The 25 Most Modern Libraries in the World

Libraries aren’t just musty places to store books with librarians shushing anyone who makes a peep. They’ve become much more than that and the modern library is often home to sleek architecture and the latest technology. These 25 libraries, in no particular order, demonstrate how libraries have become part of the cutting edge of information management, design and Web technology, and all of them can help you get some ideas on how to bring your library into the future.Architecture While traditional libraries still abound, these libraries have opted...

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Google, Facebook Battle For Computer Science Grads. Salaries Soar.

Google and Facebook are fighting hard to hire this years crop of computer science graduates, we’ve heard, and ground zero is Stanford. Most of the class of 2008 already have job offers even though graduation is months away. Last year, salaries of up to $70,000 were common for the best students. This year, Facebook is said to be offering $92,000, and Google has increased some offers to $95,000 to get their share of graduates. Students with a Masters...

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How my desktop look like…

There has been a meme going in the blogosphere about how does your desktop look like. So all those who are tagged by some other post a snapshot their desktop.Well i am not being tagged by anyone for my desktop , but i like share my desktop with all my readers so i m posting about my desktop right now.Here is a snapshot hows my desktop look li...

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Welcome 2008 and 2007 round up

Hi , to all the readers of Technix Update , wish you all a happy and a prosperous 2008 ahead.Technix Update had gone through much up and down in the first half of 2007 ,when I lost almost all the post database of my posts and had to start from the scratch ,but with time it attains new heights both in terms of traffic and readership got PR5 with increased traffic.I have learned a lot from 2007 will use it in 2008, I will try as much as possible to keep posting about the topics as per readers interest.Proposed Plan for 20...

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Technix Update Finally Moved to new web host

After facing some issues , finally we were able to move Technix Update from the old web host ( lunarpages.com ) to the server with new web host ( zzhosting.com ).As the lunarpages offered to us upgrade our account from basic hosting to vps hosting with an approximate amount of 600$ excluding the cost for moving the data from the server which is 75$ per hour job for them. All these charges forced us to change our web host.For those who are interested in reading, let me tell you guys the story in detail.On the weekend( 3 and 4th may ) we decided...

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Proto.in The Startup Community Event in India.

Proto.in is the premier Startup Community Event that happens in India. It is about giving entrepreneurs a platform to express their visions and showcase their imagination, with a working prototype, for the world to see. It’s about increasing partnership, collaboration and mindshare among a distinguished, qualified and well-connected audience. Proto.in provides a unique platform for promising startup talent to communicate their creativity and innovation potential.Proto.in strive by their mantra — Create, Contribute, Collaborate.Event is happening...

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Guest Bloggers Needed

Hi guysI am on a vacation right now till 15 jun, writing this post from a internet cafe in aligarh. I won’t be able to blog so, would like to invite all the fellow bloggers who would like to write for TechnixUpdate.comTechnixUpdate.com is about computer tips and tricks so we can accept any article on computer tips and tricks. In return you will get a link back at the end of the post and the winner whoese post recieves highest amount of traffic will get a 125* 125 banner ad in the sidebar for one month for free.If you are interested, mail us your...

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Greasemonkey “gmail skins” scripts to customize gmail interface to make it look smarter

Lots of people including me are just bored of seeing the same gmail interface again & again. Gmail itself doesn’t offer any customizations on it appearance.But don’t worry there are other ways to give gmail a different look to make it look much better both in terms of functionality and appearan...

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Gmail Hack Series Part 2..How to move Chat on the right in Gmail Interface

This post is the second trick or hack that can be applied to gmail with greasemonkey extenstion in firefox…as the one i have discussed in my previous mail about Today i am going to tell all readers about how can we move the “Gmail Chat ” to the right of the gmail interface as shown below in the ima...

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Download free greasemonkey scripts and hacks for enhancing the functionality of your browser.

Presenting you the top five greasemonkey scripts which are pretty useful in our day to day netsurfing i hope you may find them intersting…Requirement:For using these scripts you need to have firefox installed at your machine and also greasemonkey extension should be installed and if you don’t have firefox or greasemonkey extension pls install them first.Get Firefox / Get GreasemonkeyHere they ar...

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No need to remember or enter username and password hack or trick for yahoo mail!

