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You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this without directly asking the other person?Web search engines are obviously the most popular place for performing reverse email lookups but if the person you’re trying to research doesn’t...

As a part of the 25th anniversary of Toshiba’s Laptop Innovation Milestone, the company unveiled a dual-screen laptop concept named the Libretto W100, a next-gen ultra-mobile concept PC.This limited-edition 25th Anniversary device goes beyond slates, netbooks and smartphones to deliver something more: a full Windows 7 experience that can be enjoyed across two multi-touch screens.“The...

The Adobe Flash platform saw significant improvements today with the launch of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.According to a blog post from Adobe’s Flash team, the new Flash Player 10.1 features improved performance, power management and video features. The player has also been given new multi-touch and private browsing functionality. The overall viewing experience for...

An upcoming generation of wireless charging solutions could eliminate charging woes and wires forever.I spent much of last evening on a plane. My laptop, a Dell M11x, didn’t have an adapter that worked with the American Airlines cigarette lighter plug, so I had to use the laptop battery, which meant my screen was really dim as I tried to preserve my system’s precious juice. This...

Ever since Apple launched the iPhone app store, the company has been pushing its apps to get all of the attention. But when was the last time you read a review about a new mobile website? Thousands of apps and billions of downloads consistently steal the headlines, while the mobile web is largely ignored by everyone but the consumer. Yet, despite what the marketing would lead...

Last week, Google enabled an interesting feature: custom backgrounds for its search page. Now the feature is available internationally, and to highlight it, Google collaborated with several well-known artists who’ve created a gallery of background images that will be featured on the Google homepage over the next 24 hours.Unfortunately, the feature comes with a somewhat bizarre...

Bing vs Google Face-Off Still On: Bing Announces Search Index Boost, Social Results & MoreDid you notice the competition going on between Bing and Google? The game is still on and after Google announced its new Caffeine search index, it is Bing's turn to tout the future release of its enhanced 'Bing Webmaster Tools' this summer. Bing Webmaster ToolsThe company calls it its...

Box.net — one of the elder statesmen of the cloud file storage game — today released Box Sync, a desktop client promises to offer a seamless bridge between the desktop and cloud and should make it easier to share files and collaborate with your team.Once the client is installed, any files placed in the Box Sync folder on the computer will automatically be uploaded to Box.net and...

The problem: You have documents, photos, music and other important files on the home computer. How can you “remotely access” these files from your office computer or, when you are travelling, from your mobile phone?The solution: The simplest solution would be that you copy all your data from the home computer on to a portable hard drive and carry it around but this is obviously...

IntroductionThis is a list in progress of color laser printer models that do or donot print yellow tracking dots on their output.Limitations of this informationA "no" simply means that we couldn't see yellow dots; itdoes not prove that there is no forensic watermarkingpresent. (For example, the HP Color LaserJET 8500 series doesnot include any yellow tracking dots that we can...

Here are 3 useful ebook sites specially for students. An ebook is any digital document file that contains the very same texts of the traditional book counterpart. This digital file is also called a softcopy. Ebooks are very portable and handy.1. http://www.free-ebooks.net/Read and Download eBooks for Free at Free-ebooks.net. You can get help you need, the information you...

Giveaway Of the day is a cool website.This project is mutually beneficial for both the users and the software developers.With Giveaway of the day,users are able to use full functionality of the 'paid' softwares for unlimited amount of time without paying a penny.Its completely legal.The giveaway softwares are also virus/spyware/adware free.They also do not allow crippleware/demo/trial...

Apple iPad is an awesome device for reading PDF documents and ebooks – the screen is brilliant, the text and graphics are perfectly legible and it almost feels like you reading a real book.Favorite PDF Reading Apps for the iPadThe iPad has built-in support for the PDF format. For instance, if you get a PDF document as an email attachment or if you happen to click a PDF link inside...