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Showing posts with label Miscellaneous. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

The World's Youngest Billionaires

There are 1,426 billionaires in the world this year, according to Forbes. Among these richest people in the world only 29 are just under 40 years of age. Among these billionaires, Dustin Moskovitz is the world's youngest billionaire as he is only 28 years of age. The second position of the world's youngest billionaires goes to Mark Zuckerberg who is only 8 days older than his former roommate and Facebook co-founder.

No. 1: Dustin Moskovitz 
Age: 28
Net Worth: $3.8 billion

Co-founder of the social networking giant Facebook. However, no longer works there.

No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 28
Net Worth: $13.3 billion

Founder and CEO of the social networking giant Facebook. He is only 8 days older than Moskovitz

No. 3: Albert von Thurn und Taxis
Age: 29
Net Worth: $1.5 billion

Became a billionaire at the age of 8, but officially inherited his fortune in 2001 on his 18th birthday.

No. 4: Scott Duncan
Age: 30
Net Worth: $5.1 billion

The youngest of the late energy pipeline entrepreneur Dan Duncan who inherited the massive fortune of his father.

No. 5: Eduardo Saverin
Age: 30
Net Worth: $2.2 billion

A Brazilian citizen and Facebook co-founder who received a 5% stake of the social networking giant.

No. 6: Huiyan Yang
Age: 31
Net Worth: $5.7 billion

The daughter of the founder of real estate developer Country Garden Holdings. She is also China’s richest woman.

No. 7: Fahd Hariri
Age: 32
Net Worth: $1.35 billion

The youngest son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He is still a student.

No. 8: Marie Besnier Beauvalot
Age: 32
Net Worth: $1.5 billion

Inherited French dairy giant Lactalis along with other siblings.

No. 9: Sean Parker
Age: 33
Net Worth: $2 billion

Founder of the music swapping site Napster. Also served as Facebook’s first president at age of 24.

No. 10: Ayman Hariri
Age: 34
Net Worth: $1.35 billion

Son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Involved in running Saudi Oger, one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction companies.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Best Firefox Add-ons Ever

Firefox is one of the most popular web browser in the world. Mozilla owes the success of its Firefox browser to add-ons. Firefox isn't the Web-surfing powerhouse it can be without the add-ons it has. It has the largest library of them. Below is the top 10 best Firefox add-ons to improve your browsing experience.

1. Speed Dial

Visual bookmarks for Firefox. Speed Dial provides visual tile-like direct access buttons to your most visited websites when you open a new window or tab.

2. Adblock Plus

Install Adblock Plus now to regain control of the internet and change the way that you view the web. This handy add-on blocks all ads on the Web and leaves you with nothing but plain websites.

3. AutoPager


AutoPager automatically loads next pages when you reach the end of a page. It works well with most other add-ons adblock plus, WOT and most of the greasemonkey scripts.

4. DownThemAll!


The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox! It features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 4x and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

5. gTranslate

Highlight any text in a foreign language, right-click on it, and you’ll instantly be given a Google-powered translation into the language of your choice. Simple, easy to use, does what it has to do without any issues or any other clutter.

6. Copy Plain Text

Most of the time when you’re copying text, you want the text, but don’t need the formatting that comes along with it. Copy Plain Text allows you to copy stuff to your clipboard sans formatting.

7. NoScript

The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

8. FastestFox

Save time by speeding up repetitive tasks. Get faster, parallelized downloads, see definitions, auto-load the next page, improve searching, and more. FastestFox will dramatically enhance your productivity!

9. Xmarks

Xmarks is the number one bookmarking and open tab add-on. Keep your bookmarks, and open tabs backed up and synchronized across computers and browsers.

10. Feedly

An old school print newspaper meets a modern RSS feedreader, Feedly Firefox automatically imports your Live Bookmarks, Google Reader Feeds and Twitter followers, and combines the data into a clean, eye-friendly magazine interface that's immediately readable.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

5 Greatest Computer Hackers in the World

In the computer security context, a hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network. These can be done for a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, or challenge. Whatever the reason is, a hacker is undoubtedly a genius, a great programmer. The word hacker saw a massive resurgence in the past years. Anonymous, the ambiguous international collective, can take the lion's share of credit for bringing hackers back into the spotlight. Here is a list of the best computer hackers of all time.

1. Kevin Mitnick


Kevin Mitnick is the most famous real-life hacker who could have used a few tips on how cellular triangulation works. He is the author of two books The Art of Deception & The Art of Intrusion. He damaged some Communication networks like Nokia, Motorola and Sun Microsystem etc. He was imprisoned by the government without charge for years and restricted with a gag order thereafter.

2. Adrian Lamo


Adrian Lamo is a Grey Hat Hacker and showed the world (literally) that you can take down large websites with just URLs. Currently a notable public speaker and award winning journalist was once a expert hacker, who used to hack large corporations such as New York Times, Microsoft, Yahoo, Bank of America and Cingular.

3. Gary Mckinnon


Gary Mckinnon is the biggest Military Computer Hacker of all time. In an interview Gary Mckinnon said that he hacked into US military computer systems looking for information about UFO's. He broken security systems of NASA and Pentagon. And using his hacking skill he hacked 97 Computer systems in total. 

4. Robert Tappan Morris


Robert Tappan Morris now working as Professor at MIT CS and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He discovered the buffer overflow and exploited both sendmail and fingerd with the first ever internet worm – now known as the Morris Worm. He was the first person in the United States, who was charged under 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

5. Shawn Fanning


What was once an IRC handle became synonymous with the free exchange of music files. Along with Jordan Ritter and Shaun Parker changed the music industry forever and set the course for the next decade of online media.