Have you ever wondered how the google webpage looked wayback in 1998 when it was launched?? There is a site that archives each and every site on the web. Its called the Wayback Machine of Internet Archive. You might be wondering as to what purpose is served in archiving the ever changing content of the web. The huge of amount of data gathered by the wayback machine is used as a documented library of the web. The information is freely available to general public who want to access the historical collection of data that has been collected over the years in digital form.
As of 2009 the Wayback machine has collected around 3 petabytes of data with the data growing at 100 terabytes per month. The Wayback machine recently completed a 2 billion page web crawl and took a complete snapshot of the entire web using their Heritrix web crawler tool. Websites were nominated from institutions across the world in order to capture content from wide variety of countries, geographic locations and language bases.
The next generation charging device is here; it’s called the ‘PowerMat’. This new gizmo can recharge all your portable devices wirelessly. Currently it supports all your favorite portable devices like iphone, all types of ipods, blackberry phones, Nintendo DS, GPS devices etc.
The device which looks like a surf board can charge up to 3 devices simultaneously. All you need to do is just connect the Powermat to power supply and place your device on the Powermat. Led lights on the Powermat indicate whether the device is charging or has been fully charged. Once the device is fully charged it automatically shuts off power to the device to save power.
Currently Powermat is priced at $99, which is affordable. It comes with a universal receiver with 8 tips which supports 8 devices. But the universal receiver can charge only once device at a time which is a drawback. The manufacturer of the Powermat is also selling custom cases, charging docks for popular devices like iphone, ipod, blackberry separately which are priced from $29.99-$39.99.
All set for Black Friday?. Having finalized what to buy are looking online where you get the best deals, coupons?. Confused which site to check or which site offers you the best, good deals. This article is to help you people in letting you know where you can get good deals.
FatWallet: Offers good deals, coupons and cash backs and these are not limited only to tech items, you get deals for all type of items from housing accessories, clothes, office, electronics..
SlickDeals: This is a user driven community site where users post and rate which are the best deals that are found in the net currently. Here as well you will get to know the hot deals found on the web in most of the categories.
Deals.Woot: This is similar to Digg like web site where the users woots(diggs) the current best deals found on the web.
Deals2Buy: This site mainly give information about the deals, coupons for tech items like electronics, software, computer etc..
DealsPlus: Offers the deals and coupons for 15000 stores. Here again you get deals and coupons for items in most of the categories like housing accessories, clothes, office , electronics.
DealsofAmerica: This site apart from offering deals and coupons like the above mentioned site offers travel deals and freebies as well.
DealTaker: Another site similar to DealsofAmerica where you get travel stuff, free stuff too.
Charlie and Harry’s father had taken out the camera that day to record some footage of the two kids to share it with their parents. It was then that this magical moment happened and the rest is history. The video is the most viewed video on youtube and has inspired countless videos in the form of remakes, parodies, remixes, enactments. Don’t miss this video.
The next video was uploaded by Judson Laipply a motivational speaker who used to close his show ‘the inspirational comedy‘with a dance performance to popular songs from Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson. Soon it became a hit with the crowds. This video has 130 million views on youtube. He recently has uploaded a new video ‘the evolution of dance 2’ where he has danced to some recent tracks.
Music video from Girlfriend Avril lavigne is the 3rd most viewed video on youtube. But as per the rumors on the internet, this video cheated its way to the top. Die hard fans of Avril Lavigne at avrilbandaids.com used a scheme where the video was opened on multiple browsers and refreshed every 15 secs so that the view counts go up.
5th most viewed video on youtube is from the pop artist Rihanna. This video has 105 million views. The song ‘Don’t Stop the Music’ is from her bestselling album Good Girl Gone Bad.
7.Jeff Dunham- Achmed The Dead Terriost The 7th most viewed video on youtube is a performance from ‘Jeff Dunham’ a Ventriloquist and Stand up comedian. This video is a funny take on the issue of terrorism. ‘Achmed’ the failed suicide bomber as seen in the video became famous for his line ‘ Silence! I kill You! ’ .
This video is noted for being one of the top non English videos to be among the most viewed on youtube.
