Terrorists have yet again carried out a series of attacks in the financial hub of India, Mumbai. The rescue operations by the National Security Guards (NSG) at the Taj, Oberoi hotels and the Nariman House are still ongoing after 35 hours since the attacks began. CNN.com has a map of the places that were targeted [...]
Here’s a second post in the Most Wired series posts. Forbes reports the 30 Most Wired Airports in the world, based on three criteria: the passenger traffic in 2007, the breadth and cost of wi-fi access in the airport and availability of facilities such as seating, electrical outlets and wired access. A Google Map of [...]
Tiny Geo Coder is an easy, simple to use geocoding website. All that is required is an address and a click to retrieve the location’s geographical coordinates (lat, lng) along with a google static map with the location marked on it. The site also mentions about a geocoding API with no authentication. Its pretty simple, [...]
What’s the most wired city in the United States ?Do not guess, you might end up getting the wrong one. Surprisingly, its Atlanta. This is the result of a survey by Forbes.com for the Most Wired Cities in America for the year 2008. It is mentioned that their calculations were based on three factors – [...]
The “Archive Manager” that is built into Ubuntu (Ubuntu is the only Linux distro that I have tried so far) to handle archive formats has no native support for the .rar format. Try opening a .rar file with the Archive Manager and you are presented with an error. Fixing this problem requires installation of an [...]
