Computing

Today, I am back to give you a quick tip on how to count the Total Number of Files in a Directory (as well as sub-directories underneath it).

(Learn how to do it in Linux, using Command Line...)

According to sources from the McAfee report, the .com domain is found to be Number 2 as the Riskiest Domains in the world. It follows that the next most popular .net domain is placed in Number 7.

The rise of such risk results in Internet users worldwide to lose trust in these websites, particularly countries domains, such as China, Philippines and Singapore.

These domains are found to be highly used in phishing and spamming activities. Potentially, they are likely to serve viruses to the world.

Google Wave is Google's latest innovation. A couple of weeks back, I requested an invite to try out Google Wave. Just at the start of this month, December 1^st to be precise, Google sent me a congratulation note that I have been provided an account to Google Wave. I am thrilled!

Along with this account, I am also given 8 additional free invites, which I am allowed to send to any email account (preferably Google account).

As such, I would be offering my readers first hand opportunities to be trying out Google Wave account. Here is what I need you to do:

Write a comment below in response to "Why do you think Google Wave will benefit you"?

5 top commentators, based on the responses will be given invites. Remember to include your email address, together wiith the comment. Closing date is December 31^st, 2009.

New Updates!!! (12 Dec 2009)

As of today, I have sent out 2 invites to my readers; in other words, there are only 3 invites remaining up for grab. Act fast now!

How time flies, here we are again to welcome SITEX 2009, after successful years in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Economy crisis might have affected worldwide since last year, but evidently, IT and Consumer product sales have not declined. Therefore, if you are looking for Christmas gifts, this is a good starting point.

This year, SITEX 2009 Fair will feature 36 new exhibitors, including 3 overseas vendors (BuyRule from Korea, Manda Photo Services from Hong Kong and TravelSIM from Estonia) - covering a wide range of digital and IT products, including but not limited to media players, gaming software, home entertainment system, mobile phones, smart phones and others.

Similar to past years, there is a lucky draw and a "Ladies Go Tech" lucky dip, offering customers with a chance to win attractive prizes.

(Details on SITEX 2009, click here...)

Twitter, the renowned micro-blog site, has just come up with something new! It is called Lists (which is currently in BETA stage). Users may not receive this note, because this feature is only given out to selected Twitter accounts.

Basically, Lists help Twitter users to manage and organise the people that they follow. In addition, it also helps to discover new and interesting accounts, which account owners can link them to the same list, for better management. In other word, it works like categorisation of users.

To start using it, click on "Create a new list". It will bring up a pop-up window (shown below).

Enter the name of the List and you can even set it to "Private", if you don't want any public users to access your list.

Subsequently, you will proceed to add People onto the List that you want to follow (on that category). The best thing I like about List is that it allows me to group together the same field of people who share similar interests.

Well done, Twitter!

Drupal has recently announced the release of versions 6.14 and 5.20 to fix some critical security vulnerabilities in the previous versions of Drupal. At Neohide, we take no chance at allowing security vulnerabilities to take place.

Fellow Drupal users, if you are using Drupal to power your websites, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to this latest version as well. Do note that, no new features are included in these releases. More information about the releases can be found here and here (5.x).

Direct Download Links:

• Drupal 6.14
• Drupal 5.20

When it comes to purchasing software for further upgrades, people start to think about how Microsoft did it. There will be a new version for upgrade every year, and if you don't upgrade, you feel like you are being left behind in the race.

In a business model, software companies pile more features each time on every upgrade. This resulted in a chunk of source codes that do not run well and on top of that, a bloated operating system that eats into your hard disk size capacity. Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista are such typical examples.

This year, Apple released a new operating system - Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, was already a great operating system that is virus-free, nag-free and not copy-protected. The new version has a great hit - its price is only US$30!

(read on to find out more about Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard...)