The main difference between Gmail and Yahoo mail resides in the POP3 and SMTP facility, which Gmail offers for free. What is POP3? POP3 is an acronym for Post Office Protocol version 3, and it is an Internet standard protocol, to retrieve email from a remote email server. It usually comes in a bundle with SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), which is a standard for transmitting mails across the Internet. ...

We all encountered sites in Russian, French or Chinese on very interesting topics. The problem that pops up very quickly in our heads is: How the hell do I read this? ...

There are several ways I’ve seen over the years of interchanging 2 variables. I’ll show you here how you can do it with bitwise operations. This method is most efficient when used in combination with assembler. In C++ it is looked at more like a curiosity than a real method by most. However if you would want to make your C++ code harder to read, then this can be helpful. ...

Spyware is similar to worms and viruses which infect your computer, not to cause harm, but rather to spy on your behavior on the net, bring unwanted ads, dubious toolbars and sites to your PC without your approval. There probabably isn't a PC which has never been at one time infected with spyware. ...

The initial distributed file was AOL-data.tgz (439MB). Inside it contains a simple readme file and 10 .gz archives, each containing a CSV collection. With a packed size of about 45MB each, when extracted they reveal the true treasure: a nice collection of actual user searches (each file at about 200MB). ...