oh! project hosting from Google Code

Everybody likes to pick on SourceForge. It's slow, CVS is unavailable for days at a time, it took years to add Subversion support, it has an issue tracker not much more advanced than a stone tablet, etc…. A handful of alternatives exist but none have gained much traction. This week, Google announced a new open source hosting service that could finally provide a real choice.

Time will tell, but I predict Google Code hosting will be a big hit. SourceForge isn't going away, but now it faces some serious competition. It's about time.

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Apple’s U2 iPod

Apple’s U2 iPod, based on the fifth generation 30 GB iPod, holds up to 7,500 songs, 25,000 photos, or over 75 hours of video, and features an all-black stainless steel enclosure, red click wheel, and custom-engraved signatures of the members of rock band U2.

It has Apple’s patent-pending Auto-Sync technology that automatically downloads digital music, podcasts, photos, audiobooks, home movies, music videos and television shows onto the iPod and keeps them up-to-date whenever the iPod is plugged into a Mac or Windows computer using USB 2.0. It also integrates with the iTunes Music Store and iTunes digital music jukebox. The U2 iPod has up to 14 hours of battery life for music playback.The device retails for $329 USD.

Accessible Search from Google Labs

Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the most accessible pages in that result set.

http://labs.google.com/accessible/

Webaroo - Search Unblugged

Webaroo is a free software program and service that lets you search and browse real web pages without a connection. Webaroo's advanced technology makes it simple for you to take the web with you -- and find what you are looking for anywhere, anytime. It's easy -- Webaroo stores searchable web content on your laptop, PDA or smart phone. It's fast -- searches run and pages load instantly at memory speed. It's fresh -- your Webaroo content is updated every time you sync.

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Discover New Sites using Stumble Upon

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, you'll get high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by friends and other SU members with similar interests. Rating these sites shares them with your friends and peers – you will automatically 'stumble upon' each others favorites sites.


In effect, StumbleUpon's members collectively share the best sites on the web. You can share any site by simply clicking I like it. This passes the page on to friends and like-minded people – letting them "stumble upon" all the great sites you discover.


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Mr.Narayana Murthy to retire on August 20

Mr. Narayana Murthy is undoubtedly one of the most famous persons from Karnataka. He is known not just for building the biggest IT empire in India but also for his simplicity. Almost every important dignitary visits Infosys campus. The beauty about his family is that they believe in sharing their wealth with the needy.

"On August 20, I will complete 60 years and as per company policy, I will retire. From August 21, I will, if the board of directors decide, continue as the Non-Executive Chairman. The board will also decide on the Chief Mentor because the Chief Mentor has to be an executive person who will come to the office every day,'' Mr. Murthy told reporters here after chairing the 25th annual general meeting of the company.
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Why String class is immutable?

In this blog i am writing about the immutable String class in java. The reason for making it as immutable object.

JVM internally maintains the "String Pool". To achive the memory
efficiency, JVM will refer the String object from pool. It will not
create the new String objects. So, whenevr you create a new string
literal, JVM will check in the pool whether it already exists or not.
If already present in the pool, just give the reference to the same
object or create the new object in the pool. There will be many
references point to the same String objects, if someone changes the
value, it will affect all the references. So, sun decided to make it
immutable.

Google Links

In this blog i am posting the links for all the google products. I am using this products in my day-to-day life, i would like to share this info with others. If you try, you will start love each product.

HomePage

Google Personal Search
Google Personalised HomePage
Google Suggest

Online Search

Google Images Search
Google Maps/Local
Google Video
Google Blogsearch
Google Book Search
Google Ridefinder
Google Transit

Desktop Search

Google Desktop

Community

Orkut
Google Groups
Blogger
GMail

Business

Google Finance

Google Office

Google Online Wordprocessor
Google Spreadsheets
Google Calendar
NoteBook

Photos Organiser

Picasa Webalbum
Picasa(Photos Organiser)
Hello

WebMasters

Google Pages
Google Analytics
Site Maps
Google Trends
GMail for Your domain

Tools

Google Labs
Google Webaccelerator
Google Reader(Feeds)
Google Mars
Google Toolbar
Google Webalerts
Google Newsalerts

Scholar

Google Scholar
Google Code
Google Answers

The Wired 40

What makes a company wired? We start by looking for the basics: strategic vision, global reach, killer technology. But that's not enough. To land a spot on our annual Wired 40 list, a business also needs the X-factor – a hunger for new ideas and an impatience to put them into practice. Such companies inevitably become trendsetters, literally: As we debated and redebated the list this year, six major themes flickered into view. From the rise of peer production to the end of carbon pollution, they tell us where the world is heading. These are the companies leading the way.

01. GOOGLE
02. APPLE
03. SAMSUNG
04. GENENTECH
05. YAHOO
06. AMAZON.COM
07. TOYOTA
08. GENERAL ELECTRIC
09. NEWS CORP.
10. SAP
11. INFOSYS TECH
12. CISCO
13. ELECTRONIC ARTS
14. NETFLIX
15. SALESFORCE.COM
16. MEDTRONIC
17. SUNPOWER CORP.
18. IBM
19. EBAY
20. INFOSPACE
21. NVIDIA
22. VERIZON
23. FLEXTRONICS
24. INTEL
25. MONSANTO
26. EMC
27. DUPONT
28. JETBLUE
29. LENOVO
30. TSMC
31. BP
32. LI & FUNG
33. EXELON
34. COSTCO
35. GEN-PROBE
36. MICROSOFT
37. L-3 COMMUNICATIONS
38. CITIGROUP
39. COMCAST
40. PFIZER

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/wired40_pr.html

Writely Invitations

I have got invitation for writely an online wordprocessor application from Google labs.
A tool which i am expecting for a long time. I like the coloborate feature of writely.

I would like to send invitation for interested people. post a comment with your email, i will send the invitations.