How to get the new Facebook 'Timeline' now

Can't wait for Facebook to roll out "Timeline," the magazine-style makeover of profiles?

You too can be an early adopter. Just pretend you are a developer.

But warns TechCrunch's Greg Kumparak: The reason that Facebook has not yet turned on "Timeline" for all of its users is that it's not quite ready for prime time. So expect some bugs. Also, your friends won't be able to see the new design. And if you sign into your Facebook account from a different computer, your profile may go back to the old design.

1. Go to the Facebook developers page.

2. Click on the "Apps" button and give the app permission to access your information.

3. You will now find yourself on a page that gives you the option to "create new app." Click on that button.

4. Here you will enter an "app display name" and an "app namesake."

5. Read the "platform privacy policy" and check the box to agree to it. Click continue.

6. Click the "open graph" button on the left side.

7. Type in an action such as "watch" and "TV show" and click "get started."

8. Keep saving changes until you are done.

9. Wait a few minutes and then head to the Facebook home page. You will see a message to enable "Timeline."

360 Degree Pictures

the links below give you a glimpse of how the technology is evolving. by joining multiple pictures together one can create a full 3d image of the place.

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http://www.utah3d.net/panoramas/DoubleArch1_swf.html

http://www.utah3d.net/panoramas/PaysonC_swf.html

http://www.utah3d.net/panoramas_2/AztecButte_swf.html

Cool Magic Trick

click on the link below and try the magic trick.. lets see if it does work for you..

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/games/magic-gopher-central.swf

Do comment about it.

Thanks :D

Pakistani scholar nominated for “World Technology Network” award

KARACHI: Pakistani scholar Dr. Athar Osama has been nominated for the prestigious World Technology Network (WTN) award and has also been elected as a fellow of the WTN.

In a press briefing released on September 5, WTN recognised www.Muslim-Science.com as an agent of change founded by Dr. Athar Osama and has been named as a finalist for the Science and Innovation Media Journalism category.

The WTN will host this award at the World Technology Summit in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and MIT’s Technology Review.

The WTN awards are widely seen as “Oscars of Science and Technology.” The Previous WTN award winners include Al Gore (US former Vice President), Mohammad Yunus (founder of Grameen Bank), Mark Zuckurberg (Facebook founder), Larry Page (Google) and Tim Berners – Lee (Inventor of Internet), however, no Pakistani has won this award as yet.

for further reading please go to: http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/23/pakistani-scholar-nominated-for-%E2%80%9Cworld-technology-network%E2%80%9D-award.html

Intel CTO Talks Up Many-Core Future

Nicole Hemsoth

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During the recent Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Intel CTO Justin Rattner discussed the swift drive toward many-core computing, noting that this is an important development for HPC as well as many other realms.

Among the demonstrations and previews of the “many-core age” to come, Intel’s CTO touched on the future of extreme scale computing. This topic gave the company a perfect opportunity to discuss their ten-year goal to create a 300-fold improvement in energy efficiency, moving power consumption down the scale to 20 picojoules per FLOP at the system level.

Intel’s Shekhar Borkar who works with DARPA’s UHPC project said that “today’s 100 gigaFLOPs computer uses 200 watts. By 2019, it should use about 2 watts, due to reductions in power required not only by the cores, but by the whole system, including memory and storage.”

IDF also provided Intel a window to discuss a concept chip, nicknamed Clarmont, which they say can operate at near threshold voltage and can scale from full performance to low power on less than ten milliwatts of power.

Rattner stressed that these and related developments at Intel wouldn’t be restricted to HPC—he pointed to a number of applications that showed 30 or more times performance improvements as the core count lifted to 64.

For further reading please visit : http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-09-19/intel_cto_talks_up_many-core_future.html

Eclipse Tutorial: For Beginners

You can find Eclipse IDE tutorial in the following links. they are really help full for beginners:

1. http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2004/cmsc131/EclipseTutorial/
2. http://www.eclipse.org/resources/resource.php?id=505
3. http://www.vogella.de/articles/Eclipse/article.html
4. http://eclipsetutorial.sourceforge.net/totalbeginner.html

NASA technical Report Server

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?N=4294966753

ESET username and passwords

Are you looking for ESET username and passwords?

