DOXING

Definition of Doxing:

Doxing is derived from Document Tracing. Doxing is tracing the information from internet resources about particular person.

Usually internet users left their information(like gender,name,city,..) in some websites(like social network,..).  So using some searching Techniques, we can gather complete data about a person.  This type of searching(tracing) is known as Doxing. This data can be used to hack their account or trace them.

Use of Doxing:

• Hackers can track Innocent peoples data and hack their accounts.
• Security Experts can trace the Hackers(can trace some innocent hackers only,N00bs). This will be helpful for solving Cyber Crime cases.

What you can find using Doxing?

• Real Name, age,gender
• Email id, registered websites
• Social Network Page(Facebook,twitter links)
• Address, Phone Number
• Parent’s Names and their Jobs
• Place of Education (School/University etc.)
• Relatives
• and more data

From where you are going to start?

Yes, if you know person real name, then start from his name.  If you know the username then start from there. or if you know any other data, start from there  Using name or username , search for other information in google.

How to do Doxing?
Just assume you want to gather information about one of forum member.  Let us assume his username is peter.  If you search in google as “peter” , you will get thousands results about peter. So what you are going to  do?

You have to some other information about peter in that forum itself.  For example , You got his birthday.  Now you can continue your searching with “peter xx/xx/xxx”.  This will reduce the results.

Not only birthday, you can use some other info like signature.  For example if he put signature in forum as “Dare Devil”.  You can continue searching using “Peter Dare Devil”.  This will reduce the Results.

Sometime your target person registered in multiple forums, websites,social networks… So while searching ,you will get result of registered website of him using that username or info.

Read Each posts of target person, he might left some more information about him any one of forums or websites.

Using Email Address for Tracing:
If you got the email address of target person, it is much easier to trace the person. You can search using in the following sites. you may get some data.

Websites that will be useful for Doxing:

http://www.myspace.com
http://www.bebo.com
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.pipl.com
http://www.wink.com
http://www.123people.com
http://www.zabasearch.com
…
You can find any other site related to target person and search for his data.

Doxing needs Intelligence:
Doxing needs Intelligence and searching ability.  You have to guess where to search and what to search about person.  Depending on searching ability, you will get what you required.

Security Question: Hacker can get the victim’s security question answer using doxing.

For example, if your questions is “What is your pet?”, he may guess. He will search with email or username . you may left your my pet is xxx. So now you are the victim.

Dictionary Attack:
Hackers can gather information about the victim and create a dictionary file(word-list) for a target person alone.  Using that dictionary file , he can crack your passwords.

Conclusion:
Doxing is one of powerful hacking method.

IBM Technical Interview

• What is J2EE?
• What is the J2EE module?
• What are the components of J2EE application?
• What are the four types of J2EE modules?
• What does application client module contain?
• What does web module contain?
• What is the difference between Session bean and Entity bean ?
• What is “applet”  ?
• What is “applet container”  ?
• What is “application assembler” ?
• What is “application client” ?
• What is “application client container” ?
• What is CSS?
• What are Cascading Style Sheets?
• What is class?
• What is grouping ?
• What is external Style Sheet? How to link?
• What’s PHP ?
• What Is a Session?
• What is meant by PEAR in php?
• What is the difference between $message and $$message?
• What Is a Persistent Cookie?
• What’s OPERATING SYSTEM?
• Why paging is used?
• While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?
• What is virtual memory?
• What is Throughput, Turnaround time, waiting time and Response time?
• What’s AJAX?
• Who?s Using Ajax ?
• Does AJAX work with Java?
• What do I need to know to create my own AJAX functionality?
• What JavaScript libraries and frameworks are available?
• What’s MySQL ?
• How would you write a query to select all teams that won either 2, 4, 6 or 8 games?
• When would you use ORDER BY in DELETE statement?
• How can you see all indexes defined for a table?
• What do % and _ mean inside LIKE statement?
• What is HTML?
• What is a tag?
• How can I include comments in HTML?
• What is a Hypertext link?
• What is everyone using to write HTML?
• What is Python?
• What are the rules for local and global variables in Python?
• How do I share global variables across modules?
• How do you make a higher order function in Python?
• How do I convert a string to a number?

