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Beta Windows XP Service Pack 3 has Been Uploaded

Tech Mentor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:44:25 +0000

Microsoft famous operating system Windows XP was first time introduced in October 2001 and was last updated as SP2 in august 2004. After the release of windows vista and due to its disappointment now Microsoft is going to give SP3 the final major upgrade of the XP operating system. The final version of Windows XP SP3 remains scheduled for delivery sometime in the first half of 2008, the company’s spokeswoman said. She also warned off casual users from trying the preview. “As this is a release candidate, we strongly encourage only those who are comfortable installing prerelease code to download Windows XP SP3,” she said. According to the white paper, the Download Center version of XP SP3 will weight in at about 580MB; the version downloaded and installed via Windows Update, will be much smaller, typically around 70MB.

To read more
http://www.pcworld.com

Customization Tips for Firefox

Tech Mentor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:43:19 +0000

Mozilla Firefox is web browser used commonly as alternative of Internet Explorer. Although all browsers are good but unless we are not able to customize those, those will not great browser. As every one always loves to customize according to own will. In this article 15 great Firefox tricks will be entertained including how to build your own Firefox search engine, how to speed up your browsing, how to hack the interface and many more. Computer world has listed those tips as

1. Build your own Firefox search engine
2. Use keywords to speed up your searching
3. Speed up Firefox with pipelining
4. Use keywords to speed up bookmarks
5. Hack the Firefox interface with userChrome.css
6. Put your own graphic on the Firefox tool bar
7. Hack the stop, back and forward buttons
8. Move the sidebar to the right
9. Change the search bar width
10. Remove menu items
11. Protect your privacy when surfing with Firefox
12. Limit Firefox’s use of RAM
13. Use Firefox keyboard shortcuts
14. Hack Firefox printing
15. Load a bookmarked Web page in the sidebar

For more information
http://www.computerworld.com

Thebizmo: A New Innovation for Music Lovers

Tech Mentor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:42:49 +0000

Most of us are great lovers of music especially working on computer. At the same time people over the world are also eager to know new ways to earn money. So it will be really interesting news for music lovers that they can make money while listening the music with the help of Bizmo.Groove mobile the world’s largest digital download platformhas brought TheBizmo a media player. Idea of this mobile company is to make consumers and content owners as their business partners. TheBizmo describe its widget as “the music industry in a box”. TheBizmo is a fully functional media player which offers users the opportunity to discover and promote both users generated and mainstream media content, and in so doing, earn from their discovery and interests as they engage their friends and networks. TheBizmo works as it offers artists a genuine (and free) marketing tool, putting their content in the hands of the people who use and promote their content. TheBizmo puts them on a equal platform.

For more details
http://ariadne.computing.co.uk

Mobile Phones Messaging Will Reach 2.3 Trillion Next Year

Tech Mentor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:42:15 +0000

In the start of 21st century limited community peoples have mobile sets and they use for special purposes like their business etc. But now days every one has mobile phone which is commonly used for messaging purpose. Instead of making phone call most people like to do SMS (messages) via their mobile phones. The popularity of mobile messaging is expected to continue to grow over the next few years even faster than the revenue. Number of messages sent worldwide from mobile phones will reach 2.3 trillion next year, a 19.6% jump from this year, Gartner predicted. Instead Revenues in the same timeframe will increase 15.7% to $60.2 billion. People in the Asia/Pacific region and Japan are the heaviest users of mobile messaging; sending 1.5 trillion missives this year and a projected 1.7 trillion next year, according to Gartner (a market research firm person).In North America, the number of messages is expected to increase to 301 billion next year from 189 billion this year. In Western Europe, mobile messaging also is on the rise, reaching 215 billion in 2008 from 202 billion this year.

To read more
http://www.networkcomputing.in

Amazon S3: Web Scalable Storage Facility

Tech Mentor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:41:29 +0000

Today is era of web technology. Every one is switching from desktop applications to web applications. One of the major problems in web technology is storage. Although there exist many domains which are providing services for web applications yet peoples are finding some new solution. If you don’t want to set up, configure, and maintain a few extra servers just for hosting your media files, you can instead use Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is storage for the internet; it gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.

For more information
http://www.digital-web.com

Solar Battery

Tech Mentor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:40:51 +0000

Batteries and rechargeable batteries is not a new concept for us. We use them in almost every electronics application including mobile phones, lights etc. but still if we don’t have power we are unable to use these batteries after they expire? So there must be some way so that even if electric power is not available we can use batteries. The solution comes from the sun, the largest energy source available to us. This battery pack can recharge batteries by drawing in the sun’s rays and applying the energy as power. The pack also hosts a USB port which allows all other portable devices to play exclusively from the solar power.

For more
http://www.inventionreaction.com

Technology Disappointments of 2007

Tech Mentor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:39:23 +0000

2007 was very good year in the era of technology. In this years lot of new products were launched by different companies and proved as good products. But also many of them have disappointed peoples and companies. Pc World has listed 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007.

1. Windows Vista
2. The High-Def Format War
3. Facebook Beacon
4. Yahoo
5. Apple iPhone
6. The Broadband Industry
7. Voice Over IP
8. Apple “Leopard” OS 10.5
9. Office 2007
10. Wireless Carriers
11. Microsoft Zune
12. Internet Security
13. Social Networks
14. Municipal WiMax
15. Amazon Unbox

For more details
http://www.pcworld.com

GoogleKnol - a Google’s alternative of Wikipedia

Tech Mentor — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:54:59 +0000

Wikipedia is a famous internet encyclopedia in which different people contribute. Wikipedia has compiled 2.1 million English-language articles as well as millions more in dozens of other languages. But now a strong competitor is raised as googlepedia an alternative proposed by Google. Idea behind googlepedia is basically that it will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from their knowledge.

Google called its alternative as “knol” - the company’s shorthand for a “unit of knowledge”. “There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it,” Ubi Manber, Google’s vice president of engineering, wrote in the company’s posting about the new service. “We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that”, he added.

Citizendium is other Internet encyclopedia launched earlier this year also insists on identifying the writers of its articles. Unlike Google, Citizendium relies on a collaborative editing process to verify the accuracy of its articles. Google, which is expected to earn more than $4 billion this year, also wants to make money off its encyclopedia. Although the resource will be available for free just like Google’s search engine, the company wants to place ads related to the topics covered on each page.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Link Bait

Tech Mentor — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:40 +0000

Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building.

It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire and linking to it from their sites. It also attracts a lot of visitors.

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Google’s Translation Engine

Tech Mentor — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:20:46 +0000

Google’s translation search engine, announced at the Searchology event, is now live, which lets you set your language preferences for search query, and you receive a list of results that have been translated to that language.

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