Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet. No reliable biographical information about him survives from classical antiquity. Apparently Homer was a pseudonym. His given name was Melesigenes. The Iliad and the Odyssey are considered by most scholars to be the products of a centurieslong tradition of orally composed poetry; the role of an individual poet, or poets, in composing …

The iPhone gets its name because it can be customized to suit the user. Its screen and applications can be altered to individual taste, like iPod and iGoogle. It highlights the ‘i’ – individuality of the user. The iPhone is a multimedia-enabled smartphone, which made its appearance a couple of years ago. It combines email, 3D graphics, camera, a portable …

The keyboards are designed such that the people when typing with both the hands find it very comfortable to type and not have to look down at the keyboard from time to time to type. The arrangement is such that the most typed words like “the”, “an” can be typed with three different fingers with out any problem. And second …

It’s a sport anime about cart racing. Capeta is a 10-year-old boy. His father works for a paving company. While working on a go-karting track, his father gets some pieces out of the trash and constructs a kart. Capeta masters the mangled kart and impresses the manager of a racing team, who helps him gain entry into the world of …

A wardriver is someone who accesses an unsecured wireless connection through a PDA or laptop in a moving vehicle. It�s derived from the word wardialling from the film WarGames. Other related concepts are warbiking (accessing a wi-fi connection on a motorbike or bicycle) and warwalking/ jogging (doing the same while on foot). While there are several softwares to enable wardriving, …

A Twude is a person who is rude on twitter while a Twidette is a person who still hasn’t joined twitter. For tweeple (read as people) who want to know more such twitter-based words, an online dictionary called twittonary used extensively by tweeters, is available.

A cybrarian is a person who makes a living doing online research and by retrieving information. A term similar to that of ‘librarian’, a cybrarian does the same work but integrates the use of internet into the library. In Greek, cyber means to steer or govern and -arian stands for one who belongs to, follows or believes in.

The earliest social networking site was classmates.com which was established in 1995. It introduced the concept of user profiles and of short messages sent and received by friends on the website. The basic purpose was to keep in touch with old friends. Sixdegrees.com which came in 1997 is considered to be the first social networking website to have all features …

These websites displays thumbnails of all new designs in the web, with click to open URL. Nice collection with categories. A must visit websites for all new comers in web designing and development. Visit: www.cwd.dk www.coolhomepages.com

There are several silicon valleys in Europe. In Finland, there is Otaniemi near Helsinki, in France, there are two – Sophia Antipolis, between Nice and Cannes, and Zirst of Meylan, close to Grenoble. In Germany too, there are two – namely Chausseestrasse, Berlin and Dresden. In the UK, there are three – M4 corridor between London and Reading, Silicon Fen, …