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I just stumbled upon the Google.co.in page and saw this drop down menu for other search options.
I quickly checked it on other sites like Google.com ad other country specific sites but they were all looking as usual.

The Google's logo on top left conrer was showing up the menu as shown in the image after i clicked the drop down pointer visible just next to the logo. [More]

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I was shopping for a memory card the other day and got the chance to speak to a guy who was looking for laptop. His requirements were pretty simple: Watch high definition movies and surf internet. He was not going to do any coding or development apart from creating couple of excel or word documents or may be edit some images and videos. [More]

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There are no two thoughts about Apple's quality and hence its dominance in the mobile market. But, given the competition and the quality products available from other vendors, it becomes absolutely sensible to compare before showing more loyality to Apple than the your own pocket!

If you are a proud owner of iPhone 4 and looking to buy 4S, i would say that giving a thorough look at the new offerings in 4S as compared to 4 would make sense. This is because, i don't see major changes as far as upgrade is concerned. If you are a first time buyer, you should offcourse go for it after giving a chance to similar offerring available in market.

Here are some of the key differences and commonalities that i think matter. [More]

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Yebhi.com is an online shopping mall and has been in news for its aggressive marketing in India.

I have been one of the victim who is sufferring from their continuous and unwanted promotonal codes twice a day!! The Indian government's decision of barring all promotional SMS and calls recently gave a breather and i did see a substantial drop in the number of calls and SMS as i registered for 'FULLY Blocked' category.

But, people in India do not STOP here. They have all the Jugaad's (tricks) to bypass government laws. [More]

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Ever thought of keep a watch on your home while you are traveling or away abroad on a business trip?

Many people have this need where they have their old parents in their home country and they are travelling frequently. Or to keep an eye on the home alone child while you are away.

There is a need but how do you do it? Is there any solution which can easily help you track your home anytime and anywhere?

Yes, there is and is called Placeshifting technology. It is a concept in which you can view live or recorded media on a remote device.
It is a pretty known service in developed countries and is now making its debut in India. [More]

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If you are a YouTube channel partner and have opted for showing up ADS, you are most probably confused about the difference between "Hosted Adsense For Content" and "YouTube" earnings shown on your Adsense reports.
YouTube says that they only publish revenue data at the end of month but the "Hosted Adsense For Content" shows data on daily basis. What is this data ll about then? [More]

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I just noticed a new change that Google has introduced to its custom search box and its results. It is now showing the image thumbnail of the image that appear on web page. It is being shown on the left hand side of the search results.

I am not sure if this is part of Google experiment or the change has been commited as i did not hear about it yet on any major technology blog. [More]

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I am always on the lookout for a good and FREE image editing application for desktop or SmartPhone.
I recently talked about Adobe Photoshop Express and how it can help you crop, change the lighting and do other small changes to your image in phone itself. [More]

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Future is here. Did you ever wish to charge your mobile without any clumsy cords/wires? I certainly did and also saw a documentary on Discovery channel couple of years ago.

I knew that the research was ON and it would come out someday. The day has certainly come! Panasonic is launching a solar powered charging station (in the form of a table) which can transmit electricity wirelessly to your mobile!
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If you are using a Samsung's Android based SmartPhone, then there is a good news for you. You can leave your USB data cable aside and simply access all your mobile's content via internet browser like Google Chome, MS Internet Explorer or any other browser.
Kies AIR is an application developed by Samsung and supports thier own SmartPhones. You simply need to download and install the application on your mobile from Samsung applications site. [More]

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Did you know that Adobe has a Photoshop Express application for Android and its FREE too.
The app. lets you do the basic photo editing like crop, adding borders, changing brightness and couple of other things.

Many times, we feel the need of polishing an image before uploading it on Facebook in mobile itself.
What is better than taking a picture with mobile camera, quickly edit it and upload it then and there. [More]

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I just noticed an interesting thing in the Google ADs and wanted to share it here. The phone number in the AD was actually converted to a drop down box which had options of calling that number right from there using Skype!! [More]

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Google just launched the Go Mo site that helps you to test your web portal on a mobile. It aims to help you with the various points that are most important while designing a mobile user interface.

Since, it is a Google product, I had high expectations about the intricacies that the the tool might help with. But, to my surprise, it is pretty ordinary and looks to be only talking about the page load time in reality. [More]

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If you host your website on GoDaddy and are using their own Email services, you must have realized the performance bottleneck.

Did you know that you can very well use the Gmail Application with your custom email IDs i.e. such as anil.gupta@am22tech.com.
Yes, it is possible by just changing the back-end Email server to Gmail keeping the Email IDs intact and that too for FREE.
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There are quite a number of free third party commenting systems available online but there is

always a dilemna over which one to choose. The most used and prominent ones are Disqus and Facebook comments.

I was also confused but decided in favor of Disqus and here are some of the key points that i
considered before making a decision. You may also find them useful to decide for you. [More]