"5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte" (2011) is a sculpture consisting of a 1 TB Black External Hard Drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the files with clickable download links can be found here.
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011
5 Million Dollars for 1 Terabyte?
"5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte" (2011) is a sculpture consisting of a 1 TB Black External Hard Drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the files with clickable download links can be found here.
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Monday, 5 September 2011
World's First Virtual Store
A major South Korean retailer has opened what it appears to be the world's first virtual store geared to smartphone users, with shoppers scanning barcodes of products displayed in a Seoul subway station. Homeplus, the nation’s second largest discount chain, is offering 500 items including food, electronics, office supplies and toiletries at its "store" at Seolleung station in the south of the city of 10 million.
Seven pillars and six platform screen doors have been plastered with images of life-size store shelves filled with goods -- such as milk, apples, a bag of rice or school backpacks -- which each carry a small barcode. Shoppers download a related application on their smartphone and make purchases by taking photos of the barcodes.
"You place an order when you go to work in the morning and can see the items delivered at home when you come home at night," said a spokeswoman for Homeplus.
In fact, consumers don’t have to be anywhere near the virtual store. For example, if you want to order replacements of a bottle of water that you have in your hand, you don’t have to stop by the subway station. You simply scan the bottle’s barcode with the Homeplus app. The products are delivered later to home or office.
Currently, only Android smartphone users will be able to use the service that launched last week. Not that Homeplus hasn’t made an app iPhone, it’s just Steve Jobs and Co. hasn’t approved it yet.
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Saturday, 20 August 2011
50+ Dictionary & Reference Sites
Dictionary sites
alphaDictionary.com – Search for word meanings from more than 992 dictionaries.
AskOxford.com – The online version of the famous Oxford dictionary.
Cambridge Dictionary Online – Online English dictionary from Cambridge.
Dictionary.com – The ultimate website with thesaurus, word of the day and other features.
Dictionary.hm – An easy way to find the dictionary meanings of words.
DICT.org – Consolidates word meanings from various dictionary and thesaurus sites on the internet.
Freedictionary.biz – Search for dictionary meanings in English language and other popular languages.
Infoplease Dictionary – Dictionary search with extensive results for many words.
Merriam-Webster Online – Excellent online dictionary with extra features like word of the day, word games and audio pronunciation of the words.
OneLook Dictionary – Search for word definitions, their meanings and look up phrases from multiple dictionaries.
Online Etymology Dictionary – Search for etymologies of words to find out their history.
Ultralingua.com – Multilingual dictionary with translation options from English to French, Spanish and other European languages.
Vocabulary Building Dictionary – Users can look up word definitions and build their vocabulary.
Wordsmyth – Search for word meanings and find new tools to improve a child’s vocabulary.
YourDictionary.com – A free online dictionary with features like spelling check, pronunciation, thesaurus etc.
Encyclopedia and Reference sites
About.com – The biggest reference site on the internet with information on a large variety of topics.
Acronym and abbreviation dictionary – Comprehensive dictionary of abbreviations, acronyms and initial letters of words.
Answers.com – Excellent site finding answers to questions on any subject be it technology, news or even sports for that matter.
Britannica.com – Trusted source of information for a wide variety of topics.
BuzzWhack – Dictionary of business and slang terms.
Citizendium – An encyclopedia project with the philosophy of generating a reliable knowledge base by users.
Columbia Encyclopedia – One of the leading encyclopedias produced the world over.
eHow.com – Over 35,000 articles by experts on various subjects.
Encyclopedia.com – Magazine articles, encyclopedia, dictionary…everything is there in one place.
MSN Encarta – Dictionary, thesaurus and translation engine from Microsoft.
Refdesk.com - Covers information from multiple places and is the best site consolidating and collecting facts at a single place.
Reference.com – Online encyclopedia, dictionary and thesaurus.
Rhymezone.com – Find out rhyming words and phrases.
W3Schools Online – Excellent collection of tutorials in various technology subjects.
WebReference.com – A reference site for web-based technologies.
Whatis.com – The biggest encyclopedia of Information technology.
WikiHow.com – Free resource assisting world wide users by providing solutions to daily problems.
Wikipedia – User generated free encyclopedia of topics written by contributors from all over the world.
wiseGEEK.com – Articles containing answers to most popular questions.
Visual
The Visual Dictionary – User generated image catalog of over 3000 words.
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus – Nice way to research and explore connected meanings of words with visual aid.
Visual dictionary – Visual dictionary with clear image search results for words.
Visuwords.com – Graphical dictionary displaying visual connections between words.
Others
A Word a Day – Best way to build vocabulary of words, it provides users with a unique word everyday.
