50 Random Articles
- New Screenshots of Apple's Snow Leopard 10.6
Are you one of those Mac buffs who's waiting to catch a glimpse of the much-hyped Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard? Voila! I dug out an extensive screenshot gallery of the latest Snow Leopard 10.6 distributed at this week's
- WiGig: Intel, Microsoft and Dell team up for the most superior wireless technology
Intel, Microsoft, Dell band together for WiGig
NEW YORK — Wi-Fi, WiMax, WirelessHD, WHDI and now ... WiGig?
Computer and home entertainment industry leaders, including Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc. and Panasonic Corp., said Wednesday that they're forming a new association
- Ruminating on Design
Today is one of those days. I am designing a new software and in a reflective mood. I realized how many of our popular frameworks and software are simply stupid designs with no concerns for usability and aesthetics. Patterns are
- Cablevision unveils fastest Internet speed yet for cable, at 101 mbps
Cablevision has fastest Internet speeds for cable
Cablevision Systems Corp. is set to unveil Tuesday the fastest Internet speeds available from any cable or phone company. Starting May 11, the Bethpage, N.Y.-based cable operator will offer speeds of up to 101
- How Social Networking Sites Can Get You Fired and Why?
I will start with the story straight up.
Kimberley Swann, a 16-year-old girl from Clacton-On-Sea in Essex, began working as an office administrator for Ivell Marketing & Logistics at the beginning of February. She began posting short comments about her job
- Bug in Google AdSense
I had Google AdSense running on Health Care blog for a long time. What I didn't notice was that it wasn't making any revenue despite the traffic, and displaying AdSense ads. It wasn't even showing the page impressions, not just
- Simple Firefox DNS Hacks To Boost Performance
While an individual DNS request often takes small time to execute, when the primary DNS server is overloaded or unavailable it can take quite sometime to resolve your requests. Now what has that to do with improving Firefox performance?
Firefox
- Google.com Down!
For the last hour or so Google.com is down.
Update: Everything is back to normal.
- Officials eye North Korea as origin of cyber attack that showed US agencies unevenly prepared
US officials eye North Korea in cyber attackWASHINGTON — U.S. authorities on Wednesday eyed North Korea as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites in the United States and South Korea, although they warned that
- Same name couple set to exchange wedding vows
LONDON - A couple who share their name are all set to share their lives too-they are tying the knot after first meeting on Facebook.
The duo met the social networking site when they found that
- Software security market growth dips in Asia Pacific: Gartner
NEW DELHI - The growth of the information technology (IT) security market in Asia Pacific dipped to 28.3 percent in 2008 from 36 percent a year before, a leading global IT industry researcher said in a report released Thursday.
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- Deep Thoughts from Steve Jobs
I came across this excellent piece of commencement address from Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Computer. You can see that it came from his heart and he said many things which are close to my heart.
I enjoyed reading it.
- Get Huge Discount on 50+ Mac Apps, Hurry!
20% Discount if you choose 3 apps!
50% with 5 apps or more! and you have only until the 30th of November 2008 to get the best of the offer.
If you still didn't understand, I am talking about Mac. Spicy Distribution
- How To Create Your Own Search Engine in Opera?
You can easily create your own search engines and even assign keywords to them in a minute or so. This mini-tutorial will show you how you can add any WordPress blogs search as one of your search engines. This is
- Maytas denies receiving funds from Satyam
HYDERABAD - Maytas Infra Tuesday denied it received any funds from scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services, and that there was a nexus between the two companies.
The denial came a day after the central government extended the ambit of probe into Satyam
- Intel charged of $1.45 billion anti-trust fine for playing AMD down for years
Intel antitrust fine is a big moment for rival AMD
SAN FRANCISCO — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is a scrappy underdog whose 40-year history in the computer chip business has been punctuated by bursts of technological innovation and severe downturns. Now
- Offer from Russian investor puts value of at least $6.5 billion on Facebook
Offer puts value of at least $6.5B on FacebookNEW YORK — How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $6.5 billion to $10 billion.
