Stay Away From Spamming

Today People on Facebook are victims of  stupid filthy spammers. We all hate spammers, we see false rumors that Facebook would be deactivated or it might face shut down. If Facebook shuts down then Mark Zuckerberg  our hero will live on the streets moving here and there and he would never want that. So never believe in such rumors and don't be a victim of spamming by posting these sick rumors on your friend's wall.

How to efficiently stay away from spamming on Facebook ??

Heres how 

Don't ever join those pages which ask you to invite these many friends to see what happened they are a big SPAM

Stay away from untrusted applications. Some of the applications on facebook I recently found is 'find your valentine' it posted your result to all of your friends' walls. Be careful from these kind of applications 

'Make Facebook a  better Place to be social'

  

STOP SPAMMING!!!

Windows Bit me - x86

This is going to be my last post until April. As i need to pass in my exams rather than discussing about it lets discuss about the OS basics that is What all Do we know about the Different  bit versions of the Operating system?

How does having a 32bit version or a 64bit version effect your computer performance?

Well If you don't know we will give you the answer for it..

The terms 32-bit and 64-bit refer to the way a computer's processor (also called aCPU), handles information. The 64-bit version of Windows handles large amounts of random access memory (RAM) more effectively than a 32-bit system. 

Now you know what is the advantage and here comes the second question 

How do you know which bit version are you running?

To find out if your computer is running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, do the following:

1. Open System by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clickingSystem and Maintenance, and then clicking System.
2. Under System, you can view the system type.
   Now you are quite familiar with the basics now What else are the questions ?
    One popular question When should i choose 32bit or 64 bit ?
   The answer is if you have over 4gigs of ram then 64 bit version would be just the perfect for you.. It would make your computer more responsive and less chances of getting hanged up in middle of work.
   How do I tell Which version I am running and if running on 32 bit is it compatible with 64 bit ?
   To run a 64-bit version of Windows, your computer must have a 64-bit-capable processor. To find out if your processor is 64-bit-capable, do the following:
   1. Open Performance Information and Tools by clicking the Start button , clickingControl Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clickingPerformance Information and Tools.
   2. Click View and print details.
   3. In the System section, you can see what type of operating system you're currently running under System type. Under 64-bit capable, you can see whether you can run a 64-bit version of Windows. (If your computer is already running a 64-bit version of Windows, you won't see the 64-bit capable listing.)
      Hope this Post added a lot to your knowledge 
   
   
   
   
   And here I provide you with a bonus knowledge you saw the title of the post x86 but what does that really means ??
   The term x86 refers to a family of instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU. The 8086 was launched in 1978 as a fully 16-bit extension of Intel's early 8-bit based microprocessors and also introduced segmentation to overcome the 16-bit addressing barrier of earlier chips. The term x86 derived from the fact that early successors to the 8086 also had names ending in "86".
    x86-32 which means the 32 bit version is even called  x86
   Now you might be having an Idea of which bit-version of Windows i uSe

Cloud Computing

An Inter house "On the spot PPT making" competetion was organised in our school. Our co-developer Naman Dhanuka Bagged the first prize in it. The topic was cloud computing an highly interesting topic... But what is cloud computing... Well let me ask you one question Do you all Cloud compute ?? Dont make your brains think hard the answer is yes...

I'll tell you how you daily cloud compute suppose you attended a birthday party of your friend, you clicked a snapshot of his cake uploaded it on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket etc then next day you are with your friends, on the go your friends ask you how was the cake you open up your account show him the photo and there you go ."You're Cloud Computing". Cloud computing is basically accessing your information over the web (cloud) anywhere, any place regardless of the gadget you use.. be it smartphones, tablets, palmtops, laptops etc etc...

A presentation below would make you understand cloud computing in a better way (*This is the presentation made by our co-developer which got him the first prize in Inter-house)

http://www.mediafire.com/?sl78n8sn8sf21fm

R.I.P. Ken Olsen

A Computer pioneer, an inventor, scientist and entrepreneur, Ken Olsen passed away on Sunday at age 84. He was also the Founder and former CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). His death was announced by Gordon College, Mass., where he was a trustee and board member.

DEC, which was launched by Olsen in 1957, is considered an icon in technology circles today.

In 1986, Fortune named Olsen the "most successful entrepreneur in the history of American business" and was also awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1993.

Olsen was the subject of a 1988 biography, The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and DEC written by Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar.

DEC's innovations made there machines accesible to small and medium-sized operations and even individual users. DEC computers also trained and influenced many key people in the field of technology. Microsoft men, Bill Gates and Paul Allen used the PDP-10 to create the first version of the BASIC programming language.

In 1992, Olsen left the company at the request of the board. Robert Palmer, a DEC vice president, took over and set about trying to turn things around.

In 1998, Compaq bought DEC for $9.6 billion and four years later Compaq+DEC was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. (More commonly HP)

A memorial service for Ken Olsen at Gordon College is set for 14th May. A documentary on Olsen is scheduled to be released by the college later this year.

