Remembering 26 - 11 Mumbai attacks at Kandivali station, Mumbai

More Colorful Google Home Page Coming Soon

A small number of Google users should already see the new Google main page with a new look to the Search Options. This will be released to everyone some time after the New Year.

This is how the new Google home page will look:

New Orkut is full copy of facebook

Say Hello to the Newest Kindle

ICANN approves non-Latin domain names

The organization responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses has approved a new plan to allow non-Latin characters in Web extensions.

Known as Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), the system is designed to globalize the Net so regions around the world can use their own local alphabet characters to surf in cyberspace, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said Friday.

Calling IDNs the "biggest technical change" to the Internet since its birth 40 years ago, ICANN unanimously approved the plan on the final day of its six-day conference in Seoul.

IDNs will allow domain names to be to be written in native character sets, such as Chinese, Arabic, and Greek. In charge of managing domain names, ICANN has argued that IDNs are necessary to expand use of the Web in regions where people don't understand English. Since its inception, the Internet has been limited to the Latin character set used by the U.S. and many other nations.

Source 
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10387139-93.html?tag=mncol

Ubuntu The open source Linux Os has also releases its Beta Version

Only If it was Apple and Windows launching their latest Os but wait Ubuntu The open source Linux Os has also released its Beta Version.

Windows 7

The whole review available at http://www.pcworld.com/article/172602/windows_7_review.html

27 Takes on Windows 7 http://bit.ly/S0obW

Only thing new in Windows 7 is Graphical elements and few tweaks which went wrong in Vista and New features.Anyone can still hack or get virus affected til' now because windows 7 still runs on registry which makes it slow.

Nokia Sues Apple

Global handset leader Nokia announced Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against rival Apple, alleging that the i Phone infringes on GSM and wireless LAN related patents owned by the Finnish company.

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Google's youtube has started displaying twitter like trending topics in the video section

Google's you tube has started displaying twitter like trending topics in the video section like example in the "Most Popular" section.

Wish you all a Happy Diwali

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Wish you all a Happy Diwali 

Just made this image in photoshop in matter of 4 hours

Update your facebook status just like twitter

Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts

If you put @ followed by username of your friend on facebook you can tag the person and engage in conversation.

New Feature friend suggestions by orkut

Just now I logged in orkut account and saw a new update. Friend suggestions by orkut now this is a unique feature. As orkut is suggesting to add friends which will be having few lists of people who might be friends of your friends, who are already in your friends list.

Orkut is doing its job pretty well, by making us aware that there are more people with whom you can interact and expand your friends circle.

Google Wave launched !

Durga Puja 2009

THE GREAT WALL OF MUMBAI

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Google is entering its teens belated Happy 11th Birthday Google!

Google finally is entering its teens belated Happy 11th Birthday Google !

Google Chrome 3.0

It's available now for Windows and should become available for Mac systems within the coming months.

Windows 7 First Commercial

Look out, Facebook users Here comes voice chat

Google introduces Google Fast filp news protal

One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. What we need instead is a way to flip through articles really fast without unnatural delays, just as we can in print. The flow should feel seamless and let you rapidly flip forward to the content you like, without the constant wait for things to load. Imagine taking 10 seconds to turn the page of a print magazine!

Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a

print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting. At the same time, we provide aggregation and search over many top newspapers and magazines, and the ability to share content with your friends and community. Fast Flip also personalizes the experience for you, by taking cues from selections you make to show you more content from sources, topics and journalists that you seem to like. In short, you get fast browsing, natural magazine-style navigation, recommendations from friends and other members of the community and a selection of content that is serendipitous and personalized.

To build Google Fast Flip,Google partnered with three dozen top publishers, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Salon, Fast Company, ProPublica and Newsweek. These partners will share the revenue earned from contextually relevant ads. This gives publishers an opportunity to introduce new readers to their content. It also tests our theory that being able to read articles faster means people will read more of them, driving more ad revenue to publishers.

The publishing industry faces many challenges today, and there is no magic bullet. Google believes that encouraging readers to read more news is a necessary part of the solution. Fast Flip could be one way to help, and its looking to find other ways to help as well in the near future.

Google Fast Flip, accessible at fastflip.googlelabs.com

Source

The Google official blog

Do you think this is the end of traditional print media?

