Searching in UNIX command-line can be a very frustrating task. Often we forget the path where we had saved our files or we have no idea where our files have been downloaded or saved.  In these situations the “find” command can be a life-saver. Continuing with our stone of the VIM Navigation, I have focused on the ‘find’ command in this stone. This command is an extremely handy tool for programmers in shell scripting and [...]

According to Experian Hitwise, Facebook, the social networking giant, overtook Google for the first time for the top searched term in 2010. Facebook was not only the most searched term of the year, but it passed Google as most-visited website in 2010 for the first time and accounted for 8.93 percent of all U.S. visits in 2010 (January – November) . It conquered Google (7.19%), Yahoo Mail (3.52%), Yahoo (3.30%) and YouTube (2.65%) to claim [...]

In recent weeks, the internet witnessed its “first world war” after WikiLeaks leaked out top secret US Documents to public. It sent shock waves around the world with several intelligence secrets being revealed. There was furore among various government organisations with the Pentagon branding WikiLeaks to be “Threat to their national security” and the British Government arresting the main man behind WikiLeaks – Jullian Assange on rape charges. Some people who were against this whistle-blowing [...]

Everyone loves chatting. Like it or not Facebook is the most popular website on the internet and it links more people than any other network. If you, like me feel that its chat window is a little too small then an IM for Facebook is just what you need.  And so keeping that in mind, today we look at, Chit Chat for Facebook. The Facebook login application, Chit Chat, was launched in August of 2009, [...]

The internet is an ocean of information. Whenever we need to learn something we immediately start googling it. For the non tech-savy users, we all seem to start with the phrase, “How to” followed by whatever we needed to learn to do. Google then proceeds to kindly give you the list of all the websites with information even remotely related to whatever you needed to learn. In the end you are confused and waste a [...]

In our previous post - Online Coding Zones for Programmers, we listed down online coding competitions for programmers to compete in. We are trying to follow up our readers with other such online coding competitions and we couldn’t miss the latest competition announced by Facebook. Yesterday Facebook announced  a new multi-round programming competition called – Hacker Cup. Following their other hacking competition Hackathon, “The Facebook Hacker Cup is an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against [...]

To create anything  needs a lot of imagination but to be the very first to show something new to the world needs a bit of courage and a whole lot of determination. Various improvements can be made to any given product but to be the very first in any field carries a permanent distinction. As a tribute to all the great pioneers here is a list of the  Firsts in the History of Internet: The [...]