“Click to convert” is an easy-to-use program that helps to convert a document into HTML and PDF format easily on a single click. Once you install “Click to convert”, it integrates itself into office 2007 and provides its own tab on the tool ribbon.

“Click to Convert” does not currently work on 64 bit versions of Windows Vista, it works only on 32 bit.

This application is available for $89, it offers a 15 days free trail offer. In a trial version, you will get a watermark in the PDF conversion.

The University of Toronto – Canada revealed that more than 1200 computers in over 100 countries were affected. The system called “GhostNet” has hacked computers in embassies, foreign ministries, government departments and offices in several cities belonging to the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan government-in-exile, the Canadian team said.

Initially, the Dalai Lama’s office approached the Munk Centre for an International Studies to investigate allegations of Chinese espionage. After 10 months of study, they found that a far larger spy network is targeting more than 1295 infected computer in 103 countries.

The researchers said that the main focus of the system is on government of south and south-east Asian countries. The Ghostnet system is still alive with a wide-ranging set of tools through which hackers can retrieve documents, and turn on web cameras and audio system, from remote place.

“One of the characteristics of cyber-attacks of the sort we document here is the ease by which attribution can be obscured,” Deibert, director of Munk’s Citizen Lab

Tom Forsyth, a software and hardware architect at Intel working on the Larrabee graphics chip project, discussed the design of Larrabee, a chip aimed squarely at Nvidia and at Advanced Micro Devices’ ATI unit in the Game Developers Conference (GDC). The game graphics duopoly, Nividia and AMD, are keenly watching the each progress of Intel’s graphics chip after this conference.

Larrabee chip is expected to hit the market at late this year or early next year. The design of Larrabee is not yet finalized; the discussion is still going on among a lot of key developers. Forsyth said that “On the Intel Web site there will be a C++ prototype library. It doesn’t have the speed of Larrabee but has the same functionality. Developers can get a feel for the language

One of the major problems faced by students is spending $$$ for text book. During this financial crisis, everyone is trying to minimize their expenses. But in education, this is not possible. Every year the cost of the books is rising.

Flatworld has come out with a revolutionary idea to create and publish college textbooks at free of cost. It also planned to offer audio book versions, study guides, web quizzes and digital flash cards for a fee. Students and teachers can take a print of a text book in whole or part at a fraction of the cost.

A new video game company called Upstart OnLive is launching a cloud-based gaming system promising on-demand access to games and no lag time. The main aim of the OnLive is to challenge the big three console Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony.

The company expects to launch its service in the winter of 2009, and claims that users can play games on any TV, personal computer, net books and PCs without graphics processors. Rather running locally on a PC or console, cloud-based gaming system run on servers in the “cloud”.

“When you want to play a game, you just click a button and it plays instantly,” said Steve Perlman, OnLive’s founder and chief executive. “It’s that simple.”

Tata Motors has recently launched the World’s cheapest car in the Indian markets. This cool new car starts at approximately $2000, and comes with basic facilities.

The Nano – “The people’s car” is a 33 PS (33 hp/24 kW) car with a 623 cc rear engine and rear wheel drive. It has a fuel economy of 4.55 L/100 km (21.97 km/L, 51.7 mpg (US), 62 mpg (UK)) under city road conditions, and 3.85 L/100 km on highways (25.97 km/L, 61.1 mpg (US), 73.3 mpg (UK)).

It’s a four door, four seater hatch back, non A/C car. If buyers want a radio, or a power steering, or air conditioning, extra needs to be paid.

Although it’s being received with a lot of excitement, the Indian population is divided into two on it. There’s one part of the society that will finally be able to afford a car of its own, and are extremely thankful for it. However, people are worried that since too many people are going to be able to buy it, the already bad traffic conditions on Indian roads is going to worsen, apart from increasing levels of pollution.

But with more than 250,000 cars to start off with, Nano is bound to create history. Tata Motors is also looking at coming up with eco friendly stuff, so that bit is looking good as well.

HP has introduced a new comfortable Note book stand. This note book stand was designed mainly for millions of desktop users who are suffering from back and shoulder pain. It offers three major user friendly facilities:

1. The notebook can be elevated to a comfortable eye-level.
2. User can work flexibly without spending much time in a certain posture over time, as the stand is adjustable to much wider range.
3. The arm and wrist support in the stand is much needed for people while working with keyboard.

“Notebook users usually have very restricted ways of adjusting the screen, due to the notebook keyboard being connected to it. With the new HP Adjustable Notebook Stand, we aim to address this limitation, by blending the best of technology with comfort and enabling a computing experience that ensures increased productivity along with the well-being of its user.” – Deepak Jagtiani, country manager, HP India.

MySpace has introduced a new Flash-based suite of photo editing tools powered by Fotoflexer. Using the ‘Customize photo’ button, users can edit a selected photo directly within the browser.

This photo editing tools have options like, red-eye removal, blemish removal, drag and drop speech bubbles and virtual stickers, cropping image filters like ‘pop art’ and ‘neon colors’. MySpace users can have more fun and enjoyment with these tools.

Photobucket which is offered by the same company that offers MySpace, have already included this image editing option.

Microsoft unveiled windows live messenger web toolkit which helps webmasters to add chat feature their site. Any one can use this functions on there website, the only requirement is to have an account in Windows live messenger. Through this they can connect to 320 million active windows messenger users.

This live messenger tool kit helps in addition of a social element to any website and attracts more visitors. Instead of searching people with similar interest in various social networking sites, using the chat you can form a community.

On Tuesday, Google has announced the release of new version of its chrome web browser. They mainly focused on fast performance, and also added a few basic features like form autofill, full page zoom, autoscroll and drag tabs to side by side view.

Google said “we have continued to release fixes and updates to this version, while building and testing new browser improvements in our developer releases.”

With 67.4 percent market share, Microsoft Internet Explorer dominates the web browser market, Google has got 4th place with 1.2 percent share in February. Google is trying to give best out of its lab and reach the first place through frequent updates.

The beta version is now available for download.