Tech Circle

Funny Domains By Microsoft & Google!

2009-11-19T05:27:00.000-08:00

Hi friends,

I think 70% of us have an idea about Microsoft's current web search engine, Bing.com. (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search & is advertised as a "decision engine"). When you look into the Whois Record for bing.com, you can see this dot com domain is registered by Microsoft Corporation [No wonder :)]. No problem @ all. Now here comes the funny thing related to bing.com. When I was surfing the internet, I noticed an article says “fuckbing.com is owned by Microsoft”. When I try to open this domain, it was redirected to Bing Search Engine with the search keyword “fuckbing”. I think it's their trick to get more attention to bing :) [When a person who are angry at bing, and type that website in, will be redirect to bing instead..Great!]. Don't think there exists only 1 domain among this category. Microsoft has been main topic for jokes all over the net . so this time microsoft played it safe by buying the related domains to their new search engine “Bing”.
Below are some of funny domains related to Bing by Microsoft Corporation (Whois Record Snap also Given).

Domain Name : www.fuckbing.com (Whois)

Domain Name : www.bingsucks.com (Whois)

Do you think this type of domains only by Microsoft. No...This field also covered by Renowned Google Inc. In the same way of Microsoft, Google also owns one of the Domain Name....

www.googlesucks.com (Whois)

See this list is not complete. You can see this type of funny domains by many other IT/Non-IT Giants. Only you need some time & an Internet Connection...:)

Cheers,
Jenson.

Go With Google Go!

2009-11-12T09:51:00.000-08:00

Hi friends,

Finally Google came with it's own Programming Language named "Go". It was released under an open source license. Google is no stranger to the open source world. The company has released the underlying code for several of its tools and services under open source licenses over the years. At first glance, Go looks a bit like C++, but borrows some elements, such as garbage collection, from scripting languages like Python and JavaScript. But Go’s real standout feature is its speed. A demo video on YouTube shows the entire language — over 120K lines of code — compiling in under 10 seconds.

Like many of Google’s open source projects, Go began life as a 20 percent time project (the time Google gives its engineers to experiment) and evolved into something more serious. Go has been in development for over two years now, but Google is hoping that, by releasing Go under a BSD-style license, a community will develop and build Go into a viable choice for software development.

In its Go FAQ, Google explains the main motivations behind the project:

“No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends:

- Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster.

- Dependency management is a big part of software development today but the “header files” of languages in the C tradition are antithetical to clean dependency analysis—and fast compilation.

- There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript.

- Some fundamental concepts such as garbage collection and parallel computation are not well supported by popular systems languages.

- The emergence of multicore computers has generated worry and confusion.”
Google Says,
Go is....
simple
fast
safe
concurrent
fun &
open source
Then what are you waiting for? Go for it @ golang.org

Cheers,
Jenson

Project 10^100 : 16 "big ideas"

2009-09-29T06:28:00.000-07:00

Google has finally whittled down the more than 150,000 ideas submitted as part of its Project 10^100 to 16 themes that will compete for $10 million in funding. It's taken far longer than Google had originally anticipated, but the results of the company's 10th anniversary project to solicit ideas that could change the world are ready for inspection. Google is asking the public to vote on the most worthy of the 16 "idea themes" that it has identified from the submissions it has received over the past year.

“We hoped to capture the imagination of people around the world and offer a way to bring their best ideas to fruition. We were overwhelmed by the response — you sent us more than 150,000 ideas (approximately 10^5.2) in more than 25 languages and it took more than 3,000 Googlers in offices around the world to review the submissions,” Google announced. “We’ve pooled similar ideas into a set of 16 top idea themes aimed at addressing some important common goals, from making government more transparent to driving innovation in public transport.”

Because there were so many submissions, Google has decided to group them together into 16 different overall theme ideas. Also, they’re asking you to vote to help figure out which of the 16 themes the project’s advisory board should be looking at to pick the 5 projects that will get funded.

Here’s the full list of 16 themes to choose from:

- Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists
- Build better banking tools for everyone
- Work toward socially conscious tax policies
- Collect and organize the world’s urban data
- Create more efficient landmine removal programs
- Drive innovation in public transport
- Build real-time, user-reported news service
- Make educational content available online for free
- Create real-time natural crisis tracking system
- Make government more transparent
- Help social entrepreneurs drive change
- Provide quality education to African students
- Create genocide monitoring and alert system
- Enhance science and engineering education
- Promote health monitoring and data analysis
- Create real-world issue reporting system

Voting will end on October 8, at which point the the advisory board will pick the five finalists which Google will then reveal. Then it will ask for proposals from individuals or organizations that want to help implement these ideas.

For More Info Click Here

All Domain Name Extensions on the Internet

2009-09-16T09:11:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends,

How many of us know that there exists more than 220 domain extensions around the globe? To be honest, Initially I thought there were only one domain extenston, any guess? ya its .Com [dot Com] (But that was back in1999 When I was in 10th standard]. Later I realized there are .org, .net, .gov, .edu etc domain extensions exists. In this post, I've given all domain extensions available on the internet.
[Remember : A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).]

.arpa A top-level domain name used for ArpaNet sites.
.com Pronounced "dot com." A top-level domain name used for commercial Internet sites.
.edu A top-level domain name used for educational sites .
.firm An ending of an address for an Internet site for a business.
.gov A top-level domain name used for a U.S. government site on the Internet.
.int A top-level domain name used for international institutions.
.mil A top-level domain name for a U.S. military site on the Internet.
.mobi A top-level domain name for a sites made for mobile phones.
.nato A top-level domain name used for NATO sites.
.net A top-level domain name used for Internet administrative sites.
.nom An ending of an address for a personal site on the Internet.
.org A top-level domain name for organizational Internet sites.
.store An ending of an address for an Internet site that is for a retail business.
.web An ending of an address for an Internet site that is about the World Wide Web.

.ac Top-level domain name for an educational network (same as .edu).
.ad Andorra
.ae United Arab Emirates
.af Afghanistan
.ag Antigua and Barbuda
.ai Anguilla
.al Albania
.am Armenia
.an Netherlands Antilles
.ao Angola
.aq Antarctica
.ar Argentina
.as American Samoa
.at Austria
.au Australia
.aw Aruba
.az Azerbaijan
.ba Bosnia/Herzegovinia
.bb Barbados
.bd Bangladesh
.be Belgium
.bf Burkina Faso
.bg Bulgaria
.bh Bahrain
.bi Burundi
.bj Benin
.bm Bermuda
.bn Brunei Darussalam
.bo Bolivia
.br Brazil
.bs Bahamas
.bt Bhutan
.bv Bouvet Island
.bw Botswana
.by 1. Belarus 2. Byelorussia
.bz Belize
.ca Canada
.cc Cocos Islands - Keelings
.cf Central African Republic
.cg Congo
.ch Switzerland
.ci Cote Dâ€™Ivoire, or Ivory Coast
.ck Cook Islands
.cl Chile
.cm Cameroon
.cn China
.co Colombia
.cr Costa Rica
.cs Czechoslovakia (former)
.cu Cuba
.cv Cape Verde
.cx Christmas Island
.cy Cyprus
.cz Czech Republic
.de Germany
.dj Djibouti
.dk Denmark
.dm Dominica
.do Dominican Republic
.dz Algeria
.ec Ecuador
.ee Estonia
.eg Egypt
.eh Western Sahara
.er Eritrea
.es Spain
.et Ethiopia
.eu European Union
.fi Finland
.fj Fiji
.fk Falkland Islands/Malvinas
.fm Micronesia
.fo Faroe Islands
.fr France
.fx Metropolitan France
.ga Gabon
.gb Great Britain
.gd Grenada
.ge Georgia
.gf French Guiana
.gh Ghana
.gi Gibraltar
.gl Greenland
.gm Gambia
.gn Guinea
.gp Guadeloupe
.gq Equatorial Guinea
.gr Greece
.gs South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
.gt Guatemala
.gu Guam
.gw Guinea-Bissau
.gy Guyana
.hk Hong Kong
.hm Heard and McDonald Islands
.hn Honduras
.hr Croatia/Hrvatska
.ht Haiti
.hu Hungary
.id Indonesia
.ie Ireland
.il Israel
.in India
.io British Indian Ocean Territory
.iq Iraq
.ir Iran
.is Iceland
.it Italy
.jm Jamaica
.jo Jordan
.jp Japan
.ke Kenya
.kg Kyrgyzstan
.kh Cambodia
.ki Kiribati
.km Comoros
.kn Saint Kitts and Nevis
.kp North Korea
.kr South Korea
.kw Kuwait
.ky Cayman Islands
.kz Kazakhstan
.la Laos
.lb Lebanon
.lc Saint Lucia
.li Liechtenstein
.lk Sri Lanka
.lr Liberia
.ls Lesotho
.lt Lithuania
.lu Luxembourg
.lv Latvia
.ly Libya
.ma Morocco
.mc Monaco
.md Moldova
.mg Madagascar
.mh Marshall Islands
.mk Macedonia
.ml Mali
.mm Myanmar
.mn Mongolia
.mo Macau
.mp Northern Mariana Islands
.mq Martinique
.mr Mauritania
.ms Montserrat
.mt Malta
.mu Mauritius
.mv Maldives
.mw Malawi
.mx Mexico
.my Malaysia
.mz Mozambique
.na Namibia
.nc New Caledonia
.ne Niger
.nf Norfolk Island
.ng Nigeria
.ni Nicaragua
.nl Netherlands
.no Norway
.np Nepal
.nr Nauru
.nt Neutral Zone
.nu Niue
.nz New Zealand (Aotearoa)
.om Oman
.pa Panama
.pe Peru
.pf French Polynesia
.pg Papua New Guinea
.ph Philippines
.pk Pakistan
.pl Poland
.pm St. Pierre and Miquelon
.pn Pitcairn
.pr Puerto Rico
.pt Portugal
.pw Palau
.py Paraguay
.qa Qatar
.re Reunion
.ro Romania
.ru Russian Federation
.rw Rwanda
.sa Saudi Arabia
.sb Solomon Islands
.sc Seychelles
.sd Sudan
.se Sweden
.sg Singapore
.sh Saint Helena
.si Slovenia
.sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
.sk Slovakia
.sl Sierra Leone
.sm San Marino
.sn Senegal
.so Somalia
.sr Suriname
.st Sao Torme and Principe
.su Former USSR
.sv El Salvador
.sy Syria
.sz Swaziland
.tc Turks and Caicos Islands
.td Chad
.tf French Southern Territory
.tg Togo
.th Thailand
.tj Tajikistan
.tk Tokelau
.tm Turkmenistan
.tn Tunisia
.to Tonga
.tp East Timor
.tr Turkey
.tt Trinidad and Tobago
.tv Tuvalu
.tw Taiwan
.tz Tanzania
.ua Ukraine
.ug Uganda
.uk United Kingdom
.um U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
.us United States
.uy Uruguay
.uz Uzbekistan
.va Vatican City State
.vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
.ve Venezuela
.vg British Virgin Islands
.vi U.S. Virgin Islands
.vn Viet Nam
.vu Vanuatu
.wf Wallis and Futuna Islands
.ws Samoa
.ye Yemen
.yt Mayotte
.yu Yugoslavia
.za South Africa
.zm Zambia
.zr Zaire
.zw Zimbabwe

Note: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has overall responsibility for managing the DNS (Domain Name System)

I hope you've enjoyed (atleast 50%) the above Post, Thanks.

Cheers
Jenson

Popular Javascript Frameworks

2009-09-11T09:32:00.000-07:00

A JavaScript Framework (library) is a library of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies. Below are some of the popular Javascript Frameworks.

1. script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us/)

URL: http://script.aculo.us/.
Documentation: http://wiki.script.aculo.us/.
Note: script.aculo.us is not a Framework by its self but it is an addon for Prototype

2. Prototype (http://www.prototypejs.org/)

URL: http://www.prototypejs.org/.

Blog: http://www.prototypejs.org/blog.

Documentation: http://www.prototypejs.org/learn.

“Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.”

3. Moo Tools (http://www.mootools.net/)

URL: http://www.mootools.net/.

