St. Nicholas to Santa: The Surprising Origins of Mr. Claus

Any kid can tell you where Santa Claus is from—the North Pole. But his historical journey is even longer and more fantastic than his annual, one-night circumnavigation of the globe. ....Read More

Dekha Hobe Ei Banglay

MS Office for Android Smart Phone Users

Android users can now enjoy the ever popular Microsoft Office on their smart phones. But here’s a catch, it will work only for Microsoft’s Office 365 Home Premium and ProPlus service subscribers. And it works on smart phones running the 4.0 operating system or greater!

Office 365 subscribers can now access, view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. For $100 a year subscription, you can install Office apps on your PC, Mac and smart phones….on up to five devices. 

Already available in the US, the product will soon be available in other markets, including India. 

History of Search Engines

Google, Yahoo, and Bing the three mostly used search engines in recent days. But do you know which one is the first search engine in the world? “Archie” the first search engine produced in World Wide Wave. It was the first tool to be used on the internet at 1990 developed by Alan Emtage from McGill University.

But “Archie” had one disadvantage that time which was it searched for only titles not the contents. The problem was overcome by a developer named Mark McCahill known as “Gopher”. Gopher was able to index all the text files for quick and easy searching. After that it was “Wandex” was developed that let the users to search the web pages using keywords. That was possible as a result of the crawler program that indexed the title in the web pages. These search engines formed the base for today’s search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing which follow the footsteps of Archie, Gopher and Wandex.