TECHNOLOGY NEWS NET

GUY WHO SOLD IPHONE 4G TO GIZMODO

2010-04-30T09:54:00.000+05:30

Brian J. Hogan, everyone. A round of applause are in order.

Hogan was the ‘finder' of the prototype iPhone that Gray Powell mistakenly left behind at a bar in Redwood City, CA, on March 18. In a statement provided by his attorney, Hogan says he regrets not having done more to return the prototype to its rightful owner.

Wired.com managed to track down the 21-year-old by scouring various social networking sites and confirming his identity with “a source involved in the iPhone find.” Hogan's attorney has said his client has not been charged with a crime, but San Mateo County Chief DA Stephen Wagstaffe says Hogan ““is very definitely one of the people who is being looked at as a suspect in theft.” The question remains whether or not the incident is a crime or theft.

So what exactly did Hogan do to try and return the device? A friend called Apple Care and that was it, says Hogan's lawyer. Several patrons of the German bar told reporters that Hogan never once made an attempt to notify staff of his finding. They mentioned that Powell returned several times inquiring about whether someone had turned it in.

“He regrets his mistake in not doing more to return the phone,” says Hogan's statement. “Even though he did obtain some compensation from Gizmodo, Brian thought that it was so that they could review the phone.”

HISTORY OF ORKUT

2010-04-25T22:42:00.000+05:30

ORKUT LOVE STORY

A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident... but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up and became IT technical architect in his late 20's, achievement in itself!!

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his girlfriend through the web...

Things went as planned... and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!

It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a
word with this guy n took over this application. This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT.

The guy's name is Orkut Büyükkökten Yes it's named after him only, a Google employee.

Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is expected to b the richest person by 2009. Orkut Büyükkökten today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!!

Some other Cool Facts about this guy:

He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.
He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.
He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.
He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend's friend-list.

PRANAV MISTRY TED SIXTH SENSE THRILLING POTENTIAL

2010-02-09T08:53:00.000+05:30

PRANAV MISTRY- THE GENIUS

Every Indian will feel proud on watching this video. Is he the next steve jobs?, next bill gates? or the lord of digital world.. ???.

The video will answer you....

TCS WEBSITE HACKED AND DOMAIN NAME ON SALE

2010-02-08T23:47:00.000+05:30

India's one of the best fine and largest software company TCS was under cyber attack.Hackers reportedly attacked the company's website, www.tcs.com and put its domain name on sale on Sunday, Feb 7. The company has, however, restored the website.

In the first ever hacking attack targeting an Indian IT company, the hackers who broke through the website put up an 'For Sale' notice in English and French.

Concept Behind this Hack:

The hackers changed the domain name to 205.178.152.154 from 216.15.200.140, re-pointing the name server (NS) records of the company’s website. The hacker had also put up a whos.among.us widget to display how many people were on the site at any given point. The hackers, according to a report, also provided an email id, abed_uk@hotmail.com.

The website was 'on sale' for over three hours before it was restored.

On initial investigation, it was found that the attack was launched through a DNS redirection at the domain name registrar’s end.

It may be noted that TCS provides IT services across industries and maintains sites for State governments such as aponline.gov.in.

However, TCS is not the only high-profile site to have been hacked in the recent past. Even Orkut's Brazil blog and Twitter were hacked in a similar manner.

APPLE LATEST CREATION EVENT JAN 2010 LIVE UPDATES

2010-01-27T22:20:00.000+05:30

Here Mac Lovers, a good news for all...

As i mentioned on my previous blog Apple Event "Latest Creation" gonna start in few minutes.

To be live wired with the event, you can grab the live updates on the following blog..

http://live.gizmodo.com/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/187396/live_update_apple_event.html

APPLE TABLET ISLATE ON JAN 27 APPLE EVENT "LATEST CREATION"

2010-01-20T22:42:00.000+05:30

Apple sent out invitations to an event January 27th, where the technology company will unveil its long-awaited tablet product.

Apple just announced an event on January 27th that will no doubt dazzle us with what the company is calling its "latest creation." At the event, Apple will unveil the company's long-rumored tablet device.

Apple sent out invitations to selected media outlets this morning, asking people to "join us for an invitation-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27 at 10:00a.m."

Apple is known to pull a last-minute rabbit out of a hat, however ... and just as likely to stuff it back in again. Last September, the company surprised fans by suddenly removing the camera from latest generation iPod Touch just before the Fall iPod event. As a result, the big stories from the September keynote were Steve Jobs back on stage after liver surgery and a Nano with a camera -- not a powerful new Touch.

Today's Apple invitation is vague as usual, but people love to look for clues in the message. The invite features spray-painted blobs amid vibrant color swatches, which could point to a device that captures "creative" activities.

An iSlate?

Apple makes the expectations,but provides the unexpected![Thats the masterstroke of the master]. Hope iSlate is beyond exceptions.

MAC CURB APP FOR USB DRIVE

2010-01-17T23:46:00.000+05:30

Previously i had written an article on portable recycle bin for usb drives on windows platform. In this i wish to post a cool app supporting the same in Mac Platform.

Its been iBin doesn't works for Mac OS and supports only for Windows. So i am search for the same feature that supports the Mac OS too, which will make the Mac Lovers Happier.

That's where Curb comes in. It's a free application available for Mac from MRR Software that makes file removal a snap. Just drag your drive's icon onto Curb and it will find and delete those fragments and files you no longer wish to have. Curb comes with a variety of settings and secure methods to delete your files easily and safely. In my testing, Curb was great. A simple idea executed well, Curb got rid of a lot of the random unreadable files and text documents that were left after deleting some folders.

GOOGLE MAY QUIT CHINA

2010-01-17T23:38:00.000+05:30

Its been a hot news on net and media regarding the Google censorship with china.

Google has announced they are considering closing their offices in China and shutting down Google.cn following cyber attacks on the company’s systems.The internet giant said it will no longer censor its Chinese search engine in line with requests from Beijing following "sophisticated" hacking of activists' email accounts.However, in most cases, the accounts were probably breached using malware or phishing scams.

Google reports they detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on their corporate infrastructure which originated from China.

Another Reason:

China has the world’s largest internet population with over 300 million web users. The majority use the country’s own Baidu search engine, but Google still holds a 29% market share.China's most popular search engine Baidu said Google wanted to pull out because it had failed to become No1.

A spokesman for Baidu, which has 60% of the market, said: "What Google said makes me sick. If you are to quit for financial interest, then say it."

What ever it is , i suspect that this story will evlve in this coming months.Sooner i'll post a review on what happens if google quits china.

Google Fact:

"Google+China" was the 16th most searched item in the US yesterday, with Haiti and a new university football coach taking the top two spots

DISABLE AND ENABLE USB PORTS

2010-01-17T23:10:00.006+05:30

In this post I will show how to disables/blocks the USB ports on the computer (PC). Once this is done, it will immediately disable all the USB ports on the computer. As a result of which, you will not be able to use your pen drive or any other USB peripheral on the computer. You can test this on your own computer without any worries since I have also given a trick to re-enable/unblock all the USB ports.

STEPS:

GOTO --> START --> RUN

NOW TYPE REGEDIT

NOW LOOK FOR THE KEY :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\USBSTOR

NOW FIND THE KEY THERE CALLED :-
"Start"

DOUBLE CLICK ON IT.

NOW CHANGE THE VALUE DATA 3 --> 4 WHERE ITS BASE IS HEXADECIMAL

HERE YOU GO,YOU HAVE DONE IT..

NOW CLOSE THE REGISTRY AND YOU'LL SEE THE RESULT..

ALL USB PORTS OF YOUR PC IS DISABLED NOW.

TO RE-ENABLE/UNBLOCK USB PORTS JUST CHANGE THE VALUE DATA AGAIN 4 --> 3

I hope this is will help most of the employees and employers...

Dresden 26-gigapixels Photo Sets New World Record

2010-01-10T19:38:00.000+05:30

A new, 26-gigapixel panoramic image of Dresden, Germany, is now the world?s largest-resolution photograph. Taken from the rooftop of the "Haus der Presse" building, the giant panorama is made up of 1,665 individual shots captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera and a 400mm lens.

This massive number of shots were taken with the help of a photo-robot, in the course of less than three hours, but the processing took 94 hours using a computer with 16 processors and a main memory cache of 48 Gigabytes.

Source: http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP#

http://afb-media.de/

NEW TINY STYLISH BLUETOOTH HEADSET

2010-01-10T19:29:00.000+05:30

Here comes a new tiny stylish Bluetooth headset...

INNOVATIVE FUTURE EBOOK READER FLIPS THROUGH PAGES

2010-01-10T18:57:00.000+05:30

E-book reading devices are not a great achievement nowadays, but how many of them can really give you the feeling of reading a traditional book? The innovative LIBRARY e-book reader concept effectively meets the issue with its mechanical rollers along with lively page flipping animation on the screen that gives readers the feel of flipping through pages with their thumbs.

The multi-touch display allows the readers to underline the book?s content with their fingers and can make bookmarks with simple gestures.

The edge of the device will show the bookmarks that can be found easily when the book is open and are visible even when the user closes the book.

To access the entiree-book collection, the users have to open the backside of the book. Moreover, the device features a ?keyboard? mode to search for book titles which can be enabled by turning the device to 90 degrees.

iBin a Portable Recycle Bin for USB pendrive

2010-01-09T23:09:00.000+05:30

We all know the lifesaver "Recycle Bin" in windows. By default, windows send all the deleted files to recycle bin, so that its not last for ever and can be recovered. This means you have a second chance of retrieval and removal.

