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| My first earthquake by paras ... 9/6/2008 12:15:57 AM View |
Ok, so I have been in many earthquakes but never felt one. But today, it all changed - I just experienced/felt my first ever earthquake at a magnitude of 4.1 in Berkeley, California, USA.
And I used to think I am invincible! First came a small one and then a bigger one. It felt bad (the shock went on for about 2 seconds) and I was on the 1st floor (Ground floor for parts of the world). I wonder how it would have felt if I was in my room on the 3rd floor (2nd floor for some)? |
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| IE8 Beta 2 Launched by paras ... 8/28/2008 6:23:09 PM View |
The IE team launched IE8 Beta 2 which can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8.
You can watch videos of IE8 at http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&user=-3161786097973413883 and http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/videos.aspx. IE8 is a very developer friendly browser. You can download add-ons for IE8 at http://www.ieaddons.com/. Some of my favorite add ons include Web Slices and Accelerators.
Some cool features of IE8 Beta 2 include color-coded tabbed-browsing and accelerator support. Accelerators are services that you access directly from the webpage in the context of what you’re doing, letting you bookmark, define, email, map and more with a simple selection. Even your search providers are available as Accelerators. Some Accelerators provide previews so that you can view the result without having to leave the current webpage. Clicking on an Accelerator opens a new tab with the full result. You can download accelerators from http://www.ieaddons.com/en/accelerators/
Also, there is better support for when website you are viewing in a tab crashes - now instead of closing the whole IE window along with other tabs open in the same window, only the tab with the crashing website will close!
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| Apple Security Patch Flubs DNS Fix by paras ... 8/3/2008 10:21:38 PM View |
"Apple on Thursday released Security Update 2008-005, a collection of 17 fixes for security vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating system. Among the fixes is what looks to be a patch for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability that security experts spent most of July warning about. But according to security researcher Swa Frantzen from the SANS Internet Storm Center, Apple's fix hasn't quite done the trick. With the premature disclosure of details about the vulnerability 10 days ago and the subsequent appearance of exploit code, US-CERT and the rest of the security community urged immediate repair of vulnerable DNS software" reported InformationWeek.
Unlike other companies that moved swiftly to deal with the problem, Apple dragged its feet. Three weeks after security researcher Dan Kaminsky warned about the flaw on July 8, Apple still had not dealt with the issue, prompting widespread criticism. |
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| Scrabulous halted on Facebook by paras ... 7/29/2008 11:56:49 PM View |
BBC reported that the Indian developers of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous have suspended the game for some users following legal action by toy maker Hasbro.
"The application has been disabled for users in the US and Canada" BBC reported.
Hasbro, the makers of Scrabble, are suing the Calcutta-based founders of Scrabulous, claiming they are infringing its copyright and trademark. |
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| Growth of millionaires in India fastest in the world by paras ... 6/25/2008 11:26:42 PM View |
In a sign of growing entrepreneurship and an expanding corporate sector, India created millionaires at the fastest pace in the world in 2007, according to a new report.
India added 23,000 millionaires in dollar terms last year to its 2006 total of 100,000, according to an annual Merrill Lynch Capgemini report that compiles such financial data for its wealth and asset management purposes.
"India led the world in HNWI (high net worth individuals) population growth at 22.7 percent, driven by market capitalisation growth of 118 percent and real GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 7.9 percent. Although India's real GDP growth decelerated from 9.4 percent in 2006, current levels are considered more stable and sustainable," the report said. |
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