Top Useful Sites To Learn New Skills - Top 40 Wesites for Learning New things

The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills.  You just have to know where to look.  Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills, but I figured I’d save you some time.

Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new.

1. Hack a Day - Hack a Day serves up fresh hacks (short tutorials) every day from around the web and one in-depth ‘How-To hack’ guide each week.
2. eHow - eHow is an online community dedicated to providing visitors the ability to research, share, and discuss solutions and tips for completing day-to-day tasks and projects.

Top 10 Best Android Apps of 2012

10 Surprising Facts About Google

Top 20 Keyboard Shortcuts everyone should now

Keyboard shortcuts can speed up your productivity on a computer significantly. They usually replace multiple operations that are performed with the mouse with a set of keys that you need to press more or less simultaneously. Take the opening of the Windows Task Manager for instance. If you use the keyboard, you simply use the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-Esc to open the task manager on the system. Without the shortcut, you would have to search for the task manager (for instance in the start menu) to load it from there.

Recent study says Apple still dominates world's top brands

Apple has maintained its place as the world's most valuable brand over the past year, leading a group of technology-related companies that dominate the top 10, according to a study published on Tuesday. The iPhone and iPad maker has boosted its brand value by 19 percent in the past year to $183 billion, or 37 percent of its market capitalisation, according to the annual BrandZ study by leading brands and market-research agency Millward Brown.

Top 5 Quad-core Phones

It is no secret that quad-core phones are in a vogue. Quad-core phones are the next best thing in tech. As phones advance like never before, their development ill be sustained only by strong processors which can support heavy softwares, better cameras and superfast Wi-Fi connections. Yes, the era of quad-core phones has begun.

 

So, here we have for you the top 5 quad core phones that you might want to look out for. 

HTC One X
HTC One X is an exciting offering from HTC. It is currently doing pretty good on popularity charts and has opened to good reviews worldwide. Even our own review of the handset is coming soon. Give the features a glance to get your heartbeat going:

 

• Size: 134.4 x 69.9 x 8.9 mm, 130g
• Display:  4.7-inch Super IPS LCD 2 display, 720 x 1280p 
• Memory: 32 GB Inbuilt
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi & Bluetooth
• OS: Ice Cream Sandwich 
• Processor: 1.5 GHz Tegra 3 quad-core, ULP GeForce GPU
• Camera: 8-megapixel primary, 1.3-megapixel secondary
• Battery: 1800 MHz

 

Although we are trying our best not to spill the beans, but still, here is the thing; the camera is simply sexy. There are so many things you can do with it, it feels like you are clicking in real time with a powerful snapper, may be one of the best cameras on a phone. The processor works like a charm; you can do all smartphone-sy stuff, from browsing the net and chatting to watching trailers and what not. Quad core processors create enough power so companies can fit better cameras and features into a phone – the HTC One X is a fine example of this. 

Price: Rs. 37,899

Free Bitdefender scanner solves Mac OS X Flashback Trojan infection

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We had reported earlier how the Flashback trojan had infected 5,50,000 Macs worldwide but now we have some good news for Mac users. Bitdefender has announced a new virus scanning software that offers detection and removal for the latest e-threat affecting Mac OS X users. Identified earlier last week, the Flashback.L Trojan is thought to have infected more than 6,00,000 OS X computers worldwide already by exploiting the Java runtime environment on the local machine.

Top 101 Free Pc Software For Your Daily Use

Technology made our lives Easy and Good things in life do not necessarily cost you a bomb. Below I have compiled a list of the top 100101 free computer software you can make use of.

Enjoy!

Office Suite

1. OpenOffice.org – OpenOffice.org is a viable alternative to Microsoft Office – even for professional use. It can do just about anything Office can.
2. AbiWord – A lightweight version of Microsoft Office. Simple, straightforward interface; easy to use.
3. Jarte – A word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad. It can be run directly from a USB flash drive.
4. Notepad++ – A free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

Top smartphones under 20K in india

The sub 20,000 price mark has been an exciting segment and one with the most amount of buyers in the recent past. Well, phones have hit an absurd price mark of 40K and that’s just very expensive for most people. We’ve compiled a list of the top smartphones one could own, falling within the price bracket between 15K to 20K and here are the devices that made it to the list.

Sony Ericsson Neo V :

The Neo V made for a good value for money handset and we quite liked it when we reviewed it. It’s got a similar form factor to the Xperia Pro, with the only difference being the lack of a QWERTY keypad. Running on a 1GHz processor with Gingerbread on top, the Neo V is a well-loaded handset and if you’re looking for a good overall Android experience, then the Neo V fits the bill.

10 Favourite and Popular Google Doodles in 2011 in India

All of us are very familiar with Google Doodles and we enjoy them occasionally.we know that on special occasions google search will appear with new look and we call it as Google Doodles. Another year come and gone, another set of brilliant Google Doodles come and gone. Some of them were almost as iconic as the icons they celebrated. Here is our list of our top 10 favourite Google Doodles that were visible in India this year.

The Top 5 Android Phones in India

Android, the well branded term in the Mobile world. The mobile phone makers, either large or small irrespective of their strength and brand value are trying to settle in the market with Android backing. Many a small players are getting marketed with their Android portfolio of products. For instance, large companies like Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Motorola and small players like Micromax, Karbonn, Videcon and many more adopted the Android. The above mentioned, every company has a successful Android model.

The Android OS occupied almost 60 percent of the Smartphone market. Recently, at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Android Product Management Director Hugo Barra shared a bombarding statement with some serious stats on the growth of the Android platform. Among which, Google has activated 100 million Android devices globally, and 400,000 Android devices are activated daily. They also claims, it is on 36 original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and 215 carriers. Finally, there are 310 Android devices are on the market in 112 countries. Similarly, the Android market is catching up and counted that there are around 200,000 apps available in the Android marketplace and users have installed 4.5 billion apps.

2012 Hot Gadgets

Last year saw a treasure trove of new gadgets finding their way into the shelves and then our hearts. We think it's possible to predict what an industry so brilliantly dynamic might have in store for us in 2012, though we also hope to find some pleasant surprises along the way. These might be some of the gizmos that will rock the year ahead.

LYTRO CAMERAS

Entry-levels, SLRs, DSLRs, digicams, Micro Four Thirds – there's a lot of hullaballoo around the fancy cameras out there, but there might just be one device that could put an end to it all – the Lytro.

Top 5 Wi-Fi plus 3G phones under Rs.10,000

wIth 3G penetrating all major parts of the country and Wi-Fi slowly becoming a common household sight, these days, having a Wi-Fi and 3G capable handset can finally be put to some good use, although we still have to find some use for that front facing camera. Till a couple years ago, you’d have to shell out quite a bit of money if you wanted both these features. Today, however, you can grab a 3G plus Wi-Fi enabled phone for well under Rs.10,000. While there are a whole bunch of them in this price bracket, we’ve picked the top 5 that we’ve tested and know for a fact are worth a look. Micromax Q80 - Rs.4,900 (View Stores) The Q80 might not be a smartphone, but it’s a marked improvement over the Q75 and with added 3G and Wi-Fi support for almost the same price, offers really good value. The Java-based phone comes with a host of built-in apps like Nimbuzz, Newshunt, Ngpay and Bloomberg. Feature rich budget phone