Blog: http://blog.mootools.net/.

Documentation: http://docs.mootools.net/.

Demos:http://demos.mootools.net/.

“MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.”

4. jQuery (http://jquery.com/)

URL: http://jquery.com/.

Blog: http://jquery.com/blog/.

Documentation: http://docs.jquery.com/.

“jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript”.

5. MochiKit (http://www.mochikit.com/)

URL: http://www.mochikit.com/.
Blog: http://www.mochikit.com/blog.html.
Documentation: http://www.mochikit.com/doc/html/MochiKit/index.html.
Demos:http://www.mochikit.com/demos.html.

6. Rialto (http://rialto.improve-technologies.com/wiki/)

URL: http://rialto.improve-technologies.com/wiki/.

Documentation: http://rialto.improve-technologies.com/js/doc/.

Demos:http://rialto.improve-technologies.com/rialto/.

“Rialto (Rich Internet Application Toolkit) is ajax-based cross browser javascript widgets library”.

7. Dojo Toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org)

URL: http://dojotoolkit.org/about.

Blog: http://dojotoolkit.org/blog.

Documentation: http://dojotoolkit.org/docs.

Demos:http://dojotoolkit.org/demos.

“Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development”.

8. Spry Framework (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/)

URL: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/.

Documentation: http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_gnav_wiki.

Demos:http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_gnav_showcase.

“The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library that provides easy-to-use yet powerful Ajax functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to take the complexity out of Ajax and allow designers to easily create Web 2.0 pages”.

9. ASP.NET Ajax Framework (http://asp.net/ajax/)

URL: http://asp.net/ajax/.

Documentation: http://asp.net/ajax/documentation/.

Demos:http://asp.net/ajax/showcase/.

“ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for quickly creating efficient and interactive Web applications that work across all popular browsers”.

10. Cean Ajax Framework (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clean-ajax/)

URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/clean-ajax/.

Documentation: http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=145307.

“Easy to use AJAX framework that provides message queue, XSLT, XPath, encryption (SHA1, MD5), web service access (SOAP, XMLRPC), JSON-RPC, cross browser AJAX, AJAX history and cache control”.

Remember: The List is not complete

Cheers,
Jenson

IT Companies' Lucky Names : How did they get it?

2009-08-19T10:18:00.000-07:00

Hi Friend,

Have you ever noticed that How the IT Giants' name came from? Here I list how did they get their lucky names. Here We go.....

Google an originally accidental misspelling of the word "googol" and settled upon because google.com was unregistered. Googol was proposed to reflect the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available online.

YAHOO! – The word Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and barely human. Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang jokingly considered themselves yahoos. It's also an interjection sometimes associated with United States Southerners' and Westerners' expression of joy, as alluded to in Yahoo.com commercials that end with someone singing the word "yahoo". It is also sometime jokingly referred to by its backronym, Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

Microsoft – coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to microcomputer software. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' disappeared on 3/2/1987 with the introduction of a new corporate identity and logo. The "slash between the 'o' and 's' [in the Microsoft logo] emphasizes the "soft" part of the name and conveys motion and speed."

Oracle – Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA. The code name for the project was Oracle. The project was designed to use the newly written SQL database language from IBM. The project was eventually terminated but they decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. Later they changed the name of the company, Relational Software Inc., to the name of the product.

Sun Microsystems – its founders designed their first workstation in their dorm at Stanford University, and chose the name Stanford University Network for their product, hoping to sell it to the college. They didn't.

Accenture – from "Accent on the future". The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Before January 1, 2001, the company was called Andersen Consulting

Adobe Systems – from the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock.

Alcatel-Lucent – Alcatel was named from Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécomunications et d'Electronique. It took over Lucent Technologies in 2006.

AltaVista – Spanish for "high view".

Amazon.com – founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the world's most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online (as opposed to a bricks and mortar) bookstore. (Alternative: Amazon was chosen to cash in on the popularity of Yahoo, which listed entries alphabetically.)

AMD – Advanced Micro Devices

Amiga Corporation - The original developers of the 16-bit Amiga computer chose the name, which means a 'female friend' in Spanish and Portuguese, because it sounded friendly, and because it came before rivals (Apple Inc. and Atari) alphabetically

AOL – from America Online. The company was founded in 1983 as Quantum Computer Services.

Apache – according to the project's 1997 FAQ: "The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server."

Apple – For the favorite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard, and to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by other computer companies at the time – which had names such as IBM, DEC, Cincom and Tesseract

Apricot Computers – early UK-based microcomputer company founded by ACT (Applied Computer Techniques), a business software and services supplier. The company wanted a "fruity" name (Apple and Acorn were popular brands) that included the letters A, C and T. Apricot fit the bill.

Aricent – communications software company name created in 2006 by combining two words "arise" and "ascent".

ARM Limited – named after the microprocessor developed by small UK company Acorn as a successor to the 6502 used in its BBC Microcomputer. ARM originally stood for Acorn Risc Machine. When the company was spun off with backing from Apple and VTI, this was changed to Advanced Risc Machines.

Ask.com – search engine formerly named after Jeeves, the gentleman's gentleman (valet, not butler) in P. G. Wodehouse's series of books. Ask Jeeves was shortened to Ask in 2006.

Asus – named after Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology. The first three letters of the word were dropped to get a high position in alphabetical listings. An Asus company named Pegatron, using the spare letters, was spun off in 2008.

AT&T – the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation officially changed its name to AT&T in the 1990s.

ATI – Array Technologies Incorporated

Siemens – founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske. The company was originally called Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske.

Skype – the original concept for the name was Sky-Peer-to-Peer, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype.

Intel – Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore initially incorporated their company as N M Electronics. Someone suggested Moore Noyce Electronics but it sounded too close to "more noise". Later, Integrated Electronics was proposed but it had already been taken, so they used the initial syllables (INTegrated ELectronics). To avoid potential conflicts with other companies with similar names, Intel purchased the name rights for $15,000 from a company called Intelco. (Source: Intel 15 Years Corporate Anniversary Brochure)

Let me conclude here for this post. More Posts regarding the same will be coming soon. So Hang on.

Cheers,
Jenson

Famous applications written in C/C++

2009-08-19T10:00:00.000-07:00

Here I list Famous Applications (Also, Companies that build software packages) written in C/C++. There are some operating systems written in C++ programming language. These include Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Apple OS X, Symbian OS and BeOS.

Adobe Systems

All major applications of adobe systems are developed in C++ programming language. These applications include Photoshop & ImageReady, Illustrator and Adobe Premier.

Google

Some of the Google applications are also written in C++, including Google file system and Google Chromium.

Mozilla

Internet browser Firefox and email client Thunderbird are written in C++ programming language and they are also open source projects.

MySQL

MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software, with over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout its history. Many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, and packaged software — including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Booking.com.

Alias System – Autodesk Maya

Maya 3D software was originally developed by Alias System Corporation and was later carried over by Autodesk. Maya 3D software, now a days is widely used in computers, video games, television. It is a powerful, integrated 3D modelling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution.

Winamp Media Player

Winamp is the ultimate media player, allows you to manage audio and video files, rip and burn CDs, enjoy free music, access and share your music and videos remotely, and sync your music to your iPod , Creative, and Microsoft Plays for Sure devices . Winamp features album art support, streams audio and video content, and provides access to thousands of internet radio stations and podcasts.

12D Solutions

12D Solutions Pty Ltd is an Australian software developer specialising in civil engineering and surveying applications. Computer Aided Design system for surveying, civil engineering, and more. 12D Solutions clients include civil and water engineering consultants, environmental consultants, surveyors, local, state and national government departments and authorities, research institutes, construction companies and mining consultants.

Bloomberg

Providing real-time financial information to investors.

callas Software

callas software develops pdf creation, optmisation, updation and pdf form creation tools and plugins.

Image Systems

These are the world leading motion analysys programs and film scanner systems.

Operating systems written in C++ programming language.

Apple – OS X

Few parts of apple OS X are written in C++ programming language. Also few application for iPod are written in C++.

Microsoft Windows

Literally most of the software are developed using various flavors of Visual C++ or simply C++. Most of the big applications like Windows 95, 98, Me, 200 and XP are also written in C++. Also Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and Visual Studio are written in Visual C++.

Symbian OS

Symbian OS is also developed using C++. This is one of the most widespread OS’s for cellular phones.

Note : The above list is not complete.

Cheers,

Jenson

Useful PHP Tools : Second Episode

2009-08-19T08:53:00.000-07:00

This Post is the Continuation of the previous Post "Useful PHP Tools : First Episode"

PHP Online Tools and Resources

In-Browser Tools : Firefox Add-Ons

PHP Frameworks

PHP IDEs and Editors

PHP Sources and Other Resources

And last but not the least....

php.net The Ultimate Resource For All of Your PHP Programming needs.

I hope all of you have enjoyed the two episodes. More Posts about the Technology information will be coming soon so Hang on! :-) ;-)

Cheers,
Jenson

Useful PHP Tools : First Episode

2009-08-18T08:36:00.000-07:00

I'm a PHP Developer. I like php much better. PHP is the acronym for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor". Little Confused? Huh? No Problem. You can get more about PHP from Here. PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python and Ruby.

The information given below presents 50 useful PHP tools that can significantly improve your programming workflow. Among other things, you’ll find a plethora of libraries and classes that aid in debugging, testing, profiling and code-authoring in PHP.

PHP Code Beautifier

Debugging Tools

Testing and Optimization Tools

Documentation Tools

Version-Control Systems

Image Manipulation and Graphs

Useful Extensions, Utilities and Classes

Security Tools

More Coming on the next post.....

Cheers,
Jenson

Google Code Jam 2009

2009-08-16T18:04:00.000-07:00

Google Code Jam 2009 is Coming. The below information has taken from the Official Google Blog. Bartholomew Furrow of Google Explains...

"Are you energized by cracking conundrums? Are you keen to crank out some code? Here at Google, we know the rush of encountering a challenge and rising to meet it, transforming a problem into a solution and a solution into code. Since 2003, we've been sharing that experience with a global community of computer scientists through our annual programming competition, Google Code Jam.

Today, we're excited to announce Google Code Jam 2009, powered by Google App Engine. This year, contestants will compete in several 2½-hour online rounds, attacking three to four difficult algorithmic problems during each round. To code up solutions to the problems, they'll use the programming language and tools of their choice; when those solutions are ready, they'll try them against our fiendish test data. One wrong answer out of a hundred, and it's back to the drawing board!

Registration opens today. So visit the Google Code Jam site to register, read the rules and — most importantly — begin to practice by trying out the problems from last year's contest, so you'll be in shape when the qualification round starts on September 2. After four tough rounds of online competition, the top 25 competitors will be flown to our Mountain View headquarters to to match wits for the $5,000 first prize — and the title of Code Jam champion.

On your mark, get set... CODE!"

For More Information about Google Code Jam 2009, Click Here

Cheers,
Jenson

25 Sites "Time" Can't Live Without

2009-08-14T10:49:00.000-07:00

Here I List Popular websites that linked to our daliy life. The below information has taken from Time Magazine. I believe Time prepared this list based on many aspects (Sites based on US Traffic) & I've no involvment with the below list.

Cheers,
Jenson

Popular Web Applications Written in PHP

2009-08-13T07:38:00.000-07:00

Here I list Some of the Most Popular PHP applications that linked directly or indirectly to everyone. From managing databases to shopping, writing blogs to sending emails. Ten years of passion, great software architectures, team work and revolutionary ideas. Here are the Some of most influential & Popular open-source PHP applications:

1998

phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages. Development is backed up by the phpMyAdmin team.

1999

SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail is a standards-based Webmail package. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages are rendered in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements, and is very easy to configure and install. It has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

PHP-Nuke

(Added by popular demand)

PHP-Nuke is a Web portal and online community system that includes Web-based administration, surveys, access statistics, user customizable boxes, a themes manager for registered users, friendly administration GUI with graphic topic manager, the ability to edit or delete stories, an option to delete comments, a moderation system, referer tracking, integrated banner ad system, search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), Web directory like Yahoo, events manager, and support for 33 languages and 9 database servers.

