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Bangalore Barcamp 5 on 17th and 18th November 2007

After a successful Barcamp Bangalore 4 which was held in July, its time for Bangalore Barcamp 5.
Bangalore Barcamp 5 is happening on 17th and 18th November 2007.
This post is basically to make you a little familiar with the concept of Barcamps and also to give you the details with regards to Bangalore Barcamp 5.

BarCamp is [...]

Secure Gmail: Automatically Switching from HTTP to HTTPs in Gmail

Its a known fact that Gmail uses HTTPS connection only for Login. However, once the login has successfully been done, HTTP protocol is reinforced for each conversation. This means that if you are over an unsecure, unencrypted wireless          
network; your messages can easily be read by others.
In order to protect this from Happening, iMacro [...]

Tutorial:Locking Windows Folders without any Software Tool

Lazz and Marcel from Germany have dropped in a mail to Technofriends, asking for a trick/tutorial on locking any Windows folder without using a software like FolderLock.
I am putting below the entire steps to achieve this task.
In this entire tutorial post, I am assuming that the name of the folder is HideMePlease and its located [...]

Giveaway of the Day – FlashSpring Pro 2.2

Flashspring Pro 2.2 is available today on Gaotd.
FlashSpring Pro 2.2 is a new advanced version of a well-known PowerPoint to Flash converter.
It creates Flash movies from PowerPoint presentations, decreasing the size of the final file and providing the possibility to publish presentations online.
Download FlashSpring Pro 2.2 from here. As i write this blog there are [...]

How does Email Scanning Work?

Its a known fact that the emails we receive/ send are scanned before they reach us/intended recipient.
I thought of putting below a diagram describing how the entire stuff happens.

Lets first discuss how the entire flow for Virus Scanning works in case of Incoming Mails.

All the incoming mails ( infected/clean) irrespective of there status are sent [...]