Vote on November 2nd

Google's needs you to Vote on Tuesday(November 2), Election Day. An article just posted ('Click the vote') on their blog.

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"Hello World" in 150+ languages

As a software person you will know to write a simple "Hello World" program. I am Just wondering, how many languages do you to write this simple "Hello World" May be a 4 or 5????

Check this link which has more than 150 Hello World Programs

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Google Desktop - Search your own computer.

Google Desktop is released and it requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+. Great product for the windows users... Its incrediblely fast as google and i am enjoying it in my desktop.... Cool tool...

Search your own computer

Google Desktop Search is how our brains would work if we had photographic memories. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop Search puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails, and bookmarks.

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GMail in your Feed Reader!

If anyone hasn’t got the Atom feed, you can find it at https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom.

Interestingly, you can use HTTP auth. This means you can use the username@password construct in alot of feed readers. Add this to your feed reader:

http://gmailusername:password@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/

Though its not working for me in my feed reader...

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Opensource vtiger CRM with Outlook plugin

Hope you might remember my previous posting about this vtiger CRM. This Opensource "vtiger CRM" really rocks... These guys has added a new Outlook plugin  in their latest vtiger CRM 3.0 beta release with much more simpler ways to handle things like contacts... that too as opensource project in SourceForge...  and the forth coming features like Data Migration will be great to have in CRM packages... Goodjob vtiger guys...

vtiger CRM release 3.0 Beta is a web-based, free, open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software mainly for sales people working in small and medium businesses. Sales people can use vtiger CRM to manage leads, accounts, contacts, and opportunities effectively. Also, they can also track daily tasks, meetings, and e-mails smoothly.

First time vtiger Outlook Plug-in is released as open source project in SourceForge with features, such as synchronize contacts in Microsoft Outlook with vtiger CRM and vice-a-versa. Also, users can add all important customer e-mails in vtiger CRM.

The installation of vtiger CRM software is improved further allowing existing LAMP/WAMP users to install the vtiger CRM smoothly.

Key Features

• Microsoft Outlook Plug-in to synchronize contacts and add e-mails to vtiger CRM
• Powerful yet affordable On-Premise CRM software for business people
• Manage leads, accounts, contacts, and opportunities effectively
• Import leads from external sources, such as Microsoft Outlook, ACT, and other applications
• Convert leads as accounts, contacts, and opportunities
• Track tasks, meetings, and Emails continuously
• Import/Export accounts, contacts, and opportunities
• Attach documents to leads, accounts, contacts, and oppurtinities
• Powerful and sophisticated search capability
• Customize tab order using drag & drop
• Intuitive user interface with a list of interrelated records in each module
• And, an excellent customer service and support

What is Next

• Data Migration Utilities to import data from External Sources to vtiger CRM
• Industry specific pre-built Reports
• Sales Analytics and customizable dashboards
• Product Customization for various vertical markets
• More ....

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Google SMS

Google just launched SMS service. Google SMS.  This service enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Queries should be sent to 46645  (GOOGL)

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Blogger User Testing

Are you a regular blogger. Here is an opportunity for you to visit Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. Ya Blogger.com invites interested people for their User Experience Testing / Usability Testing of their blog service.

By watching our users use Blogger, we learn how to improve the product. The feedback we get from user testing participants directly informs the design of Blogger features. If you're interested...

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New Google on its way !!!

It seems that Google will be launching a new version i.e. a more upgraded and updated version of the Google Search Service soon. Few of the evidence about it are there are two different Googlebots going around these last few weeks.

One scans deepinside the whole website and the links, while the other just makes a note of the pages in a site's directory. Google is most likely fixing the problems webmasters have been talking about, and we should see a much better working Goooooogle Soooooon.

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Google Print

Google Print has been launced by google. Try this search 'mastering digital photography', you will fund a new icon pointing to webpages of the service. The result pages has, scanned images of the book with online shopping links.

These webpages have disabled the right click option as Google assures publishers, the content of the books is protected. Moreover if we access a book so many times, we can find a message like - You have either reached a page that is unavailable for viewing or reached your viewing limit for this book.... in order to protect publishers' copyrights,.

