How many tabs are opened in your Internet browser right now? Well for me, it’s 17 in Firefox ver 21.0. I’m writing this post from one of those 17 tabs in Firefox – the only browser which is opened right now in my Windows 8 machine. So far so good, but I expect sudden crash …
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No matter whether you are related with some educational institutes in a way or the other, no matter how often you visit some university’s website, probably the first thing that comes to your mind is the navigation. Too often universities websites are well known for bad navigation and complex user interface (UI) design with too much …
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This is no usual “Did You Know?” series. However, I found some of the historical scientific facts to be misleading or at least, not true as of now, with scientific and solid proof. Do read
It’s not a buzz. It’s a necessity. It’s what third world nations should thrive to live in the next generation of communication world. The context is the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) being held in Dubai now, December 3 -14. The conference has been largely both criticized and at the same time admired with …
Microsoft released their consumer preview of Office Productivity Suite “Office 2013” yesterday and it has dragged the attention of the whole world into it not only because it is totally a new product – by design and by build but also by the way consumer will interact with office application now – by enforcing cloud …
One of the main discouraging things for me to use Ubuntu, the great Linux-based OS, in my Toshiba Satellite laptop was the inability to adjust brightness (discouraged to go Ubuntu, read this.) It has been pain in ass for over months, no matter how much I try to be Ubuntu centric, the brightness of the …
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Microsoft has just released preliminary information regarding their Surface tablet which is supposed to be “Windows 8 having its own hardware device” as pointed by Steve Ballmer in the recent Microsoft’s announcement. Two different variations of Microsoft Surface Tablets namely Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro based on the OS have submerged. However, no information …
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For those of us who are over concerned with the privacy and tracking issues with the Google giant, there has been many alternatives search engines that don’t track user activities. DuckDuckGo is a crowd-sourced search engine highlighting that they don’t record user activities. In their own words, “We don’t track or bubble you!” Now, if …
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World IPv6 launch day (June 6, 2012) has finally arrived. Many industry leaders have agreed to redefine the global internet on this occassion. The world will certainly be a better place with IPv6, the new Internet Protocol addressing mechanism which can be allocated to every single sand particle on the Earth. Today, all major industry players …
Better world with IPv6 – the official World IPv6 Launch Read complete article »
Movies, commonplace where we have seen technology in action which even still don’t exist, are real world inspiration for technology growth. We have seen in high defs, usually an antagonist imagines or simply thinks about a piece of technology that would let him control the whole chunk of mass destruction apparatus. Controlling machine by thinking …