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Data Recovery:

About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes. This is one person every three and a half seconds. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.Though there is plenty of resources(food) the reasons for the death's are extreme poverty.This makes them weak and they will work less and that makes even poorer.This happens until death in poor countries.Some times natural disasters comes into play and takes heavy toll.Diseases like aids,tuberculosis,malaria are already taking toll in poor countries.Look at the stats:

What we can do?????
AN average person browsing the internet clicks the mouse for 100-150 times per hour.Can't we spare even 1 click for the dying.Isn't it our responsibility??.If I ask anyone the site they visit they may say cricinfo.com or indiaglitz.com or something else.Did you find any person who visits sites like thehungersite.com daily.May be 1 in a million.

Here is a chart of total grains distributed by freerice.comThe figures are very impressive.

A click-to-donate site is a website where users can click a button to generate a donation for a charity or cause. The money for the donation comes from advertisers whose banners are displayed each time a user clicks the button. While not directly contributing (though many sites offer additional ways of support), visitors are making a difference in the sense that, had they not visited, no donation would have been given.Here are some of the most valuable click to donate sites I found on the web.

also visit these links:

about aids deaths
about tuberculosis
for saving forests
youth groups
ecology fund

bihar floods

unicef site

My sincere request is to click these sites daily whenever possible.Though what we can do is like adding a drop in a ocean but everything counts.I have added some of the sites to the right hand side of the blog click them daily whenever possible.I have added to my blog so that you need not type them daily and can do everything from here.

Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.

To build these applications and services, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, and XML. Windows Azure is an open platform that will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments.

Here are a list of services with the azure platform:

Live Services
Live Services is a set of building blocks within the Azure Services Platform for handling user data and application resources. Live Services provides developers with an easy on-ramp to build rich social applications and experiences, across a range of digital devices that can connect with one of the largest audiences on the Web.
Learn more about Live Services

Microsoft SQL ServicesMicrosoft SQL Services extends the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server into the cloud as a Web-based, distributed relational database. It provides Web services that enable relational queries, search, and data synchronization with mobile users, remote offices and business partners. It can store and retrieve structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
Learn more about SQL Services

Microsoft .NET ServicesMicrosoft .NET Services make developing loosely coupled cloud-based applications easier. .NET Services includes access control to help secure your applications, a service bus for communicating across applications and services, and hosted workflow execution. These hosted services allow you to easily create federated applications that span from on-premises environments to the cloud.
Learn more about .NET Services

Microsoft SharePoint Services Dynamics CRM Services In the future, developers will have access to SharePoint & CRM functionality for collaboration and building stronger customer relationships. With the flexibility to use familiar developer tools like Visual Studio, developers will be able to rapidly build applications that utilize SharePoint and CRM capabilities as developer services for their own applications. Developers can expect a breadth of SharePoint & CRM capabilities across the spectrum of on-premises, online & the Azure Services Platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx

who is the leading producer of cameras????.
a)canon
b)nikon
c)kodak
d)sony
e)none of these

guess the answer the answer is nokia. :P this shows how far the camera phones have from the normal phones.cell phones are becoming multi-functional more than the way you expect.You can attatch a small lens to your iphone and convert it into a telescope.you can wear it as a watch.Recently samsung released the world's first 10 megapixel mobile SCH-B600 phone in Korean market.Samsung has been the first to introduce mobile phone with embedded camera in 2000. Samsung has also launched the world's first 5 megapixel camera phone in October 2004 ; the world's first 7 megapixel camera phone in July 2005.

normal camera compared with the samsung phone.

Samsung's SCH-B600 is 6mm thinner and 10g lighter than the 7 megapixel camera phone (SCH-V770) and sets itself apart from its previous megapixel camera phones by combining mobile TV capability in Satellite standard.
Samsung B600 Feautres:

10 megapixel the camera (self-focusing and flash)

Wool one t.v (satellite DMB)

Music & Image player

Screen: 16000000 colors TFT LCD 2.2", 240x320 pixel resolution

Voice recognition function

Outside market memory: MMCmicro

File Browser function

Visiting card recognition function

samsung sch b500 is a parent of 600 version with the 7.7 mega pixel sensor the phone looks like this.The phone is more of a camera than a phone.

click here to see comparison between 500 and 600 versions.

