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1 Jun, 2011
A Canadian company D-Wave had unveiled what it called a quantum computer that could solve Su-Doku puzzles. But there was lot of skepticism going on because the idea was still in its infant stage. The same company recently announced an imminent sale of its quantum computer to aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, a high profile client.
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.
1 Sep, 2010
We need to access Control Panel every now and then for tweaking our PC. Some items are available in the main control panel root folder while for some, you have to dig deep into it. You can run the Control Panel tools by using the appropriate shortcuts from the command line. Here is a list of some commands that can be used from the command prompt or from the Run Command to access some useful Control Panel tools.
30 Aug, 2010
Do you share your file system and drives frequently over a network while working with your colleagues? Well, Starwind Software offers you even more; with this you can export a whole drive(physical or virtual) over a TCP/IP network. With StarWind software, you can not only export your CD, DVD, Blu-ray, HD-DVD or hard drives, but export a CD/DVD/BD/HD-DVD image file as a virtual DVD-ROM. Starwind also allows RAM sharing.
2 Sep, 2009
Calcoolate lets us use a virtual scientific calculator online. You can directly input mathematical commands from the keyboard. The tool looks clean as there are no digits, just a handful of buttons for mathematical functions like sin, cos, tan, log etc. Its best for doing simple calculations.
2 Apr, 2009
I assume that your PC remains on most of the time. Sometimes you stick around your PC while sometimes you are out for a lunch or something else. If you want your computer to do things specified by you even when you are away, like shut down the computer, hibernate etc, Marxio Timer will help you. Give it a try.
13 Feb, 2009
The Google Docs team has added the editing feature in Google Docs Spreadsheets from mobile devices which was previously limited to viewing only. So, now you’ll be able to edit your Spreadsheets on mobile without having to stick to the computer.
28 Jan, 2009
If you have Microsoft Office installed on your computer, your office files like DOC, XLS etc. will automatically open up in Word or Excel. If you wish to see them on Google Docs you don’t need to upload them. You can configure your office files to open directly in Google Docs on double clicking.
12 Jan, 2009
Microsoft’s Surface Computing Technology might have blow your heads off. Well PQLabs has come up with its surface computing device which it calls it the iTable. And it is just as smart and stunning as Microsoft’s surface.
8 Jan, 2009
The One Laptop Per Child project announced that it is cutting its workforce by 50%. It has also said that salaries for the remaining staff have been reduced. For the upcoming changes in the coming year, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the group made an announcement in the company’s blog.
29 Dec, 2008
Is your PC used by people other than you off and on? Do you want to know whta they do on the computer? Or know the interests of your kids and their favorite websites that make them stick to the computer for hours together?
5 Nov, 2008
Sites like hi5, gmail, yahoo, facebook etc. are very popular among the people of every age. I’m sure you also use them every now and then and even your friends do. What if one of your friend types hotmail.com on the address bar and lands on any humor website like lotsofjokes.com? Hey you can do it.