Where as the recycle bin doesn't cover the same process with USB Dirves. Once its deleted in USB drive, its been last for ever.

Fortunately, iBin does it.It's a portable application that you can throw on a USB flash drive to create a portable recycle bin. Basically, all you have to do is download iBin, copy it to your flash drive, and run it. From then on, whenever you try to delete an item on your flash drive, a window will pop up asking if you really want to erase it, or if you want to dump it into your iBin.

You can then right-click the iBin icon in your Windows system tray to undo the last dumping, clean the bin, or open up the Dumping Management window where you can clear or recover (recycle) selected items.

The application is available as a free download for all versions of Windows.

SCRYBE TURNS TOUCHPAD INTO APP LAUNCHER

2010-01-09T22:59:00.000+05:30

Synaptics launched a new app for its touch pads which supports the multi-touch gestures called "SCRYBE".

Basically a touchpad performs basically the gestures such as pinching to zoom or using multiple fingers to scroll.

Here Scrybe adds a series of customizable applications such as,

Launch an application
Visit a web page
Search for selected text using a search engine
Cut/paste/copy
Control playback in media players
Rotate, crop, tag,or rate images
Perform Windows system functions

Scrybe is available as a firmware update for Synaptics Gesture Suite 9.4. If you have supported hardware you can download the beta today.

WEB BROWSERS TOTAL MARKET SHARE 2010

2010-01-09T22:58:00.000+05:30

The figures are in from December and its now second week of January 2010. The total market share of all browser for 2010 has been revealed.

The noteable one on this share difference is , it just 16 months a for Chrome browser to overtake safari browser. Though its a few percent difference between chrome and safari like 4.63% for chrome and 4.46% for safari. It doesn't look like a lot when you're talking about a fraction of a percent, but when you consider that last month Chrome only had 3.93% you can see just how quickly it's being adopted.

Despite Chrome's progress in December, it was not at the expense of Opera or Safari's market share. Firefox lost 0.1% and Internet Explorer lost almost an entire percentage point, but thankfully not from IE8! Down with IE6 and 7, down I say!

Ranking according to Market Shares:

MICROSOFT IE SERIES.
MOZILLA FIREFOX
GOOGLE CHROME
APPLE SAFARI.
OPERA.

REMOTE ACCESS SOFTWARE GOTOMYPC

2010-01-09T22:25:00.000+05:30

The most advertised solution for remote accessing is "GoToMyPc". It supports in accessing your another machine. Finally its coming to Mac.

Its named as "GoToMyMac". The pricetag is $19.95/mo to access one other computer, but there's also a 30-day free trial. That should come in handy, because GoToMyPC is a popular brand-name product debuting on a platform where there's already some solid competition.

Review:

The first alternative that comes to mind is Apple's Back To My Mac, which is part of MobileMe, and is also no good to you if you're looking to use your Mac to access a Windows machine. So comparatively "GoToMyMac" is more efficient with MAC Environment.

SYNCHTUBE SYNC UP YOUTUBE VIDEOS FOR MULTIPLE VIEWERS

2010-01-09T22:13:00.000+05:30

The most funniest and remarkable thing in youtube is to watch the video with your online friends. Watching such videos in realtime with friends is not that much possible since the video will not synchronize.

But now the things are changed. Those things where made happen through SynchTube.

Synchtube is a ambiguity of both Youtube and UStream.

Synchtube is pretty coolfor the following facilities,

You just enter the youtube url to start the video room and then friends can join in and watch simultaneously as if you were livestreaming.
There's even the familiar text chat box on the side, so you can keep a running commentary with your friends.
Whoever starts the room can skip everyone to a specific point in the video by using the timeline just like you would in the standard YouTube viewer.

It provides a virtual environment to watch a video along with your friends.

Enter this virtual reality SYNCHTUBE

GOOGLE PHONE AVAILABLE ON FIRST WEEK OF JAN 2010 FOR $530

2009-12-31T23:03:00.000+05:30

With the information obtained from a internet, the Nexus One will be sold unlocked on a Google website for $530.

he phone will work on GSM cellphone networks and will be offered at a subsidised price of $180 in the US by fourth-ranked carrier T-Mobile with a two-year talk and data contract costing $80 a month.

The Nexus One will be the first device to be branded and sold directly by Google.

Google is expected to officially announce the phone's release at a media event Jan 5, and make the device available to customers on the same day.

KRENTO, A 3D APP TOOL FOR WINDOWS

2009-12-24T22:28:00.000+05:30

Krento is an utility to launch a application on Windows with a 3D UI.

Its easy to use:

Download and install the app, and it parks in your system tray.
Windows + C or right-clicking the tray icon to bring it up.
Adding your favorite apps is as easy as dragging shortcuts onto a block.(which Krento refers to as stones)
You can also create different application sets
To launch an app, just click the stone - or press alt + F# (to open Chrome, for example, I'd press alt + F6).

Krento uses practically no memory or CPU, and it's also skinnable. Its actually Light-weighted with low graphics.

Download the tool below:

WORLD'S THINNEST TV PANEL BY LG

2009-12-24T22:02:00.000+05:30

After the recent announcement relate to 3D multitude, LG is drawing the attention of world by its brand new TV panel. The surprise element is, its the World's thinnest TV panel.

The world's thinnest TV pannel lengths just 2.6mm or 0.1mm thick . It breaks the record set by Samsung of about 3.9mm thick.

LG is able to acheive it by the use of an edge-lit LED backlight ,a new optical film and a few other techniques whic his gonna be discussed on CES.

The prototype panel offers a 120Hz refresh rate and weights under 8.8 pounds, making it ideal for wall-mounted TV.

Just look at this picture and imagine how thin it is...

THE GOOGLE PHONE NEXUS ONE REVILED

2009-12-13T23:24:00.000+05:30

Google placed its foot on smart phone market to compete iPhone.

Google phone is apparently called as the "Nexus one".Google Phone= iPhone+ a little extra screen+Scroll Wheel. It has a Great Touch screen and Android.

There is no information regarding the specifications and apps in it.And not surprisingly, pictures of the device are starting to hit the web.Here is the rare picture of how the Google Phone will look like.

GET GOOGLE WAVE INVITATION

2009-12-10T08:25:00.002+05:30

GOOGLE WAVE INVITATION GIVE AWAY

I got my Google wave account by the previous month and i am now with 24 invitations left remaining. So, i like to give away all my invitations to my fellow geeks, techsavvy's and googlers.

Who ever needs a Google wave invitation, post your request with your email id in the comments.

DOWNLOAD ALL YOUR FILES FROM GOOGLE DOCS

2009-12-10T08:22:00.000+05:30

Finnaly, Google has made it easy to downlaod all the files from Google Docs with ulk donwloads.

It's a logical feature to offer with any online service. Now, there is a limit - 2GB - but that ought to cover just about all your Docs data unless you have some uber-massive presentations stored there. Google figures it's about enough room for 100,000 files or so.

The feature includes single download of file, bulk downloads, etc.,

USTREAM LIVE VIDEO BROADCASTER APP FOR IPHONE

2009-12-10T08:18:00.000+05:30

USTREAM finally got into the app for iphone to provide the live stream video viewer.

Before is Qik app where its video uploads weren't live. Ustream video works over 3G and WiFi and included wit lot of features.You can see the chat about your video, and share it over Facebook and Twitter.

You can check out Ustream Live Broadcaster for free in the App Store.

DOWNLOAD GOOGLE CHROME FOR MAC

2009-12-09T08:36:00.000+05:30

Google has finally released its Chrome Browser for Mac OS.

Chrome is ultra-fast -- it even feels a little bit faster than the developer previews we've been testing -- and seems on par with Safari and Firefox in terms of compatibility with most sites. It passes the Acid3 test and handles HTML5 audio and video quite smoothly.

Download the Chrome Browser For MAC here:

Microprocessor Manufacturing

2009-12-08T00:05:00.000+05:30

HOW A MICROPROCESSOR CHIP IS BEEN MANUFACTURED.

A Microprocessor is the most complex manufactured product on earth. In fact, it takes hundreds of steps and only the most important ones have been visualized in this picture story.

SAND TO SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP[MICROPROCESSOR]:

Sand. Made up of 25 percent silicon, is, after oxygen, the second most abundant chemical element that's in the earth's crust. Sand, especially quartz, has high percentages of silicon in the form of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing.

After procuring raw sand and separating the silicon, the excess material is disposed of and the silicon is purified in multiple steps to finally reach semiconductor manufacturing quality which is called electronic grade silicon. The resulting purity is so great that electronic grade silicon may only have one alien atom for every one billion silicon atoms. After the purification process, the silicon enters the melting phase. In this picture you can see how one big crystal is grown from the purified silicon melt. The resulting mono-crystal is called an ingot.

A mono-crystal ingot is produced from electronic grade silicon. One ingot weighs approximately 100 kilograms (or 220 pounds) and has a silicon purity of 99.9999 percent.

The ingot is then moved onto the slicing phase where individual silicon discs, called wafers, are sliced thin. Some ingots can stand higher than five feet. Several different diameters of ingots exist depending on the required wafer size. Today, CPUs are commonly made on 300 mm wafers.

Once cut, the wafers are polished until they have flawless, mirror-smooth surfaces. Intel doesn't produce its own ingots and wafers, and instead purchases manufacturing-ready wafers from third-party companies. Intel’s advanced 45 nm High-K/Metal Gate process uses wafers with a diameter of 300 mm (or 12-inches). When Intel first began making chips, it printed circuits on 50 mm (2-inches) wafers. These days, Intel uses 300 mm wafers, resulting in decreased costs per chip.

