FaceBook Scam Threatens All...

There's new phishing scam targeting Facebook users. According to security firm Sophos' Nake Security blog, "Facebook phishing emails are threatening to delete users' Facebook accounts unless the victims pass along their account details within 24 hours."

The phishing messages are reportedly charging Facebook users with violating policy regulations by annoying or insulting other Facebook users. The messages are then said to ask for personal and financial information including Facebook login details and part of recipients' credit card numbers.

However, these emails are entirely bogus, warns the blog. They are not coming from Facebook. "Social media venues would not request financial information, nor would they request login details."

A typical phishing scam reads like this, according to the blog:

LAST WARNING : Your account is reported to have violated the policies that are considered annoying or insulting Facebook users. Until we system will disable your account within 24 hours if you do not do the reconfirmation.
Please confirm your account below:
[Link Removed]
Thanks.
The Facebook Team
Copyright facebook © 2011 Inc. All rights reserved.

According to the blog, recipients who click the link are shown a fake Facebook "Account Disabled" Web form. The form asks for Facebook login details including email, password, Facebook security question, Facebook security answer, the first six digits on the user's credit card number, and their country of residence.

Once the form is complete, the victims are taken to a second form labelled "Confirm to your webmail" that requests webmail programme and password. After this, the victims are take to a third bogus form, labeled "Terms of Service." This form again asks for user name and the first six digits of the user's credit card and warns victims that their accounts more or less will be lined up in front of a firing squad and shot at dawn unless they comply.

Another similar Facebook scam purporting to be from Facebook Security claimed to be watching out for users' accounts being accessed by unauthorized parties. Here's the text as per the blog:

Subject: Did you log into Facebook from somewhere new?
  Dear [Username removed]
Your Facebook account was recently logged into from a computer, mobile device or other location you've never used before. We have reviewed your account activity, and we get information about possible unauthorized access to your Facebook. We have provided a warning to you via email, but you do not respond to our notification.
"Your account was accessed from a new location : Anonymous Proxy."
If you are not signing into your Facebook account from "Anonymous Proxy", your Facebook account may have been compromised. We recommend immediately verify your account by carefully on the link below to protect your Facebook account. It may take a few minutes of your time to complete your data.
Please be sure to visit the Facebook Service Account for further information regarding these security issues.
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[link to scam page removed]
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Note : If within 12 hours, you have not verified your account, then you have ignored our notifications. Therefore, your account is permanently suspended, and will not be reactivated for any reason.
Thanks,
Facebook Security Team

Yes, so please be careful of these scams…. Have any other information about this, share here in comments.

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Apple Top On The List For Customer Loyalty

Yes, Apple being beaten by Android in app. users, got a chance to come back with Customer Loyalty…

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is well ahead of rivals in building brand loyalty among its users in a mobile market where the key brands are rushing to build as large a foothold as possible, a study by research firm GfK showed.
 
Some 84 per cent of iPhone users said they would pick iPhone also when they replace their cellphone, while 60 per cent of consumers who use smartphones running Google's Android said they would stick with phones using the same software.
Only 48 per cent of people using Research In Motion's cellphones said they would stay loyal to their Blackberrys, the study showed.
 
Smartphone sales have been surging since Apple introduced its first iPhone in 2007 and even though the growth has slowed the sales still rose 49 per cent last quarter from a year ago, according to research firm IDC.
Ryan Garner, analyst at GfK, said the ongoing rush to build market position was crucial for the future success of the brands as on average 63 per cent of consumers are sticking to the type of phone they have -- lowering the chance for fast changes in the market place.
Garner said fast growth of Android and launch of new Microsoft Windows, which will be similar for PCs, tablets and smartphones, mean there are still opportunities for others.
 
"Apple is clearly ahead of the game, but developments next year will challenge that," Garner said.
 
More than 70 per cent of consumers said they would stick with their phones due to their seamless integration of features and access to content.
"The scope for brands to lure customers from rivals has diminished and the richest rewards will go to those providers that can create the most harmonious user experience and develop this brand loyalty," GfK said.
 