 

About IBM:-

IBM has been present in India since 1992. IBM India’s solutions and services span all major industries including financial services, healthcare, government, automotive, telecommunications and education, among others. As a trusted partner with wide-ranging service capabilities, IBM helps clients transform and succeed in challenging circumstances. The diversity and breadth of the entire IBM portfolio of research, consulting, solutions, services, systems and software, uniquely distinguishes IBM India from other companies in the industry.

IBM India has clearly established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry – and continues to transform itself to align with global markets and geographies to grow this leadership position. Widely recognised as an employer of choice, IBM holds numerous awards for its industry-leading employment practices and policies.

Working at IBM – Why should i Join IBM?:-

IBM offers competitive benefits, as well as an industry-leading practice of performance-based bonuses for all employees. It believe that global innovation demands diverse employees and attractive work/life initiatives that sustain, and retain, them. IBM gives you the power to design your workday, and your life, according to your unique styles and needs.
 

IBM Group Discussion topics for Engineering Students

• Is China a threat to the Indian software industry.
• Role of UN in peacekeeping.
• Position of Women in India compared to other nations.
• Environment Management.
• Is China better than India in software.
• Govt contribution to IT
• is china a threat to Indian industry
• India or west , which is the land of opportunities
• water resources should be nationalized
• “BALANCE BETWEEN PROFESSIONALISM AND FAMILY”
• Effect of cinema on Youth
• Education in India compared to Foreign nations
• What is the effect of movies on youth. is it good or bad)
• Are studies more beneficial in India or in Abroad.
• Marxism And Its Future All Over The World
• The Growing Menace Of Casteism And Regionalism
• Presidential Form Of Government Is Needed In India
• Bullet For Bullet: Is It The Right Policy?
• Capitation Fees Should Be Abolished
• Brain-Drain Has To Be Stopped
• Business And Ethics Can’t / Don’t Go Together
• Are women As good as Men Or Inferior?
• Nothing Succeeds Like Success
• The Malthusian Economic Prophecy Is No Longer Relevant
• Secessionist In The North-East: Who’s To Blame?
• Should India Break Diplomatic Ties With Pakistan?
• Age and Youth: Experience And Young Talent
• East Is East & West Is Where All The Action Is’: Mark Twain
• Freedom Of _Expression And The State Authority.

ABSTRACT CLASS

Java Abstract classes are used to declare common characteristics of subclasses. An abstract class cannot be instantiated. It can only be used as a super-class for other classes that extend the abstract class. Abstract classes are declared with the abstract keyword.

An abstract class can include methods that contain no implementation. These are called abstract methods.  If a class has any abstract methods, whether declared or inherited, the entire class must be declared abstract.

Abstract classes cannot be instantiated; they must be sub-classed, and actual implementations must be provided for the abstract methods. Any implementation specified can be overridden by additional subclasses. An object must have an implementation for all of its methods. You need to create a subclass that provides an implementation for the abstract method.

A class  Vehicle might be specified as abstract to represent the general abstraction of a vehicle, as creating instances of the class would not be meaningful.

abstract class Vehicle
{
int numofGears;
String color;
abstract boolean hasDiskBrake();
abstract int getNoofGears();
}

Example of a shape class as an abstract class

abstract class Shape

{

  public String color;

  public Shape() { }

public void setColor(String c)

  {

    color = c;

  }

public String getColor()

 {

 return color;

  }

abstract public double area();

}

We can also implement the generic shapes class as an abstract class so that we can draw lines, circles, triangles etc.

public class Point extends Shape

{

  static int x, y;

  public Point()

  {

    x = 0; y = 0;

  }

  public double area()

  {

    return 0;

  }

  public double perimeter()

 {

   return 0;

 }

public static void print()

{

System.out.println(“point: ” + x + “,” + y);

}

public static void main(String args[])

 {

   Point p = new Point();

  p.print();

 }

}

Output

point: 0, 0

A big Disadvantage of using abstract classes is not able to use multiple inheritance. In the sense, when a class extends an abstract class, it can’t extend any other class.

MIDORI OS

Windows is the most popular operating system (OS) used. But Microsoft begins the search for a new  replacement software of Windows OS. This software is called Midori.

 That is true, MICROSOFT is working on a new generation of operating systems called Cloud-Based Operating System and rumors are there that MIDORI will be their first such operating system, which will eventually replace the Windows OS in a few years time.

 

Midore is the code name Managed Code Operating System. The code name Midori was first discovered through the PowerPoint presentation CHESS: A systematic testing tool for concurrent software. It is an offshoot of Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system.

