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Our reader, Anirudh Mehta, discovered a bug in Google Talk’s invisible status feature available in its Gmail Chat version. If use smartly, you can figure out if the girl next door is really invisible or avoiding you. Here are steps: Set the chat as off the record with target user (how?). Continue reading

Update: Issue is fixed by Orkut.Looks like Orkut team is reading DW! And those who think orkut.co.in does not exist, check this post for screenshot. Yesterday, I came across one more side-effect of orkuts countywide domains. I was using Friend Finder on Orkut, when I lost secure connection with Continue reading

Update: This bug is fixed now. Details are here. I am closing comments to avoid unnecessary comments. A bug in orkut let you add custom images to Orkut’s status update feature as shown below… As you can see OrkutFeeds logo in above screenshot is not a standard smiley which orkut users Continue reading

Free Premium Accounts is giving free Rapidshare & Megaupload premium accounts for referring people to their website. Since the website have no porn ads and not asking for your credit card information, it looks authentic. But there is a catch! Apart from completing referrals, the site makes it Continue reading

indiatimes.com, one of the top portal in India is turned out to be highly insecure in a small security test I have conducted. Indiatimes have traffic rank #17 in India with global rank of #255 as per alexa. This makes things more serious! All of us are familiar with forget password wizard on many Continue reading

As they say, a picture is worth 1000 words, following will surely highlight importance of passwords… (Image Credit: Mohammad Imran’s blog)   Moral of the story - “Passwords Are Like Underwear” Change them often. The longer the better! Be mysterious. Don’t Continue reading

I often receive phishing emails, mostly claiming to be from PayPal, ICICI or similar sites where money involved. Yesterday, I received an email claiming to be from PayPal. Of course, I didn’t fall for it, but it looked so genuine that I thought about sharing few simple rules which I follow Continue reading

Few hours back, I wrote about latest orkut album bug which enabled any user to delete anyone’s photo. Looked like orkut is reading this blog as a bug open from 4 days is now fixed temporarily. Anyway I feel its safe to unveil details now. As most of the stuff below is technical in nature, Continue reading

Update: This bug is temporarily fixed as of now. Details are here. Last few days had been really good for orkut with mobile version and lightweight version being launched as well as orkut apps unveiled in India. But now its time to get back to the bugs in Orkut, what keep it hot and (in)famous Continue reading

If you are a firefox user then you may surprise to read this post. Unlike firefox where single menu option Tools >> Clear Private Data clears everything, in Internet Explorer 6.0 the situation is worse than one can possibly imagine. Of course, a firefox user will never go back to Internet Continue reading