The investment group, Digital Sky Technologies, said Monday it will buy
- Dell XPS M1710 Laptop Rocks Mobile Gaming World
It is arguably the fastest mobile gaming machine with Intel dual core processor and nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GTX.
Specifications:
Operating System: MS Windows XP Media Center
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo T2600
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
RAM: 2048 MB
Hard Drive Capacity: 100 GB
Graphics:
- How the ban on adult stem cells affects the fight against diabetes
Harvard researcher Dr. Denise Faustman thinks she can cure type 1 (or juvenile) diabetes. She's done it in mice and wants to try it on humans. She's gotten financial backing from the Lee Iacocca Foundation and other groups, but needs
- Google Kills Anti-Scientology Site's AdSense Account
Google killed the AdSense account of an anti-scientology site - Enturbulation. Google's explanation to Enturbulation was:
"While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers," read Google's letter to
- Microsoft Bings Twitter to Search
With Twitter's foray into mainstream media there has been a urge for real-time search and urgency of delivering topical data. Google and Facebook are working out significant changes on their search tools to fillip status updates. In the meantime, tweets
- e-Commerce Marketing is gaining momentum due to recession
Recession forces new focus in e-commerce marketing
NEW YORK — Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or just work to retain customers, according
- Satyam's new board hunts for CEO and CFO
HYDERABAD - The government-appointed board of directors for scam-hit Satyam Computers has begun the hunt for a new chief executive officer and a chief finance officer as part of measures to restore credibility and confidence in the country's fourth largest
- Top 5 Free Antivirus Software
You get what you don't pay for in life. So if you want to skim on security software, you'll lose out on customer support, which can save you when badware gets stubborn.
But most of your "tech support" involves waiting on
- How To Enable / Use .htaccess / Nice permalinks in Apache Web Server on Windows
.htaccess is a web server directive file populalrly used in Apache Web Server in Linux / Unix environment. In windows environment there is a simple way to enable and use .htaccess. Additionally it allows you to create nice permalinks for
- China restarts limited phone and Internet access in riot-hit Xinjiang region
China's Xinjiang gets some phone, Internet serviceBEIJING — Limited phone messaging and Internet access are now available in China's Xinjiang region, more than three weeks after the government cut services in the wake of deadly ethnic riots, officials said Tuesday.
Yang
- HCL to provide IT application support to US firm
NEW DELHI - Software service provider HCL Technologies Tuesday said it has won a contract from US-based beverages producer Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) to provide IT application support and infrastructure management services.
According to the contract, HCL will deliver
- Terrorist activity tripled last year; US insisting it is winning the war on terror
The United States reported on Wednesday that terrorist activity in the world increased sharply last year with the number of attacks and dead more than tripling but that it was winning the global "war on terror".
The US National
- Yahoo Pipes Review
Much has been written about Yahoo Pipes and lots of how-to tutorial. I was pleasantly surprised to see the ease of use of Yahoo Pipes and how easily I could create a simple pipe to get data in RSS feed
- Added Forum for Anaconda Theme
I have added a forum for our popular 3 column widgetized Anaconda Theme (for WordPress blogs).
Looking forward to your participation in the Anaconda forum.
I used XDForum.
- View All WordPress Options
Browse to http://your.blog.domain/wp-admin/options.php
Replace your.blog.domain with your own blog domain like for example blog.taragana.com for this blog.
- Email Subscription System for Blogs - Bloglet is Broken; Alternatives?
I used Bloglet for allowing email subscription option to my blogs. However for the past week or more bloglet is broken.
I have tried contacting the owner Monsur (owner of Bloglet) without success. It still remains broken.
Another option is RMail. However
- The Biggest Benefit of Economic Crisis in USA
The economic crisis may be doing what pastors, family therapists and matrimonial counselors have long struggled to accomplish and yet mostly failed: keeping troubled marriages together.
Marriage counselors and divorce lawyers nationwide say more distressed couples are putting off divorce because
- Stanford scientists takes first step towards producing renewable source of insulin producing cells from brain-derived stem cells
Stanford scientists (Yuichi Hori1, Xueying Gu, Xiaodong Xie, Seung K. Kim) were able to transform "brain-derived human neural progenitor cells" (read stem cells from brain) to glucose responsive insulin producing cells after subjecting them to signals that regulate islet development.