 

The main idea behind MIDORI is to develop a lightweight portable OS which can be mated easily to lots of various applications. 

At this point in time, we do not know how and when Midori will end up. Microsoft might very well be working on the successor of the Windows operating system, but if it is, it has failed to give any indication in this respect.

The 10 fastest computers in the world

1. The slightly mysterious Chinese one: Tianhe-1A

China’s supercomputer is currently the world’s fastest: it can run at a sustained  2.5 petaflops  (a petaflop is a thousand trillion floating point operations per second) thanks to its 186,368 cores and   229,376GB of RAM.

While the horsepower comes from off-the-shelf Intel and Nvidia chips, the New York Times says that the Chinese machine’s speed is down to its interconnect, the networking technology that connects the individual nodes of the computer together, which is twice as fast as the InfiniBand technology used in many other supercomputers.

It’s located in Shenzhen’s National Supercomputing Center, where it’s used by universities and Chinese companies.

2. The one with a quarter of a million cores: Jaguar

Jaguar, a Cray XT5-HE supercomputer located at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has quite a few cores: TOP500 says there are nearly a quarter of a million since its most recent upgrade.

Jaguar’s 224,162 cores come courtesy of a whole bunch of six-core Opteron chips, and its performance is a hefty 1.76 petaflops. Oak Ridge says it’s the world’s fastest supercomputer for unclassified research.

3. The other slightly mysterious Chinese one: Dawning Nebulae

When it launched in early 2010 the Chinese Dawning Nebulae supercomputer was the world’s fastest, with performance of 1.27 petaflops, but it’s already in third place thanks to Jaguar and China’s own newer, faster Tianhe-1A. Like its sibling Nebulae is in the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen.

4. The one with the rubbish name: TSUBAME 2.0

Tokyo’s TSUBAME 2.0 offers similar performance to Jaguar – it peaks at 2.3 petaflops, with sustained performance of around 1.4 petaflops – but it’s one-quarter of the size and uses one-quarter of the power thanks to its heavy reliance on Nvidia Fermi GPUs as well as Intel CPUs.

According to project lead Professor Satoshi Matsuoka, TSUBAME will really shine in climate and weather forecasting, bio-molecular modelling and tsunami simulations.

5. The planet-saver: Hopper

Hopper is working on the big stuff: climate change, clean energy, astrophysics, particle physics… its home, the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, offers its services to more than 3,000 researchers in the fields of climate research, chemistry, new material development and other crucial fields.

6. The French one: Tera-100

The first petaflop-scale supercomputer to be designed and built in Europe is pretty fast: “its capacity to transfer information is equivalent to a million people watching high-definition films simultaneously”, the press release says.

Built around Intel Xeon 7500 processors, the successor to 2005’s Tera 10 is 20 times faster and seven times more energy efficient as its predecessor. It’s another nuclear one: Tera-100’s mission is to help guarantee the reliability of Europe’s nukes.

7. The former champion: Roadrunner

Supercomputing is a fast-moving field, and Roadrunner is the proof: in 2008 it was the first supercomputer to crack the petaflop barrier for sustained performance, but its 1.04 petaflop speed means it fell to seventh place in just two years.

Built by IBM for the US Department of Energy, it was designed to work out whether the US’s nuclear weapons would remain safe as they age – although like most supercomputers it’s also available to industry, with car and aerospace industries paying for a go.

8. The answer to life, the universe and everything: Kraken

Can your computing project be handled by a machine with 511 cores? Then don’t bother coming to Kraken: it’s best suited to jobs that use “at least 512 cores”. It’s got plenty to spare: the National Institute for Computational Sciences reports that the Cray supercomputer has 112,895 compute cores spread across 9,408 nodes.

Its purpose? To help “solve the world’s greatest scientific challenges, such as understanding the fundamentals of matter and unlocking the secrets to the origin of our universe”.

9. The ultimate DVD ripper: JUGENE

Germany’s supercomputer was designed for low power consumption as well as high performance, and it’s been involved in some interesting projects – including trying to work out how DVDs work. According to Scientific Computing, it’s improving our understanding of “the processes involved in writing and erasing a DVD”, which should lead to storage media that works better, lasts longer and provides higher capacity.

