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iPhone Launches In India

After a long awaiting the iPhone has arrived in India. Apple Inc.’s hugely popular 3G iPhone made its debut in India on Friday, but with a price tag of $700 pheww.That’s almost 3 times the US Price.A midnight launch in the Indian capital drew a small but enthusiastic crowd to Vodafone Essar, one of the two retail distributors in India, at the city’s Connaught Place commercial district.

India is the world’s fastest-growing wireless market and with nearly 300 million subscribers is the second-largest market for such services after China.Operators have been adding more than 8 million customers a month, but most of them are low-paying users, who use their phone just for calling and not for data and multimedia services.

“Indians tend to buy the most fancy cell phones, and the iPhone has a massive fan following everywhere,” said Pinaki Mishra, head of retail & consumer practice at Ernst & Young.

“It is seen as a status symbol, an aspirational product, so you can expect to see not just the rich, but also tech-savvy youngsters and people in small towns buying it.”

Sanjay Kapoor, Airtel‘s president for mobile services, said the company received more than 200,000 pre-bookings for the new iPhone before prices were announced.

“iPhone has been an iconic technological revelation of this year and Airtel has been at the forefront of innovation and customer delight in the Indian telecom sector,” Sanjay Kapoor, President, Bharti Airtel mobile services, said.

iPhone is embedded with all 3G features and is twice as fast as the existing mobile phones. The phone also has in-built GPS system, that facilitates as a navigation and positioning tool.

Airtel subscribers who would like to book their iphone, can click here
Vodafone subscribers who would like to book their iphone, can click here
For complete details on iPhone’s, please click here

So finally, we can look forward to see that iPhone in most of the youngsters in India juts like this person who purchased that iPhone immediately without thinking or looking at it’s feature.

What do you about this much craze of iPhone?

Yahoo Buzz Launches

Yahoo! Buzz Launched on February 26, 2008 which could be only visited by some people is now open to all in beta stage.It’s a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person’s site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person’s website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories.

The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories are linked from the Yahoo home page, which turns a firehose of traffic onto a story. When those stories hit the home page there’s a good chance that the linked site will have a record day in traffic. Yahoo says they’ve sent 16 million visitors to outside sites in those first two weeks, and they’ve gathered data from some of the linked partners.

The buzz can be about anything – a great story on a major news site, an extraordinary bit from an obscure site, an intriguing video, or a fantastic blog that shouldn’t be missed.
Instead of editors, people like you determine the top-rated stories.

How it works.

First, we determine the most popular topics that people are searching for on Yahoo!.
Then, we showcase the most popular stories within those topics, based on activities like voting and emailing stories to friends.
Stories with most Buzz may be published on the Yahoo! home page – you can impact what millions will see on Yahoo!.

Yahoo isn’t the first large company to try out the Digg model. In mid 2006 AOL relaunched the Netscape portal as a Digg-like site. AOL eventually moved the service to a different domain name and renamed it Propeller. The service has about 3.8 million monthly unique visitors (Comscore), compared to about 12.5 million for Digg.

Buzz Has the Following Categories:

Entertainment
Sci/Tech
Politics
Business
Health
Images
Lifestyle
Sports
Travel
U.S News
Video
World

They Also Have A Widget which we can put on our blog or website like this:

Buzz was created as a direct competitor to Digg. Yahoo! created the service in hopes that it would drive larger traffic to their site and would give them an advantage over larger online media companies such as Google or MSN, which are Yahoo!’s largest competitors in terms of search engines that provide services and web features to its customers.

So What do you think about it?

New Blogger Updates Of August 14

Today Blogger Announced Some New n Interesting Updates.These Are Some updates provided from blogger buzz.

There’s a new look for the Blogger Dashboard, which we think you’ll find more attractive and functional. If you have a ton of blogs (as we do) try out the “hide” and “show all” links to help manage the list.

Google Gadgets in your Layouts blog can now set their height automatically (if the gadget author supports it). Read more about adding Google Gadgets to your blog.

AdSense page elements can now optionally have image ads. We’ve found image ads have a higher click-through rate, so you might get more money if you turn them on.

We wrote up a Features page to help you keep track of everything you can do with Blogger. Take a look and see if you’ve been missing out on something cool.

The Flag Blog button in the Blogger navbar now pops up a window for you to tell us why you think the blog violates our terms of service. Flag Blog is always handled exclusively by human reviewers, not the automated spam locking system, so this information will better help them decide what, if any, action should be taken.

