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Microsoft Tests Desktop Blogging Tool

2006-08-15T00:04:00.000+05:30

Microsoft on Friday released a beta of Windows Live Writer, a new application designed to create blog posts for Live Spaces and a number of other services. Appearing like a slimmed down version of Microsoft Word, the tool is available free of charge. Users can author blog posts in a WYSIWYG environment that makes editing easy and shows exactly how the post will look when published. An HTML

Personal Computer's 25th Anniversary

2006-08-13T11:56:00.000+05:30

The personal computer, an invention which has changed the lives of millions of people, is 25 years old today.Twenty-five years ago, IBM changed the world. It wasn't intentional. When Big Blue announced a microcomputer called the IBM Personal Computer on August 12, 1981, it hoped only to make a nice profit. The company did make money--but more important, the IBM PC, also known as the Model 5150,

Microsoft starts testing of advertising network

2006-03-17T11:17:00.000+05:30

Microsoft on March 15 announced that it has started testing display advertisements across its Microsoft Office Live, Windows Live Mail and MSN Spaces websites. The multi-market tests include advertisements from such global companies as Coca-Cola Brazil, JCPenney, and Monster Worldwide and marks the beginning of providing advertisers with broader access to Microsoft's valuable online audience,

Will Apple Adopt Windows?

2006-02-17T12:08:00.000+05:30

Bigger companies than Apple have dropped their proprietary OSs in favor of Windows—think IBM and OS/2. IBM also jumped on the Linux bandwagon over its own AIX version of Unix. Business eventually trumps sentimentality in any large company. Another issue for Apple is that the Intel platform is wide open, unlike the closed proprietary system Apple once had full control over. With a proprietary

A new Google Talk interface

2006-02-07T21:53:00.000+05:30

Google Inc. is tightening the link between Gmail and Google Talk by allowing users to conduct instant messaging text chat sessions from within the Webmail service’s interface, the Mountain View, California, company plans to announce on Tuesday. To use Google Talk from within Gmail, users don’t need to download any additional software nor a separate application. It’s a new Gmail feature that

Russian Inventor Patents Invisibility Cloak

2006-01-28T12:45:00.000+05:30

A professor from chair of quantum and optical electronics of the Ulyanovsk State University in western Russia has patented a method of making things invisible, Interfax news agency reported. The so-called invisibility cloak, created by Oleg Gadomsky, is called “The method of conversion of optical radiation” in the patent. Gadomsky had been long experimenting on nanoparticles of gold. Thus, he

Yahoo! takes on Skype

2005-12-12T10:19:00.000+05:30

The Yahoo! Internet portal is extending the use of its VoIP capacity built into its Instant Messenger product to take on Skype. The company says that within the next few days it will be debuting a new service 'Phone Out', with cheap call charges from computers to phones, and 'Phone In', a budget priced subscription service for phone callers to call computer users. Using the Phone Out service,

Yahoo answers

2005-12-08T19:56:00.000+05:30

Yahoo Inc. unveiled a service Wednesday that allows users to get their questions answered online for free by volunteers. The feature, called Yahoo Answers, gives a human touch to what has typically been the exclusive role of the Web portal's search engine. Users can submit questions on any topic at answers.yahoo.com and wait for others to post responses, sort of like a community reference desk

Microsoft betas Anti Virus software

2005-12-02T14:36:00.000+05:30

Windows OneCare is a comprehensive PC health service that goes beyond security to take an integrated approach to help protect and care for your computer. The Windows OneCare health meter gives you a clear, continuous indication of your computer's overall level of protection and performance. If Windows OneCare detects anything that you can do to improve the health of your computer, the service

Google Web Accelerator

2005-11-20T14:41:00.000+05:30

Bigger, better, faster, more! Even in these days of gigahertz processors and broadband connections, users are naturally trying to exploit their power for the fastest access to information possible. Leverage the power of the Internet's premiere search engine by caching its contents and feeding that cached info directly to users, thus streamlining data delivery and bypassing any Internet traffic

