Your computer is the center of your digital life. Your TV is the center of your entertainment life. But what if you want to watch movies, TV shows, movie trailers, podcasts, and photos from your computer on your TV?
See for urself : http://www.apple.com/appletv
Google has always been innovative and trendy. Either it's gmail or blogger or youtube, it has brought revolution in virtual community. Even though some of it's programs are later bought, but google has made it more fashionable. I am not going to talk here about gmail or any of it's other service but of it's gadgets. Have you used google desktop or google personalised page? Then you might have brought world in your desktop but have you used free text gadget? Using this, you can SMS to everyone here in Kathmandu to in
If you haven't used it, go to google.com/ig, sign in there with your Google ID, and when your personalized page come, click at add stuffs.
There are hundreds of stuffs, so might get lost so click on communication and add Free text message. Now go to homepage and you will see free text message gadget. Now click on edit of free text(Edit menu means traingle sign) and select worldwide. Give any international number and try to SMS. It will give one message saying either click on edit and give your ID or click here for account. Click there, another page will open.
Click on "Upgrade To The Newest Version……" then another page will open.
Find there other option and click on Google gadget and wait for sometime. After some time, you can see call wave's gadget in your personalized page, insert your mobile number and email address.Few minutes later, it will send your verification code. Fill the code and you are done.
Was just passing through the sites i found this news regarding Microsoft's plan to fight against vulnerabilities. Experts have been involved in discussions over Microsoft's (MS) new system Window's Vista which have motto of "Wow" but it seems, we really need to say WOW. Wondered why, MS delayed it's product by almost 3 years stating it needs to work on security to make it most protected system ever, but ops! it seems there have been many loopholes. Worked so hard and still problems? Who don't say "Wow! Still problem? Great Job Hacker." Reports have been that many crackers have already cracked it's strong holds. On February 1, 2007 MicroSoft admitted it had loopholes.It admitted that speech recognition features in
To add more pain, now there have been other problems for Windows XP/2000 users also. See the news below taken from BBC.
Windows users are being urged to install Microsoft's February security update which contains 12 patches for 20 vulnerabilities. The bumper package includes fixes for loopholes that malicious hackers are known to be already exploiting.
Another vulnerability is in the program Microsoft designed to spot viruses and spyware that has infected PCs. Half of the patches in the update have been rated as critical; criminals exploiting these could take over a PC.
Hijack trick
The fixes were issued as part of Microsoft's regular monthly security update that falls on the second Tuesday of every month. Loopholes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and Microsoft's Malware Protection Engine are closed by the updates in the patch. Versions of these programs used on Windows 2000 and XP could have these loopholes.
Users worried that they are at risk are being encouraged to check information about which programs are vulnerable via Microsoft's security site. Some of the loopholes, particularly those in Word, have been actively exploited by malicious hackers for several weeks.
Many Windows XP owners are likely to get the patches automatically, but any user can download the patches from the Windows Update site. The "critical" rating usually means that a cyber criminal exploiting such a vulnerability could take over a PC via a booby-trapped webpage or by tricking a user into opening an attachment on an e-mail. None of the patches affected
Source: BBC NEWS
Imagine a day when Nepali school kids will ask their mothers to recharge the battery for their laptops. This seems to an over statement in current milieu but it may not be distant dream.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association is a
This novel plan to develop a 100 dollar laptop and distribution to millions of school children of developing countries has caught the interest of governments and attention of many computer industry heavyweights. Some heavyweights supporting this praiseworthy causer are Google, Red Hat, AMD, Brightstar Corporation, News Corporation and Nortel Networks. Each company has donated two million dollars. The MIT Media Lab is also involved in the project.
So, what is OLPC then? OLPC is a program to enable all children, everywhere, to have the best education possible. Creating and distributing inexpensive laptops will allow students to become more active and creative, letting them take their learning beyond the walls of their schools and off the pages of textbooks. These $100 laptops will serve as libraries, music studios, art galleries and communications devices, using an open-source software platform that the students can customize and expand as their learning needs and programming skills grow. These machines will permit students to move beyond static, information-centric views of computing and learning by providing a vehicle for experimentation and collaboration. All in all it will teach students how to learn from a wider perspective.
