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Google offers an excellent free email service to website owners where they can use custom domain names (yourchoice@yourdomain.com) to offer full-fledged Gmail styled email service with personal customization's and branding to their users.

To use Google's SMTP servers for sending emails, webmasters must configure there servers and application/scripts to use it instead of the default SMTP server configured on the system. While configuring the same for this drupal blog using SMTP Authentication Support Module, the following errors were shown resulting in repeated failures.

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]:
unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in SMTP->Connect()

Google Android users are eager to get there hands on the improved buttery smooth, Jelly Bean 4.1 update on their devices. While not all Android devices are able to handle the JellyBean upgrade - the latest ones like Samsung Galaxy S3 have enough horsepower to get going.

Samsung has now officially confirmed the dates for Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) upgrade via Kies, the update has already been pushed out in some European countries and India is scheduled to get official Android Jelly bean upgrade from 20 October, followed by push to American countries.

The DFU (Device Firmware Update) mode is needed to update/upgrade/restore an Apple iDevice, however if you want to flash a custom .IPSW file you must enter a Pwned DFU mode i.e. a special DFU mode which had exploited limera1n jailbroken core to allow operations not permitted by the normal Apple DFU core.

Here is a simple to follow, visual tutorial on how to enter the Pwned DFU mode on an Apple device using ever handy redsn0w jailbreaking tool.

Touch interactive user-interfaces are the latest trend across today's gadget and gizmos landscape, however if you are not willing to shell out premium money for these expensive touchscreens here is something of your interest.

TMDtouch is an China based company which is offering an innovative solution to enable full touch ability and gesture support to existing screens without installing anything on the host operating-system, the "Zorro Macsk" system works by mounting an magnetic aluminum frame on top of your screen and plugging in the USB cable to get everything working. The sensors built into the frame interacts with OS native multi-touch gestures converting your screen to a huge touchscreen display.

Must watch, exciting video demonstration of "Zorro Macsk" with iMac running Mac OS X and an huge screen running Windows 8 posted ahead.