Oracle unveils free database

2005-11-02T11:13:00.000+05:30

Hoping to appeal to smaller businesses and fend off competition from open-source rivals, Oracle released a free version of its database software. Oracle announced Oracle(r) Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), a free, starter edition of the world's leading database software. This new edition of Oracle Database 10g offers application developers, database administrators (DBAs) and

Google Wallet May Debut Soon

2005-10-30T17:28:00.000+05:30

Google may launch its widely anticipated online payments system Google Wallet before the holidays, an analyst said Friday, giving the search giant yet another way to profit from its widening Web empire. The service is expected to rival eBay’s PayPal, which allows web users to transfer money from, say, consumer to merchant without using a credit card. PayPal users have to credit their accounts

Flock gives taste of Web 2.0

2005-10-21T10:38:00.000+05:30

A cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed 'Flock', which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing, was launched today. The browser's new features are all based around new Web technologies fast attracting fans in the online community, as part of a movement which has come to be known as Web 2.0. For example, the

The Return of AJAX ?

2005-10-18T09:52:00.000+05:30

Some relatively new Google applications have prompted renewed interest in a programming technique that is years old.Google Suggest and Google Maps gave Web users the sense they were using a desktop application instead of an Internet-based tool. Google Suggest fills in words for suggested search terms, and typing an address into Google Maps returns a detailed map of the immediate area with the

Samsung produces 3GB mobile

2005-10-17T18:15:00.000+05:30

Samsung has announced a 3GB mobile phone - the largest memory capacity ever seen in a mobile. The SPH-V7900 can also function as a portable storage device for computers, Samsung said. It can hold 700 music files and store up to 2,400 contact details. Support for OS/2 will only be available under a service contract

Google Extensions for Firefox

2005-07-15T14:12:00.000+05:30

Google has released extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser which i think are very useful. These exensions include : Google Toolbar: Google Send to Phone: Google Suggest: I tried the google toolbar and suggest extensions which are very good.

Microsoft revs up Windows for cars

2005-07-13T15:18:00.000+05:30

Microsoft today unveiled Windows Automotive 5.0, the latest version of its operating system designed for in-vehicle computers running navigation, entertainment and communication systems. Based on the real-time embedded Windows CE 5.0, Windows Automotive 5.0 has been designed to integrate with services offering real-time traffic updates, directions to the cheapest petrol in town, turn-by-turn

Opera Incorporates BitTorrent

2005-07-08T15:52:00.000+05:30

Opera Software has launched a technical preview of the Opera browser for Windows, Linux and Mac that includes support for BitTorrent. Integrating this popular file-downloading technology in the Opera browser offers the end user a faster download process by utilizing full bandwidth and reducing the chance of in-transfer delay when multiple users download the same file. Christen Krogh, VP of

Google Unveils Personalized Search Beta

2005-06-30T06:48:00.000+05:30

Google has launched a beta version of its newly developed Personalized Search service, allowing the search engine to tailor results to the user. Google said that a fishing enthusiast, for example, would now get different results than a musician when entering the word "bass" as a search query. The service builds on the My Search History feature

world's 'fastest gaming CPU'

2005-06-27T11:15:00.000+05:30

AMD today launched its latest gamer-oriented single-core processor, the Athlon 64 FX-57, positioning the part well above its recently released dual-core desktop chips. The FX-57 is also the first member of the FX family to be fabbed at 90nm. It's also the first to support Intel's SSE 3 vector processing instruction set. Those features clearly qualify the chip for gamers, but AMD also said it

Samsung Wins Latest Memory Speed Race

2005-06-23T10:08:00.000+05:30

Memory races are perhaps not as exciting as the processor and graphics card battles, but no less essential to the development of the PC and now Samsung has taken GDDR to the next level. Fabbed at 90nm, the 512MB 2Gbps GDDR3 (Graphics Double Data Rate 3) module has a massive 8GBps throughput making it 70 per cent faster than the 1.2Gbps chips used in the current wave of video cards. The chief

Microsoft works on own BitTorrent

2005-06-20T18:57:00.000+05:30

Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, UK, are developing their own peer-to-peer file-sharing software. Codenamed Avalanche, the program makes it easy to share content by dividing files such as software, audio or video, into chunks, much like BitTorrent. Using "network coding", it can re-create missing blocks of data that can be used in place of missing chunks. In BitTorrent systems, server

