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There is every reason to be. This is the best time for the budding bloggers(like Me) to let their voice count. There would be a 6 topics and 18 discussion seeds to blog on. A fresh and unique idea would be chosen as the voice of the Indian Bloggers and that blogger is rewarded accordingly. The blogathon is open to Indian and Foreign Nationals too.

Sharpen your scalpels bloggers. Let your opinion be the voice of the people.

For more information on how to enroll and to know more about the Blogathon.

Ever since Darth Vader and Obi Vaan Kanobi had been using the LightSabers, they have been made fun of.

Have a look at this video and tell what you think of.

Not of the toaster, but, of the LightSaber.

How?

In a recent post on How Google enables to search-within-search there hadbeen some key points mentioned on how this works.

The brand named sites like ebay.com and amazon.com and nike.com and a plethora of similar sites are worried that the users will be dragged away through the ad sales to their competitors. As Google offers a secondary search within the results, it offers an option for the users to refine their searches entirely, not using the Google search, but that particular site’s search engine and displaying the ads of their competitors.

Here is an excerpt from a Technical Consultant : “Analysts generally praise the feature as helping users save steps, but for Web publishers and retailers, there are trade-offs… ‘Google is showing a level of aggressiveness with this that’s just not needed,’ said [one Internet consultant]… Take, for instance, a [test where] users of Google searched The Washington Post and were given a secondary search box. Those who typed ‘jobs’ into that second box saw related results for The Post’s employment pages, but the results were bordered by ads for competing employment sites like CareerBuilder or Monster.com. So even though users began the process by stating their intention to reach The Post, Google’s ads steered at least some of them to competitors. Similar situations arose when users relied on Google to search nytimes.com.”

Interesting, huh. Share with me how you would be possibly be benefitted with this slick feature.

Who wouldn’t love an Easter Egg? Hmmm… There are a few, but leaving them aside, here are some easter eggs which reminds you that software developers are not nerds with no fun and family life. We love Humor, a lot, of course.

10. Easter Egg in Mozilla Firefox: Never thought about it? Yes, there is an easter egg in our favourite internet browser. Just type about:mozilla in the address bar and press Enter. Voila, The Bible of Mozilla opens and lets you know how the Genesis of the Browser started.

9. Internet Explorer 6 or 7: Type javascript:window.name="TheWCEE";location.href="res://shdoclc.dll/wcee.htm" into the address bar to have a look at the developers of the IE.

8. Google Earth 4.2 Flight Simulator:  Dont have it? Get it here. Launch it and Hit Ctrl+Alt+A and Mac Users, hit Cmd+Opt+A. You get to see a complete set of a flight simulator which lets you choose the airport, flight type which lets you to fly inside Google Earth. Have a look at it for sure.

For more: LifeHacker