Happy google apps and we

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Its quite funny!

Google recently launched the iGoogle Themes API, which allows for user-generated iGoogle Themes. Now, anyone who can design a webpage can design an iGoogle theme. The Themes API lets you create custom designs for iGoogle. Themes are visual designs that personalize iGoogle pages for millions of users. Themes are not just static designs--they can change throughout the day to reveal a visual storyline, message, or anything else.

Google introduced a new feature in Gmail. This Gmail feature lets you create your personal mailing list using contact groups. This feature is compatible with IE7 and Firefox 2.

This feature is very helpful for those people who email updates to their friends, relatives or employees often. In general, if we have to email to a large no. of peoples frequently then we have to remember individual names or email addresses. Sometimes we miss one or more of them.

But now, with the help of Gmail, you can create contact groups to which you email updates often.

A few weeks ago Gmail invited people to share their Gmail stories with the world, and they got over 1,500 of responses with emails and videos describing the Creative and Productive Ways of using Gmail.

To check out some of the email stories of people's, visit gmail.com/yourstory. And here is the collaborative video.

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Watch Live Streaming of nearly 250 Indian TV channels, News, Sports, Tech, Weather, Music and Regional Channels. curtesy to mashable.com

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Sports Entertainment Music News Educational Business Lifestyle Tamil Malayalam Telugu Weather Shopping Religious Kannada Punjabi More Channels (United Kingdom)

Here at ChannelHaven you will find most popular channels like Star Plus, Zee. Sports Channels like ESPN, Star Sports. News Channels like Aaj Tak, NDTV, Aljazeera, BBC Headlines, CNN, Fox News. Many other channels like National Geographic, Discovery (my most favorite) etc.

I think there is no other site like this, which provides users various types of Live Streaming channels.

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Google maps customized. Makes a difference now.

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Google Maps began layering in custom options and even collaborative features last year, but this latest release takes the wiki-like functionality of user-generated map edits to a heightened level. One may even think that Google is more readily relying on user-submitted map edits for the upkeep of its maps.

Google users in the U.S. and Australia are now able to make edits on a given map, marking various changes or updates to a particular location. Say a business has closed down, but Google’s associated search doesn’t know that just yet. You do! Let Google know. It helps out others that may search for that business later on down the line. In addition to editing an existing place on the map, you can also add new places.

Just like a wiki, Google will archive the history of all the edits made, so misinformation can hopefully be curbed in this manner. While Google has made several pushes for leveraging the community for upkeep of its local search data, this new release is the most intuitive and self-contained solution I’ve seen yet.

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The secret of two hidden messages in Google 2008 Logo. DON'T YOU WORRY ITS ALL A MYTH

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The secrete messages in Google's 2008 logo revealed. Google put silently two hidden messages in its 2008 logo. Google is celebrating 25 years of TCP/IP and the New Year.

Following are the two messages, with its meaning.

1) In this message Google is showing a cable making 2008.

2) The second message shows "SYN SYN/ACK ACK" on the bottom of the logo in little colored dots (see carefully).

What is syn syn ack ack?

The syn syn ack ack is referred as a "Three Way Handshake."

To establish a connection, TCP uses a three-way handshake. Before a client attempts to connect with a server, the server must first bind to a port to open it up for connections: this is called a passive open. Once the passive open is established, a client may initiate an active open. To establish a connection, the three-way (or 3-step) handshake occurs: Wikipedia

The "SYN" flags are requests by the TCP stack at one end of a socket to synchronize themselves to the sequence numbering for this new sessions. The ACK flags acknowlege earlier packets in this session. Obviously only the initial packet has no ACK flag, since there are no previous packets to acknowlege. Only the second packet (the first response from a server to a client) has both the SYN and the ACK bits set. linuxgazette.

In the neverending journey for sockets to shake hands, there has always been the cordial behind the scenes introduction. To imagine life without SYN/ACK would be akin to imagining life without the Internet. And that's quite scary

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Soashable: Create Your Own Meebo with this Open Source Project

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If you visit Soashable, your first thought is probably “Meebo clone.” That’s because it is. However, it’s also an open source project, freely available for anyone to download and build their own version (via SourceForge).