Skype rocks

2005-06-17T21:06:00.000+05:30

Skype adds video to its VoIP service vSkype adds video and sharing to your Skype experience. Skype says: Getting started is simple. Just connect a camera,

Yahoo launches 'deep web' search

2005-06-16T22:40:00.000+05:30

Yahoo’s battle to wrestle control of the lucrative search engine market stepped up a gear today when it introduced the internet’s first "deep web" search service. The service allows users to search subscription-only websites containing content that most search engines cannot usually access. The search service is free, although users must have a subscription to the relevant content-provider if

Michael Jackson 'suicide' can kill your PC!

2005-06-13T10:52:00.000+05:30

Pop king Michael Jackson fans beware. Any message on your computer monitor that says that Michael Jackson has made a suicidal attempt will surely crash your computer. According to eonline, the latest virus doing the rounds is "The "News from Neverland Ranch" displaying information about a "suicidal attempt" by Michael Jackson. When the user clicks on the "Read more" button to find out more

Microsoft's Acrylic.

2005-06-12T17:03:00.000+05:30

Microsoft has released a test version of a new professional graphics tool code-named Acrylic. The software is based on Expression, the graphics application Microsoft acquired with its 2003 purchase of Hong Kong company Creature House, the software giant said on its Web site. Microsoft describes the software currently available as a 77MB free

Prototype of HD DVD-R Developed

2005-06-10T20:25:00.000+05:30

A group of four manufacturers has announced the development of a prototype of a HD DVD-R disc, the write-once next generation DVD disc that can be produced at high volume on standard DVD-Recordable production lines. Hitachi Maxell and Mitsubishi Kagaku Media/Verbatim, two of Japan's leading manufacturers of optical disc media, have separately tested and verified the manufacturability of the

Bagle Resurfaces

2005-06-02T18:33:00.000+05:30

Email security service company, MessageLabs has issued a warning about a new variant of the Bagle worm that is currently making its presence felt over the Internet. The company has reportedly intercepted about 8,50,000 copies of the worm already and has given it a "high outbreak" rating. The Bagle variant arrives as an empty e-mail with an attachment in a zip file. Users who open the attachment

Mindset Tool from Yahoo

2005-06-01T22:35:00.000+05:30

Yahoo has released a new beta search tool called Mindset which allows users to sort search results for queries into commercial or non-commercial results. Search queries can be adjusted 'on the fly' by moving a slider bar - which sits at the top of the search page - to the left or right in order to show more commercial or more informational results. Yahoo's Mindset operates as an online tool -

Sony Tests CD Copy Protection

2005-05-31T19:40:00.000+05:30

Sony BMG Music entertainment is testing a technology solution to enhance copy protection of CDs, barring consumers from making additional copies of burned CD-R discs. The company has released ten commercial titles since March this year, featuring the technology from UK s anti-piracy firm, First4Internet, This technology allows consumers to make limited copies of the protected disc and blocks

Firefox users fight phishing

2005-05-29T19:44:00.000+05:30

Firefox users have been flocking to the Netcraft website to download the security company's new anti-phishing toolbar. The free toolbar, released Tuesday, was downloaded more than 60,000 times within hours of its release, according to Netcraft Internet Services Developer Paul Mutton. By comparison, the company's anti-phishing toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has been

Yahoo!'s Photomail

2005-05-26T15:59:00.000+05:30

The portal and search engine company offers another online tool; this one lets you e-mail 300 digital photos to your friends. In a Reuters article, the Sunnyvale-based portal and search company announced a new service for its users. As a test version, users will be able to send up to 300 pictures to a recipient. Features like captions and borders can be added to each picture. Some minor editing

Google announces personalized home page

2005-05-20T12:32:00.000+05:30

Google Inc. on Thursday introduced a new option that will enable visitors to display more information on the online search engine leader's bare-bones home page, a departure that pushes the company a step closer to operating an Internet portal in the mold of rivals Yahoo and MSN.com. The feature, available at http://labs.google.com, allows the millions of Google users worldwide to select

Yahoo! Messenger v7.0.0.242 (Beta)

2005-05-18T15:39:00.000+05:30

Yahoo! Messenger allows you to quickly exchange messages with your online friends. Unlike e-mail, instant messages appear as soon they're sent. By downloading the application to your computer, you can send instant messages. Other features include voice chat, file transfer, mail and stock quote alerts, sports scores, news, and much more. As we gave you all a small glimpse over Yahoo!