And also fixed some bugs, including:

Fixed Moto template header overlap in IE7.

Blocked the /feedReaderJson URL from web crawlers, to reduce 404s in Webmaster Tools.

Increased cacheability of CSS and JavaScript throughout Blogger, for faster page loads.

Button style and layout improvements throughout Blogger.

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New feature: Reactions

With the new Reactions feature, you can get one-click feedback from your readers. Think of it as a mini-poll for each blog post, or a flexible version of star ratings because you customize what options are available. We hope this will help your blogs get feedback from people who read your posts but don’t have enough to say to for a full comment.

To enable Reactions, log in to http://draft.blogger.com/ and go to your Layouts page. From there, click the “Edit” link for the Blog Posts gadget and then check the “Reactions” checkbox. You can edit the Reactions buttons by clicking “Edit” or clicking the buttons themselves, as shown.

You can customize the location of the Reactions within the post by dragging the preview around in the “Arrange Items” box. We’ve found that it looks best when it’s on its own line, but your mileage may vary.

You can customize the options and their label to match the theme and style of your blog.

Additional Notes

This is a Layouts-only feature. If you’re using a Classic template you’ll need to upgrade to Layouts to add Reactions.
The buttons should blend seamlessly with most blog backgrounds. Button backgrounds are a mostly transparent grey which should, we hope, coordinate with everything. The text and button highlight colors for the ratings are taken from the following skin variables:
- Foreground: textcolor, textColor, mainTextColor
- Highlight: linkcolor, linkColor, mainLinkColor
If you have customized your blog widget’s template you may not see the reactions. You will need to either reset your blog widget’s template or copy the Reactions code from a fresh template. Search for “reactions-buttons” to find the appropriate block of code.
A known issue: if you choose short words/phrases, it’s possible to enter enough options that the line of buttons will wrap (and not look very good). If this happens to you, you’ll need to shorten your options or reduce their number.

To Use this on a Customised Blogger Template A New Hack Have Been Posted Now.

Cuil Worlds Biggest Search Engine – What?!

The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.

Then they offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. We believe that analyzing the Web rather than our users is a more useful approach, so we don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest we are tempted to peek. With Cuil, your search history is always private.

Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.

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Thats what going on everyday CUIL to take over Google,CUIL Ready for Google,CUIL the #1 Search Engine.. I was like WHAT?!
I have never heard the name and its #1?!

Its not true yet, But will be very soon.
Taking over Google as a Search Engine is No Joke!

Its a huge search engine made by Ex Google workers maybe just for competition or maybe its just Google behind all this

As far as the layout is concerned, Its AMAZING! Dark and a little of Blue! I loved it personally.
So my review for this site is excellent! – Hope it competes with Google in the future !

What Do You Think??

Fifty Best Firefox 3 Extensions

Here is an attempt to collect the 50 popular and best firefox extensions which make your browsing, downloading and navigation in Firefox as easy as possible, while harnessing the full power and features of Firefox.

These extensions should work on the latest versions of the Firefox. Use the extensions which work best for your needs. The fastest way to install these extensions from developer sites is to drag them to the url bar.

When you upgrade to a new Firefox version, some extensions might not work till the AddOn owners upgrade them, use the Nightly testers tools to remove compatibility issues.

Control Firefox Tabs

All-in-One Gestures – merges the popular following extensions for management of mouse gestures, scrolling and power navigation. (Mix of Mouse Gestures, Rocker navigation, Tab scroller, History scroller, Link tooltip and Autoscrolling extensions)
Tabbrowser Preferences – a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox. It also provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it.
Tab Mix Plus – More tweaks added to tabs. Ability to select and open muliple links in tabs, open link in a duplicated tab, merge tabs and close tabs from similar domain…
Colorful Tabs – Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appeal of the interface.
Viamatic foXpose – Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click.
Firefox Showcase – easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox.
Separe – Helps you keeping tabs tidy by introducing a new kind of tab.
Permatabs – turn tabs of your choice into permanent tabs that can’t be closed, and stick around between sessions.
FaviconizeTab – resizes the width of the tab to display the favicon only (and back again).
Undo Closed Tabs – allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar and/or tab bar button or the right-click context menu.

