The company Blue Host looks to be a professional web host. The site is very appealing which gives a feeling that Blue host is a formidable web host. The company has been providing services since 1996 to thousands of businesses. This guarantees that blue host is not a service provider that would wind up overnight.

Features:

Blue Host provides all the expected features of a web host that includes multiple database support, cPanel, email FTP etc. One of hosting package features 300 GB of diskspace and 3000 GB of bandwidth. Databases (Postgre and MySQL) are limited in number and email and FTP accounts (1000 and 1500). Addon domains, parked domains and sub domains are in unlimited number. Prices depend based on your sign up plan.

• 3 Months: $9.95/month + $30.00 Setup + Domain ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)
• 6 Months: $8.95/month + $30.00 Setup + Domain ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)
• 12 Months: $7.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)
• 24 Months: $6.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)

Blue Host’s $6.95 per month plan offers very good features such as 600 GB of storage, 6000 GB of Bandwidth and more. Below are some of the best features under this plan.

• 600 GB Storage Space
• 6,000 GB Bandwidth Per Month
• 2500 Email Accounts
• Free Domain For Life
• Unlimited Domains and Subdomains
• 24/7 Network Monitoring
• 24/7 Email Support
• POP3/IMAP Email Access
• MySQL, PHP, Python
• Frontpage 2000/2002/2003 Extensions
• Linux Servers Custom Cronjobs, SSH (Shell Access)
• OS Commerce Shopping Cart
• SSL Support

Blue Host terms of service is fairly simple as there is very little scope for legal jargon. It has a list of terms that customers need to adhere. One point is “All activities may be monitored, recorded, and examined by any authorized person, including law enforcement.” with “Any violation found or fraudulent activity that system personnel deem inappropriate may have your account immediately terminated without notice and any recorded evidence reported to authorized persons.” But I must say that the terms are very clear that has a 10 page agreement between the company and the customer.

Blue Host too uses a cPanel like many others do. The CPanel has proven to be a very user friendly Control Panel. It has a standard look. For a newbie it should take less time to get in touch with the interface. The features are almost same as other cPanel. There are some nice addons such as site builder, domain manager and other options to manage your account. The cPanel is fast and will do everything that is supposed to be done.

Blue host also supports addon domains. They work very well without any problems. SSH/Shell Access by default is not allowed. Speed is fine. Since cPanel includes Fantastico, installing common scripts is easy.

In the end, I do have to list out the positive and negative parts. For an individual to a medium scale business Blue Host is an excellent service provider. The company offers great service for people who have fewer budgets and look for a reliable hosting service.

Pros: cPanel with nice extras, good support, more space, bandwidth and fair prices.

Cons: 3 month minimum contract length, pricing is relatively hard to find.

Overall, Blue host is a fine hosting solution with helpful support and reasonable pay.

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MLB 2008 offers great gameplay experience. It all starts with the show mode as gamers turn their endeavor to make a line up in the leagues. They play offense as well as defense with a more vigorous goal and career advancement system that decides when a player is entitled for promotion. In MLB ’08, the custom created players look more interactive. The game graphics look more realistic. In MLB ’08, player positioning looks much better compared to prior versions. Gamers can adjust the player positioning, catchers undergo defensive situations and lot more.

MLB ’08 also comes with progressive batting features. This feature rewards the players for good performances in matches and also penalizing them for hitting slumps. Players are rewarded with bonus or punished with a decrease in contract. It all depends on the player’s performance. So keeping up to it is must. The best feature MLB ‘08 comes with is, SCOUT( Sports Connect Online User Tracking). This feature allows gamers to store the game preferences on the MLB server. It also enables the system to look for a quick match and get going.

Some of the best features include:

• A new Pitcher Analysis, both in-game and post game that offers breakdown of how a batter has performed based on LHP or RHP and result
• MLB ’08 offers opportunities to grab music stored on a PS3 system’s HDD. This can add tracks to the list of music played in the Jukebox, thereby allows fans to create their own soundtrack.
• The game comes with more than 3,000 individual player animations, including personalized stances, pitching animations, individual swings, and more.
• The game adds to the practicality by including Umpires combined with Interactive Hot and Cold Zones, Release Point Pitching combined with Adaptive Pitching Intelligence (API) and the Pitch Command System (PCS). The commentaries include the three-man booth featuring Rex Huddler, Matt Vasgerian and Dave Campbell.
• As I told you earlier, MLB ’08 has the Progressive Batting Performance feature which rewards players for good performance in matches.
• Adding to the online feature set the game introduces SCOUT (Sports Connect Online User Tracking).

Don’t miss to check the Video Review section on the sidebar for the trailer video.

Specifications:

Publisher: SCEA San Diego

ESRB Rating: Everyone

Category: Sports

Number of Players: 1-2

Release Date: 03-04-2008

Platforms: PS3, PSP

Office 2008 includes Mac versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, along with the program. Well “Home Edition” skips out the Microsoft Exchange support and also the OS X Automator actions for workflows. These options come in the standard version. There is an edition known as “Special Media Edition” which adds the Microsoft Expression Media program for graphics asset management.

