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.

VirtualBots Quiz

On 13/1/2011. Yes a big date for VirtualBots as its going to host its first ever online quiz on facebook.

A prelim of 15 questions would be held.. we'll mail you the prelim questions in Word Document file, the time alloted to answer and mail the question paper (with the answers of course) will be 15-17 minutes!! In case of a tie breaker we'll consider the person who mailed us the answers first.

Top 6 people will qualify for the finals..the Finals will held on Facebook Group Chat (Google Wave is the worst thing I've used!). Therefore you need a Facebook account for participating.

P.S. we will not distribute any prizes, this quiz is just for fun and for those who love quizzing.

To participate Mail us your details at either of the two email ids given below:-

Name :-

Class :-

Facebook Profile link:-

sett.raunak@gmail.com Or naman.dhanuka22@gmail.com

Tiger M@te

Google Bangladesh which was hacked on 8/1/11 around 12:30 p.m. IST. The Googles home page was defaced and a page with the tagline Own3d by Tiger M@te was seen.

This Bangladeshi hacker earlier has also hacked the website of Airtel Bangladesh.

Today when I woke up in the morning to see that was Google able to restore their website back to normal, I was disappointed. Though the defaced landing page was cured and the page seen right now is in the screenshots below. To check out for yourself visit google.com.bd

Google bangladesh landing page before being hacked by Tiger M@te

The landing Page Seen After being hacked

Landing page seen right now .

Hope The Google Bangladesh Site is restored back to original soon.

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