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InfoWorld's 2007 Technology of the Year Awards
2007-01-03 21:42:02
Infoworld has released the 2007 Tech no logy of the Year Award winners. It selects the best hardware and software of the year in 40 different product categories. >>
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iFixit : DIY iPod Repair Help
2007-01-03 09:41:01
Stuck-up with your broken iPod ? Got the bad battery blues? Don?t know how to handle the simple internal issues with iPod. ifixit.com is just for us, it guides us with a detailed disassembly instructions that walk us through the process of easily accessing and replacing batteries, hard drives, screens in our iPod. Guides are provided for all the iPod Versions and make sure you handle the instructions with much care! >>
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Wired Magazine?s Predictions for 2007
2007-01-01 21:39:03
Wired Magazin e has predicted what are the changes we may be looking at in 2007. Some of it?s predictions are :Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share.Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007.Spam Doubles Second Life Ends a Life, Skullduggery in Second Life -- probably digital adultery -- ends in a real-life murder.Year o' the Laptop, Half of all new computers sold in 2007 will be laptops and 20 percent of those will be Apple's MacBooks.Checkout it?s other preditions. >>
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Top 50 Games of the Year 2006
2006-12-31 09:37:02
Next Generation has listed and ranked down the top 50 games of the year 2006. If you are a game freak, checkout the big list of mind boggling video games and find yourself how many games you have played. >>
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Hackers Launch New MS PowerPoint Attack !
2006-12-29 21:35:01
Hackers launch a new Microsoft Power Point presentation attack, which circulates via e-mail and hides within an apparently innocent PowerPoint slide show called "Christmas+Blessing-4.ppt". It is a variant of the "Hupigon" backdoor Trojan horse, which is not been properly detected by most anti virus scanners. So watch out before opening unsolicited email attachments and make sure it comes only from a known source. >>
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Google Blog Search Takes over Technorati !
2006-12-29 21:35:01
Google Blog Search 's market share has moved up to 25% recorded last week, taking over Tech no rati search. Hitwise reports that, Google Blog Search began catching up to Technorati in October, when Google placed a link to Blog Search on the Google News home page, causing a 168% surge in market share for Google Blog Search over a two week period. Since then, approximately 60% of Google Blog Search's traffic has been coming directly from Google News. >>
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Web's Most Useful Sites
2006-12-28 09:33:01
PC World lists down the web's most useful sites. It has looked at the best of the web services in 14 categories, ranging from online office suites, other productivity tools to recommendation services and event listing sites. It also lists down some of the best widgets applications and mashups. >>
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Which is the Best Question & Answer Site? : Technology Revie
2006-12-26 21:31:02
Technology Review, tests Yahoo Answer s, Microsoft Live QnA, AnswerBag, Yedda, Wondir, and Amazon Askville to find out which is the best Question and Answer site. The test is based on the quality and originality of the answers and richness of its features. Checkout it's full review and results. >>
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Linutop : Linux Based Diskless Computer
2006-12-26 15:31:01
Linutop is a linux-based diskless computer, which is designed specifically for the low-power operations in an extremely small package. It is ideal for Internet usages in Schools, Universities, Government offices, Internet cafés. Linux top runs on AMD Geode processor with 512 MB ROM, 256 MB RAM and also has support for USB 2.0 ports. >>
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My Happy New Year 2007 Wishes to You and Everyone :)
2006-12-25 21:29:02
I wish you and your Family a very Happy New Year 2007 :).You are on the way to so many Wonderful and Beautiful things in the year 2007.--Balakumar Muthu
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Java.net Publishes My Duke Holiday Pictures 2006 !
2006-12-25 21:29:02
Java.net has published my contributed pictures for the ?Java Duke Holiday Picture s 2006? in their featured article :). Although I had more ideas, due to the time constraint I have send them only 2 pictures. My thanks to Java.net editor Chris Adamson for selecting and publishing my pictures. Checkout them at:http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/a rchives/2006/12/every_picture_t_1.html
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About Balakumar Muthu
2006-12-25 09:29:01
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Microsoft Applies for Patent RSS !
2006-12-23 15:26:06
Microsoft has applied for patent to RSS technology. As we know RSS is a popular XML format for sharing content among Web and was originally developed by Netscape. I don?t what is the need for Microsoft to patent such an popular open data format. >>
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Google Takes Over Yahoo in User Visits!
2006-12-22 21:24:01
According to a report by ComScore, Google has overtook Yahoo as the second most popular Internet destination for Web surfers worldwide. Google websites visited by over 475,713, while475,262 visits to Yahoo!. Video sharing website YouTube placed in tenth position. >>
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Steve Jobs in his NeXT Years
2006-12-22 21:24:01
Apples early Macintosh launch was a failure. Steve Jobs had predicted that Apple sell 500,000 Macs the first year alone, but the company sold only 10% of Jobs' original prediction. Checkout an interesting writeup on why Steve Jobs left Apple, started NeXT and also how he returned and made Apple into a Mega Historic success. >>
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20q - Pocket Mind Reader : Gadget That Reads Our Mind
2006-12-22 09:23:04
20q - Pocket Mind Read er , is a pocket sized gadget that can read our mind. We have to just think of an object either an animal, vegetable, mineral or anything and then 20q will ask us a series of questions through it's LED display. We have to simply answer YES, NO using the appropriate buttons. The 20q will attempt to guess our object after the 20th question. If it guesses correctly, 20q wins! If it misses it will attempt 5 more questions and will then make another guess. If it misses again then we have officially stumped the pocket 20q and it will courageously admit defeat ;). >>
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How to Make Projects Work : A Simple Guide
2006-12-22 09:23:04
Zdnet have released an simple and interesting guide on how to make our projects really work. This straightforward guide covers key principles and successfully planning and implementing a project. It includes the purpose of the project plan, the fine art of scheduling, risk management, and staying on track. A must read for all beginner level to high level devlopers. >>
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Opera Browser for Wii Gaming Console !