Chuala.com – User generated dictionary for pronouncing words.
Google’s translation dictionary – Google’s translation engine allows users to translate English words to those in other languages.
Internet Archive – Comprehensive and consolidated glossary of information on the internet like audio, video, various websites etc.
Ninjawords.com – Get quick results for meanings of words.
Query by example – Enter words, phrases and find out their synonyms and related meanings.
SpellWeb.com – Check the world wide web for spellings of various words.
Urban Dictionary – A dictionary of slang words.
VoyCabulary.com – It converts words on web-pages into links enabling users to easily look up their meanings in dictionary and other reference sites.
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Sunday, 31 July 2011
What happens on Internet in 60 Seconds?
The World Wide Web is growing almost in the speed-of-light. And it grows in a rate that on average 6 billion pages are added to the internet everyday.
Did You Know?
Did you know that every 60 seconds:
- The search engine Google serves more than 694,445 queries
- 6,600+ pictures are uploaded on Flickr
- 600 videos are uploaded on YouTube videos, creating another 25+ hours of content
- 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on Facebook
- 70 new domains are registered
- 168,000,000+ emails are sent
- 320 new accounts and 98,000 tweets are generated on Twitter
- iPhone applications are downloaded more than13,000 times
- 20,000 new posts are published on micro-blogging platform Tumblr
- The browser FireFox is downloaded more than 1,700 times
- The blogging platform WordPress is downloaded more than 50 times
- WordPress Plugins are downloaded more than 125 times
- 100 accounts are created on LinkedIn
- 40 new questions are asked on YahooAnswers
- 100+ questions are asked on Answers.com
- 1 new article is published on Associated Content, the world’s largest source of community-created content
- 1 new definition is added on UrbanDictionary
- 1,200+ new ads are created on Craigslist
- 370,000+ minutes of Skype voice calls
- 13,000+ hours of music streaming on Pandora
- 1,600+ reads are made on Scribd
Added bits
Everyday, 15 petabytes of new information are generated.
The amount of information today is approximately 988 exabytes (equivalent to a stack of books from the Sun to Pluto and back.
Today, the processing power of the Web is almost equivalent to one human brain. By 2040, it will exceed the total processing power of all of humanity.
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
What the Hell's Google+?
Here are the 3 most important misconceptions that are NOT accurate about Google+:
Clearly, the question arises now is, “What is Google+ exactly?”.
But before we answer that question, we really need to take two steps back to observe the history of Google to re-define our perspective.
Now, let’s take a good look at Google’s Apps. Observe the image below as an example:
So what is the common element of the points mentioned above?
That would be the “Cloud”.
The bottom line is that Google is clearly transitioning various elements of our life to the Cloud.
There will be hardly any need of traditional software on a computer to operate on the Cloud. That is where Chrome OS comes in.
This will immediately enable a person to:
Whether you are prepared for it or not, the future of the computing is “Cloud computing.”
Google is enabling you to do just that.
Now let’s get back on the question: “What is Google+ exactly?”
Here is how I describe Google+:
So, there you have it. Google+ is not a single entity but it is part of Ecosystem being developed by Google.
Google+ is the future social implementation of Cloud based computing around Google’s Apps.
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Facebook for Every Phone App
Facebook today announced Facebook for Every Phone. This would give users, even those without smartphones, access to Facebook from their mobile device. It will be compatible with various phones. Here's the word according to their post:
Today, we're launching the new Facebook for Every Phone app, which offers a fast and comprehensive Facebook experience on over 2,500 different phones. This app not only includes Facebook’s most popular features, such as News Feed, Inbox, and Photos, but also enables you to upload photos and find friends from your phone’s contacts. People all over the world can download the app by visiting m.facebook.com and scrolling down to the download link, or by entering d.facebook.com/install directly into their mobile browser. You can also find it in leading app stores, including GetJar, Appia, and Mobile Weaver.
They've collaborated with carriers all around the world in hopes of making it affordable for all users. Certain carriers are also offering free access for a limited time. Here is the list:
- • Aircel (India)
- • Airtel (India)
- • Banglalink (Bangladesh)
- • Beeline (Russia)
- • Celcom (Malaysia)
- • Etisalat (Egypt, Nigeria)
- • Globe (Philippines)
- • Idea (India)
- • Indosat (Indonesia)
- • O2 Telefonica (Germany)
- • Reliance (India)
- • Smart (Philippines)
- • Smartfren (Indonesia)
- • Telkomsel (Indonesia)
- • Three (Indonesia, United Kingdom)
- • TIM (Brazil)
- • TMN (Portugal)
- • Ufone (Pakistan)
- • Vodafone (Turkey)
- • XL (Indonesia)
via facebook
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Thursday, 16 June 2011
Best Apps For Your iPhone
How about something useful? Something that helps you use your iPhone to its greatest potential?