Do you need MS Desktop Search??

2005-05-17T17:11:00.000+05:30

Just when Google released the Desktop Search, Microsoft also launched the much hyped MSN Toolbar Suite Beta which promises to find files, photos, and music, the interface is fancy and cool. I am sure this has convinced you enough to download this suite and try it yourself. But just wait before hitting the download button. Why do you need MS Desktop Search when your computer already has MS

Sony unveils PlayStation 3

2005-05-17T09:38:00.000+05:30

Sony won't have a new console on the market this holiday season, but it's doing all it can to convince consumers to wait a bit longer before buying their next video game machine. The company unveiled details of its planned PlayStation 3 Monday, showing off a machine with enormous horsepower, stunning graphics and a slew of multimedia

Microsoft launches desktop search toolbar

2005-05-16T20:00:00.000+05:30

Microsoft has released an MSN Search toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, a suite of tools that help users to rapidly search for files and information across the web or their PC. The solution will compete with desktop search solutions under development from Yahoo and Google. The toolbar lets users search their desktops from within familiar applications such as Internet Explorer and Microsoft

Xbox 360 unveiled

2005-05-15T22:00:00.000+05:30

This weekend's big news is of course the unveiling of the Xbox 360. The new console system debuted on MTV Thursday, with Microsoft revealing the white-and-silver console and what secrets it contains. No less than three IBM microprocessors will be utilised to provide a whole new generation of gaming performance that leaves the original Xbox standing still. The Xbox is powered by a 733-

Firefox vulnerabilities patched

2005-05-13T20:42:00.000+05:30

Mozilla has released a new version of the Firefox Web browser to patch critical vulnerabilities. Users are encouraged to upgrade from version 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 to protect their systems from the possible threats. The Firefox 1.0.4 Release Notes are simple: What's New 1.0.4 Firefox 1.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers.

Laptop for 10,000 Rs

2005-05-12T11:42:00.000+05:30

A computer, a mobile one, for Rs.10,000? A Bangalore-based company on Tuesday announced the development of such a system under a project sponsored by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). It is expected to be available commercially in three months. Vinay L. Deshpande, chairman and chief executive officer of Encore Software, told a press conference the system would have the

Bits and Bytes

2005-05-08T22:09:00.000+05:30

Because computers are made up of digital electronics, internally they respond to two kinds of electrical states: "on" or "off". These may actually be high or low voltage, positive and negative voltage, or some other combination. The key is that there are two conditions. We represent these with two numbers: 0 and 1, and the arithmetic that deals with these two states is called binary arithmetic.

Google Releases Web Accelerator

2005-05-08T12:48:00.000+05:30

Google Inc. has launched in beta software that the company says will speed up the time it takes to search the Internet and to load web content. Web Accelerator, which is available at no charge, runs alongside a browser and directs all searches and page requests through Google's servers. The software supports Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browsers. In

AOL Previews Next-Gen Instant Messenger

2005-05-03T17:02:00.000+05:30

Latest News about AOL is preparing to ditch its decade-old instant messaging Latest News about instant messaging platform, building a replacement from scratch that's designed to integrate text, audio, video and future forms of communication. AOL has released an early, limited-feature preview of its next-generation IM software, called Triton, and hopes to complete it by year's end. AOL plans

My Best Freeware List

2005-04-27T23:20:00.000+05:30

Best Free Software Suite The Open CD site offers for free a wonderful collection of just about every application software product you need to run a PC. Many of these substitute admirably for expensive commercial products. There is Abi Word as an alternative for MS Word, OpenOffice for MS Office XP, ThunderBird for Outlook, The Gimp for Adobe Photoshop, 7-zip for WinZIP are many more. Note:

Trust Rank Algorithm

2005-04-27T11:19:00.000+05:30

TrustRank is a system for automatically separating "spam" Web pages from "good" ones. Google registered the trademark for TrustRank on March 16 - does this mean we can look forward to less spam in our Google search results? TrustRank can be use to automatically boost pages that have a high probablility of being good, as well as demote the rankings of pages that have a high probability of

Tiger Unleashed

2005-04-24T09:52:00.000+05:30

Mac OS X Tiger changes the way we use a computer. Breakthrough search technology, stunning graphics and media, unparalleled connectivity, an intuitive user interface and a virtual toolbox chock full of cleverly integrated features — all atop a rock-solid UNIX foundation — give us the most innovative, stable and compatible desktop operating system on the planet. SpotLight Spotlight for Mac OS

Buffer overflow bug explained

2005-04-23T23:55:00.000+05:30

What is a buffer overflow and how does it happen? Why does it seem like almost every virus, spyware or hacking program is taking advantage of this flaw? How did this one problem become so out of control that it can not be fixed? Lingo - The Talk of Broadband For the many of you who don't know the answers to these questions, this article will try to answer them as plain as possible. To understand

My Search History (Beta)

2005-04-23T23:12:00.000+05:30

Remember what you saw on Google, no matter where you are. Activating Google's "My Search History" service, unveiled Wednesday afternoon at http://labs.google.com, requires users to create a personal login with a password. Users of Google's e-mail, discussion groups and answer services can simply use their existing log-ins. The service allows users to decide if they want Google to automatically

Spammers Mining P2P For Addresses

2005-04-20T12:04:00.001+05:30

Spammers are mining peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for addresses, and finding it lucrative work, a security expert said on tuesday. According to Eran Reshef, the chief executive and co-founder of Blue Security, sophisticated and smart spammers are harvesting e-mail addresses from systems linked to P2P networks via such software as eDonkey 2000 and Gnutella. "They're going into P2P networks and

Elite Hacker Crew

2005-04-19T16:54:00.000+05:30

The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapon program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric grids to telephone nets. The group's existence was revealed during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month. Military leaders from U.S. Strategic Command, or Stratcom,

Microsoft Releases Data Backup Solution

2005-04-18T14:30:00.000+05:30

Microsoft announced earlier this week that it had released a public beta version of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, a near-continuous, disk-based backup and recovery solution for the Microsoft Windows Server System. DPM will be accompanied by two related releases - a software developer kit that helps Microsoft's storage partners develop software for archiving data from DPM, and

YaGoo! Search

2005-04-15T12:54:00.000+05:30

A new search engine has arrived combining the power of google and yahoo. This site maps all most all the searches like Image, News , Directory, Local and Product search. Below is a screen shot of the site. I am happy to say that one of my friends KC designed it. You can visit the site here.

Microsoft's Really hidden files

2005-04-14T10:28:00.000+05:30

Before reading this post I want my readers to know that I am neither a Microsoft hater nor a fan. This post is a part of a tutorial which i have found on the internet.. Read on.. There are folders on your computer that Microsoft has tried hard to keep secret. Within these folders you will find two major things: Microsoft Internet Explorer has not been clearing your browsing history after you

Online 'Phishing'

2005-04-13T00:52:00.000+05:30

Computer security is in the spotlight at the world's biggest IT fair, the CeBIT, with software companies touting the latest defenses against ever more devious tricks in Internet fraud. Firms gathered at the event in this northern German city said a technique known as "phishing" -- from the words password and fishing -- was among the most insidious scams operating on the Web. The

Fuell cell battery

2005-04-12T10:44:00.000+05:30

IBM and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd announced plans to create a prototype notebook with computer batteries made out of a fuel cell system.The two companies have joined together to develop a battery that could last up to 8 hours on long-lasting fuel cell technology, unlike the current battery which must be recharged every 2 to 6 hours. The fuel would be a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, which

Welcome Readers

2005-04-11T19:15:00.000+05:30

Hello all Today i have a good news for all the faithful readers of my blog. I categorized my blog so that you readers can easily navigate and read the posts. Thank You Techno Freek

What?How?Why?