Video description from wiki:
The plot centers around "Sofia", who returns home to find a voicemail from her husband, "Miguel", announcing that he has left her. Sofia is initially depressed, but decides to remix the voice-mail so that it sounds like Miguel telling her that he loves her and that he is sorry for leaving her and asking for forgiveness. Sofia then tells the remixed-voicemail that she will not take Miguel back.
9.Hahaha
This is a funny video of a baby laughing to funny noises made by his parents.
10th most viewed video is the music video by Leona Lewis ‘Bleeding Love’ .Leona lewis is a 3 time grammy nominee who rose to fame after winning the third edition of the British television show ‘The X Factor ‘.
The actual video is not available in US due to copyright restrictions. But you can watch the same video uploaded on Leona lewis’s channel here
If you are searching for jobs(internship, part time, full time) and are unaware who is hiring and where to apply then here it is the list of companies and the links to apply who are currently hiring!!!. The job listed below are mostly related to software and IT industry.
Disclaimer: We are no way involved with any of these companies. The list is here to help people get the right job and the company get the right candidate.The list was collected from HN news site.
It doesn’t make any sense does it?? Now save this image in your computer and try to decode the information embedded in it. Just go to this link, use the browse option to upload the image and press submit query. What do you see?? Do you see a twitter link? Follow us.
The image above is called a QR code short for Quick Response code. It is a 2D barcode that can store up to 250 characters. Created by a Japanese corporation, it’s widely used in Japan and many other countries for commercial shipment tracking. It’s even used on billboard signs for advertising, visiting cards and to embed just about any information that people might be interested in. Now you might be wondering how people decode the information embedded in the QR code. There is an application for mobile phone devices that can take a picture of the QR code and decode it instantly. If an url is embedded in the QR code then you will be automatically redirected to the url. This is known as ‘hardlinking’ or ‘physical world hyperlinking’ where you embed urls in physical world objects.
These days QR code is used for promotional purposes. Advertisers put QR codes in print media and signs to direct people to their product webpage. Bands put QR codes on the back of their CD cover to give the audience a preview of their songs or purchase concert tickets.
So, QR code is a quick and efficient way of conveying information to people. People can just take a snapshot of the QR code image and go through the details later. There is no need to hurriedly note down a URL of website, or try to remember the phone number from a sign which you will eventually forget. Just take a snap and you will have all the information you need.
After the much speculation about the release of Google Chrome OS this week, finally Google has announced that from today onwards the Chrome OS project will be open sourced. According to them this measure will help the open source community, developer and their partners to engage themselves to in Chrome OS project before the product will be released to the users which is expected to be done next year.
Chrome OS which is a part of Chromium project, is an open-source project that aims to provide a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.
Chromium project also includes Chromium which is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.
If you are a developer/ open source community member and want to be of this project check the details here.
In brief, if you want to know what Google Chrome OS is all about and wonder whether it will be secure enough check the videos below
Black Friday is a term for the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, which is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. Black Friday is just a few days left and if you have planned for shopping and looking in and around the web for some good deals, then here is the collection of probably the best deals for this Black Friday.
Popularity of Twitter had made everyone to stay connected and send out ones update to others so that others get to know your updates. If you are thinking of adding follow me button or its variants like follow us or its variant like "What I am doing? Follow me on Twitter" Here is how.
I will explain the steps to add floating "Follow Me" to your blogger template as shown in the picture.
Step 1:
Sign into blogger and then "click layout" then click "edit html". Check the "Expand Widget Templates" Check box.
Note: Before continuing further you can save your current template so that if anything goes wrong you can revert it back. To save your template click "Download Template".
Step2:
Now find the tag ( to find the tag, press "cntrl+f" and type ) and add the code
immediately after it.
If you want "Follow Us" button then replace http://i48.tinypic.com/2a4r9qf.jpg with http://i45.tinypic.com/wvqpok.jpg
Now if you want the twitter follow button on to the right side of your web page, then in the above code rather than left:0 make it right:0.