2000

eZ Publish

eZ Publish is an Enterprise Content Management platform with an easy to use out of the box Web Content Management System. It is available as a free Open Source distribution and serves as the foundation for the rest of the eZ Publish Product Family. As a CMS it’s most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customisable and extendable content model. It is also a platform for general web development, allowing you to develop professional PHP applications. Standard eZ Publish functionality: easy to create and edit content, workflow system, content versioning, multilanguage possibilities, collaboration, e-commerce functionality, revolutionary content class system, role based access control are implemented and ready for you to use. High quality software and total product responsibility from eZ systems make eZ publish the leading Open Source Enterprise Content Management System. Enterprises, governmental offices, organizations and educational institutions trust eZ Publish.

osCommerce

osCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the- box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved. osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open development platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server.

phpAdsNew

OpenX began as phpAdsNew, a fork from a similar project called phpAds, created by Tobias Ratschiller in 1998. OpenX is a hugely popular, free ad server designed by web publishers for web publishers. It provides everything you need to manage your on-line advertising. It allows paid banners to be easily rotated along with your own in-house advertisements, and can even integrate banners from third party advertising companies.

phpBB

phpBB is a fast, efficient discussion board program built in PHP with a muti-database backend. Features include: posting, replying, private messages, polls, username/ip banning, strong encryption for storing passwords, user rankings, very advanced access control for private forums, full templating, simple yet robust translation system and much more.

2001

Gallery

Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.

Drupal

Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MySQLi and PostgreSQL. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application framework.

2002

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones. Originally developed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by companies for internal knowledge management, and as a content management system. Notably, Novell uses it to operate several of its high traffic websites.

2003

WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art, semantic, personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system. While primarily geared towards functioning as a Weblog, WordPress is also a flexible CMS capable of managing many types of Web sites. In addition to the basic blog functions, it also has an integrated link manager (e.g. for blogrolls), file attachments, XFN support, support for stand-alone pages, Atom and RSS feeds for both content and comments, blogging API support (Atom Publishing Protocol, Blogger, MetaWeblog, and Movable Type APIs), spam blocking features, advanced cruft-free URL generation, a flexible theme system, and an advanced plugin API.

2004

SugarCRM

SugarCRM is a complete CRM system for businesses of all sizes. Core CRM functionality includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, project mgmt, calendaring and more. Built in PHP, supports MySQL and SQL Server.

2005

Joomla!

Joomla! is an award-winning Web-based content management system. It provides for split front end content access and backend administrator access. Group-based access control allows for different levels of system control for both the site and the administrator. The Joomla! framework allows for extension by installable components (applications), modules (template blocks), languages, templates, and mambots (plugins that enhance system functions).

Symfony

Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise. Symfony is based on experience. It does not reinvent the wheel: it uses most of the best practices of web development and integrates some great third-party libraries.

2006

Zend Framework

Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

2007

Magento eCommerce

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. It was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business processes and flow.

Cheers,

Jenson

Google Caffeine is Coming!

2009-08-12T10:45:00.000-07:00

Have you Noticed this? Google is launching a new, upgraded version of its search engine soon. Google has annouced a new version of its core engine is now in testing. Code named Google Caffeine, the new engine in our tests has some dramatic changes both good and bad.

Google promises that the new search tool (codename “Caffeine”) will improve the speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness of Google search.

Remember normally Google is about users not webmasters, but in this case, Google is opening their Sandbox to the public (and us). You can visit the web developer preview of Google’s new infrastructure at http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ and try searches there. While the developer version is a pre-beta release, it’s completely usable.

Comparison Of Old Google Results and New Google Results:

I here list comparison of Old Google Results and New Google Results from two websites namely mashable.com and mark8t.com

From mashable.com:

"While the developer version is a pre-beta release, it’s completely usable. Thus, we’ve decided to put the new Google search through the wringer. We took the developer version for a spin and compared it to not only the current version of Google Search, but to Bing as well.

The categories we tested the new search engine on are as follows: speed, accuracy, temporal relevancy, and index size. Here’s how we define those:

Speed: How fast can the new search engine load results?
Accuracy: Which set of results is more accurate to the search term?
Temporal Relevancy: Is one version of search better at capturing breaking news?
Index Size: Is it really more comprehensive than the last version of Google?

So without further ado, here’s the test:

1. Speed

The first category is incredibly important. How fast do these Google search results come at you anyway? Even a tenth of a second can mean millions for the search company as the longer it takes the load, the more likely someone will go look for results somewhere else.

So how fast is the new search? Lightning fast. As you probably know, Google tells you how long it takes to load results. We tried a few search terms, starting with “Dog.” Here’s the speed result:

Compare that to the original Google search:

0.12 vs. 0.25 seconds? They doubled the speed! That’s tremendous. We tried it with a variety of search terms (”The end of the universe is not here,” “There is no way that you cannot find ben parr. He is hiding back behind the tv,” “FriendFeed,” etc.), and in every instance, the new Google won.

The only potential weak spot was when we added search commands like quotes, subtraction signs, and more. In this case, it was a 50/50 shot as to which Google search was faster.

As for comparing it to Bing: Well, they don’t display how fast it generates results. It’ll have to sit out this speed test for now.

Winner: The New Google

2. Accuracy

While more subjective, accuracy is probably the issue that users care about most. Does the search engine find what you want on the first try? Well, we did our subjective test. New version:

Old version:

You’ll notice that many of the blended search options, like image search and news, don’t appear in the new version. It’s more likely that the features haven’t all been implemented, but it does decrease its relevancy. FriendFeed ranks much higher in the new search than Twitter or Facebook. Our bet is that the new Google has seen a burst of activity on FriendFeed and thus pushes up that result.

Both sets are very accurate, but subjectively, the set displayed by the new Google search more accurately reflect what a user would be looking for. If you’re wondering about Bing, it didn’t even bring up my personal website.

The next search, “Are social media jobs here to stay?” focused on getting my first Mashable article. The result? The new search cares more about keywords than the last. You could clearly see it cared about the full title and brought up more results with those keywords. Both brought a different set of results, but the new search was more relevant.

Winner: The New Google (tentatively)

3. Temporal Relevancy

How good is each at breaking news? The answer: about the same. FriendFeed results were identical, including the top news items. Searches for “Hall of Fame Game” got better news results on the new search. A search for “China Landslide” also got the same Yahoo and BBC news articles – although we did notice that the new search seems to change faster with new articles. It put an MSNBC article up high for updating the death toll:

We also give credit to Bing – on each search, it brought up great results.

Winner: Draw

4. Index Size:

Perhaps the easiest to test, we can tell the index size based on how many results come up for specific search. Here are searches once again for “dog:”

New:

Old:

Bing:

Searches for “Ben Parr” proved that the new Google is better than the old Google in terms of result size. Bing claims 2,210,000 for my name compared to 183,000 for my name, which is strange. Searches for “Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland Trailer” also show Bing > New Google > Old Google

Winner: Bing, it seems

Conclusion

While this test was nowhere near scientific, we do have some solid takeaways:

New Google is FAST: It often doubled the speed of Google classic.
New Google relies more on keywords: SEO professionals, your job just got a lot harder. The algorithm’s definitely different. It has more reliance on keyword strings to produce better results.
Search is moving into real-time: Being able to get info on breaking events is clearly a priority for Google and Bing. With both Twitter and Facebook launching real-time search engines, they needed to respond.
It’s partially a response to Bing: At least, that’s how we feel. This new search has a focus on increasing speed, relevancy, accuracy, and the index volume, things that Microsoft really hit on when it released Bing. It feels as if Google “Caffeine” is meant to shore up any deficiencies it may have when compared to Microsoft’s offering, though it’s been in the works long before Bing launched.

The new Google will only get better as features are implemented and developed. The end result is a better search experience for the user. Competition really does breed innovation."

From mark8t.com:

"Right now, we only want feedback on thedifferences between Google’s current search results and our new system. We’re also interested in higher-level feedback (”These types of sites seem to rank better or worse in the new system”) in addition to “This specific site should or shouldn’t rank for this query.” Engineers will be reading the feedback, but we won’t have the cycles to send replies.”

So how do you share the feedback? Do a search with and look on the search result Google.com and at Google’s Sandbox Caffeine engine. If you find something you wish to report head to the bottom of the page and click “Dissatisfied? Help us improve.” Type your feedback in the text box and then include the word caffeine somewhere in the text box. We highly recommend you check out your site, key industry terms for you and share your feedback. On our searches we found some interesting results and important changes. We wanted to share with you to see how “Caffeine” will change your Google experience.

Term: mark8t
Old Google: : 5190 results and no sitelinks
New Google:4680 results and sitelinks

Term: Montreal
Old Google: Tourism for Montreal is more prominent.
New Google: The official city of Montreal site is more prominent.

Term: Michael Jackson
Old Google: Very clear results, about Michael Jackson, focused on him and fan related sites.
New Google: A site about Michael’s face is on the first page of results, high up."

You can also test New Google Here

Cheers,

Jenson

2009-08-12T08:57:00.000-07:00

Some Reasons Why The Bing-Yahoo Deal Is A Good One

Although the proposed union of Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo's search engines has led Congress to say that the deal warrants "careful scrutiny," such a merger of search giants could actually benefit the public. Here's why the Microsoft-Yahoo partnershipshould proceed, and why Google will likely flourish despite -- or because of -- it.

1. Search will improve. Competition always shakes things up. True, Bing and Yahoo are already competitors. But face it, they are weak ones. Together, Bing and Yahoo can pack a bigger punch. According to Web metric firm StatCounter, Bing climbed to 9.41 percent of the search market in July, up from 8.23 percent in June. Add in Yahoo's current 10.95 percent share of the market and that's 20.36 percent—still a distant second to Google's 77.54 percent, but formidable. It will be incumbent upon the players to offer the best product in order to increase their own market share. While Google's not likely to be torn asunder, it is likely that the search giant will more aggressively invest in R&D, new technologies, startups, etc., in order to remain a dominant force. Further, there's reason only to believe that the potential market will continue to grow, not shrink, so even one-fifth or one-quarter of that pie is still very appealing to Microsoft-Yahoo.

2. Yahoo will make money. Under the proposed 10-year arrangement, Microsoft's Bing search engine will be featured on Yahoo pages. That offers Bing more visibility, something crucial to a fledgling offering, even one backed by Microsoft. While Yahoo handles ad sales, Microsoft will pay Yahoo a whopping 88 percent of the search revenue generated for the first five years. Microsoft will also pay Yahoo $50 million annually during the first three years of the search agreement. Clearly, the arrangement is a financial boon for Yahoo, and the increased revenue will create a stronger company and more viable competitor to the likes of Google.

3. Profits from ad sales will rise. Yahoo's not the only company that can profit. As search technology improves, users will gravitate toward the best offering, and so will advertisers, which bid for the "right" to search terms. The advertiser with the highest bid per user click gets its ad next to the search results. In the end, advertisers are mostly concerned with the number of users who become customers; therefore, they will pay more for better ad-matching results.

Strong Start for Bing: Yahoo! and Google Lose Share

Yes we know its early, but congrats to the team at Bing.com. Even though Bing.com is not even 1 week old, it is already off to a strong start. According to the latest stats from Statcounter.com, Bing is now the number 2 search engine in America with 16.2% share. Google still is over 70% and Yahoo is third at 10%.

Pre-Bing, the Windows Live search was 6% share, Yahoo was a solid 13-14% and Google rarely went below 75%. A note about the Statcounter stats, because they seem to me the most accurate. Data ise based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 4 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites.

The real question for Microsoft and the Bing.com project is will users keep coming back? Simply put can Bing.com get brand stickiness? I think the idea of Bing as Google killer is fantastical and thankfully it is not being thrown around in the media the way it was with Cuil.com. Furthermore, Google is not a vulnerable target, As an article in AdAge recently noted about a Google study: “Google has conducted internal tests, according to ‘people familiar with them, in which the company put its logo and treatment on another engine’s search results. Users still prefer the results with the Google logo, even if they’re not Google results.” There would need to be a fundamental change of users habits,and this doe snot happen over-night. I think Yahoo! should be much more concerned, I also think its good to hear the Microsoft be realists about their efforts in the Search Engine wars. As Steve Ballmer recently noted at the D7 conference ” [Bing]differentiates itself from Google. It might not appeal to everyone, but if it appeals to 20 percent of them, that’s a success.”