Here's a look at some apps that will let you make the most out of your iPhone
whether it's your battery life, e-mail, texting or more.
Battery
There are, approximately, 8 gazillion applications that enable you to
see how much battery life you have left. It's hard to say which is the
best, as they all do pretty much the same thing. Many are free, and
most of those have three stars; some are paid, and they range from
three to three and a half stars, for the most part, in average ratings.
So we chose to go with BatteryMagic, as it has both free and paid (BatteryMagicPro) versions, as the app has hundreds of ratings.
Many of the battery apps have both free and paid versions and most do the same thing.
BatteryMagic will tell you how much time you have left on your battery for:
- 3D Game Play
- Game Play
- Talk Time
- 3G Internet
- Wi-Fi Internet
- Video Playback
- Audio Playback
- Standby Time
- iPod Video Play Time
- iPod Audio Play Time
The pro version adds the ability to tell if you'll be able to see a
full-length movie with the battery life you have, a notification when
your battery is fully charged, the ability to switch from 3-D to 2-D to
conserve battery life when you don't need 3-D capability, plus skins to
customize the battery image with colors, images or patterns (like
zebras?).
Unlock screen notifications
Sometimes you need to check your to-do list or your reminders quickly
and don't want the bother of unlocking your phone, navigating to the
app and opening it. iNotify
enables you to put certain notifications on your unlock screen so all
you have to do is wake up your phone to see what's next on your list.
You can customize colors and even set up different wallpapers through
the app, for different to-do lists or goal-setting or other
notifications, changing them out as you're done. Heck, you could put
your grocery list on there if you wanted. It's 99 cents, too, so it
won't break the bank.
All-in-one
AppBoxProhas gotten a lot of thumbs up for having a whole bunch of utlity apps
in one: battery life, clinometer, currency converter (195 currencies),
date calculator, countdown/days until, flashlight with adjustable
brightness, holidays from 83 nations, loan calculator, periodic
calculator, price grab, random number generator, ruler, sale price
calculator, system info, tip calculator, 52-language translator and a
unit converter with 17 categories.
This month, the app is supposed to add customizable themes, a calculator, a strobe and new graphics to the flashlight, nine more languages to the translator, holidays from 11 more countries, and a "secure wallet" app. December should bring a dictionary.
This app has gotten more than 2,500
ratings and has a solid 3.5 average rating in the App Store. And right
now it's 99 cents "for the holiday season," though it's usually $1.99.
Wireless mouse/trackpadThe AirMousePro lets you convert your iPhone into a wireless mouse or trackpad.
It uses the phone's built-in accelerometer to translate your hand
motions into mouse movements. The main uses it's touted for are for
controlling your "home-theater PC" or for giving a presentation. Its
features:
Accelerometer based mouse
Trackpad (full screen vertical and landscape modes)
Media keys and Web keys
Application notifications
- Remote keyboard with modifier, function and arrow keys
Programmable hotkeys (can be set to run a program or keyboard combination)
Scroll pad
Multi-touch gestures (scroll & right click)
Password protection
Custom sensitivity settings
Foreign-language keyboards
Support for Bonjour or static IP
No screen size limitation. Works with multiple monitors
Camera flash
Many user complaints about the iPhone camera focus on the lack of a
flash, so if you're not in good light, you're outta luck.
There are a few apps that strive to fill this void: Flash for Free,
a free app, has nine different flash effects and undo functions.
Basically, you take your photo, apply the app to it and brighten it. It
has more than 13,000 ratings and just two stars, but it seems that's at
least in part due to a major bug in the previous iteration. It won't
help if you took the photo at night, some remark in reviews, but if you
have a photo that needs to be lightened just a wee bit, for free, you
can't beat the price.
SpeedTest
is the iPhone app of the well-known website, allowing you to test the
your wireless speed is for the birds, you can test it to make sure it's
not just your phone or a momentary blip.
It's been used a lot; a free app, it has a solid 3.5 stars after nearly 23,000 ratings.
Emoticons
C'mon, you know you would prefer if your messages or notes showed
actual emoticons instead of just the old-fashioned colon-dash-close
parens when you send a text message on your phone.
Enter iEmoticons,
which does just that. Googly eyes, flowers, hearts, smileys and even a smiley with a SARS-like mask on it. After nearly 3,000 ratings, it has 3.5 stars in the App Store (99 cents) and it works on Notes, SMS texting, e-mail and other apps.
