Canadian Software Lets You Turn One Computer Into Two, Completely Free

clipped from www.digitaljournal.com Using software created by an Alberta company, you can get a second computer in your house this holiday season free. In fact, the software is capable of splitting your PC into 10, saving you money and saving the environment at the same time. Digital Journal -- Canadian company Userful is now giving away its Desktop Multiplier software to anyone who wants an extra PC free. The software turns one computer into many, allowing a single computer box to support multiple users at the same time. All you need to do is connect an extra monitor, USB keyboard and mouse to your run-of-the-mill computer box, and the Desktop Multiplier software will make it possible for two people to work on the same PC at the same time. The reason Userful is giving away its software is to prove an environmental point and show just how much "un-tapped value lies hidden in today's desktop PCs," as their company press release reads.

Miro - free open source internet TV

Right at the time when it seemed that joost is gonna get ppl hooked to the internet tv addiction, there comes a new entrant which seems promising enough to offer you more.

Miro, an Open Source Application, promises to deliver better content (including HD, YO MAN!!!), with around 2500+ unrestricted channels as compared to Joost's 250 channels (DRM), it sure looks a good meal in the platter.

go check it out your self and decide...

click here

PipeBytes

PipeBytes is a simple service which allows you to send
a file to a friend.The unique benefits of this service are:

*	No software to install.
*	All you need is web browser.
*	Send files of any size!
*	Your buddy could start downloading file as you upload it. (That makes the file exchange process up to two times faster than other web-based file exhange services!)
*	It's private unlike BitTorrent or other P2P techologies. The file is not shared on Internet - it is sent directly to your recepient.
*	You can watch YouTube videos while file is being transferred!

Here is something really intersting i picked up at some website

Getting Creative with Post-it notes

We all know them. The small yellow pieces of stationary, with the re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back. For some they’re called lifesavers, for others they are just Post-its. Oftenly used to attach notes on boring stuff like computer displays and documents, here’s 17 creative uses of everyone’s friend, the Post-it:

The complete Post-It Portrait of Chris. It took 3 people about 4.5 hours and 1120 Post-It Notes to complete this.

What we did to Walt’s Jaguar on Friday.

This design was made entirely out of post-its. To increase the resolution of the drawing, I ended up cutting the post-its in 16 pieces. Putting everything up on the wall took about 11 hours.

two of my co-workers designed and built this mosaic of the king out of post it notes over the memorial day weekend.

It took 3 days, so we had to post this at night to keep the cleaning crew from undoing our work

A picture of Sonic I made out of Post-It notes on my window at work. This is six stories up and apparently quite visible from the outside.

Spaceinvaders.

Link.

Russel’s room. Amazing!

Post-it lamp

Five Marios

Over 1000 post it notes covering a 2002 blue saturn.

Source: http://www.justkeepthechange.com/getting-creative-with-post-it-notes

An interesting Post

I was just checking my emails when I recd one from my friend. He passed a link which apparently was a blog post, written on how the authors site was hacked and eventually used for promoting the hackers portals.

He realised it when his site was put off google's index and he tried to enquire about the reason for the same.

A good informative post for newbie bloggers out there.

http://justinsomnia.org/2007/08/search-engine-marketeers-are-the-new-script-kiddies/

File Swap

This is by far the most interesting website that I have put on my Blog.

Not just because it beats you on curiosity, but also on its purpose of existence.

www.file-swap.com, is a website that lets you upload a file and give you a random file in return.
These files are legitimate, spamfree, virusfree files.
Its nothing but an adventurous way of sharing files.

" On this web site you can download things like nature photos, photos of people,
wallpapers, audio files, animated icons,
videos or even pdf and text files.
Just upload one of your files and see what you get!"

This is wat the website quotes on its homepage.

So try your luck.

Myntra Custom T-Shirts

This is for the ones in India especially.
If you are a customized t-shirt crazy geek, www.myntra.com, is the place for you.

Its all select, click and buy, cant get ny simpler than that.
If you are interested in bulk orders then contact me and I can get you a good deal struck ;)

Enjoy!

Finally Back

Hey all my dear readers have been extremely sorry for a large gap for which this blog had been idle. Many a things had kept me tied up but here it is back once again. So keep enjoying the stuff and i hope your gonna enjoy it just like you did before.

Ragatech's Milestone of 100 Posts

This marks the success of Ragatech, which completes today its 100 Posts, attributed to Technology.

On this auspicious day, Ragatech can not but only promise you of more informative posts to come and helping enlighten ourselves in the world of oblivious!

Go Ragatech Go!
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The OpenLaszlo Regime

OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.

OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and, with OpenLaszlo 4, DHTML. The OpenLaszlo APIs provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative UI. An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries.

OpenLaszlo is "write once, run everywhere." An OpenLaszlo application developed on one machine will run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems.

visit here

Ajax APIs for RSS mashups by GoOgLe Finally out!

Google has announced a new Ajax Feed API makes it possible to extract information from multiple RSS feeds with only a few simple lines of JavaScript. The API—which allows web developers to retrieve RSS data as either XML or JSON—can be used to build mashups, unique web applications that leverage multiple sources of data and display the results in a useful or innovative manner.

