Hacker Cup 2011 An Haccing Competition By Facebook

A Good News for all the person who know how to make way in digital wire systems that is for hackers. Facebook is searching for champion hackers, in this Facebook has announced Hacker Cup 2011 with cash prizes worth thousands of dollars and cool goodies.

The Facebook Hacker Cup is an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup.

In Facebook's hacker cup will ask competitors to solve a number of algorithmic based problem. There will be 3 rounds, and the 25 hacker making it to the end will be flown to Facebook headquarters Palo Alto, California for the final round of competition and Facebook will pay to fly.

Registration opens December 20, 2011 and the first round will take place in early January where competitors will have 72 hours to work on 3 algorithmic problems.

The world champion hacker will get $5000 cash prize, and 2nd best hacker will get $2000 and 3rd one get the $1000 and 4th will get $100 through 25th. Awesome t-shirts for the top 300 hackers coming out of the second online round.

For more update click on http://www.facebook.com/hackercup

Google Translate, Now With Voice Input

Google Chrome 11 added support for HTML speech input API. " With this API, developers can give web apps the ability to transcribe your voice to text. When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon and then speak into your computer's microphone. The recorded audio is sent to speech servers for transcription, after which the text is typed out for you." Google Translate is the first Google service that uses this feature. If you use Google Chrome 11 Beta , Google Chrome 12 Dev / Canary or a recent Chromium build and visit Google Translate (Click Here) , you can click the voice input icon. Right now, this feature only works for English, so you need to select "English" from the list of input languages.

Google Calendar's Favicon Changes Every Day

When Google Calendar changed the Favicon , many people wondered why it only shows 31 . "Does it mean that starting today, every day will be the 31st ? Seriously, favicon should be changed everyday to match the date," suggested a Google Calendar user. Google listened to the feedback and the favicon will now change Every Day. "When you look at the Google Calendar icon at the top of your browser window, it will no longer always display 31 but will instead change to reflect the current day of the month. Today's date is now always a short glance away." Google Calendar is the first Google service that has a dynamic favicon, but you can change Gmail's favicon to show the number of unread messages . Click to Enable button.

Upload and View Videos in Google Docs

Google Docs , It is the popular cloud based Office Suit of Google . Google has been continuously adding new features for his users in Google Docs. Recently Google made Docs more advance by adding the uploading, storing and viewing video feature to Docs. Here is the way how you can upload and view video in Google Docs. Google provide 1GB space for upload a video with the maximum resolution of 1920x1080. It also supports multiple formats like WebM , MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files, AVI MPEGPS, WMV and FLV. To upload a video just click on upload button at the left top. To watch your Uploaded video simple click on the file from your document list.

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