Mail Goggles launched by Gmail team

Google mail engineer Jon Perlow, has created Mail Goggles for Gmail.

The feature's name comes from the famous "beer goggles". When one enables Mail Goggles, it checks whether you really want to send that e-mail by prompting you to solve a few simple math problems after you click "send."

In his own words, "Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can't always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we're launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help."

"When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?" says Jon Perlow on his blog post on the Gmail Blog.

By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you're most likely to need it. However, once enabled, you can adjust when it's active in the General settings.

"Hopefully Mail Goggles will prevent many of you out there from sending messages you wish you hadn't. Like that late night memo -- I mean mission statement -- to the entire firm," he added.

'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled

According to BBC, unbreakable encryption has been unvieled in Vienna where a network consisting of six locations across Vienna and in the nearby town of St Poelten, using 200 km of standard commercial fibre optic cables has been setup.

Quantum systems use the laws of quantum theory, which have been shown to be inherently unbreakable. "All quantum security schemes are based on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, on the fact that you cannot measure quantum information without disturbing it," Gilles Brassard of Montreal University explained. "Because of that, one can have a communications channel between two users on which it's impossible to eavesdrop without creating a disturbance. An eavesdropper would create a mark on it. That was the key idea."

Albert Einstein, who discovered the quantum properties of photons of light - indeed, discovered the very concept of the photon - always resisted quantum theory's spooky behaviour, "God does not play dice", being among his oft-quoted objections. But experiments eventually proved that he apparently does, and also laid the technical foundations for today's quantum information revolution - cryptography, teleportation, and computation.

The XML page cannot be displayed

This is a very common error people face when installing ASP.Net applications.

You finish installing the app and go to the corresponding URL in the browser and you see this error message "The XML page cannot be displayed. Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click Refresh button, or try again later. A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'http://servername/applicationname/'."

This is caused due to the fact that the .aspx and .asmx extensions are not registered in your IIS website properly. Perform the following steps to remedy the solution:

1) Open IIS (Start->Run->inetmgr)
2) Right click your website (virtual directory) and select properties.
3) Click the configuration button.
4) In the Application Configuration screen, click add and browse to the path 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll' and in the Extension box type '.aspx' and click ok. Perform this step again for the .asmx extension pointing to the same executable file.
5) Click OK and close the properties box.

Now test your website and it should work fine. Please note that the above steps are for IIS 5.1, but the steps in IIS 6.0 mimic these closely.

Hope this helps!