As a continuation to our previous article concerning mozilla firefox addons, we’ll now introduce to Googlepedia.

What is Googlepedia?

If you’re one whose search results lead you to a Wikipedia page nine times out of ten, you would do well to install the Googlepedia extension for Firefox.

This free, terrifically easy add-on pulls the Wikipedia article most closely associated with your search term into the right half of a Google search results page. Modest controls let you expand, shrink, or hide the article.

Here’s the best part: clicking a link within the article feeds the term back into Google’s search engine, and therefore back into Googlepedia’s cycle of serving up Wikipedia articles.

Googlepedia will undoubtedly save you time if a quick search is all you need. If you’re one to submit to Wikipedia’s siren call of never-ending knowledge, download at your own risk.

The idea, said Lime Wire CEO George Searle, is to add trusted context to user searches for content, given that people are more likely to want–and feel comfortable with–content from people they know.

Additionally, Searle explained that the new social features of LimeWire–which has 70 million monthly unique users and more than 5 billion queries a month–will enable people to choose whether to make files available to the public at large, or just to their friends and family.

In many ways, this is much like many other content-sharing systems. But to Searle, adding a social component to LimeWire means making what is already an extremely popular service more personal to many users. Read the rest of this entry »

You can also create one !!! here

As the technology of the world continues to progress, so do the video games we play. From MMORPGs to motion detection controllers, video game technology has provided us with greater experiences. Even after games are made, the maker can easily communicate with the players through mediums, such as the internet, and create game updates to ensure an ever progressing experience. Technology has improved the way we play games (graphics, wireless controllers, etc.) and who we play them with (more controller sockets, internet based games); however, I personally feel today’s society has forgotten the games of our youth, games which can provide as much fun as modern games (WOW, Call of Duty, Gears of War) without hindering one’s social life. I Realize that those games don’t “last” as long as today’s technologically improved works of art, but the large plurality of those games in existence provided an infinite amount of strong doses filled with nothing else but pure fun. So, if I were you right now, I would close that computer screen, put down that wireless remote, call a friend over, and play some Mario Kart for old times sake.

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The operating systems started from experimental beginings and have become the most important software component in any computer based system from embeded OSes in your mobile phone to the desktop computer and beyond to super computers working on climate models.

1970 Development of UNIX operating system started. It was later released as C source code to aid portability, and subsequently versions are obtainable for many different computers, including the IBM PC. It and its clones (such as Linux) are still widely used on network and Internet servers. Originally developed by Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie.

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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, in the early 90s , an Internet-based hypertext.  Since that time, many browsers appeared introducing new features and designs.  In 1995, the earth witnessed a browsers war between Netscape Navigator and Internet explorer which end up triumphing Microsoft over Netscape.

In 2004, we witnessed the rise of a new browser built on Netscape’s source code , called “Mozilla firefox“,and after, statistics in September 2007 from w3schools showed Mozilla Firefox at 35.4% had taken over from Internet Explorer 6 at 34.9% as the most popular browser with Internet Explorer 7 lagging behind in third place at 20.8%.

We are on the doors of 2009 and  with the release of Google chrome ( a direct attack from Google on Microsoft) , Mozilla Firefox 3.0,Opera 10, and Internet Explorer 8 (beta), we can all smell a violent browsers war in the air. So what browser are you going to use in 2009 ??

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Java is such a great language and platform for any kind of application. It is open, fast, powerful, runs on any platform, and there are more jobs for Java than any other programming language. After reading more FUD and Java bashing from Ruby land I thought it would be fun to put together a list of truly amazing uses of Java that covers a wide spectrum.

10 - Sun SPOT

The Sun SPOT Device is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices. The SPOT Development Kit contains two complete, free-range Sun SPOTs (with processor, radio, sensor board and battery) and one basestation Sun SPOT (with processor and radio). Also included are all the software development tools and cables required to start developing applications for your Sun SPOT.

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