New Windows Live Writer 2011 for intuitive and intelligent blogging

The ultimate blogging desktop client, Windows Live Writer, has incorporated pretty new features to assist bloggers,  in Writer 2011. Writing and editing posts became more intelligent and intuitive.

New features include, easy insertion of videos from YouTube, msn, and other video sharing sites.

Image editing and formatting has been improved remarkably. You can easily tilt, rotate and edit image, also effects can be added with new picture effects along with bordering.

The spell checking has been extended to many more languages like  Dutch,  Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Serbian-Cyrillic, Serbian-Latin, Spanish, and Swedish.

Another interesting feature is Auto Linking, which would help you link to a URL in an intuitive way!.

New toolbar with menus for easy editing and formatting added with new look and feel, would improve the blogging experience.

Download Windows Live Writer 2011 now!.

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Watch free and pay per view movies in YouTube

You might have watched many movies, as part by part videos from YouTube. But, now YouTube is letting you to watch movies for free as a single video!!.

YouTube has introduced the movie channel, which offers free as well as pay per view movies for the internet users.

The move by Google, to stream movies through YouTube will help most of the internet users to watch movies online without depending on Torrent  and other  movie sharing sites, like blockbuster.

Visit www.youtube.com/movies

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how much Arctic Ice has melted in 30 years?

A combination of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) images show September Arctic sea ice in 1979, the first year these data were available, and 2009 in this image from a report released on July 28, 2010. The areas of ice coverage range from 15 percent coverage (darker shades of medium blue) to complete coverage (lightest blue). The light circles over the pole indicate areas where there are no data from this satellite instrument. Dark blue is open ocean. September Arctic sea ice is one of the 10 key indicators of a warming planet. Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data.

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Sachin Tendulkar's Official Twitter Account

If "Cricket is a religion, Sachin is our God", one of the famous banners which will be displayed by Cricket fans, when Sachin Tendulkar is in the field. And, its a great news for all Cricket fans, that Sachin Tendulkar also joined the twittering spree.

If you try to search for Sachin Tendulkar or any other celebrities you may find so many profiles in that name, and its very difficult to findout which is the real profile for Sachin!.

I have searched and found out the profile of the real Sachin tendulkar (twitter verified account), you can follow the tweets of the God of Cricket from this url: http://twitter.com/sachin_rt

Similarly here are few celebrities verified twitter pages to follow

Barack Obama official twitter url: http://twitter.com/BarackObama

Bill Gates twitter account: http://twitter.com/BillGates

Shashi Tharoor's twitter account: http://twitter.com/shashitharoor

Britney Spears verified twitter account: http://twitter.com/BRITNEYSPEARS

Paris Hilton's real twitter account: http://twitter.com/parishilton

Twitter account of Shah Rukh Khan: http://twitter.com/iamsrk

Tweets of Barkha Dutt : http://twitter.com/BDUTT

Farhan Aktar's twitter account: http://twitter.com/FarOutAkhtar

Rajdeep Sardesai tweets: http://twitter.com/sardesairajdeep

Shilpa Shetty tweets: http://twitter.com/TheShilpaShetty

Shane Warne's twitter account: http://twitter.com/warne888

Twitter account of Preity Zinta: http://twitter.com/realpreityzinta

Deepika Padukone Twitter account: http://twitter.com/deepikapadukone

Priyanka Chopra: http://twitter.com/priyankachopra

Shahid Kapoor: http://twitter.com/shahidkapoor

Actor Imran Khan: http://twitter.com/1mrankhan

Director Karan Johar: http://twitter.com/kjohar25

Hrithik Roshan: http://twitter.com/iHrithik

 

Guys, please add if you find the real twitter account of our celebrities and famous personalities.

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Microsoft Word 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts

Microsoft Word 2010 is the latest office suite from Microsoft office stable. I have compiled commonly used shortcut keys for Microsoft office 2010, to help MS Word fans. Please go through the below list of keyboard shortcuts. Also, do update in comments if you know some more.