The blue liquid, depicted above, is a photo resist finish similar to those used in film for photography. The wafer spins during this step to allow an evenly-distributed coating that's smooth and also very thin.

At this stage, the photo-resistant finish is exposed to ultra violet (UV) light. The chemical reaction triggered by the UV light is similar to what happens to film material in a camera the moment you press the shutter button.

Areas of the resist on the wafer that have been exposed to UV light will become soluble. The exposure is done using masks that act like stencils. When used with UV light, masks create the various circuit patterns. The building of a CPU essentially repeats this process over and over until multiple layers are stacked on top of each other.

A lens (middle) reduces the mask's image to a small focal point. The resulting "print" on the wafer is typically four times smaller, linearly, than the mask's pattern.

In the picture we have a representation of what a single transistor would appear like if we could see it with the naked eye. A transistor acts as a switch, controlling the flow of electrical current in a computer chip. Intel researchers have developed transistors so small that they claim roughly 30 million of them could fit on the head of a pin.

After being exposed to UV light, the exposed blue photo resist areas are completely dissolved by a solvent. This reveals a pattern of photo resist made by the mask. The beginnings of transistors, interconnects, and other electrical contacts begin to grow from this point.

The photo resist layer protects wafer material that should not be etched away. Areas that were exposed will be etched away with chemicals.

After the etching, the photo resist is removed and the desired shape becomes visible.

Through a process called ion implantation (one form of a process called doping) the exposed areas of the silicon wafer are bombarded with ions. Ions are implanted in the silicon wafer to alter the way silicon?i these areas conduct electricity. Ions are propelled onto the surface of the wafer at very high velocities. An electrical field accelerates the ions to a speed of over 300,000 km/hour (roughly 185,000 mph).

After the ion implantation, the photo resist will be removed and the material that should have been doped (green) now has alien atoms implanted.

This transistor is close to being finished. Three holes have been etched into the insulation layer (magenta color) above the transistor. These three holes will be filled with copper, which will make up the connections to other transistors.

The wafers are put into a copper sulphate solution at this stage. Copper ions are deposited onto the transistor through a process called electroplating. The copper ions travel from the positive terminal (anode) to the negative terminal (cathode) which is represented by the wafer.

The copper ions settle as a thin layer on the wafer surface.

The excess material is polished off leaving a very thin layer of copper.

Multiple metal layers are created to interconnects ( wires) in between the various transistors. How these connections have to be “wired” is determined by the architecture and design teams that develop the functionality of the respective processor (for example, Intel’s Core i7 processor). While computer chips look extremely flat, they may actually have over 20 layers to form complex circuitry. If you look at a magnified view of a chip, you will see an intricate network of circuit lines and transistors that look like a futuristic, multi-layered highway system.

This fraction of a ready wafer is being put through a first functionality test. In this stage test patterns are fed into every single chip and the response from the chip monitored and compared to "the right answer."

After tests determine that the wafer has a good yield of functioning processor units, the wafer is cut into pieces (called dies).

This is an individual die, which has been cut out in the previous step (slicing). The die shown here is a die of an Intel Core i7 processor.

The substrate, the die, and the heatspreader are put together to form a completed processor. The green substrate builds the electrical and mechanical interface for the processor to interact with the rest of the PC system. The silver heatspreader is a thermal interface where a cooling solution will be applied. This will keep the processor cool during operation.

A microprocessor is the most complex manufactured product on earth. In fact, it takes hundreds of steps and only the most important ones have been visualized in this picture story

During this final test the processors will be tested for their key characteristics (among the tested characteristics are power dissipation and maximum frequency).

Based on the test result of class testing processors with the same capabilities are put into the same transporting trays. This process is called "binning". Binning determines the maximum operating frequency of a processor, and batches are divided and sold according to stable specifications.

The manufactured and tested processors (again Intel Core i7 processor is shown here) either go to system manufacturers in trays or into retail stores in a box. Many thanks to Intel for supplying the and photos in this picture story. Check out Intel's site for full size images of this entire process.

GOOGLE CHROME EXTENSIONS

2009-12-06T01:40:00.000+05:30

GOOGLE CHROME EXTENSION IS ".CRX"

Like WINDOWS, LINUX and other OS, Google Chrome OS has its own extension named ".crx". The Google Chrome Extensions are utilities which provide support to Chrome OS and enhances it in many ways. The real way to play with Google Chrome OS is to use its Extensions..

So here we go..

LIST OF EXTENSIONS:

Gmail Compose: Click here to Download

It quickly allows you to compose an email through your Gmail account, and works instantly and with a single click.

QuickSearch: Click here to Download

Perform a search from Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, Google, and more with the QuickSearch extension. QuickSearch provides searching on your choice of search engine, right from the Chrome browser, and also enables you to customize it to the search engine of your choice.

Google Tasks for Chrome:Click here to Download

This simple-to-use extension gives you full control over your tasks from the Browser and provides synchronization with your Gmail task list.

Chrome IE Tab:Click here to Downlaod

The Chrome IE Tab extension allows you to run IE from within a tab in Chrome enabling you to display such web pages without leaving Chrome.

Bubble-Translate: Click here to Download

The extension uses Google Translate for in-line translations. How it works: After installation, go to the plug-in options, chose your desirable language, shortcut & theme. A small icon will show up in the URL address bar. Select text, then click the icon (or use one of the shortcuts suggested in the setting), and the tool tip is automatically displayed.

Chromereader: Click here to Download

Chromereader provides one-click subscription to blogs and websites that you like.

Fittr: Click here to download

A really nicely done extension is Fittr, which adds some helpful features to Flickr pictures.

Chrome-Metrist:Click here to Download

A Twitter client for Chrome.

Delicious: Click here to Download

It allows you to easily save a bookmark to Delicious, see all of your bookmarks, and get quick access to your Delicious inbox.

Google Wave Checker: Click here to Download

Google Wave Checker is very similar to the Wave Notifier addon for FireFox, it simply notifies you about any unread Waves you have. Here’s an interesting stat: So far 11,446 people downloaded Google Chrome Wave Checker, compared to 23,539 on FireFox - and most Chrome users do not use extensions yet.

Jamendo Radio: Click here to Download

he Jamendo Radio extension enables you to listen to music from your Browser like never before. Forget about Google’s 30sec-music, Jamendo you hours of free music.

Click here to get more extensions..

FRING FOR MOBILE, IPHONE AND ITOUCH

2009-12-06T01:30:00.023+05:30

FRING is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their online communities together.

Fring combines your multiple IM contacts into one dynamic profile, which shows each friend’s current availability at a quick glance and enables interaction, all directly from this combined mobile profile. Fring is a mobile chat service that's available on a lot of devices and allows for both IM and voice chat. Recently, the folks at Fring have stepped up their game and started to offer mobile video chat, too, which leads to their big announcement this week: now you can video chat on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

HOW TO CHANGE LOGON SCREEN ON WINDOWS 7 WITHOUT THIRDPARTY SOFTWARE

2009-11-30T00:26:00.000+05:30

Usually the customization on Windows are done through Third-Party softwares only. Keep this in mind, Microsoft amde changes on the customization in built for its OS. As a result, The logon screen on Windows 7 can be customized without a third-party software.

The Hands-on approach is as follows:

Step 1: Open the Windows Start menu and enter regedit into the search bar.
Step 2: Right click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and select Find.
Step 3: Search for OEMBackground, which should be in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background. If the key does not exist, add a new DWORD value with the name OEMBackground.
Step 4: Double click on the entry OEMBackground, and change the value from 0 to 1.
Step 5: Open Windows Explorer and go to the following path: %windir%\system32\oobe.
Step 6: Create a new folder named info, and open it.
Step 7: Create a new folder within info named backgrounds .
Step 8: Rename your desired wallpaper as backgroundDefault.jpg and place it inside the folder backgrounds (images must be less than 245KB in size).

That should do the trick, now just lock your PC, log off or reboot and enjoy.

TOUCHFREEZE DISABLE THE TOUCHPAD AUTOMATICALLY

2009-11-27T00:32:00.000+05:30

Annoyed when you are typing a document and accidentally the palm of your hand brushes the touchpad, changing the position of the cursor in your document or accidentally clicking on an option.

TO FIX THE PROBLEM, TOUCHFREEZE UTILITY IS THE SOLUTION.

TouchFreeze is a tiny, open source program designed to fix this problem once and for all. Once you install it, TouchFreeze sits your in your system tray and waits for you to begin typing. When you do, it temporarily disables input from your touchpad.Like syndaemon on x-windows.

Certain brands may be a bit less cooperative.

I'll Upload the download file sooner..

IBM RESEARCHERS DEVELOP "THINKING COMPUTERS" FROM FELINE CEREBERAL CORTEX

2009-11-19T22:29:00.000+05:30

In their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain, researchers from IBM say that they have simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory - 100,000 times as much as your computer has.

Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain ? An effort that tests the limits of technology.

Even the world's most powerful supercomputers can't replicate basic aspects of the human mind. The machines can't imagine a wall painted a different color, for instance, or picture a person's face and connect that to an emotion.

Dharmendra Modha, Manager of Cognitive Computing for IBM Research and Senior Author of the paper, called it a "truly unprecedented scale of simulation." The researchers created a program that told the supercomputer, which is in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to behave how a brain is believed to behave. The computer was shown images of corporate logos, including IBM's, and the scientists watched that different parts of the simulated brain worked together to figure out what the image was. Researchers at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were also part of the project.

