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THIS CONTEXT IS CONTRIBUTED TO ME BY MY FRND +RAJ+
SO HAVE A LITTLE LOOK ON RAJ'S CONTEXT:- A browser is an application that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. Technically, a web browser uses HTTP to make requests of web servers throughout the Internet on behalf of the browser user. In other words, a web browser is a software application that allows one to view pages on the World Wide web.
There are different web browsers that are available and in use today and they all come with a variety of features. Some of the available web browsers include Amaya, AOL Explorer, Arachne, Arlington Kiosk, Avant, Camino, Dillo, Elinks, Epiphany, Flock, Galeon, iCab, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer for Mac, K-Meleon, KioWare, Konqueror, Links, Lynx, Maxthon, Mosaic, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, OmniWeb, SeaMonkey, Safari, Opera and Off By One. Most of these web browsers are free, but there are five of them that do have a purchase price.Web browsers also come with some features. Some common features that are included with web browsers are spell checkers, search engine toolbars, download managing, password managing, bookmark managing, as well as form managing. Accessibility features that may be included with many web browsers include page zooming, ad filtering, pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, incremental finding, HTML access keys, voice controls, mouse gestures, spatial navigation, text to speech, and caret navigation.With so many web browsers being available, there are a number of different technologies that are supported. Some of them are frames, Java, XSLT, XForms, RSS, Atom, SVG, WML, VoiceXML, MathML, and XHTML. Also, with many web browsers, support for different languages is possible, and some of the different languages that are supported by web browsers include English, Slovak, Arabic, German, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, Chinese, French, Spanish, Thai, Hebrew, Italian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Welsh, as well as hundreds more.A web browser is a powerful tool, and isn’t just used for personal computers anymore; there are web browsers that can be used on mobile phones, handheld game systems, as well as pocket PC’s.Web browsers can also be personalized to an individuals needs by utilizing web browser accessories that are not included with the initial browser software. These applications are referred to as “plug insâ€, and a few of the more popular ones are Beatnik, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Shockwave, VivoActive Player, as well as Adobe Acrobat Reader.Beatnik is utilized to receive high-quality sound and audio from websites. QuickTime, which is a product of Apple, Inc., works as a delivery system for such things as 3D animation, audio, movies, MIDI soundtracks, and virtual reality. RealPlayer delivers on demand audio and video without the hassle of waiting for downloads to complete. Shockwave allows multimedia files to be viewed directly in a web browser. VivoActive allows viewing of on demand audio and video from sites that offer VivoActive content, and Adobe Acrobat Reader allows access to PDF files on the World Wide Web.Knowing all of the web browsers and their specific uses, it will become easy to understand how choosing the right web browser can enhance the Internet experience.
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The Google Gadgets API consists of a few simple building blocks: XML, HTML, and JavaScript. To get started, all you need is a basic understanding of HTML.XML is a general purpose markup language. It describes structured data in a way that both humans and computers can read and write.XML is the language you use to write gadget specifications. A gadget is simply an XML file, placed somewhere on the internet where Google can find it. The XML file that specifies a gadget contains instructions on how to process and render the gadget. The XML file can contain all of the data and code for the gadget, or it can have references (URLs) for where to find the rest of the elements.HTML is the markup language used to format pages on the internet. The static content of a gadget is typically written in HTML. HTML looks similar to XML, but it's used to format web documents rather than to describe structured data.JavaScript is a scripting language you can use to add dynamic behavior to your gadgets.Note: Gadgets were formerly called modules, which is why the word "Module" appears throughout the API
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Part 1:(1). An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.(2). Seagate introduced the first hdd for pcs in 1979.It held 5 M.B of data.(3). If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signaturesone for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.(4). The first computer company to register for a domain name was digitalequipment corporation.(5). Did u know Apple & Sun came very close to a merger in 1996.(6). The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds allthe computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.(7). Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.Part 2:
1).Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues.2).The superflop (LOL!) sega dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console game machine to sport a 128 Bit architecture.3).The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue" for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.4).The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.5).South korea's SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.6).In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in India.7).Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers.Part 3:1).The servers r in denmark.The software is from Estonia.The domain is registered in Australia & the corporation is in south pacific island.Ths Kazaa the p2p software.2).Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.3).The four largest software makers in the world are:-(a) Microsoft(b) Adobe(c) Sap(d) Computer Associates.(4)Top Ten Supercomputers of Today:-Arranged according to the speed:-1. Bluegene/L DD2 Beta-system(IBM).2. Columbia (NASA).3. Earth Simulator (NEC).4. MareNostrum(Barcelona Supercomputer Center).5. Thunder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).6. ASCI Q(Los Alamos National Laboratory).7. System X(Virgina Tech).8. Blugene/L DD1 Prototype(IBM).9. eServer pSeries 655 cluster(Naval Oceanographic Office).10. Tungsten(National Center For Supercomputing Applications).5). According to university of california 1,693,000 terabytes of information areproduced & stored magnetically per year.6).Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density ofabout 100,000 tracks/inch.This means that tracks are spaced 10 millionthsof an inch apart.7).One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack ofdocuments that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empirestate buildingPart 4:
1. The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.2. The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is therecord for the max. no. transistors on a chip.3. James Gosling created java at sun microsystems.He came up with thename Java while debating over it at a coffee shop.4. The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969 which is now underAOL.5. The Palm O.S fits in less than 100 K,which is less than one percent the sizeof Windows 98 or Mac O.S.6. What does 50 G.B of storage really mean?It means we can stack 3 piles ofsingle spaced type written pages taller than the Eiffel tower and data tosupport this information is about 50 gigabytes.7. The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :-'The dirty dozen'.8. When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be longenough to hold beethoven's Ninth Symphony at any tempo which wasprecisely 72 minutes.Part 5:1)128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it.Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.2)Bill Gates math SAT score was a perfect 800.3)Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.A particle of smog is 100 microinches.A human hair is 4000 microinches.4)When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first twomonths.5)Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.6)David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.
