GDrive, Google’s answer to Mozy and Live SkyDrive / Mesh, may be very close to launch.

First, a new sub-domain has been been added to google.com at http://gdrive.svc-1.google.com/ though it continues to point at the main homepage of Google. ...

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There’s little doubt that FeedDemon is the best desktop based news reader for Windows while Google Reader enjoys the largest share of the pie among online feed readers.

The only issue, as noted in this comparison of FeedDemon with Google...

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If you fall in the category of people who like to postpone tasks as much as possible, give Urge Me a try.

Urge me is another free email based reminder service on the web but with a small twist. You pick a date when the task is due and Urge Me will...

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There are two reasons why foot pedal based sewing machines are still so popular in India - first, they are relatively cheap and second, these machine are manual and can therefore work even without electricity current.

Easy Energy has applied the...

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Pseudo Russian (or fake Cyrillic) typography is the use of Cyrillic letters to evoke the Russian feel while conveying the main message in English.

For example, in the 2006 film "Borat", the title of the film on movie posters was written in...

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Obsessing about fluctuations in Google PageRank may be a complete waste of time but still, the PageRank values of individual web pages on a site can give you some good idea about the relative importance of these pages in the eyes of Google.

For...

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If you like to create a wallpaper similar to the one used on labnol feed, check out Twitter Mosaic.

It’s a simple service that takes your Twitter user name and creates a mosaic like image using profile pictures of all your Twitter followers....

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There is a storm brewing in the Indian blog world today.

Chyetanya Kunte, an Indian blogger based in Netherlands, was unhappy with the way a mainstream media journalist reported news about the Mumbai terror attacks and decided to blog his thoughts...

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Tips to a Successful Management Career - Chapter 1

Management is an extremely competitive profession; where one is pitted against the best of the best. He has to beat the performance benchmarks amongst his peer group, in order to forge his way ahead...

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This may slightly concern privacy advocates who continue to worry about Google storing too much data about their users.

Google today updated their privacy policy document and it now says that, in addition to retaining server logs, Google may also...

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India’s first ever WordCamp will happen on February 21-22, 2009 somewhere in New Delhi NCR.

If you are love WordPress and based in India, this is an opportunity you should not miss because, other than improving your WordPress skill-set,...

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Do you know that it is possible to bookmark individual email messages of Gmail just like you would bookmark any regular web page.

To experiment, open any Gmail thread in your browser and notice the address bar as it gets updated with a unique URL....

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There’s little doubt that FeedDemon is the best desktop based news reader for Windows while Google Reader enjoys the largest share of the pie among online feed readers.

The only issue, as noted in this comparison of FeedDemon with Google...

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If you like to order a cake at Wegman’s bakery, you can simply email them a personalized message that will be printed on the cake.

A lady in NY followed the same procedure and ordered a birthday cake over email but here’s what they...

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Shepard Fairey, creator of this iconic Obama hope poster, could have been in a spot over a simple case of copyright infringment.

That’s because Fairey searched for Obama pictures on Google Images and used one of the images from the search...

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Twitter, on account of the 140 character limit, encourages extensive use of shorthand typing. Most of these acronyms might be familiar to regular Internet users but some are very specific to Twitter.

Here is a list of top Twitter acronyms that...

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I normally use the Google search box as the default currency converter but in situations where you don’t know the exact currency code or the official currency of some country, the all new currency converter from Yahoo! will come very handy.

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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is popular how-to book on Wikipedia that has all the information you need to get started with editing pages on Wikipedia.

"Wikipedia: The Missing Manual gives you practical advice on creating articles and...

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Every year, hundreds of words are dropped from the dictionary to make room for new words. Lexicographers spend hours researching word usage and may drop words that have been completely neglected by the society.

To reverse this trend, Oxford...

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It was a busy weekend here as we had a blog conference for aspiring bloggers as well as expert bloggers or people who already have blogs but want to take it to the next level both in terms of traffic and monetization.

