I am a big fan of the TV serial “Jhalak Dikhla Jaa” aired on Sony Entertainment Channel. This is a dance competition wherein one celebrity participant is paired with a choreographer of opposite sex to form a pair, or “jodi” as they call it in Hindi. Every “jodi” competes with other 12 pairs to finally win the coveted title. Currently this is Season 4 of the contest and so far eveything seemed to be going well.

However, I have started noticing …

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I recently bumped into this fantastic post on LifeHacker: Beef Up Your Password by Memorizing a Few Key Codes, which has opened my eyes towards securing my passwords. In this era of keyloggers, there is an easy way to “trick” these keylogger trojans by using something which already existed since the day Windows was born. It is by using Special Characters, which one can “generate” by using “Alt” key along with numbers.

These characters are less frequently included in brute force …

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Show the world that you’re a geek too. Now it does not call for exclusive knowledge of technology and certainly no expertise required. To prove to the world that you indeed are in line with the latest tech happenings, all you can do is to spend a bit and get one / more of these high-tech gadgets to gift to someone you love / want to impress…

1. Apple TV (my personal favourite too!)
Price: $99

You will also get access to Netflix’s …

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[Source: Times of India report] Haryana health minister Geeta Bhukkal shouldn’t be going all the way to Kerala to figure out the dipping sex ratio problem in her state. The solution is right here at home – right here in the Haryana village. A small village – Chang (Bhiwani) – in Haryana is slowly but effectively reversing the shameful trend that could serve as a model for the entire state. And it is not because of the government, but the collective …

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Yes, you read it right. Scientists claim that your online photos may help someone extract your friendships! As reported by ScienceDaily on Dec. 9, Cornell University computer scientists have, after comparing locations of photos posted on the Internet with social network contacts on Facebook, Flickr etc., found that as few as three “co-locations” for images at different times and places could predict with high probability that two people posting photos were socially connected.

What the heck it means to the common …

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