Chigi's Personal Web BlogChigi's Personal Web BlogThis is Chirag a.k.a. Chigi's personal web blog. Its all geek for me, so you will find all the computers and technology related stuff on my blog. I only post the interesting stuff on my blog, not the usual ones that you can find on any geeks blog. So 
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Amazing Human Body Facts
2008-04-13 10:07:00 The human body is a machine that is full of wonder. This collection of human body facts will leave you wondering why in the heck we were designed the way we were. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male ... More About: Facts , Body , General , Human , Amazing
Questions to ask Yourself and Friends
2008-04-13 10:00:00 Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard? Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat? Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough? Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check ... More About: Funny , Friends , Questions , General
Gmail Custom Time
2008-04-07 11:02:00 So here is an interesting new Gmail feature called Gmail Custom Time . You can now send mails by selecting ?Set custom time? from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient?s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by ... More About: Google
Windows 7 coming out in 2010
2008-04-06 07:26:00 Engadget is reporting that Microsoft has officially confirmed the launch of Windows 7 to take place somewhere in the year 2010. While we already know that the launch of Windows 7 was expected to be somewhere in the mid of 2009-2012, the recent confirmation by Microsoft does not seem to be wise. It will take at ...
Microsoft Surface hitting markets soon!
2008-04-06 06:52:00 Almost exactly an year ago Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Surface which is a big-ass gadget that intends to bring the concept of surface computing to the masses. This new technology was highly praised by users all around the world as it was innovative but was soon buried for not being cost-effective and was indeed too big ... More About: Markets
Crystal Island - World?s Biggest Building
2008-01-04 09:56:00 Moscow?s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island , which will be the world?s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster?s mountainous 27 million square feet spiraling ?city within a building? will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years. The Crystal Island will be Lord ... More About: Building , World , General
Flash based solid-state drives
2008-01-02 02:56:00 Beginning early next year, new flash-based solid-state drives will start going into production for use in Toshiba Laptops and other computer rental equipment. This new state of the art technology will use NAND flash memory in the new hard drives as opposed to todays conventional rotating magnetic disk. This new solid-state drive is even said ... More About: Hardware , Flash , State , Solid , Soli
Calculations made easy with Google search
2008-01-01 17:10:00 If you use browser Firefox , you should have noticed the Google search box. You can use it to make calculations. To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box and the answer appears in the drop down menu of suggested search options (sometimes you have to add and ... More About: Search , Google Search , Made
40 Things that only happen in movies
2007-12-31 05:24:00 Did you ever notice that certain things only happen in the movies, but never happen in real life? For example: It is always possible to find a parking spot directly outside or opposite the building you are visiting. When paying for a taxi, don?t look at your wallet as you take out a note. Just grab ... More About: Movies , Funny , Things
Top 15 Signs your are addicted to Digg
2007-12-31 04:11:00 1) Digg is the first place you visit online. Bonus points if it’s your homepage. 2) You check Digg more than once a day because you’re scared you’re going to miss out on a great story if you leave it until tomorrow to check again. 3) You visit Digg so much that the newest story is STILL ... More About: Internet , Signs , Addicted , Addict
Auto Volume control for iPod
2007-12-31 04:06:00 Apple is developing a volume control device for its iPods that would automatically calculate how long a person has been listening and at what volume, before gradually reducing the sound level, all in an effort to protect users’ hearing, according to the London-based Daily Mail. Citing a new patent application, the report–to which Apple declined ... More About: Apple , Ipod , Auto , Control , Volume
Flightgear 1.0.0 Released (Free Game)
2007-12-31 03:57:00 After more than 11 years of development, Flightgear 1.0 has arrived. Flightgear can be played on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, as well as other platforms including Free BSD, Solaris, and IRIX. Distributed under the GPL, Flightgear is one of the first major Free Software games and has become a flight simulator that rivals it’s commercial counterparts. ... More About: Games , Released , Game , Free Game
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta
2007-12-17 10:51:00 On November 27, Microsoft invited only 5,000 testers to try out Windows Live Messenger version 9.0 in beta which will eventually replace Windows Live Messenger 8.5. But if you aren’t one of those few thousand people Microsoft sent a download link to, you can still download the installer since the WLM 9.0 beta download link ... More About: Windows Live Messenger , Download
Vista Service Pack 1 Due Date Issued
2007-11-26 10:18:00 According to one of the articles on ZD Net, the long awaited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is set to be launched on the 16th of July next year 2008. Although, it would still be in Beta stage, the final version would be coming out in November with all those new and improved features that ... More About: Service Pack
New Zunes - First Impression
2007-11-18 09:52:00 Microsoft has done it again - it came out with a quick-and-dirty product and then followed up with a better version. The new Zune portable media player models that debuted this week look better, have better wireless features and share songs in a more useful way than last year’s moderately successful model. Still, Apple doesn’t ... More About: Microsoft , Impression , Zunes
Napolean Dynamite- iPod Ad
2007-11-13 14:20:00 must confess some parts of the clip work better than others, but hopefully it?s worth a chuckle! <p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]</p> document.getElementById("player1").style. display = ""; var s1 = new SWFObject("http://www.milienzo.com/wp-con tent/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf","pl ayer1","480","290","7"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("height","290"); s1.addVariable("width","480"); s1.addVariable("file","/av/2007/04/ipod-n apo-ad.flv"); s1.addVariable("image","/av/2007/04/ipod- napo-ad.jpg"); s1.addVariable("overstretch","fix"); s1.addVariable("bufferlength","8"); s1.addVariable("fsbuttonlink","http://www .milienzo.com/wp-content/plugins/flv-embe d/fullscreen.php?f=/av/2007/04/ipod-napo- ad.flv%26r=http://www.milienzo.com/2007/0 4/02/spoof-ipod-napoleon-dynamite-advert/ "); s1.write("player1"); More About: Funny , Ipod , Dynamite , Nami
Scare Yourself
2007-11-10 06:31:00 The Top 25 most scariest horror movies scenes ever –> Only watch this if you think you can (16+) CLICK HERE More About: General
Poor Guy? lol
2007-11-01 14:14:00 A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, ... More About: Funny , Poor
Some unexpectedly useful websites?
