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When a user enters a search term in the Firefox location bar (address bar, awesome bar) it is determined if the entered term is an actual web address or a search term.
If it is a search term a search using the default search engine is performed. If it is a web address the web address is loaded directly.
Firefox assumes that all phrases that make use of a period are web addresses and will try to load them. This can be quite frustrating if a user wanted to look up a file name in a search engine.
You can test that yourself by entering prime.exe in the address bar. Firefox will try to load the website prime.exe even though the .exe domain extension is not existent.
There is no Firefox setting or add-on that can restrict the extensions to the known domain extensions but there is another way to directly saerch for terms with periods in Firefox using the location bar.
All that is needed is to place a “?” before the search term. While a search for prime.exe would result in a page not found error in Firefox a search for ?prime.exe would perform the search in the default search engine(http://search.speedbit.com) and deliver the desired result.

Shutdown screensaver shutdowns the computer after 2 minutes when the computer is not in use.It works on all versions of Windows. It can be very useful if it happens often to you to forget turning off your machine.It displays number of seconds left to shutdown.This screensaver is not liked by all to install in their computers, since it (unfortunately) doesn't have any options other than brute-force shutdown.You can terminate the countdown by deactivating screensaver.

Many people adore the look of photographs taken with older cameras. The millions of plastic bodied cheap lens bearing cameras that flooded the consumer photography market starting around the mid-20th century had flaws that have come to be a hallmark of their time.
The vintage appearance to your photo can be given easily by using the website wanokoto .Just go to the website upload a photo and then click convert.You will be able to see your image with vintage effect.

ColGraff points out reporting at Science News about the possibility of killing bacteria with paint. Scientists in the UK have found that high concentrations of titanium oxide nanoparticles in paint can kill bacteria by creating hydroxyl radicals when exposed to ordinary fluorescent light. Titanium dioxide is present in most white paint at concentrations of 30% or so, but not always at nanoparticle scale. The researchers found that an 80% concentration of TiO2 nanoparticles worked well to kill E. Coli bacteria. There is hope that the technique could be used against "superbugs," which are resistant to multiple antibiotics. A researcher not associated with the UK team pointed out the problem with developing products based on this idea: "Anything that survives and sticks around grows greater resistance and the bacteria could grow to be even stronger."

Software giant Infosys Technologies Ltd and Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) today announced the largest ever group insurance policy in India, of Rs 24,000 crore, with the renewal of Infosys' group life insurance policy covering all employees of the company.

According to Thomas Mathew T, managing director, LIC, "This is the highest cover offered by any insurance company, under any single employer-employee group life insurance policy in India."

Infosys initiated its group insurance scheme with LIC in 2002, with a cover of Rs 10 lakh per employee. At that time, the employee strength was 12,000 and the policy amount was Rs 1791 crore. Then, in 2006 the insurance amount went up to Rs 7981 crore in 2006 and in 2007 it reached Rs 11,792 crore.

Over the years, the coverage levels have substantially risen in tune with the social security and employee benefit initiatives of Infosys, the company said. Now the insurance cover for Infosys employees varies between Rs 20 to Rs 80 lakh.

While talking to media, Mohandas Pai, Member of the Board of Infosys, said "Infosys believes in providing adequate, life, accident and medical insurance cover to its employees in a holistic measure."

Bharti Airtel Ltd., a telecom services provider, announced the launch of the 'Airtel Innovation Fund' aimed at promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of telecommunications.

This is the first ever innovation fund in India specifically for the telecom sector. The objective of the fund is to provide opportunities to entrepreneurs with a vision to build businesses based on innovative ideas. The fund will have an initial corpus of Rs 200 crores and will be led and administered by Bharti Airtel.

Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman and managing director, Bharti Airtel, said, "Bharti Airtel has demonstrated that Indian entrepreneurship can create world-class companies. Innovation has always been at the core of our DNA – be it our unique outsourcing model or world-class products and services. The fund is a pioneering step to promote innovation and help budding entrepreneurs realise their dreams. We are confident that this initiative will co-build the twin pillars of innovation and entrepreneurship to usher in a new wave of entrepreneurs in India."

The fund's intent is to provide seed money to entrepreneurs who may not otherwise be able to access funds, and to serve as a vehicle to promote developments in technology, content and software applications in the area of telecommunications.

