3. Stand By
4. Hibernate
5. Shut Down

So, Now how to set your favorite action when you press the power on/off butoon of CPU? Right click on your desktop at an empty place. When a box opens click “Properties” (the last option in that menu). Then a box pops up, click on “Screen Saver” menu tab, Now click on the “Power” button at the bottom of the box under Monitor Power sub heading. Now another box pops up. Now click on “Advanced” in the tab menu. Now you have reached the final step. Under the “Power Buttons” sub heading and under “When I press the power button on my computer” select your favorite action from the drop down box. The drop down list presents the same 5 options given above. Once you selected your desired action, click “Apply” and then “OK”. That’s all, So from now on, when you click the CPU power button it will do what action you have set from that drop down box.

Yahoo Email service seems to be going down these days. Their spam email filters seems to be incompetent, they cannot stop most spam mails. Many Yahoo Email users complain they are getting many SPAM emails in their INBOX and Yahoo is unable find them and weed them out to the SPAM folder. Even I am getting a lot of spam emails in my inbox, which should actually be sent to the spam folder in Yahoo email service. I think, it is high time Yahoo did something about improving their Spam Filters efficiency or many other people would leave Yahoo for either Gmail or Hotmail just like a good percentage of free email service users doing. If it happens, It would certainly affect the No.1 status of Yahoo.

OK, Back to the topic! Which is your favorite WordPress Theme? If you have got more than one, you can list all of those in you comments. It could be free wordpress theme or Premium (paid) wordpress theme. I like this theme that I am using on this site at the moment. In fact, I like many more themes that I just download and upload to my hosting acount to use when I feel like. Most of the WordPress themes I like are free, you only need to use it as is, I mean, you cannot remove the links of the coders (designers) of the theme. My favorite WordPress themes list is so big that I will share them with you in another article and will give you the download links of the same.

Personally, I have liked this idea more than the old gmail look. There are a couple of Email Themes which look quite nice. Some of the names of the gmail email themes are Default, Classic, Marina, Beach, Mountains, Pebbles, Cold Shower, Steel, New Blue, Green Sky, Planets, etc. So, If you haven’t used teh themes to make your gmail email acount colorful, go now, sign in to your gmail account and click “settings” and select “Themes” and check which theme you like by clicking on the themes. Gmail will save your setting and everytime you sign into that particular gmail email address you would be checking your emails in a nice set of colors.

England cricket team, in the captaincy of Kevin Pietersen, are already 3-0 down in this series. If they lose today’s game too, they will lose the series to Indian Cricket team. England players doesn’t seem to have got used to the weather conditions in India. The English media has called it “The end of Pietersen’s Honeymoon”. It was first the Stanford Twenty20 match in which came as a big jolt to England after their 4-0 win against South Africa at home. Later they lost a practice match to a second ratee Mumbai Club Cricket team with around 158 runs. Later it was the first oneday against India in which they lost to their third highest defeat. Let’s see if England is going to stay alive in this series or not.

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