Install the latest mobile operating system from Apple Inc - iOS4 on your iPhone 3G, 3Gs and the iPod Touch.

Step 1 : Download and install iTunes 9.2 (latest) on your PC/Mac

iTunes 9.2 Update Process

Step 2: After installing the iTunes 9.2, connect your iPhone/iPod to your system with the USB cable. iTunes will now launch.

Connect iPhone/iPod Touch to your System

Step 3 (Optional) : Back up all your iPhone/iPod Touch data to your Hard Drive with the Backup feature. We need to be prepared for everything.

Backup your iPhone/iPod Touch

Step 4: Select your device from the iTunes sidebar. A page with update options will come up. Click on Check for Updates

Updating to iOs4

Step 5 : iTunes will tell you that the update in available now and will guide you through the rest of the firmware process.

Reports are there that many users are not able to get operating system updates currently. So if your one of them and eager to update to the iOS4.

iPod Touch 2G

iPod Touch 3G

iPhone 3G

iPhone 3GS

and iPhone 4

To install these, hit the update link while holding down the option button, so you can select the file you downloaded from your hard drive.

The list of new features

Note : iOS 4 works with iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G. Not all features are compatible with all devices. For example, multitasking is available only with iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS.

iOS4 update process can take a lot of time so please be patient.

The design of 404 error pages is often overlooked and underestimated. 404 pages have always been a pain. Its never a good experience when we are stuck up with 404 pages, most of us will hit the back button or Leave. Errors will happen no matter how good your website is managed, so i think its a good idea to improve your 404 page and make a visitor stay on your site.

Things to keep in mind

Branding

Don’t let your visitors think they are lost, they should know that they are on your site put some visualization that help them recognize your brand.

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Informative

When arriving on that page, visitor should instantly know that he didn’t reach the page he was expecting. Inform him of what happened and now what he should do.

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Useful

If your viewers happen to reach a 404 page, it would be good to guide them through your site to let them find what they want. To achieve this, you can add some useful links and a search box, some will add links to popular posts or promotions.

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Traceable

You can add a tracker to your 404 page to know what happened, what people who stumbled on that page where looking for or where they were coming from? Or use Broken Link Checker for WordPress.

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Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases and has every other package (software) you can imagine of. Ubuntu is updated every 6 months and the latest release will be Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx. You can Check about the previous and upcoming releases on Wikipedia.

LTS Release

Lucid Lynx is the third Long Term Support Release by Ubuntu, with security updates – 5 years for server edition and 3 years for desktop edition. Lucid is a stable release so don’t expect some new fancy features because most of the attention will be on Stability and Performance.

Artwork

Logo : Ubuntu has also got themselves a new logo with some new fonts which looks far better than the old one.

Theme : Lucid Lynx will feature a new light theme (Radiance) & a dark theme (Ambiance) at last, i was really bored with that brown human theme. The decision of branding Ubuntu as “Light” comes from the idea of “warmth and clarity.” Light has changed some button placements and looks much cleaner, lighter and aesthetically appealing. Now the window controls are on the top left instead of the top right and did you notice there is no bottom task bar.

Doesn’t this one look like a Mac Os X ? We’ll discuss about it later.

Interface

If your waiting for Gnome 3 in Lucid, don’t hold your breath – at least not as default. Ubuntu 10.04 will come with Gnome 2.28 as its desktop environment, with ability to shift to Gnome 3.x thereafter. This means user interface wont look much different from the previous releases.

Gnome 3.x will look something like this

These are just concept photos. I m sure the real thing will look much better.

Faster

Boot speed has been a hot topic for a long time and Ubuntu has come a very long way in the last few releases. Ubuntu 10.04’s target boot time is 10 seconds. The reference platform is Dell Mini 9 Net book which is a average machine. So this means some people’s machine will be slower and some faster. Imagine booting lucid on a Quad Core.

Boot Screen : Now when ever you login to your ubuntu you will a boot screen like this one.

Ubuntu 10.4 will install a bit differently than its previous releases. In earlier versions the installer used to download the updates first but now downloads and installation will happen in parallel, resulting shortening of installation time.

Installation Ubiquity Slideshow : You remember when you last time saw the Installation slide show, well Lucid will be having a new slide show which looks much more 21st century. You can read the whole story Here.

Social Aspect

Ubuntu 10.04 bring social networking to your desktop with new applications like MeMenu, Gwibber and Facebook chat. These are a part of canonical’s ‘Social by Default’ initiative for Lucid Lynx.

