NetThirsty got 3rd place in a contest

Posted by Unknown | Friday, November 7, 2008

Two days back the result for kidtechguru contest announced and surprisingly i got 3rd place in that contest

results are

1st Prize (worth $180):

- Free 12 months 125X125 sidebar ad on The Online Quest
Sponsored by The Online Quest
Won by Tomas Guibani

2nd Prize (worth $100):
- Free Domain Name
- Free 12 months Web Hosting on BlueHost
Sponsored by BlueHost
Won by Kelsey Vea

3rd Prize (worth $45):
- Free 2 months 125X125 sidebar ad on KidTechGuru
- Free Review of your Blog to be posted in KidTechGuru
Sponsored by KidTechGuru
Won by Aravinthan Vivekanandan

4th Prize (worth $36.00):
- Free 1 month 480X60 banner ad on KidTechGuru
- 1000 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by KidTechGuru
Won by Fuzion

5th Prize (worth $27.00):
- 4500 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by WebbieStuffs, WeBlogLearner, I Love Philippines Too:
Won by SlashTop

6th Prize (worth $12.00):
- 2000 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by SocialWebTools:
Won by Jordan Osmond

Consolation Prizes (each worth US$6.00):
- 1000 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by SimplyWP and Wiehanne
Won by Mik
- 1000 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by The Flying Beagle
Won by NHC
- 1000 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by OrangeInks
Won by Bhagiraj Sivagnanasundaram
- 1000 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by eBookTechie
Won by Dhadha Garcia
- 1000 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by Chorva
Won by Tyler Hayes
- 1000 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by RandomDetox
Won by Brady Brim-DeForest
- 1 month 125X125 sidebar ad in Bryan Karl
- 500 Entrecard credits
Sponsored by Bryan Karl
Won by Rohit

Spams how they filter it?

Posted by Unknown |

We are all familiar with word Spam. This is something we encounter almost on a daily basis in our mail inboxes. They waste our precious time and also contribute in spreading malwares. It is expected that in the year 2008, as many as fourty trillion spam messages will be sent across the globe. This is significantly higher than the figure in 2006, when it was 18 trillion messages.

All of us are aware that email filtering software separates good or true email from the rest or spams. But these software or other appliances employed for filtering can go wrong. While a true mail may be blocked, a spam mail can easily pass through the filter to reach your inbox. If a spam mail is successfully filtered, it is generally placed in a separate folder. These folders can be searched later by the user. According to few sources, both individual users and organizations stand to lose not only their energy and time in deleting these spam mails but also have to shell out $0.4 per deleted message. This figure has been calculated after a lot of calculations and predictions by analysts.

Popular filtering techniques

A number of spam filtering mechanisms have been employed over the years to counter it effectively. Occasionally, more than one techniques are also employed. Some of these include:

1] Tarpitting:- These are services on the server which takes a lot of time establishing incoming mails. This technique ensures spam mails will take a lot of time to reach a recipient, thus discouraging the spammer to carry out his task. However, the disadvantage is that the same procedure hampers the true mails as well.

2] Graylisting:- In this case, the recipients mail system temporarily rejects all incoming mails. Reciprocal mails are sent as reply with the content being quoted as temporary failure. This technique is employed with the assumption that a real mailer will respond back by sending the mail once again while the spammer loses his patience and will give up on sending further spams.

3] Challenge response:- This technique employs CAPTCHA method to its routine. Mails from unrecongnizable IP addresses are asked to enter the sent CAPTCHA. Humans are able to detect these patterns while the computer fails to do so.

4] Bayesian filters:- This technique analyses the ratio of "good" and "bad" words and assigns a score to each one of them. Based on these scores, spams are filtered out.

Recover your photos from digital camera for free

Posted by Unknown |

Formatted your favorite photos on the digital camera accidentally ? or the photos corrupted in your memory card?

What is important to mention is that although the photos are still inside your digital memory's memory card, they are in danger of total erasure. If you take more pictures you could very well overwrite the complete set of photos. There are many costlier software for this type of recovery but i found this one for free...

So the first step you have to take is download this Digital photo recovery and connect your camera to your PC. Once you run the software you will see that it needs no special training or skills. Follow the onscreen instructions and in a couple of minutes you will have your photos in your screen, seen through the tool's viewer. It recovers your photo files with full quality, it can perform digital photo recovery on any camera and restore from any type of format.(all the Raw formats ).

It can also support image creation of the card and recovers physically damaged cards too

A Free Image/photo editing,authoring tool

Posted by Unknown | Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Few days back i was searching for a photo management tool for correcting my photos. many where available to us on download.com and other downloading sites. i found this GNU image manipulation tool and its very much easier and its open source too.

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program, which has released its latest version 2.6.2 currently and it supports almost all OS.

Image formats supported are TIFF,JPG,GIF,PNG,PSD and it also supports other rare formats but it has to be downloaded separately.

Gimp provides photo retouching via blur overlays, image authoring tools and and most interestingly it supports actions for the hardware devices that can be set for easier tool handling.

Download this software from here