- Utsab Bandopadhyay will love to have your comments

Microsoft Bing upgrades with Visual Search Feature

Microsoft, armed with its Bing search engine, is stepping up its assault on Google with the introduction of a unique beta search and shopping tool called Visual Search. The Visual Search feature offers an alternative to lists of blue links that are often delivered by search engines when researching cars, cameras, or other topics. Visual Search was announced Monday by Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, at Tech Crunch 50, a tech conference in San Francisco.

Bing Visual Search loads up a page with visual thumbnails of what you're looking for. This example shows yoga poses.(Credit: Microsoft )

Maintain and Optimize your PC

Many people are really irritated with their PC’s performance. But it’s not the PC’s fault. It’s their fault. Had they maintained there PC from the start or even in the middle… they would have their PCs running great…sometimes even better than ones which are only a few months old. Don’t worry though. Here are some simple yet effective steps you can optimize your PC to its maximum.

To keep the computer efficiently we will use two of Windows Os Default utility tools namely:

A. Disk clean up

B. Disk Defragmenter

A. Disk clean up

First, we will clean up un-necessary cookies, invalid shortcuts, temporary files, error reports and log files etc. from the system.

For this we will use Disk clean up tool available at Windows Os systems by default in the following location:
Go to,

• Start
• All Programs
• Accessories
• System Tools
• Select “Disk Cleanup”

Now, select the drive where your operating system or windows (98, Win-Me, Xp, Vista, Win-7) is loaded

Click “Ok“

Select (Tick) the types of files you want to clean or select them all

You will promoted to this message in the small dialog box that will popup

Are you sure you want to perform these actions?

Click on “Yes”

It will scan and clean the drive that you selected and it will then free Hard disk space.

This utility tool will clean up all the unnecessary files from the pc including the cookies of Internet Explorer.

B. Disk Defragmenter

Now we will enhance the pc performance more by using the Disk Defragmenter utility tool.

Disk Defragmenter is a system utility for analyzing local volumes and locating and consolidating fragmented files and folders. You can also defragment disks from a command line using the defrag command.

For this we will use  Disk Defragmenter utility tool available at Windows Os systems by default in the following location:
Go to,

• Start
• All Programs
• Accessories
• System Tools
• Select “Disk Defragmenter”

Now, select the drives where you have loaded your operating system or windows (98, Win-Me, Xp, Vista, Win-7).

Click on Analyze or directly click on the defragment

This process may tale a lot of time depending upon your ram, hard disk size and the amount of software you have installed

Once you finish the defragmentation process you will be provided a report of how much disk has been freed.

These are the basic steps you can follow but we recommend you to frequently scan your pc for viruses, Trojans and spy ware etc. with genuine Anti virus software and keep updating your widows with their automatic updates to get the latest security patches and fix.

And yes don’t cramp your hard disk with Hi-end games and software’s as the capacity of your graphics and your motherboard and processor may not be able take the load unless you meet the specifications.

C. If you still want to make your pc run faster then you can try this start up trick.

Disclaimer:

This trick is advised to be used by the advanced users only for those who know Windows OS properly.

Try this at your own risk.

Go to, 

• Start
• Click on Run
• Type in “msconfig" in the dialog box
•  System Configuration Utility Widows will open
• Now go to the “start up” tab
• Here remove the unwanted background programs like eg. Nero etc.

 [Make sure you know what ever you are doing]

• Click on “Ok” and give a restart to your pc
• After the Pc restarts a Windows will popup

We hope this trick works for you but if there’s a problem please contact your PC Administrator.

You can even use these utility tools like:

• C-Cleaner (freeware)
• Glary Utilities (freeware)
• Tune Up 2009 or newer versions (Shareware)

TinEye is a reverse image search engine

What is TinEye?

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. For some real TinEye search examples, check out our Cool Searches page.

http://tineye.com/

How does TinEye work?

When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches. TinEye can even find a partial fingerprint match.

TinEye does not typically find similar images (i.e. a different image with the same subject matter); it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized.

Why use TinEye?

There are many uses for TinEye, but here are a few:

Find out where an image came from, or get more information about it

Research or track the appearance of an image online

Find higher resolution versions of an image

Locate web pages that make use of an image you have created

Discover modified or edited versions of an image

For some real examples of TinEye searches, check out our blog or Cool Searches page.

Who created TinEye?

TinEye was created by Idée Inc. Idée develops advanced image identification and visual search software for photo wire agencies, stock photography firms, entertainment media companies and some of the world's leading imaging firms including Adobe Systems Inc.