Gwibber allows you to connect to multiple social networking sites and interact with them in a single unified window. Gwibber currently supports Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, Status.net, Identi.ca, Qaiku, and FriendFeed.The MeMenu takes the experience even further, giving you an overview of all your social networks and chat accounts, even allowing you to set your status and post to your social networks very easily, right from the top panel on your desktop.

It’s been two weeks since Facebook announced support for the XMPP/Jabber protocol. Empathy IM now also supports Facebook chat. With support for Facebook chat in Empathy and Facebook updates in Gwibber, you can now keep in touch with your Facebook friends without ever visiting the site.

iPhone & iPod Touch Support

Rhythmbox now allows you to drag and drop music to and from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Now, the only time you would need iTunes is to do a firmware upgrade on your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can get Rhythmbox by : sudo apt-get install rhythmbox

Release Schedule for Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx

March 21st : Beta 1

April 1st : Beta 2

April 22nd : Release Candidate

April 29th : Final Release

Minor Changes

1) Yahoo will be the default search engine now (you can change it anytime).

2) Ubuntu has included Chromium Web browser as a package in its repositories.

3) GIMP will not be a default software in Ubuntu Lucid but can be installed separately with :

sudo apt-get install gimp

4) With Simple Scan – Scanning documents can not be easier.

Conclusion

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx will be another better Ubuntu which will look, smell and taste better from its older version. With support for iPod, iTouch and iPhone (iPad coming soon :P) will be useful for Apple users. Social networking has come to the desktop and you can now use this one for 3 years without any need to upgrade.

You can check the Development Releases on ubuntu.com

Cyber warfare is a situation when the world is at a cyber war (using computer and internet to conduct warfare) where hackers aided by the govt. will try to compromise enemy nations data sharing infrastructure (Defense systems, Power grid, Stock exchange, Water supply) which will damage the target country to the farthest extent possible. Cyber Attacks can be of any type. It can be series of DDOS attacks or data manipulation rather than theft or destruction.

Countries prepping for cyberwar

In Cyberspace battles are fought in nanoseconds, Cyber attacks can be on a large scale(ddos) or may be discrete like the enemy has entered your system and manipulated your data and may have installed a backdoor, you come to know about it later. Sometimes the enemy hits you so bad that you become defenseless and are forced to surrender so precautions are necessary. Attacks can be made on Military as well as private networks, the target could be a Defense system or Air traffic control or may be a Power grid.

Governments all over the world are training cyber warriors and preparing them for the cyber world war. We all know about the US govt hack attacks along side the ground operations during Iraq war and the Russian cyber attacks on Estonia.

President Obama issued a cyber security plan to deal with cyber threats to the nation. Many developed and developing countries have recognized the power of the internet and are now securing their systems against security threats. US, UK, Russia, France, China, North Korea, Canada, Germany are reported to have been securing their systems. Analysts and former intelligence officials, say that China and Russia top the list of countries with highly developed cyber warfare capabilities. They also named Iran and North Korea as countries with known cyber warfare aspirations.

In 2007 McAfee’s annual report stated that about 120 countries are trying to use the internet as a weapon to target their enemy nations financial markets, Govt computer systems. Countries now know that cyber warfare is warfare.

Cyber Terrorism is a rising threat now. Intelligence has reported that there is a discrete threat that terrorist groups like ‘Al-Qaeda’ may plan to launch cyber attacks but currently they don’t have the infrastructure and expertise that may do more damage than guns and bullets. Terrorists can get ‘hired guns’ with the resource’s and motives they have. Terrorist’s main aim will be to make a chaos rather than destruction like terrorist may hack a bank and manipulate some accounts data, people will think they lost all their savings which will create a lot of ruckus.

Cyber Terrorism

You must have read about the iranians hacking into the US drones with a 25.95 $ software and viewing their live feed, this can be a pretty dangerous to US security. The lame engineers who made the predator drones didnt even encrypt the data huh.. Iranian hackers recently hacked twitter by compromising with some DNS stuff and Google Morroco was also hacked by Pakbugs (Pakistani Hackers).

American Drones

This is exactly why a great number of non-partisan computer security experts are warning of the danger of Internet voting. Basically, they say that there is no way to secure Internet voting. Yet, there is a move to make that happen in the U.S. First, the overseas military, next the overseas ex-pats, and finally the rest of us. And, we never saw it coming. If and when it becomes the method we use to cast our votes, we will have given up our democracy.

Title is the first thing which introduces the articles/post to a reader and if you are bad with your titles, it ain’t good. In this tut m gonna tell you some tricks on how to be a better blogger by optimizing your titles.

Titles – Link baiting

Stop for a moment and think what you expected from this article when you first read the title. Put yourself in the minds of your readers and think what compelled them to immediately click on the article. Titles should be short and descriptive and must contain your keywords on which the article is based.

