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Random thoughts on Brain

2007-07-20T00:07:00.000-07:00

This a incomplete thoughts on human brain and would complete this article with more details in near future ...Brain Memory structure is one of the best structure in the world.Its semi fluid state is the best form to store any information. There is a need to design computer hard disks thesame as our brain.The brain memory can be divided into different logical parts namely,Living instincts

Pirate Bay introduces Image Hosting site

2007-06-25T05:36:00.000-07:00

As most of you already know Pirate Bay has launched an "uncensored" imagehosting site,Bayimg.com !!At the bottom of every page you see : “NO COPYRIGHT. NO LICENSE.”“When you uploadedthe picture, you wrote a removal code,” a Bayimg FAQ section states. Users (who are trying topull their pics) are then reminded that a removal code is “Kind of like a password. Now type itin and noone will ever see

Hide doc,txt etc files in jpeg photos

2007-06-21T08:53:00.000-07:00

Here I teach you how to hide your confidential documents,text,Excel and other small files in jpeg photo format.Other than you, whoever clicks on the jpeg file, they see only a picture. Only you know how to open this secret and confidential file!!.This trick works for both Winzip(which am using here) and Winrar and many "other tools" which I wont disclose here ;)Step 1: Let say you have a photo

Assign Drive letter to a folder

2007-06-13T10:37:00.000-07:00

Do you use a particular folder very often on your PC??Do you feel sick of going through all the navigation hierarchy to access the contents of that folder??Ok one way to circumvent it is to create a shortcut to that folder on your desktop. you just need to right click the folder :goto sendto and select "Desktop(create shortcut)".There is one another way to do the same which I think is more geeky!

Happy Birthday George !!!

2007-05-14T12:14:00.000-07:00

Last week was George Carlin's birthday (May 12th to be precise) one of the best comedian and standup artist I have ever heard. Seinfeld comes close second on my list. Most of us must have read or heard his one-liners a lot of time. They are not just witty but thought provoking too.Anyway I came across this site which has put up his 101 best lines ever(?) on a "single page"!!(thank god we dont

Interesting Rule of 72

2007-03-24T14:07:00.000-07:00

I know most of you know this already(sorry to bore you guys !!) . Just writing it down for blog sake. Anyway theres something called Rule of 72 which helps you a lot if you worry about your saved money.The rule says to find out how quickly any money invested will double, simply divide 72 by the rate of interest you have invested.This is providing you dont touch the money and its grows in

Small story of Numbers !! (Interesting)

2007-02-28T06:56:00.000-08:00

Read this in some forum and its interesting enough to put it up on my blog :)The numbers we all use (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) are known as "arabic" numbers to distinguish them from the "Roman Numerals" (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, etc). Actually the arabs popularized these numbers but they were originally used by the early phonecian traders to count and keep track of their trading accounts. Have you ever

Learning Python made very easy

2007-01-30T21:44:00.000-08:00

Going through many news forums and language communities, I was wondering whats so great about Python compared to Java. The below article satisfied some of my questions.Python v/s Java side by sideWith the advent of multi core processors,the need for a better language has rised and bar for a language to be future language has also rised a lot. So am wondering whether Java or C++ can survive this

Multi core processors and software to make use of it

2007-01-30T21:16:00.000-08:00

Ok its been long time since I touched a pen oops sorry keyboard to write something here.Any way came across this nice article related to Multi core processors and how software industry should change for this new mantra to take its full effect.Some points from the article are listed below:What is Multi core computing ? I know its plain stupid but just for the sake of "others".Over the past 30

Some good links I came across : Part-2

2006-10-27T01:24:00.000-07:00

Part 1 is here!!Spotback.comIt does a very efficient job of getting together content from all over the Web. It also finds the information that will interest you the most.You just need to enter a username and password.As soon as you log in for the first time, a pop up window will come up and ask you to enter the topics of your interest. It presents you with four empty fields in which you can enter

Some Tips/Tricks for computer Users

2006-10-27T00:07:00.000-07:00

**How to increase life of your DVD driveNow almost everyone watch movies on their computer's Dvd rom drive.There is a software called DVD Idle Pro which can really increase the life of your dvd drive.By using the "Smart Read-ahead" Cache, DVDIdle saves DVD data which will be played soon onto the hard disk cache or RAM cache, and then feeds it to DVD player. This allows the DVD drive to rest. For

Free E-Books on net - Best Links!!

