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Technacular Placed Second in the Firefox Add-ons Review Contest

The Adblock Plus review by Technacular was placed second in the Firefox add-ons review contest held by 7is7.

Here is a list of Firefox add-ons reviews with jury points:

  1. 23 Forum Additive - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  2. 22 Adblock Plus - reviewed by Vikas Sah
  3. 19 ScrapBook - [Spanish] reviewed by Leandro Ardissone
  4. 18 CoLT - reviewed by ffextensionguru
  5. 14 NewsFox - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  6. 12 Secure Login - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  7. 12 DownThemAll! - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  8. 10 FoxFilter - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  9. 10 Google Toolbar 3 - reviewed by Cybernetnews
  10. 9 FavLoc - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  11. 9 Download Statusbar - reviewed by ffextensionguru
  12. 8 IE Tab - reviewed by The_BitMaster
  13. 7 Configuration Mania - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  14. 6 Smart Bookmarks Bar - reviewed by Cybernetnews
  15. 6 Brief - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  16. 5 MeasureIt - reviewed by saratdear
  17. 5 ColorZilla - reviewed by Vikas Sah
  18. 5 Stylish and Tab Effect - reviewed by jdanylko
  19. 5 POW - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  20. 4 Foxy Tunes - reviewed by ffextensionguru
  21. 3 Dragdropupload - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  22. 3 Show Screen Captures - [Spanish] reviewed by firefoXtensions
  23. 2 Woot Watcher - reviewed by Cybernetnews
  24. 1 Splash - reviewed by ffextensionguru
  25. 1 FireMarker - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  26. 1 Snipshot - reviewed by Mozilla Links

In total 168 reviews entered the contest, 112 reviews were in Spanish and 56 in English.

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Top 10 viruses that caused havoc in 2006

Pandasoftware recently published an article listing the top 10 viruses for the year ending 2006. I ran some computation on the numbers reported to come up with the following graphs and conclusions:

Fig (1): Out of the top 10 viruses, what type of virus constituted what number (Click to Enlarge Image)

Fig (2): Percentage out of the total infection, contributed by our top 10 (Click to Enlarge Image)

Fig (3): Total percentage infection by virus type among just the top 10 (Click to Enlarge Image)

I came to the following conclusions:

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Most popular myths in science

I came across this page while browsing livescience.com which lists the top 20 most popular myths.

Some interesting ones are:

  • Chickens can live without a head
  • Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth’s rotation
  • Chicken soup can cure the common cold
  • You get less wet by running in the rain
  • A penny dropped from the top of a tall building could kill a pedestrian

You can go ahead and vote for each one on the site.

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Top Paying Companies

I was reading the article on best 100 companies to work for in the latest issue of the Fortune magazine. The article was very interesting, with Google acquiring the number one position for the first time.

Of those hundred the 5 top paying companies are (in brackets is the average salary):

  • Nixon Peabody ($181,099)
  • Bingham McCutchen ($180,050)
  • Alston & Bird ($166,300)
  • Adobe Systems ($161,127)
  • Arnold & Porter ($155,929)

It is not a surprise that out of the top five, four are law firms and only one is technical company. No wonder, lawyers make lot of money in U.S.

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