Google Phone- Nexus One

In the current telecommunications market, smart phones like iPhone, droid.. are selling like hot cakes. There is a huge competition by leading players like Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola to dominate the smart phone industry. Now there is an another major competitor added to the list.It is the web gaint Google.

From past few years Google was involved in the Cellphone industry via its mobile O.S Android. Now after catching everyone's attention and having gained the momentum, Google is all set to sell its own phone, built by HTC and named the Nexus One.

The cell phone will be released in Jan 2010. It will sell the Google Phone online and the good news is it will be unlocked!!, so you’ll need to buy your cellular service separately. The software would be Android 2.1 and hardware will be built by HTC. 

 

Below is the extract from the leading social media site "Mashable" about the possible cell phone and its plan details

"Here are some of the key details you should know:

- Price: $530 unsubsidized and unlocked (ouch!), $180 subsidized on the T-Mobile network with a 2 year contract.
- Rate Plan: $79.99 per month on T-Mobile, which includes unlimited texting/MMS and web data, along with 500 minutes. This seems to be the only plan available, even if you’re already on another plan with T-Mobile
- Purchasing: You can buy up to five Nexus One phones per Google account.
- Cancellation: If you cancel within 120 days, you have to pay the subsidy difference ($350) or return the phone to Google.

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Enjoy the new year gift by Google!!.

Linux Distros

This article provides some insight about various popular sites to get/download Linux distributions.

DistroWatch is a website which provides news, popularity rankings,reviews, updates and other general information about various Linux distributions as well as other free software/open-source operating systems such as OpenSolaris and BSD. It now contains information on several hundred distributions. The site was established, developed and is maintained by Ladislav Bodnar, a Slovakian-born South African living in Taiwan.

The site maintains extensive comparison charts detailing differences between the package sets and software revisions of different distributions. It also provides some general characteristics of distributions such as the price and the supported processor architectures. As per the website currently, the top 3 distributions based on Hits Per Day are Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint.

DistroWatch is on Twiiter.  Click here to follow it.

A similar site DesktopLinux.com, is exclusively devoted to the use of Linux as an end-user desktop operating system for personal and business purposes. The site features news, opinions, HOWTOs, FAQs, product previews/reviews, a lively discussion forum, and links to other web resources, all focused on using -- or learning to use -- Linux as a desktop operating system.

You can also look into Linux Distribution Chooser and Linux.org for more about Linux distributions.

Sources: Wikipedia,DesktopLinux

How to download Youtube videos: Chrome and Firefox Plugins

Want to download your favorite Youtube videos ? Don’t know how? Here are few quick and easy ways of downloading Youtube videos.

Chrome Browser:

Step 1:  Download the developer release of Google Chrome browser here. The youtube video download plugin for chrome browser works only with the beta or developer release version.

Step 2: Download the youtube download plugin for chrome here. After you have downloaded the .crx file on to your computer, just drag and drop the .crx file into the chrome browser. A message pops up as shown below.

Click on ‘Continue’.

Click on ‘Install’ and you are done installing the addon.

Step 3: Now on the youtube page a number of download options are available(See picture below). Choose the video format of your choice and start downloading.

Firefox Browser:

There are a bunch of youtube related addons for firefox. Here I will be giving you a tutorial on some of the popular ones.

1.       Video DownloadHelper:

You can get the addon for the Video DownloadHelper here. After installing the addon, you will be prompted to restart the browser.

After restarting firefox Video DownloadHelper will appear in the top left corner of your browser. Whenever you are watching a Youtube video, you can just click on the icon, choose the video format of your choice and start downloading the video.

 2.       Orbit Downloader:

This is another popular tool for downloading youtube videos. You can download the Orbit downloader here.

Once you have downloaded the tool, it has to be installed in your system. Please close all your browsers before installing Orbit downloader.

To download Youtube videos using Orbit downloader, just hover your mouse pointer over the video and you will see a “Get It” button pop up. Just select the video format from the drop down box and start downloading the video.

 

Best Ajax Video Tutorials on Web

Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has revolutionized the way we interact with the web and nowadays it hard to find good websites that don’t use Ajax.   Are you learning Ajax or about to begin Ajax and looking for good video tutorials?.  Then here is a collection of best Ajax video tutorials that assists in fast and easy learning. 