ALT+CTRL+1    -    Apply Heading 1 to the selected text
ALT+CTRL+2    -    Apply Heading 2 to the selected text
ALT+CTRL+S    -    Splits the Document
ALT+F7        -    Moves to the Next Misspelling
ALT+F8        -    Inserts Macros
ALT+R        -    Displays the Review tab
ALT+SHIFT+BACKSPACE    -    Redo
ALT+SHIFT+F7    -    Dictionary
ALT+SHIFT+K    -    Mail Merge Check
ALT+SHIFT+R    -    Header Footer Link
ALT+SHIFT+T    -    Time Field
ALT+T+A        -    Autocurrect
CTRL +  V    -    Paste copied text
CTRL + B    -    Bold Text
CTRL + C    -    Copy text selection
CTRL + I    -    Italic Text
CTRL + L    -    Align selected text to the left
CTRL + U    -    Underline Text
CTRL + X    -    Cut the selected text
CTRL + Z    -    Undo
CTRL+]        -    Grow Font one point
CTRL+E        -    Align selected text to the centre
CTRL+END    -    Navigate to end of the Document
CTRL+H        -    Find and Replace word or sentence
CTRL+J        -    Justifies Paragraph
CTRL+K        -    Add hyperlink to the selected text
CTRL+M        -    Indentation of  the selected text
CTRL+P        -    Print the document
CTRL+PAGE DOWN    -    Browse Next
CTRL+SHIFT+,    -    Reduce Font size for selected text
CTRL+SHIFT+.    -    Increase Fontsise for selected text
CTRL+SHIFT+A    -    converts the selected text to capital letters or vice versa
CTRL+SHIFT+C    -    Copy Format
CTRL+SHIFT+D    -    Double Underline
CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER-        Column Break
CTRL+SHIFT+F    -    Displays the Font dialog box.
CTRL+SHIFT+F12    -    Also launches Print
CTRL+SHIFT+F5    -    Bookmark
CTRL+SHIFT+G    -    Displays the Word Count dialog box.
CTRL+SHIFT+K    -    Small Caps
CTRL+SHIFT+L    -    Applies Bullets
CTRL+SHIFT+M    -    Unindent the selection
CTRL+SHIFT+P    -    Font size select
CTRL+SHIFT+S    -    Displays the Apply Styles task pane.
CTRL+SHIFT+S    -    Style
END        -    End of line
F1        -    Help window
F10        -    Menu Mode
F12        -    Save As
F5        -    Goto page number
F7         -    Spelling and grammar check
SHIFT+F5    -    Go Back to previous state
ALT+CTRL+Z    -    Go Back to previous state
SHIFT+F7    -    Thesaurus

 

Source: Microsoft.com , AddictiveTips

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Play BMW Car Race Game Online

The German automobile giant BMW is providing a free online car race game for all the online car race freaks. Through this online free gaming portal you can race using many BMW SUVs and sports cars.

 

You can have both single and multiplayer options in the race. And its pretty good game worth trying, more over you will get a feel of driving BMW, of course virtually!.

You can check this out at bmw-pace.com for free.

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Metals That Heal Themselves

A nuclear reactor is a grueling place for the metals there�all the wear-and-tear caused by neutron activities inside the reactor can make them swell and become brittle over time.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have shown that by altering the microstructure of metals, metallurgists may be able to make reactor parts that are self healing.
Blas P. Uberuaga, Xian-Ming Bai and colleagues conducted computer simulations of the long-term impact of neutron emissions on copper � not because much copper is used in nuclear plants, but because it is a relatively well-modeled metal. Their findings are published in Science.
When a neutron hits metal, it displaces atoms within the crystal lattice. In a metal with a largely uniform structure, these atoms move to the surface, eventually causing the metal to swell, and the vacancies they leave behind can lead to voids that further weaken the material.
But it is possible to fabricate metals that have a nonuniform structure, with very small crystal grains, or regions of different phase or orientation. When atoms are displaced in this nanocrystalline material, rather than traveling to the surface they migrate to the boundaries between the grains. In their simulations, the researchers found that these atoms can then travel back away from the boundary and, if they find a vacancy, fill it, in effect healing the defect.

