Virus, Trojans, those autorun.inf files which always get copied in your pen drive as soon as you plug them in an infected system are a big headache. And when you return home and plug this pen drive in your system, it gets infected too. If you have good antivirus software then you can be safe but not always. Prevention is better than cure so why not prevent your system from facing these pen drive related virus problem. Here I give you a good solution which will in some cases help you saving your system from getting infected and also stop spreading for virus from one system to another.

Suppose I have to carry some files which I have in my PC so I just copy them in my pen drive, this is most people do. Now I suggest leaving your pen drive and using memory card instead. Grab your digital camera and take out its memory card. Buy a memory card reader if you don’t have one (which comes very cheap). Get a portable card reader for convenience of carrying which don’t need USB cable. Now carry your digital files in memory card and without worrying plug it in any computer with any amount of virus infection! Enjoy the freedom from the worry of virus.

When you reach home, you know your memory card has lots of virus in it and you will not like it plugging in your PC. Plug it in your digital camera instead and switch on your camera. Go to the setup and you should find format option, select it and format your memory card! Boom boom.. all viruses gone! Since those viruses were made for Windows operating system so it will not affect your digital camera in any way. Now you can safely plug this memory card again in your computer for carrying more digital files to your workplace.

You cannot use this trick if you have to take some digital files back to home because formatting will wipe all the data on card.

Hackers are smart but sometimes they are really funny. Websites face many hackers attack in their lifetime and our site too faced many in past. This time one hacker acted so dumb that I feel sorry for him. First of all he is a script kiddie who used some script to steal WordPress admin login and change it then used the new login to put some links in header file. Obviously these links appeared on the top of our blog and some other blogs which he hacked into. Next thing this hacker did was posting these blog links on traidnt.net forum telling people that he has arranged for text link ads on these blogs and will sell links on all the blogs for 300 riyal (about 80 USD). He also posted Google Page Ranks of all the blogs tempting many users and he gets lots of words of appreciation from forum members. As things were suppose to happen, almost every blog owners came to know about it and removed the links from header. He also placed a Trojan in 404 file which helped him regain admin password in case it was changed by admin again. Hope everyone removed that too.

Here things went bad for this hacker, the buyers of links started complaining of links going offline to which hackers excuse was that he is having some little disagreement between him and the company and he will compensate for the time the links are offline. Since the forum is in Arabic and Google translation is very bad, I cannot understand the conversation going on there but one thing is clear that people there on the forum are complaining and hacker is making tons of excuses. You can check out this poor hacker thread at traidnt.net here (translated page). Enjoy!

Taking precautions and doing steps told in part one, Vitiligo can be controlled to much extent. However it’s still not enough to completely get rid of white spots. Further treatment requires application of tropical corticosteroid and Tacrolimus ointment on white spots. Now these are some medicines which you should not get over the counter and start using without a dermatologist prescription. We strongly suggest taking advice of your doctor before using medicines described in this article.

Based on the fact that our own immune system is responsible for destruction of melanin cells and hence causing white spots, treatment can be done by impairing immune system near the skin of white spots. Tacrolimus is known to do this effectively and safely. Only side effect seen on patients using tacrolimus for long period (3 months and more) was thinning of skin and slight discolorations. However these get resolved themselves without any need of further medication ones and white spots are gone and patient stops using tacrolimus.

Effective method for treatment using these ointments is to use tacrolimus 0.1% ointment applied on the white spots by rubbing it gently until it gets absorbed in skin in morning, preferably after shower. At night use of tropical corticosteroid like Mometasone Furoate cream is advised to speed up the healing process. If the patient has darker skin then spots are very prominent and need additional medication to bring melanin back. Repigmin tablets taken orally 45 minutes before sun exposure speeds up the production of melanin in skin and helps in reducing white spots. Ask your dermatologist for correct dose. Within 2 months of treatment noticeable reduction in size of white spots is seen. If all steps are followed strictly and patient does not get any kind of stress during this time, healing of white spots completely is possible within a year but still depending on the size of spots it can take some time. Let us know your thoughts and any medication if you know which has been found effective in Vitiligo treatment of just anything you would like to tell us.

