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One of the biggest mistakes amateur photographers make while snapping photographs is that they ignore the perspective. The problem of perspective distortion occurs mostly when architectural elements, forests etc are involved. This can often result in weird effects like buildings which appear to be falling on themselves, walls which appear to be unnaturally curved or [...]

I am sure all of you have noticed the numerous svchost.exe entries in your task manager. Many of you may have wondered exactly what is svchost.exe? Svchost stands for Service Host. A service is a program that runs in the background and often provides critical functionalities required for functioning of other applications. During the booting [...]

Recently I came across possibly the best tech job posting ever on Craiglist(via @psam). Its geeky, smart and humorous (again in a geeky way). I am quoting portions of it below : To all who Think Themselves a Programmer We don’t like you. You are a weak, oblong programmer. We only like amazing, bad ass [...]

The mother of all cricket battles – The Ashes is on its way. The first test is being held at Cardiff, England. In case you aren’t able to watch it on your television sets here are a few links that will allow you to watch the live stream on the web for free. From T20livecricket [...]

Adobe Photoshop is a behemoth. It’s an industry standard setting software that is widely considered to be head and shoulders ahead of its competition. However, not everyone needs all the features offered by Photoshop. In fact many people who have Photoshop installed on their computers use it merely as a more sophisticated version of Paint. [...]

There are tons of services that allows you to analyze your Google Search backlinks. Now there is one for Twitter too. BackTweets from the folks behind BackType instantly displays all tweets which link back to your website/blog (including those using shortened urls).

People have been speculating about a Google Operating System ever since Google released Gmail. And the rumours about Google OS grew even stronger after they announced Android in late 2007. However, all these speculations about Google’s own operating system were just that – speculation. Today Google changed all that. Earlier today they dropped a bomb [...]