The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat's brain, is more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly one billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in a cat's brain work together.

Modha said that the research could lead to computers that rely less on "structured" data, such that the input two plus two equals four, and can handle ambiguity better, like identifying the corporate logo even if the image is blurry. Or, such computers could incorporate senses like sight, touch and hearing into the decisions they make.

MENQ'S CHEAPEST LAPTOP

2009-11-19T22:19:00.000+05:30

China-based electronic equipment manufacturer MenQ has launched the world's cheapest laptop EasyPC E790. Using an ARM-based processor manufactured by Samsung, it sells for $80.

The EasyPC runs Windows CE but, apparently, it can run Android. So it could be considered a laptop, a smartbook, a netbook or an ultra-mini PC. Meanwhile the initial launch of Google's Chrome OS for netbooks is said to be a week or two away.

The Chrome OS is expected to make netbooks quick to boot and access the internet. A number of companies including Qualcomm, TI, Toshiba, Asus, Acer Lenovo, Adobe, HP and Freescale are said to have helped in developing this laptop.

Laptop Configuration:

Screen-size is seven inches.
It comes with WiFi, Ethernet LAN, supports Skype, plays YouTube,
Couple of USB ports, an SD card slot capable of adding 32GB of flash storage,
128MB of RAM,
2GB SSD storage,
and a 2,000mAh battery.

GOOGLE ENGINEER OF THE FUTURE

2009-11-18T23:51:00.000+05:30

Google has a Strategy and Goal in all aspects. Every one has lot of expectations regarding How Google will be in future? What are all the products and services they will provide in future.? How their working environment will be?

But none will have a thought regarding How a Google Engineer will be in future?How far he will differ from other corporate employees?

Yep! Here is the answer for all. The following picture debits The Google Engineer of the Future.

Express your thoughts on this image..

GOOGLE'S FIRST LOGO

2009-11-18T23:49:00.000+05:30

Every one is aware of Google's Doodles. Its the vital and famous part of the Google Page. Lot of competitions are conducted to give the pride to Doodlers who design Doodle. Before the Doodle, the first Google Logo which was used is below...

The above Google logo has the rare autograph of Larry Page and Sergey Bin. Its the rarest of rare.

Share your thoughts...

RESEARCH ON PROJECTING IMAGES INTO EYE FROM CONTACT LENS

2009-11-18T23:39:00.000+05:30

We might soon get to see contact lenses with built-in virtual graphics, as researchers are working on the idea of projecting images into the eye from a contact lens.

Scientists at the University of Washington are labouring on a contact lens that is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device. The proposal was the brainchild of Babak Parviz, at the University of Washington, in Seattle. "Our hope is to create images that effectively float in front of the user perhaps 50 cm to one meter away," News Scientist quoted Parviz as saying.

The expert further said that future versions would be able to gather power from a user's cell phone without obscuring the wearer's view. Mark Billinghurst, Director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory, in Christchurch, New Zealand added, "A contact lens that allows virtual graphics to be seamlessly overlaid on the real world could provide a compelling augmented reality experience." The team is due to present their prototype at the Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCas 2009) conference at Beijing.

MICROSOFT TO LAUNCH CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM AZURE ON JAN 1,2010

2009-11-18T23:32:00.000+05:30

Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing its cloud based computing system Azure on January 1, next year. The announcement was made by Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie in the company's annual software developers conference.

The company plans to take advantage of the growing interest in internet-based software and services, according to Reuters.

Azure provides an online platform for software developers to create their own programs, and space for customers to store data. The service was rolled out for experimentation a year ago. For commercial use its gonna be released soon likely by next year starting.

Microsoft is expected to be a big player in the cloud computing market - broadly the trend toward running software in remote data centers and accessing it over the Internet - but has lagged behind pioneering rivals such as Amazon.com, which already sells cloud-based storage, and Google, which offers a range of free, online software.

The first month of the service will be free, and billing will start in February, said Ozzie.

Wait for a month to enjoy the Cloud...!

IN THE GOOGLEPLEX

2009-11-17T23:58:00.027+05:30

Google workplace is a heaven for all who work there. Here are the following flicks which debits how the employee's at Google enjoy working there.

Google workplace is called The Googleplex- Every Employee's Dream.Here is a Photo Essay on Googleplex.

INSIDE GOOGLEPLEX

Steps are around with lights so that anyone can work sitting at steps..

Transparent Cabins

Sit as you Like.

Volley Ball court in Googleplex. [My fav game]

Your own environment and your own cabin.

Have a Haircut on the go.. Get Yourself Massaged

Caffeteria:

A lifeguard for a Googler Swimming over there.

24/7 tech shop to repair your gadgets. Tech shop for all.

Sleep on the couch when u wish.Be as if at home.

Play to relax:

Bring your pets, if it is as much clean as you

Buy your Google Goodies from Google Garments.

Work where you feel comfortable.

Who do you feel they are, Software Engineers or Kids? Nope Innovators!

Hope you enjoyed the tour to Googleplex.Share your experience in comment page....

GOOGLE REPLACES HTTP PROTOCOL TO SPDY PROTOCOL

2009-11-17T20:55:00.000+05:30

HTTP currently is the protocol used by all web servers and browsers, hence the "http" in front of web addresses. But, as noted by Ars Technica, HTTP becomes inefficient when transferring many small files on many modern websites.

Google's Chromium group has announced an effort to replace the traditional Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) web browser language with a new protocol that supposedly boosts Internet browsing by up to 55 percent.

Google's cleverly named SPDY protocol can compress and handle the individual requests via one connection that's SSL-encrypted. That allows higher-priority files to slip through immediately without becoming backed up behind large files.

SPDY has shown up to 55 percent web page loading when tested under lab conditions. But Ars Technica raises some points of caution about the mandatory SSL encryption requiring more processing power from small devices and computers alike. Requiring SSL could also worsen the problem where server operators neglect SSL encryption and unintentionally encourage people to ignore warnings about unsecured websites.

Still Google's team recognizes these problems and has already proposed workaround solutions. An open approach has already proven a smashing success on Google's Android operating system

The Google team has released their source code for public feedback.Redesigning the Internet's architecture will undoubtedly prove trickier in the days to come.

NASA SCIENTIST TURNS IPHONE INTO A CHEMICAL SNIFFER

2009-11-17T20:32:00.000+05:30

Mobile Phones are increasingly becoming a mobile labs and tech tool for researcher. And now NASA has gotten into it considering iPhone.

A NASA scientist has developed a postage-stamp-sized chemical sensor that allows iPhones to sniff out low airborne concentrations of chemicals such as ammonia, chlorine gas and methane.

The gadget add-on comes courtesy of Jing Li, a Physical Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

She developed the proof of concept with other researchers as part of Homeland Security's 'Cell-All' program, which aims to put more mobile sensors in the hands of every cell phone user, reports Popular Science.

Working of the Chemical Sniffer:

A puff from a 'sample jet' helps sense any airborne chemicals. That information gets processed by a silicon chip consisting of 16 nano-sensors, and then passes on to another phone or computer through any Wi-Fi or telecom network.

Such sensors could alert first responders early if there's a chemical accident or attack, even if the unfortunate cell phone user has already passed out. This is an addition to other cell phone tools such as off-the-shelf microscopes and watchful heart monitors.

INDIAN KIDS 'DOODLE' ON GOOGLE HOMEPAGE FOR CHILDERN'S DAY

2009-11-13T23:41:00.000+05:30

On my long before post i have mentioned about the Doodle 4 Google contest which held at U.S.A. Now, the same contest had held in Geeks only land "INDIA". As like Microsoft, Google also pretty fond of Indian Minds. As a initiative of this, this Doodle 4 Google contest had been held all over India in a Theme called "MY INDIA" for more than 90 days..

The Contest is been open to students from class 1 to 10 th.The panel of juries include renowned cartoonist N Ponnappa, artist Raghava KK and the faculty of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

They crossed across more than 4000 entries and 60,000 votes for those doodles.After all this a 9 year old kid grabbed the honor for India to get its first local drawn doodle, which will be displayed on Google’s homepage on November 14, 2009 to mark Children’s Day.

The Winner of the Doodle 4 Google contest is :

PURU PRATAP SINGH

From LEFT: Dennis Hwang[The Master Doodler,Google Inc.,], PURU PRATAP SINGH and Shailesh Rao[Managing Director, Google India]

A class 4 student from Gurgaon, Puru Pratap Singh, is the maiden winner for this contest in India.Puru, a student of Amity International, Gurgaon, said, "My doodle is based on the theme ‘My India Full of Life’.

Here is his Doodle which to be displayed on Google Homepage for a Day:

MY INDIA -FULL OF LIFE

Description about his Doodle:

The ‘G’ (in Google) explains India is a land of diversity and a country which has a blend of traditions and religions. The peacock in my artwork describes the vibrant Indian culture.

With ‘O’ I have tried to represent the country’s success in discovering water on Moon."

"In the other ‘G’ I have depicted Kashmir, the crown of India.

‘L’ shows the Amar Jawan Jyoti that reminds us of the sacrifices made by Indian soldiers. And we cannot think of India without Mahatma Gandhi so I have dedicated ‘E’ to him," Puru said.

Honors for the Indian Puru Pratap Singh:

A laptop,
A T-shirt with his doodle
And Rs 1,00,000 as technology grant for his school.

