Now surf four times faster with a new wonder browser created by a 16 year old young scientist. A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian’s College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as “XWEBS”, the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line.
Adnan states that the browser features built-in access to 120 Internet search engines, a variety of music and video players including a DVD player and a talking figure, Phoebe who can read out web-pages. You can read more about this story here
Hmmmm!! … first of all 780,000 lines of code in 18 months comes around to 1500 lines per day… something of a wonder in itself! Secondly… if the browser features all these goodies, it has to be super bulky! So, there are sceptics aplenty… and with good reason too!
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I was a midnight rider on a cloud of smoke
I could make a woman hang on every single stroke
I was an iron man I had a master plan
But I was alone
I could hear you breathing with a sigh of the wind
I remember how your body started trembling
Oh what a night it’s been, and for the state I’m in
I’m still alone
And all the wonders made for the earth
And all the hearts in all creation
Somehow I always end up alone
Always end up alone, always end up alone
So I’ll play, I’ll wait
‘Cause you know that love takes time
Living love betwen the line
We came (sha la) so close (so far)
Just the beat of a lonely heart
And it’s mi-i-ine, and I don’t wanna be alone
Well, since I got no message on your answer phone
Since you’re busy every minute I just stay at home
I make believe you care, I feel you everywhere
But I’m still alone
I’m on a wheel of fortune with a twist of fate
‘Cause I know it isn’t heaven is it love or hate
Am I the subject of the pain
Am I the stranger in the rain I am alone
And is there glory there to behold
Maybe it’s my imagination another story there to be told
So I play sha la, I’ll wait sha la
And I pray it’s not too late
We came sha la so far so far
Just a beat of a lonely heart and it’s mi-i-ine
And I don’t wanna be alone
Gone but not out of sight
I’m caught in the rain and there’s no one home
I don’t wanna be alone face the heat of the the night
The one that you love’s got a heart that’s made of stone
You search for the light
And sooner or later you’ll be cruising on your ocean
And clean out of sight I’m caught in the rain
And there’s no one home
Maurice Ernest Gibb (1949 - 2003) R.I.P.
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How about a water-cooled power supply??. You’ve seen and heard of Powers Supply Units (PSUs) in your computers being cooled by heat-sinks and fans. Well, thats how they’ve always been cooled! But have you heard of a water-cooled PSU??
Apparently one guy has hit upon this brilliant (though it remains to be seen how safe!) idea of colling the PSU in your PCs using plain old water! He even provides an illustrated step-by-step guide on how to go about doing that! You can click here to check out the ste-by-step guide.
But… but… but!… make it a point to read the warning and the disclaimer to literally avoid a Digital Explosion! :-)
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