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- Height of Computer Applications Multitasking.
- Be Thankful Life Is Hard
- Beware all beautiful girls out there.
- What is the use of DataInputStream and BufferedReader in java programming?
- is it safe to use a keylogger????
- VLC Media Player now available for iPhone
- Google admits spying on emails
- Ray Ozzie's Dawn Of A New Day
- Are there Monsters in your room: iPhone app that detects Monsters
- MakerLegoBot: A Lego Mindstorms NXT 3D Printer
- The Cassette Walkman retires after 30 long years
- what is fan stacking?
- Have you ever used floppy disks?
- Health Tips For Software Engineers & Others Too!
- Foursquare: The first person to use social network in space
| Height of Computer Applications Multitasking. Posted: 25 Oct 2010 09:57 AM PDT This song is made of windows default sounds. Now this is the perfect example of Application Multitasking (creative way):mrgreen: I guess this is made using Flash! |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2010 09:06 AM PDT This Video will show you why you must be thankful for what you have, |
| Beware all beautiful girls out there. Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:59 AM PDT Hello to all i rarely watch television but a day or two before i saw an add of Ponds Age Miracle. The Ad says it penetrate till 20th layer of skin to stop signs of ageing, by the way so far i know skin only have two layers, Dermis and Epi-dermis. Even if you count all muscle layers on your face with skin layers, they don't make it 20. Does it stops ageing from your skull, still not 20. Beware, it can be something that can prove fatal to your skin. Better beware than repenting later. Have a nice time. |
| What is the use of DataInputStream and BufferedReader in java programming? Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:48 AM PDT what is the use of DataInputStream and BufferedReader in java programming???????? |
| is it safe to use a keylogger???? Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:58 AM PDT means is d data safe till d pc, n which is d best keylogger to use..????? |
| VLC Media Player now available for iPhone Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:52 AM PDT VLC Media Player, an app that lets you watch videos in several formats that aren't natively supported by the iPhone, has arrived in Apple's iTunes store. The app originated on the iPad, and is now compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and "recent" versions of the iPod touch. The features include quick decoding of almost every video format as well as deleting files directly from the application (bypassing iTunes). Here is the link to the iTunes Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vlc-m...390885556?mt=8 |
| Google admits spying on emails Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:45 AM PDT In what that we could consider as a significant security breach, Internet search engine Google has admitted spying on computer passwords and entire emails from households in Britain. It's clear from the inspections that in some instances entire emails and URLs (web addresses) were captured, as well as passwords. "We want to delete this data as soon as possible, and I would like to apologize again for the fact that we collected it in the first place," said Alan Eustace, Google's Vice-President of engineering and research. In May this year, Google confessed the vehicles had also been gathering information about the location of wireless networks, the devices which connect computers to the tele-communications network via radio waves. :o It's absolutely scandalous that this situation has developed and so many people have had their communications intercepted. What do you think about this situation? |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:42 AM PDT Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's CTO who stepped down last week after taking the position of Chief Software Architect from Bill Gates in 2008, is leaving Microsoft in next few months. Ray penned "Dawn Of A New Day" which is (QUITE BIG) very interesting! Look - Source: http://ozzie.net/docs/dawn-of-a-new-day/ Five years ago, having only recently arrived at the company, I wrote The Internet Services Disruption in order to kick off a major change management process across the company. In the opening section of that memo, I noted that about every five years our industry experiences what appears to be an inflection point that results in great turbulence and change. In the wake of that memo, the last five years has been a time of great transformation for Microsoft. At this point we’re truly all in with regard to services. I’m incredibly proud of the people and the work that has been done across the company, and of the way that we’ve turned this services transformation into opportunities that will pay off for years to come. In the realm of the service-centric ‘seamless OS’ we’re well on the path to having Windows Live serve as an optional yet natural services complement to the Windows and Office software. In the realm of ‘seamless productivity’, Office 365 and our 2010 Office, SharePoint and Live deliverables have shifted Office from being PC-centric toward now also robustly spanning the web and mobile. In ‘seamless entertainment’, Xbox Live has transformed Xbox into a real-time, social, media-rich TV experience. And in the realm of what I referred to as our ‘services platform’, I couldn’t be more proud of what’s emerged as Windows Azure & SQL Azure. Inspired by little more than a memo, a few decks and discussions, intrapreneurial leaders stepped up to build and deliver an innovative service that, while still nascent, will over time prove to be transformational for the company and the industry. Our products are now more relevant than ever. Bing has