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Google and Microsoft love breathing down each others neck. In another classic example of not wanting to fall behind the other, both of them have announced Language transliteration tools which would allow users to type in their native language using the normal English keyboard.

These transliteration tools use free-form transliteration, which means that the user can enter text in a natural manner (phonetically) using English script and it would be automatically transliterated to the target language. Microsoft calls its transliteration tool Indic Language Input Tool, while Google calls it simply Google Transliteration. For now Microsoft is focusing only on Indian languages and supports Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telegu. Google Transliteration is a lot more global in nature and supports Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Let’s take an in-depth look at both of them.
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I ran into a peculiar problem recently. I had 1 x 2GB DDR2 RAM installed on my laptop. When I tried adding another ram stick (again 2GB), Windows 7 started crashing. I would get the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) during the “Windows is Loading” screen.

Obviously, the most probable culprit was the RAM stick. And that’s what I thought too. But, soon I realised that Windows 7 was the only one having trouble with 4GB ram. Linux Mint worked perfectly with 4GB as well as 2GB ram and Memtest didn’t throw up any errors.
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In spite of the innumerable ground breaking products from Microsoft, it is not the first name which pops into our mind when someone talks about innovation. And Microsoft knows this. They have been desperately trying to change the perception that Microsoft is a ruthless and old-school monopoly. As a part of this effort, Microsoft (mainly Microsoft Office Labs) has produced some awesome concept videos and demos.
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Piriform has earned a reputation for creating high quality freeware applications. Their first product – Ccleaner, has gone on to become a virtual must have for millions of users. Even Recuva and Defraggler have managed to build a substantial fan base. And now they have unleashed their latest creation – Speccy.

Speccy is a system specification tool. In other words, it gives you detailed information about the hardware that is powering your computer.
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Detection is undoubtedly an important factor, but it is not the sole criteria by which you should judge an antivirus. A good detection rate and strong self-protection features should ensure that an antivirus is able to keep any malware at bay. But, there may be occasions when you have already been infected by a malware (possibly due to your carelessness). In such cases the security product’s cleaning abilities become absolutely vital.
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