POST UR COMMENTS AND WISHES FOR HIM.. PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN..! Jai Hind!!!

* source: http://www.google-logos.com/

GOOGLE PROVIDES 16TB OF CLOUD DRIVE SPACE FOR JUST $4096 AN ANNUM

2009-11-12T00:36:00.003+05:30

Google announced tonight, a special offer on its cloud drive by increasing the space as well slashing the cost.

According to current scenario, Gmail users currently get about 7 gigabytes for free and Picasa users get about 1 gigabyte for free, both can now upgrade to 20 GB for just $5 a year. Previously, it cost $20 to get just 10 GB of additional service.

But what’s really pretty incredible is that Google has an option for you to buy up to 16 terabytes. Ofcourse it costs. Its been in various options like:

400 GB costs $100 a year
1 TB costs $256 a year
4 TB costs $1,024 a year.
8 TB cost $2,048 a year.
16 TB will set you back $4,096 a year.

Its actually a good news to blogger who are in need of storing high resolution images.

GOOGLE LATITUDE APP SHOWS YOUR LOCATION HISTORY

2009-11-12T00:36:00.000+05:30

Google Latitude just turned on Location history as a new feature in Google Latitude. Whenever Google Latitude is on, it records your location, and you can go back to see where you’ve been.

Another new feature is location alerts:

You can now get an alert anytime a friend of yours who allows you to see their location on Google Latitude is nearby.
To cut down on constant alerts every time you go to the office or home, it tries to learn where you go every day, and only gives you an alert when you are in a place it deems to be “unusual.”
In order for the alerts to work, your location history needs to be enabled, so the two features go hand in hand.

Enjoy using the features googlers..

PHP FONDER RASMUS LERDOF LEFT HIS LONG-HELD POSITION AT YAHOO

2009-11-12T00:27:00.001+05:30

According to Rasmus Lerdorf's twitter account, he left his long-held position at Yahoo. Being the fonder of the most popular programming language of current times,there is no reason behind this resign.

Lerdorf joined Yahoo in 2002 and has worked for the company as an engineer since. Lerdorf is most notable for creating the original PHP engine, and for being a notable open source developer, speaker and author. Lerdorf developed PHP in 1995 after building up a collection of C macros that he was using in web application development.

PHP was developed further and commercialized by Zend, but Lerdorf has maintained an ongoing involvement with the open source project. Lerdorf has worked at a number of companies since first developing PHP, but has spent a large part of his professional career with Yahoo and he had a strong association with the company.

He is one among the star engineer and developer who left Yahoo recent times.

This is his blog: http://toys.lerdorf.com/
Follow this legand on twitter: http://twitter.com/rasmus

It might be happy for others but hectic for Yahoo.

GOOGLE INVENTED ITS OWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE NAMED "GO"

2009-11-12T00:02:00.000+05:30

Google has has put its name behind the brainchild of three of their in-house genius programmers.Its not a product or feature of Google what we expect. Its new and different. They have invented a new programming language of their own named "Go" named after Gopher.

if you're a developer and want to get going immediately (it's open source, of course!) -- but I will tell you that this is big, big news.

To make their services better and to prevent the difficulties with existing languages, they made their own superior language as they did before on this file system, database, server and OS.

We haven't seen a new systems-oriented language for over a decade.

Go is fast. It's secure. They even go as far as to call it 'fun' on their homepage!. As mentioned before, It's free to download and use, and there are tutorials that are very easy to get started with. There's even a little video showcasing just how fast it is,

FORTUNE MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES "THE CEO OF DECADE" AS STEVE JOBS

2009-11-11T23:51:00.000+05:30

Steve Jobs! every maclovers has a feel in them on hearing this name. Yep, we all know Steve jobs as the CEO of apple and as well he is one of the best presenter on stage. The way he presents a new product is unique. Indeed, now to add a feather to his crown, he has been voted as "THE CEO OF DECADE" by the prestigious Fortune magazine.

The paths he crossed so far to be the CEO of decade as follows:

In 1985, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was forced out of his own company after he and then-CEO John Sculley began to fight over the direction of Apple (this coincided with major layoffs at the time). For the next decade, Steve flexed his entrepreneurial muscle by starting NeXT Computer and turning Pixar into an animation powerhouse.

In 1996 however, NeXT was bought by Apple, returning him to the company he created. He quickly took the reigns as CEO. You probably know the rest of the story: iTunes, Mac, Macbook, iPod, iPhone, the iTunes and iPhone App Stores, and other products vaulted Apple from turmoil into one of the world’s largest and most respected companies.

Here’s a short excerpt from the Fortune piece on the decision:

“The past decade in business belongs to Jobs. What makes that simple statement even more remarkable is that barely a year ago it seemed likely that any review of his accomplishments would be valedictory. But by deeds and accounts, Jobs is back.”

And the close competitor for Jobs are Larry page and sergey bin. There is a close tie between both, but the one valid point why Steve jobs has been selected is, the unique products he gave to the consumers like iPod, Mac and iPhone.Also Steve’s transformation of Apple is the stuff of legends.

INDIAN TECHSAVY'S GAME FOR iPHONE AND iTOUCH HITS HIGHEST DOWNLAOD EVER

2009-11-10T22:33:00.000+05:30

T. Harikumar, who quit his job as an engineer with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to start Trivandrum based software firm Travancore Analytics, has developed the snakes and ladders board game for iPhone and iTouch.

"The Apple company after seeing the game asked us to re-do it as it had the iPhone logo. We removed it and the game was released on September 27. In a short span of time, the game has achieved more than 250,000 downloads - the highest for an iPhone application developed by any Indian software firm," said T. Harikumar.More than 70 percent of downloads have been from Canada, the UK, and the U.S.

Anyone who has an iPhone or an iTouch can log on to iTunes website and download the game for free. The free version of the game allows the user to be one of the players, while iPhone itself takes the role of the second player.

"We have given it a real feel. When the dice appears on screen, just shake the phone as you would do it while playing on the board game, and the dice shows the number," said Harikumar. The company currently has 22 employees and is mostly into image technology and processing.

GOOGLE DASHBOARD HAS THE COMPLETE RECORD OF YOUR GOOGLER LIFE

2009-11-10T22:21:00.000+05:30

Google Dashboard can tell you exactly how much search giant Google knows about your life. From blog posts, emails and chats to all your web searches and the sites you visited over the past four years. The holidays you booked online, your medical problems and Youtube searches - it's a record of your entire online and offline life.

Google does the work of collecting such datas to show users more relevant advertisements and more useful search results. And by giving the users control over this, it's trying to earn their trust.

But is this is unsecure actually. Lead to a pricacy issue since all you are going to need is the Google email ID, which is public and get the password and all that information, highly specific, very easy to search, is easily available."

This dashboard is good at one sense but mostly bad in other sense. I depends on how secure it is with Google from hackers..

GOOGLE CHROME OS DOWNLOAD AND REVIEW

2009-11-09T10:11:00.000+05:30

Google released the source code for Chrome OS on Thursday, beginning the process of producing a cloud-based operating system by the end of 2010 for Netbooks.

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications. Announced on July 7, 2009, Chrome OS is set to have a publicly available stable release during the second half of 2010. The operating system is based on Linux and targets specifically designed hardware.The user interface takes a minimalist approach, resembling that of the Chrome web browser. Because the browser will be the only application residing on the device, Google Chrome OS is aimed at users who spend most of their computer time on the Internet.

What is Google Chrome OS?

- the web browser is the most important program on your computer
- your browser is your operating system

DOWNLOAD:

Meanwhile, the source code for Chrome OS is already available on Google site.

Download the Google Chrome OS here:

HOW CHROME OS LOOKS:

Here's the login screen:

Default Wallpaper of Chrome OS:

REVIEW:

Chrome OS is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian that uses a lot of open-source software:

Host AP Linux drivers, PAM (an authentication mechanism),
Syslinux (a lightweight bootloader),
IBus (Intelligent Input Bus for Linux / Unix OS),
ConnMan (Internet connection manager), XScreenSaver and other software.More on this later.

Live blogging:

- Chrome OS launches next year

Chrome, the foundation of Chrome OS

- Chrome has 40 million users
- Chrome focuses on: speed, security, simplicity
- new stuff: Chrome for Mac/Linux and extensions

HTML5:

- making the web more powerful
- powerful web apps
- web apps should use threads
- offline web apps

Converging trends
- netbooks have an explosive growth
- millions of users are living in the cloud

Chrome OS:
- instant boot
- Chrome on Chrome OS is faster
- every app is a web app
- all data is in the cloud
- browser security model

Demo:
- 7 seconds boot time
- the UI is a work in progress
- easy to access favorite apps
- app menu
- panels: persistent lightweight windows (example: Google Talk)
- file browser
- local files open in web apps (including Microsoft Office online apps)
- native video player

CHROME OS DIFFERS BY :

-Design documents
- No hard disks, only solid-state drives
- Verified boot
- Security: the OS does not trust any app
- Read-only root file system
- User data synced to the cloud
- Automatic updates for the entire OS

MARKET:
- reference hardware
- you can't download Chrome OS and install it on your machine
- the only way to install the OS is to buy a Chrome OS machine
- the target launch time: the end of next year

GOOGLE VOICE WILL CALL YOUR PHONE AND CONNECT YOU FREE GLOBALLY

2009-11-08T10:02:00.000+05:30

Google has working agreements with several "international service providers for inputs to Google Voice." Google makes the Google voice get ready to Global.

