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source : Ministry of Tech

Yesterday, the long awaited “You tube for Documents” site  Scribd came out of its beta. It is a social network that lets you tag, share, and comment on uploaded documents (.doc, .pdf, .txt, .ppt, .xls, .ps, .lit). Scribd is not just a carbon copy of YouTube. They borrowed a lot of the basic design principles, but also took advantage of the written format by including flexible file formats for download and upload along with some interesting analytics tracking. Documents can be displayed and embedded as html or the under-utilized, and faster-than-a-pdf, Flash paper format. They can be downloaded as .pdf’s, .docs, .txt, and even .mp3 files. The mp3 version is created by Scribd’s text-to-speech package that lets you listen to the text of your document in a quivering British accent.

If you find time, please do check this site too… http://www.youscript.com/

Very cool comparison of Vista Aero and Ubuntu. If you really think that this is just another Beryl propaganda, you need to check this video. (My personal favourite comes at 3 min 11 sec).

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What are these people really getting out of this?

http://browsehappy.com/

They just want us to have a safe and secure browsing.

This video just talks about another catastrophe that Microsoft has brought it.  These are  excerpts from a Microsoft TechEd training class on how to secure a Microsoft SQL server.  A lot of tweaks, what he calls, to help plug those security holes, breaks even the basic feature that we expect from the database. The first feature that breaks is replication. What are going to do with a broken database that cant be replicated too? Do we need to stop being afraid of the open security holes that we have in our application and start worrying about the database?

The guy coolly tells that “There is where most of the interesting ‘things’ happen”.  By ‘things’, he just means security holes.