The real trick will be to see if the Bing 80 Million advertising campaign can solidify their spot as the 2nd most popular search engine and in the process, make some people change their Google only habit. Truthfully, the real goal is to create competition. Michael Arrington sums it up best : “whether Microsoft ultimately succeeds or not in ‘winning’ the search war, the competition is very good for the rest of the Internet. Google needs to be pushed to try innovating new things. And search marketing competition will ensure that Google doesn’t get too greedy. We don’t need Microsoft to win, but we do need to avoid a world with just one search engine that matters. Maybe Microsoft can win that lesser war, at least.”

Cheers,

Jenson

100 Oldest .COM domains on the Web

2009-08-08T21:40:00.000-07:00

Here is the list of 100 oldest .Com domains on the Web.

Create Date		Domain Name
03/15/1985		SYMBOLICS.COM
04/24/1985		BBN.COM
05/24/1985		THINK.COM
07/11/1985		MCC.COM
09/30/1985		DEC.COM
11/07/1985		NORTHROP.COM
01/09/1986		XEROX.COM
01/17/1986		SRI.COM
03/03/1986		HP.COM
03/05/1986		BELLCORE.COM
03/19/1986		IBM.COM
03/19/1986		SUN.COM
03/25/1986		INTEL.COM
03/25/1986		TI.COM
04/25/1986		ATT.COM
05/08/1986		GMR.COM
05/08/1986		TEK.COM
07/10/1986		FMC.COM
07/10/1986		UB.COM
08/05/1986		BELL-ATL.COM
08/05/1986		GE.COM
08/05/1986		GREBYN.COM
08/05/1986		ISC.COM
08/05/1986		NSC.COM
08/05/1986		STARGATE.COM
09/02/1986		BOEING.COM
09/18/1986		ITCORP.COM
09/29/1986		SIEMENS.COM
10/18/1986		PYRAMID.COM
10/27/1986		ALPHACDC.COM
10/27/1986		BDM.COM
10/27/1986		FLUKE.COM
10/27/1986		INMET.COM
10/27/1986		KESMAI.COM
10/27/1986		MENTOR.COM
10/27/1986		NEC.COM
10/27/1986		RAY.COM
10/27/1986		ROSEMOUNT.COM
10/27/1986		VORTEX.COM
11/05/1986		ALCOA.COM
11/05/1986		GTE.COM
11/17/1986		ADOBE.COM
11/17/1986		AMD.COM
11/17/1986		DAS.COM
11/17/1986		DATA-IO.COM
11/17/1986		OCTOPUS.COM
11/17/1986		PORTAL.COM
11/17/1986		TELTONE.COM
12/11/1986		3COM.COM
12/11/1986		AMDAHL.COM
12/11/1986		CCUR.COM
12/11/1986		CI.COM
12/11/1986		CONVERGENT.COM
12/11/1986		DG.COM
12/11/1986		PEREGRINE.COM
12/11/1986		QUAD.COM
12/11/1986		SQ.COM
12/11/1986		TANDY.COM
12/11/1986		TTI.COM
12/11/1986		UNISYS.COM
01/19/1987		CGI.COM
01/19/1987		CTS.COM
01/19/1987		SPDCC.COM
02/19/1987		APPLE.COM
03/04/1987		NMA.COM
03/04/1987		PRIME.COM
04/04/1987		PHILIPS.COM
04/23/1987		DATACUBE.COM
04/23/1987		KAI.COM
04/23/1987		TIC.COM
04/23/1987		VINE.COM
04/30/1987		NCR.COM
05/14/1987		CISCO.COM
05/14/1987		RDL.COM
05/20/1987		SLB.COM
05/27/1987		PARCPLACE.COM
05/27/1987		UTC.COM
06/26/1987		IDE.COM
07/09/1987		TRW.COM
07/13/1987		UNIPRESS.COM
07/27/1987		DUPONT.COM
07/27/1987		LOCKHEED.COM
07/28/1987		ROSETTA.COM
08/18/1987		TOAD.COM
08/31/1987		QUICK.COM
09/03/1987		ALLIED.COM
09/03/1987		DSC.COM
09/03/1987		SCO.COM
09/22/1987		GENE.COM
09/22/1987		KCCS.COM
09/22/1987		SPECTRA.COM
09/22/1987		WLK.COM
09/30/1987		MENTAT.COM
10/14/1987		WYSE.COM
11/02/1987		CFG.COM
11/09/1987		MARBLE.COM
11/16/1987		CAYMAN.COM
11/16/1987		ENTITY.COM
11/24/1987		KSR.COM
11/30/1987		NYNEXST.COM

Cheers,

Jenson

Some Of Most Popular Computer Programming Languages

2009-08-07T08:14:00.001-07:00

Here I List Some of Most Popular Computer Programming Languages around the Globe.


Complete list	Description	Why use it?


C# (C Sharp)	Concurrent to java, runs on .NET or compatible platforms (Portable NET, Mono).	Easier than C++. May share resources with other languages under a common runtime.
C	C offers great freedom, and lot of debugging challenge thanks to pointers and memory management.	Suffering slow programming to make fast programs. For system programming.
C++	C++ is C plus objects, an extended library, templates.	System programming as C but allow larger project, or applications.
D language	C++ like language, more dynamic. Compatible with C. D Language - Code	For teaching or scripting.
Pascal	Old language (1970), improved with objects, imposes a strictly structured programming.	Teaching, or client/server apps with Delphi and Kylix.
Basic Asp	This very old language (1964) was improved by Microsoft, with a complete programming environment. Other portages exist.	Standard language for scripting Microsoft's applications (Word etc...), and for dynamic web pages (Asp) on Windows servers.
PHP	Designed to be embedded inside HTML to build dynamic Web pages or update them from databases. PHP	Producing HTML pages from data. The version 5 targets Web services.
Java	Was designed to be portable and to replace C++.	Cross-platform applications (but slower than native ones). For web services programming .
JavaScript, ECMAScript	JavaScript has been invented to build dynamic client-side html pages, ECMAScript is the standardized version.	For interactivity in web pages. Used also by Xul to build graphical user interfaces.
Scriptol	A simple, object-oriented, universal language with an intuitive and powerful syntax. You can build executables, or embed code into html pages. XML may be used as data structure.	Easy and universal for scripting, prototyping, making binary applications, dynamic web pages and XML processing. For web services by using PHP 5 as back-end.
Python	A modern interpreted language with powerful built-in features and a unique indentation feature to shorten coding. The Jython version compiles in Java bytecode.	Programming at light speed. Powerful and easy to learn. Extending Zope for web services. Java scripting with Jython. Only for open source applications (not compiled).
Boo	This is a new version of Python with some new features. It runs on .Net and Mono and thus, no compatibility problem. Boo	Similar to Python.
ASP	Scripting language, server-side, for dynamic web pages by Microsoft, same syntax as Basic. ASP	Producing HTML pages from data, but under Windows servers only.
Assembler	This is near the machine language and the fastest. You should never use it, as older programmers did.	Making drivers or industrial processing.
Eiffel, Sather	Object-oriented, with "programming per contract" and other secure features. Sather is an open source implementation.	Programming secured applications. Used by hospitals.
Perl	A scripting interpreted language. Readabillity and ease of use are not the goal. Perl	Mainly used by networks administrators and for small CGI scripts.
Rebol	Interpreted language for network scripting. The language itself may be augmented. Rebol	Processing information on distributed computer systems, with small programs.
Ruby	Designed with simplicity in mind. It is interpreted, and has a proprietary but extensible library.	Writing scripts more easily. Using Ruby on rails. Only for open source applications (not compiled).
Tcl	A scripting language, easy to learn and available on any platform.	Scripting of portable programs with GUI, and web programming by CGI.
NetRexx	By IBM, has a simplified syntax.	Extends Java with scripts.
Lua	Add-on or standalone language with extensible semantic. Lua	Extending the C language.
Cobol	Business language still used on big computers. Cobol	Maintaining old programs on mainframes.
Fortran	One of the first languages, always used for mathematical tasks. Fortran	Has huge library for scientific calculations.
Lisp	Lisp is a very old language designed for artificial intelligence, processes lists only. Lisp	Artificial intelligence and scripting.
Scheme	Scheme is a modernized version of Lisp. Scheme	Artificial intelligence and scripting.
Prolog	For logic programming, based on Horn's clauses. Prolog	Heavy artificial intelligence processing.
Haskell	Functional programming. Slow and memory consuming. Haskell	To try programming in another way
SQL	Language of data management. MySQL	For databases queries.
Forth	Another oldy. Invented by an astronomer, is stack based Forth	For instrumental commands and legacy libraries re-using.
Smalltalk	One of the first object oriented language, programs can't run outside the IDE. Smalltalk	Absolutely object-oriented processing.
Modula, Oberon	Successors to Pascal. Oberon	For nostalgics of the Algol and Pascal time.
Caml, Ocalm	Functional languages, Ocalm is object-oriented. Caml	Used by universities. May help to build a compiler.
Scala	Procedural, functional and object-oriented programming language. Scala	Educational purpose.
XML	Not really a programming language, but may be used for similar tasks. XML	XML serves to describe precisely data and may include actions on data. XSL allows to transform documents.

Cheers,
Jenson

Some Video Websites on the Web

2009-08-06T08:54:00.000-07:00

Here I List some of the video websites available on the Web.

A-
AOL Video - Watch music videos, news, movie trailers, and TV shows
All Player Stats - watch sports videos
Air Vids - Aviation Video Channel
All Things Science - Release your inner Einstein
AajKaTV - South Asian Video -
Activistvideo - The video for political activism
AtomFilms - Web Comedy Galore

B-
Blinkx - Over 7 million hours of video. Search it all
Brightcove - Find and watch the online video
Bebo - Social network with video focus
Babelgum - TV Expierence, Internet substance
Blog tv - Broadcast your own TV Show
Break - Free videos
Broadcaster.com - Viral video clips, live community
BooksVideos.tv - Watch the story behind the story
Bubble Comments - Share video comments with others
Blip TV - A great service for great shows
BlogCheese - The worlds easiest video blogging system
Bigthink - We are what you think
Bofunk - dishin the funk, without the junk
Bragster - Dare your friends and brag about it
Boatson.tv - Boat videos on Online.
BuzzHumor - Extreme funny shocking videos

C-
Clevver - Action & comedy movie trailers and music videos
CNN Video - Watch news and breaking news videos at CNN.com
Chip Blast - Search and navigate video across the web
Crackle- Watch, create, and share video (formerly Grouper)
Channel 101 - Video entertainment
Current - Your World. View
Constant Comedy - The next stage for entertainment
Coffee Shorts - Independent short films
College Click TV - Get to know your top college
Cast TV - One Stop Watching
Clipta - video search
Chicago3media.com - C3M covers everything from entertainment to pets to news

D-
Daily Motion - Share your videos
Dave.tv - Social broadcast network
Dabble - Search, collect, and organize your favorite web videos
DestinationGuide.tv - The place to share travel videos

E-
Eyespot - Free Video Mixing. Movie making for all of us
Earth Cam - Where the world watches the world
Everyzing - Audio and video search (formerly Podzinger)
eBaum's World - Funny videos
eKKo TV - Every voice has a face

F-
Flurl - Video and media search
Funny or Die -Funny videws featuring comedians, celebrities, and you.
Funny Junk - The name says it all
Flixwagon - Life is a Journey. Broadcast it Live
Fancast - What you can watch today
Feedky - Video videos through RSS
Fun Video Word - Funny Viral Videos
First on Mars - Watch TV free
Funtouristattractions.com - Fun tourist attractions videos

G-
Green.tv - Video channel for environmental films
Gawkk.com - Discover new videos with friends

H-
Heavy - Video community where you are the network
Helpful Video - Share your knowledge and skills
Hulu - Watch your favorite videos
History.com - The day history video & speeches