Currently in the market there are a lot of mobile phones availble with 8mp camera.

cameraphones advantages:

camera+phone
more battery life
less space
costs less
more support

Sony Ericsson C905 with 8mp cam

Sales of camera phones crossed 40 million units per year world wide while the sales of the normal cameras are decreasing.For the first time after 74 years kodak company has been de-listed in the index in 2004.Hope the conventional camera manufacturing companies like kodak,nikon etc might shift to camera phones in the future.Here are some of the 8 mega pixel phones available in the market.

Here's phones from sony erricson

Sony Ericsson C905, the codename Shiho, could be the best camera phone with its 8.1 megapixel camera module.It has also lot of features like by the auto focus, a face recognition, image stabilization, red-eye reduction and Xenon flash module. The Xenon flash module can also be used to help the video recording in low light condition. The camera phone is also a new feature called smart contrast

usernamecheck.com:This site provides you to check whether your desired username is availble on the list of webistes provided on this websites.Proves handy if you want to test your unique username.Very efficient compared to normal checking.

ROBOFORM:roboform is a powerful software for doing online tasks like creating accounts,logging into Web sites and filling forms faster, easier, and more secure. RoboForm memorizes and securely stores each user name and password the first time you log into a site, then automatically supplies them when you return. RoboForm's powerful Logins feature eliminates the manual steps of logging into any online account. With just one click RoboForm will navigate to a Web site, enter your username and password and click the submit button for you.jsut keep a master password and manage all your accounts.A must software for users who browse more than average.

Bugmenot.com: Felt tired of user registrations????. Lot of times while browsing you might want to use free/registered accounts of popular websites.Though it is free to registration you might feel it boring to do registration.Bugmenot provides accounts usernames and passwords for disposal use.This site comes handy for internet surfers and for secure browsing if you don't want to give your personal details etc.

Mintemail:
Instant disposable email for any ‘fishy’ registration form or sign-up. Go to website and a random email address will be automatically generated and copied to your clipboard. You can either bookmark the location of created inbox and use it on a regular basis or always use a new one.

First Note:
DC++ is a advertisement free, P2P file sharing client.
BCDC++, fulDC, StrongDC, ApexDC, LinuxDC++ are some of the popular mods.
I am using fulDC as a standard for this tutorial.

The Hub Admin can set a minimum amount of share you must have to connect to the hub. If you find the restrictions insane, you have other options.

Trick 1 : Network Share
It allows direct network shares as in \\173.23.24.112\movies etc. More interestingly, if you dont want to depend on others, you can have your own network shares hashed like \\mypc\movies. If that is not sufficient, you can also share a subfolder like \\mypc\movies\korean and hash it differently ( The client assumes both of them to be different ). So, you have now effectively shared korean folder thrice. This funda can go upto (sub)^n folders.

Trick 2: Fake Files
Some softwares allow you to create files which show huge file size though they consume only a few kbs on your hard-disk. This one is my favourite - Huge Small File. It allows you to create upto 4GB file which consumes about 5kb of your disk.
But creating a insane number of shares will drag the attention of your peers/admins. Name those files which nobody ever want to check out( Use your creativity depending on your hub peers). FYI, Whenever somebody else downloads that file, he will download the file of 4 GB (or whatever) size. So, its quite safe.

Trick 3: Fake Shares
For this, you need to know how does DC work. Your share information are stored in three files, files.xml.bz2, shares.xml.bz2 and HashIndex.xml. Just look at the organisation of these files, Everything is self-Explanatory.
Use bzip2 for decompression into .xml and compression back to .xml.bz2. Remember to set your preferences not to refresh file list.
Just an example:
Lets increase the size of a file. First locate the already hashed file in HashIndex.xml under , then copy the Root of the file in the same line and search for it under , change the size of the file in the same line. Now decompress files.xml.bz2 and share.xml.bz2 into .xml formats and search for the same file again and change the file size. Now compress both of them back into .bz2 and replace the original files.
Similarly, you can add more files which are actually not there, or copy and paste few lines (can be yours or your friends) under a dummy directory.