WiFi locator
Let's face it. AT&T doesn't have the top 3G network around.
Fortunately, you don't have to completely rely on the phone network to
use your iPhone, you can use a wireless connection.
WiFiFoFum scans for 802.11 networks and gives you a plethora of information about each it detects:
• SSID
• MAC
• RSSI (signal strength, shown as a number or in an icon)
• Channel
• AP mode
• Security mode
• Available transmission rates
You can then connect to the network of your choice, provided it's
unlocked or you have the password. And so you don't have to go through
the same process every time to figure out where the best Wi-Fi networks
are, it allows you to create logs of access points. They can be viewed
on the iPhone's maps app or you can send it by e-mail so you can access
the information from your laptop - you just paste the link in the
e-mail into Google Maps.
You can save passwords, and the main list is sorted by signal strength, so you can easily see which networks to try first.
For $2.99, the app has more than 500 ratings, averaging 3.5 stars.
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Diagnostics
It can be frustrating when your iPhone is sluggish or is crashing and
the first thing most people assume is that it's AT&T's fault. But
it isn't always due to the not-best-3G network in the nation.
System Activity Monitor allows you to check your:
- Runtime (RAM) memory usage
- Storage (Disk) usage
- All running processes
- CPU usage
- WiFi and Cellular IP addresses
- MAC addresses
- Device information
- Battery level
The information will allow you to determine if you need to free up some
memory, force-quit some apps or get rid of some apps.
One testimonial claims Apple Tech Support suggested the user get SAM to
help diagnose the problem he was having. It's $2.99 and has 3.5 stars
after nearly 300 ratings.
Available memory
What if all you want to know is how much memory you have left on your
iPhone? Whether you can download that Paper Toss game app everyone's
been talking about?
The free Disc Space
app will tell you how much space you have in total (in case you can't remember if you sprang for the 8, 16 or 32 GB), how much is in use and
how much you have left. Nearly 1,000 ratings, averaging 4 stars.
File viewing
It's one thing if someone e-mails you a link to look at, another thing entirely if they e-mail you a Word file or a PDF.A relatively new app, File Viewer
enables you to look at PDFs, Word docs, Excel spreadsheets and
PowerPoint presentations. It supports these file types for data, images
and media:
- doc
- xls
- ppt
- pps
- txt
- rtf
- htm
- xml
- csv
- docx
- pptx
- xlsx
- jpg
- bmp
- png
- tiff
- gif
- mp3
- wav
Text-to-speech
There are a whole bunch of reasons you might want to have a text-to-speech app on your iPhone.You might want to make it easier to get through a document or e-mail
someone sent you and you're on a train or bus or in a car and reading
it is a little hard as you're jostled around. NeoSpeech, the parent of
NeoJulie, offers TTS in several languages: English, Spanish, Korean,
Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, with both male and female voices.
Its iPhone app, NeoJulie, so far only offers the English-language TTS, with the "Julie" voice. With 30 ratings, it's averaging 4 stars.
Speak It markets itself slightly differently.
"Have you ever wanted to prank call someone, but your voice gave you
away?" And they helpfully remind you to turn off your caller ID before
you call your friend to prank him or her. But it's also billed as a way
to make announcements elegantly, by plugging the phone into a PA system.
It offers American and British male and female voices. With more than
430 ratings, it's averaging 3.5 stars. More voices appears to be the
most requested change. It'll run you $1.99.
Old-fashioned telephony
OK, this one's not really practical, and most iPhone users probably
have never seen a rotary telephone in their own homes. But Rotary
Dialer allows you to use a virtual rotary dialer, complete with
authentic sounds.
It's 99 cents, has multiple themes for various
looks, and has more than 2,000 ratings, averaging 3 stars. The main
complaints appear to be that it's not authentic enough - i.e., it dials
too quickly. But can you imagine if it really took as long to dial as a
real rotary phone?
Offline browsing
Quicky Browserallows you to save pages and sites you want to look at but might not
have a chance until you're out of 3GS or Wi-Fi range. Say, when you're
on the subway or on an airplane (though that's beginning to change).
Pages are saved without images and ads, so they load faster and don't
use as much stored memory. It comes with full-screen browsing, hiding
the toolbar. It can be used as a regular browser, too, loading your
homepage immediately, but not storing any browsing history. You can
lock the rotation, too, so in case you accidentally fumble your phone,
the image on your screen doesn't tumble over and over itself.
It still has the Google search bar and allows you to e-mail a link to the
website and you can use the same gestures as Safari - open pinch or
double-tap to zoom, etc.
