Jellyfish-Bot Swims Through the Air

Robots take a lot of forms -- from hulking manufacturing devices to humanoid helpmates. Now there's a design that resembles a jellyfish in flight, if such a thing can be imagined. Because it's able to maintain an upright position while hovering, it could be useful for a wide range of monitoring or surveillance activities, but it will be limited by the weight it can carry. New York University researchers have designed a flying machine that...

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A Tale of Two Browsers: Chrome v. Chromium

Is Chrome or Chromium more secure? Numerous security experts place their bets on Chromium, suggested Paul Hill, a senior consultant at Systems Experts. "Chrome's code has to be able to tie into Flash Player, for instance," Hill explained. "So more code is involved to integrate with other third-party products. This all introduces more complexities and more code paths. If you've ever used Google's free Chrome browser, you may be aware...

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Nokia Mobile Application Development LWUIT Components and Syntax

LWUIT Components and their syntax: Form: To create a Form Form f1=new Form("Music Player"); To add a component to form f1,addComponent(new Label("Hai This is a lable")); To add a command to form f1,addCommand(new Command("back")); To Display a form f1,show(); Label: To Create a Label Label a=new Label("Hai i am a label"); To Change Alignment of Label a.getStyle().setAlignment(Label.CENTER); BUTTON: To Create a Button Button...

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Interesting Stories and Facts about Sachin

Here are some interesting stories for all the god’s fan…. 1.Sachin was given a pair of pads by his cricket hero Sunil Gavaskar when he was a schoolboy – and he made his Test debut for India against Pakistan aged just 16-years old in 1989 wearing those very pads….. 2.Like loads of other cricketers, Sachin is pretty superstitious – he’ll always put on his left pad before his right whenever he’s getting padded up…… 3.“He hasn’t spent Diwali at home since we got married. But it really doesn’t matter that it’s Diwali… any time he spends at home...

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Time for some Tendulkar stats!

# The only player to have appeared in 300 innings (329). # Holds a record for registering most centuries (51). # Holds a record for recording most fifties (68). # Holds a record for posting most innings of fifty-plus – 119 Centuries 51 + fifties 68. # Holds a record for the highest run-aggregate (15,921 at an average of 53.78 in 200 matches). # With 20 innings of 150-plus, he holds a world record. With eleven innings of 150-plus overseas, he holds a world record. # Both his aggregate – 1995 runs at an average of 60.45 in 25 Tests and nine...

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History repeated itself on Friday with Sachin Tendulkar's son, Arjun, being a ball boy 26 years after his father was one at the same venue.

Twenty six years before Sachin Tendulkar was a ball boy at the Wankhede Stadium, his son Arjun was Friday seen at the same ground taking on the same role in the legendary batsman's farewell Test here. 14-year-old Arjun, who was part of Mumbai's under-14 squad last year, was at the ground when the cricket legend was batting in his landmark 200th Test and also when he was caught at slips by Darren Sammy off Narsingh Deonarine. But, unlike on the...

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Sachin Tendulkar retires: Famous quotes on the master

Sachin Tendulkar, regarded as the greatest batsman in cricket, today called it quits from Test cricket, announcing his retirement after his 200th match against the West Indies next month, bringing the curtains down on an extraordinary career spanning a marathon 24 years. Here are few quotes by some famous cricketers on him: Time magazine's quote on Sachin Tendulkar in 2011: "When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the...

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Snapchat declines $3 bn offer from Facebook

Feeling the pulse of teenagers' inactivity on its social network,Facebook has dangled more than $3 billion in cash to woo Snapchat, the popular photo-messaging start-up used by younger audiences. However, the Los Angeles-based messaging app company, founded by 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, recently turned down the offer because it's currently being courted by multiple investors, according to a source familiar with the matter. The two-year-old...

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Gogo rolling out new text and call options for in-flight Wi-Fi service

In-flight wireless provider Gogo is in the process of rolling out a new set of features that will allow users to send and receive text messages and phone calls while flying the friendly skies. Known as the Talk & Text service, said texts and calls are routed through the company’s iOS app (Android app coming soon) although all communications will still be coming from your phone number as not to confuse friends and family. Don’t get too excited...

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Freegate 7.41

Freegate 7.41 Developer:Dynamic Internet Technology Last updated:November 7, 2013 License:Freeware OS Support:Windows (all) File Size:2.8 MB Downloads:38,831 ∟ Last week:13,918 User Rating:    (117 votes) Download Now Freegate is an anti-censorship software for secure and fast Internet access. It was developed and maintained by Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. (DIT), a pioneer in censorship-circumvention...

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How to develop cool apps for NOKIA

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கண்ணீரும் உன்னை காதலிக்கும் !

                                                                       உன் கண்ணுக்குள் விழுந்த என்...

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தழும்புகளுக்கு கிடைத்த வெற்றி

      முயற்சிக்கு கிடைத்த வெற்றி,தோல்விகளின் அனுபவங்கள் ! தோல்விக்கு கிடைத்த வெற்றி,அனுபவங்களின் தழும்புகள் ! "தழும்புகளுக்கு கிடைத்த வெற்றி",வெற்றியின் இனிய நினைவுகள் !...

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12 Back-to-School Cyber-Security Tips

Having a personal computer is no longer a luxury for college students—it's become a necessity. Most students choose laptops, so they can take notes in class or study outside under the trees. And most of those laptops aren't protected nearly as well as they should be. In addition, the student life poses some unique challenges. I feel fairly sure no stranger is going to wander into my home office, but a student is immediately saddled with one or more wildcards in the form of roommates. Those roommates, their friends, and just about anybody...

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Create a bootable CD or DVD with or without floppy

With the CD-ROM available on almost every computer nowaday, floppy drives become a history. However, for those who find computers a hobby, might run into a situation when they need to create a bootable CD that works just like the old floppy disk. Unfortunately, to do this, you still need a floppy drive to read your bootup floppy disk. Wait, the good news is, you can just down load a bootable ISO image and burn it to a CD. And even better....

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