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After Alister Pereira was left of with a sentence of just six months after having killed seven labourers, the Mumbai High Court has taken charge of the case and has asked the police to submit all the evidence in the case. Without doubt, the police have been really sloppy in the investigation and a lot [...]

Come Halloween and Netvibes is ready with a brand new Halloween Theme.

This one is very different from the other themes that Netvibes has because this is the first dark theme they have.
Though there is a dark background one wise thing is that the modules still have a white background with black text making it easy [...]

WordPress today released v2.0.5. This release has been named Ronan after Ryan Boren’s son.
There are a huge number of fixes as well as some security related ones. Hence, it is highly recommended that you upgrade your installation. Mark’s got quick list of changes in 2.0.5 if you want to review in short what has changed.
I’ll [...]

Received an email today of a brand new blog launched by C|Net.
The blog is called Crave
So what exactly is Crave?
Crave is a blog from the editors and writers at CNET that shows the hottest and sexiest digital gadgetry on the horizon. And this dedicated site is all about showcasing the products that people like you [...]

Yahoo! may own Del.icio.us however, that hasn’t stopped it from launching a fantastic update to Yahoo! Bookmarks.
If you compare that with the old version (which I didn’t know existed), you will understand how major the upgrade actually is!
They also have a comprehensive Flash Tutorial that will teach you how to use the new bookmarks interface.

I [...]

WordPress.com today released Domain Registration and Mapping for your WordPress.com blog.
This is a paid addon. Only mapping with your existing domain is $10/year. If you don’t have a domain name you can register and map it for $15.
There was a time I would have taken this service. However, I no longer maintain and update my [...]

You can now harness the power of Google to build your very own search engine tailored to sites you want to search.
Google has just launched Custom Search Engine. All you have to do is give it a name and select which sites you want it to search from. You have the option of either searching [...]

Gautam pointed out this article in the Economic Times today about Google’s Social Networking Site, a.k.a. Orkut
In a nutshell, this is because of the “We Hate India” community which has been present on Orkut for a long time now. I’m stunned that Orkut has not done anything about it in so many months of [...]

After a great deal of speculation, discussions and debates, Google is finally set to acquire YouTube for $1.65m, a paltry sum indeed.
The official press release says that YouTube will continue to operate independently.
This ofcourse leaves the question of what will happen to Google Video.
Will it continue to run independently? Or will it now search within [...]

You can now ping Google Blog Search directly when you post a new entry on your blog.
This is similar to pinging PingOMatic.
The benefit is that you can let blog search know that you have updated your blog as soon as you do it.
I don’t know how quickly they take to add this into their database, [...]