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Don't have time to read with your book wherever you go !! Then Wattpad is to your rescue . Its one of the best ways of reading your favorite books on cellphone . Wattpad maintains a community-built library of texts: novels, essays, joke collections and the like. You can also upload your own. There are several ways to get books onto your phone, including an app that enables direct downloads. When users have the client installed on their devices, it makes it possible to download additional stories and read them offline.

You can send the stories by sms or by email to  your cellphone and you get to read the whole text on your cellphone.

The application is a free download, either by mobile or on site . Huge list of books are available for reading and surprisingly all the books are with full text.

Wattpad is free, but it works by downloading the text a few pages at a time over your phones data connection - which is a constant expense. And we still need better phone screens sizes and resolution for reading. Some of the new phones - N73 and N95 for example and Samsung M610 are pretty darn good and have nice broad screens and even Blackberry 8800 and the new Windows Mobile devices. My friend used to read ebooks using lit reader on his Nokia N-Gag, it was bit irritating but when you want to read , you don't think of anything else other than the text in your display ! 

enjoy reading ! 

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Some of these sites are really unique , And whos.amung.us is one of them. These are nice alternatives to your usual stats . And this has nothing much to do..just put the code with the 8-key unique code and you are done. You get live stats without any signups ..this is great feature.

Works on websites big or small, blogs, social networks & more… Anywhere you're allowed to insert images! Best of all it's fast and free .. And No registration or setup required! You can even customize your counter !

They even provide Firefox Add-on which is really a cool one..

[ Download Firefox Addon ] [ Customize ] via [ whos.amung.us ]

1969: The publication of the first “request for comments,” or RFC, documents paves the way for the birth of the internet.

April 7 is often cited as a symbolic birth date of the net because the RFC memoranda contain research, proposals and methodologies applicable to internet technology. RFC documents provide a way for engineers and others to kick around new ideas in a public forum; sometimes, these ideas are adopted as new standards by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

One interesting aspect of the RFC is that each document is issued a unique serial number. An individual paper cannot be overwritten; rather, updates or corrections are submitted on a separate RFC. The result is an ongoing historical record of the evolution of internet standards.

When it comes to the birth of the net, Jan. 1, 1983, also has its supporters. On that date, the National Science Foundation’s university network backbone, a precursor to the World Wide Web, became operational.

(Source: Various)

The Russian security company Kaspersky Lab claims to have created the world's first "proof of concept" iPod virus. They provide exceptionally few details about the "virus" itself, but what they do provide tells us that the virus that they created doesn't really exploit that much. They named the virus "Podloso," which is—again—a proof-of-concept program and "does not pose a real threat," writes the company.

Security vendor Kaspersky Labs announced it has detected the first virus designed to infect iPod portable media players. Photo by Kaspersky Labs

Condition to be Affected :

Kaspersky says the iPod must have Linux installed. The company says that the user must put the virus' file onto the iPod's disk first . ( this is too much limitation..who the hell would do that..)

Virus Activity :

Once there, the virus installs itself into a folder that contains program demos on the iPod. It then allegedly scans the disk of the iPod in order to infect all .elf files, and if the user tries to launch any of these files, a mocking message will be displayed on the iPod's screen: "You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus."

"Podloso has no malicious payload, and does not present a real threat; it simply demonstrates that it is, theoretically possible to create malicious programs for such devices," writes the company.

Note : But still Ipod users are not away from the threat of being affected severely by malicious programmers . So be careful when you install any third party softwares or any hacks to your little music player .

via [ novinite ] 

Radio waves produced during solar flare eruptions on the Sun can cripple the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other communication technologies here on Earth, scientists say.

The finding, announced today at the first Space Weather Enterprise Forum in Washington D.C., was confirmed during an exceptionally strong solar eruption last December that produced 20,000 times more radio emissions than the Sun does normally.

“This solar radio bursts occurred during the solar minimum, yet produced as much as 10 times more radio noise than the previous record,” said Dale Gary, a physicist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. “This was enough to swamp GPS receivers over the entire sunlit side of Earth.” 

“The size and timing of this burst were completely unexpected and the largest ever detected,” said Anthea Coster of the MIT Haystack Observatory. “We do not know how often we can expect solar radio bursts of this size or even larger.” 

via [ space.com ]