Near furture, Google voice can be used to connect to any phone number globally and it connects you for free.

But,none of those services have launched as of yet.

A POWERFUL FLICKR SEARCH FOR MAC- VIEW FINDER

2009-11-08T09:55:00.000+05:30

Everyone knows Flickr is the best way to find images in the web. The workflow of browsing search results, viewing the image and then finding it at a suitable size (if it exists) takes time - however that's where Viewfinder steps in.

Viewfinder, the native of Mac OS X lepoard, helps a lot to search Flickr from the desktop apply filters to show only Creative Commons images, and specify a particular image size. If you're a heavy keynote user (or blogger) who frequently needs to find Flickr images for your work Viewfinder is exceptional.

A licence costs £15 (roughly $25) and a free demo is available for you try from the Viewfinder webpage.

100,000 APPS NOW AVAILABLE ON APP STORE

2009-11-04T00:54:00.000+05:30

APPLE =100,000 APPS

Apple announced that the developers have created over 100,000 APPs for the App store,the largest applications store in the world.These APPs are specifically for iPhone and iPod users.

App Store users have downloaded well over two billion apps, continuing to make it the world’s most popular applications store.

Apple continues to improve search and discovery with new features including Genius for Apps, App Store Essentials selections, sub category listings and more valuable customer reviews. With the recently introduced iTunes® 9, it’s also now easier than ever to organize and sync your apps right in iTunes and they will automatically appear on your iPhone or iPod touch with the same layout.

The release of iPhone OS 3.0 this summer made over 100 new features available to iPhone and iPod touch users including Cut, Copy and Paste; MMS; landscape view for Mail, Text and Notes; stereo Bluetooth; shake to shuffle; parental controls; automatic login at Wi-Fi hot spots and Push Notifications.

SEESMIC DESKTOP CLIENT DISPLAYS TWITTER LIST

2009-11-03T21:51:00.000+05:30

Seesmic might not be the best Twitter client, but it is the first to support the new lists features. The new, downloadable version of Seesmic Desktop will display your Twitter lists in the left sidebar from any Twitter account you have (Seesmic lets you use one client for multiple accounts).

Seesmic Web will also be integrated with Facebook within the next month as developers are currently tweaking the application’s functionality on different browsers.

It looks like you can create a new list, but you can't, yet -- if you check Twitter's web interface, you'll see your list isn't really there. These features are coming sooner than later, though, and this limited support is enough for Seesmic to call "first!"

Seesmic Desktop, which integrated with both Facebook and Twitter, has also hit 3 million downloads, with the last 500,000 downloads taking place within the past month and a half.

GOOGLE'S NEW MUSIC SEARCH ENGINE FEATURE

2009-11-03T21:40:00.000+05:30

Google has stepped into a new form of search on Music .Last week, Google has launched its new search engine to searhc Music only. This feature is been powered through MySpace, Pandora, imeem and Lala.

I’ve heard that artists will be offering songs that can only be found through Google search, some of which will be given away for free. Over 20 artists are involved.

The new feature works directly from any Google web search form, and results are returned as "one box" results at the top of the search result page next to a musical notes icon. As with other types of "one box" results, which can be triggered when searching for news, products, images and so on, music results are displayed when Google determines that a query might be related to a band or artist name, a song name, album or song lyrics.

So, Enjoy Discovering Music through Google!!!

10 WEB APPS MUST ON MAC APP FLUID

2009-11-03T21:09:00.000+05:30

A Mac app called Fluid can pull those web applications onto your desktop and turn them into OS X native site-specific browsers.Fluid has a lot of advantages compared to running web apps in your browser.

Here we go!

List of Web Applications should be running on Mac App fluid are:

Google Wave:

Google's hot new communication tool is a perfect candidate for a site-specific browser.

Google Reader:

A lot of people are already using Google Reader as their main RSS app, so it makes sense to set it up in Fluid.

Facebook Chat

The URL you should use to create a Facebook Chat Fluid App is http://facebook.com/presence/popout.php.

Facebook

With some handy userscripts, you can add badge counts for both private messages and your public stream, and even enable Growl alerts.

Campfire:

Campfire, the popular team communication system from 37Signals, works so well with Fluid that 37S has released an official Fluid Icon for Campfire.

Gmail

Gmail is one of the most well-supported site-specific browsers around. You'll find a plethora of icons for it - Ivarson's done 6 different colors - and automatic badging.

Grooveshark

Grooveshark is an amazing web-based music player, but you have to purchase a paid account to use its official desktop app.

Twitter:

Fluid isn't necessarily the best Twitter client out there, but if you set it up as a menubar icon, it's a quick way to check your Twitter stream or post a fast Tweet.

Instapaper:

Instapaper is an excellent way to save articles for later reading, using a convenient bookmarklet.

Google Voice:

It seems that having easy access to your voicemail and SMS messages is in demand right now.

Wordpress / Your Blog:

For notifications, dock badges, and tweaks that make Wordpress run a lot more smoothly in Fluid, grab the Fluid Enabler WP plugin.

I have linked all the important sites here for getting the above apps..Hope it will help you alot maclovers..!!

NEW PORTABLE XP QUICK FIX PLUS FIXES ERRORS IN XP

2009-11-03T20:46:00.000+05:30

Even though Vista and 7 has been released on Windows by Microsoft, still there are users who are more comfortable with XP. ALso it doesn't mean that XP is Bug free product. There do we get some errors. Os to fix that easily a new application has been arrived.

Its X PQUICK FIX PLUS TOOL which is available in a portable form.The tiny, portable application launches a dashboard with one-click fixes for 40 common Windows XP problems.

The program is essentially a collection of registry fixes, since that's where most of these problems originate. You might want to create a system restore point prior to running Quick Fix (or backing up your registry)

MOST ATTARCTIVE EMPLOYER GLOBALLY IS GOOGLE

2009-11-03T20:25:00.000+05:30

Google is more attractive employer than Microsoft according to the first global index of employer attractiveness by Universum. Google tops the list of Global Top 50 Business and the Global Top 50 Engineering employer.

Universum's global index of employer attractiveness is designed to assess the world's most powerful employer brands. Google is, by far, the ideal company to work for according to 120,000 students from top academic institutions worldwide. The positions occupied by the Google and Microsoft are clear indications of their success related to talent attraction and retention.

Students from U.S., Japan, China, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, Spain, Canada, and India have helped define the world's top 50 most attractive employers, Universum explained. In this regard, the list with the best employers to work for emphasizes the globalization of the talent market. Google, Microsoft and IBM are, in this context, attractive employers because students are aiming for an international career with multinational companies capable of offering secure employment.

GOOD REASONS WHY GOOGLE IS FIRST AS A ATTRACTIVE EMPLOYER:

"GOOGLE POLICIES"

The campus in Mountain View strictly follows the company's founders, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, orders that food (it's free) should not be away more than 150 feet from the employees. So, Google runs 11 free gourmet cafeterias and scores of snack rooms, which contain cereals, candy, nuts, yogurt, carrots, fresh fruit and other snacks, and dozens of drinks, including soda and make-your-own cappuccino.

If an employee wants to buy a hybrid car,Google pays up to $5,000 to the employee for environmentally friendly effort.

If employee has a baby, Google pays $500 to buy baby stuff. Drop off laundry and get it dry cleaned for free.

Get onsite free massage and haircut, and an oil change or wash for the car.

Work is such a cosy place that it's difficult for Google employees to leave office.

TOP 5 GADGETS AND TOOLS FOR WINDOWS 7

2009-11-01T23:28:00.000+05:30

After the release of Windows 7, the Microsoft and other third party developers has skyrocketed with new enhancement tools, utilities and gadgets to make it more user friendly and easy accessible.

Below is the list of most useful tools for Windows 7:

1. Weather Bug:

Weather Bug lets you select a nearby weather station and shows you everything you might need to know: current temperature (Celsius or Fahrenheit), forecasted high and low, wind speed, and the current cloudiness (or lack of).

2. UEFA Informer:

Its actually for Non-Americans and mainly for Canadian Soccer lovers. Its a football gadgets. This tool keep track of every major football (soccer) league in Europe, from Italian to English to even the Champion's League.

3. Gmail Reader:

This tool alerts you when you receive a new mail. Its similar toa Gmail Notifier.

4. TweetZ:

Its a Twitter sidebar tool for Windows 7.Unfortunately its default setting is to tweet some birdsong annoyingly every time someone twits, but it's easy to turn off.

5.Facebook Explorer:

Facebook browser tab! Not only can you see pending friend requests or event invitations but you can also see if you've been poked -- life-altering, I know! All of your friend's updates are here too, with a break-out box popping-up to give you more details if you click on an update.

NEW IPHONE APP NIKON MAKE PHOTOS BETTER

2009-11-01T23:27:00.000+05:30

This new iPhone app that acts as an always-there photography guide.If you're an amateur, semi-pro, or even a professional wondering how certain effects or styles are pulled off -- this app would make a great addition to your iPhone's arsenal.

There are guides that will show you how to take photos in tricky conditions -- indoors, outdoors, low-light, long-exposure -- it's all there.

They're promising continous updates and access to their Nikon World magazine through the app.

A TV/INTERNET FLICK CHANNEL EPIX.COM TO RELEASE ON THIS WEEKEND

2009-11-01T23:26:00.000+05:30

After a long months of planning, Epix.com to release on this weekend.Verizion FiOS subscribers will see the new movie channel as part of their TV lineup, and they'll also have access to the EpixHD.com internet movie channel with 175 on-demand movies including some newer movies such as G:I JOE and COUPLES RETREAT

Just sign up at EpixHD.com/invite and you'll register for a 3-day weekend trial of the internet-only service. The invites are being given out on a first come first, served basis, so you might not get one right away. But Epix plans to offer invitations between now and Thanksgiving.