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Funny translation by Google

A funny way of translation by Google. try this.

step 1:

go to http://www.google.com.my/language_tools?hl=en

step 2:

enter the following line into the translate textbox:

Sushmita's mom is nice and cool

step 3:

translate from english to spanish.

step 4:

copy the translated text, and translate it back from

spanish to english.

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The World !

"The World"A friend of mine sent this link yesterday night with the same subject. The first look at the site didnt impress me much, Thought it would be some site related to our world... but when i started exploring... WOW!!!  What a dream place it would be... I cant even imagine....

Come on friends, Hurryup and book your piece in the new dimension of "The World"

"Welcome to The World, A collection of 300 private islands in the shape of continents located off the coast of Dubai."

Hey ya do check the video intro. It simply amazing.

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World's Longest Single Word Domain Name Blog

My previous post regarding the "Domain Name Selection Tips" made me to do a crazy thing...

As we all know a Domain names can be a maximum total of 67 characters, including the extension. Some of the longest Domain names in the world were

http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com
http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com
http://www.ireallythinkthatthiswebsitenamehastobethelongestwebsitenameever.com
http://www.q.com (Qwest)
http://www.x.com (PayPal)
http://www.z.com (Nissan)
and ya i too tried one. I created a blog with the longest domain name in the world (in blog category)

http://ablogwithlongestdomainnameintheworld.blogspot.com/

Even though its only 50 characters long, i think this would be the longest.

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Domain Name Selection Tips

I was thinking of buying a domain name for my site, but i am not clear of selecting a suitable domain name for my site.

So i just googled and found few interesting articles from the webhosting gaints. A few which i thought would worth a look...

Yahoo's article on Domain Name Selection Tips

Your domain name is your company's address on the Web and is how customers find your business online. When you pick your domain name, keep the following tips in mind

Begginer's Tip from netmechanic

Domain name options increased dramatically when the allowed length increased from 22 to 63 characters (not including the extensions). Although most one and two-word domain names got snapped up years ago...

and much much more, Just Google for Doamin Name Selection Tips and find out more interesting tips.

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Gmail Adds Atom Feeds

Few Gmail users had seen an atom link in their account through which they can see summary of each new message in their GMail.

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Spoofing vulnerability in IE 6

Secunia states that a new spoofing vulnerability has been found in Internet Explorer 6. A test page is available here.

 

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Cute funny site homestarrunner

Just came across this cute funny site homestarrunner through BBc's ClickOnline.

Do checkout their various kinds of homepages (try other page at bottom left corner), the "first time here" link and even the 404 file not found page and ya dont forget to put your headphones.....

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Google Labs Aptitude Test (GLAT) for easy print out.

Check this out....
Google Labs Aptitude Test (GLAT) for easy print out. The four pages are out here, here, here and here.

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Google News: Beta Not Make Money

Wired states that Google News: Beta Not making money.

When Google launched its news site three years ago, it led to a certain amount of hand-wringing at Yahoo News, MSNBC and CNN. Unlike its competitors, which were forced to budget millions of dollars a year to license up-to-the-minute content and pay reporters and editors, Google had figured out a way to do it on the cheap.

By relying on algorithms, Google News completely automated the news-gathering process. High-speed computers sift through some 7,000 sources of information -- 4,500 of them in English -- and determine which are the most relevant articles. They then grab the headline and first paragraph to post on Google's news page, with the headlines acting as external links.

But, Google has a problem that is nearly as complex as its algorithms. It can't make money from Google News. So while other online publishers like Yahoo News and MSNBC earn tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year and continue to grow, Google News remains in beta mode -- three years after it launched

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Digital Camera's first photo.

Ok, Here’s a fun thing to play around with, well not literally the first digital pictures, but images taken from brand new digital cameras. This is a fun Google Hack, that you can do in a variety of ways. Basically a lot of people take their photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them.

So by clicking this link you can see the first photo taken by someone with their new camera or newly formatted card for some cameras, this is what it looks like when thousands of Sony cameras lose their photo-virginity.

For example IMG_0001.JPG is the equivalent for Canon cameras and here’s CASIO, Pentax, Kodak, Konica, Fuji and Nikon.

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