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[ No Comments ]Posted on February 19, 2010 by admin in General
Friday, February 19th, 2010Scientists may have finally found a way to deal with one of developing world’s worst problems in healthcare— faulty and inadequate cold chain for vaccine storage. British scientists from Oxford University have found a way to keep vaccines stable even at room temperature. This could come as a boon for India where reports of vaccines [...]
Beware: New twist to Nigerian scam
[ No Comments ]Posted on February 3, 2010 by admin in General
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010EVERYONE with an email account has received this mail: one that claims to be from a Nigerian government or central bank employee, speaking of sharing a per cent of the millions stuck in an account, if you share your bank details with the sender. And fortunately, this mail has now been proved as email fraud, [...]
Online pranksters hack Lucky Ali email
[ No Comments ]Posted on February 3, 2010 by admin in General
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Lucky Ali, the singer-actor known for his soulful voice and simple lyrics, has become the latest celebrity to fall prey to a cyber prank. Close on the heels of celebrities like Sonam Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor, Ali’s Yahoo, Skype and Facebook accounts were hacked into, and attempts were made by an unknown person to extort [...]
Never take a cab that has people in it
[ No Comments ]Posted on February 3, 2010 by admin in General
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010‘Never take a cab that has people in it’ By: Priyanjali Ghose Date: 2010-02-03 Place: Bangalore // 0) { var aDomainDet = aPath[1].split(‘/’); var sXmlPath=”"; for (var i=1;i0 && i0) { sXmlPath+=aDomainDet[i].replace(‘.htm’,’.xml’); } } } var iframeSource = “/nxt_prev_articles_section.php?path=”+sXmlPath; if ((navigator.appName.indexOf(“Microsoft”) != -1) || (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(‘firefox’))) { document.write(” “); } else { document.write(” //”); } // [...]
Introduction to Programming
[ No Comments ]Posted on December 5, 2009 by admin in General
Saturday, December 5th, 2009Controlling Your Computer with a Programming Language In a previous article, we introduced automating some tasks with MS-DOS batch files. In this article, we’re going to introduce programming and describe how it can be used to control the way your computer works. Normally, computer novices aren’t interested in controlling the computer. New computer users are [...]