It’s currently very beta (v0.1), and for now, doesn’t offer a lot of what Meebo does (games, chat rooms, widgets, a developer platform, etc.), but that’s sort of the point. Soashable has duplicated the main Meebo service – multi-protocol, web-based chat - and left the door open for developers to build their own custom versions. It’s an attractive proposition given IM is an application that people keep open for hours on end, and will hence keep them on your web site for a much longer period.

The project was launched by Harlan Iverson, who blogs about it here, and provides details of how you can get it up and running on your own server. Meebo might not have anything to be worried about yet, but Iverson is clearly committed to bringing competition to the IM space. He writes:

“Soashable is Open Source because I believe that any one or any company should be able to creating a competing product, in a cooperative way, as this raises the user experience bar for everyone. I hope it serves as the base for research of web-based UIs, public-facing commercial applications, internal communication applications, and tools in every niche imaginable. XMPP truly is the future of online communication, and finally, I am proud to be able to provide you with yet-another-tool that utilizes it.”

This should be an interesting project to watch. If you launch anything with it, let us know!

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Wikio is new wiki. Wikio’s New Version Adds Shopping and Videos

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Wikio, one of those startups that was doing quite well in Europe before they decided to conquer the US market, has launched a new version of the site. I remember the first version best; it seemed to me like a Digg clone - solid, but not a particularly inspired one. With the next iteration of the site they moved into the news aggregation/memetracking category, without losing the Digg-like voting on items; our own Adam called it the Rolls Royce of memetrackers. Yes, we know everyone hates that word. That’s why we use it so often. Memetrackers.

Anyway, Wikio’s latest version is a redesign, but there are a lot of important new features under the hood. First, there’s now a “shopping” section which - despite being touted as “beta” - actually works well. Items are divided into categories, and for each item you get, besides the standard user votes, a price range, links to reviews, related news, and a price comparison engine. The only thing that’s missing is the range of products, but the shopping section has been filled up quite well already considering that it’s quite young. I’m guessing it’s just a matter of time.

Videos look just like Digg’s video section, but with one important difference: you can see related videos and articles for each video, Techmeme-style. The results are really good; take this video of a robotic dog for example. You get 2 related videos and 35 related articles, and all of them really are related to the video in question. The ability to create completely customized pages, as well as the top 100 list of blogs are still here, and the former has one new great option: you can now do a search for a term, click on “subscribe” and instantly get a customized page filtered by the keyword of your choosing. Quick, simple, and useful. Finally, on Wikio Live you can see new articles and videos as they appear, similar to Digg Spy. Good stuff for total news junkies. Despite all the new stuff, the big question here is how good a job is Wikio doing at giving you the news that’s really hot right now? I’d still say that Techmeme takes the cake here, simply because I like its visual presentation better. Wikio isn’t bad either; the news is fresh and relevant across all categories. I’m not sure, however, what role do the votes on individual items have; from what I can see, the items are never sorted according to the number of votes.

All in all, one can’t deny that Wikio is trying, hard. I wrote about sites which we like to call memtrackers - Techmeme, Tailrank, Megite - quite a bit, but everyone seems to be returning to Techmeme because it’s focused on one subject (technology), because it’s really fast, and because the news is almost always relevant. I’m not sure that Wikio managed to be better with this regard, but they’ve done a lot in other areas - options, personalization, organization, presentation. If browsing through lots of news is a part of your daily routine, Wikio is a site worthy of your time.

See the video presentation of the new features below.

Wikio UK by Wikio_UK

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WHY MICRSOFT CAN'T BYE YAHOO ? A GREAT INNOVATION

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com BECAUSE NEW FACE IS HERE IT'S YAHOOOOO AGAIN Lucas J. Shuman an engineer of Yahoo!'s Media Innovation Group has created a new way to browse Yahoo News top stories. He used latest Adobe Flash Player and ActionScript 3 to create this tool.

