Do you have a great idea? inc.com is conducting an ideas contest that gives you an oppurtunity to earn 5,000$. Well it is not that simple. This is more of a business plan contest that needs you to desribe your idea, the target market, need to be served etc.
The ideas will be published on the website. I see this as a great oppurtunity to look at some really great ideas. Moreover this may be a great platform to find out if there are other people out there who believe in …

I have been working on this idea of “There’s more to selected text than cut/copy & paste” for past few weekends.
What do we do when you come across a word whose meaning you don’t know or a term you want to know more about while reading a Charles Dicken’s or Shakespeare’s work or may be just a newspaper?
Most of us simply ignore it or think “I’ll lookup in a dictionary when I get up” and we never do that. There are a very chosen few of us who purposely keep …

This one is not actually related to technology but about the skills of marketing.
Kyle MacDonald began with one red paper clip on March 28, 2005. By July 5, 2006, a chain of bartering had ultimately led to trading a movie role for a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan….
Read on more here on wikipedia how a series of barters converted a paper clip to a farm house.
Mind blowing, Right?

Some Really Cool Acronyms that you can use in chat and sms
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
AFAIK as far as I know
AFK away from keyboard
ASAP as soon as possible
B4N bye for now
BBL be back later
BBS be back soon
BEG big evil grin
BFN bye for now
BG big grin
BRB be right back
BTA but then again
BTDT been there done that
BTW bythe way
CU see you
CUL see you later
DBA doing business as
DQMOT don’t quote me on this
EG evil grin
EOM end of message
F2F face to face
FAQ frequently asked questions
FWIW for what it’s worth
FYI for your information
G …

I just found an advertisement by yahoo mail on binaryday. Found it really interesting that yahoo is using google for advertising its product. Speaks volume about the state of yahoo.

Abhishek raises a very important and relevant point about freinds cheating him for a MLM profit. Basically his very good freinds made false claims about making lot of money from a particular pogramme and lured him into joining the programme. After making a payment of 32k and joining the programme, he realized that all that was told to him as false. To make money he will have to tell the same damn lie to his freinds. Abhishek refused to do and hence lost 32k.
While he talks about questnet in particular, …

Do you want to resize your hard disk partitions without removing your current installed operating system? Do you want to create new partitions again without destroying your current operating system?
Do you want to install a second operating system? Or you computer refuses to boot and gives messages like “NTLDR missing” or “no bootable media found” (not exactly same messages…I don’t remember the exact ones )…
Well there’s a nice solution to all these…GParted (GNOME partition editor) .
It has three versions… installable, liveCD and liveUSB. I found the liveCD …

What if the other shoe drops but no one hears?
Standard & Poor’s analysts tested the tree-falling-in-an-empty-forest scenario, as it lowered the outlooks for Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers to negative while markets were closed.
Standard & Poor’s analysts Scott Sprinzen and Diane Hinton affirmed their AA-/A-1+ rating for Goldman Sachs Group (nyse: GS - news - people ) and A+/A-1 rating for Lehman Brothers Holdings (nyse: LEH - news - people ), pointing to strong underlying businesses and acceptable first-quarter earnings. But S&P also lowered the companies’ outlooks to “negative” from …

Citigroup Inc. plans to lay off an additional 2,000 employees from its markets and banking unit, and in this latest round of job cuts, senior investment-banking officials won’t be spared, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
The latest round of job cuts at the New York-based bank brings its layoffs since the mortgage crisis began to more than 6,000, or about …

Holi is one of the biggest festivals in India. It is not a festival of a religion or a caste . Infact on the contrary it celebrates the spirit of unity and oneness. It is a festival of colors…A celebration of all the beauties of Nature and Human Race.
So get off your seats, go out and ENJOY !!!
HOLI HAiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii………..

Amidst demands for raising the cap on H-1B visas for skilled professional, authorities have issued a new rule prohibiting employers from filing more than one petition for a single employee in a fiscal year. The change is intended to promote a fair and systematic process for H-1B petitioners, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on Wednesday while announcing the new rule.
This rule ensures that companies filing H-1B petitions will have an equal chance to receive consideration for an H-1B worker. The current cap on new H-1B visas is …

Just happened to come across this new seach engine called searchme It’s a very new search engine with right now, just an index of 1 billion and is still in beta. But the best thing about it is its user interface and graphics. …yeah not just the graphics but the UI is also nice. Have you seen the cover-flow design on itunes? searchme uses the same beautiful cover-flow for its search results unlike the text only results in Google. (It has text only results also if you want that).
Searchme is …

Here is some statistics based on internet usage data collected by w3counter. Looks like firefox is giving a serious challenge to internet explorer. Firefox 2.0 with 22.89% has already gone past i.e 7.0. i.e 6.0 and 7.0 together enjoy 62% market share though. The important question is when people decide to migrate from i.e 6 which browser will they choose. ie7 or firefox? what do you think?
Web Browsers
1 Internet Explorer 6.0 39.00%
2 Firefox 2.0 22.89%
3 Internet Explorer 7.0 22.67%
4 Firefox 1.5 4.63%
Data from http://w3counter.com/globalstats.php.
How does the number …

Not only we can use a ‘+’ to make more mail ids but also a ‘.’ (dot). Say if you have a id like myid@gmail.com then any mail send to my.id@gmail.com or my.id+andromeda@gmail.com will also go to myid@gmail.com.
But what’s the use of this?
Well if someone asks you for your mail id and you don’t trust him, you can give a modified mail id to him. He can only send you mails but won’t be able to crack in or misuse your account that easily.
Why does this happen?
Simply because gmail ignores …

if you have 1 gmail id then you have an infinite amount of gmail ids and there is a good chance that you do not know about all these different email ids. If you email address is abc@gmail.com then try sending a mail to abc@googlemail.com. Send another mail to abc+test@gmail.com. Now check your mail box. You will find both the mails in your mailbox. Surpised?? Well I know magic