Colasoft Capsa is a Network sniffer protocol analyzer developed by Colasoft. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24/7 network monitoring, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. It allows you to get a clear view of the complex network, conduct packet level analysis, and troubleshoot network problems.

The latest version of Colasoft Capsa is Capsa 6.9. The main new features in Capsa 6.9 are the ability to decode Cisco’s Inter-Switch Link protocol to virtual local area network information as traffic negotiates switch and router network paths, and support for the Fiber Channel over Ethernet protocol.

Enterprise Edition of Capsa 6.9 is currently certified for Windows 2000 Professional, XP Professional, Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008, as well as 64-bit versions of these operating systems. I tested it on Windows 7 and it works nicely.

It is very easy to capture and filter network traffic and use the diagnosis analyzer to check different network layers. For example we could check for application layer problems like DNS server errors, and troubleshoot simple mail transport protocol problems.

The User Interface is very simple to negotiate and a few clicks were sufficient to pull network traffic off all our NICs, and perform quite detailed analysis. The provision of easy access web resources on a sidebar was another neat touch, addressing network technicians still new to network protocol analysis.

Network support extends from 10/100Mbit/s systems to gigabit connectivity, and has microsecond timestamp capability. Firms with a simple network can deploy a straight network connection, but managed switches need port mirroring or test access ports if specific network segments need traffic captured.

One area where the competition has a clear advantage is the ability to run on dedicated hardware with certified NICs. Competitors like Network General, Network Instruments and WildPackets all have turnkey appliances able to take 10 Gigabit Ethernet network traffic straight to terabyte-sized storage arrays for detailed forensic analysis.

I conclude that Capsa is a pretty comprehensive package for network analysis, but users requiring high-end features, like the ability to analyze 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections in real time, may need to look at more expensive systems with dedicated hardware.

Google has brought out a translator toolkit that combines the company’s machine translation technology with online tools for manually editing content.

An earlier product, Google translate, allowed users to translate and read websites and plain text in a number of languages. The new translator toolkit targets users who want to edit and polish the translated text, and share or publish it.

Google’s statistical machine translation technology is trained using parallel streams of text in both the original language and the target language. Editing of machine translated text by users of the translator toolkit will help train the machine translation technology to a higher degree of accuracy.

Google’s Indian R&D lab developed the new product, which is the latest of a number of tools developed by Google in India to improve access to content in local languages.

The translator toolkit supports 47 languages, including five Indian languages.

Instead of re-creating content in local languages, Google translate and the translator toolkit allows people to translate existing content.

By an arrangement with Wikipedia, users can download a Wikipedia entry into the translator toolkit, translate it into a local language using machine translation, correct and polish the translation and post it to the online encyclopedia.

Professional translators can also upload personal files to the translator toolkit, and use the toolkit provided by Google, which includes a glossary, and dictionary, among other features. The local file and the translation can be kept private.

A translation memory database in the toolkit provides lookups to previous translations of similar sentences and text.

The toolkit is likely to be useful to publishers of news sites who now can target new audiences with local language editions at a lower cost.

The Yahoo! Mail Blog reported the launch of new cool applications inside Yahoo! Mail. These applications allow users to share more and save time. Applications from PayPal, Zumo Drive, Picnik, OtherInbox and Photobucket will be available inside Yahoo! mail.

You can notify these new applications in your Yahoo! Mail if you are already signed up for applications. If you haven’t sign up for use these new applications go to this URL, enter your email address and click on Submit button at right side of the page. The new applications are free and available to all US users of the new Yahoo! mail. If you are outside of US new applications will be rolled out slowly.

This application is used to transfer money online and to confirm within your email whether money is received or sent from your PayPal account.

This application allows you to crop, touch up, add effects and more to any of the photos that you have in your inbox or online. After editing photos you can share with your friends via email, or save to computer, or post to websites like Picasa, Flickr.

This application allows you to send and share large attachments (up to 100MB) with your friends and family. It provides option to send large files like videos, photos, and even entire folders to recipient.

This application allows you to see and share photos in Mail from attachments, Flickr, Picasa, and other photo-sharing sites.

YouTube XL is the new version of YouTube’s website and is specially designed for watching YouTube videos on TV or on large screen computer monitors. It is still working on browsers also.

The interface of the YouTube XL is very simple and clean. Currently the ad, suggested videos, comments and other content that clutters up the interface has been removed.

One of the most important features of YouTube XL is that it works on all devices that support browser and can connect to TV, means you will be able to use it through PS3.

YouTube is certainly moving in the right direction to get YouTube’s content on your TV.  Hopefully more premium content will appear on YouTube in the future.

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Nowadays Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is the top stories in media and tech blogs. All people like to know whether Bing search engine is better than Google search engine or not.

If you want to compare Google search results and Bing search results in a single page with different keywords then try the following websites. These websites use frames to split and display Bing and Google search engine.

1. Bing and Google
2. Bingle
3. Blackdog Google – Bing

All three websites compares Bing and Google search engine after entering any keyword in their main page.

Google announced on the Wave site that the service will feature an open protocol, Google Wave Federation Protocol, which can be used to build a “custom Wave system”. It provides APIs for writing extensions on both the client and server. Google also announced that they plan to release the majority of the source code as open source. Google Wave is created using the Google Web Toolkit.

The official Google blog states some important points regarding Google Wave:

• Google Wave a web application where people will use to access and edit waves. It includes a rich text editor and other functions like desktop drag-and-drop.
• Google Wave can also be considered as a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services, and to build new extensions that work inside waves.
• The Google Wave protocol is the underlying format for storing and the means of sharing waves, and includes the “live” concurrency control, which allows edits to be reflected instantly across users and services. The protocol is designed for open federation, so that any Wave service can interact with Google Wave.