You can experiment and play with various implementations of Idée's visual search technologies by checking out the Idée Lab!

New ‘Imhalal’ search engine

http://imhalal.com/

New ‘halal’ search engine

A new search engine, called ImHalal.com, filters out X-rated Web sites and other content that is “haraam” or forbidden by Islam.

The search technology developed by AZS Media Group, a Dutch Internet company, has a two-layer filter.

Adult sites are blocked outright while other topics that are less dicey, such as “drugs,” “beer” or “pork” are restricted but not as tightly.

Facebook Lite: Same Great Taste, Just Fewer Calories

This week, the popular social networking web site Facebook unveiled a second, more bare-bones version of its namesake called Facebook Lite.

Currently open to United States and India users only, Lite offers basic features like Photos and Events, but does not permit other applications like Chat, Notes and Groups. Other Lite changes include swapping the input box for “Write,” “Post Photos” and “Post Video” tabs and prominently highlighting “Events” in the main toolbar.

“Facebook Lite is designed to introduce people with low bandwidth and those interested in learning more about the site to some of the core features of Facebook, enabling people to share information with their friends quickly and efficiently,” said Facebook’s director of communications, Brandee Barker.

Its intended bandwidth purpose aside, some Facebook users may find the simpler, cleaner (not to mention faster) Lite layout a welcome alternative to the more cluttered design found on its sibling site.

Google bumps up size of search box

Google has enlarged its search box size.

New Apple iPod Nanos Unveiled With Camera and More

Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes to the stage once again to demo the new camera and FM tuner-equipped iPod Nanos

Apple on Wednesday unveiled a refreshed lineup of iPods, as well as new iTunes, and iPhone/iPod Touch system software at an invite-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in downtown San Francisco.

Apple introduced an updated version of the iPod Nano that sports a built-in video camera and microphone located on the lower left-hand side. It also features a slightly larger 2.2-inch display, up from 2 inches. There is still no Wi-Fi or built-in Web browser, so users will first have to sync the videos to their computers to access and edit the files. The upgraded device also has an FM tuner, a feature iPod users have been pining for, for a very long time.

iTunes 9 launched

Play | Buy | Sync your music and more

iTunes is a free application for your Mac or PC. It organises and plays your digital music and video on your computer. It syncs all your media with your iPod, iPhone and Apple TV. And it’s a store on your computer, iPod touch, iPhone and Apple TV that has everything you need to be entertained. Anywhere. Anytime.

What's new in iTunes?

The redesigned iTunes Store. The hits just keep coming. If you thought you were entertained before, wait until you see (and hear) iTunes 9.

Learn more

Online Photo Editors

Top 3 Online Photo Editors

1] http://splashup.com/

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.

2] http://www.picnik.com/app


Picnic is photo editing awesomeness, online, in your browser. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos.

3] http://pixenate.com/

Pixenate™ offers powerful photo-editing tools that foster creativity and stimulate purchases of custom photo products. Pixenate is a self-hosted solution which means it is software you can install on your own web server.

If you are not satisfied & want to create more graphical text better you learn Google’s Picassa or Gimp or learn photo shop.

*This post on this blog will be constantly revised and reviewed. *

A collection web site for digital photo effect for fun

hA collection web site for digital photo effect for fun
Turn your photos into incredible artwork with
one click
- It's Free
- No registration required
http://www.befunky.com/


Add cool effects to your images
http://www.photo505.com/


Play photos & share with anyone.
http://www.pizap.com/application.php


you can add many photo effects to your photo.
http://jpgfun.com/effects


Add graphics to your images.
http://www.pazoen.com/main.php

Make magazine covers online.
http://jpgfun.com/magazine

Add colorful frames to your images.
http://jpgfun.com/frames

Add captions & effects to your photos.
http://www.caption.it/

Add borders & shining frames to your photos.
http://www.uglit.com/

Animate your pics.
http://www.pfect.com/

Animate your pictures
http://www.moronface.com/

Simply upload your Face pic to be featured in a Magazine.
http://www.paparazzied.com/

Create Tilt-shift style photos.
http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

Write text on photo

Write text on photo

http://www.imagechef.com/

http://www.fototrix.com/text/3D/

http://wigflip.com/roflbot/interactor?F/8/u6vJqDPyqS

http://picfont.com/

Design your own MONOPOLY building competition Launches

Starting today, you'll be able to play MONOPOLY as it's never been played before: The whole world will be up for sale. Anyone, anywhere will be able to own real streets and build their own online city.

