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Amazon (on Laptop) and Apple Gives Amazing Discounts for Holidays

Posted: November 28th, 2008, 5:45am CST by Soumya

There are two offers that you can not refuse at this moment. Because they are from Apple and Amazon. Take a look. 1. Do you want to buy anything from Apple store? Well today is the day. Because apple is actually giving a 1 day sale for you. Whatever you want from an Apple product, you [...]
Believe it or Not: Internet Search Traffic Drops Down by 2%!

Posted: November 28th, 2008, 3:01am CST by Soumya

Search engines are finally ranked by AC- Nielson for this month and anyone who has EVER come to the internet knows the result already. Anyway, our work is to tell you what is known with stats. So here it is. Google (Nasdaq: GOOGLE) keeps getting stronger, and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YAHOO) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MS) as [...]
Can Cuil Really be the Google Killer? - A Comparative Study

Posted: November 28th, 2008, 12:40am CST by Soumya

Cuil is a search engine website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and other top notch people from institutions like Altavista and IBM. Cuil, termed as the 'Google Killer' was launched on 28th July, 2008 and claims to be world’s largest search engine, indexing three times as many pages as Google [...]
Order and Your Camera will Obey!

Posted: November 27th, 2008, 7:23am CST by Soumya

Lights! Camera! Action! Yes that is how you can literally shout at your digi cam and it will work! A developer has developed a Windows-only application called ShutterVoice that allows him to control most of the functions in Canon’s EOS Utility software with simple spoken commands. read the full story about this wonderful technology
Apache Continuum - A Detailed Look at the Open Source Continuous Integration System

Posted: November 27th, 2008, 12:35am CST by Soumya

Apache Continuum, a partner to Apache Maven, is a continuous integration server, which runs and builds on a configurable schedule.So what does this term 'Continuous Integration' mean? The term continuous integration refers to a process that builds and tests code on a frequent, regular basis. Many continuous integration systems monitor a source repository at regular [...]
Get Huge Discount on 50+ Mac Apps, Hurry!

Posted: November 26th, 2008, 3:29am CST by Soumya

20% Discount if you choose 3 apps! 50% with 5 apps or more! and you have only until the 30th of November 2008 to get the best of the offer. If you still didn't understand, I am talking about Mac. Spicy Distribution announced the 2008 edition of ‘Give Good Food to Your Mac.and here is where you [...]
Battle of Browsers - Who Goes Ahead? Firefox/ IE or Opera

Posted: November 26th, 2008, 2:52am CST by Soumya

While Matt used it for his blog to get a stat of the browsers from which people are visiting his blog, we thought of experimenting with ours too. What came out is quite interesting. We are gonna provide you with a two-way picture by presenting the statistics of a technical and a non-technical blog and [...]
Seagate Teams up with McAfee, Ships Self-Encrypting Drive

Posted: November 26th, 2008, 1:58am CST by Soumya

Powerful, easy-to-use notebook data security is increasingly important as the global adoption of mobile PCs continues to soar and more notebooks are used to store sensitive personal and business information. Lost or stolen notebooks can cost companies millions of dollars in compromised proprietary information and threaten consumers with the high cost of identity theft, yet [...]
Seagate Releases World’s Fastest and Shock Tolerant Hard Drive

Posted: November 26th, 2008, 12:00am CST by Soumya

Leading hardware manufacturer Seagate announced Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB hard drive to deliver a "perfect combination of capacity, speed and durability". They will market the manufacture for Acer Aspire consumer notebook PCs, and the blazing on-the-road performance and shock tolerance of the Acer TravelMate professional notebooks. The best part of the hard drive are areal density [...]
The Biggest Benefit of Economic Crisis in USA

Posted: November 25th, 2008, 9:57am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

The economic crisis may be doing what pastors, family therapists and matrimonial counselors have long struggled to accomplish and yet mostly failed: keeping troubled marriages together. Marriage counselors and divorce lawyers nationwide say more distressed couples are putting off divorce because the cost of splitting up is prohibitive in a time of stagnant salaries, plummeting home [...]
Sun Restricts MySQL Query Analyzer Tool To Gold Subscribers Only

Posted: November 25th, 2008, 9:40am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

The MySQL Query Analyzer tool monitors query performance and quickly pinpoints and corrects problems in SQL code. It promises to "turbo-boost" the speed and uptime of MySQL database applications. One software developers reported it tripled his performance. The tool is integrated into the MySQL Enterprise Monitor, a key part of Sun's MySQL Enterprise subscription offering. Subscriptions, as [...]
Copy the Exact Text with Link URL, Quote, Page Title etc through QuoteURLText

