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Twitter Introduces “Retweet to share tweets” feature in the BETA stage

November 19th, 2009

Quite a while ago, Twitter had unlocked the LISTS feature only for few & one of our team mates had posted about it. Likewise today Twitter the social networking giant, introduced a new feature called “Retweet To Share Tweets” to make the Retweets look in a new & efficient manner.  Previously our Twitter account (i.e. TalkOnSomething Twitter Account) got the opportunity to preview the LISTS feature as that was also introduced in the BETA stage.

» Read more: Twitter Introduces “Retweet to share tweets” feature in the BETA stage

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Soon after Firefox 3.5.4 , Firefox 3.5.5 Released

November 8th, 2009

Yes you heard it right, just as I had written an article over Firefox 3.5.4′s Release & its main features,  now its time for  Firefox 3.5.5. Firefox keeps on updating things to make it more stable & to serve the user with a better browser than other Browsers. So now lets see  whats newly added/customized in this newer version which just released after a span of about 8-9 days.

» Read more: Soon after Firefox 3.5.4 , Firefox 3.5.5 Released

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Happy Halloween.. and what to do next ? Read the post

October 31st, 2009

Hi all today is the celebration of Halloween. Happy Halloween to all

Halloween (also spelled Hallowe’en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a secular celebration but some have expressed strong feelings about perceived religious overtones.

So i am planning to give off some special links you need to visit this Halloween some might be funny and some or extreme ones that can fetch you an XBOX360 for FREE

» Read more: Happy Halloween.. and what to do next ? Read the post

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Microsoft OR Google To Strike A Deal With Both Twitter & Facebook

October 22nd, 2009

The hottest news which is currently heating up is the Microsoft – Twitter deal through Bing , but did you know about Microsoft – Facebook deal too through the same Bing ? Yes , thats the news which is rising now. Microsoft is soon going to announce separate but nonexclusive deals with both Twitter & Facebook to integrate their real-time feeds of status updates into Bing Search ; the newer version of Live.

» Read more: Microsoft OR Google To Strike A Deal With Both Twitter & Facebook

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Microsoft gives ebook to learn how to deploy windows 7 for FREE

October 21st, 2009

Its time to upgrade your PC to the most awaiting operating system “WINDOWS 7” and only one day left that will be made available in the market, already computer selling giants like DELL, HP are placing AD’s on newspapers and other medias that their new products come equipped with WIN 7.

Now people who buy the OS Microsoft as brought an E Book to makes users to deploy the OS in proper way, some common issues that are found and remedies, compatibility issues and how to come over this problem.

» Read more: Microsoft gives ebook to learn how to deploy windows 7 for FREE

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Envato changes Flashden to ActiveDen

October 19th, 2009

If you are good in buying or selling flash stuff like preloaders, templates, gallery @ flashden then from today onwards you will see www.flashden.com as a tabs page to its sister sites. That’s right no more flashden but don’t get tensed you will find all the superb resource at a new site called ActiveDen (everything is same only the name is changed). Too bad that i used to think that flashden was nice.

» Read more: Envato changes Flashden to ActiveDen

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Promote It – Orkut’s New Feature

October 18th, 2009

Some people might be confused about the title of this post “Orkut’s New Feature – Promote It” ,  ‘Promote it‘ is the name of the additional feature which has been recently added in Orkut. Yesterday when I just logged into my account I got an Image with link + contents just above the Advertisement section in Orkut. So I refreshed the page & I got a different Promotion , then I went onto the Promote page & read about it.

» Read more: Promote It – Orkut’s New Feature

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Barack Obama Celebrated Diwali at White House

October 17th, 2009

Many must have thought that Diwali - The Festival of Lights is only celebrated in India as its of Indian origin , but thats not the correct way of thinking. Even United States of America (USA) under the presidency of Barack Obama.

“I think it’s fitting that we begin this work in the week leading up to the holiday of Diwali — the festival of lights — when members of some of the world’s greatest faiths celebrate the triumph of good over evil,” Mr. Obama said at the function held at the historic East Room.

