Friday, 29 April 2011

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a bibliographic database that is meant to find abstracts and full text articles published on various topics. It is a great service to the public at large providing them access to the most recent research articles published in various high impact peer reviewed journals. It also helps many students in completing their post graduate thesis and dissertation. Google Scholar has tried to very convincingly cover all kind of disciplines and formats. Each research paper can be viewed in a variety of formats including HTML, PDF etc.

New LOL Replacements In Chat

LOL certainly is the most frequent way to convey laughter in internet chat, however it's far from the only way. Today we're going to present a few more alternatives to LOL which might be used to express extreme laughter instead of simply laughing out loud.

How to Make a Droid App That Works

I have heard that the only universal programming language is profanity. That is largely due to the Murphy's Law (Sod's Law in the UK) corollary, the Law of Unintended Consequences. Finding out early about problems in your app will work out a lot better than finding out later. The key then, is to cull your herd before you get it to market, or in non-cattle terms, debug as you go so it is not a buggy app you submit for sale or free download.

PureVPN Review - What Is PureVPN Service?

PureVPN provides a service that lets people communicate securely online. Providers such as these are oftentimes used by businesses.

PureVPN, What is It?

Identity theft, data mining and other types of intrusion are always threats on the Internet. This stems from the fact that, normally, your computer has to tell any server it wants to communicate who and where it is and this means that there is some personal data exchanged in the transaction. This is unavoidable, in the same fashion that it would be unavoidable for someone to send you mail without your giving them your address. So what does VPN have to do with this?

Thursday, 28 April 2011

What You Should Consider When Outsourcing Your IT

When an outsourcing provider charges you by the hour with an estimate of how long the project will run, you are putting your business in a vulnerable position. What if the project should, for whatever reason, take significantly longer to complete than initially estimated? Or what if the project takes much less time as your provider told you in the first place and while you're still paying their hours, they are still off to another client. How long a project really runs for, that is the unknown factor. And why should you be expected to pay for delays of technical problems? Yet often that's exactly what's happening. IT projects become bottomless pits. And you are the one paying for it.