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10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008

Posted by sudhirmangla December 29, 2008

1. The Pirate Bay It has been a good year for The Pirate Bay. The number of visitors spiked, despite efforts in Denmark and Italy to block access the site. Last month, The site celebrated its 5th anniversary, just after it broke the 25 million peers mark. At any given point in time, more than 25 million peers actively trade files thought the Pirate Bay tracker. Compete rank 885 / Alexa rank 117 / 2007 #3 2. Mininova Mininova has seen a steady rise in visitors in 2008, and more than 3 billion torrents... Read more »

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Windows 7 Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures, NUMA support

Posted by sudhirmangla December 29, 2008

Windows 7 will be able to take advantage not only of faster CPUs, but of multiple processors on a single chip. The 64-bit edition of the operating system in particular will be able to support over 64 Logical Processors per machine. In this regard, Microsoft underlined the need for software developers to adapt their applications in accordance with the evolution of processor chips and that of the Windows operating system. Essentially, consistent gains in performance are synonymous with using parallel... Read more »

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Google usual $1,000 cash bonus replaced with G1 phone this Christmas

Posted by sudhirmangla December 27, 2008

LONDON: Google’s employees will not be getting the usual cash bonus of 1,000 dollars this Christmas, for the Internet search engine giant has decided to give them a version of its new mobile phone G1 instead. The customised G1 devices will be given to all permanent Google employees in the United States, Western and Central Europe, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Japan, covering about 85 per cent of its 20,123 global staff. However, since the G1 cannot be shipped to other parts of the... Read more »

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Job Losses Hit the Tech Sector

Posted by sudhirmangla December 25, 2008

In the fine print of a jobs report published Friday is some mixed news for Silicon Valley. For the first time in this downturn, the region lost jobs; it has 4,000 fewer jobs than it did a year ago at this time, and its unemployment rate is 7 percent, according to the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy, which analyzed the California Bureau of Labor jobs data. That rate compares favorably to California over all, which has an 8.4 percent unemployment rate, the research firm reported. “California... Read more »

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DDA housing scheme 2008 & DDA draw results 2008

Posted by admin December 16, 2008

DDA Draw, DDA housing scheme 2008 draw and dda housing scheme 2008 draw results, Delhi Development Authority Draw results. Delhi Development Authority /DDA is going to announce the DDA Housing scheme 2008 results on december 16, 2008. The DDA flats for which the draw would be held, are located in Paschim Vihar, Dwarka, Rohini and Pitampura in West and Northwest Delhi, Vasant Kunj in south Delhi and Dilshad Garden in east Delhi.The DDA housing scheme is the cheapest as the one, two and three bedroom... Read more »

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How to Get Most From Google Reader

Posted by sudhirmangla December 14, 2008

Google has taken the task of RSS feeds and made it easy. Google Reader is a tool that allows you to keep up with your favorite blogs and news. Google Reader is easy to hack because it’s web-based — users have created everything from Greasemonkey scripts to entire themes. With a few scripts and some ingenious tips you’ll soon be a Google Reader power user in no time. So roll up your sleeves and get ready to dive in. How to User Google Reader You must have a Google account to use... Read more »

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How to use Google Calendar for getting Organized

Posted by sudhirmangla December 14, 2008

Most of us lead extremely busy lives and often find ourselves bogged down with multiple work projects. If you’d like using something bigger than your Blackberry or cell phone, something smaller than your date book or Day Planner, and have frequent access to a computer and the internet, you can finally get it together with all the features of Google Calendar. Create a Google account and make your way to the calendar page. Go to www.google.com . Click on "more" at the top left edge... Read more »

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Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on the Web, From Google

Posted by sudhirmangla December 13, 2008

Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on the Web Monday, December 08, 2008 By Brad Chen, Native Client Team Modern PCs can execute billions of instructions per second, but today’s web applications can access only a small fraction of this computational power. If web developers could use all of this power, just imagine the rich, dynamic experiences they could create. At Google we’re always trying to make the web a better platform. That’s why we’re working... Read more »

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Turn your Apple iPod touch into a phone with Truphone, well, kind of . .

Posted by sudhirmangla December 8, 2008

Described by Apple itself as the ‘funnest’ iPod ever, the iPod touch may now be the ‘useful-est,’ too — thanks to free software, Truphone for iPod touch, that effectively turns one into a mobile phone. Truphone for iPod touch will soon offer the following features: • Making and receiving calls to and from landlines (PSTN) at low cost (simply set yourself up with a Truphone account) • Instant messaging to Skype and MSN (free) • Calling to Skype users (free) • Calling to MSN... Read more »

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Blackberry Storm: The Big Little Thing

Posted by sudhirmangla December 8, 2008

The Blackberry Storm provides an interesting case study. On paper, the Storm offers everything a user could possibly want. Its feature set is as good, or better, than the iPhone. We could spend a lot of time speculating about why the Storm failed. Maybe it entered the market too late, maybe it wasn’t innovative enough. Maybe people just don’t think Blackberry is "cool" enough for the consumer market. And of course, there’s the lack of Wi-Fi. But really, lack of Wi-Fi isn’t... Read more »

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