Weird but true - "white web" found growing on nuclear waste

Check this for something which will raise enough speculations around the web!

Mysterious white webs found growing on nuclear waste.

A pretty thorough take on Windows maintenence.

This is for the people who know what they want from their system, and want to know how to get it.

Hosted at Lifehacker, where the best advice is up for sharing, feel confident and just go ahead and try this!

What maintenance do I need to do on my windows-pc?

Thank me in the comments!

In case you need to get the LAN activity icons in Windows 7.

I had posted this a while back in experts exchange, hit the jump if you are interested in getting back the LAN activity icons in Windows 7.

Do remember to leave your feedback at the article or this blog post!

Horribly Uggh! Brain-Eating Amoeba In Tap Water Kills Two In Lousiana

Brain-Eating Amoeba In Tap Water Kills Two In Lousiana!
And I thought this could only happen in movies...

Hit the jump for the full story!

On the side - Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning did what he thought was right, thinking his country would stand behind him in case of any backlash.

Bradley Manning was clearly wrong.

For the uninitiated, here are the links 'for who is he?' and 'what we should be doing about it?'.

Now here is some news about Facebook and Drinking!

According to a Mashable post "The average British person is under the influence of alcohol in three-quarters of of his or her tagged Facebook photos."

Now you know why everyone looks so happy! Hit the jump for a full update!

Aakash Tablet - The cheapest one!

So now, we have, [DRUMROLL please]

the cheapest tablet (yet!) - Presenting the AakashTablet!

"The Aakash is an Android tablet computer jointly developed by the London-based company DataWind with the Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan (IIT) and manufactured by the India-based company Quad."

• More information here. 
• Online booking link via here.
• Phone Arena's take here.

And as they say, the sky is the limit!

P.S. the server seems to have gone down due to the unexpected number of hits, keep trying!
Update: its up AGAIN !

The coming year for Smartphones!

Well, if anyone has has its share of technology explosion this (going) year, its the micro-processor! And the best usage of the same is when it is available in a small package. I am referring to the latest and greatest mobile phones a.k.a the smartphones.

Leading the pack this year has been the Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II with the Samsung's very own Exynos Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 implementation.

Although Apple has been trying to keep up with the Android popularity and O.S. feature versatility, (which, quite frankly is a two edged sword in the Android arena), the scales are now slowly tilting in the favor of the open-source.

The next year promises the processor war to upscale to quad-core levels (although different views exist).

The expectation is from something called as Galaxy S3 (which is a 'Samsung' no-brainer as it comes after 2, right? :-))

The S3 promises the world, and more. For a sneak preview and a look @ the expected configuration (best taken with a grain spoonful of salt) , refer here for the expected specs and here for beefier details.

Quad-gimmick or not, I hope the wait should be worth it (if you can survive without the S2 till the S3 is here, i.e.)
If you already have an S2, fear not, here is something which will advice on what to do with it, once you have your S3! Uhh! Will there never be an end to this 'bought today/obsolete tomorrow' lunacy?

I hope not ;-)

How do I Stop the Beep in VMware?

Well, if you are into O.S. 'Virtualization', maybe for checking out new any O.S. or just maintaining a different segregated environment, chances are you have faced this problem. I am referring to the System speaker Beep in your VMware image. For the un-initiated,

VMware is a virtualization software that allows users to run O.S. inside an O.S.

Anyways following is a moderately easy sequence of steps to achieve the same (we would be altering the VMware Config File) - 

1.  Press the "Windows" key and "E" to open Windows Explorer.
2. Navigate to the following folder if you use XP or Vista:
         C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Workstation
3. OR -  If you use Windows 7, navigate to this folder instead:
         C:\ProgramData\VMWare
4. Open the "VMware Workstation" OR "VMware" folder.
5. Locate the "config.ini" file. (NOTE: In-case you do not see this file, you can create a blank text file and save it as 'all files' with name - 'config.ini' (i.e. the VMware Config File.)
6. Now open this (new/existing) file with any file editor.
7. Add this to the end of the file (or the beginning if it is a blank file!)  - mks.noBeep="TRUE"
8. Save the file and close it.
9. Remember to restart the image in your VMware application.

Voila! No more annoying beeps!

Now go on and try this!

Experts Exchange! Master is here!

Here it is!!!



Well, now back to the job.

Experts Exchange is going for an expert change

FTW update!

Well, the ever helpful, ever-tech site Experts Exchange is going for a revamp!!

Check this out!

For the uninitiated -"Experts-Exchange.com (EE) is a membership-based online "ask an expert" site for computer and IT related questions that was founded in 1996.

At Experts-Exchange, users are awarded points for answering questions asked by other users or writing articles the general community values as resourceful. This results in a competition for obtaining more points to achieve various experts' certifications."

Check here - http://www.experts-exchange.com/threeMillionSolutions.jsp

Now ain't that great or what!