Just visit to

http://www.esetfree.blogspot.com

You will have daily update of your escalation id.

Good Luck!

For Kaspersky Latest not-blacklisted Activation Key file-

http://www.kasperskyfile.blogspot.com

Installing MAC OSX 10.6.6 on VMWARE : host win 7

Here are some basic steps on how u can install MAC OSX 10.6.6 on vmware running on win 7:

• To install MAC osX 10.6 or later on an intel machine you must first check that your hardware must have virtualizing support. As MAC OSX requires hardware virtualization technology. go the following link and download the .msi installer file. install it. it will give you the all the specs of your processor. <<http://tiny.cc/jlhkx>>
• if your processor does support this feature you can carry on. other wise try the hackintosh technique.
• now download the snowy_vm_ware files from this site : http://www.filestube.com/0dc6afd55400ad5903e9,g/Snowy-Vmware-files.html
• now download the MAC OSX iso file which will be used to install the MAC OSX on the virtual machine from here << http://tiny.cc/e0b26 >>
• click on the first file to unpack all the nine zip files into one.
• now you have all the files that you would need.
• unpack the snowy_vm files that you just downloaded and go to the MAC OSX 10.6 (experimental folder).
• open this file Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmx remeber not to open this file ._Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmx (it has a dot and underscore in the beginning) do not open it.
• this will launch the vmware workstation or the vm ware player.
• initially it will show on operating system found.
• you will be shown a button at the bottom of your screen to change th CD\DVD settings. click on it and give it a path to the mac osx iso file that you just downloaded. adn then restart your virtual machine
• it will automatically start the installation wizard of the MAC OSX
• just click on continue by selecting your language.
• then click accept as u accept there license agreement and all.
• next u will see a screen showin the hard drive and the install, cancel and customize button.
• click on the hard drive icon.
• click on the cutomize button
• a new window will open
• in the chameleon boot loader check the chameleon_RC5
• then expand the chameleon options and check the ethernet button and the graphics enabler
• the expand the patches option and check the usb fix option
• press ok and then press install
• now your mac is being installed.
• when the installation finishes go to the settings of the virtual machine and change the cd\dvd settings.
• chaneg the dc/dvd from the mac 10.6.6 iso to the darwin_snow.iso. this file can be found in the folder where you unpacked the snow_vm files.
• then restart your virtual machine.
• now it will boot for the first time. you can setup your profile.
• now you can use your MAC OSX on the virtual machine.

for any queries feel feel to comment.

Difference Between 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, Pre-4G and 4G

1G is the first generation celullar network that existed in 1980s. It transfer data (only voice) in analog wave, it has limitation because there are no encryption, the sound quality is poor and the speed of transfer is only at 9.6kbps.

2G is the second one, improved by introducing the concept of digital modulation, which means converting the voice(only) into digital code(in your phone) and then into analog signals(imagine that it flys in the air). Being digital, they overcame some of the limitations of 1G, such as it omits the radio power from handsets making life more healthier, and it has enhanced privacy.

2.5G is a transition of 2G and 3G. In 2.5G, the most popular services like SMS (short messaging service), GPRS, EDGE, High Speed Circuit switched data, and more had been introduced.

3G is the current generation of mobile telecommunication standards. It allows simultaneous use of speech and data services and offers data rates of up to 2 Mbps, which provide servcies like video calls, mobile TV, mobile Internet and downloading. There are a bunch of technologies that fall under 3G, like WCDMA, EV-DO, and HSPA and others.

In telecommunications, 4G is the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards. It is a successor to the 3G and 2G families of standards. In 2008, the ITU-R organization specified the IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced) requirements for 4G standards, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 Mbit/s for high mobility communication (such as from trains and cars) and 1 Gbit/s for low mobility communication (such as pedestrians and stationary users)

A 4G system is expected to provide a comprehensive and secure all-IP based mobile broadband solution to laptop computer wireless modems, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Facilities such as ultra-broadband Internet access, IP telephony, gaming services, and streamed multimedia may be provided to users.

PRE-4G technologies such as mobile WiMAX and Long term evolution (LTE) have been on the market since 2006 and 2009 respectively, and are often branded as 4G. The current versions of these technologies did not fulfill the original ITU-R requirements of data rates approximately up to 1 Gbit/s for 4G systems. Marketing materials use 4G as a description for LTE and Mobile-WiMAX in their current forms.

