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It’s giant leap for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).Already in the news for Chandrayan Mission-they have hit the headlines by launching the pure Indian version of something we have known as Google Earth for quite some time.
ISRO –Bhuvan is in their terms is –“Indian Earth Observation Visualization” which is basically the complete virtual 3D Globe made up by the data gathered by satellites.
You may have the best FLV player installed on your computer but sometimes you need to play an FLV file sitting on a cyber cafe or a friend’s computer which does not have an FLV player.
So here are 5 free FLV players which you can carry anywhere on your USB drive and enjoy FLV files anywhere.
A week ago Google released Beta version 3 of its popular browser Google Chrome..This new version comes with support for extensions and themes.
Apart from simple eye candy enhancement on the homepage it supports themes and Google has launched Themes Gallery with more than 25 themes to select.Moreover it gets about 30% speed enhancement over already fast previous versions.
Earlier you have only a few websites which provided feature to track/trace mobile number locations but now the number of such provides have grown manifold.Here is a list of 15 resources from where you can trace the location of mobile number /caller.
Some of them also provide international number tracing services.
Needless to say you can only get the region in which the number is assigned and the service provider as any directory for mobile number is not maintained.
Google Chrome has been around for almost 1 full year and its popularity is on the rising trend.Currently the latest stable version is 2.0.172.39 while the latest beta is version 3.0.
The main catching feature is the speed it offers and the minimalistic look.
If you have been late at catching up the Google Chrome then you must try it now.By default when you download Google Chrome ,only a small “Download manager” is downloaded which further downloads the browser,but here you get to download Google Chrome Offline Standalone Installer full setup.
Almost all popular banks such as ICICI,HSBC,HDFC provide mobile banking service.The largest bank SBI(State Bank of India ) was late to catch up the trend but now it has joined the mass of banks who provide mobile banking services.
SBI has launched mobile banking services under the brand name of SBI-FreedoM.Through this you can carry out almost all transaction as you did on the Internet Banking.Here is how to get SBI Mobile banking on your mobile and instructions for Registration and Activation.
As already discussed we have many CD/DVD image formats which are exact replica of a CD/DVD to be used without a physical disc.DAA file is one of them.We have already seen how to open CUE,BIN,ISO,NRG or UIF file.
According to Wiki, Direct Access Archive, or DAA, is a proprietary file format developed by PowerISO Computing for disk image files,hence you will not be able to get many freewares to open a DAA file.
But here we are going to open a DAA file with Freeware tool by first converting to an ISO format and then opening the ISO file
For various reasons it becomes important to make exact replica of your CD/DVD.This is not the usual copy paste methods but it’s known as making an IMAGE of the disk.Some popular image formats like ISO,BIN,CUE,have been already discussed here.
UIF is another image format for the CD/DVD media which offers some advantage over the conventional image formats like compression,password protection etc.Here is a Freeware program which can open or decompress UIF format.
Nero was one of my favorite app before it included a lot of accessories and became a commonly cited example of a Bloatware.Also I forgot Nero as there are many free CD/DVD burners available-some of them even perform better than Nero.
However if you are a NERO fan then it’s a good news that it is now offering a completely FREE version of its CD/DVD burner application without any strings attached.