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How email is delivered on a Mac

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Michael Jackson’s forgotten patent

Yes, The King of pop also had a Patent Abstract A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface. The shoes have a specially designed heel [...]

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Google Quick Search Box, or Google’s Quicksilver.

Image via CrunchBase Google released the Google Quick Search Box or QSB for short. It is in most aspects the same as products like Launchy for the PC and ofcourse, Quicksilver for the Apple. You open it by pressing CTRL-Space at the same time, which is nice- it didnt’ hyjack my launchy combination. One of [...]

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Astalavista Hacked and Torn apart

Earlier today- Altavista, website for ‘security professionals’ (read: mostly scriptkiddies) Has been targeted and hacked, well- not only were they hacked, all exploits and details are made public on their site. http://astalavista.com and they were torn apart. I suspect it will not remain up for long so i’ve included the  log of the hack at the [...]

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Google Squared vs Socrata

Image via Wikipedia Google just launched another entry in their Labs section called Google Squared. Google describes its function as “constructs a table of facts about any search category you specify” Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. Facts [...]

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Google Wave

Image by niallkennedy via Flickr Google presented Google Wave yesterday at Google I/O. It’s their view on how communication for the next web should be like. It is hard to grasp by looking at screenshots- so here’s the video of the presentation. What is a wave? A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People [...]

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Wolfram Alpha API

Image by Home Biss via Flickr So, finally after much wait and incredible anticipation WolframAlpha soft launched yesterday evening. My first impressions are ‘This is incredible’ and ‘Wolfram|Alpha FTW’. I am not going to describe Wolfram Alpha for you, there are a gabillion other sites that do that already like here and here. I am [...]

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Poem

Many a year ago. I think it was 1997. I read a poem on a site I used to follow called userfriendly.org. It’s abit outdated, but I found it again while scouring through my cdrom collection…Here it it. Here i sit, broken-hearted a lonely geek in lands uncharted I look for love and wish for [...]

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My IBM Articles

Image via Wikipedia I had 2 proud moments in 2008. I had more, but not as nerdy as this. I had 2 articles of mine published on IBM’s Developerworks. How to speed up webpages and Twitter and FriendFeed from the commandline. Here’s the excerpt from “Speeding up webpages” Not everyone is blessed with a high-speed [...]

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lol. Adam Lambert sings Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire

Well, atleast he earns some points on originality. So- he needs to smoke some more. What’s next? If you like this post- please Share or Save

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