TO VIEW CLICK ON THE IMAGE The Yahoo! NewsGlobe represents the information or breaking new in a virtual environment. It consist of basic pieces: a Yahoo! News Top Stories RSS feed, a geo-encoding web service from Yahoo! Maps, and a free, open-source library of 3D classes for ActionScript 3 called Papervision3D. The application loads the Y! News RSS feed every few minutes and extracts the dateline for each story. It sends this descriptive textual information off to the Yahoo! Maps service to find a matching location, and return latitude and longitude coordinates for it. The rest is simply a matter of using the 3D classes in ActionScript to create a visually engaging experience that's either automated or interactive. __

Aliens find businesses with Google Maps, why not Yahoo and MSN

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com Learn from an alien family how to find local businesses, write reviews, and more using Google Maps __ Why do blame google its the worlds best provider. dare enough to give you free.

When you're an anaconda, snakes are dangerious and loving

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com _When you're an anaconda you don't need venom to take down your prey, even if its the world's largest rodent, a capybara, weighing somewhere in the neighboorhood of one hundred pounds!_

Yamaha R6- motor cycle, bike, sprots bike and more...

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com The last time that the Yamaha R6 was redesigned in 2006, the focus was purely on the racetrack, with street riding a distant thought in the backs of engineers minds. We're not suggesting that the R6 isn't a capable bike to ride on the street, but there are certainly far better choices if your main goal were to commute back and forth to work. On the track, however, the R6 shines with its high-RPM power band and razor-sharp handling traits. This year, the R6 got a few tweaks in an effort to add midrange power while still retaining its class-leading high-RPM punch, including a higher compression ratio, Yamaha's Chip Controlled Intake (YCC-I) and Yamaha's Chip Controlled Throttle (YCC-T). These changes have allowed the R6 to break the 170 mile-per-hour barrier, a first for a 600cc machine. Fortunately, Yamaha saw fit to increase chassis stability by reinforcing the steering head, engine mounting points and rear swingarm pivot, among other subtle tweaks. Suspension tuning is slightly different too, with a 41mm inverted fork and a more adjustable rear shock. We are quite impressed by the speed and power that Yamaha has wrangled from its middleweight racer, which makes up more than half its total sportbike sales. __

United States is key to Volkswagen's planned expansion in the coming decade, passat to pass yet

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com The United States is key to Volkswagen's planned expansion in the coming decade, as the German automaker attempts to rival Toyota by selling one million units in the U.S. per year by 2018. That lofty goal will be fueled by new products priced below their current counterparts, and according to VW Group CEO Martin Winterkorn, many of these new models will be built Stateside and in Mexico. One of the major product changes will come in the form of the Passat, which will ditch its current nameplate, decrease in size and be priced around $20,000. The Jetta will also see a price reduction from the current base model's $17,030 sticker to something closer to the $15,000 price-point, while some version of the Polo – expected to be built in North America to keep costs down – will slot in below VW's entry-level sedan. Other models slated for sale in the U.S. include a compact model based on the up! concepts, as well as a body-on-frame pickup truck and the return of the Phaeton, motivated by a V8 powerplant and priced substantially below the slow-selling version that was killed in 2005. __

BMW’s latest M

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BMW’s latest M based performance car, the 2008 BMW M3 coupe is starting to trickle into dealers across the US. Powered by a 4.0 Liter 32 valve V8 engine putting out 414 horsepower and 295 pounds of torque, BMW’s new high RPM screamer has been eagerly anticipated to arrive stateside.

We’re not sure how bad buyers are looking to get into this new M, but dealers are trying their best to make the most of out of it, pictured below is a new M3 sitting in a California showroom with a $70k+ MSRP and an obnoxious $30k dealer market adjustment, for a grand total of $100,720.00!

We’re looking for the first poor rich soul to pick up one of these beasts, strap it down to a dyno and get it on the track for some real world dyno figures, 1/4 mile times and trap speeds, so keep checking in for the latest updates and stats. If you’re not sure about spending the $100k, you might want to consider BMW’s 335i, with a simple computer upgrade these cars are making more power and a lot more torque than the almighty M3, for less than half the price! Check out some 335i dyno sheets and 335i 1/4 mile times while your here.