Since the advent of 3G, we have seen lots of 3G phones in market each claiming to give you multimedia rich experience. However if you are looking for best then Blackberry is one name that you can’t go wrong with. Blackberry Pearl is a new phone in 3G segment from Blackberry and it’s a feature packed phone in small form factor. It has everything a Blackberry is popular for except for QWERTY keyboard. If you are good with texting message using normal phone keyboard then there is no problem as Perl has a nice keypad which allows easy typing without straining your thumb. Phone uses T9 predictive text. Screen is also smaller which can be a little problem for viewing websites but for most of the work it’s more than enough, after all it’s a phone and you cannot expect it to have a mammoth screen. Its 2.24-inch screen is good enough considering it’s a candy bar shape phone.

Blackberry Perk has a nice 3.2-megapixel camera with LED flashlight allowing you to take pretty good pictures even in dark. With 256mb inbuilt storage you can store quite a few images and using a larger size memory card is always suggested. This phone supports microSD card which are pretty cheap now. Music lovers will appreciate the 3.5mm headphone jack which allows them to use their own professional quality headphones which are always better than earphones provided by phone companies. Using this jack you can also easily hook this phone to your music system, amplified speakers, home theatres or even your car music system allowing you to play music louder. And not to forget since it’s a Blackberry, you always get the best mobile emailing experience and this phone even pull your facebook and twitter account updates. There are some exciting offers and other stuff related to Blackberry Pearl at P4U website so do check it out.

From school going children to senior citizens, everyone use mobiles and everyone has different amount of mobile usage. Some people are glued to their phone and much of their time spends talking on phone or sending messages. While I have seen some people who hardly use their phone. Due to such variety in usage, telecom operators have different tariff plans to cater everyone’s need at lowest possible cost. Price war is always there between different operators which mean better plans for customers at even lower cost. Most people start with pre-paid plans which are like pay as you go and it gives a surety about how much one wants to spend on talking. If you find yourself spending a lot on pre-paid recharges then I strongly suggest to look at post paid or contract phone deals where you not only get freedom from recharging phone again and again but also get rid of worry about running out of recharge while making that important call.

Contract phone deals sometime include handsets at lower cost than market rates but as we know you get nothing for free and operators usually include some misc. amount in bills or have higher call rates to cover up the cost of set. So when you go for such offer, check out where the tariff plans carefully and read the terms or services line by line. Websites like Dial a phone.co.uk makes our work easier by giving all the information in much clear way rather than hiding them in asterisks and smaller fonts like operators do. So do check out this site.

The cause

Vitiligo is one of those skin problems whose cure is not found yet, research’s are done but still scientist are not able to find why skin start losing pigment a some places. Generally in irregular shape, skin starts losing melanin which gives color to skin and a white skin patch is seen. Such white spots when appear on visible part of body like face, hand, neck etc becomes a problem. There are certain triggers which can induce this skin condition in certain people while others no matter how much exposed to such triggers will not get Vitiligo, something to do with genes. If you have Vitiligo and before you start cursing your genes, there are certain medicines which fool our system to remove the symptoms of Vitiligo.
Before we talk about medicines, let’s see what those triggers are. One of the strongest trigger is emotional stress. A person exposed to continuous emotional stress can develop Vitiligo. Another trigger is over long sun exposure. Besides these external factors, there are some internal triggers which are caused by increase in amount of toxins in body.

The treatment

First of all the person with Vitiligo condition should change his/her lifestyle. Sleep on time, go to bed as soon as you start feeling sleepy and sleep for at least 7 – 8 hours. Remove all kind of stress as far as possible and live a happy life. This is very important for treatment of Vitiligo.

Secondly the person should start taking healthy diet which does not mean compromising on taste, remember that person has to life stress free and without any kind of sad feelings in life. If the patient is given bad tasting but healthy food, it may not do much good. So the thing is person would be allowed to eat what he likes but not eat those which will increase toxins. Food items that should be avoided are alcoholic beverages, unhygienic food etc. Unnecessary medicines should also be avoided like painkillers etc.

Develop and internal feeling that you can fight with this skin problem and you will become normal soon. This is again very important.
Keep fast for at least once in a week, this helps removing toxins in your body.

Avoid prolong sun exposure. Wear cap, full sleeves shirt to save your skin for sunlight if you can’t avoid the sunlight. However certain amount of sun exposure is good. Early morning and evening sun exposure for 10 minutes is very effective for regeneration of melanin and healing white spots of skin.

More information on this topic in part 2