Kentucky man charged in '80 slaying of Wis. couple

JEFFERSON, Wis. — Engraved beneath intertwined hearts that form a headstone at the grave site of Tim Hack and Kelly Drew are words that have haunted their small southeastern Wisconsin community for nearly three decades: "Kidnapped and Slain."

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Often you have loads of files to share with your friends, family and colleague. But sharing your files with a group with tools such as Dropbox is a test of your patience. To share your files with a group of users you need to upload your files to a centralized server first, then generate a shared URL and send to the recipients that entire process could be much time consuming. What if you could share files directly from your computer to a group of people without going through so many time-consuming steps. Voila! I got across a freeware that allows you to share your files easily from your computer directly using Gmail - . It simplifies the process of file sharing by treating each of the Gmail addresses as unique IP address for all the computers with g2Peer installed.  Let's see how to share files on your PC using g2Peer.

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If you are seriously interested in iPhone 3.0 Firmware upgrade that was published this morning, you need to upgrade it right? Well without jailbreaks, its possible to upgrade to iphone 3.0. I will show you how to do it in just 5 mins. So don't worry. let's first see what are there in the iPhone 3.0 software update which is still in BETA phase mind you but well worth the use. Full article (482 words) »

Jason Calcanis has a simple solution for America's woes. To summarize his eminently readable article in his own words: Full article (884 words) »

I know most of you would be outraged at such a question. However just for a moment take a look at the biodata of a jehadi who worked as a senior software engineer / architect at Yahoo. He is a capable technologist, has deep understanding of Linux, Unix & nginx, httpd and other technologies. He is a must hire at most companies he will apply to. However the situation changes drastically if you knew he was a hardcore jehadi and responsible for mass-murder / terrorist attacks.

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Twitter (you can follow me here) has the annoying habit of shortening your long and meaningful url to a short meaningless jumble using tinyurl, even when the full url and accompanying text fits into their 140 character limit. For example I posted this article on how you can include multiple jar files in a single jar file in Ant build tool. Twitter automatically shortened the url to this meaningless jumble - http://tinyurl.com/5uclnr. So how can you paste meaningfull url's in Twitter without jumbling?

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Here is a nice story on sorting the priorities of life:

A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

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Do you have any experience with Pentium Dual Core 3 Ghz CPU? I am looking at an offering from Lenovo, currently in negotiation, for purchasing several PC's. Specifically I am looking to know:
1. With their reputation for heat generation, how suitable are they for east-Indian climate of Kolkata?
2. How is Lenovo's reputation in Kolkata in terms of product & customer service?

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AlienBlaster is a refreshing open source shoot-the-aliens game with various levels and an arcade mode. It is available on Windows, Linux, OS/2 & eComStation, Mac OSX (DarwinPorts), MorphOS and AmigaOS4.

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Stalking appears to be the most appropriate way to describe my recent experiences. First of all Twitter (I love the service) has changed the message from so and so is your friend to the eerie message so and so is following you. I am sure girls will have a fun time with such frequent messages. But that's not the best part.

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