10. The one keeping nukes safe: Cielo

Nuclear science and supercomputers are a match made in heaven: the former can use the latter to test things without blowing anybody up or irradiating them for generations. Cielo is used for “classified operations” by the US National Nuclear Security Administration, and it’s getting a big upgrade this year: its 6,704 computing nodes will be upped to 9,000, and its memory will go from 221.5TB to around 300TB.

Waterfox

Waterfox is a Faster 64-Bit Optimized Version of Firefox for Windows PC

Windows:

       If you’d like your web browser to run a bit faster, Waterfox is a Firefox clone built to run faster on 64-bit processors.

      Mozilla still hasn’t officially released any 64-bit builds for Firefox, and Waterfox aims to fill that void. It has one main goal: speed. They’ve tweaked a lot of Firefox’s code base to work better with 64-bit processors, so if you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows, it should give you a solid speed boost. It also updates whenever Firefox does, so you’re never behind, and uses your current Firefox profile, so you don’t have to do any extra setup. All of your add-on should work out of the box, too.

     If you don’t like Waterfox for any reason, you might also check out previously mentioned Pale Moon, another Windows-optimized Firefox build. It updates a bit less quickly than Waterfox, and lots of users find Waterfox to be faster, but Pale Moon also has a few other UI tweaks.

Hit the link to check out Waterfox.

http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/

Google Public Alerts

Google on Wednesday announced the launch of Google Public Alerts, a service that delivers important, timely information about threatening weather conditions through Google Maps.

Public Alerts, a project from Google.org’s Crisis Response Team, taps into data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to provide weather alerts from all over the country.

For example, it will tell you that there is a tornado warning in southwest Louisiana, a blizzard warning in central Montana, or a winter storm warning in northern Alaska. It also maps out earthquakes happening all over the world, from places like the island of Tonga to the town of Salta, Argentina.

When you visit the Public Alerts page, you’ll see an index of all the current alerts. If you want to check the conditions in your area, type your city in the search window.

When you click on a particular alert, Google Public Alerts will give you all the necessary details.

I tried out the service by searching “Dallas.” When I clicked on the Flood Warning for Dallas County, Tex. it told me how severe the flooding is, which areas are most heavily affected, how high the waters are, and how long the warning will last. It also recommended several actions, like not driving through flooded areas and exercising caution when walking near riverbanks.

The service also defined what a Flood Warning is, and listed links to other resources including what to do before, during, and after a flood.

Google’s Crisis Response Team also offers tools to help in the aftermath of natural disasters. Last year, it launched person finder sites for the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand and Japan.

THIS keyword In Java

Keep into mind that  whenever we are creating an object, the copies of the instance variables are created for each object.

For example, in the following example I am creating two objects called td and td1 and in the class there are two instance variables called int a and int b.

Now what I am saying is that there will be two separate objects and for those separate objects  there will be separate variables int a and int b .
This diagram elaborates more

Now that you got this we will move to our point now when we use   this   keyword we are referring to the current object .
Now look at the program

class ThisDemo1
             {
                    int a = 0;
                     int b = 0;
                    ThisDemo1(int x, int y)
                                              {
                                                    this.a = x;
                                                    this.b = y;
                                              }
public static void main(String [] args)
                    {
                             ThisDemo1 td = new ThisDemo1(10,12);
                             ThisDemo1 td1 = new ThisDemo1(100,23);
                             System.out.println(td.a);   // prints 10
                             System.out.println(td.B);   // prints 12
                             System.out.println(td1.a);  // prints 100
                            System.out.println(td1.B);   // prints 23
                  }
    }

when we compile and run the program we get the output as

Command Prompt

F:\Java\Concepts\DeclarationAndAccessControl>javac  ThisDemo1
10
12
100
23

Now we will look step by step

• When we created the object td then the constructor was called for td
• The respective values are passed to the copies of the instance variables of that object (as shown in the figure)
• In the constructor using this.a = x and this.b = y, we copied the values into the instance variables
• Using System.out.println() statements we confirmed that those values referred to respective objects

Best Products of 2012

The Best Products of CES (Consumer Electronics Show)

 

BEST TABLET

Winner: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF700
The best tablet at CES is one I’ve never actually touched. But Asus’s Eee Pad Transformer Prime is currently the best Android tablet available, with its quad-core processor, laptop attachment, and now Android 4.0. Plenty of other Android 4.0 tablets are cropping up here at CES, but so far none of them are quite as elegant and well-built as the Transformer Prime. So the new Transformer Prime just announced—which is essentially the existing model, but with a stunningly high-res 1080p screen—is going to remain the benchmark by which other Android tablets are measured. –Sascha Segan