The Mac’s menu bar has access to all of the traditional menus. It also provides quick access to graphics, templates and other tools. You will surely find lots of improvements in performance compared to the prior versions.

There are some drawbacks application. It saves the work by default in new file formats and features do not match the likes of Office 2007 for Windows. But overall, I would say, definitely an application that is not to be missed.

The application will be hitting the software market on January 15, 2008. If you are looking to buy the application online, click here to order.

In the coming posts we will explore the latest products that hit the software market in 2008. Anyways, I leave you with this video below on the latest Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. Enjoy!

There are different types of hacking. The common type among them is the cross site scripting. This type of hacking can be done in many ways. Stored, reflected or DOM based. Well, I think its better we deal on how to protect against this type of hack than going deeper into what it is. The best way to deal with this is to ensure that you validate all inputs to your site. Validate inputs like page header, cookies, hidden fields that are used in forms etc. Site owner use web forms for subscription to gather emails from users. So validate such inputs against expected input types. Always use HTML script in order to avoid any unwanted script elements. The best way would be to validate against what is allowed rather than what is not.

Let’s see the second type in the hacking list. It is called Google hacking. You may know that search engines provide lots of different tools to track site rankings and you may be aware that Google hits the list for this reason. It is on top of the list both for hackers as well as website owners. Now what is Google hacking? Google hacking simply refers to the techniques used to gain access to unauthorized information through advanced search queries.

Here searching sites are employed by Google hacking using logical operators, special characters, and operators such as cache, link, site, inurl and others. Web masters put important data on their servers which will in turn enable access from anywhere. Such kinds of documents are kept inaccessible but still it is easy to get access to such pages. Actually here, the documents must be specified in the robots.txt file. If not, the search engine spider will index all the documents on a particular site. Then search engine queries will make the documents available to the public. Advanced queries like filetype:doc will search all the word doc files available on the servers.

Now how to protect against such threats? Well, the first thing you got to do is to avoid storing of sensitive data. If necessary, you can use robots.txt file to avoid indexing of such documents.

For instance: User:
Disallow: /documents

What this instruction does is, it will not allow the search engine spider to index the contents of folder “documents”. Similarly there is an alternative way if you do not want the search engine to index that page. Use the Meta tag “meta name=’SPIDERNAME’ content=’NOARCHIVE’ ” on individual HTML pages. Remember to put the correct spider name of search engine.

One more important thing I have to suggest you here is, you must check your server whether directory listing is allowed. In Directory listing the contents of directory can be seen by anyone just by typing in the website address and existing folder name. After you type in the website address and folder name and you are able to see the contents then you should contact the host and make sure it is disabled.

Well, whatever is the case, hacking cannot be completely stopped. But the tips in today’s post can take a step towards minimizing it. In the coming posts I must provide you with tips on protecting blogs from hack threats. Stay tuned as I have more for you in the future.

Here are some of the latest games released in the month of December. I have listed out below.

Sims Carnival Bumper Blast (Platform-PC)
The Sims Carnival Bumper Blast is a game which will blast you away for hours! In this arcade-style game, before the shots run out you got to clear out all The Sims-styled bumpers. The player is challenged to master skill shots and get high scores! This game comes with over 140 action-packed levels; The Sims Carnival Bumper Blast is the fun casual game that will keep you going.

Sensible World of Soccer (Platform-Xbox 360)
This game is for soccer fans. Sensible World of Soccer brings along all the classic elements to a new generation of players. This game introduces all-new optional enhancements to make it more real. Sensible World of Soccer introduces all-new online multiplayer modes thereby allowing players globally to take up the challenge and get heated on international pitches and also compete in intense online football matches in true Soccer style. The game has custom graphics modes and graphics look pretty good. Cheats here.

Warriors of the Lost Empire (Platform- PSP)
Warriors of the Lost Empire is an action packed game. The game is about the lost empire located in a fantasy land, which was built by the great Emperor Hadrianus long ago. The empire was built as a testimony to his beautiful wife Antinos.

The city later gets besieged by criminals. Here comes the scene. A special team of warriors take up the task of investigating the lost city. Players can take the role of any of the four characters; High Lander, Amazoness, Gladiator and Dark searcher. The players are provided with full weapon customization.

As the player starts battling the dark forces, the player can learn new skills. The game gets more interesting as you pass through missions. Once collecting enough weapons, say your weapons cross 150, you can hire a blacksmith who can create weapons with other items.

The game has ten different dungeons to explore with mythical creatures and enemies battling on. The fast game play makes it a classic hack-and-slash that can get you cracking. The game can also be played co-operatively with two players over WLAN. Get cheats here.

Warhawk :Operation: Omega Dawn (Platform-Playstation 3)
Warhawk, this breath taking thriller will get even more intense this December with Operation: Omega Dawn, Warhawk’s first downloadable Booster pack. This game is developed by Incognito Entertainment. The battlefield known as “Omega Factory,” in which Eucadians and Chenovans fight for control. The game’s main feature Operation: Omega Dawn comes with six map configurations where warhawks take flight through the night skies of an isolated factory world. KT-424 Combat Dropship – a supreme vehicle which transports over seven troopers and a ground vehicle, all at one time. The Dropship acts as a multiplayer Boss character, and creates moments where seven players operate in smooth harmonization. Click here for Cheats.