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Tata's acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com As Tata's acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover inches closer to completion, an anonymous source inside the Indian automaker has revealed that the company has secured a $3 billion loan in order to finally finance the take-over. The loan is reported to come from the banks of Citigroup and JPMorgan, although both financial firms as well as Tata have refused to comment on the reports. Additional sources of funding for Tata could come from domestic and foreign debt markets, from which Tata could raise an additional $4 billion. That would also come in handy for investing in the production of the upcoming Nano, or even the rumored purchase of shares in Ferrari. Financial services analyst Standard & Poor's, however, is currently reviewing Tata's credit rating, which stands at a high BB+ level due to the increased debt the carmaker will inevitably incur from the acquisition of these two luxury brands from Ford. __

Wiring up your home for VoIP. home voip free

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com Great resource for wiring up your home for VoIP, in MAKE 03 we also have a guide "One obstacle to replacing traditional phone service with Voice over IP is that for your existing home phone jacks to work, it's necessary to make a change to your inside telephone wiring. Fortunately, this change is very easy to make. In some cases it's as simple as removing a plug from a jack. Still, a basic understanding of how telephone wiring works is useful before attempting to make such a switch." Link. __

Real RC car controlled with the N95-- phone and more

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Amazing! Andreas Jakl posted a cool N95 hack that uses the built-in accelerometer, Python, Bluetooth, and a microcontroller to control the movement of a remote control car:

Now we wanted to take the acceleration sensor of a mobile phone to the next level and use it to control something literally "bigger" than an application that is running on the phone itself.

The result is called "ShakerRacer" (thanks to Adam Montandon for this great name!). Stephan Selinger, one of our professors, bought a normal RC car for about €90 and "tuned" it. Not in the traditional way, but instead he replaced the standard remote control component with an own microcontroller and a Bluetooth-module.

Using the Python module aXYZ from cyke64, it was possible to write a small application that translates the movements of the N95 acceleration sensor to commands that can be understood by the car. This enables you to go as fast as 30 km/h by just tilting your phone!

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Not really but try it VOIP PHONES

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com Like VoIP all things telephony? Check out out O'Reilly's new Emerging Telephony site - ETel for short - "...covering VoIP, Asterisk, voice and mobile applications, as well as the policy and regulatory issues that impact these important technologies. In addition to daily blogging and the exclusive in-depth articles you'll find here, we'll be spotlighting the new related O'Reilly books, like Switching to VoIP and Asterisk: The Future of Telephony and Skype Hacks. We'll have these authors chiming in on the blog from time to time, too." Link. Run Asterisk on a Windows machine, handy for on the go..."We have been touting how cool the Asterisk Open Source PBX is and especially how nice the Asterisk@Home installation package is for some time now. You are all excited to try it out but don't have an extra machine, or maybe you are like us and want a way to show clients the web interface and the features but you don't want to run Linux on your laptop or carry a second machine. Well now, with the help of a few free downloads, you can now do a complete installation into a virtual machine on your system..." Link. __

Google ring proclaims your Internet status

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The "Vanity Ring" project by Markus Kison is an interesting take on social status. The wearer inputs their name into the software which uploads the amount of mentions their name gets on a Google search onto the ring. From the description: "While in earlier times richness and importance were equal to the amount of money or jewels someone possessed, in a post information society it's the attention you get from the world's people, that counts.

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Solar-powered bike helmet

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A solar powered, trickle-charged, weatherproof, safety bike helmet with changeable parts.

The Green Helmet (Solar powered, safety lit, weatherproof bike helmet. __

Remotecontrolled-cameraphone--try it might work for your home

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com Low resolution, slow and almost totally useless: this homemade cellphone-based surveillance camera is one of the best inventions ever. I don't know if it's the Gilliamesque looks, the 80s phreaking flavor or the fact that the solenoid relays—which control the cellphone keys—make it feel like an Old West telegraph machine, but I would definitely snatch it after seeing it in action:

To do it you just need a cellphone with camera, a microcontroller, the solenoid relays, a photoresistor, LEDs, resistors, wires, soldering iron, assorted tinkerman material and know what the heck you are doing. I mean, they call this "instructable," but I hope they are "eBayables" for the soldering-impaired dorks like me. [Instructables]

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