Runner Up: Ainovo Novo 7 Basic

BEST SMARTPHONE

Winner: AT&T Nokia Lumia 900
Now this is what we were waiting for. Nokia finally shows off its first high-end Windows Phone 7 device, as the preceding Nokia Lumia 710 was too budget-oriented to inspire much buzz. The LTE-equipped Lumia 900 packs an 8-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics, and a 4.3-inch AMOLED Clear Black display. As part of Microsoft’s last CES keynote, the powerful Lumia 900 may be a fitting sendoff and just what the Windows Phone platform needs. –Jamie Lendino

Runner Up: LG Spectrum

BEST ULTRABOOK

Winner: Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga
Home to half a dozen Cirque du Soleil shows, Vegas is no stranger to acrobatic contortions, but CES has never seen anything quite like Lenovo’s 3.1-pound, touch-screen ultrabook that flips and folds into a tablet and easel. –Eric Grevstad

Runner Up: Samsung Series 9

BEST LAPTOP

Winner: Samsung Series 7 Gamer
Samsung’s first dedicated gaming laptop, the Series 7 Gamer packs an Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 processor and an Nvidia GTX 675 graphics chip. The standout feature: You can alternate between four different performance modes via a physical switch, so your PC performs to fit your needs whether you’re studying at the library or about to hop on for a round of Team Deathmatch in Call of Duty. –Natalie Shoemaker

BEST DESKTOP

Winner: Lenovo IdeaCentre A720
The Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 is a clear indication of where the all-in-one desktop PC is going: ten-finger multi-touch screen, large 27-inch display, and that articulated hinge that lets the screen lie flat or tilt through a wide range of angles. There are times when you’ll want to sit down to actually do work rather than just surfing the Internet. You can look up quick info and news on a tablet or smartphone, but sometimes you need a real physical keyboard, mouse, and some undivided attention to write a manuscript, edit some blueprints, or retouch a photo. That’s when you should put down the tablet and use a desktop the get real work done. The IdeaCentre A720 has innovative design, well-thought out ergonomics, and a full feature list to help you finish the job at hand. –Joel Santo Domingo

Runner Up: HPE h9 Phoenix

BEST HDTV

Tie: Yet-To-Be-Named 55-inch Samsung and LG OLED HDTVs and Sony’s Crystal LED
These winners are less actual televisions you can buy today, and more signs that we’re going to see some changes in HDTVs in the near future. For a few years, OLED displays have promised as the next big step in flat-panel displays. But we haven’t seen much progress in organic LEDs outside of small devices like smartphones. Now, Samsung and LG have both unveiled OLED HDTVs with big 55-inch, 3D displays. And Sony’s new 55inch Crystal LED panel doesn’t use OLED but works in a similar way, with similarly impressive results.

These aren’t game-changing technologies, but like LED-backlit LCDs, they could become the next step in making our HDTVs smaller, lighter, brighter, darker, more colorful, and more environmentally friendly. –Will Greenwald

BEST HOME THEATER/AUDIO PRODUCT

Winner: Google TV
The winner for best home theater gear at CES this year isn’t a Blu-ray player or a set-top box. It’s a little piece of software you might have heard of called Google TV, but you might have also assumed it was dead. It’s seeing a huge launch here at CES. In fact, it’s the launch Google TV should have seen here last year.

Instead of a tepid three products from two companies, four manufacturers have come out with entire lines of Google TV products here at the show. Vizio and LG’s high-end smart TVs will use Google TV, along with Vizio and Sony’s new set-top boxes and Blu-ray players. Samsung will get into Google TV, though it hasn’t announced specific products yet.