Rest In Peace Mr. Olsen!

Facebook turns 7!

Facebook, one of the biggest sites on earth, celebrated its 7th birthday on Friday (2/5/2011).

Over the years, this network has converted itself from a small University hub to a more than 500 million monthly active users. People spend almost half of their day on facebook supplying loads of embarrassing, funny, emotional, serious, SPAM messages as their status updates.

Back in February 2004 did anyone think that this social network can change the whole internet era?

We've created a timeline for Facebook, to show its power and its 'Still Growing' members...

2004

February 4- TheFacebook.com launches from a Harvard dorm room.

June- The Facebook moves to Palo Alto, California.

September- Groups application is added and the Wall makes its debut.

December- Facebook reaches nearly 1 million monthly active users.

2005

August- Thefacebook.com changes to facebook.com

September- Facebook adds high school networks

October- Photos application is added.

December- Facebook reaches more than 5.5 million active users

2006

April- Facebook via Mobile debuts.

August- Facebook platform and Notes application launches. Facebook partners with Microsoft.

September- News Feed is introduced. Registration for facebook is open for everyone.

December- Facebook reaches 12 million active users.

2007

May- Facebook hosts F8 event to launch facebook Platform. Facebook Apps makes its debut.

August- Facebook releases iPhone optimized site.

October- Facebook reaches 50 million active users. Facebook Platform for Mobile introduced.

November- Facebook launches Facebook Ads.

2008

March- Privacy Controls are added to Friend List.

April- Facebook Chat debuts.

August- Facebook reaches over 100 million active users.

December- Facebook Connect goes Open.

2009

February- Facebook introduces "Like" feature. It joins OpenID board.

June- Facebook launches Facebook Usernames.

August- Facebook acquires FriendFeed.

December- Facebook reaches 350 million active users.

2010

July- Facebook launches beta of Questions

July- Facebook reaches 500 million monthly active users.

August- Facebook Places launches.

October- The Social Network marks its debut.

December- Time Magazine names Mark Zuckerberg "Person of the Year"

2011

January- Facebook valued at $50 million. The Social Network wins at the Golden Globes.

FACEBOOK TURNS 7 !!!!!

Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page [HACKED]

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page seems to have been hacked, with the hacker posting a message calling on the company to transform into a “social business”.

The message, seemingly posted on Facebook from Mark Zuckerberg’s account, was quickly removed (together with the fan page), but not quickly enough to go by unnoticed, receiving over 1800 likes and hundreds of comments in the process.

The message read: “Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? [LINK] What do you think? #hackercup2011″

Facebook made no statement about the incident, but if Zuckerberg’s fan page was indeed hacked, it’s a big deal. If the Facebook CEO (more accurately, the PR team who’s handling the page for him) can’t keep his Facebook account safe from intruders, who can?

We’ve reached out to Facebook about the incident and will update the post when we hear back.

It Turned 10 Wiki WIki

Yesterday on 15th January 2011 Wikipedia the free encylopedia turned 10. And how could we resist from celebrating ( Damn we are geeks). We were present at the wiki celebrations held at Recreation Centre Noida sec- 33. We were expecting a great participation but we were clearly dissapointed. People visiting there just to attend a general quiz (which was at the entry fees of 100). Well we hated the quiz part. No IT Questions until the finals Saved Our Soals and boom no one knew the answer except us. Well after the bad part was over finally the wiki celebrations started.We saw a video starring Jimmy Wales which we have already seen atleast a 100 times. Though the presentation on wikipedia was great and we only enjoyed that part of the celebrations. After the celebrations we had a formal talk with the persons representing wikipedia.

Workaholic

We The VirtualBots have finished everything required for the quiz. It was a great idea by the co-founder of VirtualBots to host an Online quiz. When it Comes to work we give our 100% and try to strive for excellence. Last year 2010 was not a great year for us. We studied hard for each quiz and qualified for none. I hope this online quiz will increase the knowledge everyone participating and even ours on how to host a quiz. Be it this blog or any competition or this quiz our input has always been 100% and we hope we would soon be rewarded.

PS. If you still want to register for the quiz you can registration are open till 4:00 pm today after that no registration and the timing of the quiz have been finally decided.

Prelims :- 5:00 p.m IST

Finals :- 6:00 p.m IST

Venue :- Facebook

For registering mail us your details as mentioned in the post before.

New Year's Eve with the new Google Doodle! But what does it exactly mean?

Google always wishes us our favorite festivals with its awesome doodles!

Today (31st December 2010) we are saying a goodbye to another decade of pride and glory, and moreover its the New Year's Eve!

We all are lucky as we witnessed one of the awesome-st doodles of Google. The GMMXIE (or you can say GMMXLE) doodle. But most of you must be thinking, that what does it exactly mean? No problem, I'll tell you.

Its all 4th standard maths that is required in it. We all have studied Roman numbers throughout our cadet classes.

