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No Wires ! Charging Goes Wi-Fi !

2015-01-08T22:12:00.003+05:30

Today, battery charging is a basic annoyance, a necessary interruption in our daily lives, where we stop to seek out a wall socket to keep our essential devices up and running.

Energous Corp has unveiled 'Wattup', a device which can be used to charge devices wirelessly from 15 feet away. With WattUp, you no longer need to worry about looking for a charge: once you are in a WattUp wire-free charging zone, the battery life of all your devices will simply be managed, seamlessly and intelligently, so you can devote your time and energy to what really matters. The technology will be able to smartly decide which gadget to charge first by determining the amount of energy left in those devices.

WattUp™ wire-free charging works with a wide variety of electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets, wearables, cameras, wireless keyboards and mice, headsets, sensors, LED lights, remote controls and toys; in essence any battery-powered device in your home or office. it charges any Battery-Operated Device that requires less than 10 Watts.

Click here to know more about Wattup.

Creating Frame by Frame Animation in Flash

2014-12-29T09:31:00.000+05:30

Kochings.com - A Wonderful Platform to search Coaching/Tutor Options

2014-12-25T10:51:00.000+05:30

Founded by Archit Kumar, Abhishek Goel and Brhamesh Alipuria, Kochings.com is a listing and reviewing portal for all kinds of coaching institutes and home tutors.

Students have to search a coaching centre through word of mouth or take admission where their friends are studying.There is no platform where one can search for an institute or review one according to your experience.

Kochings.com was launched in April 2014 and has currently over 1000 institutes, 200 tutors and 2300 students registered. One can search for law, engineering, medical, MBA, GRE, and TOEFL coaching in Delhi-NCR.

It has also launched the Kochings Dial-In Campaign, where institutes in the CAT, GRE and GMAT segments give huge discounts to students who enrol via the Kochings platform.

Kochings is trying to avoid/reduce the issue of 'planted reviews', by working on IP tracking to avoid fake reviews and also flag reviews that seem fake.

The services are free for students.

Creating Animation in Flash : Step by Step Video Tutorial

2014-12-24T19:10:00.000+05:30

Creating Polystar in Flash : Step by Step Video Tutorial

2014-12-24T08:44:00.002+05:30

Working With Layers in Flash : Step by Step Video Tutorial

2014-12-15T20:22:00.003+05:30

Mail Merge in Office 2010 : Step by Step Video Tutorial

2014-11-27T13:41:00.000+05:30

Get Ready for Windows 10

2014-11-02T18:39:00.000+05:30

Scheduled to be released in 2015, Windows 10 will be the next version of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

In Windows 10, Microsoft has tried to strike a balance for every kind of user.

Visit http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso to download the Windows 10 Tech Preview. Must read and follow the instructions carefully before installing it on a computer.

You can even join Microsoft in its Windows Insider Program, review the features of Windows 10 and give your ideas for improvement etc.

IPv6 : The Next Generation Internet Protocol (IP)

2013-09-14T11:07:00.001+05:30

IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol (IP) address standard that will supplement and eventually replace IPv4, the protocol most Internet services use today.

An IP address is basically a postal address for each and every Internet-connected device. Without one, websites would not know where to send the information each time you perform a search or try to access a website. However, the world officially ran out of the 4.3 billion available IPv4 addresses in February 2011 .

Yet, hundreds of millions of people are still to come online, many of whom will do so in the next few years. IPv6 is what will allow them to do so, providing enough addresses ( 2¹²⁸to be exact) for everyone and all of their various devices.

A lack of Internet addresses would have caused many problems; your favourite web programmes would slow down, computers would find it more difficult to communicate with one another, and your privacy could be compromised because it will be hard to tell the difference between you and another computer user down the street.

To allow the Internet to continue to grow and spread across the world, implementing IPv6 is necessary.

