Information Madness

Astronomers have managed to create the world’s largest virtual optical telescope by linking four large telescopes at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. They will operate as a single device. The Paranal Observatory is located some 8,500 feet above the sea level.

Optimizing a webpage to improve organic search results will improve click through from search listings and increase rankings. There are four steps to achieve this.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation based in San Francisco is seeking to save data on Megaupload servers. It has asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the file sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material. This group supports internet privacy and digital rights. It wants all innocent users to reclaim their legal property.

WordPress is a unique publishing program with a focus on usability, web standards and aesthetics. A plug-in is a search engine optimization (SEO) tool to improve each post individually in a blog and to manage the whole blog optimization in general.

In this season of anti-piracy bills, one of the premier resources for pirating digital content, the Pirate Bay, is moving on to the next big thing. It has announced a new category called `Physibles’ to store digital files that can be downloaded and used in collaboration with 3D printers to print out actual physical objects. Pirate Bay believes that the next step in copying is from the digital form to the physical form.

At the iBooks event in New York City, Apple gave an incentive to every college student to get an iPad.  Textbooks are going to be a focal point for Apple. At this event, it focused on high school education. The iPad plan seems well suited for high school and college students.

A Bangalore based company, Digital Waves, has launched a new tablet in the Indian market. It is called Tabplus Rio. It is priced at Rs. 11, 990. It is an Android 2.3 tablet which comes with a 1GHz Cortex A9 processor. It has a 7 inch screen and the storage capacity is up to 32 GB via Micro SD.

Dropbox has made our lives easier digitally. You can put a file in your Dropbox folder and it will be available on cell phones and on all your other computers. If you are sharing a Dropbox folder with another person, any files that you add to this shared folder will instantly appear on the other’s computer. It is very useful. Dropbox has currently fifty million users worldwide.

Why will the iPad 3 get the 4G before the iPhone? Bloomberg feels that the iPad’s larger battery will be able to support the power requirements of LTE (Long Term Evolution for standard wireless communication) better. This alone may not be the real reason.

If someone has played with your car and sprayed some unwanted paint on the sides, what do you do?  You don’t have to get upset. You just have to get WD-40.

What is WD-40? It is a product that resulted from a search for a rust preventive solvent and degreaser to protect missile parts. WD-40 was created in 1953 by three technicians at the San Diego Rocket Chemical Company. Its name comes from the project that was to find a 'water displacement' compound. They were successful with the fortieth formulation, thus WD-40. The major dominant ingredient in WD-40 is fish oil.