Google went down today. The Internet went bananas

We wouldn’t normally write about a mere few minutes in down time, but when it’s Google, it’s notable. Google.com, Google’s search product (you may have heard of) went down between 23:52 and 23:57 BST according to Search Engine Land. Not since 2009 has Google Search experienced any downtime. What’s more, it appears a number of other Google services, namely Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google Calendar experienced varying minutes of down time. It didn’t appear to trend on Twitter but a look at Hacker News and the graph below (via Twitter analytics tool Topsy) will tell you it definitely happened. Google has issued a statement saying: “We have received reports of an issue affecting some Google services. The issue is now resolved. Please follow our dashboard...

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Back to the Future With IT

In the movie series Back to the Future, Marty McFly jumps back and forth through time in an awesome time-traveling DeLorean to save his existence and others near him. Throughout the movie series, especially the second which takes place in 2015, we get to see a variety of fun and imaginative guesses as to what our world will be in the future. The movie included things like suspended animation kennels, holographic movie theaters, chiropractic hoverbelts, and more. One of my favorites was the sunglasses that were small, portable personal phones. I'm wondering when I'll be able to buy a pair. The movie reminded me of the evolution of information technology (IT) and how much it's changed over the years. In 1945, a draft report on the EDVAC was written describing the concept of a stored...

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Leaked images of the new iPhone 5 [fully assembled]

There was a lot leaks all over the web of the new iPhone which was just rumors. This one looks good enough to be the next iPhone. Anyway, this might be just another fake image or it might be the real iPhone5. Here is the latest leaks we found from here. For more images, click the link. : http://ilab.cc/news/5888.html iPhone 5 Images Click to enlarge ...

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Android 4.1 jelly bean original wallpaper collection download

The news has already spread all over the internet that google is going to roll out the latest android OS version 4.1 jelly bean. As they have declared, this will be a faster (may be the fastest) android version ever released. Everyone is waiting for it to arrive. In the meantime, download and use the original wallpaper collection set of jelly bean! Here are the original wallpapers used in android jelly bean. DOWNLOAD LIN...

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Turn your android 2.2+ phone into an ICS looking device using Hololauncher

Even though there are only very few number of devices present in market which are running on android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, its very popular and cool looking version of android. Everyone wanted to use this because of its more simplicity and all the high tech stuff present in it. But everyone knows that majority of the android phones used by people all over the world is running on android 2.3 gingerbread. Also there are people still using 2.2 froyo even though it can be updated to 2.3.  ICS update is available for some high end devices like samsung galaxy s2 in which users can download the latest update and make their device look more cool. But unfortunately, most gingerbread devices does not supports ICS update because of...

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How to completely download a partially downloaded movie from another computer

First of all let me tell you that this post is not for those pros who have been working in this field for years. It's just dedicated to freshers who is trying to learn more about tech Have you ever had a problem that you didn't got enough time to complete the download of a movie or any other stuff like that using torrent? Well here is the solution for your problem. You can complete any torrent file download from any system that you want, which is partially downloaded (say about 50%) from another computer. The procedure is very simple. Simply follow these steps. Step #1 First of all, you need that file which is partially downloaded to be carried to the new system that you would like to complete the download. So copy the entire folder...

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