The popular Yahoo Mail Service has gone to the next level by providing 2 different domain address for it mail users .Instead of the now Popular @yahoo.com address ,It would be giving 2 options like @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com Which would make people to move to yahoo mail service due to the new options available.

"Yahoo hopes that users will register with ymail or rocketmail in order to drop old e-mail addresses that may have been chosen out of necessity instead of preference. "

"In a poll conducted by Yahoo, 59 percent of the people polled felt the most important aspect of an e-mail address was that it is easy to remember. Having a first, last or nickname included in the address ranked second and having an address reflecting who the user is as an individual was the third most important criteria for an e-mail domain. "

The 2nd generation iPhone is out !!!and the full tech community is talking about it!!!

The main Difference between the old and the new are
*The price is Cut to Half !!!Do u believe it now it is $199 for the 8GB iPhone.[It requires new 2-year AT&T rate plan, which is sold separately at a rate exceeding $250+] totaling around $450+

*It Supports 3G [third generation of mobile phone standards and technology] Mainly means the data transfer rate would be faster !!How fast only time would tell!!also it means it has a extra camera in the front!!

*Has the GPS chip set in built which means on time location and mapping acn be done using the satellite constellation of 24 GPS satellites around the world with this the accurate location would be found!!

*The back cover is changed to plastic[previously metal like the ipod].Is it better scratch resistant only time will tell!!

Vodafone and Airtel are planning a big lunch in India!!
Till Date the 3G networks have not been properly implemented in India.At the current cost the penetration rate would be very less.

Only time will tell the the Impact of Iphones in the Indian Market!!!

Last Few Days Many of my friends have been asking how to bypass the censorship blocks enforced by their organizations ,schools,universitys, ISPs ,countries.
While Doing this process i warned them it is illegal to use the following software.If caught,i or the software makers cannot be held responsible

I have not Tested nor Verified the links given Below

The Top 10 Softwares

After 2 weeks of work for World Environment Day 2008 Celebrations with Kainat Foundation and SCENR & FEC .Its over ...All went well with the function!!

Read More At
Peninsula On-line, Qatar -Local Daily
Gulf Times, Qatar-Local Daily

Kainat Foundation is a charity based in India for to uplift under privileged children by providing Education.I am part Kainat Foundation Team in Qatar.

Kainat Annual Magazine -Kainat 07 << Read Online

You can also Support Kainat by visiting their site http://www.kainatfoundation.org

Gmail Blog announced the additon of “Gmail labs” to showcase new experimental features created by Google engineers. Gmail Labs allows you to try out experimental new features in Gmail They are rolling it out to all the gmail users and to check whether you’ve got it, you need to go to the settings page in your gmail and check if you have a new tab named ‘ Labs ‘.

If you opt in the problems are that they may break at any time .Also they may disappear temporarily or permanently .LOL

Features with out currently are

1: Quick Links
2: Superstars
3: Pictures in chat
4: Fixed width font
5: Custom keyboard shortcuts
6: Mouse gestures
7: Signature tweaks
8: Random signature
9: Custom date formats
10: Muzzle
11: Old Snakey
12: Email Addict
13: Hide Unread Counts

As Gmail Labs can break any time .Gmail has provided this address if the interface break http://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0

Check it out, it is very nice !!!!

Last 2 Days was breaking my head with a new Dell Inspiron 1525 my cousin gave to me for the initial software install .

The wireless was not working out of the box!!!!! I had thought some hardware problem .and should be returned back to the shop (Jarir Bookshop,Doha).

Then after knowing the wireless is not built-in onto the motherboard which causes the problem and does not let to detect the hardware.Which is a separate wireless card added!! Foolish Sales people also did not tell us that info!!!

The Solution for the Stupid problem

Consider a Drawing without pen paper nor pencil this person has drawn it with a gps device and instructions given to DHL!!! It is a GPS Generated Self Portrait

With the help of a GPS device and DHL, Erik Nordenankar, a Swedish student, have drawn a self portrait on our planet. His pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the strokes of the drawing.

The 17th of March 2008, Erik sent away a briefcase containing a GPS device with the express transportation company DHL. He gave them exact travel instructions, where to go and in what order. 55 days later the briefcase returned to Stockholm. The GPS automatically recorded the briefcase's journey around the world. The information was downloaded to Erik's computer and gave him his drawing. Due to the GPS drawing technique and the magnitude of the drawing, the self portrait had to be made in only one stroke. That giant stroke passed through 6 continents and 62 countries, thus becoming 110,664 km long.

Watch the Drawing in making

Just received my gift goodies from Google for Google Highly Open Participation Contest which was held between Nov 2007 -February 2008.The gifts arrived long back at home but i just reached home!!!!

The contest was basically to promote Open Source Concept among the school students.The Prizes were determined according to the no. of tasks completed from the mentoring organization . Mine was Drupal .It is a CMS(Content Management System) made in PHP and MySQL.

I had just completed one of the tasks.They send me the GHOP tshirt,a Certificate and 2 Stickers (Pic)

GHOP Info
The Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Google's first contest to introduce pre-university students to the many contributions that make open source software development possible, concluded on February 4, 2008. They had nearly 400 students worldwide to produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for the ten participating organizations.

GHOP Website Link

Do you hate the load time of the pc to start browsing the web??Then it is time to use Splashtop.

Splashtop is an alternate to BIOS which is written in Linux.With Splashtop you can read e-mail, chat with friends, or surf the Web seconds after pushing the power button!

Power Saving Factor >>The PC boots so quickly there's no reason to leave your PC on all the time. Now you can use your time more effectively, and consume much less energy.

The bad news is it cannot be installed on your system .It should be loaded on to your motherboard by the manufacturer .Currently Asus plans to roll out its pcs with Splashtop which Asus calls "Express Gate" — into a million motherboards a month. Splashtop includes a Firefox-derived browser and the Skype internet-telephony application.

Four new motherboards carrying Splashtop/Express Gate will appear this quarter: the P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe and P5Q-E. Then plan to release more motherboards in the near future!!

There's a new flavor of Google Talk: the Labs edition, a desktop client that looks very similar to the Google Talk gadget and has most of its features. Just started using it .The application still doesn't support voice chat or file transfer, it's still Windows-only, but it has some new features: it lets you launch Google Calendar and Orkut, while including notifications for Google Calendar events and Orkut scraps. The WebKit is used to render some parts of the interface.

It looks better than the other desktop edition .It also adds new desktop notifications from Google Calendar, Orkut, and Gmail.

Go to Google Labs for Google Talk:Labs edition