» Read more: Barack Obama Celebrated Diwali at White House

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Its time to take action for “Climate Change”

October 16th, 2009

Had you ever participated in Earth Hour ? ( to switch off your lights for an hour for a cause to protect environment )

Now its time to take serious actions on the changes happening in Climate. Recently in India especially in Andhra Pradesh due to heavy rain made 1000′s of people to cry and many lost their shelter and food.

We have to take or make an action to protect ourselves. Making environment green can help us to survive.

» Read more: Its time to take action for “Climate Change”

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Big Boss is back with Season 3

October 8th, 2009

Well first of all I know that Big Boss Season 3 had already been started on 4th October (Sunday) but I did’nt get time to post about it due to my ongoing exams in college.

But the news is that after a lot of success in the first two seasons BIG BOSS the Indian version of Big Brother whose 5th Season was won by Shilpa Shetty. & she also hosted Big Boss Season 2 , now its time for the Big B i.e. Amitabh Bachchan to host it.

» Read more: Big Boss is back with Season 3

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The all new Google Translate Gadget for you websites to change your site lanuguage.

October 4th, 2009

Well lot of plugins are available to translate your page to different language. All major plugins use the Google Translate toolkit.

Google Recently announce the Google Translate Gadget to translate upto 51 different languages. Its very easy to implement on the side. Just copy the code and paste it on the site and its done to translate your page to user required language in few seconds (or minutes depending on the speed).

» Read more: The all new Google Translate Gadget for you websites to change your site lanuguage.

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ISRO – NASA Collaboration Discovers & Confirms Water On Moon

September 25th, 2009

After ISRO launched the OceanSat – 2 satellite & 6 other nano satellites ,  on the very next day the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) - NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration) collaboration achieved a great milestone of finding water on the surface of the moon . Well many people may think that water means really water in liquid form , but the water confirmed on the surface of the moon is not actually water but one Hydrogen + one Oxygen atom forming Hydroxyl molecule . This molecule was found the moon’s (Lunar) surface. ISRO’s Chandrayaan – I carried some instruments like Moon Impact Probe (MIP) and Hyper-Spectral Imager (HySI) belonging to ISRO while the others like Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) and Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR) belonging to NASA. Today NASA also confirmed that ISRO played a very crucial role in the discovery of water on the lunar surface & gave ISRO equal credit in this discovery. NASA has already confirmed the presence of Hydroxyl molecules on the moon’s surface today in their press conference , while ISRO will officially confirm it tomorrow morning. NASA also thanked ISRO on this discovery.

» Read more: ISRO – NASA Collaboration Discovers & Confirms Water On Moon

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New worm moves in twitter via Direct Messages

September 24th, 2009

A new phishing or a dangerous worm is moving around twitter profiles so be careful. A direct message will be sent to you with a link an when you visit that link (holy christ) you login information will be stolen. So be careful while visiting links.

It is found that this is roaming on DM’s but have no reports messages via followers.

» Read more: New worm moves in twitter via Direct Messages

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ISRO launched 7 Satellites In 20 Minutes – 1200 Seconds

September 24th, 2009

Yesterday i.e. on the 23rd of september ISRO ( Indian Space Research Organisation ) launched the OceanSat – 2 spacecraft weighing 960 Kg with the help of the PSLV – C 14 ( Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ) & Six other nano satellites in a span of about 1200 seconds to be exact [20 minutes - Approx]

» Read more: ISRO launched 7 Satellites In 20 Minutes – 1200 Seconds

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Alexa updates itself with country ranks & flags along with share feature

September 18th, 2009

Alexa the most popular web site ranking system after Google Analytics. Alexa has updated the ranking pages of a particular site with their country ranks (Country Ranks are calculated on the highest amount of traffic a site gets from a particular country) along with Country Flags which makes it look more nicer than before.

As mentioned in the title of the topic , the “Share” feature is also a new concept were you can share your site’s ranks with Twitter or Facebook & display it to many people .

» Read more: Alexa updates itself with country ranks & flags along with share feature

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