Around the World In One Minute – Google Earth
Although you think Google Earth as one of Google’s creative and breakthrough inventions, it is indeed a wrong conception. Google Earth was not written by Google. It was created and developed by Keyhole Inc., a company which was bought by Google in 2004. Anyway, this is a great piece of software which offers a wide...
Managed Hosting: Changing how Large Organizations do Business
Having an online presence is crucial for any organization that is serious about attracting customers in today’s age of digital information. Businesses increase their exposure by putting their website online; allowing customers to learn more about them and discover what products or services are being offered. Large organizations traditionally used a web hosting service that...
Revolution of Web – Google Page Ranking
After the invention of internet and web, there have been revolutionary introductions to this area of information technology such as HTML & scripting languages. But what made the internet and web upside down? Surely it is this company called Google. Today, having a net worth of $200 billion, it continues to make drastic changes of...
Humanity towards Others – Ubuntu
Since the time Linus Torvalds developed the Linux kernel back in nineteen nineties, Linux world developed in to various fragments resulting thousands of flavors to choose from. This created freedom for users who are interested in choosing different software for their purpose and eventually created the community movement called FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)....
GNU is Not Unix
We talk a lot about Linux and open source software but have forgotten GNU initiative which was started decades ago for laying the foundation for free software. This is mainly due to the popularity Linux achieved during the past decade and I assume it was not intentional. Anyways there are few distributions that promote Linux...
The Latest Macintosh: Macintosh or Hackintosh?
Hacking has been there from the first days of computer software and obviously it is illegal and most of all, unethical. If someone spends time, effort and money developing software, we all must respect it and if we are interested using it; we should use the software in a legal way. Like for all other...
Dangerous Than the Epic – Trojan Horses
If you are familiar with Homer’s Odyssey, you know what it means by Trojan Horse. Yes, at least the concept. If you don’t know what’s there in Odyssey, let’s me explain you what happed there at Troy. In Homer’s Odyssey, there exists a city called Troy, which has a wall that cannot be broken by...
Top 10 Web Security Threats – Part 1
The Internet and web are becoming increasingly vulnerable with the advancement of technologies and skills of the people who use it for wrong reasons. When compared to early stage hack attacks, recent methods of attacking are very much advance and complex. But there are some techniques used even today introduced some decades ago. Let’s have...
Online Shopping – How Does it Work?
With the availability of shopping carts on the internet, most of us now do shopping online. This online shopping may vary from books to cars from few dollars to thousands of dollars. Online shopping has become one of the most convenient ways of purchasing goods with the minimum effort. In this article, lets try to...
How Do Search Engines Work?
If you are a computer user who access web for various needs, you SHOULD have used search engines for finding information you are looking for. Some of the search engines such as Google and Yahoo have almost become household names. If you use search engines for day-to-day work, isn’t it worth to see how they...
Introduction to Wikipedia
Have you heard tech savvy people talking about Web 2.0? What did you suddenly think after hearing it? You couldn’t believe there are versions for web, right? Yes, same as for any other software, web also has versioning. So, what’s new in web 2.0? Answer is; a lot! [RATINGSYS_RATINGS RATER=VISITOR CATEGORY=0 LABEL=HIDE AVG_NUMBER=SHOW/] [RATINGSYS_RATINGS RATER=ADMIN...