1) Emotional Reaction

Your title should spark an emotional reaction in your reader immediately. Choose your target emotion on the basis of the content your are offering.

Target Emotions could include (but its not limited to)

• Agreement
• Amazement
• Anger
• Anticipation
• Argumentativeness
• Curiosity
• Disgust
• Displeasure
• Happiness
• Humor
• Optimism
• Sadness
• Satisfaction
• Surprise
• Trust

Your content must always deliver what your title offers. If the title is about curiosity you must provide what you have offered in your title. If it is about anger or controversy, give them a way to respond.

2) The Viral Keyword List

Certain words seem to get more clicked than other and following is a list of words which may help you achieve your goal.

Amazing / Anything with a number in it / Astonishing / Awesome / Best / Beware / Brave / Breaking / Checklist / Collection / Confession / Conspiracy / Cool / Crazy / Deception / Definitive / Easy / Effective / Efficient / Essential / Ever / Example / Explained / Explode / Exposed / Eye-popping / Fail / Favorite / Free / Guide / Hate / Hidden / How to / Interview / List / Love / Maximize / Most / Must-see / Naked / Neat / NSFW / Popular / Powerful / Released / Report / Revealed / Review / Roundup / Rules / Secret / Sex / Shocking / Simple / Steps / Study / Super / Surprising / Techniques / Tips / Top # / Tutorial / Ultimate / Unbelievable / Versus (vs.) / Viral / Warning / Ways / Why You Can/Can’t

Including above keywords in your titles will obviously increase your chances to makeyour articles go viral but keywords are not limited to this list. Have a look at the articles which go popular on the web and understand, you will learn by trial and error. Don’t be afraid to experiment a little.

• Stuff To Tweet
• PopUrls
• TweetMeme

3) Character Limit

Your Title’s need to be short but no compromise with the description what so ever. 65 is your limit not longer than that, Google display’s only the first 65 characters on the result page. So its really important to stick to the limit and adding more wont be of any use huh. Be Smart.

These days with so many bloggers on the internet, blogging has become a hardcore profession with a lot of competition. New bloggers look at the reputed blogs and want to copy them so as to become millionaires. People see blogging as a over night way to $$$ but end up as losers. They try to exploit their visitors with scam ads and fake reviews and try to earn a few bucks huh well – who cares.

Anyways i will tell you a few tricks to get a genuine reputation for yourself.

1. Don’t be Money Oriented :You should not talk about money with your readers unless you are teaching them how they can earn for themselves. People whose only concern is earning $$ tend to put off people and its sick. Don’t put any annoying ads on your site as well because with more ads people think your are here only because of money. Be dedicated towards your profession.

2. Always Be Honest : Always be honest with your readers. I know when your feedburner subcriber count is very less it is tempting to copy some one else’s images :P, you proudly say that your 10,000 $ a month to impress them. There are so many things you can do to make your blog look popular but its wrong. There are many tools which can be used to tell the true worth of your blog and when people know you are fake they dont trust you anymore.

3. Never Loose your dignity : Never loose your dignity in front of your readers like asking for petty donations with poor excuses like the famous “its the server billing time”- make you look bad. What is the worth of a guy who cant even spare 10 bucks for his hosting. Most people tend to respect successful bloggers a lot more than beginners who struggle to make a cent out of their online business. Sad, I know, but this is how the world works.

4. Win there Trust : You know how much fraud scams are there on the internet. The readers want someone real and honest who will show them the real truth about some product or network and wont try to promote it just to get some commission. You should always promote the products who provide what they promised in the begining. If your reader trusts you and uses the product but does not get satisfied he/she wont ever trust you again on anything. Basically, advise your readers what you have already used yourself successfully and you felt like sharing it. If you need to make money with the sponsored review, accept only relevant offers and make it clear to the reader that the review was sponsored. US law, for instance, demands disclosure of sponsored posts.

5. Talk to your Readers : When writing a post always keep in mind that you aint writing an essay that need to pass a exam rather you want to convey something usefull and interesting in the end. Make your writing interactive like you are talking to the user. Compare Online life to simple daily life things, cover topics that every one is talking about these days and give your genuine opinion towards it. Have a sense of humour and be cheering, make the readers feel that your not a mere source of information – you are a human who has thoughts, feelings and ideas. Fascinating personalities attract others, and each one of us is unique in there own way, never be afraid to show that and that should definately win your users and admirers.

These are the 5 fundas you can follow to be a better blogger. People will trust you and come back to read more and share your blog to others. Enjoy your blog, enjoy writing for them, they will enjoy reading and money will also come soon.

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