CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics center which spawned the world wide web in 1989, is looking to create the next internet, and has already laid down the essential ground work for it. Experts say it is sorely needed. Recent industry analysis, has revealed that most customer languish under poor data rates and high costs.
I have often seen, games are prepared as much as possible to give a real look. In many games, the animations are seen as if they aren’t animations but real videos.
Now, there is a famous game called Crysis. Everyone has surely heard this name. Now see this video by a player. A great ‘bug’ in the image. He has to fight with the sharks on land and even on climbing the mountains. They keep on chasing him everywhere. Check this out.
Crysis Sharks
Crysis Shark walk on Land
The video maker says, he hasn’t edited anything from the game. But still this is happening. Either this is a bug or a funny easter egg :-P. Whatever it is, some clarifications should be given or the bug corrected.
We would love to hear from our readers, who have also faced the same problem.
Are you a GMail + AIM user?? Having trouble in using two different chat servers to talk to different friends using different chat servers?? Here is some relaxation for you by Google. Now you can chat with you AIM buddies also right from inside GMail.
More Details can be found here:-
Gmail chat now offers the option to sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM buddies from Gmail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Contacts list, and are searchable just like your Google Talk contacts.
Chatting with your AIM buddies is easy — just click on a name in your chat list, and start typing.
GMail has constantly been improving GMail, adding newer features bringing it out of the Beta version. I just hope it comes out of the Beta within my lifetime ;). Another thing I hope is that Google adds other chat services like Yahoo! & Rediff which I use.
Some other features added recently include coloured labels, Read the rest of this entry…
Yahoo! Mail, one of the largest free e-mail provider has launched a new product called the Yahoo! Mail Classic, making it easier for the visually impaired to benefit from the Internet especially the e-Mail service.
Interestingly, the Yahoo! Mail Classic functions on all standard screen reader software and can be used by the common masses too.
In this product, the screen reader software identifies the text for the user and then transforms it to sound and speech or even a Braille printout that helps even the blind to use the mail.
According to Visually impaired, they are currently not able to access the site because of its high graphics and advertisements. But now with this classic version, which even has a magnifier, have become much easier to access the site.
For instance, when a person clicks on the mail icon, the software will send out speech or sounds like ‘enter your user id’, ‘now enter your password’ or ‘click on the following icon’ making it easy for the visually challenged to use the mailing system on the Internet.
This novel ideal has been made possible with the aim to make the company’s products available to everyone, even the visually impaired. The team of experts was led by Victor Tsaran, popularly known as accessibility guru!
Indians are getting more and more active on Orkut… So, looking forward to make them happier, Orkut, one of the most popular social network has given a new look on the ocassion of one of the most important Indian festival, i.e. Diwali or Deepawali.
This new look has not been made the default look, rather you are given a choice to use it or not. This can be accessed by clicking on “Happy Diwali” near a diva (lamp) on the top (almost the central top).
This Diwali look is quite nice… I like it…
But anyway, Google seems to have forgotten to give a Diwali logo, as it does for many other festivals.