MerryCode just got a new design. For simplicity and more focus on content. And, Oh! we didn’t post anything for last 6 months. Sorry if you cared. Life got hard on me and I became busy. All other writers were temporary and are gone for now. One of them said he has better things to do in life. I am still sticking to this blog because I love it. Opened my dusty closet and picked up a dusty box and blew away the dust. That box is this blog. I then revamped it for a new look (Because I am a designer and it’s sexy). I tried many things while I was away from the closet. I tried launching an iOS app but Apple didn’t approve it, finished my college, watched all episode of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory, tried getting a wife and not to be the forever alone guy but none of them worked to get me inner peace. So I will now continue writing here whatever I find cool. If you are still reading this, write a comment and make me smile please.

Mikko H. Hypponen, the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure Corporation did a video reportage searching the first ever PC virus creators at Lahore, Pakistan. The first ever computer virus was a computer program named “Brain” having a system to avoid replications of this program that came on a floppy disk.

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The whole idea worked like the principals of a computer virus program so the authors Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi who wrote “Brain” for MS DOS are considered as the creators of first ever computer virus in 1986 that spread out in the world via floppy disks. Watch the video:

Buying Christmas gifts is hard – you spend hours if not days browsing Amazon and a considerable amount of life in stores looking for the perfect gifts.

Men always complain how hard it is to get the right gifts for the ladies in their lives. But let me tell you something – it’s super hard to find the right gift for a man, especially if he loves all things tech and knows a lot more about technology than you do. So, ladies, here are some tech gift ideas for the men in your life.

Now your phone is your key. Clarion Hotel Stockholm (Sweden) is testing a pilot project to replace key rooms of the hotel with mobile phone.

At the “International Flat Panel Display Consumer Technology Expo“ held in Japan, a number of manufactures from across globe showcased their latest Flat Panel Displays (LCD, OLED, PDP etc) as well as next generation technologies (E-Paper, 3D Displays etc).

Bittorrent is amazing, the most common protocol for sharing large files roughly accounts for 27–55% of traffic on the internet as of Feb 2009 (source).

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It allows large files to be distributed while sharing the bandwidth cost between many people. You just need a torrent file to start. Here are 68 carefully chosen free top sites to search torrents. Enjoy:

Mozilla has just released Firefox 4 beta 5 for download. It comes with Graphics acceleration feature along with some other features. Firefox 4 Beta is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform.

The obvious difference that you will notice, when compared with Beta 4, is the redesign of the reduced menu. It seems similar to Chrome and is not using graphical elements for copy, cut, and paste, this is apparently made to simplify the use of the browser on touch screens (keeping in mind the growing trend of Tablets).

As Ramazan, which is considered Holy by Muslims and holds significance in Islamic World, is approching, Nokia has Launched Apps designed specially for the Muslim world.

The Apps which are now available on Ovi Store for download, are developed by AsgaTech, a Forum Nokia Premium Partner in the Middle East, with all content reviewed and approved by Al Azhar University.

According to Nokia’s press release, these Apps will be available for free in some Muslim countries, which in my opnion is a good Marketing move for Nokia’s popularity in the Muslim world but apart from these countries these Apps are little expensive.

Music is life, I never found anyone who’s life isn’t influenced by Music. Why the best things in life like Music are not free? Actually, there is more legally available for free Music than you think.

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Here is a list of 100 sites that let you stream or download music for free legally! This super list has sites where you can find most of your favorite songs and other awesome music that you will enjoy listening to. Check them out, share and have fun.

BlackBerry recently announced their latest touch screen phone the BlackBerry Touch 9800. Guys at crackberry have made this video comparing the browser speed of BlackBerry Tourch 9800 webkit with iPhone 4 Safari and Samsung Captivate Android 2.1. No spoilers, check out yourself who wins. [image & video via crackberry]