Archive for September, 2009

  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/3966544406_87aab3575c_o.jpg"/>Released in June 2009 to a group of beta users, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials" target="_blank">Microsoft Security Essentials</a> is now available for download. The free anti-virus software from the Redmond-based tech giant offers real-time protection for home PCs and helps users to protect their computers from viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. I've tried out the free anti-virus app and I must say that I'm pretty impressed with Security Essentials. It's able to tell me whether my computer is safe from any potential threats that might affect the system in just a few clicks. Besides that, it offers a comprehensive malware protection to guard against dangerous malware. Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that users are free to use their Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

    Microsoft Security Essentials – Free Anti-Virus Software is Now Available for Download

    Posted on September 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Released in June 2009 to a group of beta users, Microsoft Security Essentials is now available for download. The free anti-virus software from the Redmond-based tech giant offers real-time protection for home PCs and helps users to protect their computers from viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. I've tried out the free anti-virus app and I must say that I'm pretty impressed with Security Essentials. It's able to tell me whether my computer is safe from any potential threats that might affect the system in just a few clicks. Besides that, it offers a comprehensive malware protection to guard against dangerous malware. Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that users are free to use their Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

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  • <img style="float:right;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3624/3645834891_86c8b0a2f3_o.png" alt="" />It has been 9 years since Google entered China Market officially, and 5 years since Google established Google China. Despite having a brand value of an amazing <a href="http://techxav.com/2009/09/18/despite-recession-googles-brand-value-rose-25/" target="_blank">$66.4 billion</a>, Google.cn still fails to dominate the search engine market in mainland China and faces stiff competition from bitter rival Baidu. According to statistics from comScore in early July, Baidu had become the second largest global search engine, with more than 8 billion searches and 145 million unique visitors in June. In other words, Baidu’s market share in China is nearly 76% to Google China’s 19.8 percent. So what makes Google lose out in the developing country? Here are the 4 reasons why...

    4 Reasons Why Google has FAILED to Dominate the Chinese Search Market

    Posted on September 29, 2009 | No Comments
    It has been 9 years since Google entered China Market officially, and 5 years since Google established Google China. Despite having a brand value of an amazing $66.4 billion, Google.cn still fails to dominate the search engine market in mainland China and faces stiff competition from bitter rival Baidu. According to statistics from comScore in early July, Baidu had become the second largest global search engine, with more than 8 billion searches and 145 million unique visitors in June. In other words, Baidu’s market share in China is nearly 76% to Google China’s 19.8 percent. So what makes Google lose out in the developing country? Here are the 4 reasons why...

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  • The folks at Twitter has just added a small but impressive feature into its real-time search system. When users click on a particular trending topic listed on the sidebar of the page, a short description related to the event or product will be displayed. For example, as I clicked on 'Typhoon Ondoy', Twitter will show a paragraph of text, telling me what 'Typhoon Ondoy' is all about and why is it trending. This is particularly useful as it enables me to find out more about the natural catastrophe in the Philippines, without reading multiple updates posted by users to get an insight of what's happening. <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3424/3961389053_9e17242da1_o.png" />

    Twitter Search Gets Smarter – Tells You Why A Trending Topic Is Trending

    Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
    The folks at Twitter has just added a small but impressive feature into its real-time search system. When users click on a particular trending topic listed on the sidebar of the page, a short description related to the event or product will be displayed. For example, as I clicked on 'Typhoon Ondoy', Twitter will show a paragraph of text, telling me what 'Typhoon Ondoy' is all about and why is it trending. This is particularly useful as it enables me to find out more about the natural catastrophe in the Philippines, without reading multiple updates posted by users to get an insight of what's happening.

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  • <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5316" title="8-console-r2" src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/8-console-r2.jpg" alt="8-console-r2" width="315" height="326" /> Are you a nerd? You ain't a real nerd unless you built this. Apparently, Brian De Vitis, a P<em>opular Science</em> reader, bought a R2D2 cooler and rigged 8 retro game consoles into it. Now, you can have a robot which you can play nearly every game of yesteryear. What about the monitor?

    R2D2 packs 8 game consoles

    Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
    8-console-r2 Are you a nerd? You ain't a real nerd unless you built this. Apparently, Brian De Vitis, a Popular Science reader, bought a R2D2 cooler and rigged 8 retro game consoles into it. Now, you can have a robot which you can play nearly every game of yesteryear. What about the monitor?

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bored-of-revising-297x300.jpg"/>First of all I'd like to apologise to both the readers of TechXav and my fellow writers for my distinct lack of posts recently ( I haven't been posting anything for around a month or so). I have been fully absorbed in Exams recently (I have my first in two days time) and boy, I do HATE exams. My Social Networking life almost disappeared. ALMOST disappeared. No, not completely. <a title="OrSiSO" href="http://www.orsiso.com" target="_blank">OrSiSo</a> saved my life. OrSiSo stands for Organize, Simplify, Socialise. And I completely agree. I blogged about OrSiSo from a reviewer point of view about two months ago. Now, you get to hear my personal testimonial. Picture this: I'm sitting at my desk, with the computer to my right. Music is playing in the background (I use Real Player). There is a science (Maths, English e.t.c) textbook staring me in the face and I'm bored to tears. Almost literally bored to tears. ALMOST. If an OrSiSo pop-up didn't appear in the next minute.

