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  • How I attained enlightenment and became a Kopimist!

    I spend two decades, yes, two full decades, naked in the dark. That is 20 years of sheer darkness. Whilst being naked. I was aimless. My life had no meaning. Worthless. Then, one day, enlightenment came to me. It came to me as if it had been an act by none other that the almighty…

  • Real life Jetpacks! /video

    Here’s a list of some very cool Jetpacks that we already have! We will soon have our Iron Man. 1. JetLev – The Water Jetpack! The first Jetpack that you can buy. 2. The Martin Jetpack, a little larger than what you would expect, but classy, nonetheless. It has also been tested at much greater…

  • Here’s a list of lists of what you did in 2011 /meta

    These are the lists everyone should certainly look at. A compilation of Internet’s  Top Tens of 2011 Twitter’s – 2011 Year in review What did you tweet about? Facebook’s Memology 2011 App What did you post about? Google Zeitgeist 2011 What did you search for? Know You Meme’s Best Memes of 2011 You can also watch the video below – YouTube’s 2011 The…

  • Download Facebook’s native chat client for Windows 7 [Leaked]

    Download it here. Initial review – + Makes FB chatting a lot less obnoxious. Being able to chat in a separate window, bring it closer to GChat. + You can snap the client to one side of the desktop. – If you do snap it, and then browse Facebook in your browser, you now have…

  • How Flipkart Helped India Realise its E-Commerce Dream!

    How Flipkart Helped India Realise its E-Commerce Dream!

    Flipkart, one of India’s largest online retailers today, was one of the first of its kind when it was established in 2007 by Mr. Sachin and Mr. Binny Bansal, at a time there were not much Flipkart-esque e-commerce services in India . To enquire more about their successful journey, I asked Mr. Sachin Bansal, CEO,…

  • Insert All The Emoticons! /Updated

      For the theory part, check below. To start copy pasting this in your chat, here you go – The Merry Christmas – [[247141448686607]] [[289038261142619]] [[158039784302618]] [[158039784302618]] [[274250912624691]] [[288997744484847]] [[266231403431058]] [[158039784302618]] [[135810689866157]] [[330264450335703]] [[214416781973079]] [[247141448686607]] [[222654211143888]] [[330264450335703]] [[megustameme]] And, here’s a list of the troll emoticons – Y U NO – [[106043532814443]] Troll Face –…

  • Is cloud computing the Mother Of God?

    What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is basically outsourcing processing/data storage to somewhere else, that you don,t need to know. Lets call that place the cloud. [ Although most of the outsourced stuff is in to India, but sadly, the cloud is not in India. ] For this, one important thing is cheap + fast…

  • Jeff Lieberman – Under The Iris

    Jeff Lieberman hosts Time Warp on the Discovery Channel. He also likes to mix art with science, form with function, making them one. And then, he also composes music in his duo Gloobic. Did we mention that he has 4 degrees from MIT! We asked him he a bunch of questions – What was the…

  • Google Zeitgeist – Top search trends of 2011 displayed in HTML5 awesomeness

    Google just released a list of fastest rising searches on Google in 2011, and guess what, Rebecca Black tops the list. The iPad, the non existent iPhone5 are also in the top 10. In other words, 20% of what trended at the top in 2011 was Apple! But, what’s more interesting than the content of the research is…

  • EU delays Google’s $12.4 Billion Buy-Out of Motorola Mobility

    Google’s takeover of Motorola Mobility faces a delay after EU regulators suspended their review of the deal. The European Commission has revealed that it halted the approval process last week, and requested more information.The European Union antitrust authority used a rare “time-out” legal procedure and put on hold the current first-phase inquiry into Google’s $12.4…

  • Timeline is here.

    Today, Facebook announced that timeline has been launched for everybody. Here’s what you need to know. What is timeline? It’s a new design for your Facebook profile. Um, what’s new? It’s something like a digital collection of your life, that you curate. Facebook automatically organizes all your status updates and other life events chronologically, so browsing it would be…

  • Google Optimizes Its Search for Mobile Apps

    “Kya Aap Apps Ke Deewaane Hain?” Well, most of us are, but in this rapidly advancing technological era it can be a daunting task to find the right app for you. But don’t worry, The TechIRIS is here to help you!! Google has recently updated its search options in the sidebar with a new ‘Applications’…

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