The guys at Facebook have been really doing some great job. The fact that their entire team is so young, the creativity just keeps rolling. Here is a video which pretty much sums up what is it like to work this fast growing company.

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Two days before the premier, the highly anticipated movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 has been leaked in BitTorrent. The good news for Warner Bros. Pictures is that it is not the entire movie – just 36 minutes.

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In the past I have commented on how GNOME Shell’s redesign is heading towards what Canonical’s Unity looks like currently. Well, today a reader, Frederico Araújo,  left a very interesting side-by-side comparison of GNOME Shell during its initial stage and now. He also added comparison with Unity. It is a very interesting comparison and we thought we’d share it. Do leave your…

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The video above is a picture browsing application running in Ubuntu controlled using Microsoft’s Kinect. It allows for a multi-touch like control without touching the surface – like the stuffs we see in Sci-Fi movies. (Click here if you cannot see the embedded video.)

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A major gripe I have with X.org is the state of GPU hot-swapping. With new laptops coming with dual GPU – a performance oriented one and another power-saving one, I consider GPU hot-swapping a very important feature. It works perfectly in Windows but in Linux the state of GPU hot-swapping is pathetic right now. The…

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Mozilla has released the seventh beta of its upcoming browser, Firefox 4.0. The Firefox 4.0 development has hit a slightly rough patch recently resulting in the release date for the final build pushed back to 2011. However, there is good news with the new beta – it has finally overtaken both Chrome and Opera, both…

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Koobface is a trojan that has been going around in social networking sites like – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. It originally started as a Windows only trojan. But a few days ago, a new variant emerged which can infect both Mac OS X and Linux.

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A few days back, a new Firefox add-on called Firesheep was developed which lets anyone with the add-on installed capture other users’ cookies over WiFi. It essentially meant that anyone on the network can hack into anyone’s Facebook, Twitter etc. whenever they login to it over the network. Scary stuff indeed!

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So you have completely moved to GMail and think Yahoo! mail is a thing of the past. Even I had a similar feeling that GMail is now the most widely used web mail service, but only till I came across some statistics published by Hitwise according to which Yahoo! Mail is still the most widely used web mail (e-mail) service around the world.

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