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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A laptop for just $10??? Yes its true, India is developing a laptop worth $10 after creating worlds cheapest car. The news was confirmed by the Indian Minister of Human Resource Development D. Purandeswari in New Delhi on Tuesday. The laptop will target higher education applications. The research for this project is being carried out at Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. A few years back Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) introduced a $100 laptop for students, which is still the cheapest laptop in the world but (more…)

In the world of ipods and iphones where multitouch technology rules, here comes a technology that really gives a new meaning to “Look and Feel”. This time also like many times before the technology is invented by a Japanese researcher. This might look a bit weird here in the picture above, but it will be totally different when it hit the markets in the coming years. The technology is very simple from the users point of view that is you just have to (more…)

Cuil can prove to be one of the biggest rivals of Google in coming days, especially after it’s big-bang launch. Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. Cuil is pronounced as “cool”. It is launched by a team of four members who were all once employees of Google. Cuil has indexed 120 billion web pages, which according to them is 3 times more than any other search engine. It is also interesting to know that Google has never disclosed the size of their index. The ranking method adopted by cuil is also different as it ranks by content rather than popularity which is used by Google. So lets explore cuil. (more…)

PDF download 2.0 is a firefox extension that helps you to deal with PDF files more efficiently. This extension gives you many options like conversion of pdf’s to HTML for easier viewing, you can also decide how and when to view a PDF file. But the best feature of the extension is that now you can convert a web page into a PDF document at a single click while retaining the page layouts and active hyperlinks. When you click on a link that opens a pdf file, it doesn’t (more…)

Search engines like google, yahoo are making a lot money but only for themselves. Here’s a fantastic new search engine called Scour which shares its revenues with people who use it. First you will have to sign up there to gain its advantages. It gives you one point for your each search, (more…)