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Paypal ban in India!
Published on: 4th February, 2010
Paypal stop sending personal payment for Indian Users.
If you are a Paypal User,based in India – you cannot send or receive anymore Personal Payments.
All payments must be sent along with the sender`s Shipping Address
In simple words, you cannot Send money to Indian Paypal account holders or Receive money to your Indian Paypal Accounts using [...]
NASA Astronaut Tweets From Space Really :P
Published on: 23rd January, 2010
Astronauts aboard the ISS received a special software upgrade earlier this week, according to a NASA statement released moments ago: personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the “ultimate wireless connection”.
This personal Web access, called the Crew Support LAN, takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station and [...]
Could you get by without Twitter?
Published on: 16th January, 2010
Are good tweeters born or made?
Knowing me, knowing you… BBC reporters Zoe Kleinman and Carolyn Rice swapped social networking lives for 24 hours.
“I’m not anti-Twitter, I just don’t really understand it,” said Carolyn Rice, accompanied by the sound of my jaw dropping to the floor.
I have 2,149 (and counting) “tweets” – individual messages no longer [...]
What proxies are good for?
Published on: 5th January, 2010
Proxies are a great tool to help you to unblock various sites on the internet. A proxy can unblock almost any site. Sites such as Myspace, Facebook, email and others are common examples of sites that people might want to unblock. A proxy will work at school, work, the library or home.
You would want to [...]
Googlle School In India.
Published on: 5th January, 2010
by MG Siegler
The idea of working at Google is a dream job for many engineers all around the world. So where better to go to get ready for this career than the Googlle Institute of Software of Software Studies, right? Hold on a second. Read that name again.
Yes, it appears that some jokers in [...]
HP camera ‘can’t see’ black faces
Published on: 24th December, 2009
A YouTube video suggesting that face recognition cameras installed in HP laptops cannot detect black faces has had over one million views.
The short movie, uploaded earlier this month, features “Black Desi” and his colleague “White Wanda”.
When Wanda, a white woman, is in front of the screen, the camera zooms to her face and moves as [...]
How to Add a Favicon in Wordpress Blog
Published on: 12th December, 2009
If you do not know what a favicon is; it is the little picture beside the URL of this blog. Here’s a screenshot of AmosWong.com’s favicon (in red circle):
Some say that having a favicon is like putting on cosmetics. This is only partly true. More importantly, having a favicon on your blog allows the visitors [...]
Egypt launches Arabic web domain
Published on: 16th November, 2009
Egypt will open the world’s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said.
Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”.
“It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,” he said.
Last month, internet regulator Icann voted to allow non-Latin web [...]
The next step for Twitter Lists — Entire countries
Published on: 4th November, 2009
[Ireland] Social media consultants Simplyzesty started using Twitter Lists to list blogs. However, a brainwave has lead them to take Twitter Lists to their logical conclusion: creating lists of Twitter users in entire countries. They’ve launched a Twitter list for the UK and the list of users in Ireland is currently going crazy. They call [...]
Internet addresses set for change
Published on: 30th October, 2009
The internet is set to undergo one of its biggest changes, with the expected approval of plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters.
The board of the net regulator, Icann, will decide whether to allow domain names in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts at its annual meeting in Seoul.
More than half of the 1.6 billion [...]