Manoj Kohli, CEO and joint managing director, Bharti Airtel, said: "Bharti Airtel has been a pioneer in the India telecom sector and revolutionised the market with innovative products like Lifetime Prepaid. This fund will be a catalyst in further promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship in Indian telecom as well as development of exciting technologies for the benefit of customers."

Sony's Vaio TZ series notebooks may overheat and should be brought into Sony offices for repairs,the company said.

The source of the problem is “a poorly placed wire and/or dislodged screw in the hinge”.

“The laptop computers overheat in the section connecting the display and the keyboard, as the joint section bites into a bunch of wires inside the computer,” a Sony spokesman said.

The overheating affects the DC jack inlet or LCD surrounding area.

The Sony Vaio TZ series was manufactured from May 2007 to July 2008, spanning 280 models, with over 440,000 units sold around the world.

More than 200 notebooks have overheated so far. Seven people have suffered light burns, according to the company.

There have been no reported cases of issues in Australia, said a Sony spokesperson.

Customers can determine whether their notebooks are affected by checking their serial numbers against a Sony database. The model name and serial number are located on the notebook's underside.

Owners of Sony Vaio TZ series notebooks are urged to bring their computers to a Sony Service Centre for free inspections and repairs. Service centres are listed on the company’s website, or customers can call 1300 137 669.

The laptops are not part of a general product recall because there is no risk of fires or serious injuries, the spokesman said.

Last year, Sony recalled nearly 10 million notebook batteries because of a potential fire hazard. The recall affected every major notebook manufacturer and potentially cost Sony more than $430 million, according to analyst Eiichi Katayama of Nomura Securities.

INTRODUCTION:

C is a programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie. It is developed from a programming language called B. The B is developed from an older language known as BCPL (Basic combined programming language). There are two C version known as C89 and C99.

FEATURES OF ‘C’ LANGUAGE:

C language is a middle level programming language.
C language is portable i.e. the software that is created using C language for one operating system can also able to run in other operating system with little or no modification.
C language is also as called as structured programming language because it supports various looping statements like Do while, for, while (Discussed later). As C is a structured programming it doesn’t encourages the use of goto statement.
C language is not case sensitive ie. Upper and lower case characters are different. For example, NAME and name are different in C.

COMPILATION AND LINKING:

The computer can able to understand only 0’s and 1’s.Hence the C statements (source code) should be converted to 0’s and 1’s (Machine level language) before execution. This process is done by programs known as compiler and interpreter.

Compiler and interpreter:

The compiler is a program that reads the entire C program at a stretch and converts it to object code(binary code or machine code).

Interpreter is a program that reads the statements in a C program line by line and converts it to object code.

The object code generated after compilation is linked with standard C library
Functions by using linker.

KEYWORDS IN C LANGUAGE:

Keywords in ‘C’ have predefined special meanings. There are nearly 32 keywords in ‘C’ programming language. They are:

auto double int struct
break else long switch
case enum register typedef
char extern return union
const float short unsigned
continue for signed void
default goto sizeof volatile
do if static while
In c language else is a keyword but not ELSE.
GENERAL STRUCTURE OF A ‘C’ PROGRAM

The ‘C’ program has different section namely

1. HEADER FILE SECTION:

The header file is specified in this section. The header file contains the prototype for the various in-built functions.

2. GLOBAL VARIABLE SECTION:

This section contains the declaration of the global variables.These global variables are accessed by all the functions in a program.

3. MAIN FUNCTION:

All programs should have one main function. The execution of a program starts from a main function only. All the function is defined as

General syntax:

Return-type function-name (parameter list)
{
Set of statements;
}

While giving function definition it is necessary to specify the data type of the value that the function is going to return. The return type is followed by the function name which may the main or any other name ie.user-defined name.

The list of parameter that it is going to get from the calling function (discussed later) should also be specified.

It is then followed by the curly brace which indicates the start of a function. It includes set of statements. A statement in ‘C’ terminates with a semicolon (;).

The statement can be declaration of the local variable (the variables that are accessed only by the function which it is declared).It also contains executable statement. The function ends with a curly brace.

Header file section

Global variable declarations

int main(parameter list)
{
Set of statements;
}

return-type function1(parameter list)
{
Set of statements;
}

return-type function2(parameter list)
{
Set of statements;
}
.
.
.
return-type functionN(parameter list)
{
Set of statements;
}

Google has suddenly announced the launch of Chrome, an Open Source internet browser set to challenge Microsoft's web dominance.

Chrome will be released on Wednesday, just weeks after Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8.

