Pakistan Day, 23rd March 1940. The day when this amazing country’s freedom movement was formally started by passing the Lahore resolution. On this day, I pray that may this country prosper and progress and God bestows this land with peace and harmony. I also appeal my fellow bloggers and every other individual that continue to […]
Month: March 2010
My Facebook profile has Google PR 3
/basit.ali This is quite interesting to notice that my Facebook profile found at http://www.facebook.com/basit.ali has PR 3 out of 10 in Google’s books. I’ve always been curious about Google’s behavior and this one is one of the interesting things that I’ve found so far. This means that for Google, my Facebook profile is as important […]
Apache Tomcat turns ten years old
I don’nt know if it is of any interest to most of my readers but all the Java lovers must have this of significant interest to them. Right from the early days of Servlets and JSPs, I’ve been using Tomcat as my preferred server. This image on Tomcat site draws my attention today. Apache tomcat […]
Facebook Pages can access all your posts
Are you a Fan of something on Facebook?Facebook privacy policy has been creating some stir out on the web already. Like every Facebook user, I have been trying to be careful when posting things on the Facebook. Moreover, I have created friend groups. As I have pre-defined access levels assigned for each of these groups, […]
Google Earth on your Mobile
Do you love Google Earth? Now it is available on your android mobile phone as well. Google earth has already been available on iPhone but obviously for a Google powered android phone, it’s a must have product. I was happy to find out that Google earth is avaiable on Android phones. I immediately pulled out […]
Send Free Text Worldwide. Free SMS for life
This sounds too good to be true but things are moving in that direction. To promote the use of text messages on cell phones in my country, I remember cell phone operators were giving free SMS to subscriber around a decade ago. Once they started using it, it has never been free. Today I will […]
One water bottle can power your whole house
Remember electrolysis from the chemistry class? Yes, the process of separating oxygen and hydrogen by decomposing water. Dan Nocera, an M.I.T chemist claims that he has found a way of using sun-light to perform a photosynthesis like process to generate energy. Nocera’s method will use carbon-dioxide, water and sunlight to convert it into oxygen and […]
Does your phone support a 16 GB Micro SD card?
As we’ve been talking about 16GB memory card’s compatibility and waiting for the 32 GB card to be available, this is a right time to conduct a survey about the compatibility of this card. If you use a 16 GB card on your phone, please do respond to this simple survey. Take 15 seconds Survey
Google Gesture does not work on my Android phone
If you’ve been reading about Google Gesture, the new hand-writing based search mechanism on android phones and have not been able to find it to download, there is nothing to worry about. If you have any OS version that is lower than 2.0, the app will neither install nor will show up in your Android […]
Google search has 4 out of 5 senses if you are on Android
You can touch, you can see, you can hear when you are searching Google on Android phones. Human beings are said to have 5 senses including touch, see, hear, smell and taste and then some of them have a sixth sense too. Android phones can search based on what they see through their camera, what […]