The research firm interviewed around 4,500 people in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, China, the United States and Japan.

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Arrange Your Desktop Icons, A New Way With Desktop Icon Toy

Are you tired of a boring desktop? Would you like to give it more pizazz, and brighten you day?

Desktop Icon Toy is an easy to use desktop icon enhancement tool, which allows you to make many funny but useful patterns out of your windows desktop icons. You can change and restore their layout with just a simple Mouse Gesture.

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What cool things could you do with Desktop Icon Toy?

Arrange Desktop Icons Do you want to dazzle your co-workers with flying icons that magically fly into amazing formations like polygons and hearts? How about an amusing way to remind your family of the time with an amazing figure of a fully functional analog clock? With this cool simple tool you can even organize and arrange all your desktop icons into simple rows to the right, along the top or place them anywhere your mind chooses? All these things could be easily done with Desktop Icon Toy. You can arrange your desktop icons into many complex figures and shapes, like a: ·        Clock (all the icons will be aligned as a analog clock, showing the exact time). ·        4-pointed, 5-pointed, or 6-pointed Stars, a Cross, and all kinds of Hearts. ·        Horizontal or Vertical Ellipse, Spiral, and Circle. ·        Triangle, Rhombus, Pentagon, Hexagon, and many many Shapes. ·        Align desktop icons to the left, right, top or bottom. ·        Neaty Around all the Edges.

Steps to download & register--::--

1. Firstly Download Desktop Icon Toy (32-bit)

OR

Download Desktop Icon Toy (64-bit)


2. Download Keygen [| MediaFire | SkyDrive |]
3. Now, install Desktop Icon Toy & open Keygen.exe from the file.

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4. Enter any name in the field (I have written "nikssir.blogspot.com") & click Generate.
5. Copy the code & Paste in registration window in the software...


Enjoy...

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How Facebook Tracks You?--Secret Revealed

Facebook has itself revealed its secret of tracking people...

According to USA Today, the complete picture how the social network keeps tabs on its 800 million users was revealed through series of interviews with the social networking site's engineering director, spokesman, corporate spokesman and engineering manager.

Facebook does not track everybody the same way, as it uses different methods for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, members who are logged-off and non-members.

The first time you arrive at any Facebook page, the company inserts cookies in your browser.

If you sign up for an account, it inserts two types of cookies and if you don't set up an account, it inserts only one of the two types.

These cookies record every time you visit another website that uses a Facebook "Like button" or other Facebook plugin, which work together with the cookies to note the time, date and website being visited.

Unique characteristics that identify your computer are also recorded.

Facebook keeps logs that records your past 90 days of activity and deletes entries older than 90 days, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

If you are logged into a Facebook account, your name, email address, friends and all of the other data in your Facebook profile are also being recorded.

Data about web searches and browsing habits could be used to figure out political affiliations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations or health issues about consumers...

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Remove Stamps, Watermarks From Photos Using Photo Stamp Remover

Hey, usually we come across, when there are many marks on Photos like Watermark, unsable objects etc.... LIke this:::

Photo Stamp Remover is a photo correction utility that can remove watermarks, date stamps and other unwanted objects that appear on photographs. Offering a fully automatic process, the program uses an intelligent restoration technology to fill the selected area with the texture generated from the pixels around the selection, so that the defect blends into the rest of the image naturally. What takes hours to correct using the clone tool, can be accomplished in a minute using Photo Stamp Remover.

Features:-:

1. Remove unwanted artifacts from new photos- Using Photo Stamp Remover, you can erase cleanly unwanted artifacts like date stamps, watermarks, logos and undesirable objects. Face and skin imperfections, such as wrinkles, acne, and tattoos can be cleaned up too. The area with the removed artifact is filled with automatically generated texture.

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2. Rejuvenate old photos- Most families have hundreds of photos that they would like to preserve for a lifetime of enjoyment. Unfortunately, many of them sit in albums, books, or lay loose in boxes, getting scratches and accumulating dirt. Fortunately, there's Photo Stamp Remover. Just scan photos into the computer and use the watermark remover to clean up scratches, cracks, and dust spots.