Posted: November 25th, 2008, 6:51am CST by Soumya

Suppose you want to copy and paste texts from a web page. Though the data can easily be copied (unless that particular website has copy protection) as plain text and pasted to yours, its painful to take all the metadata alongside it. Suppose you want to copy a part where someone has a quote and [...]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II - Digital Still and Video Camera Together

Posted: November 25th, 2008, 6:31am CST by Soumya

The Canon EOS 5D Mark II is one hell of a gadget While it begins U.S. shipments to dealers today (Tuesday, Nov. 25), let me tell you why I am so excited about this one. The product from Canon is not only a digital still camera but a first-class high-definition video camera as well. It serves [...]
Twitter Denies Facebook on A $500 Million Takeover!

Posted: November 25th, 2008, 12:51am CST by Soumya

Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons: And they can be, At Facebook's real valuation, $5 billion or so, the offer only amounted to $150 million (not bad for two-year old company with no revenue, but a far cry from the billion-dollar [...]
Free Open-source Unified Threat Management Software Untangle Reviewed

Posted: November 24th, 2008, 6:25am CST by Soumya

With spam, spyware, identity theft (phishing), cracking, viruses and trojans becoming prevalent to steal your rights from your own machine or domain, network security is one of the main concerns for all of us. While network security is too big a term to implement, we resort to firewalls, anti-viruses, spam blocker, anti-spyware and other internet [...]
Verizone Blackberry Strom to Recreate iPhone’s Hysteria!

Posted: November 24th, 2008, 1:13am CST by Soumya

Verizon launched on the weekend its much anticipated bundle offer with Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry Storm to take on the might of AT&T and iPhone 3G. If you remember the launch of Apple's iPhone 3G (how can you ever forget that mass hysteria!), Verizon witnessed comparatively lower numbers but still the hundreds outnumbered the units [...]
Google Wikifies Search Result But with Limited Access!

Posted: November 24th, 2008, 12:43am CST by Soumya

Google has launched a new Searchwiki service to provide users with a more personalized and interactive search option. There is a place where you can add your comment and publicize the comment for others to view of any page from any website. You can also promote the websites you loved and remove others from the google [...]
Chitika Eliminates Auditing for Premium Ads

Posted: November 23rd, 2008, 7:53pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

Monthly auditing was the most annoying aspect of Chitika, a popular online advertisement broker.Often a significant portions of your projected revenue would be lost after their "audit". The process is not transparent and often a source of great frustration to publishers. Chitika announced that they are getting rid of audits in Chitika Premium ads. In [...]
Top 11 Laptops Reviewed!

Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 6:11am CST by Soumya

Old desktops are getting too big and spacious to be true. So it is understandable if you wish to switch to a perfectly desktop replacable laptop now. Businessmen, students, gamers, normal users and more explicitly everyone wants to own a laptop that suits their specific demands. But amongst thousands of laptops to choose from, which [...]
Review: Top 9 Wordpress Anti-Spam Plugins

Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 5:12am CST by Soumya

While writing an article about the best security plugins of Wordpress, I felt the need to touch another very important security issue for the bloggers, and i.e. Anti Spam Plugins. If you are a blogger, you must be knowing thousands of spams that actually flood your website everyday. Its irritating, time consuming and above all [...]
How to Hack Your Computers BIOS Password

Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 1:24am CST by Soumya

Suppose you have forgot the BIOS password of your computer or you are into your friend's computer and want to give him a little shock. But the problem is the BIOS is locked with a password and you can't find a way to enter through it. Don't worry. here is this old trick that will help [...]
Apple Releases iPhone 2.2 Software Update - Happy Holidays!

Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 12:45am CST by Soumya

Apple iPhone comes with one more reason to smile before the winter holidays. They have launched the iPhone 2.2 software update. So without wasting much time, let's go straight to where it is implemented and see what is there. Install iPhone 2.2 Software 1. Make sure you are using iTunes 8. Connect your iPhone to your [...]
How to Prevent CyberTerrorism and Software Piracy Through Validy SoftNaos - A Technical Perspective

Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 12:09am CST by Soumya

Cyber terrorism, data theft and piracy are three of the most concerning factors for any software developer or a learned internet user. We have always looked forward to numerous softwares as they claim to prevent any trespasser but in vain. None of them have been efficient enough and that is the reason why we are [...]
Deal of the Day: Get a Pen, Stylus, Laser Pointer, LED Flashlight and UV Light within $10!!!

Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:07am CST by Soumya

If you are interested in getting all the following things inside 10$(which is the best deal for Christmas I guess, until now) Ballpoint Pen (replaceable) Stylus Bright white LED flexible-shaft flashlight UV light Red laser pointer then read the entire story and seal the deal at gadgetophilia.com
How To Develop iPhone Applications in Java

Posted: November 16th, 2008, 8:54am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

iPhone is a great phone to develop applications for. Unfortunately Apple decided to restrict developing iPhone applications in a less known language called Objective C, which is used pretty much within Apple (and by Apple developers) and almost noweher else. Only Steve Jobs knows the reason behind this strange decision. Java ( J2ME) is the [...]
NASA Astronauts To Bond in Space by Tasting Each Others Urine; They Are Loving It

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 11:46am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

Who wants to be an astronaut again? NASA devices an unique way to help astronauts bond with each other (and to preserve water I presume) by drinking communal piss, ewww. Why didn't estranged couples think of this earlier? The best or the worst part is that NASA engineers are loving it, so much so that [...]
Simplest Way to Mount / Extract iso files without Burning

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 8:00am CST by Soumya

Isn't it pretty annoying to burn any .iso file to make it work? In linux, you have a pretty simple way to mount an iso file without even burning them. This allows you to view the files within the iso file as simply as you would view files in any normal directory. Though we will always [...]
Google Launches Voice Search in iPhone - ‘Sound’s Pretty Impressive

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 6:46am CST by Soumya

When tech giants like Google and Apple work on a collaborative project, the whole speculation around it goes hyper. We knew that Google was working on some Apple app. Now let’s spill the bin, which is quite tasty too. Google has created an iPhone App, that will let you search via voice on the iPhone. To read [...]
Breaking News: Digg was Dead, Temporarily. Period.

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 12:45am CST by Soumya

Digg was down. And that is about it. Its 1 AM and that is why you are not feeling the impact. Imagine if it had stayed till morning, how many bloggers and website owners will get the strangest shock of their lives! Anyway, unperturbed Taragana has some nice points to share with you. Please take a [...]
Optimize Your Images Effortlessly Through Online Editor Smush it - A Review

Posted: November 13th, 2008, 11:00pm CST by Soumya

Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan, two Yahoo developers have made image optimization easier than it was ever before. Smush it is their brain child. It is a free online tool for lossless compression of JPG, PNG, GIF files (including animated). So all you need to do is just go to their site and upload your image [...]
Wordpress Plugin - Angsuman’s Wordpress Guard Plugin - Add A Second Layer of Security to Your Wordpress

Posted: November 13th, 2008, 11:30am CST by Soumya

We are very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Angsuman's Wordpress Guard Plugin. It is a must-have Wordpress security plugin (compatible with all versions of Wordpress and tested upto version 2.6.3) that protects the vulnerable areas of your blog from outside access with an additional layer of security. Many popular WordPress websites were hacked and [...]
20 Wordpress Security Plug-ins And Tips To keep Hackers Away

Posted: November 13th, 2008, 11:30am CST by Soumya

Wordpress is the leading blogging software for pro-bloggers as well as amateur bloggers around the world. So, be it latest news (Wordpress 2.7) or tweaks, we cover it. The Achilles heel of WordPress is its security, which they try to continuously address by frequent patches after every major release similar to Microsoft Windows. If you [...]
Philips’ iPill Has Every Chance to Overwhelm Apple’s iPhone - A Preview

Posted: November 13th, 2008, 7:04am CST by Soumya

All you used to know about pills are, it cures your diseases Its bad to taste. Now here is Philips’ iPill (sounds more like iPhone no? But believe me, its not that touchy and delicate!) that has developed an intelligent pill. It contains a microprocessor, battery, wireless radio, pump and a drug reservoir to release medication in a [...]
50 Greatest Art Videos on YouTube

Posted: November 13th, 2008, 6:01am CST by Soumya

Youtube needs no special mentioning in the world of internet users and video lovers. Entertainment and visual clips have never been shared so largely and perhaps hysterically before. So when Ajesh Patalay selects 50 of the rarest and fascinating arts video footages of the time bygone, we couldn't but share them with you. You will get [...]
Google Introduces Video and Voice Chat to Gmail, Interested?