Ajax video tutorial series (40 videos) from ajaxtrainingblogspot.com

AJAX VIDEO TUTORIAL WEBSITE from KillerAjax.com

Web 2.0 AJAX Programming from Google Code University

Ajax Video Tutorials from ajaxprojects.com          

Ajax video tutorials from deathmonkeyz.com

Introduction to Ajax from Ideal Programmer

Quick and Dirty AJAX from 15 Days Of jQuery

If you are looking not just for video tutorials, then look into the below links which provides the information about the best Ajax tutorials on web. 

 

50 Excellent Ajax tutorials from Smashing Magazine

Most wanted Ajax tutorials on web by ajaxtrainingblogspot.com

Hope this helps :)

Top Free Music Streaming Sites

Here is a list of top free music streaming sites:

1. Lala.com

Lala is the newest and the most fascinating site for online streaming music. It has all the latest recently released music albums. Any song can be listened to only once and there is no limit on the number of songs that you can listen to. You can login into lala using your facebook account and can create your own custom playlists. It  has the list of top 10 songs categorized by music genre. So you will come to know the latest popular songs in each genre. 

2. Grooveshark.com

Its layout is similar to a music player. Has all the latest songs. You can play any song any numbero f times. You can also create playlists and share the playlist with your friends. 

3. Slacker.com

Slacker also has a huge collection of songs but the user doesn’t have the option of selecting the song of his choice. Each artist is classified as a radio station and the user has to select the station corresponding to the artist of his choice. The station then plays few popular songs of the artist along with the songs from other related artists who make similar music. It also has a playlist of songs categorized by genre. The playlist Today’s Hits usually has most of the current chart toppers.

4. Last.fm

Last.fm is similar to slacker with regard to the playlist feature and songs categorization by genre. It has most of the latest songs but some are missing or they have sample limited 30 second playback. But overall it’s a pretty good site for listening to music. It also has artist profiles and videos of artist interviews. Also music videos from video sharing sites like youtube are embedded into last.fm. So you have instant access to both the audio and the music video.

5. Pandora Radio

Pandora radio came into the limelight through its iphone app which was a huge hit among the iphone users. It was among the top ten free apps in the itunes app store for couple of weeks. It had instant free music streaming which was a cool feature to have on the iphone. The web version entends the same feature to your pc. The site is not visually rich, it has a simple layout and serves the basic purpose of music playback. It is similar to slacker and last.fm , it creates a playlist of the artist of your choice along with related artists. But you don’t have access to the recently released albums.

6. Rhapsody.com

Rhapsody has a limited playback of only 25 songs per month. You have to sign up and pay 12.99/mo for unlimited playback. It has millions of songs in its collection but you have to pay to listen to music. Author:RSB Disclaimer: The above ratings are authors view only and is not based on any external data or ratings

Book Cheap Air Tickets: A guide

Planning a vacation? Looking for cheap air tickets online? Not sure where and when to buy air tickets? Here’s a quick guide to finding the best deals on air tickets. 

Do a quick research on the place you are traveling to. Check the best time to visit and the peak season for your destination. A good resource for this information is Frommer’s and lonely planet.

There are a couple of good sites that offer cheap air tickets. You can go to these sites and start looking for air tickets.

Some of them are:

Airfare     Cheapoair     Expedia      Priceline

Travelocity   Hotwire    Orbitz

A quick way to find cheap tickets is by using an air ticket search engine. They search all the above sites for your choice of destination and give you the best deal available. One of the most popular air ticket search engine is Kayak. Just enter your origin and destination and it will search Hotwire, Airfare, Priceline, Expedia and Travelocity for you and list the search results from all these sites based on your criteria like non-stop flights, travel times etc. It also gives you an option to search for hotel reservations, car rental locations.

Other similar search engine is Sidestep and Farecompare.

This is the best way to start looking for air tickets as it saves a lot of time.

Some tips and tricks:

Clear browser cookies:

Some travelers have complained about airline sites tracking the browsing history of customers and hiking up the prices based on it. So it is better to clear your browsing history now and then to avoid these airline sites from sneaking on you.

