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What have we changed by inventing computers?

January 6th, 2010 6 comments

What if the computers were never invented? We would still mean…

LOG ON

LogOn

Making a wood stove hot

LOG OFF

LogOffToo much wood on fire

MONITOR

Monitor

Keeping an eye on the wood stove

DOWNLOAD

Download

Getting the firewood off the truck

MEGA HERTZ

Megahertz

When yer not keerfull gitten the farwood

FLOPPY DISC

FloppyDisc

Whatcha git from tryin to tote too much farwood

RAM

RAM

That thar thang what splits the farwood

HARD DRIVE

HardDrive

Getting home in the winter time

WINDOWS

Windows

What to shut when its cold outside

SCREEN

Screen

What to shut when its black fly season

BYTE

Byte

What flys do

CHIP

Chip

It is a bat of snack

MICRO CHIP

Micro-Chip

What’s in the bottom of the chips bag

MODEM

Modem

What you do you the lawns.

DOT MATRIX

DotMatrix

Ole Dan Matrix’s wife

LAP TOP

LapTop

Where the cat sleeps

KEYBOARD

Keyboard

Where you hang the truck keys

SOFTWARE

Software

Plastic forks and knifes

MOUSE

Mouse

What eats the grain in the shed.

MOUSE PAD

Mousepad

That’s hippie talk fer where the mouse lives

MAINFRAME

Mainframe

What holds the shed up

PORT

Port

Fancy flatlander wine

ENTER

Enter

Notherner talk fer “C’Mon in y’all”

CLICK

Click

What you hear when you click your gun

DOUBLE CLICK

Double-Click

When you click the double barrel

REBOOT

Reboot

What you have to do right before bedtime
when you have to go to the rest room

These are really interesting explantions for computer related terms.

Source : www.haukenfrers.net

Note: Few explanations could not be translated from Uzbek language.

Destroy the "Web 2.0 Look"

December 10th, 2008 No comments

Types of Geeks

November 24th, 2008 1 comment

Types of Geeks
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Visual Trace Route Tool

November 4th, 2008 1 comment
Visual Trace Tool
  • Have you ever imagine, how are your website URL requests travelling to its host server?
  • What if you know the travelling path of your network packets?
  • Do you want to travel along your network packets?

Exciting! Isn’t?

Recently I came across an interesting online tool which tracks the path of  any URL request path till its destination.

YouGetSignal provides this feature to know about the path of the Internet packets.

youGetSignal says, “The visual trace route tool displays the path Internet packets traverse to reach a specified destination. The tool works by identifying the IP addresses of each hop along the way to the destination network address. The estimated geophysical location of each hop is identified using MaxMind’s GeoIP database. After all of the hops locations’ are identified, the path to the destination is plotted on a Google Map.

Visit YouGetSignal and give any website URL in the Remote Address text box and click on Proxy Trace; you will get the IP packet traverse path.

Enhanced Google search – Small, Medium, Large

October 13th, 2008 No comments

Google, the leading search engine, never stopped enhancing the search engines and and the search options.

Google has further enhanced their search results pages by adding Small, Medium, Large buttons to view different levels of results.

Google pages now have three buttons called S, M and L which shows different levels of search results.

The following are the screenshots of results of different search levels .

Google Search Results - SMALL Google Search Results - MEDIUM Google Search Results - LARGE

Search strategies for beginners

September 24th, 2008 No comments

GMail Labs

September 11th, 2008 No comments
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GMail introduced a new feature called GMail Labs.

This has a collection of GMail features for experimental purpose. This means that you can enable/disable any of the features listed in GMail Labs.

At present there 16 features available now and GMail teams says that this list will grow.

To experience GMail Labs, go to your GMail->Settings->Labs tab and enable the feature you want to use/experiment. Once you enable any of the features, you will find a new icon on the top, as shown in the picture, which will then directly take you to GMail Labs.

Start experiencing a GMail Labs feature before it goes on LIVE.