Google's Feed API allows developers to circumvent the same-origin policy—a security mechanism designed to prevent JavaScript code from accessing content associated with a web page from a different domain—without having to manually implement complex server-side proxy mechanisms. The Feed API transparently leverages Google's server-side FeedFetcher, the RSS capture and cache mechanism used by Google Reader.

In order to use the Google Feed API, developers will need to sign up for a special API key that is tied to a specific URL. For instance, if a developer registers a key for http://mysite.com/mydirectory, that key can only be used in pages that are in that directory or its subdirectories. Developers will have to register additional keys for web pages that are stored in other directories or domains.

In my own experimentation with the Google Feed API, I found the performance satisfactory. I initially had some trouble getting the API to retrieve more than four elements at a time, until some developers at Google pointed out that I was neglecting to use the setNumEntries method to increase the maximum number of items. After fixing my test code, I had no problems using the Feed API to retrieve XML and JSON. The Google Feed API is a useful and effective tool for client-side Web 2.0 application development, but the key registration limitations seem like an inconvenience that could hinder adoption.

Source :: http://arstechnica.com/

Powerpoint - The Google Way

No PowerPoint? Google will offer a free alternative

JEFFERSON GRAHAM, USA TODAY
Google is adding another tool in its battle with Microsoft: A free version of presentation software.

The yet-to-be-named software will be included in Google Apps, an online suite that includes free word processing, spreadsheet and calendar programs. Users will work with the program online but will be able to save files and view them offline. It's expected to be available this summer.

Microsoft's PowerPoint, part of the Office suite, is one of the most-used applications for office meetings. Companies pay upward of $300 yearly for Office licenses, making it one of Microsoft's most lucrative franchises.

At the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco, Google CEO Eric Schmidt denied, as he has in the past, that the online tools are aimed at luring people away from Microsoft.

"We believe we can bring presentations to a new level of user satisfaction," he said. "We don't think it competes with Microsoft, because it doesn't have all the functionality of Office. It's a different way of sharing information, more casual, and a better fit to how people use the Web."

Mike McGuire, an analyst at researcher Gartner, doesn't buy it. He says "it's getting harder to take comments like that at face value. Of course Google is taking on Microsoft. Microsoft has lots to worry about."

McGuire doesn't think Microsoft's large base of corporate clients will immediately abandon Office, "but for individuals, Google is offering a strong, free alternative and people will look at it very seriously."

Google announced a deal Friday to buy online ad firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, which Microsoft contends violates antitrust rules. The deal is Google's biggest ever, following its $1.6 billion acquisition of video-sharing site YouTube last year.

On Monday, Google announced an alliance with radio broadcaster Clear Channel that lets users of Google's online advertising network buy radio ads directly from their computer.

Schmidt said he is delighted at having YouTube in the Google family, despite controversy over unauthorized video clips showing up on the service. Viacom has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google. On Tuesday, Schmidt said he thinks the company is just "negotiating" to get a settlement. He said Google will soon introduce a tool to take down unauthorized clips automatically, "which will make all of this moot."

Source:: http://indystar.gns.gannett.com/

Attribute nightmare in IE

clipped from tobielangel.com I've had this article in mind for a while, as I have fiddling with Internet Explorer's crazy handling of attributes in order to patch Prototype's $$() utility. Well, fiddling wasn't cutting the deal, so I ended up doing some large scale testing (basically running thousands of test using a sample HTML 4.01 document from W3C) to try to figure out what was going on. element.foo === element.getAttribute('foo') Obviously, that is a completely broken implementation, as getAttribute('foo') is supposed to return the attribute as set in the document, not the corresponding DOM element's attribute. To exemplify: <a href="http://tobielangel.com/index.html" onclick="alert('Back home!')">Home</a> element.getAttribute('href'); // -> "http://tobielangel.com/index.html" in IE // -> "/index.html" in well behaved browsers If you read Internet Explorer's online documentation, you'll notice that it's implementation of getAttribute() is a bit particular, as it takes a second optional argument called an iFlag.

Thinkature ! IM meets Workspace Collaboration

Thinkature is a cross between an online chat and workspace utility

It brings the potential of chatting and using the workspace along with your mates.
Whats more is that u have unlimited workspaces and the workspaces are persistent so you dont need to save them. Also they are quite feature rich and extremely flexible.
You should definitely try this one out

Using Google Maps To Get Free Phone Calls

clipped from www.thesimpledollar.com Let’s say hypothetically that I’m sitting at work in the greater Des Moines, Iowa area and I want to pick up a delicious pizza from Papa Murphy’s on my way home from work. Unfortunately, though, I can’t call out from work to non-business numbers, though I can receive phone calls. Ah-ha! I go to Google Maps, type in “Papa Murphys West Des Moines IA and see the following: See the “call” link I have circled in red? If you click that link, you’ll be asked to enter your telephone number. As soon as you click submit, your telephone will ring. Pick it up, wait a few seconds, and you’re connected for free to the business. No charges to you at all, and no outgoing call charges. This is spectacularly useful if you have any sort of long distance charges or if you have outgoing call charges on your telephone, whether it be a land line or a cellular phone. What’s the drawback? So far, I haven’t found a drawback - it’s not always useful, but quite often it can save me some cash.