You can read more about this here. 
Deals and Price tracking:

You can also look into sites like Airfare Watchdog which provides a regularly updated compilation of the best air ticket deals online. 
Also a more intelligent way to look for cheap air tickets is to use the price tracking option provided by Yapta. Here you can input your origin and destination location and search for air tickets. Then you can select a bunch of air tickets and choose the ‘Track Price Drops’ option and wait for the prices to drop. Yapta will track these prices for you and send you a notification when prices drop.

Another similar feature is provided by Bing Travel search engine. You can search for air tickets and the search engine will provide you a prediction of when the prices are going to drop. Now, you might doubt the prediction accuracy of the search engine, but surprisingly the predictions are  found to be 74% accurate. You can read more about farecasthere. technology used by Bing travel

Author:RSB

Happy holidays from Gmail-Free Gmail Postcards

Nowadays most  people use email for not just conversations, even to send personal invitations for important occasions, greetings.... Email has almost replaced the postcard which was widely used send greetings  just a few years ago. I personally like getting greeting cards rather than emails. If you are one who wish to mail cards this Holiday season and don't have time to mail cards to your dear ones, then think of the option by Google which has come up with Gmail Happy Holiday Cards ,where you just need to fill a simple online form and Google will send one free postcard on behalf of you. Isn't it cool!!.

You can type in your message of maximum 255 characters. This card will only be delivered if the address in is USA. The cards come with are of 6 designs and you can choose one. I like "M-velope in Snow" and "Snowflakes" design. This is a limited till the supply lasts. So Hurry!!

The Wayback machine:Going back Web Memories

Have you ever wondered how the google webpage looked wayback in 1998 when it was launched?? There is a site that archives each and every site on the web. Its called the Wayback Machine of Internet Archive. You might be wondering as to what purpose is served in archiving the ever changing content of the web. The huge of amount of data gathered by the wayback machine is used as a documented library of the web. The information is freely available to general public who want to access the historical collection of data that has been collected over the years in digital form. 

As of 2009 the Wayback machine has collected around 3 petabytes of data with the data growing at 100 terabytes per month. The Wayback machine recently completed a 2 billion page web crawl and took a complete snapshot of the entire web using their Heritrix web crawler tool. Websites were nominated from institutions across the world in order to capture content from wide variety of countries, geographic locations and language bases.

Google Web page in 1998:

 Yahoo Web page in 1996:

 Microsoft Web page in 1998:

Charging – The ‘Wireless’ Way

The next generation charging device is here; it’s called the ‘PowerMat’. This new gizmo can recharge all your portable devices wirelessly. Currently it supports all your favorite portable devices like iphone, all types of ipods, blackberry phones, Nintendo DS, GPS devices etc.

The device which looks like a surf board can charge up to 3 devices simultaneously. All you need to do is just connect the Powermat to power supply and place your device on the Powermat. Led lights on the Powermat indicate whether the device is charging or has been fully charged. Once the device is fully charged it automatically shuts off power to the device to save power.

Currently Powermat is priced at $99, which is affordable. It comes with a universal receiver with 8 tips which supports 8 devices. But the universal receiver can charge only once device at a time which is a drawback. The manufacturer of the Powermat is also selling custom cases, charging docks for popular devices like iphone, ipod, blackberry separately which are priced from $29.99-$39.99.

Check out other features of PowerMat here: http://bit.ly/8nhHv

Videos:

Top Websites to Look for Deals

All set for Black Friday?. Having finalized what to buy are looking online where you get the best deals, coupons?. Confused which site to check or which site offers you the best, good deals. This article is to help you people in letting you know where you can get good deals.

FatWallet: Offers good deals, coupons and cash backs and these are not limited only to tech items, you get deals for all type of items from housing accessories, clothes, office, electronics..

SlickDeals: This is a user driven community site where users post and rate which are the best deals that are found in the net currently. Here as well you will get to know the hot deals found on the web in most of the categories.

Deals.Woot: This is similar to Digg like web site where the users woots(diggs) the current best deals found on the web.

Deals2Buy: This site mainly give information about the deals, coupons for tech items like electronics, software, computer etc..

DealsPlus: Offers the deals and coupons for 15000 stores. Here again you get deals and coupons for items in most of the categories like housing accessories, clothes, office , electronics.

