Stay tuned for changes : Google+

"Stay tuned for changes this week."

Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of engineering at Google, On his Google+ page wrote asking his followers to look for changes this week.
He Posted --  “Lots of criticism for Google+. We are listening and working to address. Stay tuned for changes this week,”


Before that post, Gundotra made an apology for Google, which spammed its users on Saturday - an accident caused due to a disk space shortage problem. Fans at large reacted forgivingly to his sincere apology, but some pointed out the flaws in the current system.

Military Meltdown Monday : 90,000 military emails Hacked.

Anonymous hackers group released 90,000 email logins stolen from the military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton in a leak it's branded "Military Meltdown Monday." Anonymous has also released exchanges between the contractor's executives--and claims it "found maps and keys for various other treasure chests buried on the islands of government agencies, federal contractors and shady whitehat companies. This material surely will keep our blackhat friends busy for a while." Some of the logins belong to American military personnel, including people working at U.S. Centcom.

The group, a spin-off of Anonymous that includes members of the now defunct hacking group Lulz Sec, claims it broke into the servers of technology contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and stole the login details. They have been published on BitTorrent file sharing sites for anyone to download.

"We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place," Anonymous said in an online statement.

[Via:govtinfosec]

Mac OSX 10.7 codenamed 'LION' to be launched next week: Features

We know On June 6, at WWDC 2011, it was announced that the official release for Lion would be in July 2011 and that, unlike previous versions, which were released on a set of CD-ROMs or a DVD-ROM, Lion would only be available as a download from the Mac App Store for US$29.99. The only prior version of OS X that supports the Mac App Store is Snow Leopard, implying that any machines that support Lion currently running Tiger or Leopard will first have to be upgraded to Snow Leopard, as opposed to allowing a direct upgrade to Lion. The Server portion of Lion will be available as a separate download from the Mac App Store for US$49.99.

Features that we can expect :

Multi-touch gestures:

An input system already existed in iPhone and iPad.

Inverted scrolling. As you'd imagine, slightly tricky to get used to, but makes a lot of sense 15 minutes in. The mental switch has already happened and Snow Leopard now feels wrong.

Full screen applications

Expand any application so that it fills the screen - meaning no distraction from others.

Mission control

This brings together full-screen apps, Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces in a new feature that gives you a bird's-eye view of everything on your system.

New Mac app store

Already available but it is Now more closely integrated into the system, and becoming a major source of apps for download. You can still get apps by downloading from the web, though.

Launchpad

Launchpad is a new, full-screen home for all the apps on your machine, brought up by clicking an icon in the Dock: open windows fade away, to be replaced by a full-screen display of all your apps.

Resume

A feature that start the machine back at exactly the same place that you turned it off - preserving the state of the documents.

Autosave and Versions

Using this feature documents created by certain apps will be saved automatically at set periods. You can revert to an earlier version or compare it.

Airdrop

Airdrop is a on-the-fly peer-to-peer wireless networking between any two Macs.

Developer viewpoint: "Have been unable to test this yet."

Mail

Mail has been redesigned with a three-pane interface borrowed from the iPad. Also has enhanced search and conversation threading. 

Bye bye scroll bars

Bye bye scroll bars is a radical change to the interface. (You can also resize windows from any part of the side, as Windows has offered for years.)