Things from, of and about the head on the shoulders.
Did you know that there is something called Silly Window Syndrome? Don’t believe me? Read this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article if you don’t believe me. 😉 This site provides a huge list of humourous Microsoft Knowledge Base articles. Some of them are quite quite funny indeed! 😀
This banner speaks a lot about software patents. As more and more so-called intellectual property is being patented and licensing fees demanded, I am slowly beginning to wonder where the future is headed in this regard. Sooner or later, we’ll see amazingly high costs for all software because all new UI enhancements/processes require licensing fees […]
Often you’ll come across site that require you to sign-up before you can access their content. These sign-ups are free, yet compulsory. I have often used Mailinator for this. But it still requires me to fill out a registration form and then visit the Mailinator site to check email and in some cases, follow links […]
I have been playing with Google a bit today on and off. Visiting the Google Zeitgeist “Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google” to quote from their page, browsing through he Google Blog, taking a look at photos of Google employees at work which are pretty dated by the way, and of course, the […]
eWeek has put up Apple OS X Tiger preview screenshots! Some of the new things in this update are pretty exciting. For one, I’ve been looking forward to Safari 2.0 which comes with ‘private browsing’ — a feature, once enabled, does not store any information in the cache or browser history. Very cool. The RSS […]
Progress is evolution–of thought, processes, pinciples, social order, etc.–but major and significant changes are sudden and swift, labelled paradigm shifts. The evolution of IT industry is no different; in parts incremental and dotted with a few paradigmatic shifts . Tim describes how the software industry should take a look in the past when a paradigm […]
A story on ZDNet reports that “online organized crime groups are breaking into Web servers” and installing code there that takes advantage of two unfixed flaws in Internet Explorer to install a program that “takes control of the user’s computer.” The most significant paragraph of this story is: Researchers believe that attackers seed the Web […]
A story on CNN/Money reports that AOL worker, Jason Smathers has been arrested for stealing AOL’s subscriber list and selling it to a spammer (Dunaway) who used it to promote his own Internet gambling business. Then, Dunaway sold the list to other spammers for $52,000. With all the ruckus going on about SPAM and privacy, […]
Gmail started it all by announcing 1000MB storage for free. Lycos soon followed suit. Recently Yahoo! Mail increased its quota from 4MB to 6MB (depending on where you are and when you signed up) to a across-the-board 100MB account for free and 2GB for the premium service Mail Plus. Now, the Indian company Rediff has […]