2006-10-26T11:01:00.000-07:00

Find here some of the best links to find online books/e-books on the net. Will be updating this regularly,keep visiting.http://freecomputerbooks.com/Free Computer Books online, Tutorials , Lecture Notes. This is the best site for free books.It is updated regularly as new books become available.EbooksclubSite has lot of ebooks you need registration to access.XpressionszBiggest collection of ebooks

Gmail mail id can be disected with a dot(.)!!

2006-10-26T10:23:00.000-07:00

I recently came across very unusual/funny behaviour about the gmail email id.Suppose that if you have a gmail id by the name of anonymousguy@gmail.com,then it is same as anonymous.guy@gmail.com and even same as anony.mous.g.u.y@gmail.com etc etcThis works because there is ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE between these differently spelt/dot separated mail ids.Check yourself by sending mails to your id

Some good links I came across : Part-1

2006-10-23T11:07:00.000-07:00

http://www.bugmenot.com/login with the free web passwords available on this site to bypass compulsory registration. If you are furstrated in creating,forgetting login id's and passwords to "one time useful" sites like Imdb,nytimes,nypost,washingtonpost,latimes etc ,this is the site to be bookmarked.HOWTO bypass Internet Censorship As on Sept-2006A tutorial on how to bypass Internet Censorship

How to send mails upto 512 MB??

2006-10-23T10:35:00.000-07:00

I just came across a site which allows you to send mails with attachments upto 512MB to any mail id.You dont need to register nor create an account,just upload a file and send it to a mail id.IMPT: The attachment will be present in the mail server upto 5 days only[:(]Want to know how this system works??See the pic... 1. Sender uploads the file. 2. Recipient receives an email, with a link to

How to convert Windows applications into Portable (pseudo) applications?

2006-10-17T11:49:00.000-07:00

Hi All,I just found a very helpful article on using normal programs like any other portable applications.Before that lets have some basics cleared.What is a Portable Application?Simply put "A portable application is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer."From wikipedia "A portable application, or portable app for short, is a

How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble ur Mobile Phone

2006-10-17T08:36:00.000-07:00

Need to repair your mobile (cellular) phone? Need to fix a broken display? Want to know what chips are actually inside your mobile phone? Or just in the mood of modding your mobile gadget? Here is a collection of links to take apart instructions, disassembly pictures, upgrade and repair manuals, as well as do-it-yourself (DIY) tips and tricks for mobile phones.Read the full article here...From

All You wanted to know about YouTube.com -Tips/Tricks

2006-10-16T09:30:00.000-07:00

YouTube is the most popular site to visit for viewing online videos, sharing your favourite videos with people and commenting on videos you like. Recently YouTube was acquired by Google for a few billion dollars. Here is a collection of several YouTube third party tools which enhance your YouTube experience. Download and Save YouTube Videos Video Downloader - a firefox extension

Backing up a Unix(-like) system

2006-10-13T14:55:00.000-07:00

User Halfgaar finally got sick of all the helpful users on forums and mailing lists who keep suggesting backup methods and strategies to others which simply don't, won't and can't work. According to him, this indicates that most of the backups made by *nix users simply won't help you recover, while you'd think that disaster recovery is the whole point of doing backups. So, now he explains to the

Hubble observations confirm that planets form from disks around stars

2006-10-13T14:50:00.000-07:00

Read the full article here... From the article:" More than 200 years ago, the philosopher Emmanuel Kant first proposed that planets are born from disks of dust and gas that swirl around their home stars. Though astronomers have detected more than 200 extrasolar planets and have seen many debris disks around young stars, they have yet to observe a planet and a debris disk around the same star. Now

Google Docs & Spreadsheets - Amazing feature from Google

2006-10-13T14:40:00.000-07:00

Hope everyone are already using this amazing feature from Google. If not please start using it, its really very handy and simple to use.Official site is http://docs.google.com/Here's what you can do with documents:- Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).- Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.- Invite

Web Password Hashing

2006-10-13T14:31:00.000-07:00

Official website is here... Whenever you access your bank account via the web, or login to eBay or any other web service that's access controlled, you trust that service to protect your account details.In most cases your username and password pair are submitted to the web service in an encrypted form via the SSL protocol. Whereupon they are further encrypted before being stored in the account

XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command

2006-10-13T14:27:00.001-07:00

There's an easy fix for "Missing HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," and several other fatal startup errors.Use at your own risk if you have such problems, but it might be something worth jotting down for later on, as I have had to deal with many Windows XP problems where files were missing and I just had to start over with a fresh install.From the article:{For example, if you already have some

Worm automates Google AdSense fraud

2006-10-13T14:20:00.000-07:00

Click-fraud menace spreads using IMVirus writers have crafted a malware threat that serves up expensive Google AdSense web pages related to mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.The cost-per-click for the term "mesothelioma" is among the highest in the online ads business ranging from $4 to $13 and higher on various keyword bidding networks.This, in turn, makes the term a

AOL releases free anti-virus tool - Its very good

2006-10-13T14:13:00.000-07:00

AOL is giving consumers a free anti-virus software package, dubbed Active Virus Shield, powered by technology from Kasperesky Lab.No AOL membership is required to use the service, though users are obliged to submit their email details in order to activate the technology.Although free anti-virus packages already permeate the market, most notably Grisoft's AVG, coverage is far from universal, so

Nokia's "full surface screen" cellphone concept - Just amazing!!

2006-10-12T09:07:00.000-07:00

Came across this mobile(?!!) in Nokia R&D centre.Nokia's research and development team have brought up an attractive "Full Surface Screen" concept phone currently in their R&D centre. The most prominent design feature of this is a touchscreen that stretches over the full surface area of the phone.It may take some more time to be in market.Very trendy,smart,sleek and happy to be on hand kind of

Use TransSend to wirelessly transfer content from a web browser to your mobile device

2006-10-12T08:38:00.000-07:00

Read this amazing article from ZDNet. Very useful for Mobile users with bluetooth.From the article:( Also see OFFICIAL SITE OF TransSend)The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) issued a press release announcing its new TransSend client/server application that allows you to receive content via Bluetooth from the internet.This seems to be an excellent way to get maps, addresses, phone numbers,

Change in Earth's orbit linked to Mammal extinctions - A study

2006-10-12T08:06:00.000-07:00

CLICK ON THE PIC TO SEE BETTER VIEWA group of Dutch Scientists have recently released a study stating that they have found that changes in Earth's orbit around the sun are link linked to mammal extinctions.They studied rodent fossil records in central Spain dating back 22 million years and found that the rise and fall of mammal species was linked to

9 Biggest Robberies of world - 20th Century and later

2006-10-11T14:55:00.000-07:00

This is a list of 9 greatest robberies. List includes only robberies in 2oth century to date.Dunbar Armored (1997): inside man steals US$18.9 million The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States. It occurred in 1997 at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with some 18.9 million U.S. Dollars.The robbery

Seinfelds 30 best comments - Must read

2006-10-11T14:14:00.000-07:00

THE BEST COMEDY EVER AIRED!!!! · That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me · There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know.

Top Ten Geek Wallets - just have a look!!!

2006-10-11T07:49:00.000-07:00

Just have a look at these Wallets.Some are funny and some are really too good.Productdose.com has a rundown of the the top ten wallets for geeks.The list includes an RFID blocking wallet, a DIY illuminating wallet and more.Access the whole list here... Some other picks of mine are below:Wallet 2.0JimiJack Daniel'sMontblancDunhill

Google Purchases YouTube for $1.65Billion in stock

2006-10-11T07:38:00.000-07:00

Google's stock rose about $10 per share after the purchase. On the other hand, YouTube increases Google's risk of copyright infringement, opening the door for significant liability...if Google cannot solve this issueRead the full article here.. Also read this from another article on same topic:"YouTube's policy is to remove copyrighted clips once alerted to their existence. Content providers say

AMD Unveils Barcelona Quad-Core Details

2006-10-11T07:16:00.000-07:00

At Microprocessor Forum, AMD's media person Ben Sander laid out architecture details of the CPU maker's upcoming quad-core Opterons. The processors will feature sped-up floating-point operations, improvements to IPC, more memory bandwidth, and improved power management.AMD claims that its quad core is true quad core, while Intel's is two dual-cores grafted together.Read more here...