source-zone 404

India's first ever people's choice awards. Hottest Startups will identify, showcase and support the highest-potential young companies in India.The TATA NEN Hottest Startup Awards are a result of the combined efforts of TATA, a rapidly growing business group in India with significant international operations, and the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), a non-profit organization, and India's leader in entrepreneurship education.There are a lot of startups in various fields ranging from finance to IT and from different areas nominated.The current topper in the nominees is the loot by jay Gupta

click here to find the current top 20 startups

Criteria for startups to be eligible

The startup must be:

A registered business (not an idea or plan)
Headquartered in India
5 years or younger (founded in 2003 or after)
Independent business - not subdivision

People are invited nominate hot startups. Each nomination will be reviewed and rated by two expert judges. The number of public votes and experts' ratings together determines the 30 shortlisted startups. The 30 shortlisted startups then campaign for votes in the final round. Ultimately, the five companies from the shortlist with the most final-round votes become the 5 TATA NEN Hottest Startups 2008 Winners.

click here to visit home page

Have you ever dreamed of having your own forum just like your blog without any cost.In this post I will be comparing a lot of OpenSource php fourms and different free hosts.In todays internet world which is more tilted towarsds social networking forums are gaining more popularity.
An Internet forum, or message board, is a bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site.he members submit topics for discussion (known as threads ) and communicate with each other using publicly visible messages (referred to as posts ) or private messaging .Take a look at the sample forum if you are new to the concept
www.android.dailyforum.net

You find a lot of forums written in php(pre hypertext processor) language,but there are some asp.net alternatives also available.The most famous and widely used among the php forum's are phpbb and vbulletin board.

PHPBB3:

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB™ will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

The current stable release of phbb is 3.02 version which is availble for download in their homepage.

The administrator panel looks like this

PUNBB:

PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP -powered discussion board . It is released under the GNU General Public License . Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards. PunBB has fewer features than similar software, but is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML and CSS compliant pages.
Currently, PunBB runs on a number of operating systems that are able to support the PHP scripting language. To store its data, PunBB relies on either MySQL , PostgreSQL or SQLite .

click here to visit punbb homepage

list of available alternatives written in php and their comparison of features
list of availble alternatives written in ASP and their comparison

There are a lot of free education resources available on the internet ranging from languages to life development.Here is a comprehensive list of sites that you must take look.OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials, often including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams. Open educational resources are based on the notion that knowledge and education are common goods that must be supported by a defined community.

MIT-open courseware: Massachussets university of technology offers free courses in various fields.Some of the lectures are available in audio and video format through their youtube channel.There are total 1800 courses.More than a million use the tutorials virtually from every country.

Stanford University: Stanford univesity offers a wide range of related audio and video courses via apple's itunes store.You need to have apple i tunes to access them.Courses Offered - Human-Computer Interaction, The Future Of The Internet, Straight Talk About Stem Cells, Anatomy of Movement, Global Geopolitics, Convex Optimization, Introduction to Robotics etc.

University of california: The University of California, Irvine has a long history of social engagement. As a leading public research University, an important part of its mission is to showcase and disseminate the research and scholarship of the University to the public.There is a e-marketing course available here.

Delft Univesity of Technology:The Delft University of Technology offers a number of free technology courses. Most of Delft's courses cover advanced topics that would be of interest to students in engineering or related fields. New courses are constantly being added to the site