blossomed and its advertising, social, metadata & real-time analytics capabilities are growing to power every one of our myriad services offerings. Over the years the Windows client expanded its relevance even with the rise of low-cost netbooks. Office expanded its relevance even with a shift toward open data formats & web-based productivity. Our server assets have had greater relevance even with a marked shift toward virtualization & cloud computing. Quite important to me, I’m also quite proud of the degree to which we’ve continued to grow and mature in the area of responsible competition, and the breadth and depth of our cultural shift toward genuine openness, interoperability and privacy which are now such key cornerstones of everything we do. Yet, for all our great progress, some of the opportunities I laid out in my memo five years ago remain elusive and are yet to be realized. Certain of our competitors’ products and their rapid advancement & refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy. Our early and clear vision notwithstanding, their execution has surpassed our own in mobile experiences, in the seamless fusion of hardware & software & services, and in social networking & myriad new forms of internet-centric social interaction. We’ve seen agile innovation playing out before a backdrop in which many dramatic changes have occurred across all aspects of our industry’s core infrastructure. These myriad evolutions of our infrastructure have been predicted for years, but in the past five years so much has happened that we’ve grown already to take many of these changes for granted: Ubiquitous internet access over wired, WiFi and 3G/4G networks; many now even take for granted that LTE and ‘whitespace’ will be broadly delivered. We’ve seen our boxy devices based on ‘system boards’ morph into sleek elegantly-designed devices based on transformational ‘systems on a chip’. We’ve seen bulky CRT monitors replaced by impossibly thin touch screens. We’ve seen business processes and entire organizations transformed by the zero-friction nature of the internet; the walls between producer and consumer having now vanished. Substantial business ecosystems have collapsed as many classic aggregation & distribution mechanisms no longer make sense. Organizations worldwide, in every industry, are now stepping back and re-thinking the basics; questioning their most fundamental structural tenets. Doing so is necessary for their long-term growth and survival. And our own industry is no exception, where we must question our most fundamental assumptions about infrastructure & apps. The past five years have been breathtaking. But the next five years will bring about yet another inflection point – a transformation that will once again yield unprecedented opportunities for our company and our industry catalyzed by the huge & inevitable shift in apps & infrastructure that’s truly now just begun. Imagining A “Post-PC” World One particular day next month, November 20th 2010, represents a significant milestone. Those of us in the PC industry who placed an early bet on a then-nascent PC graphical UI will toast that day as being the 25th anniversary of the launch of Windows 1.0. Our journey began in support of audacious concepts that were originally just imagined and dreamed: A computer that’s ‘personal’. Or, a PC on every desktop and in every home, running Microsoft software. Windows may not have been the first graphical UI on a personal computer, but over time the product unquestionably democratized computing & communications for more than a billion people worldwide. Windows and Office truly grew to define the PC; establishing the core concepts and usage scenarios that for so many of us, over time, have become etched in stone. For the most part, we’ve grown to perceive of ‘computing’ as being equated with specific familiar ‘artifacts’ such as the ‘computer’, the ‘program’ that’s installed on a computer, and the ‘files’ that are stored on that computer’s ‘desktop’. For the majority of users, the PC is largely indistinguishable even from the ‘browser’ or ‘internet’. As such, it’s difficult for many of us to even imagine that this could ever change. But as the PC client and PC-based server have grown from their simple roots over the past 25 years, the PC-centric / server-centric model has accreted simply immense complexity. This is a direct by-product of the PC’s success: how broad and diverse the PC’s ecosystem has become; how complex it’s become to manage the acquisition & lifecycle of our hardware, software, and data artifacts. It’s undeniable that some form of this complexity is readily apparent to most all our customers: your neighbors; any small business owner; the ‘tech’ head of household; enterprise IT. Success begets product requirements. And even when superhuman engineering and design talent is applied, there are limits to how much you can apply beautiful veneers before inherent complexity is destined to bleed through. Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration. And as time goes on and as software products mature – even with the best of intent – complexity is inescapable. Indeed, many have pointed out that there’s a flip side to complexity: in our industry, complexity of a successful product also tends to provide some assurance of its longevity. Complex interdependencies and any product’s inherent ‘quirks’ will virtually guarantee that broadly adopted systems won’t simply vanish overnight. And so long as a system is well-supported and continues to provide unique and material value to a customer, even many of the most complex and broadly maligned assets will hold their ground. And why not? They’re valuable. They work. But so long as customer or competitive requirements drive teams to build layers of new function on top of a complex core, ultimately a limit will be reached. Fragility can grow to constrain agility. Some deep architectural strengths can become irrelevant – or worse, can become hindrances. Our PC software has driven the creation of an amazing ecosystem, and is incredibly valuable to a world of customers and partners. And the PC and its ecosystem is going to keep growing, and growing, for a long time to come. But today, as I wrote five years ago, ”Just as in the past, we must reflect upon what’s going on around us, and reflect upon our strengths, weaknesses and industry leadership responsibilities, and respond. As much as ever, it’s clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk.” And so at this juncture, given all that has transpired in computing and communications, it’s important that all of us do precisely what our competitors and customers will ultimately do: close our eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post-PC world might actually look like, if it were to ever truly occur. How would customers accomplish the kinds of things they do today? In what ways would it be better? In what ways would it be worse, or just different? Those who can envision a plausible future that’s brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead. In our industry, if you can imagine something, you can build it. We at Microsoft know from our common past – even the past five years – that if we know what needs to be done, and if we act decisively, any challenge can be transformed into a significant opportunity. And so, the first step for each of us is to imagine fearlessly; to dream. Continuous Services | Connected Devices What’s happened in every aspect of computing & communications over the course of the past five years has given us much to dream about. Certainly the ‘net-connected PC, and PC-based servers, have driven the creation of an incredible industry and have laid the groundwork for mass-market understanding of so much of what’s possible with ‘computers’. But slowly but surely, our lives, businesses and society are in the process of a wholesale reconfiguration in the way we perceive and apply technology. As we’ve begun to embrace today’s incredibly powerful app-capable phones and pads into our daily lives, and as we’ve embraced myriad innovative services & websites, the early adopters among us have decidedly begun to move away from mentally associating our computing activities with the hardware/software artifacts of our past such as PC’s, CD-installed programs, desktops, folders & files. Instead, to cope with the inherent complexity of a world of devices, a world of websites, and a world of apps & personal data that is spread across myriad devices & websites, a simple conceptual model is taking shape that brings it all together. We’re moving toward a world of 1) cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding, and 2) appliance-like connected devices enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services. Continuous services are websites and cloud-based agents that we can rely on for more and more of what we do. On the back end, they possess attributes enabled by our newfound world of cloud computing: They’re always-available and are capable of unbounded scale. They’re constantly assimilating & analyzing data from both our real and online worlds. They’re constantly being refined & improved based on what works, and what doesn’t. By bringing us all together in new ways, they constantly reshape the social fabric underlying our society, organizations and lives. From news & entertainment, to transportation, to commerce, to customer service, we and our businesses and governments are being transformed by this new world of services that we rely on to operate flawlessly, 7×24, behind the scenes. Our personal and corporate data now sits within these services – and as a result we’re more and more concerned with issues of trust & privacy. We most commonly engage and interact with these internet-based sites & services through the browser. But increasingly, we also interact with these continuous services through apps that are loaded onto a broad variety of service-connected devices – on our desks, or in our pockets & pocketbooks. Connected devices beyond the PC will increasingly come in a breathtaking number of shapes and sizes, tuned for a broad variety of communications, creation & consumption tasks. Each individual will interact with a fairly good number of these connected devices on a daily basis – their phone / internet companion; their car; a shared public display in the conference room, living room, or hallway wall. Indeed some of these connected devices may even grow to bear a resemblance to today’s desktop PC or clamshell laptop. But there’s one key difference in tomorrow’s devices: they’re relatively simple and fundamentally appliance-like by design, from birth. They’re instantly usable, interchangeable, and trivially replaceable without loss. But being appliance-like doesn’t mean that they’re not also quite capable in terms of storage; rather, it just means that storage has shifted to being more cloud-centric than device-centric. A world of content – both personal and published – is streamed, cached or synchronized with a world of cloud-based continuous services. Moving forward, these ‘connected devices’ will also frequently take the form of embedded devices of varying purpose including telemetry & control. Our world increasingly will be filled with these devices – from the remotely diagnosed elevator, to the sensors on our highways and throughout our environment. These embedded devices will share a key attribute with non-embedded UI-centric devices: they’re appliance-like, easily configured, interchangeable and replaceable without loss. At first blush, this world of continuous services and connected devices doesn’t seem very different than today. But those who build, deploy and manage today’s websites understand viscerally that fielding a truly continuous service is incredibly difficult and is only achieved by the most sophisticated high-scale consumer websites. And those who build and deploy application fabrics targeting connected devices understand how challenging it can be to simply & reliably just ‘sync’ or ‘stream’. To achieve these seemingly simple objectives will require dramatic innovation in human interface, hardware, software and services. Continued Below in 2nd post - |