Illegal Vista OS to become crippled after 30 days

2006-10-05T12:06:00.000-07:00

Unlike previous Windows OS,Vista is loaded with inbuilt abilities to stop piracy to some extent!!HAHAHA...waiting when somebody hacks this feature itself and MS starts distributing patches every month!!!heheAnyway read the full article hereIn summary the main features are:Reduced Functionality Mode: this allows minimal use of the OS until it is validated. Microsoft has not disclosed full

Making Computer Memory From a Virus

2006-10-05T06:58:00.000-07:00

By coating 30-nanometre-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles, it’s possible to create a transistor with very fast switching speed. Millions of these transistors could eventually be used in a memory chip to replace flash memory in mp3 players and digital cameras, for example....Read more here

First Teleportation Between Light and Matter

2006-10-05T06:48:00.000-07:00

Beaming people in Star Trek fashion is still in the realms of science fiction but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality....Read more hereAlso more info here tooBefore reading it go through the below links to make sense what you are reading..Quantum teleportation does not transport energy or matter, nor

Some old GOOGLE HaCkS

2006-10-04T09:30:00.000-07:00

Using Google, and some finely crafted searches we can find a lot of interesting information.For Example we can find:Credit Card NumbersPasswordsSoftware / MP3's...... (and on and on and on) Presented below is just a sample of interesting searches that we can send to google to obtain info that some people might not want us having.. After you get a taste using some of these, try your own crafted

List of Portable software programs that can be run on USB

2006-10-04T06:53:00.000-07:00

Here is the list of portable applications,software programs including web browsers,email clients,download managers,IRC clients,P2P clients,word processors and many others useful stuffs that can be run on a USB flash drive.A definite bookmark which comes in handy.Bookmark this [wikipedia.org]Also see this :List from programurl.comList from Darlvelvet.com

How would future gyms work/look like ? - An Idea

2006-10-04T06:07:00.000-07:00

This is an interesting idea I found on net.The difference here is that the machines would all be linked to a large central generator, so if you are really working out you will be generating much more energy than is needed to power the machine display.The swipe cards would monitor how much time you spent on each machine then - depending on the efficiency of the machine - calculate whether you were

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years

2006-09-27T23:46:00.000-07:00

Intel pledges 80 cores in five yearsINTEL CEO Paul Otellini reveals plans at IDF to ship a "teraflop" processor around the end of decade with 80 cores. Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second.CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several thousand attendees at the Intel Developer

Untraceable Messaging Service Raises a Few Eyebrows - read on

2006-09-27T01:59:00.001-07:00

A messaging service called VaporStream announced today at DEMOfall will allow any two parties to communicate electronically without leaving any record of their interaction on any computer or server. Messages cannot be forwarded, edited, printed or saved. After they're read, they're gone.Read full article at here [networkworld.com]Void Communications had better be ready for a call from

A nice notice to Orkut user from Orkut himself

2006-09-16T07:35:00.000-07:00

SOME HEALTHY RULES FOR ORKUT USERSONEIf you're ugly, stop acting like you don't know it & stop using cutenicknames. The captions under your picture that says "top model pose","sexy", "arnt i hot" doesn't convince anyone.TWOTo the people who have like over 1000 friends, are you serious? Nobodyin this universe can keep up with that many friends. You're juststupid. Go play in traffic.THREEIf you're

Poincaré conjecture-A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it.

2006-09-16T07:21:00.000-07:00

On the evening of June 20th, several hundred physicists, including a Nobel laureate, assembled in an auditorium at the Friendship Hotel in Beijing for a lecture by the Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau. In the late nineteen-seventies, when Yau was in his twenties, he had made a series of breakthroughs that helped launch the string-theory revolution in physics and earned him, in addition to a

Microsoft launches the Zune!

2006-09-15T04:07:00.000-07:00

As expected, Microsoft is busting out the Zune today, and we've got the rundown. Not a lot of surprises in the specs department, but they've confirmed the basics we've known for a while, like WiFi, 30GB of HDD, built-in FM, a 3-inch screen and the basic music, pictures and video playback. They also finally let slip the screen res -- an unsurprising QVGA -- and some better news on the codec front:

TURNING STARS INTO GOLD

2006-09-15T02:41:00.000-07:00

Many common elements, such as oxygen and carbon, are known to be made in stars and distributed through the Universe when a star explodes as a supernova. This is the origin of most of the material that makes up the Earth. It is becoming clear, however, that normal stars cannot make enough of the heavy elements, such as gold and platinum. Thus the origin of gold and platinum - on Earth and

