Sidrah Zaheer

She likes to pen down her thoughts and share her opinions on all things about technology, entertainment and society.

Kodak Kept Nuclear Reactor in Its Basement till 2006

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 18th 2012 - No Comments
Eastman Kodak's basement nuclear reactor

It is really shocking to know that Kodak would have anything to do with a nuclear reactor, but it did. For 30 years, in its basement bunker near Rochester, New York, Kodak kept a fully functioning nuclear reactor that had 3.5-pounds highly enriched uranium. Kodak kept this fact away from public knowledge until 2006. The U.S. goes around...

Get a Collection of Open-Source Fonts

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 18th 2012 - No Comments
theleagueofmoveabletype

URL: http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ This site could be a web designer’s dream of having a collection of open-source fonts at one place. Fonts are such an important tool for a web designer as they are a major part of a site’s outlook, appearance and theme. This site will give you options to choose many fonts and thus having...

Fastest and Slowest Internet Countries

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 17th 2012 - No Comments
Internet connection speed

It is really frustrating when the internet is not getting connected or when the connection works really slow almost second to not having any access at all. But according to Digital Trends, the recent Akamai State of the Internet report shows which countries have the fastest internet speed and mentions the slowest too. South Korea is the...

Email Your Future Self!

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 17th 2012 - No Comments
Future me

URL: http://www.futureme.org/ At times we wish to go back to the past, to mend something that we have said or done, but mostly to our childhood days, which are days when ignorance is bliss. However, we also do think about reaching out to the future sooner or just jump at some future point in time to see what would happen and then be back...

2012 London Olympics’ Official Phone is Samsung’s Galaxy S III

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 16th 2012 - No Comments
samsung galaxy s III

There is much hype about anything that is to do with Olympics, and when it is happening in London, the UK wants to make sure it becomes the most memorable. They have chosen their official 2012 London Olympics and the honour has gone to Samsung’s new creation, Galaxy S III. There will be special colouring or other brand marks that will...

Interested in the Longest Stuff!

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 16th 2012 - No Comments
Longest things

URL: http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ For those who are fun-facts enthusiasts, finding out what are the smallest, biggest, oldest or longest things is amazing. To serve their interests, this site, which apparently has the longest domain name, has gathered around everything that is the longest...

Facebook’s Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Renounced His U.S. Citizenship to Evade Taxation

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 14th 2012 - No Comments
Eduardo Saverin

Facebook’s IPO has been huge news since almost a year now. Finally, on May 17, it is going public. Just at this right moment, Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of the social network, wants to avoid being hurled high amounts of tax bills. For this reason, he is renouncing his U.S. citizenship and has decided to settle down in Singapore...

Here Are a Million Giraffes for Giraffe-Lovers!

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 14th 2012 - No Comments
1M Giraffes

URL: http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/ Started out just as a challenge to a friend, this website has now become just more than an aim for one person. Back in 2009, the website owner challenged his friend that he could collection one million giraffes at just one place. Some 440 days later, he had them all. In achieving this target, people...

Motorcycle Lost in Japan’s 2011 Tsunami Found in Canada

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 4th 2012 - No Comments
Lost Tsunami Motorcycle

The destruction of the Japanese 2011 tsunami brought much grievance to not just the people who suffered loss of lives, loved ones, properties, but it saddened the whole world. It also united everyone around the globe in an effort to help the victims of this natural tragedy. Already there are wars and conflicts to take the light of life...

Google Gave Misleading Statements to European Privacy Investigators

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 3rd 2012 - No Comments
Google Street View cars

Google has yet again been caught in wrong statements provided to the European investigators over the issue of Street View cars collecting private data of people. The technology is indeed innovative and useful, but when Google had been proven to have lied in its statements to mislead the investigations, it is really taking things too far...

Find Out How Secure is Your Password

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 3rd 2012 - No Comments
how secure is my password

URL: http://howsecureismypassword.net/ Making passwords becomes tough especially when you don’t have enough vocabulary of secret words that become hard to break. Often it takes a lot of time to come up with a password you think would be safe for your online account. Although, some sites will tell you the strength of your password, from...

Pinterest Users Help Decide Which is the Most Beautiful Country in the World

by Sidrah Zaheer - on May 2nd 2012 - No Comments
Most Beautiful Country

Pinterest has recently emerged as a very successful social networking site ranking at 48 on Alexa Rank and with around 12 million monthly visitors to the site. The concept of having to share your interesting things through pinning photos of them on the site being caught on positively with everyone, Pinterest has really made its mark real...