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29 Aug, 2012
How many of you use Reddit? Reddit is one of the most visited sites on the internet and one can find topics ranging from technology to politics to humor. A popular section on Reddit is the AMA(Ask me Anything) section. It is a subreddit where people summon others to ask them questions regarding their profession. Barack Obama has just done an AMA on Reddit which has already gained about 20000 comments at the time of writing this post.
9 May, 2012
Tech Meet Ups are becoming more and more popular as like minded individuals with a passion for technology share their interests and knowledge. It is also a platform where companies can have a few minutes to demonstrate their latest creations in front of an appreciative audience. MeetUps can take place in any city, in any country as the objective is to get people together to learn from each other. It gives attendees an opportunity to discover what communities are around them in their local area. There are no restrictions involved and every aspect of technology is open for discussion.
1 May, 2012
Where are the VCRs, VCPs, typewriters and the pagers of yesterday? Strange but true – developments in technology keeps appearing now and then but they keep disappearing over a period of time as well. Curiously enough, there were number of wonderful inventions that are nowhere today and a number of other electronic stuff that are all set to become extinct sooner or later.
10 Nov, 2011
Microsoft seems to have decided against its tradition of sending cupcakes to Mozilla for each version of their Firefox release. For the latest release of Firefox i.e. Firefox 8, Microsoft didn’t send any cupcakes Mozilla’s way.
10 Oct, 2011
For programmers, there are lots of programming languages to choose from. Java, C#, Python etc. are some of the most popular programming languages in the current scenario. Amidst the hordes of all the prevailing programming languages, Google has just introduced a programming language and it is known as Dart.
6 Oct, 2011
There has been a lot of confusion and uproar in the SEO world today due to what so many people think as Google stopping pagerank. I woke up this morning to the news. The death of Steve Jobs was really sad news for me in the first place, only for me to check my dick blick discount and istockphoto coupon blog to discover that my pagerank isn’t active again. I thought maybe there is a problem with the plugin I’m using to check my pagerank so I decided to use a pagerank checker site only to get an error that my pagerank can’t be found. I tried checking some of my other blogs, and also some of the favorite websites I visit regularly only to see that they all don’t have any pagerank.
26 Aug, 2011
Windows 8, the upcoming OS from Microsoft and rumors have it that Windows 8 will also have the live tiles feature as in Windows Phone 7. But until the official release of the OS, nothing can be said more about how it would look like. But Microsoft Developer Evangelist J. Michael Palermo IV(former MVP &RD) has given some important details on Windows 8 in an interview by Spike Xavier at Interface’s Tech Immersion 2011.
24 Jul, 2011
Video embedding and link previews in Facebook comments
We all are familiar with how one can tag a friend on a Facebook comment, i.e. by using the @ symbol and typing the name of the friend. But Facebook has recently introduced a new feature that automatically embeds flash videos from external link and/or show preview of the link shared in comments.
10 Jul, 2011
Google+’s rival numero uno Facebook’s owner Mark Zuckerberg is also on Google+. But you’d be surprised to know that Mark Zuckererg has the highest number of followers on Google+ followed just by Google’s co-owner Larry Page.
4 Jul, 2011
With largely developing cloud computing technology, cloud services are also strengthening everyday. Microsoft has been awarded with the best cloud service award. The best cloud service awards were presented at the 3rd Annual cloud computing World Forum on 21st June 2011. The ceremony was held in Olympia London.
17 Jun, 2011
Antivirus company ESET has made an analysis which says that INF/Autorun is the top ranking global and European Malware. INF/Autorun Malware is at the top in the list of the most prevalent malwares in the list of ESET’s Global Threats according to ESET ThreatSense.Net system.
7 Jun, 2011
About 200 books are published by the National Academies Press every year. The books are on a wide range of topics in science and technology. National Academies Press has recently announced that you can now download PD F of National Academies Press published books.
2 Jun, 2011
The software market is already abuzz with speculations about how the software might be and what would be the major improvements from its predecessors. Windows 8 interface is an expansion of the very interactive live tiles in Windows Phone 7’s User Interface. Microsoft believes that this would throw off the conventional concept of icons used on a background.
22 May, 2011
What if you want to tell the world who is behind your site? You may say outright that there is already the about page to tell people about who is behind a website. But there are things that may not be suitable to include in the About page and everyone may not be interested in it. So, to tell other humans about who built a website or who is behind it, there is an easy solution: the humans.txt file.
17 Apr, 2011
A fan, Brandon Foy has made a promotional video for Windows Phone 7 that has already received over 60 thousand views on Youtube. Entitled “We Love Windows Phone”, this video shows a multitude of features in a span of 2 minutes.
14 Apr, 2011
Software giant Microsoft has created an infographic showing its top consumer products and their stats. The stats were proclaimed during MIX11 Keynote that took place on Wednesday. The stats show some amazing figures including...
17 Feb, 2011
Facebook keeps introducing new features to make the whole social networking experience better. Facebook just replaced its standard photo viewer with a pop up viewer. This pop-up viewer comprises of a light box overlay which at first may surprise you.
11 Feb, 2011
Microsoft’s Autorun feature has been a boon for many users but hackers have also been using it to input malwares without user authorization. Microsoft will soon release an update that it calls an “important but Non-Security” update that will remove the Autorun feature in Windows.
25 Jan, 2011
The check-ins to Foursquare have been from all continents around the world and recently astronaut Doug Wheelock checked in from the space and unlocked the NASA badge on Foursquare. The infograhic gives interesting details on the check-ins, top hotels, train stations and movie theaters from where the check-ins were made etc.
13 Dec, 2010
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have created bacteria that can be programmed like a computer. This is a great milestone on the effort to bridge the gap between the living world and the digital world. The functions that can be assigned to the bacteria are rather simple but developments in the technology can take place in the future.