University of California,Berkeley:It also provides valuable courses thorugh itunes just like the stanford university.Self-learners can gain access to a wide range of technology courses, lectures and events. Additional courses can be found though webcast.berkeley.edu.
Tufts University: A great university constantly expands its reach, working across traditional boundaries to grasp and meet the global community's most critical needsThrough OpenCourseWare.
Tufts aims to share its expertise broadly and to
empower others throughout the world,
so they may reach their full potential."
President Lawrence Bacow
Utah state university: A famous statement by the president of the university" In the tradition of land grant universities, Utah State University OpenCourseWare assures that no individual who is prepared and who desires the opportunity to advance his or her education is turned away. USU OCW provides an unprecedented degree of free and open access to the knowledge and expertise of our faculty for the benefit of every citizen of the state of Utah and every person in the world. As we enter the 21st century, services like OpenCourseWare will enable land grant institutions to more fully accomplish their missions.USU offers its students a number of opportunities to obtain college credit for what they have learned in nontraditional ways - like using USU OpenCourseWare! If you are interested in earning credit for USU courses without taking the courses, you have a variety of "credit by examination" options available. These include:

What is open courseware?

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

Goals of the consortium:

Extend the reach and impact of opencourseware by encouraging the adoption and adaptation of open educational materials around the world.
Foster the development of additional opencourseware projects.
Ensure the long-term sustainability of opencourseware projects by identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce costs.

Here is a comprehensive list of all 200 universities available
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=32
There are other consortium's like chinese CORE—China Open Resource for Education and japanese open courseware consortium as a part of ocw.One thing I feel very bad is that no Indian university is involved in the project, though I don't know why but I feel it will be helpful for Indian students if some of the top universities like IIT's and BITS joins.

At the centre of Helsinki(Finland) a large multi touch display is installed to guide the visitors and tourists on october 08 .City wall is a multi touch display that supports large number of people interacting by touch and display simultaneously

"The display is well suited for interactive communication in public spaces. Anyone can send photos, comments and watch videos on the display and interact with each other, as well as with other content on the display by using SMS and Flickr”, tells Ann Morrison, Researcher and Project Leader, HIIT.
CityWall presents images, videos, descriptions and discussions on how nature in Helsinki benefits and disturbs dwellers. A single tree, for instance, can be both a useful physical shelter, an appreciated element in the urban landscape, a source for an irritating pollinosis and a danger for traffic. Many of the changes in the benefits and nuisances of nature are, at least partly, dependent on human activities. The settling of rabbits as permanent residents to Helsinki, for instance, follows partly from global warming that allows released pet rabbits to survive winters in urban green areas.

city wall is made using modules of lcd's of size 46 or 32" inch variants.They can be used as builiding blocks for the larger lcd's just like constructing a wall with bricks.Connect each module's HDMI, FireWire and USB cables into a Mac, Linux or Windows computer, turn on the power and go. Handy status lights even indicate when a cable is connected properly. No setup, no moving parts, no maintenance. Just ready to roll displays that can be powered from even a laptop.

You can even send comments to display on city wall by sending sms to +358505112572.City wall continously downlads images and videos from flickr that are tagged with helsinki.

check these sites for more info:
http://citywall.org/
http://multitouch.fi/#features

MULTIPLE LOGINS AT A TIME THERE ARE TWO METHODS FOR THIS 1)create a shortcut to C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex and save it on the desktop. If the installlation directory is in other path for example in D: make changes in the path.
2)right click on the gtalk shortcut and add /nomutex to the path
the path should look like this.
“C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

TWEAKING TIPS
some secret startup parameters to add to path.Add the parameter just like /nomutex added in top example.

/nomutex: allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk
/autostart: when Google Talk is run with this parameter, it will check the registry settings to see if it needs to be started or not. If the "Start automatically with Windows" option is unchecked, it won't start.
/forcestart: same as /autostart, but forces it to start no matter what option was set.
/S upgrade: Used when upgrading Google Talk
/register: registers Google Talk in the registry, includig the GMail Compose method.
/checkupdate: check for newer versions
/plaintextauth: uses plain authentication mechanism instead then Google's GAIA mechanism. Used for testing the plain method on Google's servers.
/nogaiaauth: disables GAIA authentication method. The same as above.
/factoryreset: set settings back to default.
/gaiaserver servername.com: uses a different GAIA server to connect to Google Talk. Used for debug purposes only, there are no other known GAIA servers.
/mailto email@host.com: send an email with Gmail
/diag: start Google Talk in diagnostic mode
/log: probably has something to do with the diagnostic logging
/unregister: ?
/embedding: ?