This post is an answer to a question raised by a reader “Sumit” a very good friend of mine. He asked about “Some way for “remembering yahoo id n password” in the yahoomail” here is your answer in this post.There are so many ways of making your password remembered in yahoo mail..likeSome of them are..1.AI Roboform Toolbar with Fire...

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How to Hack or Recover Password of Instant Messengers and Internet Explorer for free.

This is the first time I am writing about some freeware hacking utilites for recovering passwords .There are large no. of softwares available in the market for recovering password of various instant messengers , also for recovering the passwords stored in various other email clients used now a days and other passwords stored in internet explorer and other applications . So I am going to share some information about these utilities with my reade...

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How to use Patch It To Run Multiple Instances of Yahoo Messenger.

Patch It is a new patch which will allow you to run multiple instances of Yahoo! Messenger.It almost supports all the versions of yahoo messengers released till yet.How To Run Multiple Instances Yahoo Messenger With Patch...

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Stop Gtalk and yahoo messenger to load automatically at startup.

It happens some times when you remove some particular program like yahoo messenger ,gtalk from system startup. But when you restart your system these programs get loaded again. When you open msconfig will see a new entry for yahoo messenger in the startup tab.This happens because there is a option being checked in yahoo messenger which says automatically adds yahoo messenger to system startup when ever you run yahoo messenger.(as shown in the image...

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Hide your online status on yahoo from various services like buddy spy

Now a days ,there are large number of applications and services available on web to track your online or offline status activity of your yahoo ID.If you want to pretend your self offline to all these applications from where your friends or buddies would be tracking your online offline status , you just need to set a simple option which is available Account Information Section of your yahoo id.Let see how can check that option which says: Check the...

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By pass blocking firewall restrictions using HTTP-Tunnel-Client

We have written numerous articles on how can you access blocked web sites like at your work place listed below.By pass download limit restrictions and access any blocked site with ultrasurfAccess blocked, banned websites like orkut, myspace, facebook from school or office part 1.How to access blocked or restricted orkut or any site with proxy but without using any proxy servers for free.How to access restricted orkut by free proxy servers available...

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Tweet your blog RSS feed on twitter with twitterfeed

I just found a cool way of sharing your latest articles with your twitter followers if you are blogger or a person writing some thing on the internet.I just got this idea from some of the fellow blogger’s so, I am assuming that most of the people already know about twitterfeed.For those who don’t knowAs it says in the tag line of twitterfeed says: “feed your blog to twitter” you can use twitterfeed free service to tweet your latest articles you publish...

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Change your network connection settings with a shortcut on your desktop

If you are a laptop user like me, who needs to configure network settings every now and then to connect to your internet at your home place and at your office, you will definitely love this application called net profilesNet Profiles is a freeware which help you configure the internet connection with a single mouse click, it allows you to switch in between the various network profiles you create through the application.Net Profiles saves your network...

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Monitor your internet bandwidth usage with Netlimiter

I remember one of my friend was facing a problem some time back, when some application start using the internet bandwidth on his computer because of some unknown reason, due to which the limited bandwidth usage in his mtnl broadband plan got exceeded.NetLimiter, is a software which comes to rescue in these types of situation as you can know how much internet bandwidth is being used by any program on your system.NetLimiter is useful program which...

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Download YouTube video via bookmark with All-In-One Video Bookmarklet

There are numerous ways to download youtube videos but most of the methods either require downloading software or some user script to be installed at the user end.At the end using the software or the user script becomes tedious for a layman user, but there can be a simple way out also to download any youtube videos.You can simply download any youtube video just by clicking a bookmark in firefox or opera It involves a simple link which you need to...

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How to access restricted orkut by free proxy servers available for orkut.

Lot of people are going crazy when it comes to orkut as it has proved to be one of the biggest and rocking social network like myspace.But in most of the offices and colleges , but don’t worry as there are hell lot of proxy servers available for orkut through which you can by pass the restriction of orkut access from your office or college ,school.Read the rest of this ent...

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How to access blocked or restricted orkut or any site with proxy but without using any proxy servers for free.