WhatsApp May be bigger than Twitter

2013-06-24T09:44:00.002+05:30

According to industry estimates, WhatsApp has become bigger than Twitter in terms of monthly active users. The Wall Street Journal says that WhatsApp has more than 250 million monthly active users whereas Twitter has around 200 million monthly active users in December 2013. It is fast approaching the popular video-chat service Skype which has around 280 million monthly active users.

The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app just four years ago and that spends no money marketing itself. It makes WhatsApp one of the largest messaging platforms.

WhatsApp’s growth is of concern to many telecom carriers that make huge profits billing for text messages.

Ajay Bhatt : Co-Inventor of the USB

2013-05-29T05:37:00.000+05:30

Ajay V. Bhatt is an Indian-American computer architect who helped define and develop several widely used technologies, including USB (Universal Serial Bus), AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and various chipset improvements.

Ajay Bhatt rose to global celebrity as the co-inventor of USB through an Intel 2009 TV advertisement, where he was portrayed by actor Sunil Narkar.

Explore Google Earth Engine

2013-05-12T05:50:00.004+05:30

Google Earth Engine is an online environment monitoring platform that shows a daily-updated dynamic digital model of our planet.

It stores petabytes of satellite data and allows high-performance tools to analyze and interpret this information that can then be visualized on a map, ranging from rainforest changes in the Amazon to water resources in the Congo

Click here to know more about Google Earth Engine.

Bitcoin - The New Digital Currency

2013-05-10T11:41:00.003+05:30

Bitcoin is an experimental, decentralized digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world.

Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate, with no central authority managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network.

The original Bitcoin software by Satoshi Nakamoto was released under the MIT license.

Bitcoin is one of the first implementations of a concept called crypto-currency which was first described in 1998 by Wei Dai on the cypherpunks mailing list.

Building upon the notion that money is any object, or any sort of record, accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context, Bitcoin is designed around the idea of using cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money, rather than relying on central authorities.

BAZOOKA Attack Slows Down Internet

2013-03-29T10:52:00.001+05:30

The Internet seems to have been slowed by one of the largest cyber attacks ever seen, especially in Europe. According to security experts, the attack targeted a European group that patrols the Web for spam.

The attacks targeted Spamhaus, a Geneva-based volunteer group that publishes spam blacklists which are used by networks to filter out unwanted email, and led to cyberspace congestion which may have affected the overall Internet.

The attacks began last week, according to Spamhaus, after it placed on its blacklist the Dutch-based Web hosting site Cyberbunker, which claimed it was unfairly labeled as a haven for cybercrime and spam.

While the origin of the attacks has not been identified, some experts pointed the finger at Cyberbunker, possibly in coordination with Eastern European cyber-criminals.

These attacks used tactics different than the "botnets" -- these came from so-called "open resolvers" which "are typically running on big servers with fat pipes."

According to security experts, "They are like bazookas and the events of the last week have shown the damage they can cause. What's troubling is that, compared with what is possible, this attack may prove to be relatively modest."

Kips Family Wishes You All A Very Happy Holi

2013-03-26T17:52:00.004+05:30

Google Glass - The Technology Next

2013-03-16T10:26:00.001+05:30

Google Glass may just prove to be one of the most exciting and anticipated products that eventually reaches the market in the near future.

Google Glass is likely to be a single-framed lens with a heads-up display and the ability to communicate with its user. It may be turn out to be the kind of innovative new product that's needed in the industry. It could also define and confirm the utility of wearable technology.

In technical terms, Google Glass is an augmented reality wearable computer with a head-mounted display (HMD). It takes a step further toward ubiquitous computing, which is the idea that the Internet and computers will be accessible anywhere at any time without having to use one's hands.

Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like format hands-free, can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands, and uses Google's Android operating system. While the frames do not currently have lenses fitted to them, Google is considering partnering with sun-glass retailers such as Ray-Ban or Warby Parker, and may also open retail stores to allow customers to try on the device.

Click here to know more about Google Glass.

