"Okay, Okay I get it, Stop biting your teeth. I'll promise to keep such things down in the future" :P

After reading this post by Amitji about today's Google Homepage logo and this post by Rahul on DW where I found the link to this page showing RSS feeds for Google homepage, I was curious if I could find an archive of all Google Homepage Logos somewhere on the net.

I landed on this page hosted on google itself, and found a huge archive of all the google holiday logos (That is how they call it) that appeared on their homepage since 1999. BTW, did someone tell you that Google project was initially named "BackRub" ??

Here are few of the logos I liked

The logo above represents "Leap Year".... cool isn't it ?

Here is the link - http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

Now you can login to Zoho using Yahoo and Google accounts. This is a superb move by people at Zoho in response to this Lifehacker Post with a poll.

I had previously made a post about detailed comparison of Zoho and Google online application suites. Click here to check my previous post about it.

If you don't know what Zoho is about, then read my post which gives an introduction to online applications.

Read more about it here at Official Zoho blogs

I read somewhere on the web some time ago that, in order to make your blog more interesting you need to do the following.

• What ever topic your blog may be on, mix SEX, HUMOR and ANIMALS with it. People will just love it. That's true !

Now this post is going to have everything of the above to the maximum. Yes, it actually about a page I found yesterday. Please don't ask me how I found it :P

Its is about the PORN collection of a french techie programmer named Sam. Check out what is soooo interesting about a techie's porn collection.

Nuff said, just check the link below and give me your comments !
http://sam.zoy.org/porn/

Here is one of the peculiar conversations between the Spoon boy and Neo

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

It is up to you to decide whether they are cool or whether we are the fools ! :)

Check out the page

Orkut has added a new feature by which users can comment on your photos. I love this feature and was expecting it for a long time. Check the links to read more.

And I'm back on Orkut :)

Thanks:- Devil's Workshop via Orkut Blog

Being a techie is fun, but sometimes it can get very very annoying too.

Fun, because of the fame, respect, satisfaction and the eyebrows that get raised when you increase the font size of the selected text using Ctrl+Shift+> instead of clicking the font size box in MS Word. Annoying, when people ask - "I recently installed Firefox 3.0 and suddenly sparks came out from my CPU. Does the latest Firefox come with a virus that burns the SMPS ?"

Coming back to the topic of this post, why am I writing this is because most of the times, I get queries from people regarding current prices of mobile phones and accessories, computer hardware, laptops, MP3 Players and other gadgets though, Neither do I own any of these (except a second hand MOTOROKR E6) Nor do I own or have befriended the owner of a gadget shop.

Here are the ways I get the latest prices easily on the net

1. Computer Warehouse
   
   First I always go to www.computerwarehousepricelist.com
   Its well designed, well categorized and fast but I hate the java applet that they have on the main page to scroll text. They could have FLASH instead.
   
   
2. Univercell
   
   The ultimate site for mobile phones with great search features that allow you to specify price ranges, brands and features.
   site: www.univercell.in
   
   
3. E-Bay India
   
   Though the price ranges are slightly higher than normal at Ebay for most of the things, EBay is a great time killer too due to the variety of products available on the site. www.ebay.in
   
   
4. Delta Page
   
   This is another site with computer hardware prices.
   http://www.deltapage.com
   Thanks TechCruser for the link.
   

Under the Browsing section we have Firefox, Google Reader mentioned on the top with......err...... IE7 mentioned in the FOURTH PLACE ??

Bebo was mentioned on the top of the Social Networking list. We also have FaceBook, Friendster and My Space in the list. But where is Orkut ? I recently read somewhere that Orkut has more page views than FaceBook. Most probably because, the majority of Orkut users still being Indians and Brazilians who are not active on other web activities like Reading Blogs, using RSS etc.

They have not released any vote count for each of the winners. So it doesn't make sense to rank the winners in each categories. Best example for this fact is YouTube, which has been mentioned last in its category.

And well, I need to mention that my favorite ZOHO suite is also one of the 10 winners in the online productivity applications category.

Check out the full list here

A Quick study about interior designing will reveal that Workplaces and their elements like color, lighting, sound, placement, designs etc have been proved to have a great impact on the performance and mood of the people who work there.

They almost directly affect the growth of any company. Is it not making you think about how offices of world famous web companies will look ?

I recently landed up on this page which has pictures of Offices of 4 major web companies which are rocking the web now - DIGG, FLICKR, FACEBOOK and TWITTER !

I liked the Office of Twitter most ! What about you ?