Although no contracts with governments have been signed, Mr. Negroponte says current plans call for producing five to ten million units beginning in late 2006 or early 2007, with tens of millions more a year later. As from the map in the official website (http://laptop.org)
The Nepali localization of the OLPC project is “Mero Sanu Sathi”. Mero Sanu Sathi is the name given to the laptop that may be distributed to the school children of
So may be in five to ten years the children going to school in
Geshan Manandhar
About 650 Words
Official Website of OLPC is http://www.laptop.org
MOre news on OLPC at http://www.olpcnews.com
This also has been published in Showbiz Magazine, Nov-Dec 06 ISSue.
Younnovaters might be thinking, Geshan is not comming up with something new and unheard of. Here is an exclusive writeup for younnovation blog titled : "My Jal-ful experience of the interview with Jal and Goher." It will be a real contribution, If I get the pics or not I'll post it on 31st Dec 06, wait for it it will be worth it. Hope to get lots of comments on this OLPC article if you read it don't forget to comment on it.
GPRS and EDGE
You as Mero Mobile user, may have surfed the internet via your GPRS (Global Packet Radio Service) enabled mobile handsets. But have you wondered what GPRS is?
GPRS (Global Packet Radio Service) is a mobile data service available to users of GSM (Global System for Mobile) mobile phones. It is often described as "2.5G", that is, a technology between the second (2G) and third (3G) generations of mobile telephony. It provides moderate speed data transfer, by using unused TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) channels in the GSM network. GPRS is a mobile data service which utilizes packet switching. It means that multiple users share the same transmission channel, only transmitting when they have data to send. This means that the total available bandwidth can be immediately dedicated to those users who are actually sending at any given moment, providing higher utilization where users only send or receive data intermittently. Web browsing, receiving e-mails as they arrive and instant messaging are examples of uses that require intermittent data transfers, which benefit from sharing the available bandwidth. Usually, GPRS data are billed per kilobytes of information transceived. Mero mobile (Spice
GPRS is a connectivity solution based on Internet Protocols that supports a wide range of enterprise and consumer applications. With throughput rates of up to 40 kbit/s, users have a similar access speed to a dial-up modem, but with the convenience of being able to connect from anywhere. In addition to the IP (Internet Protocol), GPRS supports X.25, a packet-based protocol that is used mainly in Europe. GPRS is an evolutionary step toward EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telephone Service). Almost all the new cell phone models support GPRS; some models that support GPRS are Nokia 6100, Sony Eriksson 300i, Samsung D500, LG D2100.
EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment), a faster version of the GSM wireless service, is designed to deliver data at rates up to 384 Kbps and enable the delivery of multimedia and other broadband applications to mobile phone. The EDGE standard is built on the existing GSM standard, using the same TDMA frame structure and existing cell arrangements. The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) states that, as of April 2006, there were 139 commercial GSM/EDGE networks in 78 countries, out of a total of 192 EDGE deployments in 102 countries. The regional breakdown of commercial EDGE networks is 59 in Europe, 45 in the Americas and Caribbean, 21 in Asia, and 14 in Africa and the Middle East. GPRS is the present and EDGE may be the future, let's hope we would also step up to EDGE some day.
By Geshan Manandhar
About 450 Words
This has been published in In Your Face Magazine July 06 Issue but I want it to be my 1st Contribution to this innovative blog.
On Tuesday, Techcrunch reported that MySpace has semi-officially overtaken Yahoo as having the most page views of any internet property. This revelation was met with moderate fan fare and other prominent industry blogs like GigaOm and Searchblog did not even go there. There is good reason to take this news with a grain of salt, as it is misrepresentative and hides some very important facts.
Page views are a useful metric for judging the volume of interaction with a web site, but comparing page views can also lead to erroneous conclusions. Let’s explore some common pitfalls.
In the user interaction and usability world, much has been made of the lackluster user experience of MySpace. Indeed, many technophiles and designers cannot understand why so many people actually use MySpace despite the fact that it is aesthetically unappealing, slow, and riddled with vestigial clicks. This is a fascinating enigma with complex answers, but the important thing to consider from a marketing standpoint is the vestigial clicks. It has been suggested that MySpace is in no hurry to streamline navigation because the current information architecture inflates page views. And it seems many analysts and industry watchers keep falling for this trick.