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Download the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview

Microsoft has announced the preview of its Internet Explorer 9, which is under development. The final release is expected in 2011.

IE team will be putting more effort to improve the performance of IE9 and making the browser compatible with new standards,  especially in the areas of vector graphics, CSS3 and HTML5.

IE 9 will take the full advantage of your hardware with background compiled JavaScript, it will also support interoperability with the latest web standards. They also given more importance to GPU powered HTML5 graphics.

Download the Internet Explorer 9 Platform preview to know its capabilities.

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Free Video and Audio Chat in Linux using New Skype

Skype has become almost like a synonym for video and audio chatting through internet. Even though most of the general purpose VOIP application clients still ignore the Linux users, Skype has made difference by supporting video chat in its Linux version.

Skype currently support four major flavours of Linux, Ubuntu 8.10+(both 32bit and 64bit), Fedora 10+, Debian Lenny and OpenSUSE 11+.

It is pretty simple to install, just double click the bundle and enter your password for granting super user privileges.  Done!.

Its time to celebrate and share joy and excitement of having Skype in Linux, not just for geeks but for Linux newbies and wanna be Linux Geeks.

So start using Skype on Linux today itself downloading the Skype 2.0 beta for Linux.

And if you don't have Linux, don't worry this is the right time to change. You can get respective flavours from following websites, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE.

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Get Free Publishing Guide for Freelance and Professional Writers

Are you a very good freelance writer and you are interested to learn about how to publish your works?. Here is guide which can help you learn about publishing and publish your first book!.

The free publishing guide is provided by Author House UK.  They have helped many authors to publish titles. 

Be it writing a romance novel, historical fiction, mystery, action and suspense, poetry, children's or any other genre, they can help you reach your publishing goals.

Get your Free Publishing Guide.

 

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Add Glitter to your Facebook and Orkut Profile Photos

You don't need to be a Photoshop guru to add Glitter to your photos and other graphics. Its pretty simple and you don't have to install any software also.

Only thing you need to do is, to upload your images to Blingee.com and use their  interface to add Glitter to your photos. Done. Now you can post your Glittering photos in Facebook, Orkut or MySpace profiles.

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Enable Your Firefox Web Browser to load faster

Firefox allows its users to customize the web browsing and loading performance parameters to experience faster and better web browsing. These performance tuning are to be carried out carefully.

Watch the following video tutorial that would help you to fine-tune your favourite Firefox web browser.

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Integrate Twitter and Facebook with Buzz in GMail

Google Buzz has made a great impact on the social networking sphere within few days after its official launch. Most of the twitter and Facebook users have started using the Google Buzz even without leaving their existing Twitter, Facebook social activities.

Instead of switching between different tabs/windows to make your presence in Twitter, Facebook and Buzz, it would be better to have everything in one place.

There is a simple and easy to try method for integrating the Twitter and Facebook with Buzz in GMail using the GMail gadgets.

For facebook: add the below link in gadgets tab section,

"http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/104971404861070329537/facebook.xml"

and for Twitter: add the following gadget link in gadget tab section,

"https://twittergadget.appspot.com/gadget-gmail.xml"

Don't worry if you couldnt find the Gadgets tab in the GMail settings section, you need to enable it in GMail Labs tab.

Happy Buzzing. Thanx to Mashable

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Bacteria are �big thinkers�

Scientists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have found that bacteria are �big thinkers� and more capable of complex decision-making than previously thought, a discovery that could lead to innovations in medicine and agriculture fields.Until now, scientists have been unable to study how bacteria�s individual receptors directly affect their behaviour and ability to adapt to the environment.


Gladys Alexandre and her team looked at the functioning of complex soil bacterium Azospirillum brasilense�s receptors. And they came to the conclusion that with the help of the amino acids in the sensory part of the receptor, bacteria can feel about the environment around them.

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Obsession with texting continues

Our obsession with texting is prompting more a more online entrants to get into this space. Today I had an opportunity to click Text4FreeOnline Free SMS Text Message 2Way and I found it very cool. I just send an international MMS and within seconds I got back the response. Try it out for free and let me know if it worked for you. Let me tell you that they did ask me to test their service.

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