Android is an open-source software stack for mobile devices, and a corresponding open-source project led by Google. We created Android in response to our own experiences launching mobile apps. We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, so that no industry player can restrict or control the innovations of any [...]
Google Earth lets you do smooth sailing flybyes of the entire Earth. You can easily fly to any spot on the globe, by entering any associated data, like street addresses, place names or lat/long coordinates. There are overlays that put additional information on the map, like roads, international boundaries, terrain, 3D buildings, crime statistics, schools, [...]
Google has just released the 10th major iteration of Chrome to testers on December 16, an evidence for faster development in version of Chrome compared to that of Internet Explorer. Two selected changes that affected Chrome 10.0 on all platforms includes the upgrade of WebKit to 534.15 and the evolution of the V8 engine to [...]
As a System Administrator you will be always worried about the backups of your users as well as servers. The commercial backup solutions are some times little costly which may not be affordable for small companies. I always preferred open source products for backups which works absolutely fine for me. when we select an open source software we should [...]
There are couple of free and open source firewall which are  so good to protect your home or office network from any kind of attacks which may be a virus attack or human initiated one.  Here we are going to discuss about an open source firewall called smoothwall which is very easy to install and [...]
Google recently released a video explaining how its local search rankings work .Learn more about how Google ranks local information to help you find relevant search results, and how new features like Tags, Boost and Hotpot may or may not impact the ranking of organic listings.
The internet giant Google announced that WebGL is now on by default in Google Chrome’s beta channel, with some shiny new demos to show off what the technology can do. WebGL is a 3D graphics API for JavaScript that developers can use to create fully 3D web apps. It is based on the OpenGL ES 2.0 API, which should [...]
Google Apps is Google’s suite of cloud-based messaging and collaboration apps used by over 30 million users in small and large businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, and non-profit organizations around the world. Apps includes products such as Gmail, calendar, documents, spreadsheets and more, specifically optimized for use in organizations. Google recently launched an improvement to Google [...]
This article provides information about how to diagnose and test Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) or NetBIOS network configurations. When you want to troubleshoot a TCP/IP networking problem, first check the TCP/IP configuration of the computer that is experiencing the problem. To View the TCP/IP Configuration by Using the Ipconfig.exe Tool Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and [...]
Firefox 4 Beta is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform. Please read below for more detailed information about what’s new in this version of the beta release, as well as the known issues. This Firefox 4 Beta is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, though the features and [...]
Google has recently demoed an interesting WebGL application called Body Browser, which lets you explore the human body just like you can explore the world in Google Earth. Now you can try Google Body Browser before it’s added to Google Labs, assuming that you have a WebGL-enabled browser: * WebGL is available, but not enabled [...]
You typically create a virtual directory for the Web server that maps to the FTP site so that the Web server can access the files in the FTP root. The Web virtual directory name can be the same as the FTP virtual directory name, but this is not required. To create a Web server virtual [...]
After setting up an FTP server, you need to create a folder structure for the server. By default, the FTP server will have a root folder with the following path: C:\inetpub\ftproot. The FTP root folder acts as the root for your FTP server in the same way that C:\inetpub\wwwroot is the root for your Web [...]
In addition to acting as a Web server, IIS can act as an FTP server. The FTP service is not installed by default on IIS. Therefore, to use IIS as an FTP server, you must install the FTP service. To set up an FTP server using IIS Click the Start button, click Control Panel, and then click Add or [...]