It has about 40 ratings, averaging 3
stars, though the newest version accounts for half the ratings and is
averaging 4 stars there. It's 99 cents.
Universal searching
Sure, everyone says you can find everything in Google. But what if you
can't? Or if you have specific sites you want to search for the same
type of content on?
Search It
allows you to move from one site's search to another without having to retype your query. It allows you to search for the same term on Google,eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube, USPS,
FedEx, UPS, Twitter, Flickr, Allrecipies, WebMD and Urban Dictionary.
It's a pretty new app, with just 9 ratings, but all but one of those were 5 stars. It's 99 cents.
E-mail templates
There are some people you probably find yourself e-mailing often. Mail
Quick! allows the user to, with one or two clicks, open an e-mail
template already addressed to a person on your favorites list.
Users can either choose one person they e-mail very often and just by clicking on the app icon, an e-mail addressed to that person opens, or they can enter multiple addresses in the app and tapping the icon gives users a pop-up list you can choose from. You can preset additional CC: recipients and subject lines.
It's 99 cents, and relatively new. With 15 ratings, it averages 4.5 stars; though there were a couple of negative and average ratings, no one left a negative review, so it's not clear what their issues were.
URL status
If you manage several websites and travel a lot, you may need to check
in on the sites to make sure they're running smoothly. Alternately, if
you're just surfing your regular sites and are having trouble loading
them, you might want to figure out if it's your service or the site
itself.
SiteStatus allows you to input whatever sites you want to monitor and it keeps an eye on their network status. It also allows you to:
- Refresh all sites with one click or a shake
- Give your sites easy to recognize nicknames
- View the HTTP status code and message
- Launch your sites on Safari
You can monitor FTP, HTTP and HTTPS network protocols. It's 99 cents and
has been around since may, though it doesn't seem to have been downloaded much, with just 5 ratings. Those ratings were mostly positive, though, averaging 4.5 stars.
There are a ton of utilities out there, some useful, some not. If you want some basics that really going to provide bang for your buck, here are five
recommendations: AppBoxPro, Quicky Browser, File Viewing, WiFiFoFum and
SpeedTest. Those are probably the ones you'd use most in your
day-to-day life. Some of the others can be quite useful as well, such
as Flash for Free, and others are just for fun - iEmoticon, for
example, but if you had to choose the ones you're most likely to use
and be glad you have on your iPhone, the five mentioned are probably
the best bets.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Top 10 Company Acquired by Yahoo (By Value)
Yahoo! is a computer software and web search engine company.
According to web traffic analysis companies, Yahoo! has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet, with more than 130 million unique users per month in the United States alone.
Here they are, the Top 10 Company Acquired by Yahoo (By Value)
- 10. Inktomi Corporation
Business : Internet Service Provider
Acquisition date : December 23, 2002
Value (USD) : $ 235,000,000
Derived products : Yahoo! Search
- 9. BlueLithium
Business : Advertising network
Acquisition date : September 4, 2007
Value (USD) : $ 300,000,000
Derived products : Yahoo! Search Marketing
- 8. Zimbra
Business : Collaborative software
Acquisition date : September 17, 2007
Value (USD) : $ 350,000,000
Derived products : Zimbra
- 7. eGroups
Business : Electronic mailing list
Acquisition date : August 31, 2000
Value (USD) : $ 432,000,000
Derived products : Yahoo! Groups
- 6. Hotjobs.com
Business : Job search engine
Acquisition date : January 11, 2002
Value (USD) : $ 436,000,000
Derived products : Yahoo! HotJobs
- 5. Kelkoo
Business : Price comparison service
Acquisition date : March 26, 2004
Value (USD) : $ 579,000,000
Derived products : Kelkoo
- 4. Right Media
Business : Onlive Advertising
Acquisition date : April 29, 2007
Value (USD) : $ 680,000,000
Derived products : Yahoo! Search Marketing
- 3. Overture Services, Inc.
Business : Search engine marketing
Acquisition date : June 14, 2003
Value (USD) : $ 1,630,000,000
Derived products : Yahoo! Search Marketing
- 2. GeoCities
Business : Web hosting service
Acquisition date : May 28, 1999
Value (USD) : $ 3,600,000,000
Derived products : Yahoo! GeoCities
- 1. Broadcast.com
Business : Internet radio
Acquisition date : April 1, 1999
Value (USD) : $ 5,700,000,000
Derived products : LAUNCHcast
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Sunday, 17 April 2011
8 Popular Website Clones
We have seen some Chinese clone sites. These Chinese clone sites are not only “borrow” the idea from those famous sites but they also “borrow” their theme or website designs, and they look like twins.
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