Former military adviser urged Obama to pardon Gary McKinnon

John Arquilla, a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and former military adviser has urged President Barack Obama to pardon the British computer hacker Gary McKinnon and to recruit master hackers to US Cyber Command...

How To: Create punchy black & white photos

Black and white photos have a charm of their own. Drama, emotions and actions get highly intensified in black and white. The easiest way to convert a colour photo to black and white is to use the ‘convert to greyscale’ option, which is available in most image viewing and photo editing applications. Here, the application simply desaturates the RGB colour channels to yield shades of grey. It’s the quickest method and you get good-looking results in less than five seconds. Put in a little more effort and your black and white photos will look punchier with good contrast across the entire frame. This process takes a little more than a minute, but rest assured the results will be far more impressive than what you’ll get by using a single command...

Blip TV App Brings Web Series Discovery To Android, iOS, Kindle & Xbox

If you’re fond of watching web series, but often have trouble finding new ones to follow, then must be familiar with Blip (a.k.a. Blip.tv), and you’ll be delighted to know that web series exploration service has recently expanded its reach beyond the web to mobile platforms and Microsoft’s flagship gaming console. The Blip TV mobile app, which is now available for Android, iOS, Amazon Kindle Fire and Microsoft Xbox, allows you to access your favorite personalized Blip content as well as all the videos featured on the original website. You can instantly access all the featured, popular and newest videos, explore content by a number of genres, receive push notifications for the shows you follow, and search for your favorite videos across the network. The app’s integration with Facebook lets you keep track of your Blip activities, utilize the various socializing tools offered by Blip, and share your favorite Blip events with your friends...

 

Chinese malware campaign 'Beebus' target US defense industries

A Chinese malware campaign called 'Beebus' specifically targeting the aerospace and defense industries has been uncovered by FireEye security researchers. Beebus is designed to steal information, and begins its infiltration, as so many attacks do, with spear-phishing emails...

How to: Capture the Festival of Lights

Diwali is that one time of the year when you want to capture happy moments, your first rangoli, Laxmi Pooja, diyas, colourful lanterns and dazzling fireworks that keep the skies lit after the sun goes down. What’s most challenging to capture in the festival of lights is ‘ the light’. We’re talking about shooting diyas, lanterns and fireworks – it may seem as simple as pointing the camera and shooting, but in reality, it’s not so. However, if you keep a few things in mind and use correct shooting techniques, then you can get shots that look better than what fireworks look in reality. Here are a few tips that will help you capture brilliant shots of diyas and fireworks, no matter what camera you use...

Tips for shooting diyas

Facebook Messenger For iOS & Android Gets Voice Messaging & VoIP Calls

In the past few months, Mark Zuckerberg and his team have been working quite hard to beef up theFacebook Messenger app for Android and iOS with some handy features. What started as a rather simple, standalone mobile messaging app for avid Facebookers now qualifies as a handy SMS replacement that doesn’t even require a Facebook account to get configured. So far, the app’s content sharing capabilities revolved around text messages, images, emojis and locations. The latest update brings the added functionality of voice messaging to both Android and iOS variants; instant 1-minute audio messages that can be shared as part of a conversation. A Viber and Vonage-like VoIP calling service is also reported to be under experimentation for iOS users in Canada. The free internet calling facility is expected to be announced for other parts of the world soon...

Aircel and ICICI Bank launches ‘Mobile Money’ in Tamil Nadu

Aircel and ICICI Bank has launched Mobile Money, running on Visa’s Mobile Managed Service.The service will be first available in Tamil Nadu to specifically cater for the needs of the large migrant working population from Tirunelveli now living and working in Chennai. Rollout to other parts of the state and rest of the country will happen during 2013.

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How To: Get the fastest Internet connection ever

It has always been a geek’s dream to have the fastest Internet connection ever, and we bet you would desire the same too. Almost all those who are hooked on to the Internet to surf, download or entertain themselves would definitely be owning an broadband connection at home. It could be via a telecom service provider, your local cable guy or 4G wireless Internet providers. Some even own 3G USB Internet dongles for their work and entertainment while being outdoors. Most smartphone users today also opt for 3G Internet services on their phones and tablets. All these connections can be individually used on your PCs, laptops and handhelds efficiently...

How To: Enjoy fireworks safely

The festival of Diwali brings in joy and fun for family, friends and all your close ones. You will see lights everywhere as people of all castes and creed are seen celebrating the festival of light. Lighting firecrackers is associated with the festival, and all age groups have fun lighting small bombs, rockets, flowerpots and various other types of firecrackers. Lighting a firecracker, though simple, can be very dangerous and we all know that. Igniting a bomb, rocket or any firecracker for that matter, requires you to move up to the location, light up the fuse and run away in time. If the fuse is too small or if you are not out in time, you could get hurt or cause serious injuries to others too. You have to run away to a safe distance just in time before it explodes near you. So how do you do that? 

Watch it in action

Play safe this Diwali