Himesh Reshammiya was born on 23 July 1973 and is the son of Vipin Reshammiya & Madhu Reshammiya. He struggled for many years in the industry as a music director, few albums of his have been sucessful as a music director and one of them is Tere Naam but he was never truly successful as a music director but it was …
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It is used for browsing in stealth mode, for a situation when we don’t want our history to be tracked, like planning surprise gifts and holidays. Web pages that are opened and files downloaded while browsing incognito are not logged in the browsing and downloading histories of the browser. All new cookies are deleted after the incognito window is closed.
Read More »What is history sniffing?
History sniffing is a term used to describe how websites snoop into visitor’s website history to trace the sites where they have been. A study released by researchers with the University of California, San Diego, showed that many websites were ‘sniffing’ the browsing history of visitors. Browsers display color codes indicating sites one has visited and those that have not …
Read More »Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German Swiss Poet, Novelist, & Painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi), each of which explores an individual’s search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. Hermann Hesse was born on 2 …
Read More »What is grid computing?
Grid computing is a parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are shared across a network, and all machines function as one large supercomputer. A well known example of grid computing in the public domain is the ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in which thousands of people share the unused processor cycles of their PCs in the vast search …
Read More »What is email apnea?
Email apnea is the stress caused by the inability to process emails and connect even as mails flood the inbox. It is marked by a suspension of breathing, shallow breathing or hyperventilating while checking mail. Researcher Linda Stone coined this term after realizing that many people go through this process every morning, the mind whirling from mail to mail, filing, …
Read More »What is Direct Market Access?
Direct Market Access (DMA) is a facility which allows brokers to offer clients direct access to the exchange trading system through the brokers’ infrastructure without manual intervention by the broker. Some of the advantages offered by DMA are direct control of clients over orders, faster execution of client orders, reduced risk of errors associated with manual order entry, greater transparency, …
Read More »What is digital cleanse?
Digital cleanse is a term mooted by John Mayer, musician and avid blogger and tweeter, as a resolution and challenge for the first week of 2010. It means keeping off all digital contraptions – a stop to emailing, texting, social networking, blogging and surfing sites. It is seen as a new health craze, considered good for the body and mind. …
Read More »What is cybersquatting?
Cybersquatting is registering a website in the names of popular brands. The word squatting in this context means unauthorised occupation of someone else’s property. In the internet domain, techsavvy entrepreneurs register websites in the names of popular brands, whose owners do not have websites of their own. This can lead to misrepresentation in the internet media about the products or …
Read More »What is crowd mining?
Crowd mining is a new business concept where solutions can come from crowds, and marketers are turning to them as a database. They are a handy source of information, especially with online advances and wireless technology. The changing economy brought in this concept to tap expensive or even unavailable information and it goes beyond surveys and crowd sourcing. Scientists are …
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