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Still running Firefox 2? Or worse still running IE? Time to check out the latest browser Firefox 3.

Download here.

Read more about the new features.

Still not sure ? See the download stats updated in realtime! Its a new world record of 8 million downloads within the first 24 hours!

As per various articles, cancer can not only cured but prevented by consuming Vitamin B17. Cancer is caused due to the deficiency of Vitamin B17.

Test done on cancer patients has proven this. Also cultures such as the Navajo Indians, the Hunzakuts the Abkhazians have never had a reported case of cancer! And their diet is rich in Apricot Seeds.

Apricot Seeds have a little nut inside, which is the richest source of Vitamin B17. Eating 5 of these everyday can prevent cancer.

Read this article for better understanding.

And see this video for more detailed knowledge.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, came across this information and found it very interesting and hence I am sharing this in the hope, it can help other people. I haven’t tested this and don’t know anyone who has either.

After announcing the number of billionaires from India.

Forbes recently did a vote count and found that 53 percent believe that India will have most billionaires by 2017 than any other country.

Over 13,000 people voted and more people are voting.

Go ahead and cast your vote or see the list. I just did mine

I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1. Looking at the features, I was really tempted to upgrade to 2.5 but decided to wait until the .1 release. 2.5.1 fixes a lot of the bugs which were reported.

The upgrade was very smooth, and retained all my widgets, ads, layouts (which was something that used to get messed up earlier).

The new user interface is very sleek, easy to use and had a lot more features.

A noticeable new feature is the Gallery, yes it has an inbuilt photo gallery which is simple and easy to manage. I have yet to try this feature.

See the complete list of new features.

What happens when a relatively small company launches a low cost notebook? A device that doesn’t do everything but does all the basic computing: email,browsing and wordprocessing and is available at half the cost!

From this article:
Sony: “If (the Eee PC from) Asus starts to do well, we are all in trouble.”

You better be . Its high time customers stop paying a thousand dollars for typing emails, which be done as well on a $100 PC running Linux.

Eeepc Website

The excellent Mozilla Firefox browser now had more than 500 million downloads! Thats excellent news and is perhaps the most popular open source application even more than Linux!

Join the celebrations:

 In honor of the 500 million download mark we’re celebrating by raising 500,000,000 grains of rice in one day to help feed the world’s poor. Since we have reached the milestone, it is time to flock to freerice.com and attempt to push the days total over 1/2 billion. This is just a foreshadow to where one day Firefox will be. Food for thought, uh, better yet, Food for Lives; if we reach 500 million grains of rice, that’s a direct contribution in feeding 25,000 people for one day! Donate now, http://freerice.com

Now if only all the Indian sites can be Firefox compatible:

Related posts:

Firefox tweaks

Firefox now has 25% browser market share

Protecting yourself from phishing sites

Another reason to use Mozilla Firefox as the browser.

Freedom from Ads

Nice article:

15 Ways to Declutter your mind.

“What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?”

Read this very good article.

For all those who rely on Wikipedia for all their information

See more.

From PC World.

As Vista continues to limp toward wider adoption, Linux will make major inroads into the enterprise, as well as in government IT. At the same time, the leaner OS will become a more attractive option for home users and in consumer electronics.

Few things are more irritating than having to deal with a format that is incompatible with what you need it to do. It doesn’t matter if it’s a media file, document, or shoe size; it’s just plain frustrating. To make your life easier, check out this list of 101 tools that will allow you to convert just about anything.

Read More.

Now you can save tons of money by setting up your own Home phone system using a PC, Linux, Skype and some off the shelf hardware. You can put an Old PC to some good use!

Read More.

“India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.”

- Mark Twain

See earlier posts

Mark Twain on India

Mark Twain’s Quote on reading

Mark Twain’s quote

Carnegie Mellon University has announced a $300 robot designed to easily enable people to create super-high-resolution panoramic pictures.

See some sample photos.

“There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go.

For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds… I had been seeing the world in black & white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.”

Keith Bellows, VP - National Geographic Society

Came across this excellent article on How the Mind Affects Your Happiness. Must read if you want to be Happy, who doesn’t?

Be Happy

Related earlier post: The happiest man in the world?

From a Rough Guide to India:

“It is impossible not to be astonished by India. Nowhere on Earth does humanity present itself in such a dizzying, creative burst of cultures and religions, races and tongues. Enriched by successive waves of migration and marauders from distant lands, every one of them left an indelible imprint which was absorbed into the Indian way of life. Every aspect of the country presents itself on a massive, exaggerated scale, worthy in comparison only to the superlative mountains that overshadow it. It is this variety which provides a breathtaking ensemble for experiences that is uniquely Indian. Perhaps the only thing more difficult than to be indifferent to India would be to describe or understand India completely. There are perhaps very few nations in the world with the enormous variety that India has to offer. Modern day India represents the largest democracy in the world with a seamless picture of unity in diversity unparalleled anywhere else.”

One more reason to use Linux, if you aren’t already.

From a CNet article.

“Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users’ knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.”

Wow. Updating Windows without your being aware of it? And after telling it not to? That’s what spyware does. It’s what the bad guys do. And now, it’s what Microsoft does.

There’s a saying in the computer security field that if a bad guy gets physical access to your computer, it’s not your computer anymore. If Microsoft can silently update Windows against our will, whose computer is it?

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”

- Albert Einstein

The more I read Mark Twain’s Quotes, the more I like him.. here another one of his on India.

“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by
man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the
sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten,
nothing overlooked.”

–Mark Twain

Mark Twain on India

Mark Twain’s Quote on reading

Mark Twain’s quote