Computer History Museum

2013-03-09T18:10:00.000+05:30

Spend a day at the Computer History Museum. Find out why computer history is 2000 years old. Learn about computer history’s game-changers in our multimedia exhibitions. Play a game of Pong or Spacewar !

Listen to computer pioneers tell their story from their own perspective. Discover the roots of today’s Internet and mobile devices. See over 1,100 historic artifacts, including some of the very first computers from the 1940s and 1950s.

The mission of the Computer History Museum is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. As such, the Museum plays a unique role in the history of the computing revolution and its worldwide impact on the human experience.

Visit http://www.computerhistory.org to know more about Computer History Museum as well as to have a virtual experience.

Microsoft Virtual Academy - Free Online Learning

2013-03-06T17:18:00.002+05:30

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) provides Free Online IT Training & Learning of Windows and Microsoft Technologies through courses designed by industry experts.

At Microsoft Virtual Academy, the IT Pros can gain access to free self-paced training resources using combinations of Video and text based interactive content.

The popularity of MVA can be gauged from the fact that it has already crossed the milestone of 1 million user base.

Visit https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ to know more about MVA.

Must See Video on Advance Future Technology

2013-01-20T14:05:00.001+05:30

How Well You Know Java ?

2013-01-13T10:42:00.001+05:30

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995.

Java is the underlying technology that powers state-of-the-art programs including utilities, games, and business applications. Java runs on more than 850 million personal computers worldwide, and on billions of devices worldwide, including mobile and TV devices.

Click on the link below to see how much you know about James Gosling's general-purpose, object-oriented baby :

The Java IQ Test

Must, share you score with us by e-mailing us the screen-shot of your score. The Lucky Winners will get a prize.

Kips Family Wishes You a Happy New Year

2013-01-01T15:36:00.003+05:30

Microsoft unveils the new Office

2012-07-17T12:12:00.002+05:30

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office on 16th July 2012. The new Microsoft Office has been optimized for the Windows 8 and touch-based devices like tablets.

The new Office has an intuitive design that works beautifully with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. The new Office is social and unlocks modern scenarios in reading, note-taking, meetings and communications and will be delivered to subscribers through a cloud service that is always up to date.

Unlike the earlier versions of Office, the new one is tied into a subscription service of Office 365 and depending on the version you pick, you'll be able to download 'apps' like Word, Excel, etc on a limited number of PCs using a single licence.

Click here to know more and download the Customer Preview of new Microsoft Office.

SURFACE : Can Microsoft Challenge iPad

2012-06-29T13:48:00.001+05:30

Microsoft has unveiled its Surface tablet, a clear competitor to the iPad.

Surface is a tablet device based on Microsoft's next-generation Windows operating system. It marks Microsoft's entry into the highly popular and exploding tablet market.

Microsoft executives showed two Windows tablets and accessories that feature significant advances in industrial design and attention to detail. Surface is designed to seamlessly transition between consumption and creation, without compromise. It delivers the power of amazing software with Windows and the feel of premium hardware in one exciting experience.

Click here to know more about Surface.

Microsoft to Launch Windows 8 in Oct 2012

2012-05-22T11:50:00.000+05:30

Windows 8 - the next version of Microsoft Windows, with an all-new-touch interface is likely to be released in October 2012.

After launching the per-release Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 in February 2012, Microsoft is scheduled to launch an almost-complete Release Preview on June 5, 2012.

With most of the people switching from Desktops to Laptops, Net-books, Tablets, Smart Phones etc., Windows 8 has been “re-imagined from the chip-set to the user experience” to connect more with the user. For the first time since Windows 95, the Start button has been removed, but the user can still click in the bottom left corner of the screen to open the Start screen.

Click here to know more about Windows 8 and watch the video below to watch its key features.

Google Drive : Keep everything. Share anything.

2012-05-22T09:49:00.000+05:30

Bye Bye .... Pen Drive !!!

Google is now offering Google Drive - a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff.

With Google Drive, you get 5 GB of Free Online Storage Space where you can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Docs, PDFs and more.

Click here to know more about the fascinating features of Google Drive.