Archive for March, 2009
Added by SAWJ in Twitter on 29 March, 2009
The NBA slapped a fine of $25,000 on Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks for criticizing the refs on Twitter after the Denver Nuggets 103 – 101 win over the Mavericks last Friday night.
During the Mavericks visit to Denver in January, Cuban was fined $25,000...
Added by SAWJ in Hardware/Gadgetry on 27 March, 2009
Last year, researchers at HP Labs built a circuit element that retains it’s memory even after the power is turned off. Named “Memristor”, short for “Memory Resistor”, this device may lead to the creation of instant-turn-on computers and analog...
Added by SAWJ in PHP on 24 March, 2009
PHP provides a built-in facility to detect the IP address of the visitor using the $_SERVER superglobal array. Using the ‘REMOTE_ADDR’ element as an index value for this array, you can easily get the IP address as:
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']
You can either print...
Added by SAWJ in Web Browsers - World Wide Web on 16 March, 2009
Microsoft has posted a video on the Internet Explorer 8 website which boasts about the speed of Internet Explorer. Shockingly, it proves to be 1/3 faster than Chrome and 3 times faster than Firefox ( all stable released versions ). They’ve done testing by using a stop...