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While many would say that Google is the driving force of the Web, Google Search is not the only search engine out there.  In fact, there are numerous options for doing a specialized search and still retain privacy, reduce spam and retrieve information. These sites offer the ability to customize your search queries based not only on keywords but also by interest and relevance to your needs. So, if you are interested in testing the waters without the good ship Google Search Engine, here are 20 alternatives to try. Bing  - This is one of the best-known alternatives to Google available. Bing covers the same wide range as Google with unique extras like Visual Search, video thumbnails and travel visualization. You can also select a content category, like images, and only images will be shown in the results. Blekko -  Blekko uses slashtags to group results. A general search might be “/web designers” while a specific search would be “/web designers/professional/ Raleigh/No

Geekswipe have already posted a similar article about the contact lenses with augmented reality similar to the Google Project Glass and The Bionic Lenses . Here is another article by Karthikeyan about a new LED Augmented Reality concept. LED lights are almost used for any practical purposes starting from toys to sophisticated sensitive components. University of Washington researchers has gone a step ahead and took the LED lights to our contact lenses. Read More at Geekswipe :) This article was first published on Geekswipe. Follow Karthikeyan on  Twitter ,  Facebook ,  Pinterest  for more updates. This is a copyrighted article and is used in techmailers with proper permissions from Geekswipe.

The Karbonn A9 is the latest buzz. You might have seen the A9 advertisement on TV, it’s all about speed. The android powered A9 smartphone comes with a 1 GHz processor and you can buy it online for just under Rs. 10,000. The A9 is available in two colours ivory white and full black. But it will be difficult to get the black version as it is the hottest selling item. This handset is loaded with many good features with an affordable price tag. Hardware The Karbonn A9 comes with a really good processor clocked at 1 GHz and for the price it surely has raised the bar. The internal memory is 1 GB 512 MB. This handset can house 2 GSM SIM’s (Dual SIM Supported) and also supports 3G. This is a full touchscreen phone with the screen taking up most of the front area followed by 4 dedicated touch sensitive buttons. The A9 is 11.3 mm thin. Display The multi-touch capacitive touchscreen is of size 3.8 inches which may seem normal to you but the display quality is pretty imp

While i am surfing across websites i have came across an article about to give life for old laptop.Since my laptop is two years old and i mostly slows down and even i cant play gta iv game in my lap.As the hardware become older it becomes resource hungry.This is why some people buy new laptops frequently, but there are ways to make an older model feel new again. 1.Clean it All computers acquire dust and dirt as they age. In a worst-case scenario your laptop can be slowly choked by invading particles. Internal temperatures rise, reducing the efficiency of your hardware. As the problem worsens some components may have to throttle their performance, slowing your laptop down. Cleaning a laptop isn’t difficult. All laptops, even Apple’s unibody MacBooks, can have their internals accessed by removing the bottom panel. This usually requires that you take out a number of screws and then use a small, sharp object to pry the panel off. Once inside, use a compressed air can to blow away dus

At any one time, streaming adult videos probably utilize around 30% of the internet’s total bandwidth, which equates to around 6 terabytes of porn being consumed every second . But what about the other 70%? Netflix, YouTube, and other non-adult video sites are huge bandwidth hogs, possibly accounting for as much as 40% of internet traffic. Digital file lockers, such as Rapidshare and Megaupload, account for around 10% of traffic worldwide. Web surfing and email (and spam!) are another 15%. And then there’s cloud computing. Today, the vast majority of web services and sites are hosted in the cloud. By this I mean that, instead of companies (such as Ziff Davis/ExtremeTech) managing their own hardware, third-party cloud storage and computing services are used. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google are three prominent examples of huge cloud clusters, but there are hundreds of smaller operations that range in size from a whole data center down to a few ra

The inventor of the TV remote, Eugene Polley, died on Sunday at 96. After his death was announced on Tuesday, the Internet paused -- get it? -- to remember the man and the wireless television remote control, which ushered in the era of channel surfing and couch potatoes. Some tributes were humorous. Others were fawning. "Gush all you want about Facebook, Twitter and other recent tech innovations. I'd stack Polley and his TV remote against all of them," wrote David Lazarus at LATimes.com . "After all, which would you be more willing to give up -- Facebook or your remote? ... Thought so." Polley, who died of "natural causes," according to a news release , invented Zenith's "Flash-Matic" wireless remote control, which was introduced in 1955 and was heralded as the first of its kind. "It used a flashlight-like device to activate photocells on the television set to change channels," the Zenith news release says.

Audi, the company that brought you hybrid-diesel racecars, has an intriguing two-wheel concept vehicle: an ultra-light carbon fiber electric bicycle that has WiFi built in, can hit 50 mph, and even has a Segway-like mode that lets it run on just its back wheel (apparently clever computers and gyroscopes will keep you balanced). Audi unveiled it at the 2012 Wörthersee Tour in Austria — and the e-bike itself is also called Wörthersee (which happens to be a beautiful lake in Austria). The carbon fiber frame weighs just 3.53 pounds (1.6kg) — but with a 2.3kW electric motor and lithium ion battery the bike’s total weight is 24lbs (11kg). It’s pegged as a high-performance bike for trick cycling, including the ability to ride on its back wheel alone in two of the five modes: Pure, Pedelec, eGrip, Power Wheelie, and Balanced Wheelie. Audi says the e-bike travels up to 31 mph on the electric motor, and up to 51 mph when the rider pedals as well. The battery can be charged i