I-
ifilm - Upload and search for videos
Iblocks - Take your photos, videos & music and convert them into 3D videos
Ivnet.tv - Global broadband TV
Inewsit - Community powered news
Intoxicated Videos - Best drunk videos on the web

J-
Jumpcut - Upload, share, and search for video and media.
Joost - A new way of watching TV
Jistin.tv - Live video
Jump tv - Your true colors

K-
Kewego - Video search
knocka tv -"The People have Taken Over"
Kyte.tv - Watch, Produce, Mobile
Kazivu - Post videos, create and share customize channels

L-
Live Video - The world is watching
Link TV - Television without borders
Live Leak - Refefining the media
Le Gourmet TV - Dedicated to Gourmet Food and the like
Like Television - Only better
Loom TV - Watch what you want

M-
MSN Video - Watch and search for videos
Metacafe - Watch, upload, and search for videos
Nowthen - Keeps a diary of your images
Mega Video - I'm watchin' it
Motorsportmad.com - Every category of morotsport
Mogulus.com - Live broadcast
My Yoga Online - Video Yoga Classes
Mefeedia.com - Video search and discover
Muzu TV - Bands and fans Broadcast Music TV on the web
Molv - Live video from mobile phones to the web

N-
Nasa TV - Watch live from NASA
NY Times Video - Video on demand from the New York Times
New Baby - Where moms learn, share, and create video

O-
Onion News Network - 24-hour television news
Overlay.tv - Watch it, click it, get it

P-
Pure Video - Watch and search for videos
Pixsy.com - Search for photos and videos
Peekvid - Watch videos
Public.tv - Watch public sector, professional training, and business videos
Poker Listing TV - Poker videos in one place educational & fun at the same time -

Q-
Qik - Share live video from your mobile phone

R-
Revver - Create and share videos
Rocket boom - Daily internet culture
Recession TV - A site for the times

S-
Sportal - Watch and search for sports audio and video
Sumo.tv - Watch, upload, and search for UK videos
Sharkle - Watch, upload, and share your videos
Searchforvideo.com - Video search
Spike TV - Powered by ifilm
South Park Studios - All episodes from television series
Self Cast - Create your own free live broadcast
Snotr - The ultimate place for great videos

T-
Trooker - Find it, watch it, trook it
Trivop - Hotel videoguilde (one of the first)
Travelistic - Online travel videos from around the world
TV Land - Video clips of classic television and original series
TV Life - Watch Shows online free
Twango - Video sharing
TurnHereTravel.tv - A video for every destination
TuCristo.com - Dando Testimonio Vivo
Totlol - Video for kids
Truevo - Video Search
The Doctors Channel - Internet TV for Doctors
Trip Films - Travel inspired Videos

U-
Upstream.tv - Live, interactive broadcasting

V-
Voeh - Search, download and watch videos
Video Jug - Life explained. On Film. Upload/share your videos
Viral Videos - Watch the web's most shared viral videos
Video.ca - Canadian video sharing community
Vimeo - Watch, upload, and search for videos
Vidilife - Watch, upload, and search for videos
Video Egg - Video sharing
Video Bomb - Social bookmarking for video
Vmix.com - Video sharing and hosting community
Vsocial.com - Online video and social media tools
Video Clips Dump - Your daily entertainment
Video Surf - Video search engine (must register)
Video Bloom - Online video advertising and distribution solutions

W-
Weather.com - Blue box weather videos
Watchdoit.com - Watch and do it

X-

Y-
You Tube -Watch, upload, broadcast, and search for videos
Yahoo Video - Video search
Youare.tv - Independent films, shows, and videos
Youku.com - #1 video sharing site for China

Z-
Zoopy - Social media playground to share videos

If you Find any POPULAR video websites other than those mentioned you can report me through Comments section.

Cheers,

Jenson

Internet Timeline up to late 90's

2009-08-04T18:53:00.000-07:00

This section is a summary of some of the material contained in Hobbes' Internet Timeline and also contains sources from Pros Online - Internet History, What is the Internet? and History of Internet and WWW : View from NetValley and other Resources. Consult these source for more detailed information.

1836

-- Telegraph. Cooke and Wheatstone patent it. Why is this relevant?

Revolutionised human (tele)communications.
Morse Code a series of dots and dashes used to communicate between humans. This is not a million miles away from how computers communicate via (binary 0/1) data today. Although it is much slower!!

1858-1866

-- Transatlantic cable. Allowed direct instantaneous communication across the atlantic. Why is this relevant?

Today, cables connect all continents and are still a main hub of telecommunications.

1876

-- Telephone. Alexander Graham Bell Exhibits.

Why is this relevant?

Telephones exchanges provide the backbone of Internet connections today.
Modems provide Digital to Audio conversions to allow computers to connect over the telephone network.

1957

-- USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. Why is this relevant?

The start of global telecommunications. Satellites play an important role in transmitting all sorts of data today.
In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military.

1962 - 1968

-- Packet-switching (PS) networks developed Why is this relevant?

As we will see later the Internet relies on packets to transfer data.
The origin is military : for utmost security in transferring information of networks (no single outage point).
Data is split into tiny packets that may take different routes to a destination.
Hard to eavesdrop on messages.
More than one route available -- if one route goes down another may be followed.
Networks can withstand large scale destruction (Nuclear attack - This was the time of the Cold War).

1969

-- Birth of Internet

ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking

Why is this relevant?

First node at UCLA (Los Angeles) closely followed by nodes at Stanford Research Institute, UCSB (Santa Barbara) and U of Utah (4 Nodes).

1971

People communicate over a network

15 nodes (23 hosts) on ARPANET.
E-mail invented -- a program to send messages across a distributed network. Why is this relevant?
- E-mail is still the main way of inter-person communication on the Internet today.
- We will study how to use and send E-mail shortly in this course.
- You will make extensive use of E-mail for the rest of your life.

1972

-- Computers can connect more freely and easily

First public demonstration of ARPANET between 40 machines.
Internetworking Working Group (INWG) created to address need for establishing agreed upon protocols.
Why is this relevant?
- Telnet specification
- Telnet is still a relevant means of inter-machine connection today.

1973

-- Global Networking becomes a reality

First international connections to the ARPANET: University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway)
Ethernet outlined -- this how local networks are basically connected today.
Internet ideas started.
Gateway architecture sketched on back of envelope in hotel lobby in San Francisco. Gateways define how large networks (maybe of different architecture) can be connected together.
File Transfer protocol specified -- how computers send and receive data.

1974

-- Packets become mode of transfer

Transmission Control Program (TCP) specified. Packet network Intercommunication -- the basis of Internet Communication.
Telenet, a commercial version of ARPANET, opened -- the first public packet data service.

1976

-- Networking comes to many

Queen Elizabeth sends out an e-mail.
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) developed at AT&T Bell Labs and distributed with UNIX.
Why is this relevant?
- UNIX was and still is the main operating system used by universities and research establishments.
- These machines could now ``talk'' over a network.
- Networking exposed to many users worldwide.

1977

-- E-mail takes off, Internet becomes a reality

Number of hosts breaks 100.
THEORYNET provides electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science (using a locally developed E-mail system and TELENET for access to server).
Mail specification
First demonstration of ARPANET/Packet Radio Net/SATNET operation of Internet protocols over gateways.

1979

-- News Groups born

Computer Science Department research computer network established in USA.
USENET established using UUCP.
Why is this relevant?
- USENET still thrives today.
- A collection of discussions groups, news groups.
- 3 news groups established by the end of the year
- Almost any topic now has a discussion group.

1979 (Cont)

First MUD (Multiuser Dungeon) -- interactive multiuser sites. Interactive adventure games, board games, rich and detailed databases.
ARPA establishes the Internet Configuration Control Board (ICCB).
Packet Radio Network (PRNET) experiment starts with ARPA funding. Most communications take place between mobile vans.

1981

-- Things start to come together

BITNET, the "Because It's Time NETwork" Started as a cooperative network at the City University of New York, with the first connection to Yale
- Provides electronic mail and listserv servers to distribute information, as well as file transfers
CSNET (Computer Science NETwork) established to provide networking services (specially E-mail) to university scientists with no access to ARPANET. CSNET later becomes known as the Computer and Science Network.

1982

-- TCP/IP defines future communication

DCA and ARPA establishes the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, for ARPANET.
Why is this relevant?
- Leads to one of the first definitions of an internet as a connected set of networks, specifically those using TCP/IP, and Internet as connected TCP/IP internets.

1982 (Cont)

EUnet (European UNIX Network) is created by EUUG to provide E-mail and USENET services. Original connections between the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and UK
External Gateway Protocol specification -- EGP is used for gateways between (different architecture) networks.

1983

-- Internet gets bigger

Name server developed.
Why is this relevant?
- Large number of nodes.
- Hard to remember exact paths
- Use meaningful names instead.
Desktop workstations come into being.
Why is this relevant?
- Many with Berkeley UNIX which includes IP networking software.
- Need switches from having a single, large time sharing computer connected to Internet per site, to connection of an entire local network.

1983 (Cont)

Internet Activities Board (IAB) established, replacing ICCB
Berkeley releases new version of UNIX 4.2BSD incorporating TCP/IP.
EARN (European Academic and Research Network) established on similar lines to BITNET

1984

-- Growth of Internet Continues

Number of hosts breaks 1,000.
Domain Name Server (DNS) introduced.
- instead of 123.456.789.10
- it is easier to remember something like
  www.myuniversity.mydept.mynetwork.mycountry
  ( e.g. www.cs.cf.ac.uk).
JANET (Joint Academic Network) established in the UK
Moderated newsgroups introduced on USENET.

1986

-- Power of Internet Realised

5, 000 Hosts. 241 News groups.
NSFNET created (backbone speed of 56 Kbps)
NSF establishes 5 super-computing centers to provide high-computing power for all -- This allows an explosion of connections, especially from universities.
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) designed to enhance Usenet news performance over TCP/IP.

1987

-- Commercialisation of Internet Born

Number of hosts 28,000.
UUNET is founded with Usenix funds to provide commercial UUCP and Usenet access.

1988

NSFNET backbone upgraded to T1 (1.544 Mbps)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) developed

1989

-- Large growth in Internet

Number of hosts breaks 100,000
First relays between a commercial electronic mail carrier and the Internet
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) comes into existence under the IAB

1990

-- Expansion of Internet continues

300,000 Hosts. 1,000 News groups
ARPANET ceases to exist
Archie released files can be searched and retrieved (FTP) by name.
The World comes on-line (world.std.com), becoming the first commercial provider of Internet dial-up access.

1991

-- Modernisation Begins

Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) Association, Inc. formed after NSF lifts restrictions on the commercial use of the Net.
Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) Why is relevant?
- Provides a mechanism for indexing and accessing information on the Internet.
- Large bodies of knowledge available: E-mail messages, text, electronic books, Usenet articles, computer code, image, graphics, sound files, databases etc..
- These form the basis of the index of information we see on WWW today.
- Powerful search techniques implemented. Keyword search.

1991 (cont)

-- Friendly User Interface to WWW established

Gopher released by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the U of Minnesota. Why is relevant?
- Text based, menu-driven interface to access internet resources.
- No need to remember or even know complex computer command. User Friendly Interface (?).
- Largely superseded by WWW, these days.

1991 (cont)

-- Most Important development to date

World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer. Why is relevant?
- Originally developed to provide a distributed hypermedia system.
- Easy access to any form of information anywhere in the world.
- Initially non-graphic (this came later, MOSAIC, 1993).
- Revolutionised modern communications and even our, way of life (?).
NSFNET backbone upgraded to T3 (44.736 Mbps). NSFNET traffic passes 1 trillion bytes/month and 10 billion packets/month
Start of JANET IP Service (JIPS) using TCP/IP within the UK academic network.

1992

-- Multimedia changes the face of the Internet

Number of hosts breaks 1 Million. News groups 4,000
Internet Society (ISOC) is chartered.
First MBONE audio multicast (March) and video multicast (November).
The term "Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly.