Windows v/s Linux

somethng cool that I found on the Internet

It's really hard to miss how Linux and Windows are relatively judged in the tech blogosphere. Consider the following attributes and their praise or criticism, completely based on what operating system they happen to accompany:

1. A free graphics program bundled with the system.
(a) On Windows: Cool! A free paint program! Hey, everybody, check out this awesome pixel-art I did!
(b) On Linux: The interface is completely wrong! It needs to be just like Photoshop!

2. The system has a command line.
(a) On Linux: It's this archaic dependency on outdated interfaces that is holding Linux back.
(b) On Windows: The new Windows Power Shell innovation is a bold leap forward that gives Windows more power! Order your copy for $100 today!

3. The system search feature.
(a) On Windows: It's easy, all you do is type "command line folder:interactions type:doc myfile" to quickly locate your file!
(b) On Linux: This is just the problem with the command line I'm talking about! "Locate myfile" will never be something the average person can remember to type in.

4. Lots of distros.
(a) On Linux: The lack of standardization is a huge stumble. Having too many choices is confusing for the end user. Even if it were narrowed down to just Ubuntu and Kubuntu, that's still too many.
(b) On Windows: The Vista editions run to Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate, or you can stay with XP or 2000, and even NT and Me and 98 SE are still out there. Giving a consumer their choice is what makes capitalism work!

5. Charity.
(a) On Windows: Gates gives away a portion of income to charity, so I know I'm doing something good for the community just by buying Windows.
(b) On Linux: The whole damned operating system is free in the first place so you can donate your own money how you want? Well, then, that just goes to show that they're all anti-establishment hippies, doesn't it?

6. Support.
(a) On Linux: Nobody knows it, nobody understands it, it's too difficult to learn.
(b) On Windows: Anybody with a copy of "Windows for Dummies", an MSCE certificate, and a paid-up per-incident MS Live support account can administer this baby.

7. User education.
(a) On Windows: Sure I had to re-learn how to do everything going from Word 2003 to Word 2007, but it's worth it for all the extra features and improvements in it.
(b) On Linux: It doesn't work just like Windows! Waaaahhhhhhh!

8. Tabbed Browsing.
(a) On Linux: Yeah, yeah, so Firefox has tabs. Can somebody get the fanboi out of here, please?
(b) On Windows: The IE 7 tab feature is a Microsoft innovation that changed my life forever.

9. Daylight Savings Time.
(a) On Windows: The heroic efforts of the developers and system administrators to apply all the patches in time was a touching moment in IT teamwork.
(b) On Linux: Yeah, yeah, so the system automatically corrected itself while you slept! Can somebody get the fanboi out of here, please?

10. Cost.
(a) On Linux: Mysteriously, the fact that the software is free somehow causes training and support costs to be 100x as much as for Windows, wherever it's reported.
(b) On Windows: Mysteriously, the additional cost for installing each piece of commercial software, having to upgrade hardware, lost productivity due to downtime, buying an anti-virus program, and taking the box to the shop every two weeks to clean it out is never mentioned anywhere.

UPDATE: A comment in the Ubuntu forums linking here does mention that the Daylight Savings Time change did have some glitches on some systems. All I can say is that my 3 installed Linux boxen (Slackware, grml, and Damn Small) handled the change nicely (I keep them updated). But then I just have a home set-up, not an enterprise-class network.

Cool Site Design

There are only a few websites on the web that make me go "Damn! Thats Sleeek!!!"

Here is just one of them
Its a very neatly designed site plus has a great concept have a go.

http://specials.washingtonpost.com/onbeing/

For The Google Map Addicts

I was strolling the web when i found this blog. For all the avid enthusiasts of google maps and those who want to follow it very closely heres a very neat blog. I have no idea who the author of the blog is but he really is crazy about google maps i reckon. I enjoyed my visit on the blog and i am sure you would too.

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

BeleniX

clipped from www.genunix.org BeleniX is an OpenSolaris Distribution with a Live CD (runs directly off the CD). It includes all the features of OpenSolaris and adds a whole variety of opensource packages. It can be installed to harddisk as well. BeleniX is free to use, modify and distribute. The BeleniX LiveCD allows you to test drive OpenSolaris in less than 2 minutes. BeleniX can also be installed to USB thumb drive allowing you to carry your operating environment, apps and data in your pocket. The LiveUSB boots even faster than the CD ! BeleniX 0.5.1 DVD Edition Released! belenix.org: Website Revamped BeleniX 0.5.1 Released Belenix boots from a USB drive ! BeleniX 0.5 Released BeleniX is released under the CDDL license version 1. However all the software in BeleniX are covered by their respective licenses (eg. GPL, LGPL, BSD etc).

Funniest Post I Ever Saw

Another desperate guys attempt to prove why linux can never overtake Windows

As quoted by him
"Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Posted by: jerryleecooper Posted on: 03/14/07 "