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Top 10 Software Companies in India 2008-03-09 04:57:00 1 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 2 Infosys Technologies Ltd. 3 Wipro Technologies Ltd. 4 Satyam Computer Services Ltd. 5 HCL Technologies Ltd. 6 Patni Computer Systems Ltd. 7 I-flex Solutions Ltd. 8 Tech Mahindra Ltd. (formerly Mahindra-British Telecom Ltd. 9 Perot Systems TSI (I) Ltd. 10 L&T Infotech Ltd. Source NASSCOM The ranking given by NASSCOM (The National Association for Software
and Services) in June 2006, formed the basis for this report. This survey included companies incorporated in India
and they were ranked on their export revenue (excluding that from BPO –ITES). According to NASSCOM, India’s exports through software totaled US$ 17.3 billion in 2005-06, a 33% increase over the previous year. It is to be noted that companies headquartered outside In Read more:Companies
Edubuntu CDs 2008-03-09 04:50:00 Edubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with community based support. The Edubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Edubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. These freedoms make Edubuntu fundamentally different from proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you, and thousands of developers around the world, have the right to modify and build upon your software until it works exactly the way you want it to. Many people around the world exercise this right. And you can expe
Kubuntu CDs 2008-03-09 04:48:00 Kubuntu is a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle and part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone. Read more:Kubuntu
Order Your Free Partner Product DVD 2008-03-09 04:43:00 Create your own one-of-a-kind IDE with modifications developed by Microsoft® Visual Studio® Industry Partner
s (VSIPs). Order
a free VSIP DVD* to get a taste of what’s available. It’s loaded with more than 100 add-ins and packages—full and trial versions. You’ll get tools, languages, and components that can help you develop applications for Windows®, Web services, and mobile devices. Visit:
Free Trade Magazine Subscriptions & Technical Document Downloads 2008-03-09 04:41:00 Browse through extensive list of free Business, Computer, Engineering and Trade
magazines, white papers, downloads and podcasts to find the titles that best match your skills and interests; topics include management, marketing, operations, sales, and technology. Simply complete the application form and submit it. Remember to fill out the forms COMPLETELY. All are absolutely free to professionals who qualify. Visit: Read more:Magazine
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Amazon Toolbox: 40+ Amazon Tools 2008-03-09 04:40:00 The biggest online store out there has thousands of tools to compliment it. Some add to the shopping experience, and others are just plain odd, but all show amazing creativity. The following are all built on the Amazon
API. Miscellaneous A-Tree - An AJAX powered Amazon mashup that lets you browse Amazon in a branching tree style of organization. Amazames - Turn browsing Amazon into games such as Blackjack and Mahjong. Amazon Cli - Part shopping, part game. Shop Amazon in an old school style by typing in commands at a command line. GadgetSearch.net - Add Amazon top selling lists for different product categories to your iGoogle page. WatchThisNext.com - Drag-and-drop DVDs in to buckets, the more you do, the more precise the recommendations of what you should watch next beco Read more:Toolbox
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Marriage quotes by men 2008-03-09 04:38:00 I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always. It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A man was complaining to a friend: 'I had it all - money, a beautiful house,a big car, the love of a beautiful woman; then, Pow! it was all gone!' 'What happened?' asked the friend. 'My wife found out..' Wife: Let's go out and have some fun tonight. Husband: Okay, but if you get home before I do, leave the hallway light on. How many men does it take to open a beer? None. It should be opened by the time she brings it to the couch. A man rushes into his house and yells to his wife, 'Martha, pack up your things! I just won the California lottery!' Martha replies, 'Shall I pac
50 great widgets for your blog 2008-03-09 04:38:00 Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog. Whether you’d like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets
. We’ve assembled a list of 50 useful or simply cool widgets for your pleasure. And remember, the first rule of widgetizing your blog is - don’t overdo it! MyBlogLog’s Recent Readers - this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they’re also members of MyBlogLog. Mashable - get the latest social networking news from this very site. Flickr Flash Photo Stream Badge - displa
Love Marriage VS Arranged Marriage - The IT Perspective 2008-03-09 04:36:00 Love Marriage: Resembles procedural programming language. We have some set functions like flirting, going to movies together, making long conversations on phone and then try to fit all functions to the candidate we like. Arranged
Marriage: Similar to object oriented programming approach. We first fix the candidate and then try to implement functions on her. The main object is fixed and various functions are added to supplement the main program. The functions can be added or deleted. Love Marriage: It is a throwaway type of prototype as client requirements rises with time thus it is a dynamic system and difficult to maintain. Arranged Marriage: Requirements are well defined so use of waterfall model is possible. Love Marriage: Family system hangs because hardware called Read more:Perspective
