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Teaching computers to read books, Google acquired ReCAPTCHA

December 22nd, 2009 No comments

If you know what ReCAPTCHA is? or understand the picture on the left, good, else read my article  stop spam, read books.

ReCAPTCHA offers simple word puzzles that users must solve when registering at a website or completing an online purchase.

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Web based Operating Systems: Modular, Social and Personal

December 4th, 2009 No comments

Jolicloud Do you need all those applications which come with orthodox operating systems? If all you need to do is to use online social media, web 2.0 and browsing then web 2.0 based OS is the best choice.

Jolicloud is currently at closed alpha testing stage and only offer download on an invitation basis.

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How do we personalize the internet?

December 2nd, 2009 No comments

Semantic WebHunch.com says

It starts by Hunch getting to know you: what do you like; how do you think; who are you? Then, Hunch builds a taste profile mapping your unique tastes & preferences to the people, places and things all around you which you might like. The result is great recommendations that are customized just for you. Read more…

Why ubuntu is the best OS?

October 25th, 2009 No comments

TEMP01 Oct. 19 16.16 I have used RedHat, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Fedora, Slackware, Mandrake & Windows at home, and used Solaris, AIX, HP-UX & RedHat in my career. Never ever i was able to appreciate any OS so much before, but Ubuntu is terrific, awesome and simply great.

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.YourNameHere is available for $185,000

October 24th, 2009 No comments

Forget about having www.YourNameHere.com or www.YourNameHere.net, now you can have www.anything.YourNameHere . But instead of $10 you need to pay $185,000. Expect domain names like .Walmart, .Amazon or .nyc soon. Read more…

How i saved and owned my tweets?

October 21st, 2009 No comments

Do you like the idea of writing something on the web and not able to track it later. On twitter, clicking more became so troublesome that i had to think about backing up my tweets. There are many ways you can archive tweets, use some online services from http://sparrw.com/, http://twistory.net/ & http://tweetbackup.com/. But again that data is not online. So the best way i found out it is: Read more…

Use natural language to edit colors, innovation by Xerox

October 20th, 2009 No comments

This is hard to believe, now i don’t have to search, point and click on yellow color and improve it’s hue and again next yellow. Xerox has done this job easier. Xerox has developed a natural language that allows users to simply describe the color they want without having to deal with the mathematics. This concept is called paint by number.

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Know everything about your computer, No installation

October 9th, 2009 No comments

Windows OS may tell you a lot about your computer, but in case you need to know all the details of hardware and software of your PC you need something else like Belarc Advisor,which is free to download, which could tell you: System Serial Number, Chassis Serial Number, Board Type, Memory modules with slot numbers,

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Blog Update for beta.zenversion.com, I am more on micro-blogging now, using twitter.

October 5th, 2009 No comments

There’s a lot to say and the process of blogging on small topics introduces lag. So apart from this blog, watch out http://twitter.com/yogeshmalik for my regular twitter updates too. If you can’t access twitter directly click on http://www.zenversion.com/yogeshmalik/twitterrss/clean/ to get recent updates.

See How does the internet see you?

October 3rd, 2009 No comments
Yogesh Malik

Want to see how internet characterize your name from a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data? Let the internet create a data portrait of your  aggregated online identity Read more…

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