Warning! Orkutting can turn ugly

2006-09-14T23:21:00.000-07:00

CRIME FILE: For girls especially, Orkut has turned nightmarish in several cases. Kolkata: Orkutting may be the in-thing today, but the nightmare is fast catching up with complaints of harassment,

IP's Binary Roots

2006-09-13T07:57:00.000-07:00

This is a geek article from Linux.com that shows you how to calculate the binary number from any IP address to show you how your network “ticks”. Very useful for...um....for....hell I don't know. If you ever have a homework assignment I guess.http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/21/0250223 A wise man once said, "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who understand binary,

In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

2006-09-13T07:52:00.000-07:00

This article by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, is a very interesting and insightful read on the world of user interfaces. Though a bit dated (covers up through roughly 1999), it is still worth the few hours it will take you to read it, and it is available for free on the internet.http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.htmlnd Wozniak, About twenty years ago Jobs athe founders of Apple, came up

PCTech4Free.com

2006-09-13T07:49:00.000-07:00

This is one of the greatest stories I've heard this year (all 35 days of it). Reds098 received a laptop from PCTech4Free.com with help from Anything4Free. The problem was, as soon as he got it, his parents got suspicious. Here's his story: "It all started when the laptop was initially shipped to my house. I didn't know that it had been shipped though, because I was never given a tracking number.

Using Gmail as a Spam Filter

2006-09-13T07:44:00.000-07:00

I recently got my Gmail account up and running, but I wasn’t finding a whole lot of use for it since I have a primary account on MBoffin.com that I use for everything. Just for kicks, I decided to have all my MBoffin.com e-mail (spam and all) forwarded to my Gmail account to see how well it would handle my e-mail habits and workflows, and to see how well it would handle the spam. Gmail did

Hacking Pepsi Machines

2006-09-13T07:41:00.000-07:00

How to hack Pepsi machinesToo freaking cool. i-Hacked.com has an article showing you how to hack into a Pepsi machine and view the Diagnostics and Sales data for that machine. While it would be cool to get free drinks, that is also kind of messed up to get free stuff at the expense of breaking the law (momma raised me right). You would think that something like this would be difficult, but it is

The Evolution of RSS

2006-09-13T07:37:00.000-07:00

http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/001518.htmlBy Richard McKinnon from feedburner blogRSS and Blogs Back in October of 2003, when we first started building FeedBurner with hammer and chisel, RSS was, for many people, synonymous with blogs. Now that it’s almost 2006, RSS is, for many people, synonymous with blogs. We still see quotes in major media that conflate blogs and RSS as if

How-To: Automatically download and convert TV for your iPod

2006-09-13T07:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.hackaday.com/2005/10/19/how-to-automatically-download-and-convert-tv-for-your-ipod/

My Favorite Windows Freewares

2006-09-13T07:24:00.000-07:00

Will be updating regularly. Also others please comment about your favorite free utilities.This is a collection of URLs to what I feel is among the best of free software for Windows . I greatly prefer portable programs(as they are more secure and easy to handle), but even many programs that write to the Registry can emulate portability.Notations used:"[F]" : installation-free programs"[NI]": (

Top 20 Geek Novels since 1932 !!!great must read

2006-09-13T07:01:00.000-07:00

The best geek novels written in English since 1932. The top 20 is as follows, with the numbers in brackets showing the number of votes. 1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102) 2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92) 3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77) 4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67) 5. Neuromancer -- William

The Strangest Patents in the U.S. --links to them

2006-09-13T06:55:00.000-07:00

Click on the patents below to view them Newly Archived Insomniac Helmet Cyborg Massage Pied Piper Sub Dermal Watch Gas Factory Jump, No Rope Snake Walker Rain Curtain Bulletproof Desk Electro Fishing Calf Carrier Saggy Bottoms

John Battelle's 2006 Predictions

2006-09-13T06:53:00.000-07:00

written by John Battelle in his blog...Predictions 2006 This post marks my third year of making predictions for the coming year. I'm emboldened by not failing utterly in the past two years (well, for the most part), but I am sure this will only ensure that these prognostications will prove immeasurably off the mark. But what the hell, here we go: 1. Someone, and I do not know who,

