Man marries video game character
on Nov 25, 2009 in Man marries video game character As you begin to contemplate your Thanksgiving meal, your family gathered around you, your loved ones embracing you, please be thankful you are not Sal9000.Sal appears to be a man with very idiosyncratic needs, which he has attempted to satiate by mar...

E-mails not private anymore - Police can now track your e-mails
on Nov 24, 2009 in Police can now track your e-mails E-mails not private anymore Mumbai, Nov. 22 -- The police can now read your e-mails without prior permission from the home department. The Parliament recently cleared an amendment to the Information Technology (IT) Act, allowing the police to intercept or decrypt online informa...

Google Chrome OS coming next week?
on Nov 13, 2009 in Google Chrome OS The Google Chrome OS, first announced back in July, will be available next week, says a TechCrunch report.The free, open source operating system should be released in a very early form, as promised, with broader support in 2010.Said Google at the tim...

Indian Army now has a Webportal
on Nov 9, 2009 in Indian Army now has a Webportal The Indian Army has dived into the technology driven environment by launching a webportal - www.indianarmy.nic.in. The webportal is hosted on National Informatics Centre (NIC).The newly launched webportal, as claimed by the authorities, has been dev...

Facebook To Increase Enforcement Of Anti-Scam Rules
on Nov 6, 2009 in Facebook To Increase Enforcement Of Anti-Scam Rules Facebook published a long blog post today about their enforcement efforts around app advertising and offer scams. And while they didn’t mention all the negative press that has hit them this week, that’s the reason for the new communication.Facebo...

Override Word's automatic text selection - Microsoft Word
on Nov 5, 2009 in Override Word's automatic text selection - Microsoft Word When selecting portions of text, Word tries to be helpful by predicting what you want to select. If you click in the middle of a word and then drag to the next word, Word will increase the selection to include all of the first word.For example, if yo...

Your bike’s safe
on Nov 5, 2009 in E. Karthick bike gadget Your bike’s safe Being a biker himself, E. Karthick fully understood the problems of ensuring its safety. With so many instances of petrol and bike theft surfacing, thanks to key duplication and short circuiting, he decided to design a solution as his final year proj...

Use a nonbreaking space to keep words together - Microsoft Word
on Nov 5, 2009 in Use a nonbreaking space to keep words together - Microsoft Word Learn how to keep two words together when they happen to fall at the end of the line and Word pushes the last name to the next line.Unless you've enabled hyphenation, Word looks for a space character to determine when to wrap text to the next line. T...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6 Beta 1
on Nov 2, 2009 in Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Mozilla made Firefox 3.6 beta 1 available for download late on Friday. Mozilla has requested that Web sites link to the announcement page, rather than the actual download link, so we'll accede to their wishes.Mozilla first began describing Firefox 3.

The Transition - The Flying car
on Oct 28, 2009 in Terrafugia The Flying car The Transition Roadable Aircraft The TransitionEvery pilot faces uncertain weather, rising costs, and ground transportation hassles on each end of the flight. The Transition combines the unique convenience of being able to fold its wings with the ability to drive on any surface road...