Features:

• Invade Enemy Territories with the PMC-Dropship
• Dominate Opponents on a Brand New Battleground
• More Vertical Gameplay
• Bonus Layouts for the Dropship
  

Blades of Steel (Platform- Nintendo Wii Virtual Console)

This is it. With a stick in hand and your confidence bursting out, you get ahead of the game and look to win the cup, win the MVP award and hit the cover pages of sports magazines. But you got to realize one thing; everything doesn’t seem all too easy. Before you reach the highest point, you got to work well in order to fair. You have to score some. You’ll need the skills of a finesse player and you got to boost your morale. Defend your own goal against inexorable power plays, or pressurize your opponent’s goalie. Don’t forget to defend yourself. So strap on blades of steel and prepare to either make a name for yourself or be put on ice. This game is for Die hard freaks.

So much for now, its time for gaming action. Shoot it!

The technology has made multiple social networks accessible under a common API. This has made distribution and development much easier and more efficient for developers than the past. OpenSocial is aimed at simplifying the process of social apps development. This can help developers build far reaching applications which users can enjoy unlike web apps or social networks.

Under this platform, more time can be spent on building a product rather than building it again for every social network. The result is, innovation is speeded up and it can bring in more social features to more places across the web. Web users can get more interesting and useful features faster. With more new possible features coming in, the open source community can help in evolving open social standards.

Three Java script and Gdata API’s can be accessed by developers in order to access social functions, a live developer sandbox on Orkut at Sandbox.Orkut.com. The websites can also access a tool to help OpenSocial enable their sites a forum for support topics in order to communicate with Google and other sites. Check code.google.com for a sample documentation and support group.

So start writing apps for OpenSocial today at http://www.code.google.com/apis/opensocial.

It is called Malware Destroyer. A unique malware removal utility with a new and faster scan!

This software takes only 10 seconds to scan the whole computer for over 7900 targeting definitions. Malware Destroyer supports most types of malwares like trojans, adware worms, dialers and spywares.

Malware Destroyer is from EMCO Software which performs quick scan looking for over 7600 adwares, Trojans etc. The best of all what I found was, the software can be managed by any person whether be it a newbie or knowledgeable. Scanning is amazingly fast. About the interface, well not too good, but not bad. It is pretty simple. What about the price?

This is one such software which money cannot buy as it comes to you at no cost.

When searching through the database, it performs search for only one type of Malware. Now once the scan is complete, a list of malicious items will be displayed by the application. What I found was, after scanning my system with Malware Destroyer I took a second scan with Spybot- Scan and Destroy and found that it detected some problems such as tracking cookies, but this was not detected by Malware Destroyer because it did not provide one.

There is a Quarantine window which offers the possibility of restoring items which Malware Destroyer detects as harmful. Restoring can be done only for items that are selected or for all the quarantine detections.

Now coming to settings, the software comes with lots of settings. The settings are flexible which lets you configure the basic scanning and adds more areas in the registry to search for Malwares. Scanning is of 3 types. File Level, registry level and both.

The software provides P2P scan which is a good feature. Tools provide users with the possibility of exporting scan results, startup programs and history file in three formats: Excel, XML and HTML.

The pros are that the software’s which are free are always a plus point. Secondly, easy and simple to use. The software’s signature list contains about 40,000 entries and listed names are pretty known.

The only negative points I made out here was, Malware Destroyer doesn’t track cookies and the software doesn’t ignore the threats that are already in Quarantine.

Overall, a nice application that comes to you freely and can get you good results. Give it a try today!

Have you ever thought of saving your cell battery life? Or wondered why people have problems with their phone due to battery? Here are some quick tips on how to save your cell phone battery life and keep the conversation going.

1. Screen brightness can be a major factor for reducing the battery life. Best option is to keep the screen brightness to around 50% or less. Initially you will find difference, but it can be a great way to save its life.
2. Some people keep the backlight duration very long. This can take lots of power. Always try the lowest setting first. Say 5 seconds or 10. But then if it gets too short, make it bit longer.
3. Avoid sounds which are not necessary. Well, this doesn’t mean keep your phone in Silent mode. Sure you will want your phone to ring at calls. But beeping every time when pressing buttons or say receiving messages can be of no use. Less sound means more life. Always make sure you remove unnecessary sounds in your phone.
4. Coming to Bluetooth, some people forget to shut down Bluetooth once the transfers are complete. Remember, this can be a major blow to longer battery life. Similarly Infrared technology too can consume more power when not in use. So remember to switch off while not using. This technology consumes high power even when zero transfers.
5. Games, capturing photos or even surfing web sites can consume lot of power + processor load + backlight. But who wants to use a cell without these options. After all fun is an element of technology, yes it is, but see that you use them minimum.
6. Charging the battery on a regular basis can improve battery life. Avoid keeping the phone in hot places and remember, never allow your battery power to go extremely low.

Follow these tips and see the difference in your cell phone. Good luck!