DealsofAmerica: This site apart from offering deals and coupons like the above mentioned site offers travel deals and freebies as well.

DealTaker: Another site similar to DealsofAmerica where you get travel stuff, free stuff too.

Still need more site? check DealCatcher and 6PM too.

Disclaimer: These  are the views of the author in deciding which sties are top,best. These views are not based  on any survey or other external source.

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Top 10 Youtube Sensations of all time

1.       Charlie bit my finger:

Charlie and Harry’s father had taken out the camera that day to record some footage of the two kids to share it with their parents. It was then that this magical moment happened and the rest is history. The video is the most viewed video on youtube and has inspired countless videos in the form of remakes, parodies, remixes, enactments. Don’t miss this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

2.       Evolution of Dance:

The next video was uploaded by Judson Laipply a motivational speaker who used to close his show ‘the inspirational comedy‘with a dance performance to popular songs from Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson. Soon it became a hit with the crowds. This video has 130 million views on youtube. He recently has uploaded a new video ‘the evolution of dance 2’ where he has danced to some recent tracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

 

3.       Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend

Music video from Girlfriend Avril lavigne is the 3^rd most viewed video on youtube. But as per the rumors on the internet, this video cheated its way to the top. Die hard fans of Avril Lavigne at avrilbandaids.com used a scheme where the video was opened on multiple browsers and refreshed every 15 secs so that the view counts go up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ25-glGRzI

4.       Miley Cyrus - 7 Things - Official Music Video (HQ)

The next video is from the teen sensation Miley Cyrus called ‘7 things ‘ from her album Breakout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0Wv5DJhuk

5.       Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music

5^th most viewed video on youtube is from the pop artist Rihanna. This video has 105 million views. The song ‘Don’t Stop the Music’ is from her bestselling album Good Girl Gone Bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsRWpK4pf90

6.       Chris Brown – With You

Right next to Rihanna is her ex boyfriend Chris brown with his music video ‘With You’ from his 2007 

album Exclusive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqumjziPTzk

7.       Jeff Dunham- Achmed The Dead Terriost 
The 7^th most viewed video on youtube is a performance from ‘Jeff Dunham’ a Ventriloquist and Stand up comedian. This video is a funny take on the issue of terrorism. ‘Achmed’ the failed suicide bomber as seen in the video became famous for his line ‘ Silence! I kill You! ’ .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqumjziPTzk

8.       Lo que tú Quieras Oír

This video is noted for being one of the top non English videos to be among the most viewed on youtube.

Video description from wiki:

The plot centers around "Sofia", who returns home to find a voicemail from her husband, "Miguel", announcing that he has left her. Sofia is initially depressed, but decides to remix the voice-mail so that it sounds like Miguel telling her that he loves her and that he is sorry for leaving her and asking for forgiveness. Sofia then tells the remixed-voicemail that she will not take Miguel back.

9.       Hahaha

This is a funny video of a baby laughing to funny noises made by his parents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk

10.    Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love

10^th most viewed video is the music video by Leona Lewis ‘Bleeding Love’ .Leona lewis is a 3 time grammy nominee who rose to fame after winning the third edition of the British television show ‘The X Factor ‘.

The actual video is not available in US due to copyright restrictions. But you can watch the same video uploaded on Leona lewis’s channel here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ctIC65PV0

Author:RSB

Jobs Jobs Jobs....Who is hiring?

If you are searching for jobs(internship, part time, full time) and are unaware who is hiring and where to apply then here it is the list of companies and the links to apply who are currently hiring!!!. The job listed below are mostly related to software and IT industry.

neustar is hiring

http://neustar.biz/careers/index.cfm

cPanel is hiring.

 http://cpanel.net/jobs.html

Orbis Technologies is hiring

http://www.roost.com/web/jobs.action

Think in Palo Alto is looking for LAMP and mobile programmers. 

 http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html

RJMetrics is hiring an exceptional User Experience and Interface Engineer (Philadelphia / South NJ)http://rjmetrics.theresumator.com/apply/

Digg is hiring!

http://digg.com/jobs

Rapleaf is hiring

http://www.rapleaf.com/careers

SeatGeek is looking for a lead backend engineer.

