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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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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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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“TODDL3R is parenting” this is what the search engine claims to be, and yes it is. Now the parents can very easily find anything that is concerned with babies which can be from baby food to baby name or from a baby shower to baby sitter. Parents can share their stories with others, they can ask questions, get answers etc. The homepage of the website is also very interesting, (more…)

Facebook has dethroned Myspace to become worlds top social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in the month of June, according to the web tracking firm ComScore. Of 132 million 63% are outside North America which represents the huge international growth of Facebook.Facebook has an annual growth rate of 153% v/s Myspace’s 3%.

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Hey, now you just need a phone call to wake up your pc from its power saving sleep state. This is a great news for people who like hibernating their pc’s rather than switching it off. Well this concept is different than hibernation or standby techniques as it reduces the total power consumption by 85% in it’s sleep state. A normal fully on desktop pc consumes more than 60 watts and some consumes even above 100 watts, but with this techonolgy enabled, pc will consume only 10 watts in the sleep state.

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Wikipedia is such a great source of information that everyone of us would like to keep it on our pc’s. Well, to keep the whole of it is not possible but WikiTaxi can keep a good part of it on your pc. WikiTaxi is a portable application that delivers the Wikipedia of your choice to wherever you go. With WikiTaxi you can read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. WikiTaxi has a database in which Wikipedia pages are stored in a compressed form.

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Even after the launch of Windows Vista,  Windows XP is still very popular Operating System worldwide. There are probably hundreds of tips and tricks for Windows XP but most of them have nothing to do with a common user. So I have listed 11 tips which can prove to be extremely beneficial for users.

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Fotoflexer claims itself to be the worlds most advanced online image editor. When I gave it a shot, I found it to be somewhat true. There are many online image editors but this one provides you with loads of options to choose from and it is very easy to use. It provides almost every option that a normal user can think of. Some of its best features include (more…)

It was expected to be released in early august but it has arrived early. Firefox 3.1 is nicknamed as Shiretoko. The release note says that current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Shiretoko Alpha 1 but I have found it to be stable. One of the most eye catching features that has been added is the new tab switching interface which  allows for page thumbnails to be browsed when switching. The other major feature is the enhancements to the syntax used for searching in the Smart Location Bar.

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