2007-10-29 14:01:00 This eclectic list of websites contains so many out of the ordinary pleasures that it is hard to know where to start. Check this out, I found this list of websites that are claimed to be unexpectedly very useful. After bookmarking some of these websites that i would probably find to be useful, I really agree ... More About: Internet , Websites , Some
NASA Discovers Planet With Four Suns
2007-10-28 08:08:00 NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope recently discovered what might be the first planetary system with four Suns. The quadruple-star system known as HD 988000 is approximately 10-million years old, and is located 150 light-years away from Earth (fairly close in astronomical terms) in the constellation TW Hydrae. The Spitzer’s infrared spectrometer enabled astronomers to study the ‘dusty ... More About: Planet , Nasa
Difference in the Google Hompage accross different countries
2007-10-25 04:57:00 I just found this on blogoscoped. It?s interesting to see the tweaks they make to optimize their site in different countries all in this overlay. Click to enlarge. Google ?s homepage and search results layout shift and move, sometimes on purpose (because different countries or types of results deserve different treatment ? e.g. Google Korea), and sometimes ... More About: Countries , Difference , The Go , The G
OMG Tv-Links Dead
2007-10-23 15:53:00 TV-Links (now dead) is/was an awesome website that indexed movies, TV-shows, cartoons and a whole variety of entertainment stuff. I just loved it, although I still would only if it was on. But, the Gloucester shire County Council, in association with a group called the FACT, raided the site?s servers and arrested the 26 ... More About: Internet , Dead
Google set to Launch Google 411
2007-10-21 03:23:00 US are privileged to be the first to use the free directory enquiry service from Google . See the movie below. CLICK HERE The standard 411 directory service has now a free alternative called Google 411, through which an operator can find business? phone number and connect to the caller for a fee, the voice-recognition software replacing human operators. By ... More About: Launch
Firefox v2.0.0.8 with two more language displays
2007-10-21 03:18:00 The latest version of Firefox , released on October 18, has fixed several security issues and has now support for Romanian and Georgian Language s. There is available for testing a beta version for Kurdish.More, it also has now support for Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) operating system. The security flaws repaired are: - URIs with invalid %-encoding ... More About: Displays
Boot Camp reveals the real truth about OSX
2007-10-20 09:51:00 PLASTIC MOLD FIRM Apple , might be finding out that the problem with having a dual boot alongside Windows is that users can compare both operating systems better. According to Penny Arcade, the introduction of Boot Camp makes it a lot easier to benchmark what the two operating systems can do. One of its hacks ... More About: Truth , Microsoft , Real
Top 10 Programming Quotations
2007-10-18 14:22:00 You would have probably heard of most of these before, but I am glad to put the best ten of these quotations at one place. So, here it is, the Top 10: Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better ... More About: Programming , General , Quotations , Gram
Remember the 1st Photo on your Digital Camera?
2007-10-18 13:45:00 Who remembers their first digital photo? Well, maybe not you, but we can always turn to Google to look at some examples of others?. PC Magazine while showing us How To Find Hidden Goodies With Google, reminds us that digital photos from standard cameras have standard naming conventions. And most people don?t rename photos before uploading. And ... More About: Photo , Digital Camera , Camera , Cameras , Digital
OMG an Apple iPhone and now a Google gPhone
2007-10-18 13:18:00 A recent article in The New York Times is turning that speculation on its ear. The article cites various insiders who say Google ?s efforts are geared at creating a Linux-based mobile phone operating system. There still seems to be evidence that Google is considering either marketing a cell phone directly, or is engineering a working ... More About: Apple , Iphone , Apple iphone , Gphone
Working Car Engine
2007-10-18 11:21:00 While stumbling, I found this really cool video in which they used a high heat resistant camera to get a clip of how the pistons work inside a car engine. Check it out its really cool. More About: Cars , Engine , Working , Workin
?Second Earth? found, 20 light years away
More articles from this author:2007-10-18 11:06:00 The Earth -like Gliese 581C circles a star in the constellation of Libra that is cooler than our sun. Photograph: European Southern Observatory/AP Scientists have discovered a warm and rocky “second Earth” circling a star, a find they believe dramatically boosts the prospects that we are not alone. The planet is the most Earth-like ever spotted and ... More About: Space , Light , Years 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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