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By: Amit Bhardwaj on August 27th, 2008

Two months back no one could have imagined that China can put up a show like this. People around the globe witnessed one of the most unforgettable opening and closing ceremonies. But no one can really think about the technology, money and people involved behind it. So here are some facts that you must know..
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By: Satbir Singh on August 25th, 2008
Google Suggest - a search feature that provides real time query suggestions as you type into a search box will now be available by default on Google.com Homepages. Earlier, the Google Suggest Feature was there in Google labs and was used by a Google Search in Firefox, Firefox Addon Customize Google to add Suggestions feature to normal Google Search in Firefox.
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By: Amit Bhardwaj on August 22nd, 2008
Errors are generally very frustrating, but sometimes they can be funny too. I also encountered a very strange and funny error message while working on my pc. So I decided to find more of these rib tickling messages on the net and I really found some of these. Here’s the entire list
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By: Satbir Singh on August 21st, 2008
Remember those crazy followers on Twitter that follow thousands of Twitter users and then use it to send spam to you. But now, the micro blogging platform Twitter will become more secure and spam free as Twitter has planned to take actions on Spammers and take additional measures to combat spam.
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By: Satbir Singh on August 21st, 2008
Mozilla today announced winners of its Extend Firefox 3 contest after reviewing over 100 extensions.
One of the grand prize winner of Best New Extensions is Pencil by Dương Thành An, which adds GUI prototyping and diagramming to Firefox using the Firefox’s SVG support for rendering and scripting.
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By: Amit Bhardwaj on August 21st, 2008
Intel has unveiled the new USB technology called USB 3.0. It is far superior than the current USB 2.0. USB 3.0 has 10 times the bandwidth of existing USB 2.0 connections. It is expected to hit the markets in 2009 or 2010. The transfer speed of USB 3.0 is really jaw dropping, which is about 4.8Gbit/s that is 614MByte/s. The time required for data transfers will be reduced dramatically, for example transferring a movie of 30 GB will take around 74 seconds( 1 min 14 sec) in USB 3.0 whereas it will take around 17 to 18 minutes with USB 2.0.
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By: Satbir Singh on August 21st, 2008
Secure Computing, a company providing enterprise security solutions has published a report on Internet threats for the second quarter of 2008. According to the report, USA tops the list of spam sending countries accounting for 16.5% of the spam while Russia is second on list with around 8% contribution.
These top 10 countries account for 55% of global spam. Besides US and Russia, India, Korea, Argentina, Germany were also on the top spam sender’s list.
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By: Nain on August 21st, 2008

“Notepad, a very simple built-in text editor in Windows. We can create, edit and save text files with its help.” This is what most of us think about this hidden master that can perform many roles in addition to just being a simple text editor.
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By: Satbir Singh on August 20th, 2008
Portable Applications are the softwares that can be run directly from a portable device without requiring installation. These are quite useful if you travel a lot and need your softwares with you all the time. You can keep portable versions of your favorite softwares all the time with you on a USB drive and they can be run from any computer with a USB port.
Moreover, the greatest benefit of using portable applications is that none of the settings, history, data is kept on the host computer as everything is stored on the portable device.
We have compiled a list of 10 essential portable applications for your USB drive that will work on any Windows system.
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