Okay, so lets try this... 'MMXI' in numerical is 1000+1000+10+1 respectively, which is equal to 2011! And therefore Google welcomes us to a new decade with its G[MMXI]E doodle.

Happy new year friends! Wish you all a prosperous new year!

Apple vs. Google

Today, the world is divided into two separate halves, Apple and Google.

Hmm... So lets start with Apple. [Though I hate it the most]

Apple has changed many people's lives, almost everyone in the street owns a Shuffle. Apple owns some very popular brand-names (other than Mac) like iPod, iPhone, iPad. It owns the world's largest music store, iTunes.

Google on the other hand, from the beginning has focused on the Cloud. It started from a search engine, which had something better than Yahoo! and AltaVista.

There is no verb like "to apple", but "to google" is one of the most frequently used verbs by us. Google has shifted the whole cloud networking network from our systems to our phones with its Android OS. Four years ago Google and Apple were just two distinct sectors of the IT industry and now for every other product of Apple, Google has an answer (or vice-versa).

To compete with Apple's [tombstone] iPhone, Google launched Nexus. To challenge Gmail, Apple launched me.com.

These days its the Apple-Google war everywhere like, Safari vs. Chrome, iAd vs. AdSense, iPhoto vs. Picasa, iTunes vs. YouTube, and the biggest of 'em all! The "iOS versus the Android OS"!

By now, Android is the most selling smartphone system [xD]. Google has empowered around 70% of the smartphone manufacturers with its Android operating system. (LG, Samsung, Micromax, HTC)

In the second innings of Steve Jobs (when he came back after he was thrown out of Apple by John Sculley), whatever Apple manufactured, from the iPod to the iPad, were one of the greatest successes of all time, while Google is more into experimenting, it had some greatest disasters like Buzz (everything was public, even our contact details :O ), Wave (I found it interesting but most of the people found it complicated) and some greatest achievements like Orkut (the place where I actually learnt social-networking), Gmail, Google Instant, Street View.

Some of the Google's most awaited and recent products include Google Books, Google Music, its Realtime search function, Google Cr-48 Netbook, etc.

In my final verdict I would like to say that, for me, Apple is kinda expensive, while Google is cheap and it ain't an evil! Apple is just restricted to some limited boundaries while google is focused on Cloud Computing and thus it supports everything, everywhere.

iPad--Flash Version

A recreation of the ipad interface just for fun
done with flash cs5 actionscript 3.0

WebM

WebM is a multimedia format design to compress HTML5 videos. The projects development is sponsored by Google. Based on developments of On2 , Xiph and Matroska. The extension of a file in this format would be .webm .

To know more about the project visit 

http://www.webmproject.org/

WebP

It is an image format launched by Google Inc. Its intial release was on 30 september 2010. A image created in this format would have and extension of .webp

To know more about the image format visit 

http://code.google.com/speed/webp/

Myth busted about Hits

Many people in the world think that number of hits = number of visitors to a website. But they all are completely wrong. A hit is a request to a web server to send a file . For example you open a webpage with only plain text the web server sends the page as a file. This process is called a hit. However in today's modern world a webpage would definitely not have simple text. Each webpage consists of multiple files. These causes multiple hits by the web server. If you scroll down a little bit down in our blog on the right side you will see our hit counter. It shows how many hits our webpage has got. But remember they are not our total number of visitors

Download YouTube Videos--No Softwares No Utilities Required!

There are several softwares available to download YouTube videos to your computer. "Fast YouTube Download" is a free add-on for Firefox that allows you to download YouTube videos in simple steps. This add-on can download videos in FLV,  MP4, HD and 3GP formats.

Click Here To Install This Add-on

NOTE- This extension is NOT available for Firefox 4.0

"GodMode" In Windows 7

The so-called "GodMode" is actually a shortcut that gives us a simpler way to access our control panel. It is a folder containing shortcuts to all the customization settings to control your computer in a neat way. The following steps will tell you how to activate this GodMode.

Step 1--> Create a new folder.

GodMode Icon

Step 2--> Rename its as "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" (Without Quotes), then press Enter.
Once this is done, the icon will change to that of Control panel.

NOTE- Do NOT try this in Windows Vista, it may Crash!

GodMode

Aero Shake

Aero shake is one of the unique in windows 7. Suppose , we have opened too many windows on our desktop and we want to get rid of all the other windows and concentrate on a single window then we just need to vigorously shake the desired windows then the other windows automatically get minimized.The following video will help you understand this feature much better...
                                   

HTTPS

Today we see HTTPS in most of the site's URL that deal with private data such as e-mail sites or banking sites. HTTPS stands for HTTP Secure it uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS), it is a protocol that ensures privacy. TLS ensures that no third party may perform unauthorized real-time interception of a private communication, such as a phone call, instant message, video-conference or fax transmission, or tamper with any message that is eavesdropping. TLS is the successor to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). HTTPS was developed by Netscape.