Useful shortcuts

Ctrl + E - It centralizes the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + R - It justifies to the right the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + L - It justifies to the left the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + I - The same thing does that Tab.
Tab - It is giving the area to each of the windows opened by Google Talk.
Ctrl + Tab - The same thing does that Shift + Tab .
Shift + Tab - The same thing does that Tab but in reverse.
Ctrl + Shift + L -Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbers
Ctrl + 1 (KeyPad) - It does a simple space between the lines.
Ctrl + 2 (KeyPad) - It does a double space between the lines.
Ctrl + 5 (KeyPad) - A space does 1.5 between the lines.
Ctrl + 1 (NumPad) - It goes at the end of the last line.
Ctrl + 7 (NumPad) - It goes at the begin of the last line.
Ctrl + F4 - It closes the current window.
Alt + F4 - It closes the current window.
Alt + Esc - It Minimize all the windows.
Windows + ESC - Open Google Talk (if it's minimized, or in the tray)
F9 - Open gmail to send an email to the current contact.
F11 - It initiates a telephonic call with your friend.
F12 - It cancels a telephonic call.
Esc - It closes the current window.

useful links : http://www.customizetalk.com/index.php?page=resource
there are a lot of themes available on the internet search for them.

GEODE (with caption Always know where you are) will be introduced by mozilla for next beta releases of firefox 3.1

You’ve arrived in a new city, a new continent, a new coffee shop. You don’t really know where you are, and are looking for a good place to eat. You pull out your laptop, fire up Firefox, and go to your favorite review site. It automatically deduces your location, and serves up some delicious suggestions a couple blocks away and plots directions there.

In order for this to be a possibility, your browser needs to know where you are.

To do this, future versions of Firefox plan on supporting the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location. We’re still working out the specifics, but we’re hoping that location will be provided by one or more user selectable service providers and methods, e.g. GPS-based, WiFi-based, manual entry, etc. You’ll be able to play with this in the upcoming beta releases of Firefox 3.1, as well as alpha releases of Fennec.

when a web site requests your location a notification bar will ask how much information you want to give that site: your exact location, your neighborhood, your city, or nothing at all.Unlike normal GPS-based methods which can take upwards of 45 seconds for a lock, Geode works both inside and outside with an accuracy of between 10 to 20 meters, normally within a second.

for more visit this link http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/introducing-geode/

