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Futuristic Military Transformers Technology Revealed by Texas Firms

This is 'Combaticons' news after all, though it does not involve giant gestalt bot fights :). It's like something out of a "Transformers" movie. Or perhaps "The Jetsons" -- if you're old enough to remember that space-age cartoon. The Pentagon office in charge of looking at futuristic technology has asked industry for ideas on whether it's feasible to build a vehicle that can be driven -- and flown. And a fledgling Fort Worth business, AVX Aircraft Co., says yeah, we can do that -- if you give...

Reinforcing TransMY With Facebook Pages

I have long abandoned TransMY's Facebook Page, and today I plan to jazz them up a little by sprinkling some oldies in the photo galleries. It is in such a disarray as my concentration towards the main site has left this page sidelined for sometime. Oh well, it does not need much work as membership have been steady there for about 200+ people. Since the page has been made autopilot earlier, interactions still occur but in a very minimal and sporadic manner. It seems like audience knew who...

Is Facebook Irreplaceable?

Once upon a time, not so long ago, MySpace was the top social network in the land. Eventually, Facebook took over that role, and has not looked back since. Earlier this year, the company announced that it had over 400 million users, then at its developer conference, Facebook made what could be seen as its biggest announcement ever - the Open Graph. Since then, despite a growing amount of interest and discussion around whether or not people should delete their Facebook profiles, Facebook is...

Social Media: A No Go Zone For Personal Revelation

Overly social can 'kill' you. This news is not surprising as the entire world of internet users are littered with vain, narcissistic and naive people. Believe it or not, that more than half, approx 52% of users in US have revealed too much of themselves than they should have. Biggest mistake of all is revealing your real date of birth. I rarely reveal date of birth. Though if I have to, I will put FAKE date of births. Realistically fake or obviously fake is basically up to you. The only...

Rules To Success by Jonathan Rosenberg

This is one awesome talk from one of the bigshots in Google. I admit at times i needed something like this to get me going. What else is more refreshing than a good motivational talk especially if you are a self-employed...

Facebook’s New Face

For those who haven't got your new Facebook layout, you might be in the queue. Seems like Facebook is doing it stage by stage. I got mine 'activated' yesterday (Friday). The latest layout had not much difference apart from the menu placements. On other words, they look pretty 'slimlined' Here is the news quoted from AP; "Facebook is redesigning its site yet again, this time to better emphasize applications, games and search. Links and items have moved around the home page as Facebook...

My EPN Terminated

I received a termination email today from EPN. They told me that I am not driving them any traffic. Yes, I admit part of that was true. My only sole blog that runs on EPN is my real estate blog and that blog was hacked few weeks ago. Not only they managed to temper in my account but they also manage to delete the whole posting that I have done over the years. My SQL database for that blog was literally wiped out. I managed to google for the perpetrator's hideout and those punks had...

Youtube To Be Televised Soon

YouTube, the colossal video site with a scale owned by Google, is going to be on our screens soon. They will be channeled and televised whilst maintaining their presence online. Youtube before Google's acquisition, started off as a small video sharing site founded by a trio, who were ex-staffs of Paypal; Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. This decision was made taking into consideration the daily frequency of Youtube users. Good move. “Our average user spends 15 minutes a day on the...

Carmen In the House!

Carmen is in the house today! No, not Carmen Electra or any two-legged walking Carmens, I am referring to Wordpress 2.9 codename 'Carmen' (aww, sexay)! Its time to upgrade again folks! I have upgraded all my Wordpress powered blogs to 2.9 today and all is fine, except some minor glitches. First of all, after you have upgraded it, some of you might be presented with this error:- "Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLPROTO_FILE cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an...

Mozilla’s Ally is The French Army

Everyone knows that Microsoft is an overrated bully in the computing world, and to have the French army siding a contender, Mozilla is really an inspiring thing that shows non-Microsoft products are at par with Microsoft's that even a defense force as big (and professional) as French army had so much confidence in Mozilla's email client. At least for Mozilla, a long standing believer in open source, their efforts had paid off eventually by having a strong ally on their side. Thunderbird has...