Control Website Links

Linky – Lets you open or download all or selected links, image links and even web addresses found in the text in separate or different tabs or windows.
Linkification – Allows Firefox to view plain-text URLs and e-mail addresses as actual links
IE Tab – can open the current page or a selected link embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. Very useful for those IE only pages.
FirefoxView – Open Firefox with the current page or a selected link displayed in Internet Explorer. Adds “View in Firefox” menu items to the content and link context menus.
Paste and Go – lets you paste an URL from the clipboard into the address bar and load it as a single step, either via the adress bar’s context menu or by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V
ErrorZilla – changes the default 404 error page with following choices: a google cache, an archival snapshot from the wayback machine, a ping, a trace route, and a whois lookup.
Hyperwords – Interact with all the words on the web, not just links!

Control File Downloads

FlashGot – handles single and massive downloads with several external Download Managers.
PDF Download – Every time you click on a link, checks if the target is a pdf file and in this case let you choose what you want to do (open pdf file inside a new tab, download it to the filesystem or view it as HTML).
ScrapBook – helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections.
DownThemAll! – adds new advanced downloading capabilities to your browser. It lets you download in just one click all the links or images contained in a webpage or refine your preferences using fully customizable filters.
Video DownloadHelper – The easy way to download Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites, audio and picture galleries.
TargetAlert – provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks in cases of pdf, doc, zip files etc.
Download Manager Tweak – modifies the default appearance of the firefox download manager and allows it to be opened in a separate window, the sidebar, or a tab.
Download Statusbar – is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away statusbar
Disable Targets For Downloads – Prevents sites spawning blank windows when clicking binary downloads.
FireFTP – is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
Open IT Online – allows you to open your documents and images online without the need of any software to be installed.

Control Webpage Behaviour and Navigation

GreaseMonkey – Install user scripts and change the behavior of any web page
Image Zoom – Right click on an image and select a zoom option from the popup menu, or, hold down the right mouse button in combination with the mouse wheel to zoom in or out on an image.
Fasterfox – Speeds up Firefox by recycling idle bandwidth by silently prefetching and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. (Some readers said it actually slowed down their firefox – verify yourself)
SpellBound – enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea / input elements (html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound) and rich text form elements. This allows you to spell check forms before submitting them.
Taboo – lets you save a page for later (taking a screenshot, and using the Session Saver code to remember scroll location and form fields).
BugMeNot – Bypasses compulsory web registration using the BugMeNot without the hassle of surfing to it and querying its database everytime.
AutoCopy – Select text on any web page and it will be automatically copied to the clipboard. Middle click to Paste.
Copy Plain Text – Copies text without formatting.
Google Images Re-Linker – This will let you click the thumbnail images on images.google.com, skip the referred framed page, and jump straight to the full-size image.
Extended Statusbar – adds an Opera-like statusbar for Firefox that shows number of loaded images, bytes downloaded, average download speed, load time and percentage of the page loaded.
Adblock Plus – is an enhanced version of Adblock. Block ads, applets, flash, embedded-media etc.
Flashblock – blocks all Flash content from loading on a webpage.
Sage-Too – add a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator which integrates with Firefox’s bookmark storage and Live Bookmarks.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver – capture screenshots and save full webpages as images easily.
Reload Every – adds an option to the context menu to reload the web page you are viewing every so many seconds or minutes. Useful if you keep refreshing some pages often.
InFormEnter – adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted with your frequently used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to be available from the form menu.
All-in-One Sidebar – is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera that lets you quickly switch between sidebars, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source code or websites in the sidebar. Can be extensively customized.
Text size toolbar – Adds buttons to increase or decrease text size or restore default size easily. Useful for those small unreadable font sizes.
Reveal – allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want.
Mystickies – allows you to place sticky notes all over the web and organize them with tags.
Clear Cache Button – Adds a clear cache toolbar button that cleans the cache in one click. Very handy for those who have use for it.
gTranslate – translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. Uses the Google translation services.
Xinha Here! – is a wrapper for the Xinha HTML editor that enables WYSIWYG editing in any textarea and text box on any website.
Yoono – instantly suggests alternate sites and people who share the same interests while you are surfing.
BlueOrganizer – It helps you personalize your web experience based on what you already like, helping you discover relevant new information and save time.
PicLens – transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for finding and viewing online photos and videos.
Feed Sidebar – displays the items from your Live Bookmarks in the sidebar.

Newly Added:

Watchmelater – allows you to watch web based video from sites like youtube, myspace, revver etc, when it suits you, rather than when you stumble accross them. You could think of it as timeshifting for online video.