The smart TV landscape has been fractured, with every major company using its own app ecosystem. With actual support from multiple HDTV manufacturers, Google TV could become the unifying system for connected HDTVs. –WG

Runner Up: Klipsch Console

BEST GAMING GEAR

Winner: Razer Project Fiona
Razer’s new gaming tablet is nothing like anything you’ve seen before. Instead of Android or another tablet OS, Project Fiona run Windows 7, with a Razer shell that incorporates a game library and a touch interface. On either side of the tablet sit hardware controls modeled after the Razer Hydra motion control system. It won’t be cheap—Razer is thinking $1,000 if and when it hits the market—but it could easily be the first real example of hardcore gaming in a tablet form factor. –WG

Runner Up: Razer Naga Hex Gaming Mouse

BEST DIGITAL CAMERA

Winner: Fujifilm X-Pro1
Even though the Nikon D4 is the most technically impressive—and most expensive—camera to debut here at CES, it’s not the best. For my money, that is the Fujifilm X-Pro1, a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera that, from the front, looks like a 1970s-era rangefinder. The 16-megapixel shooter uses a new sensor design that eliminates the low-pass filter, promising to deliver more natural images that don’t skimp on sharpness—and don’t exhibit moiré patterns.

The X-Pro1 takes it cues from other mirrorless designs, including the retro-styled Olympus PEN series that ushered in this new digital camera class. But it manages to squeeze an APS-C sensor into its body, which is larger than that of a Micro Four Thirds camera. It also has a unique optical/electronic hybrid viewfinder, similar to that found on the fixed-lens Fujifilm X100. –Jim Fisher

Runner Up: Nikon D4

BEST PRINTER

Winner: MakerBot Replicator
MakerBot Industries has been the most visible face of the personal 3D printing movement; its Thing-O-Matic printer has introduced both geeks and the public (through appearances on shows like The Colbert Report) to the technology of printing physical objects. The MakerBot Replicator can print larger objects than the Thing-O-Matic, up to the size of a loaf of bread. The two-nozzled (dual extruder) version of the Replicator is capable of printing objects in two colors using ABS and/or PLA plastics.

Priced at $1,749 for the single-extruder model and $1,999 for the dual-extruder version, the MakerBot Replicator comes fully assembled and ready within minutes to start printing. At that price it will appeal more to hobbyists than typical households, but its ability to print larger objects, and in different color combinations, has the potential to entice a new wave of experimenters into trying their hands at personalized manufacturing. –Tony Hoffman

BEST PROJECTOR

Winner: FAVI A3-WiFi Pico Projector
Projector makers have been expanding the capabilities of pocket-sized projectors, but the FAVI A3-WiFi goes further. Not only does this pico projector integrate Wi-Fi, it runs Android, uses Google Chrome as a browser, and has a built-in touchpad.

The FAVI A3 WiFi has a native SVGA resolution (800-by-600 pixels), 8GB of built-in memory, and a SD/SDHC/MMC card reader. Its lithium ion battery lasts for up to one hour between charges, and it has a built-in speaker, plus a USB port lets you connect the A3-WiFi to USB keyboards and mice. The projector can act as a personal media player, and be used for watching online videos or picture slide shows, playing music, displaying eBooks, Web browsing, and playing content from the internal memory or online.

We’ve seen cameras, smartphones, and other devices that incorporate projectors. The FAVI A3-WiFi starts with the projector and integrates other functions. It may not have the convenience of a laptop, but, at up to 100 inches, the image it displays is a lot larger. –TH

BEST NETWORKING PRODUCT

Winner: Netgear Media Storage Router with Integrated 2TB Hard Drive (WNDR4700)
Netgear’s Media Storage Router with Integrated 2TB Hard Drive is getting a lot of play at CES because when it comes to market, it will be only one of two dual-band wireless routers available that are also full SATA disk drive NAS solutions. The other? Apple’s Time Capsule.

Many higher-end routers offer some NAS functionality by including a USB port on the router’s chassis for connecting external USB storage devices. However, using USB drives connected to routers for shared network storage is slow in both read and writes, and storage capacity is limited. With more home users wanting to share digital data throughout their home networks, NAS devices are hot items. Not everyone, however, wants to setup and manage an individual NAS box. For these consumers, all-in-one devices like the Time Capsule prove attractive. Now with Netgear throwing its considerable networking weight in the ring with Apple, the competition between these two devices for market share is bound to be fierce. –Samara Lynn

BEST GADGET

Winner: ViewSonic EXOdesk
This HTML5 interface, which runs on top of Windows, Mac OS, or Android, turns a 32- to 40-inch touch screen into your desktop surface, supplementing both your keyboard and mouse and your main monitor with a customizable playing field for toys (solitaire games, mouse pads), productivity gadgets (calendars, app launchers)— you name it. It’s Minority Report meets Fisher-Price. –EG

Runner Up: Toshiba USB 3.0 Dynadock