What was the reason of Dropbox's outage (Jan 10, 2014)

Dropbox which is now among most trusted and popular cloud storage, experienced outage which affected users for ~48 hours. But dropbox explained in blog post what happened to the services and there is nothing to worry about.

What are Hypervelocity stars (HVSs)? New class of them discovered recently

There are different types of stars and maybe we cannot even count them. There are stars that differ from others due to their velocity I think and are known as Hypervelocity stars. These stars have too much high velocity that is not possible for other ordinary stars that are present in our galaxy.

Use iris of your eye as password

These days privacy is not safe and one way to make it is by making your passwords complex enough that no one gets access to your accounts. As I’ve already said, don’t use same password for different accounts because if someone guesses your password he’ll get access to all of your accounts.

Send emails to your Google+ connections whether you know their email or not

Recently a new feature was introduced by Google for Gmail and Google+ users. This is not a problem anymore if you wanna send email to a person but you don’t know his/her email address. This is not going to work either if that person is not in your Google Plus connections because you can send emails to your Google+ connections too.

Clean your teeth and view reports on your Smartphone – Kolibree Smart Toothbrush

This tooth brush connects with app installed on your Smartphone via Bluetooth and then synchronizes the data it collects from your teeth. According to official website it is world’s first connected toothbrush.

2014 - Privacy is not safe

These days everyone uses social networks for connecting with friends and family. They provide good means of communications but they also have lots of information that you don't want to share with everyone. In this age of social networks, protecting our privacy is really essential. Recently snapchat got hacked and hackers managed to pull out information of about 4.6 million users. Usernames and phone numbers were published on web. One kind act of hacker was that he blurred out last two digits of numbers. But phone numbers were published which is not a good thing for a person who don’t want to share his number with someone.

Happy New Year (2014)

Photo by Chris Phutully (Flickr)

I hope everyone have enjoyed last night and is enjoying/enjoyed first day of 2014. I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year full of joys and fun.