Category: Technology
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Bluetooth Virus coming to a Cell Phone near you.
Savvy cell phone users be aware of a virus slowly traversing the world. Bluetooth enabled cell phones are at risk of getting screwed big time. Read in detail the article on slate.com where a certain paragraph caught my attention Once smartphones have complex enough operating systems, it won’t be hard to write a worm that…
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World Jump Day
People at World Jump Day organization (WJD) want all humans to jump at the precise co-ordinated time on 20th July 2006 at preisely 11.39.13 GMT on any concrete surface so that a worldwide unified effort would then change orbital path of the earth. This will then have a favourable affect on global warming, extend daytime…
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Contemplating to Move to a Domain
I give full credit to Blogspot to have completely captured my attention and I am now whole-heartedly stuck to blogging, long gone are the days where I used to idle aimlessly on the web, the world of Blogging has my undivided attention. The passion has gone to such an extent that my family need not…
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Email Privacy does NOT exist in Pakistan
Email privacy is probably the last thing on our minds in a country where Human Rights and Freedom of Speech does not exist. Take a look at a post by Yassir Suleman Memon on his Blog where he sheds some light on our agencies monitoring all email messages in and out of Pakistan. My twsit…
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Reverse Spamming
How many times have you, the internet surfer, wanted to ask a one-time question on a website and for that simple one-time use you are forced to register by providing a valid email address. In your heart you know for sure that later on you will be spammed to hell for this small wish of…
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Computer Disaster Story
It is with a sobbing heart I relate to you my recent computer disaster on one of my office computers which was the "main server" on our peer-to-peer network. The story is for you all to learn from my mistakes. Our main server has been serving us for 4-5 years started off with Win 98…
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Zinio Reader Hack
Zinio is an online magazine reader where you can read the complete copy of your favourite magazine right on your computer. To usually get a year’s worth of subscription one needs to fork over some hard cash. Fortunately for us cheap folks on the net some companies offer a free 1-year sibscription to a couple…
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How to Compile Software in Visual?
As you all must know by now that I am a plain simple dentist, a little familiar with computers but not to the extent to be able to compile a source code – 😉 I hear it ain’t too much of a big deal. The software that I am after is open source and the…
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Freehand designs
It was for the very first time I played with Freehand Mx together with Photoshop to come up with these designs – In the process I got to learn a lot and now can attest to the fact that these two programs are indeed the BEST publishing softwares to date. These 2’x5′ vertical banners which…
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% Growth in Internet use, Dec 2004
Internet use continues to grow, even if the rate of growth is slowing. Figures for December show that countries such as Spain, Switzerland and Brazil saw a decrease in active at-home users. The UK added more than a quarter of a million users to register a 1.2% increase. Brazil -5.1 Spain -1.7 France -0.3 Germany…
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Stock Image Search
I have always been in search of good photgraphs to mainly use on my desktops and sometimes even for designing concepts. A few good free-stock image sites are mentioned below you are more then welcome to add to this list for the benfit to all. Deviant Art – link Stock.xchng – link
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The Human Clock
The Human Clock is a website which shows a photograph of the current time with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock. Link Humanclock.com
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Miserable Failure GoogleBomb
For those who are not aware of this old trick – simply type “Miserable Failure” in google search bar and the first relevant search will bring up the official George W. Bush biography from the US White House web site. As descibed in Wikipedia – A Google bomb is an attempt to influence the ranking…
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Next Blog >>
The Next Blog icon is indeed a unique way to surf the net. At first, the concept did not appeal to me much, as I mostly landed on a “no-name / no-activity” site, or it was usually in an altogether different language which made no sense. But recently the Next Blog icon has gabbed my…
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Teeth Maestro Re-design
I’m sure frequent visitors to my blog must have noticed a graphic re-design, to tell you the truth I am an amateur at HTML coding so errors might be there which may need attention – so please critique away. On a side note I would like to thank G3 for designing a banner for my…