Google groups are online communities whose interaction is facilitated by Google, which has revolutionized the world of networking. This facility helps people who share common interests to form groups. Google offers access to the happenings and calendars of these networking groups from across the world. The groups are split broadly into art and entertainment, university, computer, home, news, business, recreation …

Codd’s Rules that are 12 in number specify what a database must support in order to be relational. The rules were defined by Edgar F Codd in a paper published in 1985. Hence, they are known as Codd’s Rules. For example, data are represented only one way; as values within columns and rows. Every value can be assessed by providing …

An applet is a little application. Prior to the World Wide Web, the built-in writing and drawing programmes that came with Windows were sometimes called applets. On the Web, using Java language, an applet is a small programme that can be sent along with a Web page to a user. Java applets can perform interactive animations, immediate calculations, or other …

Security experts say passwords for more than 2 million Facebook, Google and other accounts have been compromised and circulated online, just the latest example of breaches involving leading Internet companies. Some services including Twitter have responded by disabling the affected passwords. But there are several things you can do to minimize further threats – even if your account isn’t among …

Mix-FX comes to your rescue. This simple-to-use Flash animation program lets you create absolutely stunning Flash text effects and Flash animation effects and Flash buttons in just seconds. What is Mix-FX? It’s a Flash text, button and background effect animator. With Mix-FX, you can create hundreds of different Flash animations. Change sizes and colors and you have millions of possibilities! …

Estimating the data the Internet contains is complicated because: 1. The Internet is not a single computer or a single network, but a network of networks, whose size is constantly changing 2. Not all data stored on these networks are necessarily accessible to all users. However, there are a few estimates. According to one, the quantity is approximately equal to …

An e-mail system consists of two different servers running on a machine. One is called the SMTP server, where SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The SMTP server handles outgoing mail. The other is either a POP3 server or an IMAP server, both of which handle incoming mail. POP stands for Post Office Protocol and IMAP stands for Internet …

Gunter Wilhelm Grass, born in Danzig, Oct. 16, 1927, Germany’s prominent contemporary writer, has been called the conscience of his country’s postwar generation. Drafted into the Labor Service toward the end of World War II, he was wounded and taken prisoner in 1945. After the war he moved (1947) to Dusseldorf where he studied sculpture and painting, supporting himself as …

A desktop PC has a lithium cell or battery (the same is used in digital diaries) called a BIOS cell inside the CPU, and attached to the motherboard, which keeps track of time even after the computer is powered down, whereas in laptops, the battery of the laptop itself is used to keep track of time. This battery also saves …

Graeme Smith became the youngest ever South African cricket captain at the tender age of 22, taking over the captaincy reigns from Shaun Pollock. Today, he has matured into one of the best captains in the world of cricket. Born and raised in Johannesburg to parents Graham and Janet, Graeme was educated at King Edward VII School. He played three …