Archive for July, 2008
Its official now…
Firefox team received the official Guinness World Record certificate for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” The president of Mozilla Europe received the certificate from the officials..
Add comment July 12, 2008
“When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows,people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free.”
-Linus Torvalds
Add comment July 12, 2008
Eclipse – an open development platform (IDE) has released a newer version called Eclipse Ganymede.
Eclipse – an open development platform (IDE) has released a newer version called Eclipse Ganymede.
You can download it from the official eclipse website www.eclipse.org.
Add comment July 12, 2008
Protocol buffers Vs XML
Protocol Buffers are the data interchange formats used by Google for its internal purpose,now they have decided to release it to the external world.
In the official google blog,they have said that the protocol buffers will be much faster and less expensive than XML.
You can give a try by downloading the source code from google code.
Add comment July 12, 2008
12 Terabytes
The website www.neatorama.com have tried to give a pictorial representation to the amount of data which may be exchanged between google and Viacom in the ongoing legal lawsuite.
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What is Java ??
“Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. It’s also integral to the intranet applications and other e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing “
hey wait wait wait… before you could comment let me tell you one thing,this was not my definition for java.. its the “official definition”,I mean its taken form the official site java.com.. !!!!!
take a look – java.com
Add comment July 12, 2008
Imagine Cup
The grand finale of the imagine cup started by Microsoft will be held at Paris on July 3-8.More than 200,000 participants competed in eight different categories.
Add comment July 5, 2008
Evolution of iPhone
Have a look at the wonderful timeline chart of iPhone from iphoneGold website..
iPhone Timeline – from iphonegold.org
Add comment July 4, 2008
Officially Firefox 3.0 download enter Guiness Record Book
The final and official download count of Firefox 3.0 is 8,002,530 with this huge number it made an entry into the Guiness Book of Records.
“The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was key to making this happen” said Marketing head Paul Kim.
Even though the server faced some problem on the download day,Firefox managed to reach this magical figure,with the help of people from 25 countries.
Add comment July 3, 2008
Adobe School Awards
Adobe has announced school innovation awards for the students studying in US and Canada.
The theme given by the them is
“My Community — My Planet — My 21st Century “
high school students in grade 9-12 can participate,and the most important thing is that Lenova is going to sponser laptops for the winners.
Even the flyers released for this competition is interesting (you can view it here http://www.adobe.com/education/pdf/K-12-Innovation-Award-flyer.pdf) I hope this contest will be interesting and bring more interest for animation and design among school children.
Add comment July 2, 2008
