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[Apple] 5 New MacBook Pros to launch on 24th February!
Improve Your Search Queries with SortFix [Search Tool]
India Rail Info: Best portal for Indian Railways inquiry!
“Giveaway of the Day” – Download Licensed Software for Free Everyday

[Apple] 5 New MacBook Pros to launch on 24th February!

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 09:30 AM PST

It's everywhere now.. Apple is going to launch 5 new models of the MacBook Pros with its latest Intel Sandy Bridge processors which are said to be much faster and low on eating power, courtesy MacRumors. This is somehow not usual for Apple to launch on a Thursday unlike this time being the birthday of someone very important, guess who? Well it is no other than Steven Paul Jobs (Steve Jobs) who is the CEO of Apple Inc.

What's all expected

launch on 24th February, 2011 (Thursday)
a big price drop
should be much lighter and thinner
some nicer graphics to see!

Do post your comments about your views on Apple and Mac, I would love to know!

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Improve Your Search Queries with SortFix [Search Tool]

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 06:49 AM PST

All search engines expect you to search for something with 2 or 3 keywords. These combination of 3 different keywords will end up giving us decent search results.

The problem here is what if you are not sure about which keywords to use. You can actually end up searching through pages and scores of results from Google.

SortFix tries to help us search better with some interesting features by suggesting relevant keywords.

If you see, I searched my own name. I was automatically suggested some more keywords to be included.
These suggestions were like devilsworkshop, blog, twitter and Facebook.
I obviously did not want to Twitter and Facebook related links but wanted links related to devils workshop. I could simply drag and drop the suggested keywords to be included or excluded.
The search shows results from Bing, Bing Images, YouTube and obviously Google.

Now a days even Google is worried about content farms and is trying its best to block such results and with over 1 million spam pages created every hour on the internet, I found the concept behind SortFix very useful. It can also be used as a Firefox add-on.

Do try out SortFix and let me know your views through the comments.

Link: SortFix | Firefox Add-on

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India Rail Info: Best portal for Indian Railways inquiry!

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 04:00 AM PST

Finally I gathered enough courage to start writing about this website. Confused? India Rail Info is one website for Railway inquiries I have been using for past 1 year and there is no reason I would start using any other website, not even the Government railways portal. Since the portal hosts "so many" features, I would be unable to discuss them all here. However here are few of the important and unique features.

Excellent Navigation

Get a list of trains between any two stations or even just type out the Number or Name of the train. The website even helps you in completing names.

Personalized Experience

Login using Facebook or Google account and get to do all things with your history constantly saved. For e.g. PNR status lookup, Trains lookup, Blog entries and a lot more is saved.

PNR Prediction

The first of its kind, though not official but ofcourse helpful. This one I love to use as I can get recommendations from people on whether my waitlisted ticket will get confirmed or stay as waitlisted. You too can predict for other people and this builds up your profile. For e.g. you predict over 3 PNR entries & 2 prediction turns correct, so your profile will display an accuracy of 66.67%.

No Advertisement

Many people often think of it as a government-operated website as there is not even a single Advertisement hosted. What an irony, that even our Government railway inquiry website hosts so many advertisements that I go crazy using it.

Patience is Exciting

By this I just meant that initially the website may look a bit complex to you (so what? even Indian Railways is a complex network ), however if you just have some patience and try few features, you would definitely fall in love with it.

When I visited the Government-run Indian Railways website, this is what I saw:

[the Indian railways Government website is down]

LINK: India Rail Info

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“Giveaway of the Day” – Download Licensed Software for Free Everyday

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 01:30 AM PST

People generally tend to look for pirated versions of software that are available for download from torrents and tons of other resources.

An interesting website I came across recently is Giveawayoftheday.com which provides a licensed copy of a particular software everyday for download.

DW gatd 1 Giveaway of the Day Download Licensed Software for Free Everyday

Each day you will find a new software available for download for 24 hours. This is a completely legitimate service and the giveaway is provided with prior permission from the publishers of the particular software.

The software which this website provides for download range from audio editing, audio/video conversion, up to alternatives/add-ons to MS-Office, office utilities etc. You can check their previous Giveaways till today here.

You can add Giveaway of the Day to your RSS feed, or get email updates everyday as well.

Few things to remember:

A particular software is available for download only for a period of 24 hours and cannot be downloaded later.
You cannot re-install a particular software after a PC crash or install the program on another PC after the giveaway day is over.

Link: Giveaway of the Day

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