What to do if connection unstable?? Have good download speed but unable to even browse.. Read below

It generally happens due to filtering using poor quality software like checkpoint by your ISP, especially if improperly configured.

The solution is to use a free VPN. The bandwidth provided is low but enough in south east Asian countries. Else use multiple free VPNs.

You can also try routing all traffic through TOR. When using Gtalk, i was getting logged out every 2 minutes; so i used it with the tor proxy settings, then it just rocked :)

How to connect to omegle easily if blocked by ISP ??

Omegle is a random chat service made by EFF. It is however blocked at many universities etc.. For example at my college its blocked by the checkpoint under category of violence! lol

So u can try one of the country specific omegle sites: http://www.omegleworld.com/

You can also try the omegle facebook app. but the fb app isn't that good.

another way is to install pidgin. get the omegle plugin. and in pidgin settings connect it through tor proxy. See tor tutorial on our website

Solving partitioning problem with HP laptops

New HP laptops like HP TouchSmart TM2 & some others come with some weird sort of partition "lock". You get 3 partitions initially- one C drive, recovery and Hp tools. As soon as you shrink C you get message that partitions are dynamic and you cannot install OS in it. On top HP TouchSmart comes with no CD drive. And its recovery is above 20 GB. Most people don't have 32 GB pen drives and one cannot trust windows recovery to not erase other partitions on external hard discs :P

So one can use certain partition editors. I used partition magic & it did the work. A friend of mine who faced same problem sometime back had to pay Rs.300 at the local HP service center for it. LOL

BMW CONCEPT eSCOOTER

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BMW Concept e electric scooter.

Car and motorcycle maker BMW says it is working on an electric scooter design called the Concept e. The scooter is part of a plan at BMW to bring electric and hybrid drive systems to premium vehicles and promote more efficient forms of urban mobility.
The company says the bike is designed in part to convey the idea of clean-running efficiency through its appearance, which is a departure from scooters on the market today. Its shape is surprisingly uncluttered. The protruding rear-view mirrors that characterize motorcycles and scooters are missing from the concept, which replaces them with video cameras and screens.
Digital displays also show speed and other vehicle information, so there is no cluster of gauges and switches. The company says later production scooters derived from the concept will combine the agility of a scooter with the more dynamic riding feel of a motorcycle.
BMW says it expects its production electric scooters to have a range of about 100 kilometers, or just over 60 miles. It will also have enough power to overtake other vehicles on urban highways even while carrying a passenger.
The bike is designed to recharge at the home or office from a standard outlet, so the rider won’t have to depend on public charging stations. Charge time: 3 hours or less.

APPLE SUED FOR iPHONE AND iPAD PATENT INFRINGEMENT!

Apple said late yesterday that it has been sued by the Taiwanese semiconductor design company Via Technologies for patent infringement about the iPhone and the iPad. Lately there's been many patent infringement cases in the media, and it seems that some companies have just discovered a new way of making millions of dollars on the back of other high tech firms, something that Mark Cuban has recently discovered and is publicly voicing his frustration.
Microsoft is also on the same path, except that it's using a bit of a different method: "We can sell you some insurance that we won't sue you, but you have to give us some money in order that we won't sue you."
The patents involved, Via's complaint charges, are for technology used in microprocessors in Apple's iOS products that "generally provides efficient loading of data in the microprocessors."
Specifically, the three patents are 6,253,312 "Method and apparatus for double operand load", and 6,754,810, a continuation and refinement of the earlier 6,253,311 patent, both of which being entitled
"Instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data".
The lawsuit is joined by co-plaintiffs CenTaur Technology of Austin, Texas and IP-First LLC of Fremont, California, both subsidiaries of Via Technologies. The suit was filed in the Delaware U.S. District Court yesterday.
The "Accused Apple Products" named in the suit are the iPad and iPad 2, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4 CDMA, fourth-generation iPod touch, and second-generation Apple TV-- in other words, just about every product that Apple makes these days!
The complaint requests that Apple be enjoined from importing any of these into the U.S. or for that matter, from manufacturing them in the United States.
The suit alleges that Apple's infringment be deemed "willful" – which would triple any damages that the court might award to VIA and its subsidiaries, should the court find in their favor. We predict some kind of a settlement soon.

GAMERS AND SCIENTISTS HAND IN HAND ;)

Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.

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The exploit is published on Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, where -- exceptionally in scientific publishing -- both gamers and researchers are honoured as co-authors.

Their target was a monomeric protease enzyme, a cutting agent in the complex molecular tailoring of retroviruses, a family that includes HIV.
Figuring out the structure of proteins is vital for understanding the causes of many diseases and developing drugs to block them.

But a microscope gives only a flat image of what to the outsider looks like a plate of one-dimensional scrunched-up spaghetti. Pharmacologists, though, need a 3-D picture that "unfolds" the molecule and rotates it in order to reveal potential targets for drugs.
This is where Foldit comes in.
Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose video game in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- using a set of online tools.
To the astonishment of the scientists, the gamers produced an accurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks.
Cracking the enzyme "provides new insights for the design of antiretroviral drugs," says the study, referring to the lifeline medication against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
It is believed to be the first time that gamers have resolved a long-standing scientific problem.
"We wanted to see if human intuition could succeed where automated methods had failed," Firas Khatib of the university's biochemistry lab said in a press release. "The ingenuity of game players is a formidable force that, if properly directed, can be used to solve a wide range of scientific problems."
One of Foldit's creators, Seth Cooper, explained why gamers had succeeded where computers had failed.
"People have spatial reasoning skills, something computers are not yet good at," he said.
"Games provide a framework for bringing together the strengths of computers and humans. The results in this week's paper show that gaming, science and computation can be combined to make advances that were not possible before."