Archive for January, 2008

:enutrof s’yadoT – Fix Reversed fortune and recent visitors in orkut home page

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Did any of you have this particular problem ? A webpage showing text in the reverse direction.
In my orkut.com home page, the Today’s Fortune :Â and a few recent visitors are displayed in the reverse direction. Mirrored.
So it appears like “this sriaffa lanosrep ruoy ni kcul doog evah syawla lliw uoY :enutrof s’yadoT”
The actual [...]

Software Review : NetStat Live from AnalogX

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

This is what they say :
Have you ever wondered just how fast your network connection is? Not just how fast the modem is connected at, but how much data you can actually get? Does your internet connection sometimes seem slower than normal? Forget hacking the registry or using counter-intuitive tools to get the information you [...]

What women want ? Not the Mel Gibson movie – it’s a moral story.

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Young King Arthur was ambushed and imprisoned by the monarch of a neighbouring kingdom. The monarch could have killed him but was moved by Arthur’s youth and ideals. So, the monarch offered him his freedom, as long as he could answer a very difficult question. Arthur would have a year to figure out the answer [...]

Google PageRank to stem staph infections?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Rumours that Google PageRank is not useful anymore is about to take a new turn.
Just as Silicon Valley insiders are calling for a qualified scuttling of Google’s PageRank algorithm in sussing out Web page relevance, U.K. researchers are turning to Google’s golden formula to combat the spread of treatment-resistent infections in hospitals.
According to a report [...]

Mac Book Air Eject Button ? But no CD drive !!!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Mac Book Air  has an eject button – the kind that ejects CD drives .
But it does not have a CD drive
The folks at GizModo try to find out what it is for :
In case you haven’t noticed yet, there’s an eject button at the top right corner of the MacBook Air keyboard. There’s [...]