Facebook Messenger for Windows - A little Facebook browser!

Facebook has made connecting with the friends and family easy. By making the app available to all kind of mobile devices, Facebook made it easier to stay connected on the go. Now it is time to turn back to your PC again, because Messenger for Windows is on the way!

Messenger for Windows is a new, official, trial app for your windows PC by Facebook that lets you use Facebook without being on www.facebook.com. That means using this light weight and easy to use app, you can use most of the Facebook service without logging in through your web browser.

This app lets you


~ Chat and message with your Facebook friends.


~ See the latest updates from your friends in ticker.


~ Get quick notifications about what's going on.


One-time setup is all you need to use this app. It automatically install updates, so you don't need to worry about updating it every time a new release arrives. Messenger for Windows hasn't been made public yet as this is the first and trial version. As you might know, problems are inevitable at this stage. But expect it to work better as they release new updates.



 Messenger for Windows is just like a little Facebook outside the web browser. It is working fine on my computer for the past few days, and hope it continues to work fine. If you want to try this app and also want to be the first among your friends to use, download Messenger for Windows here. Already using Messenger for Windows ? Your feedback is very much important and helps Facebook team to improve the app much faster. You can provide feedback on your experience here.

Still, what are you waiting for ? ;)

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Nokia Asha 200 - Classy phone in the Class!

It is again testing time for Nokia in the Indian Mobile Phone Market. Nokia has sold 19.4 million smart phones all over the world in last three months, outgrowing the expectations of Analysts. But Nokia suffered more than a billion dollar loss during that period. Though high end market is going fine for Nokia, low end is not. Especially a lucrative market like India is going out of Nokia's hand. To gain momentum, Nokia has launched a new feature-rich phone, named Asha 200.

Nokia Asha 200 is a dual SIM phone with compact QWERTY Keypad.  Asha, which means hope in Indian languages, has been designed with middle class people in mind. Change SIM without turning the phone off, just like you hot swap the memory card. Asha 200 is a colorful and stylish phone which also features a 2 mega pixel rare camera, 64 MB in built storage which is expandable up to 32 GB, and a well built web browser. Web browser supports HTML, XHTML, CSS, and Javascript. A proxy browser with compression technology helps faster data transmission and also reduces data usage.

Battery can stand up to 7 hours of 2G talk time and 30 days in standby mode. Nokia Asha 200 supports high speed USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR for local connectivity. Email, chatting, IM are made easy with Asha. FM recording user interface has been built into Radio Player, easing the recording process. Plenty of audio formats like wav,  wma, aac, amr, and video formats like wmv, mp4, 3gpp are supported.


This colorful phone is available in five colors, namely, Aqua, Green, Graphite, Light Pink, and White. Nokia Asha 200 is environmental friendly, made of 100% recycled materials, phone is is recyclable up to 47%. It costs around $90 or Rs.4300.   With all these great features built into one phone, Nokia Asha 200 is one of the best phone in its class, making it a perfect choice for your next buy. But one thing it seriously lacks is touchscreen. In this 'Touch' generation, what level would this phone succeed to? Only time can answer.

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Avast Free Mobile Security for Android - Not just an Antivirus!

Is your Android phone still unsecured ? or are you still paying for antivirus on your Android phone ? If your answer is yes for any one of these questions, you need to change something to something better, or even best !

Avast has come up with a full featured antivirus and anti-theft security for your Android phone, available for free. Yes, you really don't need to pay anything! If you are using Avast Free Antivirus on your PC, you will be aware of mighty power of it. Now this impressive security solution has been extended to your Android phone as well.

Recently, Avast purchased ITAgents, maker of Theft Aware, and has combined the best anti-theft solution of Theft Aware with Avast's award winning antivirus technologies to build Avast Free Mobile Security. Avast Free Mobile Security features many amazing features, which, even paid security doesn't provide.

Some of the amazing features of this app are listed below.

~ Antivirus - Perform on demand scan of all installed apps and memory card contents. You can also schedule scans.

~ App Manager - Know which apps are running on your phone, how much memory they are consuming, and their CPU load, with options to stop or uninstall a particular app.

~ Great User Interface - Easy to use and well formatted user interface.

~ SMS/Call filtering - Filter unwanted calls and messages, based on many parmeters.

~ Web Shield - Scans each  URL that loads on your browser and warns if they are malware infected.

~ Firewall - Stop hackers from running unhealthy apps to gain access to your phone. (works only on rooted phones)

~ Stealth Mode - Makes the app invisible, creating complexities for thieves to detect and remove.

~ SIM card change notification - Get notified when new unauthorised SIM card is inserted. (you can authorize SIM cards)

~ Remote Controlling features - Control your phone through SMS commands! On theft, activate Siren, lock the phone, locate phone location through Wi-Fi, GPS or mobile network, remotely wipe all the contents of your phone including SMS/MMS. You can remotely send SMS from your phone to another phone! All the anti-theft settings can also be changed remotely.

You can find the complete set of SMS commands here. Click here to download Avast Free Mobile Security. Still, what are you waiting for ?!

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John 'Dr. Hot Licks' Taylor - The Fastest Guitarist in the World!