| Are there Monsters in your room: iPhone app that detects Monsters Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:34 AM PDT The Monster Meter is monster detection in the palm of your hands. Now you can scan any room and verify if there are monsters hiding in that room or if you are safe. Kids and Adults everywhere can now get a good night sleep. Thanks to Monster Meter they know they are safe!  Features 4 different monster detection technologies
All of the scanners and meters have sound. They also have a results screen to show you how many monsters they have detected. Isn't this a pretty cool app? This iPhone/iPad app was created to help kids everywhere feel safe in their rooms and get a good nights rest. :) When a child tells there parent that they cannot sleep because a monster is under the bed or in the closet, the parent simple says "Lets check it out with Monster Meter". They can then show the child how the Monster Meter works and prove to their child that there are NO monsters in the room. |
| MakerLegoBot: A Lego Mindstorms NXT 3D Printer Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:21 AM PDT Inspired by the open-source 3D printer MakerBot, this machine is made of more than 2,400 bricks and runs on three NXT Intelligent Bricks and nine NXT motors. A PC running the MLCad Lego design system sends instructions to the printer via USB, and it then starts selecting bricks from its large-capacity feeder system. It can build objects up to 12 bricks tall with 1x2, 2x2, 3x2, 4x2, and 8x2 bricks. The models are made on a base that rotates to handle nonsquare bricks. See the detailed information and pictures here: BattleBricks: MakerLegoBot: The Lego Mindstorms NXT 3D Lego Printer http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-...=2547-1_3-0-20 I wonder if this kind of technology be used to architect some insanely beautiful structures in civil engineering... :) |
| The Cassette Walkman retires after 30 long years Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:11 AM PDT I am sure, most or all of us has used a Classic Cassette Walkman (introduced by Sony) some years ago. After 30 long years of the advent of Walkmans, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of this now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first ever low-cost, portable music player. The decline of the cassette Walkman is attributed primarily to the explosive popularity of CD players in the '90s. This announcement was delivered just one day ahead of the iPod's ninth anniversary on October 23. :cool: |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:07 AM PDT hi friends, Can any one explain what is fan stacking which is used for cooling technique? how we can arranged more then one fan in an motherboard so that they are more effective in cooling than a mother board with single fan? Is it really increase the performance of processor by increasing the air flows. |
| Have you ever used floppy disks? Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:04 AM PDT In the digital world, things are getting extinct at an unimaginable rate. I remember using a 3.5inch floppy disk to transfer data from a friend's computer to mine. That was around 10 years back. Now that I think about it, I wonder what would have fit in a floppy disk at that time? :o Today, I think even DVDs are becoming insufficient to store data. If you have used floppy disks too, post your comments in this thread. :p Share your experience. |
| Health Tips For Software Engineers & Others Too! Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:00 AM PDT The lifestyle software engineers have and their working conditions make me worry. Software engineers have long working hours, often streeful and also they stay motion-less for hours! :mad: One BASIC thing most of the IT engineers forget is that their body needs one very important element which is often neglected - WATER! Do you drink sufficient amount of water? I'm no doctor, but can surely advise you to drink at least 2-3 bottles of water during your working hours! This simple thing can have a very positive effect on your health. Second - make sure that you exercise your neck often. It's very common to see neck and back related problem among software engineers. Pay attention to your health, people. The world needs you, fit & fine! |
| Foursquare: The first person to use social network in space Posted: 25 Oct 2010 05:59 AM PDT Astronaut Douglas Wheelock while in space about 220 miles above Earth, checked in on Foursquare on Friday. He has become the first person to use the location-based social network in space. :) Wheelock unlocked the "NASA Explorer" badge by checking in to the international space station at approximately 11 a.m. ET from a laptop. The NASA Explorer badge is available only in outer space. Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, was bowled over by this news. "Check-ins from around the world have been cool, but this blew my mind! I can't wait to see the battle for the mayorship of the international space station," he told CNN. NASA has fully embraced other forms of social media. Earlier this year. astronaut T.J. Creamer sent the first tweet from space. |
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