Yahoo search assist says Google is best

Yahoo has introduced the search assistance feature in its web search. With the help of search assist users will get the drop down list of matching commonly searched keywords as they type the search query. Its indeed a nice effort from yahoo to reduce the time taken by user to frame search queries and thus results in faster response and productivity. You can get the search assist feature of Yahoo from the home page of Yahoo or from search.yahoo.com.

I tried giving a query Yahoo is b, then Yahoo stunned me with its first item in the search assist list. You can see the image below for reference. You may also try this by your self by typing the search query Yahoo is b in Yahoo home page or search.yahoo.com.


Then I thought of trying out a different query, that is , Google is b. Then the first item in the suggestion list said Google is best. Refer the image below for the same. You can try out the same with yahoo search, to believe.


Google already implemented this feature in Google Search very long back as Google Suggest.

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Watch and share tv shows over internet with joost

Joost is new approach in screening TV shows over internet for free. Once you are registered with Joost, you can watch more than 15000 TV shows from more than 250 TV channels for free.


With the help of Joost you can:

• watch shows in high quality audio and video.
• Create favorite list of channels
• Invite your friends to Joost.
• Chat with friends while you watch Joost.
• Rate and discuss about TV shows.
• Make blog entries about, what you are watching.
• Very easy to use like a regular TV

Its a cool approach for showing free TV, over internet.
Also see how to start and stop Joost play with Windows Media Center Edition.

Download Joost for Windows | Download Mac OSX

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Find travel routes with your mobile and amAze

Amaze is a free GPS navigation software for mobile with integrated map search and route calculation facility. With the help of amAze installed in your mobile, you can find the routes between two places very easily.
Along with route finding feature, amAze has a very good voice enabled guidance facility. This voice enabled guidance facility would help you take turns in the route while traveling.
You can watch the video below, which demonstrates the route finding feature of amAze.




Requirements for amAze GPS mobile navigation software

• GPS enabled mobile (internal or external)
• Java Enabled Mobile

See the list of Supported mobile handsets.
Download amAze GPS mobile navigation software for free.

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Vista aero theme for firefox web browser

Here is nice opportunity for Firefox users to enjoy the theme of Windows Vista, The Vista-aero theme for Firefox. This will give Firefox the most IE7 like look and feel and the Vista progress bar on the Firefox status bar. The menus in Firefox will also will look like those menus in Windows Vista on other Windows Operating Systems. Also you will get IE7 like tabs for browsing in Firefox.


One thing I have observed after shifting to this Vista-aero theme is that I couldn't open new tabs by double clicking on the tabs bar. This is possible in Firefox with default theme and even in IE7, but not in Safari for Windows. I hope the developers would fix this issue with Vista-aero theme in near future. Vista-aero theme for Firefox is one of the must have theme for Firefox users. [Install Vista-aero theme for Firefox ]

The myFirefox theme can be considered as a predecessor of this Vista-aero theme.

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SecondLife - way to realize your dreams and fantasies virtually

Second Life is a new online digital virtual world created by the people from the real world with their own imaginations.
Second Life is the buzz word in the current online scenario. This digital virtual world is found by Linden Lab. Once you register with SecondLife.com you can download a Second Life Client for interacting with the residents of the virtual world.


You can do and enjoy most of the real life activities in this Second Life digital virtual world. You can interact with your fellow residence in many ways. You can run your business, enjoy music concerts, chat with people, watch shows and even you can sell and purchase lands. Don't worry about the money exchange issues, the official currency of Second Life is Linden Dollar L$.

You may feel that, this Second Life is a kind of internet enabled multi-player strategy game. But its is some thing more than that, with a real life touch and feelings. And being a resident in Second Life, would help you realize your dreams and fantasy virtually So, if you wanna experience your Second Life, you can join there at: SecondLife.com

Blogger reports error code bX-ltlqzv while uploading images

Blogger shown a error page as shown below, when I tried to upload one image for my blog post.


In order to post the image, I waited for few minutes and then uploaded the image again by closing the previous image upload window. Then it worked fine. You can also do the same method to upload the images to your blog posts if such an error comes. Happy Blogging.

Free Desktop capturing software to aid remote demonstration, education and tech support

CamStudio is a free video recording software to record your desktop activities. Just invoke this software to capture the desktop screen activities and it will take care of creating the video of your desktop activities depending on your input controls.


This software will find very useful in following situations

• Demonstrating your software product remotely: When you want to give a demonstration of your software product, you can create a video with CamStudio and circulate in CDs/ DVDs with the concerned people for demonstration. Also you can give a remote demonstration by uploading the software product demonstration video in video sharing web sites like YouTube and circulate the video url with the clients.
• Creating multimedia tutorials for students: You can make use of CamStudio screen capturing along with audio recording to create multimedia tutorials for educating students ranging from little kids to university graduates. This would aid students learning the subjects step by step, as you can deliver the step by step activities of the subject in your destop along with your own audio explanation.
• Creating How to Do Videos for customers: CamStudio screen capture with audio recording will also help your circulating videos for solving frequently asked questions about your product or technologies. This would help in reducing the cost of technical support for very common issues and doubts.
• Promoting your blog and websites: Create a video with CamStudio showing the important and popular pages of your blog or website and upload the video in video sharing portals like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video and MSN Video. By providing the blog or web site address in the video would help attracting more visitors who are watching the videos across the globe.

Download the latest version of CamStudio here.

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