Let's say you bought a new laptop and wanted to check out a few videos that you legally downloaded without leaving Windows 8's touch-focused UI -- until now, your options have been pretty limited. If you're feeling a little adventurous though, the beta version of VLC's media playerthat Microsoft News spotted on Redmond's app storeshould do the trick.

It's an experimental port of the Windows RT app, however, and as such the application has a few hurdles to clear before it's ready for prime time.

General sluggishness compared to the desktop version and some audio bugs, for instance, are a few issues that may crop up. Developer VideoLAN saysthat this version isn't nearly as stable as it should be (it is a beta, after all), but that hasn't stopped you from downloading its apps before, has it?

VLC for Windows 8 first beta:

http://t.co/CxDfE2gfNi

VideoLAN (@videolan)

As seen its becoming a common problem, users are experiencing issues when they update the Nokia (Express) Browser on their Asha or other s40 based phones. The problem occurs because the update doesn’t go up successfully. In most cases, some of the files from the older version remain there which causes the updated version to show a ‘Conflicting Applications‘ error which makes it impossible to open and browse using the default Nokia Browser.
Solution
Follow the steps:
1.Firstly backup the important data present on your phone using the Backup Utility (in settings) or backup on your PC using Nokia Suite. If you don’t backup, you will lose all your data such as Text Messages, Contacts, Calendar; etc.
2. Now, you have to reset the phone to factory setting. You have to choose Full Restore
Note: You can first try by skipping this step as it might work out without the need for a factory reset sometimes.
3. Now open Opera Mini or UC Browser
and visit http://download.browser.ovi.com/
You’ll be able to re-download Nokia Browser from that page and your problem will be solved.

Play Movie In Paint
Step 1: Open Ms Paint.
Step 2: Open your Video player.
Step 3: Click on the Print screen Button on your keyboard.
Step 4: In Ms Paint us the shortcut ctrl+v or got to the Edit Tab and choose Paste option.
Step 5: Bingo!!!!

Note: 1. This works only with Ms Paint.
2. For the movie to play in Paint the video player should not be closed and the movie should not be paused in the player

That’s it… Now when you double click on this shortcut Your PC will get locked..

Hackers and security researchers need their tools at hand always. Many of them are based on the popular Ubuntu and Debian operating system and come with a number of hacking tools installed.

1. BackTrack 5r3: This is one of the most loved and best known Linux-based hacking distributions. Based on Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system, Backtrack’s logo says, “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” With version 5, the GNOME desktop environment was added along with the usual KDE desktop environment.

 2. Nodezero:This is another Ubuntu-based hacking, which is used for penetration testing. Every time you get a patch for bugs in the Ubuntu OS, Nodezero also gets updated.

3. BackBox Linux:This iS yet another Ubuntu-based distro being used for hacking. According to the developers, the OS has been designed to create a penetration testing distro that is fast and easy to use. It also gets update with new ethical hacking tools regularly using repositories.

4. Blackbuntu:Ubuntu itself may not be a hacking distro, but there are plenty that are based on it. This distribution comes with categories such as Network Mapping, Information Gathering, Penetration, Vulnerability Identification, Privilege Escalation, Radio Network Analysis, VoIP analysis and more.

 5. Samurai Web Testing Framework: This distro lays focus on attacking websites using the best free and open source tools for hacking and attacking. The developers have incorporated four steps into the distribution, including, reconnaissance, mapping, discovery and exploitation.

 6. Knoppix STD: From Ubuntu to Debian, Knoppix STD is a Debian based hacking distribution that runs the GNOME, KDE, LXDE and Openbox desktop environments. It has been around for quite a long time now and was amongst the first live distros.

7. Pentoo: This is a live CD that is meant for security testing and is based on Gentoo. It comes with a number of customised tools and kernel from the company. These include a Backported WiFi stack, XFCE4 etc.

 8. Weakerthan: This distribution uses the Flufbox desktop environment and is best suited for WiFi hacking because of its many Wireless tools. It is a Debian Squeeze-based distribution that comes with tools for WiFi attacks, Cisco exploitation, SQL Hacking, Web Hacking, Bluetooth and others.

9. Matriux Krypton: After Weakerth4n, this is perhaps the first distribution that is directly based on the Debian OS. It contains an arsenal of 300 security tools and makes for a good choice for ethical hacking, penetration testing, security testing, system and network administration, cyber forensics investigations etc.

10. DEFT: This OS is based on the Linux Kernel 3 along with the Digital Advanced Response Toolkit. It uses WINE in order to run Windows tools Linux and predominantly run with the LXDE desktop environment.