Government officials today announced that they had traced a gang of hackers and arrested at least five suspects involved in defacing thousands of domestic and international websites and online fraud. The “internationally-known hackers” have been picked up in an operation spanning the country over the past few weeks, reported AFP, citing Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) [...]
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Google Extends the Street View Worldwide With User Photos
June 18th, 2010 
Muhammad Iqbal Google Street View is a feature available on Google Mapping products where users can switch to a view consisting of manually taken 360° angled street/road photos with 9 cameras at 2.5 m elevation on a moving vehicle. These photos are then processed to make a panoramic view to provide a feeling of being at that [...]
Grab big pics off Google Images the easy way
May 30th, 2010 Muhammad Iqbal If you happen to frequent Google’s Images search tool with the intention of grabbing the full-quality version of whatever image you’re looking for, you’ve probably noticed Google makes you jump through some hoops to get there. In fact, Microsoft and Yahoo do the same thing, but it’s with good reason: to offer you the full [...]
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Tags: add-ons, FireFox, Firefox Extensions, Google Image Help, Google Image Search 
No Comments »An Unofficial way to ‘dislike’ things on Facebook
November 6th, 2009 Muhammad Iqbal Facebook’s “like” feature has been around since February, but the massive social network never provided users with a way to quickly voice their opinions going the other way. French developer Thomas Moquet took matters into his own hands by creating a cute (albeit useless) Firefox extension that adds a dislike button to Facebook, letting users [...]
Eight billion minutes spent on Facebook daily…!
October 25th, 2009 Muhammad Iqbal 
More than 8 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day, Facebook executive Mike Schroepfer said in a talk Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit here. Some 2 billion pieces of content are shared every week, and 2 billion photos are uploaded each month–1.2 million [...]