A lot of people here in india and in other countries has become so addictive to orkut that they have become so curious to know every minute whether did they receive any new scrap.So What is the Problem ?The main problem that now a days orkut has been banned in many of the corporate offices and other institutions due to which people are not able to access orkut.So people use various proxies like..http://www.jumboproxy.net http://www.kproxy.com/ Kproxy But normally these “servers are overloaded with chunks of traffic please try after sometime“.“So...

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How to read scraps of any orkut scrapbook as rss feeds on your mobile phone or pc without login to orkut.

These days orkut popularity is on its peak with its wide usage. In india itself it is becoming more popular day by day as lots of orkut users (some friends of mine) are more curious to know after every minute if they receive any new scrap from their friends.So today i would like to dedicate this post for all those who want to know every second about any new scrap and this too with out being required to login to orkut.Read the rest of this ent...

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Access blocked, banned websites like orkut, myspace, facebook from school or office part 1.

Almost most of us normally face the situation when we try access a particular website like orkut, myspace, facebook and any other banned website from school, college or office we get the message at the browser which normally says “This Website is blocked“.So ,Today i will share the solution: ” How to get access to the websites like orkut , facebook and myspace etc. from your work location part 1. “Well there are numerous number of ways to do this is to use some free proxy server address that you can hunt for but most of the time they don’t work...

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By pass download limit restrictions and access any blocked site with ultrasurf

After a long time a good proxy software has forced me to write about proxy related stuff, this one is called UltraSurf which is best tunnelling software I have used till now.Previously I had written about JAP which is again a good tunnelling software to access blocked sites but has some connectivity issues some times when connecting to proxy servers and little bit slow at the same time.Ultrasurf is a easy to use proxy software, as there is no need to install it, just double click the program exe to start it and it auto configures the Internet Explorer...

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The future is near and a great digital artist shows us how he imagines it with technology in real life.this portfolio is a kind of overview of what one should expect in the near future. Blutsbruder Design includes in its “Advertising” some interesting work on gadgets could very soon be fully integrated into our everyday lives, ranging from glasses with a wealth of information on the interactive map, everything is possible.It should be noted that...

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New MySQL Fork Turns Back The Clock

Drizzle is a newly announced fork of the open source MySQL project. The developers of the project are taking MySQL back to its roots as a light-weight web application database by removing many of the features introduced in MySQL 5. The fifth version of MySQL was in development for years as some users demanded features such as views, stored procedures, transaction handling, clustering and more. The early releases were bulkier and not as stable as the ultra-popular version 4 of MySQL, and now somebody has forked the codebase into a new project to...

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Running, Jumping, Standing Still

It hasn’t been a month yet and the parachutes are floating at Microsoft. Kevin Johnson’s sudden move to Juniper Networks comes less than 24 hours before the Microsoft analysts meeting. This is the new Microsoft, where Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie start running the company. It’s also the beginning of the end for the classic power centers at Microsoft - and not a moment too soon.In Ballmer’s internal memo, he names names, starting with Apple in a rare acknowledgement that Curpertino is causing some actual pain to the North. Of course, says Ballmer,...

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Microsoft Acquires Datallegro

Microsoft announced today that they have acquired data warehousing application provider Datallegro for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition was run out of the Data and Storage Platform division at Microsoft, with an intention to integrate the Datallegro application into Microsoft SQL Server and the data application suite. Microsoft are rapidly building out their data services offerings and have made a number of acquisitions as part of their strategy to compete in the enterprise market. Microsoft recently also acquired Zoomix, an Israeli company...

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Atlassian Announce JIRA Studio Hosted With Contegix

Atlassian has announced the availability of their JIRA Studio suite as a hosted Saas service. JIRA Studio is a hosted integration of popular Atlassian products starting with the JIRA issue tracker and Confluence, their wiki and knowledge management product. Atlassian has partnered with Contegix to provide the hosting for the new suite of applications.The JIRA Studio solution includes issue tracking, wiki software, SVN repository management, a single-sign on server and continuous integration. The solution as a whole is a development community and/or...

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MindTouch Revamps Enterprise Collaboration Platform

Open source wiki developer MindTouch has recently announced Kilen Woods, the newest version of its collaboration and knowledge management platform. The version is the companies latest attempt to beef up their wiki collaboration interface.Users now have access to an expanded set of adapters to various systems and web-services including Salesforce, SugarCRM, LinkedIn, MySQL, Microsoft Access, VisiFire, PrinceXML and several more. With access to a greater number of useful applications and databases users are able generate more comprehensive workflows...

