Internet

Micro-blogging – Characteristics and Applications

by Ahmad on October 13, 2011

Since the introduction of blogging in 1992 by internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, who created the first ‘What’s New page’ and then the other pioneer, Marc Andreesen, put up a ‘similar page’ with each had hotlinks to the new pages springing up on the Net, now the World is entering the era of Micro-blogging. Since these [...]

7 Best Anti-virus for Nokia N8

by Ahmad on September 15, 2011

With the increased use of internet and untrusted apps, the risk of your device being affected by virus has been increasing day by day. Infection can corrupt software of your Nokia, resulting in the malfunction of your N8. Some anti-virus applications have been introduced by Nokia, specifically, for the N8 which can protect your N8 [...]

Download IE9 RC, Tips & tricks – First Impressions

by Muzzammil Waheed on February 11, 2011

Long awaited RC release of IE9 is available for download finally, I just installed it and it is looking great. The performance is improved, its stable and design is sleek. All the issues of IE9 beta and IE8 have been resolved and now I’ll stick to IE9 and not switch to Chrome because I feel Chrome makes my PC slow.

IE9 RC is fast, standards-compliant, has clean & modern design

by Muzzammil Waheed on February 10, 2011

Well previously we covered that IE9 RC might be landing on 28th Jan, but now Microsoft is officially unveiling the release candidate for IE9 today, and it is even looking good. It is a solid, polished package, with a modern browser look & feel which is original and innovative. The RC has features which are original and brings in great value.

Download latest IE9 beta update–fixes issues, more stable

by Muzzammil Waheed on November 25, 2010

I am using IE9 ( internet explorer latest beta ) as my primary browser and facing issues, I do understand that it is a beta software. Good news is that Microsoft has just released a beta 2 release of IE9 with lot of enhancements. The new beta build includes stability and reliability fixes, but “is not a new Internet Explorer 9 Beta build,” according to a November 23 post to the company’s IE Blog, hence the IE 9 beta update is marked as “recommended” via Windows Update.

Wi-Tribe vs Qubee vs Wateen, Pakistan’s Wireless providers compared

by Muzzammil Waheed October 18, 2010

Wireless internet services competition is heating up in Pakistan with the latest contender Qubee launching their services, agaisnt already established competitors like Wi-Tribe and Wateen. Qubee claims that their prices are cheap and their plans are affordable, We’ll that maybe the case as evident from the comparison matrix below, however, their service is yet to be tested and ranked.

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Turn you PC/Laptop in to a Access Point with Connectify

by nmafzal October 13, 2010

Connectify is an awesome application that turns a WiFi enabled laptop or a PC in to a Wireless Access Point. All that is required is a working Internet connection, doesn’t matter if it is an Ethernet based, cable modem, Dial-up or Cellular card based. The software works in Windows 7 platform only

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Firefox Tab Candy – New innovative OS like interface is really fascinating

by Muzzammil Waheed July 29, 2010

Latest Firefox innovation called Tab Candy will make Firefox act more like a operating system, with much-improved multitasking and sharing capabilities. This feature will put Firefox in front of Google Chrome browser in term of usability, since it allows viewing of tabs into groups on a desktop like canvas.

Aza Raskin, the creator of Tab Candy, has perfectly articulated the workflow and tab overload problem in today’s modern Web browsers, and his Tab Candy vision of innovating the browser experience would be a major step forward. Check out the video demo below. It is interesting to know that Tab Candy is being developed entirely in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

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Are Facebook and other social sites good for you and your kids?

by Muzzammil Waheed June 2, 2010

People seem to think information they put on the internet is transient – here today, gone tomorrow. Increasingly, we are finding data doesn’t disappear when you delete it. It may be automatically saved by Facebook or Google.

You may think you got rid of something but it can come back to bite you. If you are 18, you don’t think about your 42-year-old self looking for a job or promotion. People don’t consider that long-term risk. I think this could become a serious problem in future. Young people seem very blasé about their privacy, but their opinions may change in years to come.

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Non-Latin Internet addresses coming soon

by nauman November 1, 2009

It will now be possible to have URLs and Internet addresses in Non-Latin script. This means now it will be possible to have domains in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew or other languages. This was heavily voted by the board of ICANN at Seoul just recently. Out of the 1.6 billion netizens half are those who speak [...]

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