Organizing a blog event...

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The mailto protocol lets you create hyperlinks that will directly launch the default email software and compose a new email message. Mailto commands in Firefox even work with web mail programs like Gmail.

You probably know how to use the mailto...

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Screen Forensics is an interesting Mac only utility that captures all open desktop windows in one go and creates a single layered image file that is compatible with Photoshop or any other PSD editor.

The captured file will have one layer per...

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I am conducting a blog conference in Agra to share tips and techniques that may help you become a more successful blogger. The event should interest both new and experienced bloggers.

To attend the conference, please register your name at India Blog...

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The latest security threat to your Windows operating system is a computer worm called Conficker that has already infected over 9 million PCs worldwide with maximum victims in China, Brazil, Russia, and India.

Conficker first disables system services...

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If you like download a free copy of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" for listening on your iPod or any other MP3 player, go to audible.com and click the download button. To avail this offer, make sure that you select...

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Google today released a new browser based console where you can write and simultaneously test applications that use any of the Google AJAX APIs including maps, search mashups, blogs feeds and more.

The programming console, known as AJAX APIs...

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Slumdog Millionaire, a "feel good" movie that won four awards at the Golden Globes, will release in India this Friday and here’s an opportunity for you to watch the movie in a cinema hall for free provided you are in Mumbai.

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If you are looking to expand your blog reading list but don’t have time to hunt the web for identifying other great blogs that you are not subscribed to, try Suggest RSS.

Suggest RSS is an online service that reads your existing RSS...

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While most people believe that Scott Fahlman was the first person to suggest the use of :-) symbol for representing a smiley face, Times has stumbled upon an old speech of Abraham Lincoln that contains a sequence of characters which look very similar to...

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I am conducting a blog training program in Agra next week to share blogging tips and techniques that may help you become a more successful blogger.

If you are based in Agra or know someone here who may be interested in joining this blog program,...

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Zoho has just released an excellent wizard like tool to help you quickly import all your notes and web clippings from Google Notebook into Zoho Notebook.

Here are the steps involved for moving all your data from Google to Zoho Notebook:

1....

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Even if you are not buying movies or songs from the iTunes store, it’s still a perfect place to learn about new audio books and free podcast shows that have just been released onto the web. Other than that, iPod Touch and iPhone customers use the...

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Competing web clipping services like EverNote, Zoho Notebook, UberNote and Diigo are working extra hard to win over Google Notebook users who may be searching for new homes for their data as Google is discontinuing Notebook.

Let’s see what...

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To all you Garfield fans. This online app will help you design your own Garfield comic strips through simple drag and drop.

You’ll find all the main Garfield characters - Garfield, Jon, Odie, Nermal and Arlene - in various poses, with...

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If you are worried that some malicious cracker or your employer could be violating your privacy and reading private emails, Whisper Bot could be of some help. With Whisper Bot, the sender can write a note (in rich text) online and the recipient can...

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A survey was recently conducted across major cities in India to determine parameters that Indian consumers take into consideration when buying a mobile phone. Here’s a summary:

** Important considerations in buying a mobile phone

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Should I write the headline of this text in Arial, Times New Roman or use some uncommon font style like Adobe Garamond or Adobe Caslon?

Picking the right font for your design work is not always easy especially when there are hundreds of different...

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Google Maps URLs are pretty unwieldy especially when sending over an IM, tweet or email. MapOf.it provides you a quick way to link to Google Maps by simply specifying the address of the location as a search parameter.

http://mapof.it/

So, for...

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Moore’s Law is a famous statement by Intel founder Gordon Moore predicting that the number of transistors on a CPU would double every 18 months. This law, that first appeared in 1965, has held true for almost half a century, and now is a model for...

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If you insist on hearing your painstakingly written lyrics being murmured by the world’s greatest stars like Michael Jackson, Michael Bolton, Christina Aguilera and others, here’s something you’ll enjoy.

“Let them sing it for...

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