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UC Browser 7.9 – Smooth your browsing

siripuramrk — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:07:28 +0000

Windows 8 to have Hybrid Boot Process, 2 Sec

siripuramrk — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:52:40 +0000

Slow Windows booting has been main point of argument from Mac & Linux users but it looks things will change with Windows 8.

Facebook has more 30,000+ Servers

siripuramrk — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:50:15 +0000

How many servers does Facebook have? For some time now, the stock answer has been “more than 10,000 servers,” a number the company began using in April 2008. Facebook has continued to use that number, even as it has soared past 300 million users and dramatically expanded its data center space.

Facebook has 30,000 servers supporting its operations. That number comes from Jeff Rothschild, the vice president of technology at Facebook, who discussed the company’s infrastructure in a presentation last week at UC San Diego.

That places Facebook among the largest Internet companies that have publicly discussed their server counts, but still well behind hosting providers Rackspace, 1&1 Internet and OVH, which each house more than 50,000 servers in their data centers. See Who Has The Most Web Servers for more date on the largest infrastructures.

20,000 Servers In 18 Months

It also suggests that Facebook has added about 20,000 servers since early 2008, which explains why it borrowed $100 million in May 2008 to fund server purchases.

Rothschild also shared some huge numbers associated with Facebook’s photo storage operation, which now stores 80 billion images (20 billion images, each in four sizes). Rothschild said the real challenge isn’t storage, but delivery. ”We serve up 600,000 photos a second,” he said.

25 Terabytes of Log Data – Daily

The amount of log data amassed in Facebook’s operations is staggering. Rothschild said Facebook manages more than 25 terabytes of data per day in logging data, which he said was the equivalent of about 1,000 times the volume of mail delivered daily by the U.S. Postal Service.

Rothschild also discussed the effectiveness of the company’s engineering operations. Facebook currently has about 230 engineers on staff, who manage data for more than 300 million users. Rothschild said that having one engineer for more than 1 million active users has been a consistent historic ratio at Facebook. ”We believe engineers at Facebook have a dramatic impact.”

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Nokia Brand new Icons for smartphones

siripuramrk — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:50:07 +0000

live TV Channels mostly working in symbain S60 & S40 mobiles [Mobile TV]

siripuramrk — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:48:49 +0000

NASA releases web app to take you to space

siripuramrk — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:56:45 +0000

NASA‘s released a method for you to play around in space right from your living room. They’ve launched their ‘Eyes on the Solar System’ 3D environment, which is a web-based browser application that provides a 3D version of the solar system for you to venture in. The app uses video game technology, which lets you control what you’re seeing, or your point of view, from anywhere in the solar system, it speeds up time so you can see how the planets move (rotation and revolution), you can see planetary satellites and NASA spacecraft.

NASA’s app lets you control space and time

You need to download the Eyes on the Solar System web app (click here for download). You need to have downloaded the Unity Web Player for Mac and PC in order to use the app. Once that’s done, you can venture out to space, flying around the sun, the planets and asteroids, controlling space and time. NASA has also created custom modules which highlight their missions, such as Juno, the probe that was launched recently and is on a five year mission to Jupiter. You can also keep track of the locations of NASA’s current spacecraft with NASA’s actual mission data.

“This is the first time the public has been able to see the entire solar system and our missions moving together in real time,” said Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington. “It demonstrates NASA’s continued commitment to share our science with everyone.”

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Girls in a tech world

siripuramrk — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:15:13 +0000

Airtel GPRS packs Rs.174 & Rs.274 for long term

siripuramrk — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:05:15 +0000

Manage Multiple Cloud Services From One Place

siripuramrk — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:08:57 +0000

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Download GTA 3 For Your Mac From The Mac App Store

siripuramrk — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:04:41 +0000

If you’ve been an ardent gamer on the PlayStation 2 as well as the Windows PC, there is no doubt that you do not know about the phenomena that is Grand Theft Auto. We’ve seen some amazing games in the GTA series on a variety of platforms, but GTA 3 was particularly one of the most successful games on the aforementioned platforms. Now, much to Mac users delight, Grand Theft Auto 3 has been ported over to the Mac.

Crime does pay.

The hugely successful, highly controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise moves into three dimensions in the dark and seedy underworld of Liberty City.

With the freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto III puts the dark, intriguing and ruthless world of crime at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.

The fact that over a decade has passed ever since Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto 3 back in 2001 and it still hasn’t lost its appeal, gives us all the more reason to be excited about the fact that its finally been ported to the Mac. Grand Theft Auto 3 was the first game in the whole franchise that was released in full 3D over 10 years back in 2001.

Most of us have grown up playing this game, so we obviously have an idea of what the gameplay of GTA 3 is like. If you haven’t played this game ever, and have a Mac, it is our strong recommendation that you download and play this. Basically, the character that you play Grand Theft Auto 3 with, is a mute and throughout the whole game, you can try as hard as you won’t but the damn thing won’t utter a single word regardless of the fact that he can wreak havoc in the whole city, steal cars, kill people and do a lot of dirty jobs for dirty people.

Grand Theft Auto 3 is nominally priced at $14.99 in the Mac App Store. Its a 705 MB download and requires you to be 17 or older to download it.

You must be running Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later in order to download and play GTA 3 on yourIf you’ve been an ardent gamer on the PlayStation 2 as well as the Windows PC, there is no doubt that you do not know about the phenomena that is Grand Theft Auto. We’ve seen some amazing games in the GTA series on a variety of platforms, but GTA 3 was particularly one of the most successful games on the aforementioned platforms. Now, much to Mac users delight, Grand Theft Auto 3 has been ported over to the Mac.