Computers are becoming more and more indispensable day after day. They have become primary repositories our digital photos, documents, invoices, multimedia etc. The huge volume of computer users and the advent of cheap always-on internet connections has made computers an attractive targets to hackers distributing viruses, spyware and other malicious software. You might have an [...]
The thirteenth major release of the popular blogging software, WordPress 3.0 is now available. A total of 218 contributors and six months have resulted in the release that can be downloaded or directly upgraded from the Dashboard. What’s new in 3.0? One of the best ways to find out is to try out the new [...]
I remember: I took up French as an option for ‘Third Language’ when I was in 6th Grade. Just in 2 years I felt that French was not for me. The classes were boring and all stuff went miles above my head. Finally, I had to leave it! Mastering a new language can be a [...]
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to the web, many known faces can be seen in the list. After regaining the throne last year, Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time by Carlos Slim (who held that post back [...]
Google has been the leading search engine for as long as I can remember. Launched as a small beta start up in 1996 at the domain google.stanford.edu using inexpensive hardware, you wouldn’t think then that it would ever become the success it is today with so few useful Google alternatives available. If you want to [...]
Are you alone online? All your friends are busy doing some other stuff but you’d like to chat. You try and find none. Talking to a random stranger can bring exciting variety. Besides, you never know whom you might run into. The internet is full of interesting people. Why not try anyone of them? Here [...]
Images are an important part of a webpage these days. A webpage without images is as dull as a pumpkin. It is really very important to optimize your images for use on the Web. One of the ways to optimize photos for the web is to use CSS sprites. Sprites work best for images that [...]
One of the astronauts currently in residence on the International Space Station is using Twitpic to send some spectacular imagery of our home planet back down to us Earthlings. Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi is now sending back images via his Twitpic account as the ISS orbits the Earth. Check out a selection of some of [...]