Although a brilliant marketing move on the part of MySpace, it should be a big red flag that each user is taken to a marketing splash page and is forced to navigate to their own profile page. Other social networking web sites take users directly to their profile page upon logging in.
Another important point that has to be made is that MySpace is very static while many of Yahoo’s web services are dynamic. By using
By making services such as Yahoo Mail more dynamic and self-contained, Yahoo made a very conscious effort to reduce page views to better the user experience and increase user lifetime. What matters is not how many page views Yahoo’s users generate but how long they stay on their web properties, how long they will be loyal to those services, and how many ads are displayed per average session as well as their CPM (cost per one thousand ad impressions).
Undoubtedly, MySpace continues to grow and is here to stay as a hugely important player in the internet game. It is exciting to see who is growing and who is struggling, but let’s forget all the empty hype of page views and pull ourselves away from obsessively observing who will have the highest page views this week. The real question that we should be asking is who will find the magic formula of attracting, engaging, and retaining users that will ultimately lead to the highest levels of success.
Here’s “an opportunity to show your talent”.
And it’s at the Java Contest Nepal 2007.
The contest is being held in
The contest is divided into two categories — for students (Rs 500 for application form) and for professionals (Rs 1,000), and will require the participants (individuals or in teams of not more than two persons) to submit Java-based application (web-based application).
The deadline for submission of forms is December 21, while documentation submission deadline is January 7, 2007 and the last date to submit software is January 20, 2007.
All short-listed software will be displayed at an exhibition and the winners will be announced on February 24, 2007. The last date for the submissions is January 24, 2007.
The contest is being organised by
(For details contact Contest Secretariat, Kathmandu Engineering College 4284902; WAKHOK Nepal - 4426873; e-mail: info-@softwaremeet.org.np)
Prizes for your talent
Students
• 1st prize: Rs 40,000 plus WAKHOK University Scholarship**
• 2nd prize: Rs 30,000 plus WAKHOK University Scholarship**
• 3rd prize: Rs 20,000 plus WAKHOK University Scholarship**
(Winners will get a full tuition fee waiver to study Bachelor degree in Integrated Media and Technology ,or two-year research programme at WAKHOK University, Japan. Conditions apply)
Professionals
• 1st prize: Rs 50,000
• 2nd prize: Rs 40,000
• 3rd prize: Rs 30,000
Hey everyone. The following article is about an extension in IE, Mozilla and Flock.
I was surfing through the extension page of Flock web browser n came upon this wonderful tool. Its called Stumble Upon. As the name says it all, it helps u to stumble upon any gr8 websites or pictures or videos or arts, graphics, animation,etc. etc. (the list is endless) according to ur interests. All u have 2 do is sign up n create a stumble upon account. U can then keep it in ur web browser (mozilla or flock) as a toolbar. Finally, all u need to do is click on the stumble button n start stumbling into some of the great web pages. 'Njoy.
Learn more about StumbleUpon: http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Long or short-term mobile phone use is not associated with increased risk of cancer, a major study has found.
Mobile phone antennas emit electromagnetic fields that can penetrate the human brain. But a Danish team found no evidence that this was linked to an increased risk of tumours in the head or neck as had been feared. The study, of more than 420,000 mobile phone users, appears in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The researchers, from the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in
Professor Tricia McKinney, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
News Source: bbcnews.com
Photo Source: southofboston.com
This is so cooooooooooool. I am loving it so much more. FLOCK has almost all the features a person may want and much more.
With FLOCK, i can integrate my del.icio.us bookmarks into My News feature. Then there's this feature called web snippet. You can save links, text and pictures as snippets so that you can blog about it later
Snippets are especially handy for re-blogging bits of text from web pages. When you drag a snippet into a blog post, it is automatically formatted as a blockquote with proper citation.
Ever wondered how to create a video tutorial?? Stop wondering and download Wink. Easy to learn n so simple to use. Wink helps u to create tutorials and presentations. Its features include capturing of screenshots, adding explanation boxes, titles and more.
U can download Wink from the following URL:
http://www.debugmode.com/wink
Ola!!
I just learnt abt this new browser - FLOCK. Haven't tried all its features, but from what I have tried, it is so cooooooooool. I have also worked with Mozilla Firefox, IE and Opera web browsers. But FLOCK seems to be a little different. It is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online.
Try it and you will feel the difference. ;-)