2005-04-11T18:37:00.000+05:30

Bits and Bytes Trust rank algorithm Buffer overflow bug explained Microsoft's Really hidden files Hard drive Format review Bios Operating system processes File Allocation Table What are Cookies.html Computing Cosmos Search your web history Share files freely in xp Undo file deletion

Google

2005-04-11T18:32:00.000+05:30

Google unveils personalized search Google announces personalized home page google releases web accelerator My search history I am Google fan Google's desktop search Google is Hiring Secret of Google Revealed Flaws in google desktop search Computers Idle time is precious Gmail Contest Google Video Source of google's power Plug in enables pdf search Gmail rocks

Hacks and Alerts

2005-04-11T18:29:00.000+05:30

Michael jackson suicide can kill your PC Bagle resurfaces Firefox users fight phishing Online Phishing Alert all Internet users 11 signs of spyware utilitygeek Fake Microsoft update

Technology

2005-04-11T18:21:00.000+05:30

Microsoft revs up windows for cars Opera incorporates bittorrent Worlds fastest gaming cpu Samsung wins latest memory speed race Microsoft works on own bittorrent Yahoo launches deep web search Prototype of HD DVD-R developed Mindset tool from yahoo Sony tests cd copy protection Yahoos photomail Fuell cell battery Microprocessor Challenge to Intel xp goes to 64 bits

Software

2005-04-11T18:16:00.000+05:30

Ibm to bury os2 Microsoft's acrylic Yahoo-messenger v700242 beta Do you need MS desktop search Microsoft launches desktop search Firefox vulnerabilities patched Aol previews next gen instant messenger Tiger unleashed Microsoft releases data backup Solution. Auto Animator Microsoft Anti spyware Extensions Enhance Firefox Extremely Critical Ie is worthless Winfs on xp Well

Miscellaneous

2005-04-11T18:01:00.000+05:30

Microsoft's virtual earth Ibm moves into enterprise blogging Ibm to bury OS/2 sony unveils playstation 3 xbox 360 unveiled Laptop for 10000 Rs(200$) My best freeware list yagoo search Breaking News Exposing Digital Forgeries.html 3 Laws Unsafe.html Fastest Super Computer,Hackers Target Mac NoExcusesGreat Stuff Interesting Stuff.html Energy saving Screens Smart shoesYahoo

Undo a file deletion

2005-04-10T20:19:00.000+05:30

For better or worse, it takes effort to truly delete files from your system. In most cases, files removed from a hard drive actually remain there until new files overwrite them. If a data-recovery program can find the files before they're overwritten, you have an excellent chance of restoring your data. Whether a file was deleted accidentally or is inaccessible because of damage to the drive or

Fake Microsoft update

2005-04-09T22:17:00.000+05:30

A mass e-mail being circulated by hackers purporting to be a Microsoft Windows update alert directs computer users to a fake website where a Trojan virus is installed, security experts said. The security firm Websense said it began receiving reports this week of the e-mail claiming to be from Microsoft, coincidentally after the software giant announced it was making security

Well done Microsoft

2005-04-09T12:30:00.000+05:30

Microsoft-funded system to fight child pornography is launched Canada's Child Exploitation Tracking System was officially launched today, 27 months after a frustrated detective with the Toronto police department sent an E-mail message to Bill Gates requesting help with his department's effort to track down and prosecute child-pornography producers and consumers. Microsoft invested $2 million to

Microsoft Targets Skype

2005-04-08T18:20:00.000+05:30

Microsoft released an update to its MSN Messenger application today, offering improved video and voice calls in an effort to catch the eyes and ears of more Internet users. At the same time it launched a finished version of an online scrapbook service it has been testing, MSN Spaces, and rolled out new advertising opportunities. The MSN updates are aimed at making the company's services more

Hard Disk Density Doubled

2005-04-06T22:57:00.000+05:30

Hitachi's hard disk division has pushed a real density to 230Gbit per square inch, which could lead to one inch drives with 230GByte of storage within two years. The trick employed by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is called perpendicular recording, which the company says can increase density by a factor of 10.Using this technique, standard 3.5 inch drives could reach 1Tbyte by 2007,

