Technology Hacks from the Owl
Binged.it? Seriously, as a SHORTNER? Well, apparently MS thinks so. Microsoft has come out with its own url shortening(?) service binged.it This was first discovered in a tweet from the Bing Travel team. “Currently in partnership...
Blogulate wishes you a happy and prosperous New Year.
The “User Agent” string is a part of every request to a web server that tells it what type of agent (browser, spider, etc) is requesting the content. There are some sites that will give you...
The expression what gives, meaning ‘what’s happening; what’s up’ is a curiosity in English that raises some interesting questions and allows for some interesting insights, both pedagogical and substantive. Source I have heard this so many...
A very Happy new year to one and all .. >:D<
Google has formed an alliance with 33 firms to develop an open platform for mobile phones, called Android. Google hopes to reinvent both cell phones and the entire cell phone industry with this software, but Google’s...
PDF download. #1: Where were you born? This question might seem like small talk as you get to know a person, but it could also be used to gather information illegally about the candidate’s national origin....
Chichen Itza in Mexico. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro The Taj Mahal, India The Colosseum, Rome The Great wall of China, China 😛 Machu Picchu, Peru [2,430m] – Remains of an Inca city Petra, Jordan...
“Firefox has reached 400 million downloads and demonstrated that not even the world’s most powerful companies can keep people from a better, safer, and faster Web experience.” [Quoted] (They mean Microsoft 😀 ) Although there has...
Punch cards can be considered as the first data storage devices for backup. They date back to the early 1950’s, being used as a medium for storage for the UNIVAC I. Next came the Magnetic Tapes....