121 India http://www.121india.com/
123India http://www.123india.com/
123 Khoj http://www.123khoj.com/
a2zIndiahttp://www.indiaconnect.com/a2zindia.htm
AllofIndia http://www.AllofIndia.net
AltaVista India http://in.altavista.com/
Appuonline http://www.appuonline.com/
Beena http://find.beena.com/
Best Indian Sites http://www.bestindiansites.com/
Bharath-darshan http://www.bharath-darshan.com/
BusinessOnlineIndia http://www.businessonlineindia.com/
burrp(local search) http://burrp.com/
By India http://www.byindia.com/
Cyberindian http://www.cyberindian.com/
Delhicity http://www.thedelhicity.com/
Delhigate http://www.delhigate.com/main.htm
DelhiMarket http://www.delhimarket.com/
Destination India http://www.filteredinfo.com/
Dialindia http://www.dialindia.com/
Directory Kerala http://www.directorykerala.com/
DMOZ http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/
DWAAR http://dwaar.com/
Entire India http://www.entireindia.com/yellowpg/
Evayaa http://www.evayaa.com/India.aspx
Exporters India http://www.exportersindia.com/
Exporters India.net http://www.exportersindia.net/
Ezilon http://in.ezilon.com/
Findouter India http://www.findouter.com/India/
Go4i http://www.go4i.com/go4ihomepage.htm
Goodhit India http://www.goodhit.com/
Guruji http://www.guruji.com/
Hindustan network http://www.hindustan.net/
iloveindia http://www.iloveindia.com/
IndiaA2Z http://indiaa2z.com/
Indiaatlas http://www.indiaatlas.com/
India Book http://www.indiabook.com/
India Bridge http://www.theindiabridge.com/
India Catalog http://www.indiacatalog.com/
India com http://www.indiacom.com/
IndiaConnect http://www.indiaconnect.com/
India Crawler http://www.indiacrawler.co.in/
India Directory http://www.indiandir.com/
India Engine http://www.indiaengine.com/
India Info http://www.indiainfo.com/
India Internet Yellow Pages http://www.iiyp.com/
India Ltd http://www.indialtd.com/DEAD
India's First Web Guide http://www.indianindex.com/
Indias.com http://www.indias.com/
India Search http://www.objectssearch.com/india/
Indian Service http://www.indianservice.com/
India SitesInfo http://www.indiasitesinfo.com/main/default.asp
India Spider http://indiaspider.com/
India Times http://www.indiatimes.com/
Indian Trade Portal http://trade.indiamart.com/
Indian Visit http://www.indianvisit.com/
India Yellowpages http://www.indiacom.com/
India Yellowpages online http://www.indiayellowpagesonline.com/
INDONet http://www.indonet.net/
IndoSeek http://www.indoseek.com/
Jadoo http://www.jadoo.com/
Kempegowda http://www.kempegowda.com/
Khoj http://www.khoj.com/index.html
lemmefind http://www.lemmefind.in/
Locateindia http://www.locateindia.com/
Lookaddress http://www.lookaddress.com/
Maps of India Pincodes http://www.mapsofindia.com/pincode/index.jsp
Marve http://www.marve.com/
Mumbai Central http://www.mumbai-central.com/search.html
My-Gujarat http://www.my-gujarat.com/
My-India http://www.my-india.net/index.shtml
My-Kannada http://www.my-kannada.com/
My-Kerala http://www.my-kerala.com/index.shtml
My-Maharashtrahttp://www.my-maharashtra.com/
My-Tamil http://www.my-tamil.com/
My Telugu http://www.my-telugu.com/
My-Uttarpradeshhttp://www.my-uttarpradesh.com/
My-Westbengalhttp://www.my-westbengal.com/
Nagpurvisionhttp://www.nagpurvision.com/
New Delhi India Search http://www.delhi-india.net/
NewIndia http://www.newindia.com/seek/
Pakoda http://www.pakoda.com/
Punjabi Network http://www.punjabi.net/
Punjabilokhttp://www.punjabilok.com/
Rediff http://www.rediff.com/rediffin.htm
Rekhahttp://www.rekha.com/
Sagar http://www.sagar.com/
Search4i http://www.search4i.com/
Search India http://www.searchindia.com/
SeekIndia http://www.seekindia.com/
Sify http://www.sify.com/
Sites 4 India http://www.sites4india.com/
SouthAsiahttp://www.southasia.net/
SouthIndia http://www.southindia.com/
Surfindia http://surfindia.com/
Tamil Search engine http://www.tamilraja.com/
TOL MOL BOLhttp://tolmolbol.com/
WebIndia http://www.webindia.com/
Whosewhoindian http://www.whoswhoindian.com/
Yahoo! India http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/India/
Zatka http://www.zatka.com/

Finally a Indian operating system supporting number of indian languages released by C-DACon september 4th 08.Boss is a linux distribution for the desktop with some pregiven packages and support from the Boss team.Current version is BOSS 3.0 developed by NRCFOSS .

BOSS version 3.0 is coupled with GNOME and KDE Desktop Environment with wide Indian language support & packages that are relevant for use in the government domain. The software is also endowed with Bluetooth for short range of communications along with salient features like RSS Feed Reader and PDF Viewer to edit documents.

An alliance is signed between NIC(national informatics center) and C-DAC with the scope of implementing os in e-governance appliactions maintained by NIC.BOSS is exactly suitable for government user initially with simple tasks like office applications and internet and multilingual support.

The accessibility of BOSS Linux will have a constructive impact on the digital divide in India as more people can now have access to software in their local language to use the Internet and other information and communications technology (ICT) facilities. Community Information centres (CIC’s) and Internet cafes will also benefit from BOSS Linux as this software can be utilized to power these outlets and it is affordable and easy to install, use and support.

