Four Things Yahoo Can Do that Google Can't

This is a typical expample to say none of the software is perfect nor complete!!!

There is lot to love about google, we use it hundreds of times daily. But there are some things which google cant do and some other search engines can.
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A Savant Explains His Abilities

Of the few hundred autistic savants in the world, none have been able to explain their incredible mental abilities. Until now, that is. It seems that Daniel Tammet, a mathematical savant who holds the record for the most digits of pi recited from memory, is able to explain exactly how he intuits answers to mathematical problems. Tammet is quite articulate and speaks seven languages, including one he invented. The Guardian is running an article about his amazing abilities.

He says he sees numbers as images and when he mixes images in different ways he sees a new image and thats answer to the computaion.

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California Drivers Can Tank Up With Hydrogen

News site TBO.com is reporting ChevronTexaco has opened a hydrogen fuel station in Chino, California, and has plans to open five more. Servicing three (or more) Hyundai SUVs, these prototype fueling stations are a part of a five-year cost-sharing program put on by the Department of Energy. Could this be the 'egg' in the alternate fuels 'chicken or egg?' scenario?

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First American on Space

This is a picture of first monkey(American) went to space.



All set for lauch in Mercury Capsule

Siemens invents PKI encryption with out digital certificates

Today Siemens unveiled identity-based encryption technology which you give the same features as that Digital Certificate based PKI Crypto technology with out a digital certificate.

This would help in porting lots of useful application(eg Secure voice call) with needs security and trust between end parties. Hope it would solve lot of security related issues facing smaller devices like mobile and hand helds.

Siemens tests crypto for cell phones

Lately I have realized the potential of open source world.

I have recently switched to gvim editor and firefox browser

They are such a cool tools. Any thing that you could think an editor or a browser can do, it’s already there. Even if its not there, some would be thinking the same and it will available on the net soon. The proverb ‘nothing comes for free’ still holds good in open source also. You have to gain some knowledge about the tools, like its interfaces, architecture, etc… The basic open source tool by itself is at par with any other similar tools. What make it powerful are the extensions that are published by the open source community. You need to understand the tool a lil bit to customize the extensions to your needs and environment. Once you gain some knowledge it’s your responsibility to publish the extensions for the new needs you could think of. It works on the uncommitted understanding that, ‘people with the required knowledge are responsible for providing solution for the needs and problems’.

If you haven’t tried any open source tools, give it a try with firefox. Its really COOL !!! I liked the RSS feed extensions very much. It helps me a lot get updates from different sites.

You can find the extensions from firefox home page. Some extensions that I found to be useful are:

Foxy Tunes
Right Encoding
Quick Notes
Dictionary Search
Tabbrowser Preference
Feed Viewer
Clone Window
Sage
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Google Maps Not Integrated into Google Search?

Google Maps is really lovely!
I'm kinda surprised that if you enter an address in Google you're still getting linked to Yahoo Maps and MapQuest

Intresting & Simple Solution

Reversal of a string Word by Word.
Most of would have heard about this question in interviews and most of our appoches would have been to find the word boundries and copy word by word.
Here is an effecient solution that i came accross.

problem: reverse "the house is blue", the answer should be "blue is house the". the words are reversed, but the letters are still in order (within the word).

solution:

here's a hint.

initial: the house is blue
complete string reverse: eulb si esuoh eht

look at the result for a minute. notice anything? if you still don't see it, try this.

initial: the house is blue
reverse: eulb si esuoh eht
wanted : blue is house the

the solution can be attained by first reversing the string normally, and then just reversing each word.

Me Game!!!

Well after long days of plan, finally got some time and intrest to sign up and create blog for myself.

The thing thats going in my mind currently, what should i post as the first blog.

Watch out this space for updates.