http://seatgeek.com/main/lamp_developer

Pattern Insight is hiring engineers in Mountain View, CA

http://patterninsight.com/about/careers.php

http://patterninsight.com/jobs/systems-se-fulltime.php

MyNewPlace.com in San Francisco is looking for a Java web developer. http://www.mynewplace.com/jobs/technology/web-application-developer

Yodle is hiring

 http://www.yodle.com/careers/

WePay is hiring PHP engineers in Palo Alto, CA.

http://www.wepay.com

OmniTI is hiring:

http://www.omniti.com/is/hiring

DocumentCloud is hiring

 http://documentcloud.org

Wikispaces is hiring.

http://www.wikispaces.com/Jobs

Paragon Lake (Lexington, MA) - Product Manager, E-commerce developer, Java developer, and more: http://paragonlake.com/company/careers.php

Connected Ventures (CollegeHumor.com) is looking for a PHP developer. http://www.collegehumor.com/jobs

Huddler is hiring in San Francisco.

 http://www.huddler.com/careers.html

OpenX is hiring:

http://www.openx.org/jobs

The Nerdery is hiring for Java, C# ASP.NET, PHP, and Frontend / Designer.

http://nerdery.com/jobs

Gotham Digital Science is hiring

See http://www.gdssecurity.com/g/ca.php for more information

Cloudera is hiring.

If interested, drop your CV and a cover letter to jobs@cloudera.com

(Medialets) hiring in NYC

http://www.medialets.com/

Rackspace is also hiring in the Austin, TX area

https://rackspace.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi

Gnip (www.gnip.com) is hiring Rails / AJAX developers in Boulder, Colorado.

http://www.gnip.com/company/jobs/web-developer and email at eric@gnip.com

Facebook is  hiring

http://www.facebook.com/careers/

AboutUs is hiring full-time developers in Portland, OR.

http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs

Aardvark is hiring

 http://vark.com/jobs

New York Times is hiring

 http://www.nytimes.com/features/openings/

PlayHaven is hiring multiple positions (devs, UI/UX engineers)

 http://www.playhaven.com/about/jobs/

Bump (YC S09, Sequoia) is hiring in Mountain View, CA

http://bumptechnologies.com/jobs.phtml

College Humor is hiring PHP developers

http://www.collegehumor.com/jobs#job_15

SB Nation is hiring a Ruby/Rails developer and an operations engineer:

http://www.sbnation.com/jobs

Academia.edu is hiring

 http://www.academia.edu/jobs

CCP Games, the makers of Eve Online, are hiring programmers in Atlanta, Iceland and Shanghai. Apply at http://ccpgames.com/jobs.aspx

Panjiva, is hiring a web app developer in Cambridge, MA

(http://panjiva.com/jobs)

Meebo is hiring

 http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/

Sticker Giant out of Boulder, CO is hiring

http://www.stickergiant.com/blog/work-at-stickergiant/

Kickstarter is hiring

(http://kickstarter.com/)

Yelp is hiring.

http://www.yelp.com/jobs

Snaptic is hiring

 (http://snaptic.com)

Palantir Tech is hiring

 http://www.palantirtech.com/careers

WhitePages.com is hiring.

https://whitepagesinc.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/alljobs...

IMVU Inc. is hiring

 http://bit.ly/6XTJ5r

Naughty Dog is hiring

(http://www.naughtydog.com/)

Ooyala is hiring!

http://www.ooyala.com/about/careers

Telligent Systems is hiring several QA engineers, DB engineer, and tech writers, for C# and SQL Server. Most jobs are in Dallas

http://telligent.com/about/careers/

Justin.tv is hiring

http://www.justin.tv/jobs

Mozilla is hiring

http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

BackType is hiring developers to join the founding team of two in San Francisco: http://www.backtype.com/jobs

Also check these links for more jobs

http://www.last.fm/about/jobs

http://www.citrixonline.com/careers.tmpl

http://www.mybanktracker.com

http://www.meetmoi.com/careers

http://www.RoRJobs.com

http://www.windycitizen.com/

http://www.craftedfun.com/

Disclaimer: We are no way involved  with any of these companies. The list is here to help people get the right job and the company get the right candidate.The list was collected from HN news site.