By: Anuj Lamichhane My first encounter with the information giant occurred when I was in grade VII, around 5 years ago, trying to copy/paste my project work. Before that Encarta encyclopedia or Encyclopedia Britannica used to be the wonder-source of information, written and edited by some handful PhD. holders and experts of the fields, often overpriced if not pirated. The internet was too unprofessional and communication centered. But then wikipedia came, and since then the history can be divided into the pre-wiki and post-wiki timeline. In this article we look at how does wikipedia really works.
Many of us are now addicted to watching Youtube videos. But it can be really boring if you have a slow internet connection. You need to either watch with buffering in between or pause it at first and wait till the whole video loads. But I have now discovered a trick which can help you open Youtube videos without buffering. Its by opening the m.youtube.com which is Youtube page for mobile phones. Along with it you need to download Realplayer for opening 3gp file. 
Micromax has launched the new gaming phone - Micromax G4 Gamolution. The special thing about this phone is that you gaming is not by pressing the mobile buttons and looking on the mobile screen. But this phone can act as a wireless motion controller for games just like Wii.
Sachin Tendulkar put his name in the record books of cricket yet another time after his double ton. Along with this, he ruled the social networking site twitter with tons and tons of tweets on him. Sachin, Sachin Tendulkar, #sachinisgod (Sachin is God) and #Tendulkar became the top trends on Twitter for the whole day. #ODI too became one of the top topics due to him.
Intex has launched the triple SIM phone in India - Intex IN 5030. Priced at Rs. 4700, this phone can take 2 GSM SIM cards and 1 CDMA SIM which can provide great ease to people using three different networks. Other feature in the phone include a currency checker which allows you to differentiate between a fake and real Indian currency note.
Scammers are utilizing disasters like the Haiti earthquake for their own benefits. I can see many facebook apps and groups which lure people in joining them by showing message such as "Your one click can help Haiti victims." I just came across an application named "Haiti Click Donations" as I got a lot of notifications from it. It completely seems to be a scam and is even collecting money through credit cards and paypal.
After lots of beta testing on 2009 and some release candidates early this month, Mozilla has released the Firefox 3.6 browser. It is is based upon Gecko 1.9.2 and improves load time, startup time and speed of javascript execution.
Unlike other social networking sites like Orkut, Twitter and Myspace, Facebook has not officially released features for changing your Profile Theme. Whether you like or not, you need to adjust yourself with the default theme. But using Firefox and installing add-on, you can customize the looks, colours and theme of your Facebook Profile. This however is visible only to you and not your friends.
The beta version of Google Chrome browser is now available for download on Mac and Linux officially. Google released the beta version after ing the more unstable developer version about six months ago. Chrome for Mac is still behind the Linux version as it is without extensions and Bookmark manager.
When you are on other's computer, you may get into a problem of extracting compressed files. There may not be 7-zip, Winrar or any other such software installed. But still you can extract the files using the web-based extraction tool- WobZIP. You can extract almost any type of compressed file which includes - 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.
You have a mobile phone with camera and you need webcam for chatting on messengers or other purposes. Then you don't need to spend extra money on getting a new webcam. Spending few amount you can get a software and use you mobile phone as a webcam. Here are some of those softwares:
Microsoft has released the beta version of Office 2010. It is now available for free download 
I found a cool trick on Facebook. Press
