EXPERIENCE GOOGLE IN COMMAND LINE - GOOSH.ORG

EXPERIENCE GOOGLE IN COMMAND LINE - GOOSH.ORG

Ever wondered what Google would have looked like in the world before the origin of the Graphical User Interface? Well if you're a real command line freak then all you need to do is go to http://goosh.org. Goosh actually stands for (unofficial) Google Shell. It is actually a browser enabled web-based interface powered by Google (uses Google's services) that gives you a CLI shell kind of an environment. It behaves like the Unix-based command line interface that lets you perform basic operations like basic keyword-based search, wiki search, checking your e-mail, translate between languages, perform calculations and lots more.

GOOGLE DOODLOGRAPHY - CELEBRATING DENNIS GABOR'S 110TH BIRTHDAY

GOOGLE DOODLOGRAPHY - CELEBRATING DENNIS GABOR'S 110TH BIRTHDAY

Source: Google.com

First of all, Happy World Environment Day folks! On the same day as today, a 110 years back (i.e. 5th June, 1900), was the great inventor of holography, Sir Dennis Gabor born. And today, Google celebrates this event across the world. Dedicated to the birthday, Google has Doodled its logo representing a 3D holographic image.

THE STATISTICS BEHIND STUMBLE UPON'S SOCIAL REACH

THE STATISTICS BEHIND STUMBLE UPON'S SOCIAL REACH

This is my post #2 of the day just after I posted a review on TinEye reverse image search engine. I simply got inspired to post this second article in a shot after I came across these enormous statistics delivered by Search and Social regarding the user traffic on Stumble Upon across the past year(s). Stumble Upon has really been a content broadcasting-cum-social networking fame in a very short span of time since its launch in 2001. The following statistics speak enough to prove the point right.
 

TINEYE - REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH

TINEYE - REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH

Guys believe it or not, this is not an affiliate stuff or paid post that's gonna get me some kind of hot cash to wet my pocket. This is just one of those websites that I landed upon while stumbling across the web using the Stumble! button of my SU Toolbar (and that's why I say- "Stumbling works!"). This is a simple review that I was tempted to write on my own on this super-cool website just to spread some awareness about its "coolness" across the web.

4 MOST WANTED WEB 2.0 ADD-ONS FOR FIREFOX

4 MOST WANTED WEB 2.0 ADD-ONS FOR FIREFOX

To make your browser and user environment more friendly, Firefox provides you with some add-ons. Below I speak about some add-ons that are considerably most wanted for the Web 2.0 people. Just check them out! :)

Stumble Upon Toolbar

Stumble Upon is one of the most wanted content sharing and social networking websites today. The Stumble Upon toolbar allows you to "stumble" random sites and make them popular if you like them just by clicking the "I like it!" button. You can stumble through videos, photos, news, friends' favorites and even websites. You can share the content or website with your friends using the "Share" button. Other than this you can make a collection of your own favorites, say Stumble Bookmarking, that can be viewed anytime on your Stumble Upon homepage.

DOWNLOAD STUMBLE UPON TOOLBAR FOR FIREFOX

FIREFOX CROSSES ONE BILLION DOWNLOADS : FACT OR FICTION

FIREFOX CROSSES ONE BILLION DOWNLOADS : FACT OR FICTION

I was just going through some Technology news content on Yahoo! and what did I find- Firefox crosses 1 Billion downloads (article indexed from PCWorld). I just wondered how this could ever happen, because it was not more than around a week ago that I posted on Firefox crosses 50 Million downloads mark. It made no sense that the people around the world are now downloading Firefox at a rate greater than a rate at which they were downloading it the were downloading it at the time of its launch. So I tried to figure out the point in it.

THE PIRATE BAY NOT LIKELY TO BE SOLD OUT

THE PIRATE BAY NOT LIKELY TO BE SOLD OUT

This post is regarding the torrent-based file sharing giant The Pirate Bay being auctioned at US $ 7.8 Million. Looks like the giant is still surviving the battle of the beasts. The company has suffered a lot of nightmares during the past season. First, it is sued for breaching copyright lawsuits. Then, its founders go to jail for the same. And, after all the mess is up, the company is auctioned to Global Gaming Factor X for US $ 7.8 Million.

But now the scene is turning out to be something different from what it looked like last fortnight. It seems the Global Gaming hasn't got enough funds to work out the deal. Okay, lets take a deeper look into the scene. It all started when Global Gaming hired Wayne Rosso, the former head of Grokster.com (A file-sharing company that was sued for copyright infringement by MGM and 27 other companies) to negotiate with music and other media biggies to get legal license for the website's contents.

Wayne has now quit Global Gaming. In an interview with CNET, Wayne said that the reason he quit Global Gaming was that the company hadn't been open in the necessary manners to him and that the company didn't seem to possess enough funds to takeover Pirate Bay with the bid.

The second issue with the takeover is that Pirate Bay, even after being sued for copyright infringement, still doesn't seem to remove the objectionable content from the website. Hence the consortium of companies that filed the lawsuit against the company, want The Pirate Bay to be shut down.

So, will the company be totally shut down, or will it be back on track with the host of torrents? Possibly not! Will it be seen back in the market for some other legal business? Share your opinions below! :)

FIREFOX 3.5.1 CROSSES THE 50 MILLION DOWNLOADS MARK

FIREFOX 3.5.1 CROSSES THE 50 MILLION DOWNLOADS MARK

It was not past a fortnight that the Mozilla Corporation released the patched version of its latest version of Firefox 3.5 series and today, the company sees a huge 50 Million downloads all over the world. Mozilla Corp. patched Firefox 3.5 to fix some security vulnerabilities in its TraceMonkey JavaScript Engine.

The download statistics of the browser have been placed in a Worldwide Real-Time Firefox Download Statistics web page. The US hosts greatest number of Firefox Downloaders accounting to approximately 20% of the net downloads. Following the United States are Germany, Brazil, France, United Kingdom, Russian Federation, India, Japan, Poland and Italy.

These statistics are a live proof of the fact that Firefox is gaining a lot of authority in the browser world. The open-source project has seen a growth of leaps and bounds in the past years beating the growth rate of IE and other major releases ruling the markets.

MICROSOFT WARNING OF SECURITY FLAWS IN INTERNET EXPLORER

MICROSOFT WARNING OF SECURITY FLAWS IN INTERNET EXPLORER

Microsoft has buzzed up internet explorer users of security flaws in the software that can be illegally used by a hacker to breach ones system and possess the same access rights as the local user. Guessing the result? A possible system crash! :(

The problem was found in a program that serves the purpose of online video playing ActiveX Controls of the browser. The flaw, if successfully exploited by a cracker in particular, it can be used to gain the local user rights to access the computer which may have disastrous results.

Microsoft has advised its users to disable the ActiveX Controls till it launched the patched version of the software that the are working on with associates.

Why don't they advice their users to use Firefox? :P

The people at Microsoft are working to fix this problem and also developing a Windows security update to solve the problem.