Other Internet Stuff Archive

E-mail still the favorite food for all kinds of virus. And if I am not wrong, every 3rd email out of 4 is a spam. The spamming rate has reached a scorching height of 76.1% in April this year.
According to the MessageLabs, phishing tactics were used in one out of every 416.1 e-mails. The proliferation […]

It is well known that if your site is hosted with some of the spam websites then you might get into some kind of trouble.
But the question is, how to find out who’s there? MyIPNeighbors.com is a handy tool to look-up the sites which are hosted on a specific server. Say, for example - you […]

Now you can open PowerPoint attachments as slideshows, without having to download anything. Just click “View as slideshow” next to the .ppt attachment you want to preview. Since you can open .doc and .xls attachments with Google Docs and Spreadsheets too, there’s no need to leave your web browser to check out your Gmail attachments

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Since Monday, I have been really digging into the asp codes. ASP is pretty new to me. But I must say, I am cool with LAMP (Linux, Apace, MYSQL, PHP).
I had to scan several websites for the information. But good to see some really well explained articles on the same. So just thought of forming […]

Have you seen the latest look of Ask.com?
The new version of Ask.com implements a three-paneled design and a search technology that retrieves and ranks results across multiple categories, including videos, music, photos, news and locations, and places them on the right side of the page.
The iconic presentation reminds me about the Apple phone :) - this […]

Have you seen Microsoft Surface? If not then for sure you are missing something really big.
I got this video showing off the new Microsoft Surface Computer. It’s all wild. A Surface computer is able to recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, […]

Looks like, some real money has started rolling in virtual world of finance.
Many financial institutions large or small are rushing to open virtual branches, offering higher savings yields and lower interest rates to entice consumers to switch or stay.
As per reports, it is estimated that nearly 80 million US adult Internet users will conduct at […]

After US, it’s UK now. Yes. Women are gradually making their mark online. In April, 2007 emarketer estimated 51.7% of the total online population in US are women and now today it has reported that in UK, women has started to outnumber men in terms of online presence.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings data released this […]

Google has taken one step ahead and now have started offering the things offline as well. This can be possible with the new plugin “Google Gears”.
I can see a link at the top right corner of my Google Reader, which says “Offline (New)”
This feature enables you to read your 2000 most recent items even when […]

Few interesting and helpful symmetries for fellow Mathematician.
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = […]