22nd
Few more interesting open source operating systems …
Google SMS channels is a product of Google Labs India and it provides the joy of receiving information in the mobile @ free of cost!!!
Google SMS channel has a concept called channels which can be directly mapped to the “communities” which are present in Orkut or Facebook or the groups (Yahoo groups and Google groups) . Users are allowed to create and join the existing channels.
At present there are wide variety of channels from news to sports.. Also the user has the option to check the messages posted in a channel by the owner before subscribing to it.
I feel it’s worth giving a try…
A funny graph from GraphJam about the way people express their true feelings.
Do visit graphjam.com for many more funny charts and graphs.
from my Design Blog :) - www.adorabledesigns.info
A Mozilla official pointed Firefox users to the extension that adds Microsoft’s Bing to the list of the browser’s search engines after Google’s CEO downplayed consumers’ privacy concerns.
Read the full article here
Looks like some serious competition
-Nikky :)
Try it yourself:
1. Go to www.google.com
2. Type “search engine” in the search bar.
3. Surprise!!!! Google doesn’t appear in the first page.
4. More surprise… Bing, Yahoo and AltaVista ranked ahead of Google!!!

Step One

Step Two
Animated google
For ages the search engine giant Google.com kept its home page design plain and simple, But before few days I could able to absorb an animated effect in the Google home page. When I typed the URL in the browser I was able to view only certain elements in the home page , only after I moved the cursor inside , rest of the elements came to life J ( If I have to say it in “Flash” terms - the elements appeared from alpha 0 to alpha 100 ) .
The animated effect looks cool, but thousands of users like me would have started cursing the ISP and the browser ,before realizing that the change came from Google and not because of some problem with ISP or the browser !!!
Mininova goes legal
Before couple of days mininova.org, one of the largest torrent portal in the web decided to oblige the Dutch anti-piracy law to go legal by deleting all its illegal torrents and limit itself to content distribution service.
Read more in mininova blog