- Testing for Recruitment Software Update
In the previous post I mentioned about developing a recruitment testing software. We decided to develop the software to help with our ongoing testing needs for hiring new developers. The key features are:
Ability to conduct timed online tests. The remaining
- Infosys net up 33 percent in third quarter
BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies Ltd. has posted net profit of Rs.16.41 billion (Rs.1,641 crore) for the third quarter (October-December) of this fiscal (2008-09), registering 33.3 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth and 14.6 percent sequentially under the Indian accounting system.
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- 1 in 10 Brit drivers use Twitter while driving
LONDON - British drivers are increasingly using micro-blogging site Twitter while they are behind the wheels, and are thus putting themselves and other in danger, says a new survey.
The survey for online insurer, esure, found that almost one in 10
- RSS Push Model (ex. PubSub) is not viable in long run
PubSub is a tool to push feed items to your desktop. You register at PubSub, identify topics of interest and the news will start coming to your desktop automated and in near real-time.
This model shares the same weakness as
- India Ahead of Japan & China in Google Search Trends
Let the picture speak for itself.
india japan china
It shows the level of interest in India. USA and India are very close together in terms of search engine trends.
- Satyam gets regulator's nod to auction 51 percent stake
MUMBAI - Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services has secured the nod from the India's markets regulator to sell 51-percent majority stake by way of a global auction to put the software bellwether, hit by a $1.43-bilion fraud, back on rails.
The Securities
- Comparison of Software RAID on Windows versus Linux
The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is
- PC shipments fell 3 percent in 2nd quarter; Dell snatches back top spot in US from HP
PC shipments down 3 pct., less than expected in 2QSEATTLE — Worldwide personal computer shipments declined at a gentler pace than expected in the second quarter as consumers snapped up inexpensive laptops, two technology research groups said Wednesday.
Still, the figures
- Will You Trade Eternal Sin for Free DVD?
The Rational Response Squad is giving away 1001 DVDs of The God Who Wasn't There, the hit documentary that the LA Times calls "provocative -- to put it mildly." There's only one catch: You have to commit what some non-liberal
- WordPress.com's Dedicated Web Hosting Provider LayeredTech User Accounts Compromised
Automattic hosts WordPress.com using dedicated servers from LayeredTech. According to Todd Abrams, President & COO of Layered Technologies:
"The Layered Technologies support database was a target of malicious activity on the evening of 9/17/2007 that may have involved the illegal downloading
- Google Unveils U.S. Government Search Site
Google Inc. unveiled a search site today to help you find U.S. government information.
Google U.S. Government Search features on its entry page government-related news articles from media outlets and official announcements from the White House, the military and Congress.
Aimed at
- Company owned by Skype founders files copyright lawsuit that could throw wrench in Skype sale
Skype founders file lawsuit against eBaySAN FRANCISCO — A company owned by the founders of Skype has filed a copyright infringement suit against the Internet phone service and parent eBay Inc. — an action that could crimp eBay's plans to
- University of California Joins Google Library Project
The University of California is joining Google's book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement.
The deal covers all the libraries in UC's 10-campus system, marking the
- Spend 4,400 Pound and a Get a Degree on Facebook and Twitter from Britain! Wow!
Now this was the last thing to happen and it has now. Much to your joy, now date while you study and study while you make friends online. Thanks to British University, that is starting degree course on Facebook, Twitter
- Telecom services: 3G players will be allowed in 2G space as well
NEW DELHI - Successful bidders for spectrum allocation for third generation (3G) telecom services will also be eligible to get spectrum space for second generation (2G) services, as and when any space becomes available, the Telecom Commission said here Tuesday.
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- How To Bulk Export Thunderbird Email & Attachments
Thunderbird doesn't provide an in-built way to export and save emails & attachments in bulk. Unfortunately the forwarding emails as attachment functionality is broken on the receiving end (Thunderbird email client). So if you need to forward emails with attachment
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