1993

-- The WWW Revolution truly begins

Number of Hosts 2 Million. 600 WWW sites.
InterNIC created by NSF to provide specific Internet services
- directory and database services
- registration services
- information services
Business and Media really take notice of the Internet.
US White House and United Nations (UN) comes on-line.
Mosaic takes the Internet by storm. Why is this relevant?
- User Friendly Graphical Front End to the World Wide Web.
- Develops into Netscape -- most popular WWW browser to date.
- WWW proliferates at a 341,634

1994

-- Commercialisation begins

Number of Hosts 3 Million. 10,000 WWW sites. 10,000 News groups.
ARPANET/Internet celebrates 25th anniversary
Local communities begin to be wired up directly to the Internet (Lexington and Cambridge, Mass., USA)
US Senate and House provide information servers
Shopping malls, banks arrive on the Internet
- A new way of life
- You can now order pizza from the Hut online in the US.
- First Virtual, the first cyberbank, open up for business
NSFNET traffic passes 10 trillion bytes/month
WWW edges out telnet to become 2nd most popular service on the Net (behind ftp-data) based on % of packets and bytes traffic distribution on NSFNET
UK's HM Treasury on-line (http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/)

1995

-- Commercialisation continues apace

6.5 Million Hosts, 100,000 WWW Sites.
NSFNET reverts back to a research network. Main US backbone traffic now routed through interconnected network providers
WWW surpasses ftp-data in March as the service with greatest traffic on NSFNet based on packet count, and in April based on byte count
Traditional online dial-up systems (Compuserve, America Online, Prodigy) begin to provide Internet access
A number of Net related companies go public, with Netscape leading the pack.
Registration of domain names is no longer free.
Technologies of the Year: WWW, Search engines (WAIS development).
New WWW technologies Emerge Technologies
- Mobile code (JAVA, JAVAscript, ActiveX),
- Virtual environments (VRML),
- Collaborative tools (CU-SeeMe)

1996

-- Microsoft enter

12.8 Million Hosts, 0.5 Million WWW Sites.
Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology (which has been around for years)
The WWW browser war begins , fought primarily between Netscape and Microsoft, has rushed in a new age in software development, whereby new releases are made quarterly with the help of Internet users eager to test upcoming (beta) versions.

1997

-- What Next?

19.5 Million Hosts, 1 Million WWW sites, 71,618 Newsgroups.

And the saga continues.....

Wave Is Coming!

2009-08-03T18:45:00.000-07:00

Google Wave is a new communication service previewed today at Google I/O. "A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more."

The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

Google Wave has been designed by the founders of Where 2 Tech, a start-up acquired by Google to create a cutting-edge mapping service, which later became Google Maps.

Lars Rasmussen in Google Explains,

"Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me. We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps. But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps. As always, Jens came up with the answer: communication. He pointed out that two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant messaging, were originally designed in the '60s to imitate analog formats — email mimicked snail mail, and IM mimicked phone calls. Since then, so many different forms of communication had been invented — blogs, wikis, collaborative documents, etc. — and computers and networks had dramatically improved. So Jens proposed a new communications model that presumed all these advances as a starting point; I was immediately sold,"

"In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content -- it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave to see how it evolved."

You can see some screenshots of the service below and find some details about the API that could be used to extend the service and the Wave protocol that allows anyone to run a "wave" server. Google promises that Google Wave will be available later this year.

The Google Wave logo:

Screenshots:

A conversation in Wave:

Concurrent rich-text editing in Wave:

A sample Wave extension for event planning:

Event planning, with a map:

Another sample Wave extension, for games:

How you add someone to a Wave:

Contextual spell-checking in Wave:

Cheers,
Jenson

Microsoft, Yahoo in 10-year Web search partnership

2009-07-30T18:06:00.000-07:00

Wed Jul 29, 6:02 pm ET

Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have launched a 10-year Web search deal to challenge market leader Google but stopped short of combining other advertising businesses or suggesting any deeper ties.

The long-expected deal means Microsoft's new Bing search engine will be combined with Yahoo's experience attracting advertisers in the first serious threat to Google Inc -- if the companies get regulatory approval and can make the partnership work.

Yahoo shares fell 12 percent as some investors were disappointed by the limited scope of the deal, which did not include up-front payments for Yahoo. Some investors had expected up to $3 billion up-front, according to a Bernstein report.

"I would have preferred more money," said Ryan Jacob, chief investment officer of Jacob Asset Management, pointing to the lack of an upfront payment, as well as revenue-sharing and cost-savings terms that were not as high as he expected.

"There are risks on both sides. Big deals like this tend not to work out. It's a long-term deal that's going to take a long time to implement," said Jacob, whose $40 million fund holds some Yahoo shares. "It's better than no deal."

Microsoft shares closed up 1.4 percent, while Google shares fell 0.8 percent.

Yahoo estimated the deal would boost its annual operating income by about $500 million and yield capital expenditure savings of $200 million. Yahoo also expects the deal to boost annual operating cash flow by about $275 million.

ANTITRUST OBSTACLE

Under the deal announced on Wednesday, Microsoft's Bing search engine will power search queries on Yahoo's sites. Yahoo's sales force will be responsible for selling premium search ads to big buyers for both companies.

The partnership poses only a theoretical challenge to Google at present. It could take two-and-a-half years to get approval and be fully implemented, according to Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz, which would mean the partnership would not be fully effective until early 2012.

Microsoft and Yahoo still face antitrust and privacy issues. Google dropped a planned search partnership with Yahoo last year under pressure from the U.S. Justice Department.

But experts said the deal would likely get the go-ahead after examination by Obama administration antitrust officials since it would create a stronger rival to market leader Google.

Google said only that it was "interested" in the deal, while the chairman of the U.S. Senate antitrust panel said it warrants "careful scrutiny."

Microsoft and Yahoo expected the deal to be "closely reviewed" by regulators, but they were "hopeful" it could close in early 2010.

The deal concludes a lengthy, and at times contentious, dance between the two companies. They have been in on-again, off-again talks since Yahoo rebuffed Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid last year.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer clashed last year with former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who was strongly opposed to an all-out acquisition. Relations between the two companies improved under new Yahoo CEO Bartz, who took the reins in January and started to shake up Yahoo's management.

Ballmer and Bartz met "three or four times" over the past six months as they hammered out a deal, according to Ballmer.

HOW THE DEAL WORKS

While Bartz had previously said any deal would require a partner with "boatloads of money," she said on Wednesday the agreement provided "boatloads of value," adding the revenue- share agreement in the Microsoft deal was more valuable to Yahoo than a one-time payment.

"Having a big up-front cash payment doesn't really help us from an operating standpoint," Bartz said.

Microsoft's AdCenter technology will serve the standard sponsored links that appear alongside search results. Microsoft will pay Yahoo an initial rate of 88 percent of search revenue generated on Yahoo sites in the first five years.

That means Yahoo can concentrate on selling ads on its websites, while still generating revenue from search ads without the expense of maintaining its own search engine.

Bartz said the deal will result in "redundancies" in Yahoo's staff, although she declined to be specific. She stressed any changes would not occur until after full implementation of the partnership.

According to comScore, Google has a 65 percent share of the U.S. search market, compared with Yahoo's 19.6 percent and Microsoft's 8.4 percent.

"Microsoft will be able to report a greater share in terms of search ... And Yahoo doesn't have to spend any more money on search," said Barry Diller, CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns rival search engine Ask.com.

Cheers,
Jenson

World's first 256 GB USB Flash drive From Kingston

2009-07-30T17:41:00.000-07:00

Hey, Want to carry more than 100 movies OR 45000 music OR 250000 images in a pocket? Then here is the solution.

After boasting over the 128GB Data Traveler 200 Flash Drive marvel, Kingston has now announced whopping 256GB DataTraveler 300 USB Flash Drive. This high capacity USB flash drive comes with new Password Traveler software that allows creating and access password protected area on the drive called 'Privacy Zone'. At this moment, Kingston Europe is selling Kingston DataTraveler 300 256GB flash drive at an astonishing price of 657 Euros (Rs. 45, 100) which is more than even 256GB SSDs.

Likely to be a proud possession of select few, the new 256GB DataTraveler 300 has the usual retractable pin interface. This 256GB Flash drive allows storing data of up to 10 Blu-ray Discs or 54 single layer DVDs or 365 CDs. Kingston claims that this USB drive offers read speed of 20MB/sec and write speed of 10MB/sec without any stutter in data access.

For Windows Vista and Windows 7 based systems, DT 300 is already ReadyBoost enable and thus will allow Vista users to use this flash drive as memory. Ideal for netbook users who are looking for extended, portable storage which can be easily carried in pocket. However, it's a fact that this pocket toy will literally burn a hole in the pocket.

For More information about this product Click Here

Cheers,
Jenson

Windows 7 Passed Test!

2009-07-22T19:27:00.000-07:00

Microsoft’s newest version of its operating system,Windows 7, is finally in the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage, so the OS will soon be preloaded on new computers. Though not officially released yet, Windows 7 is expected to be a hit. For instance, after just eight hours on Amazon UK, Windows 7 pre-orders outpaced the total number of pre-orders for Vista over a period of 17 weeks.

According to Microsoft, Windows 7, which offers seven different versions of the OS, has undergone significant testing, quality assurance and validation required to get to the RTM stage. Independent software and hardware vendors will be able to download Windows 7 RTM as early as August 6th. Microsoft will be rolling out Windows 7 to other partners in mid to late August. Enterprise customers and developers will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English starting on August 7, with additional language functionality for Windows 7 released shortly after.

For the plebes/consumers, Windows 7 will be in retail stores and shipping on new PCs starting October 22nd, which we already knew. After receiving an overwhelming response from beta testers, Microsoft is also offering a “family pack” for Windows 7 that will allow installation on up to 3 PCs. The company has also officially released the new version of Expression 3,the set of tools Microsoft offers for developers to build applications off of Silverlight.

Of course, the official RTM release of Windows 7 comes at a time when Microsoft’s stranglehold of the operating system is being challenged by the recent announcement ofGoogle’s Chrome OS. Google is scheduled to release the open source code for Chrome OS later this year, which perhaps could conveniently fall around the October launch of Windows 7. The first Chrome OS computers won’t launch until next year. While Google says the Chrome OS is targeted towards netbooks at the moment, there is definite potential for Google’s OS to expand to the other types of computers, giving Microsoft something to mull over.

Three Indian IT Companies among Top 20

2009-07-20T16:41:00.000-07:00

Forbes has a list of the 2000 largest public companies, Here I list Top 20 among them. 3 Companies out of top 20 are from India. Those are TCS, Infosys & Wipro

Top 20 Companies List : Year 2009

IBM, New York
Microsoft, Washington
Oracle, California
Google, California
Softbank, Japan
SAP, Germany
Accenture, Bermuda
Computer Sciences Corporation, Virginia
Yahoo, California
Capgemini, France
Computer Associates, New York
Tata Consultancy Services, India
Infosys Technologies, India
Fiserv, Wisconson
Wipro, India
Symantec, California
Adobe Systems, California
Affiliated Computer Services, Texas
Activision Blizzard, California (non-Valley)
Intuit, California

Notably, 7 are based in California (all but one in the Bay Area). On the one hand, it certainly is far and away ahead of any other location (Bangalore, interestingly, being its closest competitor); on the other it shows a wider distribution of companies than one might assume.

Year 2007 Numbers : (The number of companies in Silicon Valley remained the same.)

1. IBM, New York

2. Microsoft, Washington

3. Oracle, California

4. Google, California

5. SAP, Germany

6. First Data, Colorado

7. Electronic Data Systems, Texas

8. Softbank, Japan

9. Yahoo, California

10. Symantec, California

11. Computer Sciences Corporation, Virginia

12. Capgemini, France

13. Tata Consultancy Services, India

14. Fiserv, Wisconson

15. Adobe Systems, California

16. Infosys Technologies, India

17. Computer Associates, New York

18. Wipro, India

19. Affiliated Computer Services, Texas

20. VeriSign, California

IBM, New York
Microsoft, Washington
Oracle, California
Google, California
SAP, Germany
First Data, Colorado
Electronic Data Systems, Texas
Softbank, Japan
Yahoo, California
Symantec, California
Computer Sciences Corporation, Virginia
Capgemini, France
Tata Consultancy Services, India
Fiserv, Wisconson
Adobe Systems, California
Infosys Technologies, India
Computer Associates, New York
Wipro, India
Affiliated Computer Services, Texas
VeriSign, California

Cheers,
Jenson

All Microsoft Windows Operating System (OS) Releases

2009-07-17T07:53:00.000-07:00

Hi all,
I started learning computer programming fundamentals using Microsoft Windows Operating System. Like me , may be a large number of people belong to this category. I'm a Windows OS fan because of it's many good features. The Contents below includes all Microsoft Windows OS releases with its release dates.