It is a Govt. of India's initiative towards equipping common people with the benefits of computer technology as a free & opensource operating system. Currently BOSS can process 9 Indian languages- Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu in various text editors such as gedit, Open-Office, Yudit, Thunderbird Mail client. To avail this Indian Produst to all Indians, CDAC organised support centres in variuos states and conducts several trainings/workshops.

primarily two versions are available

1)Desktop Features :

GIMP - High-End Image Editor
Localized in 18 indian languages
PDF Viewer – It allows to Edit the document
RSS Feed Reader – Used in websites to retrieve all the information in that website and displays in Human Readable format.
Firewall
Firefox 3.0 Web Browser Application
Instant Messenger
Bluetooth for short range communication
Desktop sharing and Remote Desktop Connection
CD and DVD Burning tool
Package Manager- To add any package that is not installed in the computer. To update and Delete an existing Package.
Provides Support for Printers, Digi / Web Cameras, Scanner

The second version includes
BOSS Linux Advanced Server Version 1.0
BOSS Server Features
- User Friendly GUI Front end
- Supports Intel and AMD x86/x86-64 Architectures
- Remotely Controlled Server
- Interoperability with Proprietary OS using Samba
- Interoperability with UNIX using Samba and NFS
- Supports Printers and USB Devices
- Package manageability using dpkg, apt-get, Synaptic package manager
Includes
- Kernel 2.6.22
- virtualization Xen Server
- Apache web server
- Squid Proxy Server
- Data Base Server My SQL & Postgre SQL
- Mail Server (Postfix)
- Network Server
- FTP server
- LDAP Server
- LTSP Support
- Administrator Tools
  
  The BOSS CD's are available at all the CDAC Centres in India. The following are the addresses to contact in related states. By contacting the below addresses of your near by CDAC Centre, the BOSS CD can be obtained by hand or by courier.
  http://bosslinux.in/get-boss-cd/ click here to find the list of centres
  
  some of the useful urls related to boss
  bosslinux.in/demo/screenshots/boss-look
  http://www.cdachyd.in/boss.shtml
  http://nrcfoss.org.in/

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A USB 3.0 CABLE

have you ever felt bored of waiting for file transfer from a USB device.?? Thought of uploading a movie in approximately 1 minute or loading your images/videos from mobile phone in minutes???Sounds great!!.
By the year 2009/10 USB3.0 is set to release with a mind blowing speed of 4.8 gb/s that's like filling a pendrive of 4 gb in less than a minute.

Going to the technical details the USB3.0 will be backward compatible and adds five new lines which are parallel to the old one's in different plane and as expected the wire will be thicker compared to the previous versions.Uploads and downloads are on the seperate wlines.One pair for tranmitting and other pair for recieving data..Hence it allows both read and write at the same time.USB 3.0 is going to charge more devices also since it can carry more power 900 milliamps compared to 100 milliamps in previous versions.This => charging 4 devices at a time from a single hub

The beneficiaries of the usb 3.0 will be external hard disks,flash readers,video cameras and ofcourse me:P.USB has been criticized for high cpu usage.Intel should keep this problem as USB 3.0 will be going to add to the problem with its super speed capabilities unless taken care of.

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Google india labs has introduced google sms channesls just now.A sms channel is like google groups where we have subscribers,and we recieve emails from the group.Just like this the email in the above concept is replaced by the SMS.The wonderful thing in the above concept is the sms's are sent freely for the subscribers.I the user registration is very simple u have to have a google account just like gmail or other thing.You have to give a username for the sms channel and enter your phone number.You will recieve a confrimation code from the google you have to enter the confirmation code to verify your phone number .After registration is over you can create very easily the google channels(groups) just like google groups or you can subscribe to already registered groups.

Currently it supports English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.Though there are a lot of alternatives for this like sms gupshup and others a product from google is worth takin a look(my opinion).

I have created two channels just check them if you are interested
1) to recieve updates about this blog
http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/subscribe/tech-blog

2) If you are a bitsian u should join this channel
http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/subscribe/Bits-pilani

for more information about this channels and help visit
http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/help#create_channel

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