Gmail Rocks

2005-04-02T07:42:00.000+05:30

For the second year in row Google has made a splash on April Fools Day. Last year, Google announced to the world a free email service called Gmail which included 1 gigabyte of free storage. At the time of last years announcement, many people thought Google's announcement was simply an April Fools' Day joke since the amount of storage space being offered was so much greater than the

Many Processors in One

2005-03-28T17:34:00.000+05:30

Dual-core processors and 64-bit CPUs are grabbing headlines, but make way for the multiprocessor chip. Designed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, the new Cell chip contains a main PowerPC-based core microprocessor and up to eight additional processors. The new CPU, which the companies claim can offer up to ten times the performance of Intel and AMD chips, has a pushpin-size 90-nanometer design. It

The Source of Google's Power

2005-03-26T19:19:00.000+05:30

Much is being written about Gmail, Google's new free webmail system. There's something deeper to learn about Google from this product than the initial reaction to the product features, however. Ignore for a moment the observations about Google leapfrogging their competitors with more user value and a new feature or two. Or Google diversifying away from search into other applications; they've

SnailMail 2.0

2005-03-20T18:15:00.000+05:30

Any eighth grader who has finished Introductory Geometry can tell you that the shortest distance between two points is a line, but any postal worker who has hauled a mailbag along a 10-kilometer route can tell you that figuring out the shortest distance between 400 or more addresses is nearly impossible. Software aimed at doing just that recently made its commercial debut, in Denmark, with the

Yahoo tests blend of blogging

2005-03-20T17:37:00.000+05:30

Yahoo Inc. is preparing to introduce a new service that blends several of its Web site's popular features with two of the Internet's fastest growing activities -- blogging and social networking. The hybrid service, called "Yahoo 360," won't be available until March 29, but the Sunnyvale-based company decided to announce the product late Tuesday after details were leaked to The

UtilityGeek

2005-03-13T12:26:00.000+05:30

Great site with a vast collection of diagnistic tools and utilities for your PC.Tools and utilites divided in more than 25 categories.Also you can discuss your problems with other users on the site forum. The site also publish latest technology articles which can be acessed directly from the main page. Tools range from System Tweakers,Registry Utlities to Benchmarking,Bios and hardware related

Plug-In Enables PDF Search

2005-03-09T01:40:00.000+05:30

Google Desktop utility went live Monday, after about a six-month beta cycle. For the Acrobat faithful who had wondered if the 1.0 release would include support for PDF, the answer is no—but ScanSoft has brought to market a beta plug-in called OmniPage Search Indexer that not only supports PDFs containing text, but also can OCR and index image-based PDFs with scanned text and return the results

WinFS on Xp

2005-03-06T15:10:00.000+05:30

Microsoft may not be willing to talk file-system futures, but it is working to back-port its WinFS file-system technology to Windows XP, the same way that it is doing with its Windows presentation and communications subsystems, according to company officials. The acknowledgement is significant, given that Microsoft has been reticent to offer any details on WinFS since the company decided in

Intel back with a bang

2005-03-02T00:08:00.000+05:30

In the last couple of months, it has been very much about AMD(Advanced Micro Devices) and their innovations. They took the initiative with their desktop processors capable of running 64-Bit applications and later they also practically dominated Intel in the speed game with their latest processors capable of faster speeds than the fastest Intel Processors available. In fact, AMD have again taken

AutoLink stir debate

2005-02-21T00:46:00.000+05:30

A Google Inc. tool bar feature introduced this week is rekindling a debate over who should control what appears on a Web page—the site's creator or the software used to view it. Google introduced a feature called AutoLink in a beta of its next tool bar version. AutoLink inserts links into Web pages where an address, package tracking number, publication ISBN (International Standard Book

IE is Worthless

2005-02-19T23:33:00.001+05:30

You may or may not know, but there are other browsers out there than internet explorer, and you should use any one of them over it. there are many problems with IE, among them being non-standard rendering of html and css. this means that a web page could look the same in all other browsers, and be completely screwed in IE. unfortunately, IE is still the most widely used browser, mainly because

I am a google fan

2005-02-17T00:22:00.000+05:30

Hi everybody. I am a big fan of google. So I changed my blog to look like it. How is the new appearance?