    This App is my LIFE SAVER during Revision for School Exams

    Posted on September 27, 2009 | No Comments
    First of all I'd like to apologise to both the readers of TechXav and my fellow writers for my distinct lack of posts recently ( I haven't been posting anything for around a month or so). I have been fully absorbed in Exams recently (I have my first in two days time) and boy, I do HATE exams. My Social Networking life almost disappeared. ALMOST disappeared. No, not completely. OrSiSo saved my life. OrSiSo stands for Organize, Simplify, Socialise. And I completely agree. I blogged about OrSiSo from a reviewer point of view about two months ago. Now, you get to hear my personal testimonial. Picture this: I'm sitting at my desk, with the computer to my right. Music is playing in the background (I use Real Player). There is a science (Maths, English e.t.c) textbook staring me in the face and I'm bored to tears. Almost literally bored to tears. ALMOST. If an OrSiSo pop-up didn't appear in the next minute.

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/3957072045_b904a2d27f_o.png" width="204" height="125" alt="readtwit2" /> I'm utterly impressed by this newly-launched application called <a href="http://readtwit.com" target="_blank"><strong>Readtwit</strong></a>. It's particularly useful for those who use the micro-blogging platform as a source of interesting content in addition to social conversations like sharing your daily lives, rants or ramblings with your friends. Instead of reading your "messy" Twitter timeline filled with links, spam and personal tweets, Readtwit filters your Twitter stream to links only to, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. As such, you're able to view the full articles on your preferred feed readers such as Google Reader or Bloglines in a clean RSS format, without any URL shorteners or duplicates.

    Readtwit: All your Twitter Links in a Clean RSS Format

    Posted on September 26, 2009 | No Comments
    readtwit2 I'm utterly impressed by this newly-launched application called Readtwit. It's particularly useful for those who use the micro-blogging platform as a source of interesting content in addition to social conversations like sharing your daily lives, rants or ramblings with your friends. Instead of reading your "messy" Twitter timeline filled with links, spam and personal tweets, Readtwit filters your Twitter stream to links only to, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. As such, you're able to view the full articles on your preferred feed readers such as Google Reader or Bloglines in a clean RSS format, without any URL shorteners or duplicates.

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  • <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/3955251413_d2e5e74d31_o.png" /> <strong><a href="http://windows4all.com/" target="_blank">Windows4all</a></strong> is one of the coolest websites I've ever seen. I'm serious. Based on Microsoft Silverlight, this site enables you to visualize an exact copy of the Windows Vista desktop environment right from your browser, without any additional installations. It comes with a similar interface as Vista like having a Windows Start Menu, TaskBar and sidebar gadgets (clock, calendar, and sticky notes). Users are able to launch some of Vista's default applications such as Internet Explorer, Media Player, Notepad and Paint by simply clicking on the icons on the desktop.

    HOW TO: Visualize the Windows OS in your Browser

    Posted on September 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Windows4all is one of the coolest websites I've ever seen. I'm serious. Based on Microsoft Silverlight, this site enables you to visualize an exact copy of the Windows Vista desktop environment right from your browser, without any additional installations. It comes with a similar interface as Vista like having a Windows Start Menu, TaskBar and sidebar gadgets (clock, calendar, and sticky notes). Users are able to launch some of Vista's default applications such as Internet Explorer, Media Player, Notepad and Paint by simply clicking on the icons on the desktop.

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  • <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3955100943_af70a788f7.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="Halo3-ODST_8-1024x576" /> Halo 3: ODST puts you into the boots of a Orbital drop shock trooper (ODST), a special forces unit which drops from orbit. For the famed creators of the franchise Bungie, this is not meant to be a full game- it was meant to be a expansion. So, does the game justifies the price, or did the Rookie just dropped in too hard? ODST's story bring you into a Covenant controlled city which you visited duting halo 2. Playing as a ODST called "rookie", you drop down from a orbiting ship only to a alien infested city, but something when horribly wrong, and your squad's drop pods get scattered all around the city. The rookie wakes up 6 hours later, and can't find his squadmates.

    Halo 3: ODST Review

    Posted on September 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Halo3-ODST_8-1024x576 Halo 3: ODST puts you into the boots of a Orbital drop shock trooper (ODST), a special forces unit which drops from orbit. For the famed creators of the franchise Bungie, this is not meant to be a full game- it was meant to be a expansion. So, does the game justifies the price, or did the Rookie just dropped in too hard? ODST's story bring you into a Covenant controlled city which you visited duting halo 2. Playing as a ODST called "rookie", you drop down from a orbiting ship only to a alien infested city, but something when horribly wrong, and your squad's drop pods get scattered all around the city. The rookie wakes up 6 hours later, and can't find his squadmates.

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