Latest Version to come:

Windows 7, For release on October 22, 2009

Future Releases:

Windows Server 2008 R2, slated to be Windows Server 2008's successor
Windows 8, Currently being created, the successsor to windows 7. Release date unkown

Early Releases:

1985 November 20 - Windows 1.01
1986 May - Windows 1.02
1986 August - Windows 1.03
1987 April - Windows 1.04
1987 December 9 - Windows 2.03
1988 May 27 - Windows 2.10
1989 March 13 - Windows 2.11
1990 May 22 - Windows 3.0
1992 August - Windows 3.1
1992 October - Windows for Workgroups 3.1
1993 August - Windows NT 3.1
1993 October - Windows 3.2 This Version of Windows was only released in simplified Chinese.
1993 November - Windows for Workgroups 3.11
1994 September - Windows NT 3.5

Windows 95

1995 June - Windows NT 3.51 (Version number: NT 3.51.1057)
1995 August 24 - Windows 95 (Version number: 4.00.950)
1995 December 31 - Windows 95 SP1 (Version number: 4.00.950A)
1996 August 24 - Windows 95 OSR2 (Version number: 4.00.1111 (also listed as 4.0.950B))
1997 August 27 - Windows 95 OSR2.1 (Version number: 4.00.1212 (also listed as 4.0.950B))
1997 August 27 - Windows 95 OSR2.5 (Version number: 4.00.1214 (also listed as 4.0.950C))

1996 July 29 - Windows NT 4.0 - the last version which ran on RISC architectures like DEC Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC. Later versions concentrated on x86-based hardware and - mainly as server OSs - the IA-64 line of CPUs. (Version number: NT 4.0.1381)

Windows 98

1998 June 25 - Windows 98 (Version number: 4.10.1998 (Security Version 4.10.1998A))
1999 May 5 - Windows 98 Second Edition (Version number: 4.10.2222 or 4.10.2222A (Security Version 4.10.2222C))

Windows 2000 (Version number: NT 5.0.2195)

2000 February 17:
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

2000 June 19 - Windows Me (Version number: 4.90.3000 (Security Version 4.90.3000A))

Windows XP for desktops and laptops (notebooks)

Windows XP Starter Edition, for new computer users in developing countries
Windows XP Home Edition, for home desktops and laptops
Windows XP Home Edition N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by an EU ruling
Windows XP Professional, for business and power users (Version number: NT 5.1.2600)
Windows XP Professional N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by an EU ruling
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, for PCs with x86-64 processors (based on Windows Server 2003)
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, for notebooks with a touch screen or a pen-sensitive screen
Windows XP Media Center Edition for desktops and notebooks with an emphasis on audio, video, and PVR capability. There are four versions:
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

2001 October 25 - Windows XP 64-bit Edition - A version of Windows XP roughly analogous to Windows XP Professional for Intel's IA-64 (Itanium) line of CPUs. It was discontinued in early 2005 after manufacturers stopped shipping Itanium systems marketed as 'workstations'.

Windows Server 2003 for servers
Small Business Server for first server installations (up to 2 processors)
Web Edition for basic Web serving (up to 2 processors)
Standard Edition for smaller server applications that don't require clustering (up to 4 processors)
Enterprise Edition for larger server applications, and clustering (up to 8 processors)
Datacenter Edition for mainframe like servers (up to 128 processors)
Storage Server for Network Attached Storage Devices

Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, for tablet PCs

Windows Mobile 6.1 for smartphones and PDAs

Windows Home Server Announced at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Windows Home Server is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups, and remote access.

Windows Vista, for home and business desktops and portable computers

Windows Vista Starter Much like Windows XP Starter Edition, this edition will be limited to emerging markets such as Colombia, India, Thailand, and Indonesia, mainly to offer a legal alternative to using unauthorized copies. It will not be available in the United States, Canada, Europe, or Australia.

Windows Vista Home Basic Similar to Windows XP Home Edition, Home Basic is intended for budget users not requiring advanced media support for home use. The Windows Aero theme with translucent effects will not be included with this edition.

Windows Vista Home Premium Like Windows XP Media Center Edition, this edition will support more advanced multimedia and entertainment authoring, premium games, mobile and tablet PC support, Network Projector, Windows Aero, Touch Screen, and auxiliary display (via Windows Side Show) support.

Windows Vista Business Comparable to Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Vista Business Edition is aimed at the business market. Includes all the features of Home Premium with the exception of Windows Media Center and related technologies, Parental Controls, and Windows DVD and Movie Maker HD.

Windows Vista Enterprise (Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6000.0) This edition is aimed at the enterprise segment of the market, and is a superset of the Business edition. Additional features include multilingual user interface support, BitLocker Drive Encryption, and UNIX application support. This edition will not be available through retail or OEM channels

Windows Vista Ultimate This edition combines all the features of the Home Premium and Enterprise editions, a game performance tweaker (WinSAT), and "Ultimate Extras". On January 7, 2007, at CES, Microsoft began to announce what some of these Ultimate Extras will be.

Windows Server 2008 for servers.

Windows Web Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition
Windows Storage Server 2008
Windows Small Business Server 2008 (Codenamed "Cougar") for small businesses
Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (Codenamed "Centro") for medium-sized businesses
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
Windows HPC Server 2008 for high Performance supercomputers

Windows XP Embedded, for embedded systems requiring parts of the Windows XP infrastructure.

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, a low-end version of Windows XP that is intended to be a thin-client that works with older hardware.

Windows Embedded CE 6.0, for embedded systems (not based on the Windows NT kernel)

Windows Mobile 6 for smartphones and PDA

Windows Mobile 6 Standard for smartphones
Windows Mobile 6 Classic for PDA without GSM
Windows Mobile 6 for PDA with GSM

Windows CE-based (Microsoft does not explain the "CE," it is reported to have originally stood for "Consumer Electronics.")

1996 November - Windows CE 1.0
1997 November - Windows CE 2.0
1998 July - Windows CE 2.1
1998 October - Windows CE 2.11
1999 August - Windows CE 2.12
2000 July - Windows CE 3.0, with version for smart phones and PDAs sold as Pocket PC 2000
2002 Windows CE 4.0, with version for smart phones and PDAs sold as Pocket PC 2002
2003 Windows CE 4.1, with version for smart phones and PDAs sold as Pocket PC 2003
2004 Windows CE 4.2, with version for smart phones and PDAs sold as Windows Mobile 2003 SE
2005 Windows CE 5.0, with version for smart phones and PDAs sold as Windows Mobile 5.0
2006 Windows CE 6.0
2008 Windows Mobile 6.1, based on Windows CE 5.2.19202

Cancelled versions

1999 December - Windows Neptune was sent out to beta testers but was never released. Would have been a consumer version (i.e. home edition) of Windows 2000.
1996 May 3 - Windows Nashville (Windows 96) (cancelled) (Became Windows 95B.)
1991-1998 - Cairo (a "true object-oriented OS") planned after Windows NT

Cheers,
Jenson

Best File Sharing Sites

2009-07-16T08:40:00.000-07:00

Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service. Here Follows top five free file sharing sites. Hit the jump for a look at the top five, and then go

Box.net

Popular for its simple interface and large feature set, file-sharing site Box.net provides 1GB of free space. Users love it for its collaboration tools and open format, which enables fun features like mounting you web space on your desktop and web service support, and RSS feeds. Like many others in this Hive Five, Box.net provides direct links to files so users aren't held up at a landing page to get their download. Box.net's biggest drawback is its free account's filesize limit, which sits at a rather paltry 10MB.

Drop.io

Renown by users for its simplicity and impressive interface, Drop.io (original post) doesn't require registration for use and specializes in document sharing, offering built-in previews of everything from images to PDFs. The innovative service has recently added a couple of new features, like free sending and receiving of faxes and voice recording. The free account has a 100MB storage limit, so unless you're ready to spend some cash, Drop.io is best-suited for smaller files.

MediaFire

Users love unlimited storage, and MediaFire (original post) offers just that. The service is free, offers unlimited disk space, and requires no sign-up to use any of the site's features. The files you upload, however, can only be up to 100MB in size.

Windows Live SkyDrive

With an impressive 25GB of free storage space, Windows Live SkyDrive (original post) is one new product out of Redmond that's quickly found a place in users' hearts. SkyDrive works on a folder-based system, emphasizing the ability to organize your files in personal, shared, and public folders. SkyDrive requires a Windows Live account to get started, individual uploads are limited to 50MB.

Cheers,
Jenson

Windows 7 without Internet Explorer in Europe

2009-07-15T19:13:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has confirmed plans to ship a version of Windows 7 without Internet Explorer. Windows 7 E, as the browserless system will be called, will be made available throughout Europe starting on October 22. The decision to pull IE from Windows comes as a result of an ongoing European Commission case surrounding anti-competition laws and Microsoft's bundling of software. Microsoft is planning on shipping a version of Windows 7 to Europe that will not include Internet Explorer. This is according to a confidential memo that was sent to PC makers and obtained by CNET. It is likely that Microsoft is reacting to the European Union concerns that by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows 7 it is being anti-competitive in the browser market. Microsoft's lawyers responded by saying "Our decision to only offer IE separately from Windows 7 in Europe cannot, of course, preclude the possibility of alternative approaches emerging through Commission processes. Other alternatives have been raised in the Commission proceedings, including possible inclusion in Windows 7 of alternative browsers or a 'ballot screen' that would prompt users to choose from a specific set of Web browsers." A ballot screen may look very similar to the one that is prompted when you install IE 8 where you are given the choice for your default search provider. If Microsoft were to take this route it would be a huge win for Mozilla, Opera, Google and Apple too. Imagine if Apple was able to get its Safari browser onto this ballot list and followed it up with several of their popular "PC vs. Mac" advertisements. Apple could gain a large portion of the browser market due to its large cash reserves and clever advertisements. Microsoft has said that this announcement will only impact Windows 7 and that it will not be removing Internet Explorer from any of its previous Windows products, including the Virtual XP package for Windows 7. In addition, Microsoft is developing plans to make Internet Explorer easily available to those in the European market who choose to use it. Internet Explorer once dominated but in the recent years has faced stiff competition from Google, Mozilla and Apple and has faced declining market share each year, for at least the last five years.

Save YouTube Videos From Your Browser Cache

2009-07-14T19:05:00.000-07:00

Currently Extracting YouTube! Videos from Your Browser Cache is Possib.

Earlier it was not possible to extract YouTube! videos from Browser Cache as the video didn’t get stored in the Temporary Windows Folder and you have to fully buffer Videos again and again for viewing them later on. This post shows How you can Extract YouTube! Videos from Browser Cache!

What is Browser Cache?

A generalized definition: Any Browser (IE, Firefox, Opera etc.) you use has a folder in which certain items that have been downloaded are stored for future access.

You can read more about Browser Cache right here

How a Video goes into Browser Cache?

Whenever you play any video hosted on any Video Sharing website like YouTube!, Metacafe etc., it undergoes Buffering Process i.e. it downloads the video from the Server of Video Sharing Website to your Computer. This buffer process will download the whole video in the Temporary Folder of your Windows Operating System. Here it is required that you allow the Browser to fully buffer (download) the whole video.

After this even you close the Window/Tab or Hit Refresh Button the video will play again and again.

How to Extract Videos from Browser Cache?

A Nifty Utility VideoCacheView, which helps to scan entire Temporary Folder for Saved Videos. The same utility can now find YouTube! Videos as well.

