Knock Some Commands Into Your Laptop
from slashdot:
“For the first time, you can smack your computer and get a meaningful response! An article at IBM Devworks show you how to rap on the laptop case with your knuckles and have commands run on those knocks. Enterprising hackers have developed modules for the Linux kernel to take advantage of laptop integrated accelerometer sensors; with them the possibilities are endless.”
Get the raw knockAge demonstration video.
Steganography app hides a messages in plain sight
BlackBox is an application that makes use of steganography. You have the ability to hide messages within Bitmap (BMP) files with no changes to the image or even the any of its properties, such as its file size. Useful for people who would like to send anonymous messages.
Related Post : http://aburad.com/blog/2006/03/steganography.html
Link : http://www.spammimic.com/index.shtml
Stiff asks, great programmers answer
“I asked 10 questions to a bunch of programmers that I consider very interesting people and I respect them for various things they created.” Interesting interview with Linus Torvalds, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Steve Yegge, Peter Norvig, Guido Van Rossum, James Gosling and Tim Bray.
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India’s biggest life insurer opts for Linux
All of LIC’s 2,048 branches, 100 divisional offices, seven zonal offices, head office and subsidiary offices will be covered by the deployment. Along with this all of LICâ??s desktops will also simultaneously be converted to Linux. Approximately 60,000 users and five to six thousand servers will migrate to RHEL.
Top 10 Tallest Buildings in the World
This overview is the most accurate compilation of its kind and uses in-depth research results and reliable building information. It is based on data standards as outlined by the Emporis Data Committee (EDC). The ranking is based entirely on the buildings’ structural height. TV towers, masts, and other building types are not included.
Blogs are back !!
the ban by indian govt on blogs has been lifted !!
Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools
From Gina Trapani @ Lifehacker
Getting organized, focused and productive doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. We’ve reviewed thousands of time-saving applications and gadgets here at Lifehacker over the past year and a half, but a handful of really shine when it comes down to getting your stuff done, and most of them are simple, widely available, free or almost free. Here are my top 10 picks for best free and cheap productivity tools, in no particular order.
- Pen and Paper
- Plain text : todo.txt
- Google Desktop
- ….
Noob’s guide to manual photography
Some might ask why you would want or need to modify camera settings manually when the camera can do it for you â??just fine.â?? If you really want to end up with expressive photographs instead of mere snapshots, this beginner’s guide is a must-read. I personally didn’t really get into photography until I learned the manual controls. Check it out.
Go ahead, get a little crazy
Sometimes the smart way to make money is to be a little dumb. That is if dumb means listening to yourself when others might scoff at your idea. Hey you’ll probably go down the tubes, but just maybe you’ll hit big like the folks on this list: Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.
source : http://make-money.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog/
1. Million Dollar Homepage, 2. SantaMail, 3. Doggles, and so on.
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An Introduction to AJAX
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is the latest boom in the Web development world. AJAX helps developers narrow the gap between desktop and web applications — Google Earth, Flicker and MS Outlook Express Web Version are some of the applications powered by AJAX.
Asynchronous means that you can make a request to a server and perform other actions while the server is processing your request — and on the arrival of the response required actions can be performed — as opposed to conventional web applications, in which the user has to sit back and stare at the blank screen while the server is processing the request.
AJAX Architecture :
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