Stepping into a war that has pitted Microsoft against Apple, Mozilla and Opera, Google’s beta release of Chrome is reminiscent of the 1990s browser wars.

Google Chrome will be released for Microsoft Windows in over 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions still under development.

The browser

Chrome's code is based on WebKit, an open source web browser engine written and used by Apple in their Safari browser. WebKit could make Chrome available for iPhones and other mobiles, including those using Google's mobile phone platform Android.

The browser uses a hand-built JavaScript virtual machine, V8, which has been claimed to be faster than other JavaScript implementations. Google's product suite of web applications, which run on JavaScript, stand to benefit from increased running speeds.

Like most currently available browsers, Chrome will use tabbed browsing, placing tabs above the address bar. Individual tabs are isolated in a “sandbox” to prevent one tab from crashing the whole browser.

Some other Chrome features are available in other browsers, such as Internet Explorer’s 'privacy mode', which allows users to browse without logging websites and content. Chrome also features Opera’s "speed dial" homepage, which displays top visited websites and other information for users to browse.

The spin

"We believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web," wrote Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management, in Google’s official blog.

"We realized that ... we needed to completely rethink the browser."

Google also released a comic book, designed by veteran comic book creator Scott McCloud, which features engineers and designers explaining Chrome’s features.
The comic book was accidentally released to Google watchers Google Blogoscoped, which broke news of the browser’s release early.

The competition

Microsoft remained confident that users would prefer IE8 to Google Chrome.
"The browser landscape is highly competitive," Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer group, told the New York Times.

"But people will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way it puts the services they want right at their fingertips, respects their personal choices about how they want to browse and, more than any other browsing technology, puts them in control of their personal data online."

Microsoft released the Beta 2 version of its browser, Internet Explorer 8, on August 27. Between its various releases, Internet Explorer enjoys a market share of over 70 per cent, according to Net Applications.

This is a free educational game for babies that is controlled by mashing a computer keyboard.It has already achieved 20,000 downloads in less than two months.

It was created by respected .NET developer Scott Hanselman, who works by day as a senior program manager in the development division of Microsoft.

Inspired by his eight-month-old crawling across his computer keyboard while he was on a Skype call, Hanselman set about creating a way for babies and small children to bang on the keyboards of his Windows-based computers ‘without hurting anything’.

The result is BabySmash, a free game that draws letters, shapes and numbers based on how the baby smashes the keyboard.

Benefits listed include that it ‘keeps babies happy’ and that it ‘won’t harm your computer’.

The latter is because the application locks down important keys like Windows, Ctrl-Esc and Alt-Tab, confining the baby to the application and also preventing anything from being accidentally deleted, according to Hanselman.

“As soon as a developer has a child, they want to develop a game for them,” Hanselman told iTnews at the Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 event in Sydney.

The application was created by Hanselman using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Hanselman used a novel way to invite contributions to the project from other developers - he wrote ‘horrible’ code and then released the source for it via codeplex.

“I wanted to use WPF but didn’t get a book. I just thought to myself ’I’m going to write this wrong’,” said Hanselman.

“I thought ‘I’m going to sit down with a new technology [WPF] but re-use my 15 years’ development skills in older technology, put it out as horrible code, then get WPF experts to come in and refactor the code subsystem by subsystem’”.

Releasing the source code has also invited several important contributions. In particular, a New Zealand developer is now collaborating with Hanselman to port BabySmash to Silverlight.

Hanselman anticipates that the Silverlight version will likely act as a taster or cut-down preview for people wanting to test it before downloading the full version.

A key limitation of the Silverlight version will be that it doesn’t lock down certain keys as in the WPF version.

Hanselman said he has also received a huge amount of feedback on the application,ranging from features that could be added to other offers of support.

“I’ve had offers to redo the voiceovers professionally,” Hanselman said.

“I also received a recording of someone’s child saying BabySmash - and made that the opening sound [for the application].”

Hanselman said there are no plans to commercialise BabySmash.

“It’s just fun - something like this I don’t think should cost money,” explained Hanselman.

“I would much rather focus on the education value for the child and the adult programmer. I can push WPF to its limits because it’s much more fun when babies are involved.”

There are so many clashes between countries and also within country.Though there are clashes they are very united when any danger come to them in common.Similiarly,i think our whole world will be united when there is a danger come to the entire world.Either it may be natural disaster or may be due to some other dangerous organism.Why should we want a danger to come and unite us?."Let's stay united forever in this world".