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Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.Google is a mathematical term 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasne.Gmail was used internally for nearly 2 ears prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.It consisted of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of eight billions(2005) of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.Google has a tradition of creating April Fool's Day jokes - such as Google MentalPlex, which allegedly featured the use of mental power to search the web. Some thought the announcement of Gmail in 2004 around April Fool's Day was a joke.Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.Users can restrict their searches for content in 35 non-English languages. To date, no requests have been received from beyond the earth's orbit, but Google has a Klingon interface just in case.Google has a world-class staff of 9,378 full-time employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex located at Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway.Google translates billions of HTML web pages into a display format for WAP and i-mode phones and wireless handheld devices."I feel lucky" is nearly never used. It was a comfort button which actually takes to the first web page returned by the search results.Google use the unique 20%/5% rules. That is ,if at least 20% of people use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people need to use a particular search preference before it will make it into the 'Advanced Preferences'.Employees in Google are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. That's why we have GMail,Google News and Orkut now.Google Groups comprises more than 845 million Usenet messages, which is the world's largest collection of messages or the equivalent of more than a terabyte of human conversation.The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank™, and assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.Googlers are multifaceted. One operations manager, who keeps the Google network in good health is a former neurosurgeon. One software engineer is a former rocket scientist. And the company's chef formerly prepared meals for members of The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George Clinton.Google’s Orkut is very popular in Brazil and India. It was the brainchild of a Google engineer who was given free reign to run with it.In a 2006 report of the world's richest people, Forbes reported that Sergey Brin was #26 with a net worth of $12.9 billion, and Larry Page was #27 with a net worth of $12.8 billion
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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED............
1) if swimming is a good exercise to stay fit, why are whales fat?
2) why is the place in a stadium where people sit, called a stand?
3) why is that everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die?
4) shall i say that there is racial discrimination even in chess as the white piece is moved first?
5) in our country, we have freedom of speech, then why do we have telephone bills?
Think about all this...............
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"Do you refresh your desktop?". Ask this to any Windows user and 99% of them will reply with a "yes". Of course, there are various needs for refreshing the desktop but the majority of people who does it doesn't even know why he is doing it. Refreshing the desktop is perhaps the biggest computer myth among all Windows users.
Every single person I have met does this or at least used to do it. It's not known who first discovered this remarkably useless trick and what he achieved from it, but it just spread. Most new users learn this trick from other new users without caring to know what it does. Some do it devotedly just because others do it, while some others have various weird explanations for it. A few of them assumes that it refreshes the RAM, while some others believe that doing it will somehow keep their PCs running smooth and easy. I have seen some users obsessed with refreshing the desktop, doing it every 30 seconds or so. They have even learnt the keyboard shortcut - F5 (just to mention, these are the people who never use keyboard shortcuts). They would press the key and wouldn't release it for a long time, sending the desktop into a frenzy of refreshes.
What does a desktop refresh actually do? Refreshing the desktop simply redraws the icons on the desktop. That's it! It doesn't refreshes the RAM. It doesn't clean your PC. It doesn't refreshes your computer the way it does to you when you wake up from a nap. Refreshing the desktop has absolutely no effect on the working or performance of the computer. So why is the tool there? As I said, refresh is used to re-display or redraw the icons on the desktop. Sometimes when you bring some changes to the desktop icons, the change doesn't get reflected instantly. In such cases, refreshing the desktop becomes necessary to bring the change to effect.Say, you have the desktop icons set to arrange themselves alphabetically on your desktop.
Say, you have the desktop icons set to arrange themselves alphabetically on your desktop. When you add a new item to the desktop, this item wouldn't get arranged alphabetically, instead it would appear at the bottom of icon list on the desktop, irrespective of it's name. Now if you refresh the desktop, all the icons would be once more arranged alphabetically and the newly added item would go to it's appropriate position. This is what refresh is for. It is to re-display the desktop. Refresh has the same function when done in explorer.
So, if you are in the habit of refreshing the desktop, stop it. You are just wasting your time and effort. And the next time you see a person doing it, don't forget to explain to him the futility of this action.
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