Nuces Circuits Society Tech Letter

NUCES Circuit Society was formed under the motive of solely being an engineering related society at the otherwise computer sciences dominant FAST circle. It aims at developing and maturing thoughts, procedures and skills of the future electrical engineers, as well as hold competitions and lectures in a healthy environment. The society was formed under the guidance of Prof. Belal Muhammad Hashmi, who still takes keen interest in the day-to-day matters of this society, and is also the faculty advisor. In his lead, the society plans to expand its activities not only on metropolitan level, but also all over our country. NUCES Circuit Society organizes an all Pakistan Micro Controller Competition at SOFTEC, which is the biggest IT extravaganza in Asia. It also plans to introduce Engineering Project Competition this time onwards.

Apple Unleashes the Lion and Electrifies the Air

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) released its long-awaited Mac OS X Lion operating system Wednesday, together with a lineup of new MacBook Airs, a refresh to the Mac mini line, and the world's first display using the next-generation Thunderbolt port.

Thunderbolt technology will offer up to 10 Gbps of access speed in each direction simultaneously over one cable.

King of the Mac Jungle

OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the operating system, has more than 250 new features, Apple said.

These include new multi-touch gestures; support for full-screen apps; Mission Control, which lets users view everything that's running on their Macs; a redesigned Mail app; and access to the Mac App Store built into the operating system's LaunchPad.

Other features include Resume, which brings apps back to where the user left off when a Mac is restarted or users quit and relaunch apps; an autosave feature; Versions, which automatically records the history of documents as they're being created; and AirDrop... read more http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/72909.html

Google+: A Social Network Even Geeks Can Love?

Google+ may still be in its invitation-only early days, but with all the wild excitement and skyrocketing numbers of users, it's awfully hard to tell.

Quibbles about real-name policies notwithstanding, eager users from virtually every walk of life seem to be flocking to the new social network -- even those of us who are perhaps less than entirely socially minded.

It's not at all surprising, of course, to see your average, run-of-the-mill Facebook fan scampering over to check Google+ out. Such individuals, after all, would likely jump at any opportunity to share photos, updates and every manner of personal details with countless friends far and wide. They are extroverts, in other words, and they *will* share as often and as widely as they can... for more http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Google-A-Social-Network-Even-Geeks-Can-Love-72963.html

Mozilla building mobile OS to battle Chrome

Mozilla revealed preliminary plans today to take the Gecko engine that drives its Firefox browser and turn it into an open-source operating system that will eventually work on phones and tablets.

Called Boot to Gecko, it is known that the source code will be released to the public "in real-time," wrote Andreas Gal, a Mozilla researcher. Gecko is the rendering engine that powers Firefox and the e-mail client Thunderbird. By contrast, while Google's Androidmobile operating system is open source, the main development work on it does not become available until after Google has green-lit its publication--sometimes not until months afterward.

"We will do this work in the open, we will release the source in real-time, we will take all successful additions to an appropriate standards group, and we will track changes that come out of that process. We aren't trying to have these native-grade apps just run on Firefox, we're trying to have them run on the web," Gal said in a forum post. Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice president of technical strategy, said that the Boot to Gecko apps won't use the Android SDK but instead run new and current Web app APIs....

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20083238-12/mozilla-building-mobile-os-to-battle-chrome/

rest can be read on this link

MAKE FILE

"make" is a command taht you can use to make and run scripts from text files..

http://www.opussoftware.com/tutorial/TutMakefile.htm

this link explains how to use the "make" command

Want to Learn LINUX

Nowadays many people use linux operating system. Linux is open source i.e. its source code is open for every person. This site contains all the files, data structures and modules that can help you in understanding linux better. Over the years many amendments have been made to this operating system.

http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/minix/html/files.html

Ns2 turorial

NS is simulator for networks. Using NS you can simulate all the existing networking, transport and application layer protocols. you can also embed your own protocol and simulate that as well. e.g You can simulate and compare the results between TCP and UDP protocols any kind of network topology that u want to generate.

Here is a link to a tutorial of NS by Marc Gries:: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/.