3. Remove defects with a mouse click- With Photo Stamp Remover, you can restore photos with the minimum of fuss. Just open a photo in the program, select the area that needs to be restored and click Preview. If you like what you see, click Start. That's basically all you need to do. Using its advanced restoration algorithm, the program removes the imperfection automatically. Defects blend into the background cleanly.

4. Remove artifacts by color- You can select the unwanted artifact manually or select the color and watermark remover will remove the artifact that has the same color. For example, it can help you to remove from a photograph text and date stamps that have the same, solid black color.

5. Retouch more than one photo- With its batch mode support, watermark remover enables you to process more than one photo at a time. For example, you can remove a date stamp, which your camera left on several photos. Simply define the area where the stamp is located and begin the healing process. Photo Stamp Remover will remove the date stamp on all photos automatically while you're sipping your coffee.

How To Install, Register & Use:

1. Firstly, Download It here (or at the end of post)..

2. Install and then open Readme file & copy the serial. Now goto Help>Register and paste the serial..

3. Now open any image & select the watermarks.

4. Click "Remove". Done!!...

--Download Photo Stamp Remover Here--
Any queries, mention in comeents below.....

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Apple Lost Unreleased iPhone Once More

In a bizarre repeat of a high-profile incident last year, an Apple employee once again appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar.

The errant iPhone, which went missing in San Francisco's Mission district in late July, sparked a scramble by Apple security to recover the device over the next few days, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

Last year, an iPhone 4 prototype was bought by a gadget blog that paid $5,000 in cash. This year's lost phone seems to have taken a more mundane path: it was taken from a Mexican restaurant and bar and may have been sold on Craigslist for $200. Still unclear are details about the device, what version of the iOS operating system it was running, and what it looks like.

While Apple has not publicly announced any plans for future phones, unconfirmed reports in the last few weeks suggest the launch date for the iPhone 5 is likely to be in early October. Other reports from Taiwan have set the date at September or October.

A day or two after the phone was lost at San Francisco's Cava 22, which describes itself as a "tequila lounge" that also serves lime-marinated shrimp ceviche, Apple representatives contacted San Francisco police, saying the device was priceless and the company was desperate to secure its safe return, the source said.

Apple electronically traced the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, according to the source.

When San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his twenties who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing. But he denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave police permission to search the house, and they found nothing, the source said. Before leaving the house, the Apple employees offered the man money for the phone no questions asked, the source said, adding that the man continued to deny he had knowledge of the phone.

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Google Swiffy Converts Flash Content to HTML5

Google has launched a new thing, Swiffy..

With Swiffy, you can upload a SWF file, and Swiffy will produce an HTML5 version which will run in modern browsers with a high level of SVG support such as Chrome and Safari. It’s still an early version, so it won’t convert all Flash content, but it already works well on ads and animations. We have some examples of converted SWF files if you want to see it in action.

Swiffy uses a compact JSON representation of the animation, which is rendered using SVG and a bit of HTML5 and CSS3. ActionScript 2.0 is also present in the JSON object, and is interpreted in JavaScript in the browser. This representation makes the Swiffy animations almost as compact as the original SWF files.

Swiffy is a great example of how far the web platform has come. Swiffy animations benefit from the recent advancements in JavaScript execution speed and hardware accelerated 2D graphics in the browser. 

Viva la Web!.!

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Play Music Seamlessly With Winamp For Mac

Its a interesting thing that Winamp has launched its first beta Music player for Mac...

Features

• One-click music and playlist import from iTunes and Mac desktop
• Keep Winamp updated automatically with Watch Folders and iTunes library sync
• Wireless and wired sync with an Android phone, requires Winamp for Android
• Play local files and playlists
• Supports Mac OS X 10.6 and above...

This Is Winamp Sync With Android

So, If you are a mac user as well as a Music Lover, then go ahead & download it...

--DOWNLOAD WINAMP FOR MAC HERE--

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