TED talks were held in India this year, the first time it’s been held outside US. The venue was Infosys Technologies Mysore, India. One of the key speakers at the event was Pranav Mistry, the man behind the innovative piece of technology called the ‘Sixth Sense’. Sixth Sense bridges the gap between the real world and the digital world. This small device comprised of a small projector, mirror and a camera has amazing capabilities built into which can all be invoked by hand gestures. You can take pictures by making the camera framing gesture with your hands, project maps on to the nearest surface, check the current time by drawing a circle on your wrist, or draw ‘@’ symbol to check your mail. The device also analyses the object the person is interacting with and projects more information about it. For example if you are reading a news paper, it projects related videos on the paper.
Pranav Mistry is a tech genius from Gujarat, India currently pursuing PHD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His innovation is one of the many innovative gadgets to come out of the famous Media Lab at MIT.
Do you find Computer Science algorithm or data structures course difficult or looking forward to learn it from different professors or even from different Universities. Well then here is how you can do it.
Below are the links that contain the video lecture series for Algorithms course and Data Structures courses, probably one of the most viewed video lectures.
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Sometimes you might be wondering how to find feed url so that you can post your blog in some blog directory or if some people want to subscribe for your website feed they might be interested in knowing how to subscribe to the feed so they will be update with the latest post on your blog or website Or you might be interested in in getting the RSS feed from your favorite website. Here is how..
In order to know what is the feed url of your website/blog, append the word rss.xml or atom.xml to your web/blog url.
Example: Blog name myblog.blogspot.com
then rss feed url will be myblog.blogspot.com/rss.xml and/or myblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Just to know whether it works copy paste the entire url with the new word appended to a web browser and here it is how it should look like
Now you can use this method to find the RSS feed of your favorite website and click subscribe and start getting the feed from that particular website.
Also you can click on the RSS feed button which will be on the right corner of the address bar and subscribe to the feed.
Google doodle results were announced today on the occasion of Children’s day. Three kids SriradhaKapoor, PuruPratap Singh, and AnamikaSonai were announced as winners in their respective age categories for this year. Their doodle’s will be showcased throughout the day on India’s Google homepage. For those of you who are wondering as to what is a doodle, as per wiki definition doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or can be just abstract shapes. Google has had this tradition of creating a doodle to honor famous personalities or celebrate important days around the world. It also conducts a contest every year in different countries with children of different ages taking part to create doodles centered on a particular theme. This year the theme was ‘My India’.
System crashes, hard drive corruption are not new to everyday computer users. We are at high risk of losing sensitive and important data. According to a study its estimated that nearly 140,000 hard drives crash in US every week. So, to avoid the risk of losing data, its high time that we find alternative ways to back them up in a secure place. This is where the online storage sites come into picture. Here’ s a look at some of the top sites that offer online storage for your files.
Adrive offers 50 gb of free space on signup. The basic option has folder/directory upload feature. You can also share your documents with others. The basic account does not provide encryption facilities. For $5.95/mo you can sign up for signature account for 50gb storage space with additional features like desktop client, SSL encryption of data, 24/7 support. For $13.95/mo you can sign up for a premium account with storage space of your choice from 100gb to 1Tb.
Skydrive from windows live offers 25 gb of free space. First you need to have a windows live account in order to use Skydrive. The user can create folders , rename the folders and even decide who has access to it. You can share a folder with your friends and they can access your folder by logging in using their Windows Live account. But it doesn’t have a desktop client where you can manage all your files. Everything is done through a browser, and you need to upload each file individually which is frustrating.
Idrive offers 2 gb of free space and unlimited storage space for $4.95/month. It has a free desktop client where you can manage your files online. It has automated backup feature where it automatically takes a back up of your documents if they have been modified recently. It also backs up your mapped drives and external hard drives. It has search option where you can search for a particular file. For other features check out their website.
Humyo gives its users 10gb of free storage. If you sign up for a premium account for $6.99/mo you get 100gb storage with features like fast data transfers with SSL data encryption, automatic backup and sync.
Mozy also provides 2 gb of free space once you sign up and create an account with them. It has a desktop client and has automated back up features similar to idrive. You can get additional free space by referring your friends. You get 512mb for every referral.
Drop box gives 2gb of free storage. It has a desktop client and also aiphone app through which you can access all your files. If you edit a file in your home computer and save it, the file will be updated on all the computers where the file is shared. This gives you the freedom to work on any computer and have all the files you need at each computer.
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