September 2010
13 posts
Facebook Skype Video Chat Internet Telephone Calls
Facebook & Skype are on the verge of releasing there new partnership, allowing Facebook users to sign in to Skype, send text messages, Video Chat & make Internet telephone calls from their Facebook profile page. http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100929/exclusive-facebook-and-skype-readying-wide-ranging-integration-partnership/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/facebook_skype/...
Ubuntu Parallax New Full Screen Interaction
This new feature will use a web cam to detect the users presence, close, sitting back or not in view. changing various settings like putting a movie in full screen, or using a very large font for notifications. read the full article hereThis new feature will use a web cam to detect the users presence, close, sitting back or not in view. changing various settings like putting a movie in full...
Mageia A New Linux Distribution
As you may have heard, the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution is unclear. Most employees working on the distribution were laid off when Edge-IT was liquidated. We do not trust the plans of Mandriva SA anymore and we don’t think the company (or any company) is a safe host for such a project. Many things have happened in the past 12 years. Some were very nice: the Mandriva Linux...
Escher-like internet map could speed online...
A novel map of the internet created by Marián Boguñá and colleagues at the University of Barcelona, Spain, could help make network glitches a thing of the past. Boguñá squeezed the entire network into a disc using hyperbolic geometry, more familiar to us through the circular mosaic-like artworks of M. C. Escher. Each square on the map is an “autonomous system” – a section of the...
The PlayStation 3 powered super-computer
Gaurav Khanna combined games consoles to make a super-computer capable of serious number-crunching Playing the PlayStation and getting your homework done are not usually activities which go hand-in-hand, but one university professor may have cracked it. Dr Gaurav Khanna has no less than 16 Sony PlayStation 3 consoles working together to create a super-computer which he says rivals the...
Google explains technology behind Instant search
How to handle five to seven times more results pages per query The system provides a live feed of search suggestions as the user types, and has already won widespread favor. “Our key design challenge was to make sure people would notice relevant results without being distracted,” said Ben Gomes, a distinguished engineer Google, in a blog post. “We knew it would take...
Google Instant shows search results as you type
(CNN) — Tired of waiting the tenths of a second it takes to get Google search results? Google promises it’ll get faster. The search giant on Wednesday introduced Google Instant, which will give users suggested results before they’re even done typing. “It’s not quite psychic, but it is very clever,” said Othar Hansson, a senior software engineer at Google....
Will WebOS 2.0 let HP compete with Apple?
The next generation of WebOS will make or break HP’s attempt to slide in among RIM, Apple and Google in the mobile arena. Last week was an Apple launch week, and short of the launch of World War III, there were likely few things that could pull much interest away from this event. Still, HP chose the week to launch WebOS 2.0 in advance of what will is expected to be a line of products that...
Facebook closes hole that let spammers auto-post...
Facebook has closed a hole that was being used by spammers to automatically post wall messages and direct messages to friends, the company said on Tuesday. Just clicking on the link to one of the applications that were taking advantage of the bug would allow the auto-posting to happen, Facebook said The apps, which appeared to be sending people to a survey Web site, were disabled on Monday, the...
XMIND free open source brainstorming software
XMind is an open source brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts, and share them for collaboration. It supports mind maps, Ishikawa diagrams (also called fishbone diagrams or cause-and-effect diagrams), tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and spreadsheets. It is often used for knowledge management,...
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The Top 7 Best Linux Distributions for You
There are various approaches to answering this question. The broad answer is: “any of them,” but that’s not very helpful if you’re just looking for a place to start. The problem is, there never can be one best Linux distribution for everyone, because the needs of each user tend to be unique. Telling someone who’s looking for a good introductory distribution to...
to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID)...
“This month, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number for ‘anytime, anywhere’ biometric...