WhatsApp has became the defacto leader for free, cross-platform online mobile messaging nowadays. And to challenge that, the other popular online messaging service BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is going cross-platform by releasing native apps for both Apple iOS and Google Android. BBM has been the top reason for many users to buy BlackBerry phones, BBM has also been the standard for mobile instant messaging with it's fast and robust service and it's launch on rival platforms is surely going to give WhatsApp run for it's money.

In it's first incarnation on multiple platforms, iOS and Android users will be able to do BBM chats (both single and multi-person), voice note sharing and BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up groups of up to 30 people and share calendar, photos, files and more.

We have seen how iTunes cryptic numeric error codes can be a huge pain to understand and solve. Imagine the confusion and frustration when an application clearly shows the error and it's solution but refuses to work even after the remedy, while WhatsApp for PC is definetly a good idea using it on mobile platform is the intended usage. I recently came across an strange error on my friends WhatsApp install on an Google Android tablet where it refused to launch showing "Your phone date is inaccurate! Adjust your clock and try again." error, strangely the date and time settings were accurate and even network fetched clock sync did not make WhatsApp buzz.

Kali Linux the new version of popular advanced penetration testing and security auditing Linux distribution Backtrack is now available as an ready to flash official image for Raspberry Pi. The convergence of portable mini computing power of Raspberry Pi and 300+ open-source penetration testing tools provided by Kali Linux makes them a killer combination. We have already seen how raspi-config utility proves to be a must have tool for essential tweaks to Raspberry Pi, sadly installing and using the same on Kali Linux requires some extra bit of efforts as shown ahead.

Imagine the confusion when your WiFi network is showing all available WiFi access points in the neighborhood except the one you want to connect to, adding more confusion - the same access-point is visible and connectable from other devices. Since, your WiFi access-point is visible from other devices and your WiFi client can see other access-point we can be sure that the two particular devices are working fine and are only having issues communicating to each other.

I recently encountered the same with my TECH-COM USB Wireless LAN Adapter, and the issue was this particular USB adaptor not able to work with WiFi channel 13. I even tried changing the WiFi channel properties by navigating to "Advanced" properties tab but this one simply refused to work. To get things back to a working state, I had to change WiFi channel back to 6 at the WiFi router.