Posted: November 12th, 2008, 5:26am CST by Soumya

Now there is more to cheer for Gmail chatters. Google Inc has added a voice and video chat feature to its Gmail email service on Tuesday. According to the obviousness of the market strategy, they surely want to compete with the likes of Skype.. So, Gmail and Google App subscribers can now choose to speak with [...]
22 Reasons to Switch to New WordPress 2.7 Beta 2

Posted: November 11th, 2008, 9:30pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

WordPress 2.7 (read detailed review) beta 2 fixes some crucial and long standing bugs in WordPress, so much so that it is worth looking into adopting it without waiting for the final release. The key fixes in WordPress 2.7 Beta 2: Javascript in admin panel was broken when a blog had no comments, causing several of [...]
LiquidPlanner, Online Project Management Service, Improves Usability

Posted: November 11th, 2008, 9:02pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

LiquidPlanner is a strong online project management service, much better than BaseCamp for one. It gives you desktop project management functionality on the web and does it well.In the latest release they added three important usability features: Multi-select - allows you to select, drag-and-drop and delete multiple items at a time. If you have used Microsoft [...]
23 Killer iPhone Apps for Christmas

Posted: November 11th, 2008, 7:43am CST by Soumya

iPhone needs no introduction.Apple's iPhone has passed Motorola's Razr to become the top consumer phone in USA. Today I am going to tell you not 5, not 10 but 23 exciting and useful iPhone apps to help you from shopping for Christmas, chatting, reading and even refilling gas and much more. To read all the 23 exciting [...]
Time Machine Travel Through Microsoft’s Windows 1.0 - 25 Years Completed

Posted: November 11th, 2008, 5:59am CST by Soumya

Just more than two decades ago, a young man from Washington had some things to say at New York's Helmsley Palace Hotel. He claimed that, powered by a unique graphical interface, his new OS, (coincidentally named Windows!) would be running 90% of IBM systems from the next year. Of course nobody believed him then. But that [...]
You, Your Family, A Religious Occasion and A motherboard (!)

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 7:44am CST by Soumya

Holy season is here. So why don’t we celebrate that with a gadget that is just meant for holy occasions? This modern spin on the Menorah is made from recycled circuit boards, and offers up a bright red LED for each night of celebration. So next time, if you wanna have a religious meal or a [...]
Distributed Computing is What Separates Men From Boys

Posted: November 8th, 2008, 12:35pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

Any reasonable (web) application which deals with some subset of web data (rss feeds, web pages, product pricing data etc.), has to use distributed data processing to go anywhere. Unless you have very deep pockets and / or have strong VC funding (which is rarer than a bottle of Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Premier Cru First [...]
How To Backup Your Mails Locally From Gmail

Posted: November 8th, 2008, 6:17am CST by Soumya

Did you ever have problem in finding an old mail from Gmail? Did you find out that the mail doesn't exist or you had deleted it accidentally? Well for those who receive critical mails and feel insecure about having no backups for those, can breathe easy now. Gmail Backup is the tool that allows Gmail user [...]
A Nice Accoustic Guitar Music To Begin Your Day With

Posted: November 7th, 2008, 8:32pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

The music is nice and soft, something to begin a hectic day with. I think you will enjoy it. Source: Rylynn - Andy McKee Original Song CD & Tabs - Art of Motion
6 Must Know Tips for Translator Plugin

Posted: November 7th, 2008, 7:18am CST by Soumya

We, at Taragana, have always tried to provide you with the best software solution as well as latest news on technology balancing the need of the situation. Translator was one such initiative to help your blog reach a worldwide audience irrespective of the language and country. It has become one of the most popular WordPress [...]
Two Tested Reasons Why Windows 7 is Better and Faster Than Vista

Posted: November 7th, 2008, 6:26am CST by Soumya

Windows 7 has been the next most discussed topic after Barack Obama in the last 1 month or so it seems. With our detailed article on Windows 7 we gave you a first feel of Windows 7. Now we have the same question as yours. Is Windows 7 any better and faster than Vista? I [...]
Dell Faces Allegations of Gender Biasness; What’s Your Stand?