Epix is run by Viacom, Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM.

ADOBE AIR 2.0 SUPPORTS MULTITOUCH WITH LESS CPU CYLCES

2009-11-01T23:18:00.000+05:30

AIR 2.0 cross-platform app framework adds a bunch of little tweaks and a few major ones, including support for multitouch and gestures.

Friends, whose machines support multitouch and gestures will start to see new apps that take advantage of zooming, rotating and more. Other less-flashy features include audio recording and opening files in their default applications. All these happen with a less usage of CPU cycles and memory.

"AIR apps are like modern day Java applets ... sure, they run on every platform.

Beta is available now and the full release is on 2010.

SNOWCHECKER TO CHECK MAC APPS COMPATIBILTY ON OS X 10.6

2009-11-01T22:45:00.001+05:30

There are lots of Mac Apps there to use with MAC OS X 10.6 Snow leopard. But its compatibility with it is unknown. To check that SnowChecker helps well.

It scans your hard drive for apps, and then checks their compatibility against the info posted at snowleopard.wikidot.com.

To quickly see which apps are going to have issues under 10.6 and might need to be updated - either by you or by the app's developer - sort the list by status.

Red Xs are apps whose functionality is completely borked in Snow Leopard.
Yellow alerts represent apps where one or more inessential functions don't work.

TURN WINDOWS 7 NOTEBOOKS INTO WIRELESS ACCES POINT USING CONNECTIFY

2009-10-31T23:38:00.000+05:30

A company taking advantage of its new application that can turn any laptop into a wireless access point named CONNECTIFY which is developed by military consulting firm Nomadio.

Connectify lets a notebook to a single internet connection by effectively turning it into a software based wireless router which requires Windows 7 OS as a hotspot.But any wireless-equipped device, including handhelds and other notebooks running whatever operating system can jump online without any additional software.

The program even encrypts traffic to and from the software hotspot using WPA2-Personal (AES) encryption.So the connectivity highly secured though wireless.

While the connectify beta is free to download, Nomadio expects to charge users once the complete version is released in about six weeks

YAHOO TERMINATED GEOCITIES PERMANENTLY

2009-10-27T19:53:00.002+05:30

Yahoo had sealed the fate of GeoCities, one of the pioneers of the emerging Internet years ago. Fifteen years of service came to a halt when Yahoo told everyone still using the service that it would be shutting down, encouraging them to move on to something better. Yahoo has substitute a placeholder that confirms today as the final day for service.

here's no mention of just how many people still used the service, though I imagine it wasn't very many. Numbers aside, there's still a feeling of nostalgia I get when thinking about GeoCities.

Yahoo is offering to migrate any existing users

over to their hosted services. Their disposal of GeoCities is part of their greater plan to improve company profits, which has been an important concern after a series of failed mergers and service cuts.

NON-ENGLISH DOMAIN NAMES ON WEB

2009-10-27T15:53:00.001+05:30

In its four-decade history, the Internet is set to undergo a biggest change with the expected approval this week that the international domain names or addresses can be written in languages other than English. Domain names are the monikers behind every website, e-mail address and Twitter post, such as ".com" and other suffixes.

"This is the biggest change technically to the Internet since it was invented 40 years ago," said Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board, calling it a 'fantastically complicated technical feature.' ICANN, the non-profit group that oversees domain names is holding a meeting this week in Seoul. It is expected that the board would grant approval on Friday, which is the conference's final day.

One of the key issues to be taken up by ICANN's board is whether to allow for the first time the entire Internet addresses to be in scripts that are not based on Latin letters.

Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's new President and CEO, said that if the change is approved, ICANN would begin accepting applications for non-English domain names and that the first entries into the system would likely to come in mid 2010.

Enabling the change, Thrush said that it is the creation of a translation system that allows multiple scripts to be converted to the right address. "We're confident that it works because we've been testing it now for a couple of years. And we're really ready to start rolling it out."

However, Beckstrom recalled that 3-5 years ago many people had said that using non-Latin scripts for domain names would be impossible to achieve. "But the community, the policy groups and staff and board have worked through them, which is absolutely incredible," he said.

IT LEADERS TRUST MICROSOFT MORE THAN GOOGLE ON BUSINESS

2009-10-27T15:44:00.000+05:30

In 2009, Google became more aggressive on expanding beyond web search in a bid to take on Microsoft. Now, Google is focusing more on business applications, which is a traditional Microsoft stronghold with Exchange on the server side and Microsoft Office on the client side. However, when it comes to putting their trust on the technology products, not many Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are in favor of Google.

Recently, TechRepublic polled a 90-member panel of U.S. IT executives and asked, "Who do they trust more as a technology partner, Microsoft or Google?" The jury - made up of the first 12 respondents - voted 8-4 in favor of Microsoft. Google is making the pitch to businesses that it can save them money, speed up deployments, and provide users with a simpler experience. However, the primary obstacle that Google has to overcome is to convince IT leaders to transfer company data from internal servers to the Google datacenters, with all of the security, privacy, and compliance risks that such a move entails, reports TechRepublic.

The skeptical attitude towards Google was summed up by Donna Trivison, Director of IT for Ursuline College, who said, "There seems to be some conventional wisdom that Google is the answer to what's been wrong over the years in the Microsoft universe.

MAIN REASON:

When confronted with the Microsoft vs. Google question of trust, Lance Taylor Warren, CIO of H.A.W.C. Community Health Centers, said, "Neither.While some of the technology that Google has been releasing is intriguing, their track record of leaving things in 'beta' for years does not lead to a high level of confidence. Microsoft is Microsoft. If I had to pay full price for their products, I would have to give serious consideration to other solutions."

NEW MICROSOFT'S SENSECAM CAMERA FOR ALZHEIMER'S CAPTURES THE ENTIRE LIFE

2009-10-24T23:04:00.000+05:30

A UK-based firm will soon launch a camera that a person can wear as a pendant to record every moment of his or her life. This camera was originally developed as the SenseCam by Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, for researchers studying Alzheimer's and other dementias, according to ANI.

Its use in applications like MLB and and the memory aid research for Alzheimer suffers at Addenbrooks hospital in the UK, is based on wearing the SenseCam for lifelogging of 'events' during your day, and generating a fast-forward movie of the event as the memory recall interface.

This Sensecam work uses other recording devices besides the SenseCam, including off-the-shelf ones to take biometric readings, standard ones to record GPS and audio recorders, and RFID readers for objects tagged in the home or office.

The ViconRevue can soon be used by consumers to create "lifelogs" that archive their entire lives, researchers claim. It is worn on a cord around the neck and the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer.

The gadget will be unveiled at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago this weekend, in conjunction with a conference on research using SenseCam so far. "What's great about these kinds of memory technologies is that they can be very usable for ordinary people," says Henry Kautz, a Computer Scientist at the University Of Rochester, New York, who works on technology to assist cognition.

Vicon, which specialises in motion-capture technology for the movie industry, has licensed the technology for the camera from Microsoft and intends to put it into large-scale production. The revolutionary device can fit 30,000 images onto its one gigabyte memory, reports New Scientist.

DISNEY REVEALS A NEW TECHNOLOGY KEYCHEST

2009-10-24T22:32:00.000+05:30

Disney to unveil a new technology to ditch DVD called KEYCHEST.

Keychest aims to address the hurdles of playing a movie back on devices other than a PC or laptop, and limited storage space on those computers' hard drives. Keychest uses the same "cloud computing" method that Google Docs uses, permitting users to store files and photographs on remote Internet servers and access them from anywhere, rather than keeping them on their own computers.

This technology can provide the much needed boost to the movie industry. According to Wall Street Journal, DVD sales, have fallen as much as 25 percent at some studios. Blu-ray discs and digital downloads from sites like Apple iTunes Store, haven't grown quickly enough to offset the losses. Blu-ray and downloads combined currently make up just 11 percent of home-video sales, according to industry estimates, with DVDs representing the other 89 percent.

Keychest could put Disney on a collision course with an initiative, known as the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, that has similar goals. But Disney argues that their effort represents a more streamlined approach. Instead of designing a new set of standards and formats, as DECE is trying to do, and having participants sign on, Keychest works using a combination of digital file formats that are already common, and recognized by a wide range of existing devices.

The Keychest process is enabled by a system that generates a unique "key" when the movie is purchased. Movies bought on discs, whether DVD or Blu-ray, could also generate an access key. In the case of a DVD, the user would need to manually type in a code; Blu-ray players are designed to connect to the Internet, and could send codes automatically.

GENERATING ELECTRICITY THROUGH RUNNING TRAINS

2009-10-24T22:04:00.011+05:30

An Indian entrepreneur has proposed a project to Indian Railways which will allow it to generate electricity through air pressure from running trains. Santosh Pradhan, who runs a bunch of engineering and mechanical units, has almost two decades of experience in manufacturing engineering tools.

"When a train runs at a full speed of 110-120 km, it creates an air pressure in opposite direction and no one has ever thought to utilize this huge air pressure which is freely and easily available," Pradhan told PTI. As per his technology, a small impeller is fixed at the front portion of railway locomotive and similarly on top of each coach of a train. "When the train is running, it will produce huge quantity of compressed air due to high velocity of the wind and by accumulating this compressed air in big fabricated tanks on either side of the track, we can run turbines or air turbine motors which can produce a considerable amount of electricity," he explained.