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Top 10 Best Ever Hackers

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AppFresh Preview 6

→ AppFresh Development Preview 6 (Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 only)We are very happy to finally announce the new Development Preview 6 release of AppFresh. It comes with a new three-pane user interface that we think is much cleaner and more flexible than the old two-pane layout. The three-pane layout gives the room for new and customizable categories in the left pane. You can now even create your own categories and add applications using drag&drop. Besides a nearly complete rewrite of the AppFresh core components we added some new features that...

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AppFresh 0.7

We are happy to announce AppFresh 0.7. We have worked hard to make AppFresh more stable and improve integration with our application version information provider of choice iusethis. AppFresh now not only shows which of your applications are marked as used in your profile, it also shows applications from your profile which are not yet on your machine, enabling you to install those applications with a single click. We also added support for grouping applications together in AppFresh, so you can merge 1Passwd and its InputManager or Divx and its Preference...

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Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson

Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.Top Posts From OctoberWell October was an interesting month. In some cases I was pretty good at predicting which posts...

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Gallery: From Tiny Machines to Security, the Future of Nano-Fabrication

LOS ANGELES -- As nanomachines move beyond just prototypes, a potential industry of microscopic mass production awaits its own Henry Ford to make it a reality. In anticipation of this demand, researchers at a nanotech lab at UCLA are mass-producing billions of customizable microparticles using a machine normally found in the microchip fabrication industry. Lead by Dr. Thomas Mason, the team has created microscale letters to illustrate the possibilities...

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The Mythbusters Want You! Retry on the Solar Death Ray

A few years ago I started finding sticks around the yard covered with strange messages that looked like they had been seared right into the wood. It turned out that the unknown words were names sacred to the world of Bionicles -- and that one of his friends had taught my son how to set fire to things with a magnifying glass.After laying down some parameters (I grew suspicious when he said that something smelled "like burning ants") I agreed to let...

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Amazing Stat: California Uses More Gas than China

Given all the news coverage about the rise of the Chinese economy, you could be forgiven for thinking that the world's most populous country is hogging all the world's resources, while the developed nations are fighting for scraps. But, at least with transportation fuel, you'd be wrong. California alone uses more gasoline than any country in the world (except the US as a whole, of course). That means California's 20 billion gallon gasoline and diesel...

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Last-Ditch Resort: Move Polar Bears to Antarctica?

Some scientists think we may need to give polar bears a new view — in the Antarctic.Photo: Jonathan Hayward/AP If the most dire climate predictions come to pass, the Arctic ice cap will melt entirely, and polar bears could face extinction. So why not pack a few off to Antarctica, where the sea ice will never run out? It may seem like a preposterous question. But polar bears are just the tip of the "assisted colonization" iceberg. Other possibilities:...

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The Ultimate Blog Post

While blogging has only reached prominence in the last few years, it was actually invented by the ancient Romans who built a majestic blog in 200 BC from marble, granite and links they stole from the Greeks."Blog" itself is short for "weblog," which is short for "we blog because we weren't very popular in high school and we're trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people."Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it. One...

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Free ASP.NET Hosting for UK Students

In the past when talking to students about ASP.NET one common criticism is the prohibitive cost of ASP.NET hosting in the UK. I have been told numerous time by students that they can get Apache/PHP/MySQL hosting for next to nothing or even free but Windows based hosting is unaffordable. Based on this feedback we have been working with Webfusion to offer ASP.NET hosting to all UK students for free!The free hosting includes:Windows Server 2008, IIS 7, 500 MB disk space SQL Server 2005 database Support for ASP.NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, classic ASP and PHP...

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The Big Secret Key to High School Success

Image courtesy of Ul Marga I am currently in my second semester of my second last year of high school, and looking back on all that I’ve learned, I realised that there was something I really wish someone had told me on my very first day of the ninth grade. If I knew then what I knew now, I would have payed much closer attention and been a lot more successful. I wouldn’t have gotten that blasted 64% in math last year and hurt my chances of getting...

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