Posted: November 6th, 2008, 6:58am CST by Soumya

Gender Equality, Women Righteousness - they all sound good when read. But how many times do we see it being implemented? Dell has to stand up against a class action law-suit filed by four female executives for discriminating against women in pay, job placement, promotions and layoffs. In May 2007, Dell announced plans to lay off [...]
16 Must-Know Features in The New Wordpress 2.7 - An Extensive WalkThrough

Posted: November 6th, 2008, 6:20am CST by Soumya

Whatever be the latest news in technology and development, Taragana has it. We have already reviewed all the upcoming OS releases with detailed features. So when something as popular and happening as Wordpress was keen to release its newest version, we couldn't be far off. Wordpress 2.7 was due on 10th November, 2008. But due [...]
Tudou is All Set to Replace Youtube; Another Cold War Behind Technology?

Posted: November 6th, 2008, 6:14am CST by Soumya

China is always trying to replace what US did and revolutionized. The newest one is Tudou that has grown considerably to challenge the likes of Youtube.com. We are eager to see the battle. What is Youtube thinking? And more importantly, since the olympics, don’t you think the whole process of China-US cold war have come [...]
How to Hack Windows 7 and Vista to Extend The Evaluation Period 4 Times!

Posted: November 6th, 2008, 6:00am CST by Soumya

Windows 7 is going to continue the trend of rearm process in Windows 7 as well, that they did in Windows Vista. So here is a guide how you can increase the evaluation trail period by three times or more explicitly 120 days. Trick 1. Install Windows 7 without any product activation key. 2. After installation is completed, [...]
Developer Tips: How To Show Line Number in vi / vim & nano

Posted: November 5th, 2008, 9:47pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers. A way to get them to display line numbers doesn't jump out easily from their big documentation, so here are my simple [...]
Massive Mobile Boom in India, Over 10 Million New Customers in September Alone

Posted: November 4th, 2008, 7:30am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

TRAI* (Telecom regulatory body) report on growth of telecom in India for September is out today. Highlights are as follows: Second time India added 1 Cr mobile consumers in September. Last time India added 1 Cr consumers in March 2008. Teledensity exceeds 30% AirTel added 27 lakh wireless and wireline customers. Government companies could add 3.9 lakh consumers (4%) Vodafone is [...]
Insight on mrepo - Advanced Apt, Yum Repository Manager

Posted: November 4th, 2008, 5:00am CST by Soumya

If you are wondering what mrepo actually is, YAM has been renamed and changed to mrepo. mrepo builds a local APT/Yum RPM repository from local ISO files, downloaded updates, and extra packages from 3rd party repositories. It takes care of setting up the ISO files, downloading the RPMs, configuring HTTP access and providing PXE/TFTP resources [...]
Top 3 Mozilla Firefox 4 Features For Next Generation Browsing Experience

Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 11:54am CST by Soumya

Mozilla Firefox needs no special mention to anyone who is associated with internet. Perhaps the fastest and most reliable browser in this world is the most popular one too as they achieved the Guiness Book of World Records for most download in a single day. The key to their success has been continuous improvement of [...]
How to Hack Root Password in Linux

Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 6:53am CST by Soumya

Today I am going to tell you the trick to hack your root passoword in Linux if you are too forgetful to remember it or you have legal permission to enter a server run by a different admin and by any chance he forgot to give you the root password. Those Who Have GRUB bootloader The [...]
Artificial Heart To Replace Your Original; Now You Can Have Heart Attacks in Peace

Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 5:56am CST by Soumya

Sure, the price for an artificial heart build with aerospace technology may give you yet another heart-attack; but don't worry if you happen to be a high net-worth individual. Carmat has come out with a concept device that could save millions suffering from heart attacks. Based on aerospace technology, they have been able to build an [...]
6 Reasons To Die For One, The New N-Gage Gaming Experience

Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 4:31am CST by Soumya

If you haven't forgot Brother in Arms that I had reviewed a month ago, here I am again with a new cool game of Nokia N- Gage gaming platform. Thanks to Nokia for providing me with the full version of One for review purpose. I have never been bad with games. I have loved them like [...]
Subscribe To Blog via SMS

Posted: November 2nd, 2008, 6:58am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

You can now subscribe to Simple Thoughts by SMS. You can now keep up with the news even on road. This uses a new SMS service from Google. Please subscribe and let me know if you like it.
GoDaddy Renewal Coupons

Posted: November 1st, 2008, 8:56am CDT by Angsuman Chakraborty

This GoDaddy coupon code worked for me: gdp1018aa. I renewed 1 domain for 2 years at the total cost of $17.50, a discount of $4.28. Few other prospective GoDaddy coupons for renewal that you may try are: emma3 MTECH330 FPT3 GoDaddy allows you to try multiple coupons so you can continue till you get one with the maximum discount. [...]