Pradhan has registered 20 patents with the government of India about his technology so that he remains the sole person to further develop this technology. He has now approached the higher railways authorities to seek permission for prototype and a subsequent demonstration of this technology which he says is 'eco-friendly and cost effective'.

Pradhan said about 14,300 trains were running on 63,028 route KMs in the country and about 20.89MW electricity can be generated per km with the use of air power technology. Thus approximately 14,81,134MW of power can be generated by using the entire railway track, according to his statistics and calculations. Pradhan says that the Indian Railways was spending 17 percent revenue on the fuel head which is roughly Rs. 15,000 crore (Rs. 150 billion) per annum. He also claims that the technology can save 2,586 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emission in the country.

However, it all depends on the Indian Railways to allow additional fabrication of parallel wind pipes over the over head electric lines to pass on high velocity wind to reach tanks on either of side of track, Pradhan added.

GOBY.COM - A NEW SEARCH ENGINE FOR ALL FUN THINGS

2009-10-22T22:45:00.000+05:30

WORLD'S NEW BORN SEARCH ENGINE HITS THE WEB NOW... ITS ALL BUT FINDING AND HAVING FUN..

A new search engine Goby.com has come up, which allows users to search for activity and help them find things to do in the city. Goby uses three boxes - What, Where and When - with drop-down menus to find results for your query.

Goby searches through over 200 categories, including live music, art exhibits, outdoor festivals, spas, bed-and-breakfasts and restaurants.

Inshort its a Decison engine for every Holiday.

The new Goby website, pronounced Go-bE, works as an active Google link serach engine but with a super fin happy time twist. Goby.com is designed specifically to help people find things to do in their leisure time ranging from hiking to biking to finding a good restaurant or bed and breakfast.

Goby.com uses three boxes for your super fun happy time search...Goby asks What? Where? and When? Goby has drop-down menus to find the right results for your query. Goby crawls the web with its little funbots searching what it considers high quality information from 500 sources.

Goby.com has been available to the public for only a few weeks and it is still working out some kinks. Goby still has many errors on its search result and sometimes the same results are listed four times in a row. Photos representing these activities are pulled in from source sites like bedandbreakfast.com as well as from Google and Flickr.

In simple , Goby.com is a fun activity search engine..

Look on Goby.com and have fun..I have decided my next fun spot..wat abt u?

WORLD'S FIRST MULTI-TOUCH MOUSE OF APPLE

2009-10-22T00:26:00.000+05:30

Apple has a strong lineup prep for this holiday season and beyond. Well its true, Apple introduced a new multi-touch mouse today called "Magic Mouse". Its once again a out-standing unique product of the multi-touch leader Apple and not like others who copy them.

"Apple Magic Mouse" has a multitouch surface that is reliant on touch, taps, and swipes unlike its usual buttons.

Features of Apple's new Multi-touch mouse are:

Multi-Touch smooth Surface with sleek and different style.

Powerful laser tracking makes it more sensitive and responsive even without mousepad.

Wireless: Bluetooth enable secure connection around 33 feet away[Not bad Actually].

Gestures on Usage:

Here the mouse itself a button. So the gestures includes, Scroll in any direction with one finger, swipe through web pages and photos with two, and click and double-click anywhere. Inside Magic Mouse is a chip that tells it exactly what you want to do. Which means Magic Mouse won’t confuse a scroll with a swipe. It even knows when you’re just resting your hand on it.

What are all the things can be done with this magic mouse:

Click.
Two button click
360 deg roll.
Screen zoom
Two-Fingers Swipe.

System Requirements to enjoy this magic mouse are:

Bluetooth-enabled Mac computer
Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later with Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0
Existing keyboard and mouse for setup

This new magic mouse comes along with the new iMac introduced today and is available separately for $69 only.

Post your thoughts on this magic mouse and share your exp on using it.

I gonna grab it soon, what about u Maclovers??

GOOGLE PLANS TO MERGE CHROME IN WINDOWS 7

2009-10-20T13:50:00.000+05:30

Google has planned to integrate its Chrome web browser along with the Microsoft's Windows Operating System. This news has spread on net the moment after the announcement of Mozilla Corp. integeration of its next version of its browser FireFox 3.6 with Windows 7 features such as taskbar thumbnail previews and jump lists.

Chrome is currently on 3.0 version release,while version 4 is presently under development. Also Google's Chrome OS work is been under progress which is known from the early developer build of OS.

So likely Google will integrate its next version ofits chrome browser with Windows 7 and it called off its plans.

Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Williams accord on net neutrality

2009-10-20T13:38:00.000+05:30

In a letter to Federal Communications, along with 24 CEOs of major companies including the Facebook[Mark Zuckerberg] and Twitter [Evan Williams] have supported the initiative of net neutrality rules.

"We believe a process that results in common sense baseline rules is critical to ensuring that the Internet remains a key engine of economic growth, innovation, and global competitiveness," the CEOs wrote under the auspices of the Open Internet Coalition to Julius Genachowski, Chairman, FCC, reports PC World.

List of CEO's along with Mark and Evan are,

John Donahoe, CEO, eBay.
Steve Chan, Founder, YouTube.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com.
Jay Adelson, Digg.
Dan Nye,LinkedIn.
David Ulevitch,OpenDNS.
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corporation.
Howard Stringer, Sony Electronics,
Josh Silverman, Skype.
Stewart Butterfield, Flickr.
Also, Google CEO Eric Schmidt who has long supported net neutrality signed the letter.

Other companies that signed the letter are,

Zynga,
Vuze,
Cbeyond,
Craigslist,
EchoStar Corporation,
XO Communications,
Expedia, IAC,
One Communications,
and TiVo.

"An open Internet fuels a competitive and efficient marketplace, where consumers make the ultimate choices about which products succeed and which fail. This allows businesses of all sizes, from the smallest startup to the larger corporations, to compete, yielding maximum economic growth and opportunity," the executives wrote.

The FCC is expected to introduce the formal rules regarding the net neutrality at its October meeting.

Net neutrality is the concept that everyone should have equal access to the internet.

The executives said that the openness of the internet has "fueled an unprecedented era of economic growth and creativity" and that these rules will help to protect that.

GOOGLE OFFERS FREE WIFI FOR ALL VIRGIN AMERICA FLIGHTS

2009-10-19T20:48:00.000+05:30

Google has announced that it will make the Wi-Fi cost on Virgin America flights free. This will make lot of frequent flyer on Virgin America's airlines.

Google will be footing the bill for all between November 10, 2009, and January 15, 2010.

Google is really giving a gift to Virgin America airlines in the form of yet one more incentive to fly its planes over competitors.Its not the fact that they are paying $13 per flight, but actually to make it more appealing.

Its a valid offer for all users. So, "Make hay while sun shines"

GIST.COM - A SOCIAL MEDIA AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP CONNECTOR

2009-10-18T23:43:00.000+05:30

The gist of "WW.GIST.COM" is to provide a web service that connects your various social media networks with your personal contact information to give you an enhanced view of your connections.

The main feature of gist to import all of your contacts from your networks and personal contacts. Currently it can import from LinkedIn, Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, Outlook, Gmail, Email/IMAP, and even simple CSV files of contacts.

Once all your contacts have been imorted, Gist allows u to rank on them in order of importance.Gist is still in beta, and will likely charge for the service once it reaches final release. If you have a lot of contacts and would like a new way to analyze all of your connections, it's certainly worth a look.

On using their services myself, i though they've not actually achieved the goal of managing information overload just yet, but Gist still offers valuable views into your various online social connections.

APPLE ON THE VERGE OF RELEASING FM RADIO ENABLED IPHONE/IPOD TOUCH

2009-10-18T23:32:00.001+05:30

Apple working on FM radio for iPhone/iPod touch. This is to enhance the newly released ipod nano models.They are working on providing he ability to pause live FM transmissions and fast-forward when you resume playing.

Most probabaly the release would be made sooner but Apple is still working on integrating the new feature with its mobile iTunes Store.

So that users are just a few taps away from purchasing any song they are listening to on the radio -- provided the station supports song tagging.

GOOGLE COMPETES AMAZON WITH NEW EBOOK STORE GOOGLE EDITIONS

2009-10-18T23:25:00.000+05:30

GOOGLE EDITIONS is the new ebook store announced by Google.This will deliver books to any device with web browser. Google isn't launcing any new e-reader as do Kindle, but supports the ebooks bought from other providers.

Google's history with electronic version of books isn't a successful one. Their part of Google books is still under resolving legal issues. Google Books is a project which has already scanned over 10 million books and made them searchable for googlers.

So, Google edition is a means for competition for amazon ebook provider.Though i might not vanish all but cuts the profit of Amazon in max way.

GOOGLE EDITION IS LIKELY TO BE LAUNCHED IN HALF OF 2010..

GOOGLE SETS A RECORD PROFIT UP BY 27%

2009-10-18T23:10:00.000+05:30

As a part of internets huge advertising company, Google is often considered a barometer for e-commerce. Google reported its quater earning of this week,which let to the search engine gaints largest ever profit of any other week as 27% rise up. Its about $1.29 billion to 1.64billion.

Also companies number of paid clicks rose 4% on quater and 14% on year.Also its online advertising rose upto 7% i.e $5.94 billion.

The above record shows that recession is not a matter to google now. The only gaint smilying in this hard time. As a googler, i hope it last for ever .