Google: Ten Golden Rules

2006-09-13T06:51:00.000-07:00

It's the 21st century, and with it has come some new ways of doing business. Google is showing that big billion-dollar businesses do not have to be bureaucratic. Google's setup a sort of mini-democracy, where every employee has a say in how things are done. They are more concerned about the well-being of their engineers, than they are about their bankers or money managers. The CEO of Google, Eric

Amazing Computer Setup

2006-09-13T06:48:00.000-07:00

I've seen some pretty amazing computer setups in my time, but I think this one beats them all. Here's the list of the things and descriptions taken from there: 12" Powerbook 1.3Ghz 1 GB Ram 100GB HD.. fits in my camera bag17" Powerbook 1.67Ghz / 2GB Ram / 100GB HD. The one released right before the ones with the HD screens.30" Display on 17" powerbookCanon Xl1s MiniDV CamDell 2.8Ghz P4 1GB Ram

Duplicating your Firefox profile

2006-09-13T06:27:00.000-07:00

If you use several computers, then you're likely familiar with the frustration of having to re-input your settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, extensions, and form auto-fill information into your new Firefox installation everytime you re-install your operating system, or get a new computer altogether (lucky you!). I recently got my hands on yet another extra laptop, and I thought of

China buys Google--OOPS ONLY SOME STAKE !!

2006-09-13T06:24:00.000-07:00

According to the Reg, China has bought a controlling stake in Google. The People's Republic of China has acquired a controlling stake in the United States' fastest growing technology company, Google. Google announced the transfer of 140m shares of Class B stock to a new entity owned by the Chinese Ministry of Information in typically forthright style.Also, it's the first of April. Happy April

Searching for love on the Web? Try Google Romance!

2006-09-13T06:22:00.000-07:00

Google is thinking of everything. Undoubdtedly, love is the most sought-after thing in the world, and the number one search engine is helping you find just that, with Google Romance! "Our mission, as you might have heard, is to organize the world's information," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's senior vice president, product management. "And let's face it: in what

Four Reasons why the Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

2006-09-13T06:20:00.000-07:00

If the word “geek” still conjures up images of bespectacled, pimple-faced, metal-mouth klutzy teenagers in your mind, then you must have been stuck in the 1950’s! This is the 21st century, and chances are, in most fields, whether in sports, the academe, business, government and—yes—technology, it’s the geeks who are likely to be in control or at least in the positions of power. The reason is

Beginner's guide to podcasts and podcasting (plus: how to create a basic podcast of your own)

2006-09-13T06:10:00.000-07:00

Much has been said about podcasts and podcasting since they were popularized especially in the tech/geek scene more than a year back. Just like blogs, podcasts are yet another Web 2.0 offshoot, bringing content-generation away from centralized sources (i.e., radio, television) into the consumers themselves--we are now prosumers of information and content. We produce, and we consume. Let's say

How the iPod click wheel works

2006-09-13T06:04:00.000-07:00

The Click Wheel The Click Wheel is a touch-sensitive ring that you use to navigate through all of iPod's menus and control all of its features. It provides two ways to input commands: by sliding your finger around the wheel and by pressing buttons located under and in the middle of the wheel. Under the plastic surface of the Click Wheel, there are four mechanical buttons

Informative sites-mainly NEWS/Opinions/Stories

2006-09-13T05:04:00.000-07:00

http://www.digg.com/http://www.slashdot.orghttp://forevergeek.com/geek_articles/http://www.2cpu.com/http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/

The TCP/IP Guide

2006-09-13T05:03:00.000-07:00

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_toc.htmJust an amazing online link for TCP/IP fans.

Why Desktop Linux Will Not Take off, and Why You Don't Want It to

2006-09-13T04:58:00.000-07:00

Written by special contributor Martin GirardYou must remember the period where various electronic devices, from phones to radios, were available in transparent cases. You may have found them utterly cool. Yet the simple fact that you can't find these things on the shelves anymore (except for do-it-yourself PC cases) means the crowd doesn't find them nearly that cool. While you may not see the

Reliance sab ka baap

2006-09-01T09:24:00.000-07:00

Mumbai (IBTimes.com) - India's most influential business tycoon, one who thinks bigger than the rest, one who "hopes to kick the country's nascent boom into hyperdrive by remaking its stores, farms and even its biggest cities" – is how Newsweek has described $ 35 billion market-cap Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) chairman, Mukesh Ambani, devoting a full length cover story on him. According to