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Our Take: Top 5 PDF readers

Surfing the internet for research topics, you will at some point, have come across materials of varying file types. You will have seen the popular and common .doc files, .txt, .ppt, and then of course, there are the .pdf files.

The PDF file type has grown in popularity over the years, due in part to its compression quality and faithfulness to the authentic documents look and feel. Virtual copies of documents such as scholarly journals, speeches, academic papers, and even newspapers are popularly rendered as PDF documents.

Have a look at the following PDF readers,...

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Computer Programming Language: Python, Pearl and Ruby

What’s Python, Perl and Ruby?

Python is an extraordinarily dominant, vibrant, and robust programming language that is utilized within a large number of application domains. The language is generally compared to Java, Scheme, Ruby, Perl, or Tcl.

Some of its prominent features include; clarity, a readable syntax, powerful introspection competence, perceptive object direction, natural appearance of the procedural codes, supporting hierarchical correspondence, full modularity, data types are extremely superior, exception error handling, wide-ranging standard libraries along with virtual third party modules for every particular task. The modules...

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How to forward Hotmail to Gmail

Before we move on to our main point, we will introduce Hotmail and Gmail account first.

Hotmail:

Hotmail is a free web email service operated by Microsoft. It was the first web email service provided by Microsoft in the shape of Hotmail. Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith founded it in 1996.

There are many features in Hotmail, such as using Ajax techniques and it supports later versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome. It automatically completes the contact addresses when composing; it provides importing and exporting of contacts, rich...

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Introduction of Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is used for various purposes. With Microsoft Excel, we can add, subtract, multiply, and divide. We can also use it for preparing different kinds of reports.

Microsoft Excel has many functions which can be used easily, such as displaying the results with the use of graphs, inserting pictures or objects, making our works more presentable by the help of formatting, filtering the data, sorting data etc.

The range of this program starts from maintaining the accounts of small shops up to Multinational organization. Today, Microsoft Excel is used in every...

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The Physical Layer of OSI Model

The Physical Layer

  • Physical Layer is first layer of OSI model.
  • It's main function is to carry a bit stream over a Physical medium.
  • One of the major functions of Physical Layer is to transmit data in the form of electro-magnetic signals across a transmission medium. Whether we are collecting numerical static from another commuter, sending animated pictures from design workstation we do transmit data across network connection. This is done by physical layer .
  • Figure shows a position of a Physical Layer with respect to the transmission medium...

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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

As cloud computing continued to evolve it resulted in four distinct levels operation which are classified as:

i. Business Process as a Service

ii. Software as a Service

iii. Platform as a Service

iv. Infrastructure as a Service

In this article we will discuss the Platform as a Service (PaaS) level of the cloud computing solution.

In Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, the service provider provides more than just the infrastructure. Service provider provides complete solution stack...

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Personal Pests: Outlook Data Storage and PST

Until the day the glorious cloud descends upon us, and we dispose all our local storage devices in to a toxic fire and we'll have to make do with our hard disks. In unified messaging clients such as Microsoft Outlook, many of your e-mail messages, calendar items and tasks will need a resting stop at the end of the network. Being a scrupulous housekeeper, Outlook packs them in data files. This article will take a prying look at the ultimate electronic board.

Chances are you...

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iPhone Applications

1- Scanner Pro:

Through this application, you can easily scan your documents. This application is mostly used in US, France, Italy, Australia, and many more countries around the world. You can scan multiple pages and documents, after scanning, you can email them or you can also upload them to your drop-box.

2- Job Search:

Through this application, you can find jobs using the most popular and comprehensive search engines. There are a lot of features on this application:

  1. You can do a simple, fast-loading job search.
  2. You can view a complete set of job search results...

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Data over light -Intel's latest achievement

Intel’s latest technology is aiming at increasing the bandwidth by using light to carry data. When we migrated from USB 1.0 to 2.0 and currently 2.0 to 3.0, we can see the difference between the speed of data transfer and the convenience we get by the fast transfer rate.

Now, Intel claims to have done even better with the new technology, namely “light Peak”. We are already using the fiber optic technology and now Intel is aiming to use this technology at the user level...

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Epic is just productive, privacy, secure

A not-so-known little known company, called Hidden Reflex, gained a high attention when it released India’s first web browser to the world. It is an idea of Alok Bharadwaj, a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, who is the CEO and the founder of the company, Hidden Reflex. This software made itself an important part of the personal computer and its use is constantly growing.

The user interface and the experience of browsing have not been changed since the initial browsers, like the Mosaic, emerged. Alok thought of increasing the use...

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