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And you thought you were afraid of the full body scanners at the Airport Security, wait till you see the iPhone NudeIt App which can undress a dressed person in no time!. iPhone App developers are getting more creative everyday and now there is an App for iPhone which can turn anyone who is fully dressed into semi dressed or completely undressed! That's right, you heard right, the folks at Preslite.com have come up with an unbelievable technology, which can take a picture or video of a person fully dressed and through its augmented reality algorithm turn the person without clothes. The photo and video effects are completely realistic and in real time

The reason behind the large scale outage suffered by BlackBerry usage is being blamed on two new versions of BlackBerry Messengers. According to Bloomberg anyone who had downloaded the upgraded BlackBerry Messenger since Dec 14th would have suffered the outage yesterday. The outage was large scale effecting customers all over North and South America. Blackberry is the largest selling Smart Phone and is manufactured by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM). Any such service disruption comes as a major setback in a tightly competed smart phone market with big players such as Apple's iPhone and Google's Android

Top computer hackers from around the world, gathered in a competition called NetWars to show their skills in penetrating computer systems and defending them. The competition is hosted by the SANS institute. SANS is one of the largest institutes for information security training in the World and is also famous for maintaining the Internets "early warning system" called the "Internet Storm Center". NetWars is a key competition in the United States Cyber Challenge. It is based on the principle of Cyber Security Talent search, the equivalent of American Idol, just in the computer security field. Hosted in a form of a game, hackers can legally compete online from anywhere on the internet, they can be penetrating computer system security or defending them or a combination of the two.

Google has just launched its free DNS called Google Public DNS, which is a faster way to resolve DNS queries using its DNS servers . It uses the DNS cache on Google's DNS servers to resolve queies faster and in turn, takes you faster to the web page you requested.  DNS stands for Domain Name System and basically translates numeric IP addresses of servers that host web content into words. In addition to the fact that it can resolve DNS queries faster, Google's DNS also has security safeguards built in that prevent spoofing attacks. Spoofing attaks are when you think a website belongs to let's say a Bank but it does not really, the web page shown looks like exactly of that your Banks website but it is another website altogether, put in place for malicious purposes. In this article we will show you, in easy steps as how you can configure your Windows computer to use Google's DNS instead of the one provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Google has finally changed its home page design today. When you go to google.com or google.ca , you do not get to see all the links that Google use to offer on its home page. As part of a better web page design, the Google search home page does not show all the links until you move your mouse. When you move your mouse, the links appear on top of the search box.