Ever wondered who is the fastest guitarist in the world and how fast he plays the guitar ? Answer for this question is John Taylor and the speed at which he plays the guitar is 620 beats per minute (bpm) ! John 'Dr. Hot Licks' Taylor is the fastest guitarist alive, certified by Guinness World Records offcials.

John Taylor, a 28 year old music teacher from Westminister, Colorado achieved a blazing speed of 620 bpm while playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsokov, at the Olympian City Shopping mall in Kowloon, Hong Kong, on new year's eve.

At that speed, it is impossible to verify the correctness of the music. Moreover it feels just like listening to a random videogame sound effect than music. But the slow motion video revealed that John was successful in achieving 10.2 beats per second, without a single error ! He broke his own record of playing guitar at 600 bpm. 

John Taylor had a dream of becoming the fastest guitarist in the world, shorlty after picking up the guitar at the age of 13. He used to practice 'The flight of the Bumblebee' for an hour everyday, despite of the hand cramps he had to experience. He use specially designed picks with angled tips that help smooth transitions between the strings of his guitar. Finally his years of practice has been rewarded. He is trying to go even faster and thinks that he could reach at least 800 bpm!

The Guinness officials have set 'The flight of the Bumblebee', a century old, famous and complex composition,  as a standard for fastest guitarist record to avoid record aspirants going through a single note.

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Wang Zhonghua - The man with Iron arms !

Practice makes man Perfect! There is nothing on this earth a man can't achieve with practice. When will power gets together with practice, one can make wonders! Here is a man from China who stands as a proof to above said words.

Wang Zhonghua is the Guinness World Record holder for maintaining human flag for longest duration. Wang successfully maintained his body to form a human flag for a duration of 1 min 5.71 seconds to win the title. Thousands of people witnessed this immense display of upper body strength on the set of CCTV Guinness World Records Special in Beijing, China on 15 August 2011. Watch Wang Zhonghua showcasing his iron arms in the below video.



The previous record was also in the name of Wang. He had maintained human flag for 56 seconds on the set of Zheng Da Zong Yi - Guinness World Records Special in Beijing, China on 21 December 2010. Wang improved his previous record by adding roughly 10 more seconds to the duration.

Ten seconds may look small but here it has a great weight. Wang Zhonghua is really a man with Iron arms, isn't he ?!

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Beware of New Facebook Spam, "Can happen to Anyone" !

From past few days, many of my friends were posting a link on my wall in Facebook. And the comment on the video was like "hey, hahaha can happen to anyone! Carelessness of Celebrities on TV". It looked like a link to a celebrity's 'nip slip' video. One could easily guess it is a spam. But most of the users are curious about such videos and follow the link. what happens next ? Let me explain !

When you follow the link, you will be reach the blog http://14fbvideos.blogspot.com. In fact, hackers are using many blogs and free blogging services to trap the users. So you may reach other blogs like http://fbhotcelebs.blogspot.com, http://celebvideos.blogspot.com etc. But what you see on those blog look exactly like a Facebook webpage !! Most of the users don't notice their address bar and think that they are still on Facebook.


Once the page loads completely, you will see something like this:





You will be asked to install an extension called 'Youtube Premium'. If you install that extension (on Google Chrome) or Addon (on Mozilla Firefox), you are inviting serious problems ! After installing, you are asked to refresh the page. This extension is suspected to collect your Facebook account username and password. Once they get access to your account, first thing they do is to send similar link to all your Friends !!


What else could be a tragedy than this ? IYour friends start to think in a different way about you and more than that, you are indirectly helping hackers to hack your friend's account too !! So, please stay away with such links and always check your address bar before entering your credentials. If you have got any such links from your friends, most likely their account is compromised. Tell them to remove that extension, in case they have installed, and change password. Share this post with your friends so that they too stay safe.


Be Cautious, be safe, 'cause this "Can happen to Anyone" !

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Sultan Kosen - The Tallest man in the World [Living] !

Everything is giant to talk about Sultan Kosen. From his Suit to Shoes, everything stand apart from 'normal'. This is all because of his height ! Yes, this young man from Turkey is the tallest man living on earth, measured 251 cm (8 ft 3 in) on February 8, 2011, and still growing !

Born on December 10, 1982, Sultan Kosen has three Guinness World Records in his name ! Apart from being tallest man in the World, he also holds the record for widest hand span and largest feet on a living person. He is also the one among only few people [10 people according to GWR] to reach the height of 8 ft or more !

Sultan is one of five siblings, with three brothers and one sister. Except him, all the other family members are of normal height. He was unable to complete his schooling, just because of his height ! He was normal till the age of 10, but because of a tumour which caused the release of too much growth harmone from his pitutary glands, he started to grow abnormally.

He works as a part time farmer to support his family. He uses walking sticks and can't stand for a long time. He feels happy about his height, as he could help his mom with household stuff, like changing a broken light bulb and hanging curtains. But it is hard for him to find clothes and shoes that fit him well. He also finds it extremely hard to fit into a normal sized car !

The tallest human being in recorded history is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who lived during 1920s in Alton, Illinois, USA and measured 8 ft 11.1 in, 18 days before his death !! His shoe size was 37AA or 18.5 in and can still be found in Alton Museum of History and Art !

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