The world’s oldest monastery, Saint Catherine’s, plans to use hi-tech cameras to study further into the Codex Sinaiticus. The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest surviving bible in the world and the monastery will use cameras to photograph parchments at different wavelengths of light which will highlight faded texts masked by time and overwriting. This technology [...]
I can almost hear the announcer at a boxing match introducing IBM’s Supercomputer known as Blue Gene. I would like to call this event the ‘Computer Olympics’. It is held twice a year and the reason for this frequency can be attributed to the rapid development in the computer world. Every time you look around [...]
Mozilla Europe has come up with this funny online advertising campaign featuring Firefox. Firefox is the new browser that is taking the internet by storm and it has been grabbing market share away from Internet Explorer which many companies thought to be impossible. It is nice to know that the Microsoft will be learning a [...]
VoIP (Voice over IP) is the method of sending voice conversations over the internet. VoIP converts analog signals from a phone into a digital format, sends it over the internet and then converts it back to analog at the other end. There are 2 ways you can place a call using VoIP. The first method [...]
Jack Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005), the Nobel Prize-winning engineer who invented the microchip died on the Monday, 20th of June, 2005 in Dallas. Most of us have not even heard of Jack Kilby but every time we use the computer and most modern consumer electronic appliances, we are using Mr.Kilby’s invention. [...]
You have seen them at the coffee shop, you have sat next to them at the movies, you may even have had conversations with them, and they lurk everywhere. Yes, I am talking about “Geeks???. People say that I qualify as one too; I disagree although the subject of this blog is not helping my [...]
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