Smultron – Opensource text editor for Mac

SmultronGone are the days when people use text editors just for editing and saving plain text documents. Nowadays we can see multi-purpose text editors that can be used for text editing, web programming and script writing etc. For Macintosh operating system we cannot find much of very good open source text editors like what we have for windows. In this article we are going to see one such open source text editor for Mac called Smultron.

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April 6th, 2008 | 3 Comments

How to find and get free WIFI access ?

WIFIWi-Fi a short name for Wireless Fidelity, is the popularly used wireless technology to connect to Internet in homes, colleges, hotels, Airports, coffee shops etc. To read more about how wifi works, read here. People who travel a lot often find it very difficult to locate and access the wireless access points or hot spots in the cities where they stay or travel. There are few free tools and web applications available in the internet to solve this problem and you can locate and access the WIFI hot spots around your place with ease.

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April 5th, 2008 | 3 Comments

China lowers its Great [fire]wall against wikipedia

Beijing 2008 LogoThe fire wall of China, popularly known as the Golden Shield project is a Internet Censorship radar which is under the control of Ministry of Public Security China now has opened up its gates for Wikipedia. The Great Firewall of China does URL, Packet and DNS filtering, IP Blocking, Connection resetting etc which is none other than the traditional firewall job and it is one of the highly impenetrable security system that exists now. Read more about Golden Shield Project here in wikipedia. As world has started the count down of Beijing Olympics, china has opened up its Golden shield firewall against the world most powerful and popular encyclopedia Wikipedia, says Sydney based free news paper MX. MX, the free commuter magazine claims that the site is accessible in parts of China including its capital Beijing which is gonna host the Olympics.

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April 4th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Music file gets 1000 times smaller than mp3

Rochester UniversityCan you believe that you can compress a music file 1000 times smaller than mp3? Rochester university says ‘yes’ you can do it. Researchers from Rochester university which is one of the recognized private University in New York are able to reproduce and compress a music file nearly 1000 times smaller than the original one. They are able to encode a 20 second clarinet solo music to a molecular size of 1kb recreating in a computer both the real-world physics of a clarinet and the physics of a clarinet player. The achievement was disclosed on April 1st at International Conference on Signal Processing and Acoustics speech at Las Vegas.

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April 3rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment

ZOHO – Google docs alternative

zohoZoho from AdventNet Inc is one of the powerful online word processing software and office suite that exists in the market now. Zoho is based on the Google Gears framework pioneered by Google. Google docs also follows the same Google Gears framework which is scalable and standardized. Unlike Google docs, Zoho is a complete office suite and offers wide range of functionalities like CRM, project management, wikis, note-taking, databases, spreadsheet, word processing etc. Zoho Writer has got offline editing like Goolge docs but introduced way before than Google.

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April 2nd, 2008 | 4 Comments