50 most romantic things to do with your Girlfriend/Boyfriend 2008-03-09 04:33:00 1. Watch the sunset together. 2. Whisper to each other. 3. Cook for each other. 4. Walk in the rain. 5. Hold hands. 6. Buy gifts for each other. 7. Roses. 8. Find out their favorite cologne/perfume and wear it every time  you’re together. 9. Go for a long walk down the beach at midnight. 10. Write poetry for each other. 11. Hugs are the universal medicine. 12. Say I love you, only when you mean it and make sure they know you mean it. 13. Give random gifts of flowers/candy/ poetry etc. 14. Tell her that she’s the only girl you ever want. Do not lie. 15. Spend every second possible together . 16. Look into each other’s eyes. 17. Very lightly push up her chin, look into her eyes, tell her you love her, and kiss her lightly. 18. Read more:romantic
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Word 2000 - Visual Basic Credits 2008-03-08 19:58:00 Note: This is an improved version of the "VBA Developers Credits
" egg (Word 97) updated for Word 2000 Step 1: Start Word 2000. Step 2: Press Alt + F11 to start Microsoft VisualBasic
. Step 3: RIGHT-click on the toolbar and select Customize from the menu. Step 4: Click the Help menu. The Help menu should now be dropped down. Step 5: RIGHT-click on the About Microsoft Visual Basic
selection. You will now be faced with a floating menu with the option Name: &About Microsoft Visual Basic (About Microsoft Visual Basic will be in a editable text field) Step 6: Change the phrase &About Microsoft Visual Basic to "Show VB Credits" (no quotes). Step 7: Close the Customize box (using the Close button). Step 8: Select Help > Show VB Credits. Step 9: Enjo
Microsoft Word - Typing Excersise 2008-03-08 19:57:00 1. Open a new word document 2. Type "=rand(200,99)" (without the quotes) 3. Press enter 4. Wait a few second and see 5. try typing after "=rand" any variation from (1,1) to (200,99)to see different results; the first number being the repetition and seconde the number of times in a row... Read more:Microsoft
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Picasa - Teddy Bear in Picasa 2 2008-03-08 19:55:00 Open Picasa
2, then all you have to do is press Ctrl + Shift + Y at the same time, and a cute little teddy bear will come up onto the screen and, if you press Ctrl + Shift + Y more times, you get more, different-sized teddy bears! Read more:Teddy Bear
Paint - 10X Zoom 2008-03-08 19:55:00 If you click on the bottom line of the zooming box (right below 8x) you can get a 10x Zoom. (The biggest normally is 8x). I actually find this rather useful sometimes. I've never seen it in the documentation about Paint
though so this must be a hidden feature.
Paint - Hidden Drawing Tool Options 2008-03-08 19:54:00 Open paint. These eggs require usage of your ctrl key, so if you use ctrl to select a tertiary color, you will most likely want to select it to be the same as your primary color when using these eggs. (Tertiary colors are selected by holding ctrl while picking a color.) To stamp, select part of the image and hold ctrl while dragging it. To scuff, select part of the image and hold shift while dragging it. To use brush pressure, hold ctrl and press - or + on the keypad while drawing, spraying, or using a shape tool. To draw straight or diagonal lines with the pencil, hold Shift and move the mouse in that direction. Read more:Paint
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Google Earth - Firefox Logo 2008-03-08 19:53:00 This is another egg I found in GoogleEarth
: 1. First, open Google Earth
2. Copy and paste this in the "Fly to" box: 45° 7'25.87"N 123° 6'48.97"W 3. Wait until the program loads 4. Zoom in until you see a Firefox
logo. 5. Enjoy!
Adobe Photoshop CS2 - A "conversation" found in Photoshop.dll 2008-03-08 19:50:00 1. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe
\Adobe Photoshop
CS2 (or wherever you put Photoshop) 2. Open Photoshop.dll (right-click> Open With...> Choose Program...> Notepad). 4. Scroll down untill you see a lot of s p a c e d - o u t text. 5. Read what you see (I'll give you a dollar if you can read all of it) until you reach " E N D = * * * * * E N D * * * * * " This may (and I mean may) be accessible through Photoshop itself. From what I think, this can be accessible through the About Photoshop area, but there may be some other way... Read more:Adobe Photoshop
ACD See - ACD Systems Credits 2008-03-08 19:50:00 1. Open FotoCanvas 2. Go to Help -> About FotoCanvas Lite 3. Click on the ACD Systems
logo Watch the little windows that will pop up. Read more:Credits
Notepad - Hidden Bush Secrets! 2008-03-08 19:48:00 1.) Open an empty notepad file. 2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes) 3.) Save it with any file name with as .TXT file. 4.) Close it, and re-open it. ITS TRULY HIDDEN!!! Read more:Hidden
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DirectX End-User Runtimes (March 2008) 2008-03-08 19:43:00 This download provides the DirectX
end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use the Redistributable. For full details please review the DirectX SDK EULA.txt and DirectX Redist.txt files located in the license directory. This package is localized into Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, and English. Download : DirectX End-User Runtimes (March
2008) | MoreInfo...
Home wireless networks a security nightmare 2008-03-08 19:22:00 The number of wireless networks around here is slowly growing, there was just one insecure network a couple of years ago. I just checked now, and I can find 6 other wireless networks, there's probably more during different times of the day. The lower six networks shown here are all insecure. Three have no security
what-so-ever, and the other three use WEP, which was part of the original 802.11 standard from back in the 90s and deprecated about 5 years ago as it can be broken in just a few minutes. This isn't just about keeping people off your own network, this is about stopping people from receiving information you send back over the internet, when a machine is physically wired in, you'd have to be on a machine between you and the server to eavesdrop - on a wireless network however inf
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 (March 6, 2008) 2008-03-08 19:19:00 Microsoft is allowing Windows
XP Service
Pack 2 machines to be offered Windows XP Service Pack
3 ReleaseCandidate
2 via Windows Update. You may also download standalone update packages for Windows XP SP3 RC2, in English, German, and/or Japanese. Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be offered on Windows Update when Service Pack 3 releases in the first half of 2008. Download : Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 | MoreInfo & Other Languages Read more:March
Install / Uninstall Fonts in Vista 2008-03-08 19:18:00 If you wish to install a particular Font in Vista
, it is not just enough to copy-paste it in the Fonts
folder. You also have to register it. To install fonts in Vista, you may follow the following procedure: Open Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Fonts. In the LHS pane, rt clock on the Fonts folder and choose Install New Font, to open the add Font dialog box. Navigate to the folder where the new font is located and select it. Click Install. If you uncheck the Copy Fonts to Fonts Folder box, it will save the space on your hard disk by using the fonts from their source location itself. To uninstall a Font, select the particular Font, rt click on it and simply choose Delete. If inspite of installing a font, you are unable to see it in the fonts menu of the program, Read more:Uninstall
Windows carousel interface concept 2008-03-08 19:09:00 On the last day at the Microsoft MIX08 event, Daniel Makoski from the Microsoft Surface team presented a session called “Beneath the Surface: The Natural Experience Vision”. During the presentation, Daniel briefly touched on the work they were doing in Windows
surrounding natural user interfaces. Most of the presentation was focused around the Surface which is interesting enough in itself, but a few slides in regards to Windows caught my attention. It showed off a range of alternate user interfaces for people who may not have been familiar with the traditional computing paradigm, particularly in developing nations. These are some of the ideas they had.
Customize the Places Bar in Office 2000 and Office XP 2008-03-12 21:19:04 The Places
Bar is the gray bar along the left edge of the File-Open and File-Save dialog boxes in Microsoft Office 2000/XP. This bar has five buttons, no more and no less, each of which points to a different folder on your system. By default, these places are History, Documents, Desktop, Favorites, and Web Folders. (How many of us really use Web Folders...) It is actually possible to customize these places, although it's not documented, and it's far from easy. Here's how to do it. Note: make sure all Microsoft Office applications are closed before you proceed. Don't open any Office applications until you're done, either - they'll screw up all your settings. Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). Expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Office\ 9.0\ Common\
Turn off the 'Type a question for help' box in Office XP 2008-03-12 21:17:51 The Type a question for help box that appears on the menu bar of all Office XP applications can be removed, but it isn't obvious. You can't right-click it, and you can't drag it off the bar when customizing (or hold Alt), like you can with all other toolbar and menu items. And, there's no option in any of the dialog boxes that make mention of it. Here's how to hide it: Right-click the menu bar or toolbar, and select Customize. Right-click the 'Type a question for help' box, and turn off the Show Ask a Question box option. Click Close. You'll have to do this in each application to get rid of them all.
Make Automated Backups in Office 2000 2008-03-12 21:16:51 You can configure Word to make automated backups of every file (to prevent file corruption from the frequent crashes) by following these steps: Select Options from the Tools menu, and choose the Save tab. Turn on the Always create backup copy option, and click Ok. However, as part of Microsoft's goal of seamless interface consistency, this functionality is completely different in Excel: When saving a file, click Tools in the toolbar, and select General Options. Turn on the Always create backup option, and click Ok. The problem is that this option is only saved for the current file; you'll have to go through the above steps to have automatic backups for each and every file you save in Excel. In PowerPoint, there is no backup option at all. However, in Tools -> Options -> Save, Read more:Automated
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How to Speed-up your Connecting time in Windows 95 2008-03-12 21:13:07 To Speed
-up the time it takes for DUN (Dial Up Networking) to establish a connection with your ISP (Internet Service Provider): Select your connection in DUN (Start > Programs > Accessories > Dial-Up Networking Right-click your connection and choose Properties On the Server Types Tab, under Advanced Options, make sure that the check-box for Log on to network is unchecked Under Allowed network protocols select only TCP/IP
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, Connecting
Using Windows Server 2008: Controlling Communication with the Internet 2008-03-12 20:55:15 The Windows
Server® 2008 operating system includes a variety of technologies that communicate with the Internet
to provide increased ease-of-use and functionality. Browser and e-mail technologies are obvious examples, but there are also technologies such as automatic updating that help you obtain the latest software and product information, including bug fixes and security patches. These technologies provide many benefits, but they also involve communication with Internet sites, which administrators might want to control. This white paper provides information about the communication that flows between features in Windows Server 2008 and sites on the Internet, and describes steps to take to limit, control, or prevent that communication in an organization with many users. This whit Read more:Controlling
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