TechnoSlab

Microsoft officials declared release date of Windows 8 on Wednesday with thousands of Microsoft salespeople attending the Microsoft Global Exchange Conference in Atlanta, according to a post on the Windows team blog.


October 26 is the date. Windows 8 will be available preloaded on new PCs and via online upgrade programs on October 26. The OS is to be released to manufacturing by first week of August.
Microsoft is continuously making announcements about Windows 8 and there are already a lot of good reviews. I'm going to get an upgrade as soon as it gets out. What do you think about this latest Windows OS? Drop in your comments.

IOS and Android are cool mobile platforms, both visually and performance wise. The two platforms power smartphones and tablet devices but the former has an upper hand in tablet market. There are a lot of games developed for both OS which are published and sold on Apple App store and Google Play respectively. This infographic by App Annie shows different statistical data related to Game market for both iOS and android platforms.

Click here for the infographic

Web based proxies are very useful if you’re behind a restricting firewall and want to access resources otherwise inaccessible. There are countless free web based proxies available on the Internet that can be easily found on proxy listing websites like proxy.org. However, if don’t want to use third party proxy sites because you don’t want to give up your browsing history or login credentials (it’s highly recommend people to avoid logging in to websites when using a proxy hosted on third party servers), then you can host your own proxy. It’s easy because their are many free proxy scripts like Glype and PHP proxy which can be easily installed on a PHP powered server.

This post is for WordPress blog authors willing to setup a proxy on their server for personal use. Repress, short for repressive, is a wordpress plugin which uses PHP Proxy’s engine to render proxified web pages on blog. Setting up and configuring this plugin is extremely easy. Just make sure permalinks are enabled for your blog.

How to Install and configure Repress plugin

1. Go to Settings –> Permalinks –> Enable this option if it’s not already enabled i.e. select any option other than default option. If you own a blog with good SEO ranking a lot of pages index, then I suggest you setup the plugin on a separate WordPress installation sudden change in url scheme of blog posts will effect SEO adversely.

2. Install Repress plugin by going to Plugin –> Add New, search for Repress and click on Install.

3. To configure the plugin, head over to Settings –> Repress and add all domains you want to proxify, to whitelist.

Lets say your blog’s address is yourblog.com, then to render a webpage from youtube.com (youtube.com must be added to whitelist in step 3) you should visit the url http://yourblog.com/proxy/youtube.com

You can find more about this plugin or get it from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/repress/

That’s it, enjoy circumventing firewalls through a WordPress blog.

UC Browser v8.5

UC Browser 8.5 official English version is out for Symbian users.

Features 

App Gallery - to explore and install free applications

UDisk - to store your files online

QR code scanner - to scan QR codes. I've not tested this feature yet

Bug fixes for smoother browsing experience.

How to download

Point your mobile phone's browser to wap.ucweb.com

On 27th September 2011, TRAI ordered all GSM and CDMA service provides to limit number of outgoing SMS to only 100. After countless complaints and much dissension among customers, this limit was further increased to 200 per day in November last year.



This daily cap was introduced to prevent message centers and people from sending too many spam, marketing and promotional messages. Although it proved useful in it's purpose, it also restricted personal communication among people.
 
If you're one of the unhappy victims of this annoying restriction, you can now feel relieved. A Delhi High Court order today asked TRAI to remove this limit for general users while uphold the daily cap for marketing and non-personal messaging. This is a good news for many of us who missed sending mass SMS to friends and family. Order has been passed and implementation should be realized shortly which means once again we will be able to subscribe to unlimited message packs and send as many SMSes as we wish.