Infotech

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Facebook: to leave or not to leave?

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Dear lord! What is this? Is this thing meant for the visually impaired? – Mayukh De, on the New Facebook Profiles. Well if you ask me, I kind of like the profile summary that sits at the top. Languages I speak is also a welcome addition. But the design is a #FAIL! Apart from the [...]

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Struggling In 1500 B.C.

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Life thousands of years ago must have been difficult. Guess what, today studies took a backseat as I played Civilization 4: Beyond The Sword. So for a greater part of the day I found myself struggling with the game. It has been 2 weeks or so I joined, after ignoring at least a thousand requests [...]

Natives and Immigrants In The Digital World

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Drawing lines between the digital immigrants and digital natives.

Bangla Writing Software

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Most Bongs must have tried to write in Bangla on their computer at some point of time or other, with or without success. Well Avro is one great software that really makes writing Bangla – on a Windows platform – piece of cake, thanks to its english-to-bangla phonetic typing feature. In fact it is the [...]

Kevin Mitnick’s website hacked

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Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick’s website was hacked on last Sunday. Explicit messages were being displayed on his 4 websites defensivethinking.com, mitsec.com, kevinmitnick.com and mitnicksecurity.com . The hackers are believed to be operating from Pakistan. Mitnick spent five years behind bars for wire and computer fraud after being caught by FBI in 1995. Since his release [...]

Wiki World

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I don’t know how many of you have already done this…but all of should go to www.wikimapia.com and check it out. It’s something like Google-Earth…basically you can zoom into any part of the world real close. You can identify your house, college…it’s pretty cool! I got so excited the first time I saw it…I was [...]