As soon as you run the Utility, it will display a list of all Videos that can be extracted from the Browser Cache. Right Click on any of Video file and Click Play Selected File (or press F2 after selecting the file), this is necessary as all the files in the cache have arbitrary name and have extension as .tmp

Now as soon as you are sure that this is the video you want to extract, Right Click on the Video File Again and select Copy Selected Items (CTRL+C) and Paste it to any other location of your Computer Hard Drive.

You can also select multiple videos present in the cache and copy paste them all at once following the above method. But make sure that you MUST close all Browsers before running this utility.

How to Clear Browser Cache?

You can clear your Browser Cache more efficiently using CCleaner

So Enjoy YouTube! Videos without Downloading them!

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Convert YouTube! Videos to MPG/MOV/MP4/DVD/3GP/MP3/WAV/FLV Online!

Google Hungry for Twitter?

2009-07-13T07:18:00.000-07:00

If the sources at Techcrunch are to be believed then Google is definitely in race to buy out Twitter.

The negotiations are said to be in advanced stage and the price being quoted is in upwards of $250milion.

Even though this price is less than the earlier offer of $500miilion in shares by Facebook the cash component could see google winning the game.

Why this deal looks imminent?

The founders of Twitter-Van Williams and Biz Stone, earlier sold their blogger platform to google so their past association could come into play.

Despite rapid growth in its subscribers twitter fails to find perfect monetization strategy for their microblog platform. Google ads could solve that!

The future might even be bleak with rapid increase in spamming on twitter. One should not forget that rapid increase in spamming could even mar the service and its current features are inadequate to stop it.

The only asset which twitter has unlike other social networks collection of videos and pics is the status updates by its users which could be valuable to a company like google but not to them.

The acquisition if it succeeds would even provide a boost to the service as it would be coming under Google’s umbrella and could attend mainstream use by integration with other google services.

This could even give a boost to Google’s social networking play and integration of previously discontinued jaiku which it made open source and twitter could help google to revive its fortune in microblog scenario.

Although many players may enter the fray taking it as the next big opportunity to attend the size of facebook google’s part will be important as they already have a plan and resources in place.

There are plenty of good reasons for Google to acquire Twitter. The top reason is Google's ability to place AdSense ads in your Twitter stream but there is an even bigger reason why Google should, nay must, acquire Twitter.

Twitter is becoming an important communications channel intrinsic to the web. Aside from the being able to pick up the company for a fraction of the $15 billion Google has in cash, Twitter is a key component of the search engines ambitious goal: to organize the worlds information.

Dont believe Googles slight-of-hand talk about the timing not being right. The timing is perfect! While other companies pull back on spending causing Twitters valuation to drop due to lack of interest Google can fly in under the radar and pick up perhaps the most important internet start-up since Facebook.

Top Science & Technology Websites

2009-07-12T18:46:00.000-07:00

Here Follows Links to SOME of the best science & technology websites around the world.

Science & Technology

Scirus - GO - speciality search engine for scientific literature.

Science & Technology News Network - GO - fascinating science news & in-depth articles on general science, the environment, genetics, space, health & technology.

UNESCO/ICSU Conference on Science - GO - official World Conference on Science Web site.

Astrobiology at NASA - GO - searching for the origins, distribution & future of life in the universe.

EurekaAlert - GO - recent postings by research institutions & scientific organizations.

Science Magazine - GO - highly respected scientific journal.

Science Daily - GO - breaking news & the latest in scientific research.

Nature - GO - international weekly journal of science, includes science update.

How Things Work - GO - useful science site built around intriguing questions.

Popular Science - GO - fuel for the curious mind.

Scientific American - GO - science news, resources & reviews.

New Scientist - GO - good quality science news, articles & reports.

NICEM - GO - national information center for educational & training media - films, audio, DVD, kits & more.

Closer To Truth - GO - wonderful minds deliberating the deeper issues of life & our times.

Beyond 2000 - GO - window on the future.

Great Thinkers & Visionaries - GO - big bunch of troublemakers.

K2K - GO - explore the amazing world of "mysterious mutli-flavored neutrinos" at the Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment.

The Neurosciences Institute - GO - shedding light on the most complex "self organizing" system in the known universe - your brain.

PhysicsWeb - GO - latest physics news & information.

Technology Review - GO - MIT's magazine of innovation.

Mad Scientist Network - GO - get your questions answered by the collective cranium of a bunch of mad scientists, run some crazy experiments or browse the collection of oddities.

The Why Files - GO - learn the science behind the news.

AAAS - GO - American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Discovery Online - GO - rich site full of news & articles about human behavior, history, planet earth, space, tech issues & much more.

Smithsonian Magazine - GO - read the magazine, explore art, science & history - vsee the image gallery & visit the kid's castle.

Discover Magazine - GO - science news, web picks, feature stories & NeuroQuest mini lessons on how the mind & brain work.

The Invention Dimension - GO - MIT's invention resources include The Inventor's Handbook, video library, Inventor of the Week, awards program & a tons of toys for gadget fanatics.

The Science Museum - GO - rich entertaining & educational exhibits from the London Science Museum.

Significant Event Imagery - GO - stunning satellite images of the world's big events.

Exploratorium - GO - museum of science, art & human perception.

Scanning Electron Microscope - GO - take a unique microscopic look at the world or browse the archive of magnificent magnifications.

Explore Science - GO - great demonstration of the usefulness of interactivity in science education.

Try Science- GO - fun science experiments for kids, in six languages.

Public Library of Science - GO - promoting free access to the world's scientific & medical literature.

Science

NASA - GO - simply breathtaking accomplishments from this group - they can (& do) take your browser where "no browser has gone before" - & they do it nearly every day. The real time active tracking & video links with current spaceflights should not be missed.

Chandra X-Ray Observatory - GO - gateway to the hot universe of black holes, exploding stars & Galaxy clusters - untangling some of the deepest mysteries in the universe. Great education resources & quality galleries.

Hubble Space Telescope - GO - beautiful images of our universe being born, multimedia, interactive fun & games, Hubble facts & figures.

Imagine the Universe - GO - get the lowdown about our universe in a clear & concise format. Ask your burning cosmic questions, or just sit back & view the great videos of the heavens.

Space.com - GO - reflect on heavenly news, play games, watch videos, track missions & launches, join a community search for extraterrestrial lifeforms.

Solar System Simulator - GO - view the universe from any point of view with this spyglass on the cosmos.

Windows to the Universe - GO - fun & different site about earth & space presented at three levels catering for beginning space cadet, intermediate solar system captain & advanced deep space commander types.

Astronomy Picture of the Day - GO - simple site with daily "pin up photos" for astronomers - with picture bios & links for further research. Archives of specific subjects such as black holes & spiral galaxies.

Ask Dr Universe - GO - the world's most curious cat answers kid's questions about the universe. Dr. Universe answers some of life's most confounding questions.

Bad Astronomy - GO - correcting science myths & solving some puzzling science questions.

The Nine Planets - GO - multimedia tour of the solar system.

Solar System Live - GO - view the universe from any time point or position with this interactive tool - also an earth & moon viewer.

Home Planet Tracking Software - GO - astronomy & satellite tracking package.

EarthRise - GO - large database of photos of the earth from the past 15 years.

Non-Messier Objects Database - GO - images of deep space objects.

Planet Earth

eNature - GO - bringing nature to life.

The Living Edens - GO - derived from the PBS series of the same name, this site transports you to the pristine undisturbed corners of the world - full of geographical information & wildlife profiles.

Environment News Network - GO - global environment issues, legislative & judicial decisions, demonstrations, conferences. Also tips on becoming an Earth-Smart consumer & making businesses more sustainable.

Ocean Planet - GO - An underwater tour of the Pacific Ocean - based on real data - created by NASA scientists for the Ocean Planet Exhibit.

Sea & Sky - GO - nicely presented resources taking a deep look at the oceans & skies - information provided in different levels to best match audience needs.

Exploring the Environment- GO - Earth Science modules that use satellite imagery & solution-based learning methodology as tools for students to investigate environmental problems.

Transcendent Nature - GO - exquisite photography & nature imagery.

EcoWorld - GO - global environmental community.

Wildlife Photography - GO - nature & landscape photography. Learn about our natural world through the inner vision of nature photographer Gary D.Tonhouse.

Encylopedia of the Atmospheric Environment
- GO - good source of information on a range of atmospheric issues, including weather, climate, pollution, acid rain, global warming & ozone depletion.

Co2 Science Magazine - GO - center for the study of carbon dioxide & global change.

Fractal Art

Mandelbrot Set Explorer - GO - create your own fractal art.

Fractal Movie Archive - GO - big fractal collection.

Basin Pictures - GO - more art of chaos.

Freeware Fractal Generator - GO - from the Stone Soup team.

How Much Does Google Like Twitter? Google accounts on Twitter

2009-07-12T07:22:00.000-07:00

Note : Orginal Content From the Google Blog

Like lots of you, we’ve been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we’re all about frequent updates ourselves, and there’s lots happening around here that we want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too). Because there are many programs and initiatives across the company, we’ve got a number of active accounts. Here’s a list of the current ones. We’ll update this list from time to time.

twitter.com/Google - our central account
twitter.com/Blogger - for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages - news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews - latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader - from our feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle - news & notes from Google’s personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents - news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube - for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES - en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork - solutions for IT and workplace productivity

Geo-related
twitter.com/SketchUp - Google SketchUp news
twitter.com/3DWH - SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse
twitter.com/Modelyourtown - 3D modeling to build your favorite places
twitter.com/EarthOutreach - Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
twitter.com/GoogleMaps - uses, tips, mashups
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky

Ads-related
twitter.com/AdSense - for online publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsHelper - looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah - Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics - insights for website effectiveness
twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder - re building display ads
twitter.com/GoogleRetail - for retail advertisers
twitter.com/TechnologyUK - for U.K. tech advertisers
twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE - for German AdWords customers
twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE - for German ad agencies
twitter.com/AdSensePT - info for Portuguese-language publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsRussia - AdWords news & tips in Russian
twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords - Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
twitter.com/AdWordsAPI - AdWords API tips

Developer & technical
twitter.com/GoogleResearch - from our research scientists
twitter.com/GoogleWMC - Google Webmaster Central
twitter.com/GoogleCode - latest updates for Google developer products
twitter.com/GoogleData - Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
twitter.com/app_engine - web apps run on Google infrastructure
twitter.com/DataLiberation - our initiative for complete import/export of all data
twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI - about using Google Maps embedded in websites
twitter.com/GoogleIO - Google’s largest annual developer event

Culture, People
twitter.com/googletalks - notes from our @Google speaker series
twitter.com/googlejobs - the voice of Google recruiters

Country or Region
twitter.com/googlearabia - news from the Google Arabia Blog*

twitter.com/googledownunder - Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
twitter.com/GoogleDE - Google in Germany
twitter.com/GoogleLatAm - Latin America (en Espanol)
twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt - Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

The above list itself shows the importance of twitter

Google Chrome OS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

2009-07-12T07:21:00.000-07:00

Google Chrome OS – FAQ

Note : The below contents are taken from official Google blog. The hyperlinks will be directed to respective google site.

Google have been getting a number of questions in reference to their ‘Introducing the Google Chrome OS‘ blog post, and so here are a number of your most frequently asked Questions – along with Google’s. Google will be sure to add more to this list as popular questions come in.

Is Google Chrome OS free?
Yes – Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost.

What companies is Google working with to support Google Chrome OS?
The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build devices that deliver an extraordinary end user experience. Among others, these companies include Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.

I’m a developer – how can I work with you?
Thanks for your interest. Later this year, the Google Chrome OS code will be open sourced. We’re looking forward to working with the open source community and making our own small contribution to the great work being done out there. Please stay tuned.

If you are interested in a full time position as a software engineer please visit the jobs pages for the following offices and indicate that you are interested in Chrome.

Google to start Chrome OS

2009-07-12T07:20:00.000-07:00

Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Note : Orginal Content From the Google Blog

It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.

We have a lot of work to do, and we’re definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision. We’re excited for what’s to come and we hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.

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