ReviewSaurus – Technology Rocks!

Here’s a small question from all you readers. Please take some time out of your busy schedule and leave a comment and tell us that which office application or office suite do you use the most.

1. Zoho’s Online Office.
2. Google Docs
3. OpenOffice.org
4. MS Office (do specify the version as well).
5. NEO Office (well, if at all any mac user is sitting here).

If at all you can brag about which product you use the most then I’m sure you’ll be able to convert few users.

Let me be the first person to answer this question :

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In India, there are not many free Wi-Fi spots however, it has happened to my friend that he attended one of the un-conference and some hacker had setup an ad-hoc connection pretending as if it’s the wi-fi spot and because of which his account got hacked.

Something similar was showcased by Robert Graham at BlackHat conference 2007. He made use of some tools which had created himself and hijacked the session IDs and cookies of the Gmail account and logged into the Gmail account without any trouble.

This can be easily avoided if you use secure interface of Gmail (HTTPS) however, Gmail by default loads itself in the normal mode but allows users to force the SSL mode but manually.

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Well, this tip was shared by Sagaro, where you can easily check that what’ll be the size of your inbox of GMail account in future. For e.g. if you want to know that how much space you’ll be getting in GMail on Sept. 4th, 2008 then simply follow these steps :

1. Open GMail (Don’t login)
2. Open windows calendar by double clicking on the time/date in system tray.
3. Change the date to 4th Sept. 2008 and click OK.

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Proto 2008 has been announced already and I’m going to attend the event. Not only I’ll be able to network with lots of people but I’ll be able to see some of the finest startups of Asia (mostly Indian startups)

For those, who don’t know about Proto :

Proto.in is about giving entrepreneurs a platform to express their visions and showcase their imagination, with a working prototype, for the world to see.

Proto.in provides a unique platform for promising startup talent to communicate their creativity and innovation potential. As a meeting place for the smartest entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and professionals.

The agenda of Proto looks really great and its getting difficult for me to decide that which section will I attend on the first day : Business or Technology. Please suggest me.

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I’ve been chosen as the Anti-Phishing Champion by PayPal and the badge on the left is in honor of that! Isn’t it cool ? Well, To be honest this was one of the image which was displayed on PayPal’s website when I took their quick quiz on Phishing.

You should take part in this quiz (although the answers are pretty simple) and see where do you stand when it comes to finding out if the email you’ve received is legit email from PayPal or not.

For those who are good at finding out Phishing and who already know about it can take the following quiz (source) and check out that where do you stand.

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