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For people who love to carry software on a USB drive, here’s something you have been waiting for.
Carsten has created a portable version of Google Chrome that has all the features available in the the main browser but requires no installation - just unzip all the files and start Chroming.

The images that you see next to blog comments here are not the regular gravatar pictures, instead they are favicons pulled from the website of the person who has written that comment.

    Two sample photo collages created with Microsoft AutoCollage 2008

If you have started to love Google Chrome and have made it the default browser on your computer, here’s a useful tip regarding your privacy. The tip is more relevant for people who have computers in the living room and that same machine is shared among all other family members.

"When is the last time you asked a human instead of asking Google? I’m worried you’re going to forget how to say words out loud. When is the last time you saw an uncaptioned cat?"

If you know someone who is addicted to the screen, express your concern by sending him or her an intervention email.

Dell today introduced a new mini-notebook called Dell Inspiron Mini that weighs just over a kg, runs on Ubuntu Linux or Windows XP and costs around $350 in the US.

Are you are a student, faculty member or even an alumni of any engineering college or MBA school in India? If yes, Google is inviting you for this unique challenge where you have to try and convince your school administration to use Google Apps for email, calendar, office, etc.

Aw, Snap! - This is the default error page of Google Chrome
Now that you have Google Chrome installed on your desktop, let’s look at some of the unique features available only inside Google’s Web Browser that you’re seriously going to miss in other popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Apple Safari or Opera.

Google Translate, Windows Live Translator and Yahoo! Babelfish have made it very easy for web publishers to add language translation capability into their web pages. Include a line of Javascript code anywhere in your blog template and visitors from other countries will be able to translate and read your content in their own native language. Simple.

Here’s a little-known but very interesting fact about email spam. The first letter of your email address often determines the amount of spam that is hitting your inbox daily.
Dr Richard Clayton at University of Cambridge analyzed (PDF report) over half a billion spam email messages and made this conclusion: