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Ever wondered how 2 comic charecters would look if morphed together? Here is a pic of Shrek + Avatar morphed together and we call it the SHREVATAR. A combined hero for fans of Shrek and Avatar. Dowload the Shrevatar wallpaper (1920×1200) Image credit – Moinid

When Nokia purchased Symbian operating system back in 2008 they had plans to make the platform available as open source… and now they’ve done it. The transition towards a future of all openness is now all achieved. And that too, few months ahead of schedule says the reports from the official website. For nearly a year, only the kernel was open source. Now the most popular development platform [...]

Aamir Khan, marketing genius is at work again, one can expect the craziest ways of promoting a film. This time the producers of 3 Idiots have struck a deal with online video sharing and broadcasting portal YouTube for an undisclosed sum. This legal downloading of films is aimed at people who are unable to go to the cinema. Known that this is the first time an entire movie can be legally downloaded [...]

Yahoo might shutdown Mybloglog from next month (January). MyBlogLog is a service focused on bloggers to create an own blogger community. It also includes a widget which you can use on your website that displays information about MyBlogLog users who visit your website. MyBlogLog was launched in January 2005 and in January 2007 acquired by Yahoo for just over 10 million U.S. dollars. Yahoo also closed [...]

Google has sent a mail to all users of Google AdSense and Google AdWords that this year the company will donate 20 million U.S. dollars to charity. Google does this instead of the annual gifts that the company normally sends which is talked about worldwide. In the mail there is a link to a special site where the following information is shown: “Charities couldn’t make more this year, unlike [...]

One of my friend who got inspired by my tips started blogging recently. Although, he wasn’t a geek like me and didn’t know more about web hosting\costs\privacy and stuff. His other friend helped him setting up a website for a cheap cost with minimum bandwidth\space and he finally kick started his blog. When I checked the whois information for his domain, I could get all his personal information [...]

Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh is not Net-savvy, he does not use cell phone, unlike Obama, who uses a Blackberry but he is on Facebook. . Regular updates, videos of speeches and links to media clippings. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the latest among India’s to get plugged in the generation to join social networking site Facebook. Singh’s profile on Facebook is regularly [...]

It all began when only a few were paying attention on September 2, 1969, when 20 people gathered in Kleinrock’s lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, to watch as two computers passed meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable, 40 years from now. When they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were [...]

The Bangalore city traffic police have started a new service where you can check if your vehicle has been registered for any traffic violations. Usually when you break a traffic rule and get caught, the cops give a printed ticket\invoice from their brand new Blackberry which comes with a Bluetooth printer. Here’s how you can find out if you’re vehicle has been registered for any traffic violations: Go [...]

Preity zinta is promoting Kings XI punjab, Mallika is talking about the movie hangover, rakhi sawant is all happy about the marriage, ayesha takia is loving all the good things people are saying about her new movie, priyanka is thinking about her brother that’s the synopsis about some top celebs on twitter!! Here is a list of Top 13 Bollywood celebrities on twitter. Follow them if you like [...]