Information Technology
Slim G4 – World’s Thinnest Mouse
Met the world’s thinnest mouse: the DaoKorea’s Slim G4. It is only 5mm high and about the same size of a PCMCIA card when folded, actually as it has a retractable cable, you can keep it in your notebook’s slot for that card after using.
How to forward e-mail appropriately
A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you’re sure you already follow proper procedures. Do you really know how to [...]
10 Dirty real secrets that you should know about working in IT
If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the “dirty little secrets” listed below may surprise you because we don’t usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you’ve probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to [...]
New Release: urdu phpBB 3.0.2 Released
Assalam-O-Alaikum, We are very pleased to announce the availability of the urdu phpBB 3.0.2 [RC3] package. This version has seen numerous stability fixes, performance tweaks and general bugs fixed. Additionally one minor security-related bug was fixed. With this release, we also include the urdu version of Administration Panel. Also as phpBB also re-introduced the code [...]
Creating Custom Error Messages in Apache
Introduction The .htaccess file is a file found in Apache servers that allows you to manipulate the behaviour of the server. A very common use is to create custom error messages for server errors. Examples of such errors are “404 Not Found” (say when you click on a broken link), and the “500 Internal Server [...]
Keep Snoopers At Bay With A USB Port Blocker
Data theft and introduction of viruses is a prime concern for mobile workers. The USB Port Blocker prevents data thieves from plugging in USB devices to grab your precious data or injecting malware when you’re not looking. So, if you must leave your computer unattended for a brief period of time (or if you’re the [...]
Center of Excellence in IP technologies in Pakistan
PTCL in partnership with CISCO is establishing a center of Excellence in IP technologies at SEECS Campus H-12 NUST on 6th August at 1500 Hrs. The center will comprise one million dollar worth of CISCO Lab Equipment. The future of communication is shifting from a voice and voice related services to Media, IT and Telephony [...]
The Bed that makes itself – Wow
ITALIAN engineer Enrico Berruti admits that it was simply his personal laziness that first prompted him to come up with the idea for a gadget to have a bed that makes itself. Three years later, his first prototype is on show at an International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva. The bed has a contraption at [...]
SEO : A closer look at robot.txt
We (Muhammad Kashif Majeed and I have been looking for internet for information regarding robot.txt, but couldnot find a comprehensive note on robot.txt. after looking through books and getting help from some of my friends i have tried to write this article. this article is not 100% creation of mine. any help and suggestions from [...]
Keep Snoopers At Bay With A USB Port Blocker
Data theft and introduction of viruses is a prime concern for mobile workers. The USB Port Blocker prevents data thieves from plugging in USB devices to grab your precious data or injecting malware when you’re not looking. So, if you must leave your computer unattended for a brief period of time (or if you’re the [...]
Zeno The Tiny Humanoid Robot
Zeno is a robot that can see faces and make eye contact, and learn your face and how to call you by name. Zeno has a camera in one of its eyes and on-board speech recognition. It is also wirelessly connected to the network so it can take advantage of what the makers claim are [...]
Upcoming Release : Urdu phpBB3 RC2 will be released soon
On the occassion of third birthday of Urdu Mehfil me and alqlm is preparing to release the candidate 2 release of urdu phpBB3. this release will be fix of some bugs found in first release and with admin panel in urdu. I will also be adding few templates in installation. also will try to release [...]
Firefox Day : Download record attempt over 8 million downloads in 24 hours
world record for the most downloads in a 24-hour period. More than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in a single day yesterday as the SpreadFirefox campaign attempted to set a The campaign, built around the launch of the Firefox 3 web browser, ended last night. The campaign initially targeted 1.6 million downloads, [...]
How to lock a folder in Windows XP
Copy the following code in Notepad. Now paste it in notepad. Change the “type your password here” with your password (Marked as bold in the above posted matter). Save it as batch file(with extension .bat).Any name will do. Now you see a batch file. Double click it to create a folder locker. A new folder [...]
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