The launch clock is ticking, and we still need some new mega structures – and that's where you come in.

We've enlisted Google's help to find three new MONOPOLY game pieces. You have the chance to have YOUR building design (and bearing YOUR name) included in the biggest game of MONOPOLY of all time.

Use Google SketchUp to design a 3D building, then upload your dream structure to the Google 3D Warehouse to enter it into the competition. You'll need to be at least 13 years old to participate, and you'll need to agree to these Terms and Conditions.

The deadline to submit is Sunday, September 27, 2009 at midnight, EST.

If global MONOPOLY fame and fortune isn't enough, you also have a chance to win a Google SketchUp Pro 7 license (US $495 value). Two runners-up will also have their models used in the online game of MONOPOLY City Streets.

Screenshot of Monopoly City Streets at www.monopolycitystreets.com

Here's how it works:

1. Download Google SketchUp for free. SketchUp is available for both Windows and Macintosh computers.


2. Learn to build 3D models with SketchUp by watching video tutorials and related YouTube videos. Download and work through a few examples using these self-paced tutorials: Introduction to SketchUp, Starting a Drawing Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.


3. From SketchUp, choose "Share Model" and upload your 3D building to the Google 3D Warehouse (you must have a Google account to sign in).


4. In the upload window, add the tag "monopolycompetition09" and make sure that you've checked "Allow 3D Warehouse users to contact me about this model" so we can contact you if you win!


5. Within 48 hours, your model/entry will appear in the Competition Collection in the Google 3D Warehouse.

Technical Guidelines:

· Buildings can be any size and any shape
· Buildings must not have photo-textures; they must be painted with solid colors
· The file size limit is 2 MB
· The file format should be .SKP

A few quick tips:

1. Keep it simple. Or not. Our judges will be looking at ALL designs – simple and complex.

2. Go crazy. Remember, the MONOPOLY world is a brilliantly fun place. Make your building the same! Go wild and have oodles of fun doing it.

3. Upload as many designs as you want. The more you submit, the greater the chance of your design winning!

4. For some inspiration check out some sample creations already in the Google 3D Warehouse Competition Collection.

Key dates to remember:

Sunday 27 September 2009 midnight EST - Competition closes

Wednesday 30 September 2009 midnight EST - Our jury will select 3 building designs from the top rated designs and notify the winners. We will also need to verify eligibility requirements at this stage

Tuesday 6 October 2009 midnight EST - Winners will be announced

October 2009 - The winners’ buildings become part of a global game of MONOPOLY

Enjoy!

Source

Active Twitter user celebrates 104th birthday

Ivy Bean has 27,000 Twitter followers and tweets from the care home where she lives in Bradford, England.

[update] R.I.P

Jay Hind! India's First TV Show on the Internet

Jay Hind! India's First TV Show on the Internet

Yahoo Set to Give Competition to Twitter

Screen shot of meme.yahoo

Source: WEB

Host a party, get Windows 7 free

If you're looking for the cheapest possible way to get your hands on Windows 7, you might be interested in a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate - but you'll need some understanding friends.

As reported over on TechRadar, Microsoft is hoping to boost interest in its next-generation operating system by offering the chance to get free limited Signature Editions of the top-end Windows 7 Ultimate OS - by hosting launch day parties.

If you're willing to risk alienating a bunch of your friends, you can apply host a party between the 22nd and 29th of October to be in with a chance of getting both the Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition plus "your very own Windows 7 Party Pack."

Microsoft has very kindly provided a choice of thrilling themes for your party: Media Mania, Setting up with Ease, Family Friendly Fun, and - seriously - "PhotoPalooza." Once you've chosen your theme, you'll receive assistance from "House Party, the world's leading party organizer" and have the opportunity to "upload photos and videos, chat with other hosts, blog your experience, and download fun favours all from your personal House Party page."

While it's certainly a fairly cheap way of getting your hands on the next version of Windows, it remains to be seen just how much fun you could have with a theme of "Setting up with Ease." Rumours of a "take a shot for each exclamation mark in Device Manager" are, as far as can be seen, totally untrue.

Source

Product Review Guitar Hero 5 & its alternatives Riff Master Review

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This is the Product Review of Guitar Hero 5 & its alternatives Riff Master .This video is a comment for the Tech Show Technoholik on The ET Now TV Channel,India

Courtesy:
http://hub.guitarhero.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YNUEp...

http://www.addictinggames.com/riff.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_H...

