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Technology articles - > Internet doomsday on July 9th - What to do ?
A lot of fuss is going on around about the so called "Internet Doomsday", said to strike on July 9th, which will leave "hundreds of thousands of internet users without internet access". Well, read on to know what it is all about and how to protect yourself from it...Read more
Technology articles - > Getting Started with Java : Installation
Java 2 SDK Standard Edition, 1.4.2 is supported on i586 Intel and 100% compatible platforms running Microsoft Windows.Get on with Java with this step-by-step tutorial from installation to advanced setups...Read more
Technology articles - > Jail Breaking the iOS 5
About one million people have jailbroken their iPad 2 and iPhone 4S devices since Friday thanks to a recently released untethered jailbreak. The jailbreak is designed for iOS devices with Apple's dual-core A5 chipand running iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1. More than 950,000 A5 untethered jailbreak devices visited...Read more
Technology articles - > Apple launches Ipad 3
Apple has today announced its new third-generation iPad, which comes packing a new high-resolution Retina display. “Until you see it you can’t understand how amazing it is”, said CEO Tim Cook...Read more
Technology articles - > Seven Smartphones To Suit Your Personality
The phone you carry lets a lot about your individuality. In this smart and mobile world where everything comes catered to your needs and desires these smartphones are designed with demographic traits which silently reveals who you are what you do. Check out these smartphones and do a match the following with your identity before you buy one...Read more
Technology articles - > World's Cheapest Tablet - Aakash by DataWind
India hopes that the launch of what is being called "the world’s cheapest tablet computer" will help tens of thousands of low-income students connect to the digital world.The $45 device with a seven-inch color touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and two USB ports is meant ...Read more
Technology articles - > Amazon Kindle Fire First Impressions: Limited but Solid
The wraps are finally off Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet. Its splashy entry into the tablet firestorm was hard to miss--Amazon made quite a statement with its $199 price--and yet I'm underwhelmed....Read more
Technology articles - > A Techhoot.com's eguide "Beginners Guide to "C" programming"
From the stables of Techhoot.com , we proudly present this eguide "Beginner's guide to "C" programming" written by Sindu Naraayanan. It can be described by one word "Simplicity. Yes , It is written in the most lucid manner that even rookies can get hold of it in the first reading.It provides the reader with basic skills of "C" programming that are useful throughout the C programming life of a person ...Read more
Technology articles - > What is it about Kolaveri Di song that has made it such a rage ?
In a super marketing move, Sony posted the song on Tamil, Hindi and international Facebook pages and it went on to become a national rage ahead of its launch. Within days, Kolaveri Di song became India's most-searched YouTube video ever, the first Tamil film song to play on MTV India and national radio stations and now entire articles are being written in Indian and international press ...Read more
Software Review - > Jet Clean
Jet Clean is a clean , no-frills , full performance software built by BlueSprig. The software performs great and with great speed even though it is on version 1.0 . What let down the software during our testing was that its interface wasn't top notch for us to give it a five star rating...Read more
Technology articles - > The return of spam apps to facebook
The return of spam apps to facebookFor a few days we've been monitoring a new spin on a Facebook scam, that claims a girl killed herself on Christmas Eve after her dad posted a message on her wall. Before we've documented both the related hoax warnings spread on Facebook, as well as scam pages that popped up trying to trick users into "liking" them, and the truth about the real woman's death that has been exploited by heartless cybercriminals......Read more
Technology articles - > How Big is google anyway ?
How Big is google anyway ? ...Read more
Technology articles - > The Lost world of Kumari Kandam
We already know about many legendary cities that today’s world has lost in time. Some of those were the city of Atlantis, and the city of Dwaraka that is mentioned in Mahabharata. But out of all these, there existed one huge land mass to the south of today’s Indian peninsula extending from Kanyakumari in the north, and its sides touching as far to the west as Madagascar and as far to the east as Australia. This huge continent of the Tamil people was called Kumari Kandam ...Read more
Technology articles - > 5 signs of your hard disk failing...
Every one of us owns precious files like personal documents, photos, videos, or audio files, and we typically store them on hard drives. Few people realize that most electronic storage devices, including hard drives, have a rather limited life ...Read more
Technology articles - > Facebook's radical “Timeline ”
Facebook announced a host of new features in what was described by industry observers as the biggest shakeup in Facebook’s history. Most of these changes are obviously due to the emerging and growing threat from Google Plus , and one of the features that Mark Zuckerberg introduced was the radical redesign of the profile page. It’s called the “Timeline” and ...Read more
Technology articles - > Artificial leaf, promising future for solar energy harvesting
An important step toward realizing the dream of an inexpensive and simple “artificial leaf,” a device to harness solar energy by splitting water molecules, has been accomplished by ...Read more
Technology articles - > Truth about Facebook Stalker Application
Recently, I discovered yet another method that scammers are getting people to cough up their Facebook passwords. After hearing from a few friends that their Facebook accounts were hijacked through one method or another, I realized that it’s high time to ...Read more