2006-12-22 09:23:04
Opera has announced the trial version of its Web browser for Nintendo's Wii gaming console. It allows the Wii users to browse the Internet using their consoles. The browser will be available for free download from December 22, 2006. Opera moves very fastly and targets its browser to other platforms. First the opera mini browser now moving to the gaming consoles. I am sure it is going to be big hit. >>
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David Beckham, becomes Motorola's Brand Ambassador!!
2006-12-22 09:23:04
Motorola has announced the signing with the hottest property in football David Beck ham as a global brand ambassador. The three-year collaboration with David Beckham will kick-off with major activities across Asia including advertising appearances and extensive retail promotions rolled out across the network of Motorola stores and distributors throughout the region. Beckham will commence his brand ambassador role with immediate effect and will be seen exclusively carrying Motorola products during the upcoming World Cup campaign. >>
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I am Back in to Blogosphere :) !!
2006-12-20 15:20:02
Hi Guys, I am still alive and back in to Blog osphere after a very long break. As my blog has been locked, I am not able to publish any new post. Sorry for the discomfort I have made. >>Living without Blogging? It's very hard for me. Now the issue has been solved and I have learned a lot.At this moment I would like to convey my hearty thanks to Google Blogoscoped forum, Philipp Lenssen, Ionut Alex. Chitu, RC, Matt Cutts, Blogger Team and to all of you guys ! :).Thank you.Balakumar Muthu
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2007 is Open Source Year !
2006-12-20 15:20:02
Infoworld, reports that 2007 will be an year for Open source, as software companies are increasingly looking to add value on top of base open source platforms. The pace of change in the open source software business is likely to accelerate in 2007 as developers climb up the software stack from the operating system and databases to applications. >>
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Top 10 Gadgets That Changed the World
2006-12-13 03:14:14
Wired Magazine has listed down the top 10 Gadget s that have changed the world. The list takes us to the memories of past life-altering devices and how they evolved to the current modern era gadgets. >>
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Wikipedia Founder To Give Away Site Tools for Free !
2006-12-13 03:14:14
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that his for-profit company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away for free all the software, computing, storage and network access that Web site builders need to create community collaboration sites. Wikia gives away the tools and the revenue to its users. It requires only that sites built with the company's resources link to Wikia.com, which makes money through advertising. >>
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How Microsoft Fights 100,000 Attacks Per Month ?
2006-12-11 15:12:02
Microsoft was the target of more than 100,000 intrusion attempts per month. Currently, Microsoft filters out about 9 million spam and virus e-mails a day out of 10 million received. That means it's roughly 90% of incoming e-mails are spam!. Microsoft tries to protect its most valuable assets with defenses in depth; they are behind networks segmented with IPsec. Microsoft has long encouraged its employees to use Remote Access Services [RAS] into the corporate network from home or from the road to access e-mail, shared files and applications. In addition, the entire network is monitored for suspicious activity, scanned for malware. >>
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Technology to Help Ageing People
2006-12-10 03:10:17
Older consumers want more real-time, personalized information on everyday matters such as the nutritional content of groceries. So MIT's AgeLab teamed with Procter & Gamble to develop the Smart Personal Advisor, a portable device that can attach to a shopping cart or be incorporated into a cell phone or personal digital assistant. It then can read information contained in barcodes and analyze how the item fits with a senior's personalized dietary needs. Checkout how technologies evolve to help the ageing people. >>
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Linux Security Expert Kurt Seifried's Interview
2006-12-10 03:10:17
Kurt Seifried, an well known linux security expert and the author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide. In this interview with linux.com, he gives his views on how security in Linux has been stacking up and where it's lacking, what users can do to secure their systems, and whether every admin needs to know. >>
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France Moving Towards Open Source !
2006-12-09 03:09:03
The French government is planning to make Paris as a centre of excellence for open source software development. A group of academics and open source software entrepreneurs have been brought in to create the centre of excellence. It will develop a healthy and profitable open source software industry in the country. >>
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Linux Equivalent Project
2006-12-09 03:09:03
Linux Equivalent Project is a great help for the new linux users who are from windows background. It lists down all the windows softwares and it's linux equivalent opensource softwares we can use. >>
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Musicovery : Visual Mood Jukebox
2006-12-09 03:09:03
Musicovery is an flash-based visual music discovery application that allows us to listen to full music songs according to our moods like dark, energetic, positive, calm and differ in time period or style. Just a great visual way to hear our music. >>
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Searchbot : Build Your Own Searchbot
2006-12-09 03:09:03
Searchbot is an experimental search engine that investigates the use of mythology, personification and game theory as motivational strategies in creating a sustainable search community. It allows to built our own personal search robot with a personality and then program it's search circuits with all the things we want to find. We can search for websites based on factual information like tags and locations, or more creative ways like colour and the mood we are in. We can even ask Searchbot a question and it will talk to other Searchbots to find the answer. >>
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