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Safari for Windows is another product which shows Apple’s intention to gradually muscle into PC users’ domain. The browser is as fast as Firefox-if not faster. It has some attributes like spell check and fully Unicode compliance which were unavailable in Firefox. But for non-English speaking countries, Safari would still be a secondary browser as it doesn’t allow its users to add new fonts to read foreign scripts. Internet explorer is the only browser which allows this option at the moment. Firefox is a very secured browser. Only time will tell whether Safari would be as safe a browser as Firefox or not. The Safari interface allows to play with the tabbed browsing as well. But it’s not a major breakthrough and won’t change the internet using experience a great deal. Firefox enjoys a backing of lot of performance enhancing add-ons. I failed to find such interesting add-ons for Safari on the Apple website.

BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog's legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight. BigDog has an on-board computer that controls locomotion, servos the legs and handles a wide variety of sensors. BigDog’s control system manages the dynamics of its behaviour to keep it balanced, steer, navigate, and regulate energetics as conditions vary. Sensors for locomotion include joint position, joint force, ground contact, ground load, a laser gyroscope, and a stereo vision system. Other sensors focus on the internal state of BigDog, monitoring the hydraulic pressure, oil temperature, engine te...

This video is amazing, please watch the full video. Mouse is made sooooo out of date :)

I have discovered a social networking site today. The site is www.perfspot.com . Apparently it is the fastest growing social networking site right now. I am not entirely convinced that this can overtake facebook and become the number one just yet with its current look and networking facilities. It offers most of the usual features of social networking, including newsfeeds, customisable profile options and the option of linking photos to other users' profiles plus unlimited space to upload images and videos. It also provides an URL for the user which is also common features in hi5, myspace and the likes. It does, however, have some extra features which are not available in facebook. For example, it lets the user create his/her own network which wasn’t available in the facebook. This gives the users outside the developed world to include their education and work networks in the site.

YouTube fans can now download the videos on their PC/PSP/iPods. For downloading the YouTube videos, you need to go on http://vixy.net/ and then copy and paste the YouTube URL in the box. After pasting the URL, you have select an option from the dropdown box for your desired output format. Then click start. The file from YouTube will start to convert in to your desired format. After the conversion, you will get an option to download the file on to your desired hardware. For best results chose the mp4 format for downloading and view the downloaded videos on QuickTime player. Check it out! It’s great!

I have long been waiting to learn to type in Bangla. Being brought up in Bangladesh in the earlier part of my life, I have always held a soft corner in my heart for the Bangla language. I was looking for typing software which would allow me to express my thoughts in Bangla. I went to Dhaka and went through the shops in the famous BCS Computer City in Agargaon. The only typing software I could find was based on ‘Bijoy’ keyboard. ‘Bijoy’ keyboard is a very complex keyboard layout which would’ve taken me a long time to learn and master. I was looking for something quicker. Few days ago, I just randomly did a search on Google on Bangla keyboards and discovered the ‘Masterpiece’. It’s the ‘ Avro ’ Keyboard by Omicronlab. It was available for free and I downloaded it from the link from www.download.com . I was really happy to find out that the software follows English (Roman) phonetic typing rather than using a new keyboard layout. This was really helpful for me as I didn’t have to l...

আজ আমি বাংলায় ব্লগ লিখছি। আজ আমার জন্য অনেক আনন্দের দিন। প্রিয় বন্ধুগণ, বাংলা ব্লগের ভুবনে আপনাদের স্বাগত জানাই। এখন থেকে আমি বাংলায় মাঝে মাঝে ব্লগ লেখার চেষ্টা করবো। আমার বাংলা টাইপিং এখনো ভালো নয়, তাই যে কোন ভুল বানান ক্ষমার চোখে দেখবেন। ধন্যবাদ মুহাম্মাদ তানভীর চৌধুরী I am writing my first blog in Bangla today. It is a very happy day for me! Dear readers, I welcome you to the world of Bangla blogging. I will try to write blogs in Bangla from time to time. My Bangla typing isn't that great yet. So please forgive my spelling mistakes. Thanks Mohammed Tanvir Chowdhury

I have bought a T-Mobile USB modem yesterday. Mohib helped me to get the modem. Got it working this morning. It's brilliant! Now I don't need an internet connection for browsing internet. I can take my laptop anywhere in the country and browse from anywhere I like. Don't know if I'm sounding like a geek but this really is amazing. I am getting really good speed as well. Broadband internet seems sooo yesterday now..

Software License details of Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Microsoft Office, Windows XP, Windows Vista and tons of other software can easily be located on Google by running this simple query: "Belarc Advisor Current Profile" "Software Licenses" "Software Name" key: For example, if you are looking for Windows XP Serial Number, then you have to search in google using the following search keys: "Belarc Advisor Current Profile" "Software Licenses" "Wiows XP" key: And if you are looking for Adobe Photoshop Serial Number, then you have to use the following search keys: "Belarc Advisor Current Profile" "Software Licenses" "Adobe Photoshop" key: These are actually real software inventory reports generated by Belarc Advisor, a popular tool often used to backup software licenses. The only problem is that innocent users have placed these HTML reports in public directories of their web servers, the search engine ...

Suppose, your client just emailed a Microsoft Word 2007 document ending with a .docx extension but you have no clue about how to open and print the file or convert from docx to .doc and other text formats. No worries, here are some very simple solutions on handling .docx file when you don't have Microsoft Office Word 2007. The .docx files, which are now the default file extension in Microsoft Word 2007, are essentially a bunch of zipped XML documents - you can even rename the file extension from .docx to .zip and then extract the file contents using Winzip or some other decompression tools . In order to convert .docx documents to .doc format, just download the free Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack from here . This will help you open, print, edit and save .docx files in Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003. And if you are on Mac, you can get the Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac here - this converts .docx to .rtf (rich text format) files which can be vi...

Abstract The present paper is an analysis of three case studies of intranet and intranet based portal initiatives in different types of organisations. The general aim of the study was to investigate how intranet and portals contribute to the change in performance and culture of private and public sector organisations and in academic environment. In order to do this the author conducted research on 3 different case studies involving four different organisations with a focus on, among other things, identifying the change of performance and culture posed by intranet and portal. The results are presented in the form of discussion with critical evaluation of the limitations and scopes of improvements. This paper concludes with a result which shows the changes brought in by the intranet and intranet based portals in the four corresponding organisations. 1. Introduction: An organisation’s knowledge is based in its people and cannot readily be collected or distributed. Judgement, experience, s...