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Happy Birthday Day Internet Today you turned 40

Chandrayaan-I Spacecraft Loses Radio Contact

PSLV-C11-at-VAB

Radio contact with Chandrayaan-I spacecraft was abruptly lost at 0130 Hrs (IST) on August 29, 2009. Deep Space Network at Byalalu near Bangalore received the data from Chandrayaan-I during the previous orbit upto 0025 Hrs (IST).

Detailed review of the Telemetry data received from the spacecraft is in progress and health of the spacecraft subsystems is being analysed.

It may be recalled that Chandrayaan-I spacecraft was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota on October 22, 2008 .The Spacecraft has completed 312 days in orbit making more than 3400 orbits around the Moon and providing large volume of data from sophisticated sensors like Terrain Mapping Camera, Hyper-spectral Imager, Moon Mineralogy Mapper etc., meeting most of the scientific objectives of the mission.

Source: http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx?Aug29_2009

A handy web tool to check if the website that you are unable to access is down for you or everyone else without the need to go to cyber cafés to check

A handy web tool to check if the website that you are unable to access is down for only you or others too without the need to go to cyber cafés to check if its working else where

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Down for everyone or just me is a very simple service that indicates whether a site is down for everyone or if it's only down for you.

You ever had one of those frustrating moments when your favorite websites is down and you think it's your end? Well this was made to check if it's just you experiencing the problems, or if everyone else.

Solution for formatting pen drives

Solution for formatting pen drives

In today’s world the technology is rapidly changing. All electronic devices are changing in every 6 months these days. There was a time when every byte of memory was limited and data was stored on large tapes in Kbes which was comparatively slow from today's computers and it was too costly. Those days it was a dream to have personal computers at time. The Nasa’s Apollo moon mission ran on manual switch boards and Kb of memory to store data. Then later on as technology progressed due to space age which had more impact on development of technologies than the World War Era. Thanks to a few college Geeks and companies like apple, IBM and Microsoft, etc. Innovators and creators of GUI and devices like transistors and microchips. The Pc’s became small & cheap which would fit into our palms and desk tops.

As Pc’s became common many external storage devices like the floppy, optical disc came into existence.

Today a Kb (Kilo Byte) or Mb (Mega Byte) of memory is nothing because now a day we use GB (Giga Byte) of memory which just costs anything between 2500/- Indian Rupees or more depending on the brand and type of memory devices you buy. But it is also nothing these days because memory devices are now having capacities to stores data in tera bytes.

In today’s time your handheld devices like cell phones, I phones, etc. have enough storage to store large chunks of Images, Mp3’s, Games , etc. via blue tooth or cables and handheld Usb flash drives memory devices better known as pen drives with capacity to store data from 1 GB to 64 GB and much more.

The advantage of the pen drives is that it is easy to carry a large chunk of data like movies, mp3’s, softwares, images, etc. in matter of minute’s or to use it to boost your Pc ram in windows Os (operating System).

But these days the good old pen drive is also getting affected by a virus known as “autorun.inf”. If you are affected by “autorun.inf” virus then you are unable to access your flash drive to open when you double-click on the “Pen Drive Icon” but it doesn’t open so instead you get the Trojan pop up’s from your anti-virus. So to access data you have to open Windows Explorer and navigate to the pen drive to access data or you have to go to address bar in the window to go to the pen drive location.

But I suggest you format your pen drive.

We can fix this problem in matter of few seconds without using any software.

These are the steps to be followed:

NOTE:
Copy it only if you are sure there is no traces of virus. If there are do not open it. 
1. First we need to backup the data so use Windows Explorer to navigate to the pen drive to access data or you have to go to address bar in the window and go to the pen drive location and copy all the data to your HD (Hard Drive). 

2. Now Go To “My Computer”



3) Now Right click on the flash/pen drive icon


4) Tick on “Quick Format”



Its advisable you don't select "QUICK FORMAT" and let it take its time.

5) Now click on “Start"


Second Method 
 

Insert Pen drive

Go to start

Go to run

Now, type
cmd

Press enter

Type the following (select the pen drive name)

For example,
Format j:

y

Enter


Now Enjoy! With this simple step you can remove your “autorun.inf” virus and fix your pen drive like the way it was before.