Computers
Exploring Google
Dec 19th
I came across a new place on google where I could see the most recently searched keyword during that day. The place is http://www.google.co.in/trends/hottrends.
Go guys check it out and look for something fascinating everyday on Google.
Google trends
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Windows Password Cracker
Dec 18th
Hi guys,
Just googling around I came across with this really beautiful and brilliant piece of work. I am sure you would at some point of time would need this. So this is one handy tool you should keep it in your collection.
The usage of this tool comes when you have forgotten the password of your Windows(OS). It happened with me many a times and the process which I had to take into consideration is to re-install my windows as till now I didn’t came across any brilliant mind who could get me out of this situation.
Name of the tool is More >
Is Internet Explorer 6 Dead?
Dec 14th
When will IE6 die?
Floating around forums & googling around I’ve noticed this question still being asked a lot: “Do I still have to support IE6?” and often the the answer you see is that it represents such and such percent of web users, and that’s too many to ignore.
I know we all want it dead, but Microsoft has underlined support for its Internet Explorer 6 web browser, despite acknowledging its flaws. The software giant said it would support IE6 until 2014 – four years beyond the original deadline.
Critics - some of which have started an online campaign – want More >
Unisys to axe 1,300 jobs; suspends salary hikes
Dec 23rd
IT services and solutions provider Unisys Corporation has said it will slash as many as 1,300 jobs across the world and plans to forgo any salary hike next year in most of the countries where the company operates.
“The headcount reductions have begun and will continue into 2009… the company also plans to forgo 2009 salary increases in most of the company’s markets,” Unisys Corporation said in a statement.
Unisys said that it is exploring a wide range of cost-reduction options and that actions currently underway are expected to reduce its annual cost structure by more than USD 225 million. (more…)
More >WiFi tops best technological innovation poll
Dec 23rd
Surfing the net has become a lot more easier since wireless internet has come into being, and now Wi-Fi has rightly topped the poll for the greatest technological advance of the last decade, according to a survey.
With 35.5 percent votes, Wi-Fi has beaten Sky+, Sat Navs, iPods and Blackberries to win the poll conducted by a leading gadget magazine.
In the survey by ‘Stuff’ magazine, the readers were asked to choose the greatest technological innovation of the past ten years. (more…)
Chinese hackers may be jailed for 7yrs under proposed law
Dec 23rd
Hackers who steal data or manipulate large number of computers may be jailed for up to seven years, according to a proposed amendment to the Chinese Criminal Law.
The penalties will also be applicable to those who offer software or tools for hacking to any intruder.
The existing law offers punishment only for intruding into networks of governments, national defence or leading science sectors; or altering the functions of personal computer systems. (more…)
Telecom services: 3G players will be allowed in 2G space as well
Dec 23rd
Successful bidders for spectrum allocation for third generation (3G) telecom services will also be eligible to get spectrum space for second generation (2G) services, as and when any space becomes available, the Telecom Commission said here Tuesday.
‘New 2G spectrum will be allocated as and when it is available. Currently 2G is saturated and we hardly have any spectrum available, so successful 3G bidders will have to wait in queue to avail of 2G spectrum,’ said R. Ashok, member, finance, Telecom Commission, on the eve of bidding for 3G spectrum.
The member’s statement helped dispel rumours that 3G operators would only be More >
Call it a ’sub-subnotebook.’ New ‘PC’ is small as a cell phone!
Oct 22nd
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — IMOVIO launched today a smaller alternative to a subnotebook — much smaller. The new iKIT is about the size of a PDA from ten years ago, but has a QWERTY keyboard and connects to the Internet at 3G speeds via your cell phone or Wi-Fi.
The $175 Linux-based system has a Webcam built in, as well as a range of applications, including Web browsing, e-mail and IM.
It can connect to the Internet using a standard Wi-Fi connection, or it can use your cell phone’s mobile broadband connection via Bluetooth.
The company is currently pitching it to mobile network More >
Soon, fridges that will text or e-mail you when food is going off!
Oct 17th
Fridges that will be able to send consumers email or text alerts when food is going off are being created by a group of researchers.
Ten scientists at Manchester University are working on an advanced device that will be able to send consumers email or text alerts.
Project head Dr Bruce Grieve said: “Food wastage costs in the UK are massive.”
UK boffins have created a battery-free label which can pick up when food is on the turn, reports the Sun.
The disposable 5p gadget – like a security label on a CD – measures the temperature of food and the time it is More >
SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
Sep 10th
Definition:
- A software development process is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. Synonyms include software development life cycle (SDLC) and software process. There are several models for such processes, each describing approaches to a variety of tasks or activities that take place during the process.
Task or Activities involved:
- Requirements
- Specification
- Architecture
- Design
- Implementation
- Testing
- Deployment
- Maintenance
Models:
- Agile
- Cleanroom
- Iterative
- RAD
- RUP
- Spiral
- Waterfall
- XP
- Scrum
Support Disciplines:
- Configuration management
- Documentation
- Quality assurance (SQA)
- Project management
- User experience design
Tools:
- Performance analysis
- Debugger
Processes and meta-processes:
- A growing body of software development organizations implements process methodologies. Many of them are in the defense industry, which in the U.S. requires a rating based on ‘process models‘ to obtain contracts. The international standard for describing More >