Cloud computing is the new buzz and everyone is talking about it. Is this for real or just another technology fad that will soon fade away? Well cloud computing is for real, it has been around for a while and is here to stay. We've been using cloud computing since the early days of the Internet, however now it has been given a formal name. What's changing rapidly now is that more and more applications, softwares and services are being made available on the cloud.Cloud computing simply means the applications that you use are now stored in and served from the cloud; that means,instead of them running on your computer they are running on a computer (or server) on the Internet. You access these applications using your browser. Simple examples of this are Web based email, online office such...

Have you ever laid down at the end of the day and realized that the only thing you have accomplished for the day is evaluating which of the videos of kittens playing with a ball was the cutest? There is a fine line between updating you Facebook status and spending the entire day chatting online with that friend from school you didn't even like. This New Year, get over all your distractions!If you are your own task-master, it's often a good idea to place restrictions on yourself, so you can actually get some work done; and Cold Turkey is a free and open source software that helps you with that.Cold Turkey is a simple application that is designed to block distracting websites for a specified duration so you can focus on your work.The application has a simple interface, you select which...

The open source movement continues to strengthen every year, such that no matter who you are, what software you use, what book you read, whatever you do somewhere along the line open source software is in use.Apache continues to be the most popular web server, the public domain SQLite lies deep within nearly every mobile OS, and any software that deals with lots of data. Firefox and Chrome, both open source -- although to different extents -- now make up for a majority of the internet populace. It’s safe to say the open source movement has been a huge success.2011 has been a good year for open source, and now we look forward to what we think are some important things to look out for in 2012 in the field of open source. For this we will divide this article in to the...