So i was just going through the exunclan website and went on to the alumni page, and i realised that, well, we’ve been exun alums for a while now(speaking for myself, sid, dhruv, mohit, RG, etc)

It was coming and everybody knew that. It was speculated that it would be announced during Steve Job’s keynote during WWDC 2008, and 0000 Hours (Indian time) it was.

• There arent any visual changes with the iPhone save for the new glossy back (8GB or 16GB) and glossy white (16GB) color scheme.
• Its a tad thicker at the center while it gets thinner at the edges.
• Improved battery life
• GPS
• No mention has been made of MMS, video recording or built-in iChat.
• On the chatting front, developers will be able to ping a centralized push server with their apps, to keep down battery usage and app overload on phones.
• The Mobile me < Millennium edition. Hey thats copied!> service has been launched which will be a replacement for .mac
• iPhone 2.0 Firmware with a plethora of applications (DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS)
• Prices have gone insane. $199 For the 8GB version and $299 for the 16GB version. Totally sad. While this may help Apple to capture a significant part of the market share, that exclusivity of being an iPhone owner has just gone.
• Just bought an iPhone? Listen up: “Customers who purchased a 2.5G iPhone on or after May 27 and want to swap it out for a new iPhone will be able to do so without incurring an additional handset charge for the new device. They will of course need to turn in their 2.5G iPhone.”

More information can be found here

Mozilla is really planning to launch Firefox 3 in a big way! Download Day 2008 is a bid to break the Guiness World Record for the maximum number of software downloads in 24 hours. The release date for Firefox 3 has not been announced yet, but that hasn’t deterred more than 600,000(and growing) people from making their pledges to download Firefox 3 on Download Day(the day of the release). Visit http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord for details and to make your pledge.

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 has been released. This basically means that they’ve locked all the features and only the bug fixes are left.

For those of you who haven’t tried out any of the betas, Firefox 3 has some new features, notably the improvements to the bookmarking system and the address bar. It’s also (supposedly) a lot more stable and fast.

As far as memory consumption issues are concerned, I haven’t really noticed any improvements – it still consumes over 200 megs, which was pretty much what Fx 2 was doing with the same number of tabs (50+).

I also don’t think much of the new interface. While Fx 2 was rather plain and old-looking, at least it was neat. Fx 3’s UI seems to be a mix of new and ancient looking icons. While the new address bar has some nice features, the styling doesn’t seem to promote much usability. The download manager, incidentally, isn’t styled at all (weird).

Other issues include virtually none of my extensions working with this build. Although that isn’t unexpected (it’s not the final version, after all) I remember there weren’t so many issues when Fx 2 RC1 came out. I also have a quirky problem with bookmarking. When I bookmark all open tabs, it randomly misses out a few.

You can check out the Firefox 3 Release Candidate Release Notes here. In case you just want to try out Firefox 3 without replacing your current version, try Firefox 3 RC1 Portable.

Exun elite 2008 Junior Programming finals had seven teams and saw intense competition.
The Exun E-Lite Junior and Sub-Junior Programming event was a huge success with overwhelming & unprecedented participation. 35+ teams participated in the Junior category with 10+ teams participated in the Sub-Junior category prelims.

The final result for is as follows:

Junior category

1st position

Pranshu Jain X-D
Karanveer Singh X-G

2nd position

Sakshi Gupta X-K
Anand Khare X-I

3rd position

Sanchit Abrol IX-I
Aman Aggarwal IX-I

Sun-Junior category (in random order)

Class VIII

Ishita Batra VIII F
Ushmita Seth VIII F

Aayush Shatma VIII F
Shreya Mandal VIII F

Rishabh Goel VIII L
Laksh Goel VIII L

Class VII

Amber Pal VII B
Mohit Sharma VII B

Congratulations to all!

Note:
Please contact exunclan and provide us with your email so that we can contact you whenever required.

The first position holders in Junior Programming took the Prelims test separately and having top scored in the Prelims they were given the opportunity for the final round and top scored in the finals too.

Junior Programming Finals C++ solutions

Regards,
Sajal Jain
Rahul Bhatnagar

Exun elite 2008 quiz for classes 7th-10th saw 80+ participants. This has been the largest outcome till date. The competition went very smoothly and in the end, only the best remained.

The scoreboard read as follows:

1st position

Dhananjay Goel                         X-D
Varun Nayyar                             X-J

2nd position

Sarthak Khuntia                         X-C
Nayan Aggarwal                         X-C

3rd position

Aditya Agggarwal                       IX-I
Aman Aggarwal                          IX-I

Congratulations to all!

Regards,
Kartikeya Asthana
Ananth Govind Rajan

Day one of Exun eLite- the Intra School Computer Competition held by Exun for the Junior classes is over.
The events held today were Group discussion and Programming prelims. The result of the Programming prelims is as follows:

Sub Junior division:
Class VIII

1. Ishita Batra VIII F
   Ushmita Seth VIII F
2. Aayush Shatma VIII F
   Shreya Mandal VIIIF
3. Amber Pal VIII B
   Mohit Sharma VIII B
4. Rishabh Goel VIII L
   Laksh Goel VIII L

Class VII

No team selected

Junior Division

Class X

1. Vishesh Kumar X H
   Aditya Grover X H
2. Sakshi Gupta X K
   Anand Khare X I

Class IX

1. Samchit Abrol IX I
   Aman Agarwal IX I
2. Tushar Bhasin IX J
   Aishwarya Kane IX J
3. Kritin Gupta IX G
   Rounit IX G
4. Nikhil Raman IX K

Congratulations To All! Please note that the winners of the Junior division are to stay back on 16th i.e. Friday for the final round that will be in the E-Block Computer Lab.
The following languages will be provided to work on
Turbo C++,C, Visual Basic, QBasic. If you require any other language please inform us by the earliest

The Exun E-Lite Junior and Sub-Junior Programming event was a huge success with overwhelming & unprecedented participation. 35+ teams participated in the Junior category with 10+ teams participated in the Sub-Junior category.

The Results and the details for final round shall be declared later.

I have uploaded the files on a public server as I was not able to find an option for uploading pdf on blogger.

You can view the files by clicking on the links

Junior Programming solutions (pdf) with question paper
Sub-Junior Programming solutions (pdf) with question paper

Rahul Bhatnagar
Sajal Jain

Spyware and viruses are both forms of unwanted or malicious software, sometimes called “malware.” You need to protect yourself from both.

What’s the difference?

Spyware (sometimes called adware) collects information about you without appropriate notice and consent.

A computer virus spreads software, usually malicious in nature, from computer to computer.

Spyware can get installed on your computer in a number of ways. One way is through a virus . Another way is for it to be secretly downloaded and installed with other software you’ve chosen to install.

In short, Spyware is a specific type of unwanted software that secretly collects your information.

A virus is a specific way software can be secretly distributed, often by e-mail or instant messaging.

Both Spyware and viruses can cause damage to your computer or cause you to lose important data.