Click here to see the pictures

Ubuntu Hardy Heron, version 8.04 is expected to be the best release of all, making it an ample choice for Desktop users. Though its final stable version is not yet released, you can preorder your FREE Ubuntu CD so that it will be shipped once it is released.

When folks claims it to be FREE, fast, stable (It actually is !) What are you waiting for ? Book your Free CDs today and get them delivered at your door step as soon as its ready.

Click here for preordering your free CDs

India's largest social network Orkut has officially launched its mobile version. They claim its optimized for the mobile web and its bandwidth. To access Orkut Mobile just type http://m.orkut.com from your Mobile Browser. [via Orkut Blog]

Orkut yesterday released the Applications feature (Orkut Apps) similar to what FaceBook had, for India. Applications were the ones that made FaceBook shoot to the sky and the ones which drove most users out when they became really annoying. [via Orkut Blog]

MySpace - the Emperor of Social Networking, has launched a localized version just for India. To access please visit http://in.myspace.com [More Info]

Extra Info:- Yesterday, I tried to access Google Music Trends which is still in Google Labs at http://www.google.com/music/trends and found the link to be dead. The Guys at Google Blogoscoped Forum have already been discussing about it here. I hope and wish they don't permanently discontinue the service.

This blog is completely about Computers, Internet and Gadgets, but who doesn't like it with a pinch of humor. How about the joke below

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.
Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.
"I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."

Source: http://jokes.comedycentral.com/random_joke.aspx?joke_id=5915

Scenario:- I had an AMR audio file which is a funny recorded conversation of my friend. I needed to put it on the web and share it among my friends' circle, but I was sure many won't have a media player compatible with AMR format. I needed to convert it and host it. I searched, I found !

The Time.com has released it first annual blog index and listed the top 25 blogs of the entire blogosphere which is composed of over a 112.8 million blogs approx. .

What makes the article more interesting is the list of most overrated blogs - Blogs which are popular for no reason. Please Note - Slashdot has made the top of this list.

Check it out

My thoughts on the list

I seriously think, this is just like the Oscar. I mean to say its for blogs which are liked by the Western World, more precisely the US. I agree the Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Engadget which are on the top 25 are my most favorites too, but still there are millions of blogs which might be in Chinese and other native languages and being loved by a lot more people than the top 25.

Yes, English is the universal language. If you notice the posts from the top 25 blogs, especially about politics, current affairs and others, its written in way targeting only the readers from the US.

BUT DOOD, India and China form 2/6th of the World Population. I request the readers to kindly comment about what they think my opinion.

Twitter - one of the flamboyant buzz words of today's Internet is still a maze of menace to many. I know about people who have signed up, tried it out for a day or two, then completely quit using it.

On the other hand, there are million who are twitter addicts. Here is a video whose link was taken from one of the top 25 blogs in the world - Web 2.Oh Really (as mentioned by The Time)

READ THE FULL POST FOR THE VIDEO

Okay now, don't get furious @ me if you don't understand anything in this above sentence. It is going to be just a bunch of jargons for many. Read more for the actual article..

Did you know ? You can actually create tables in Microsoft Word and Outlook without using the mouse and menus.

Though many blog posts have been written already about this, I wasn't aware until today morning, when I checked the mail sent by Sheril to CrusaderZ group with the Subject Line - "Technical Tip"

Just try this "+=====+==========+========+"
without the double quotes in Word or Outlook.

It is very very handy, gives you control over the column sizes exactly and faster than creating tables the traditional way.

To add more rows just use the TAB key at the last column.

How about getting email ids like these

ashwin@drunkfunk.in
prajish@koolmail.in
raj@ilovebasketball.in
rohit@clickass.in
rakesh@mogambokhushhua.in
chris@clubsachin.com

Thats not the only cool names available, there are nearly 150 cool domain names like these in which you can get your Email-IDs, all provided by hotmail.com.

Under who I like section I found that there is clubasin.in, clubsurya.in, clubvikram.in. But where is Vijay and Ajith, even there is no Mohan Lal, Mamooty or Chiranjeevi while there is Kamal and Rajni.

Check the options below in which you can get your email Id.

Excited huh ?? What are you waiting for visit www.coolhotmail.com

P.S.- While checking the page HTML source code to copy all the above links, I found many domains where commented and absolutely funny. E.g. iloveoldmonk.in in What I like !!!

Type chrome://browser/content/browser.xul in your firefox address bar.

You can create browser inside browser inside browser or even more levels. It is somewhat useful when you have lot of tabs open and need to maintain them as 2-3 groups of tabs when browsing.

Check the screen shot. Its not photoshop edited.
Source:- http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension#Chrome_URIs (found it while trying to learn creating extensions)

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