Free Opera Registration for today

Opera – Reviews and free downloads at Download.com

Note: For one day only, you can get an ad-free version of Opera. Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT).

Hurry, guys see if you can get a free registration for Opera browser. Opera being one of my good old pal, who has lost against the goods of Firefox browser.

Melbourne Geek Dinner Update:-

We really had a good time last night (atleast I can say that about myself). I saw that we had 100% turn out from the people who said that they will come. Hey Guys, it was really nice seeing you all in person and listen to you all. Most of the people attending the dinner said that they would love to have ongoing geek dinners on a regular basis. So be it, we will plan something up soon.

“Podcasting” was the buzz word last night. Many were talking about podcasting while others were listening about podcasting. Dave Glover from Microsoft was there too. Hey Dave, the new MSN Search engine can be found at http://www.start.com/3 ;). Matt did an excellent job of taking fantastic pictures again. I am sure we will see them soon on his blog.Robin (or do you spell it as Robyn) did an excellent job evangelising about Podcasts. Buddy, can you email me the list of good techo podcasts? Below are the list of people who attended.

1. Tejas Patel
2. Nirav Patel
3. Cameron Reilly
4. Michael Specht
5. Chris Bell
6. Simon Heap
7. Robin Froosh (not the correct spelling obviously)
8. Dave Glover
9. Daryl Cook
10. Justin Marshall
11. Pravesh Tanwar
11. Jesse Villani
12. Matt Trentini

Did I miss anybody?

I will like to thank you all for coming at such a short notice, it was really nice seeing you all. Big thanks to Matt for taking the pictures. Till next time, bye to all, see you all around on your blogs :).

Geek Dinner Tonight

Hey, finally it’s geeks party tonight. Just to remind all on the venue.”The meeting will be in the city at the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke Street. It’s a Pizza Hut restaurant (1st Floor). It will be nice if we all gather there between 6:30 and 6:45 PM.”

I have asked them to arrange a single long table for us, so all geeks can sit face to face with each other. So if more are coming, let me know now and I can make necessary arrangements if necessary.

I will be there at 6:30 PM or early, so if you guys don’t have much to do in office after 5:30, give me a call on my mobile on 0412 940 169 and we can take a walk on the Bourke Street :).

Can browser steal our sensitive information?

A friend of mine emailed me following tip today.

We do copy various data by ctrl+c for pasting elsewhere. This copied data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by a combination of Javascripts and ASP.

Just try this:

1) Copy any text by ctrl+c
2) Click the Link:
http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm

3) You will see the text you copied on the screen which was accessed by this web page.

Now this was a scary thought for me, I mean very scary. Now easy can it be to steal sensitive information. How easy is it to see what we are copying and what we are doing to the clipboard. I think very easy.

Now some developer will have to help me out here. I have tried the above URL both in Firefox and in Internet Explorer. Now I cannot see any text from my clipboard displayed into Firefox where as I can see the text displayed which was copied onto clipboard into Internet Explorer. Does it make Firefox any secure than Internet Explorer? What is the reason that it’s not showing in Firefox? Hoping to get an answer to this sometime soon.

Google Desktop V. 2.0 Screencast

Google Desktop Tool is here and now it’s in version 2 beta. If you are following my blog than you will remember that I had given up on Google Desktop Search tool before as it was just taking too much system resources. This time I thought will give another try, since this version is loaded with features that can make my life a bit more easier.

I have to say that they have done some good work with this way (atleast as far as coming up with features in this tool). One of the features that I am going to love is where I can just search in Programs installed on my system. I have so many software installed on my system and they are hidden in so many micro categories that sometimes it takes a while to find them out, this tool will make my life easier now.

I like the idea of integrating Gmail indexer and notifier feature in this tool as well. Although I will monitor the system resources this tool is going to consume carefully, I will give this tool a good chance and see if I can keep it on my desktop.

I have created a quick screen cast of installing Google Desktop and demonstrating some of the features of this tool. Note:- I did play with Google Desktop for 4.3 minutes before creating this Screen Cast and that is how I know some of the features while I am talking and going through the screen cast. I have done two screen casts before, but this is my first take at making a screen cast for a software tool. You will be able to see it by seeing some hesitation and stammering during the screencast. But overall it was fun.

Ofcourse I will improve on my future screen casts, but still give me your feedback on what you thought of it.

The screen cast can be found at Here. It is embedded into a HTML file. The video will load faster if viewed from Internet Explorer whereas it might take a bit of time to load up in Firefox. Media Player 9 will be needed to play this video.

GOOGLE DESKTOP SCREEN CAST URL