Facebook Launches Developer Contest in India

Facebook has been very popular in India. Allmost everyone is on Facebook now.Considering the popularity facebook has launched a contest in India. All you guys have to do is develop cool apps for facebook.

India ranks second in the number of software developers with 3.9 million software developers and Facebook seems to want to leave no stone unturned in gaining their attention. The Facebook Developer’s Challenge focuses on Facebook Apps (on of the most interesting aspects of Facebook with high user retention and thousands of fans) and Facebook. Connect, an important useful tool which serves as a good platform for publishers and for social media in general.

Three prize winners in each of the two contest categories will receive cash awards. For each category (Apps and Connect):

First Place Prize : Four Thousand Dollars U.S. ($4,000.00 USD)

Second Prize : Two Thousand Dollars U.S. ($2,000.00 USD).

Third Prize : One Thousand Dollars U.S. ($1,000.00).

Which takes the total cash prize for this amount close to INR 3.4 Lakhs!

The Contest began on July 2, 2009 and will end at 11:29:59 AM Indian Standard Time on September 11, 2009. The contest is open to all legal residents of India who are over the age of 16 at the time of entry. For more information,

check www.facebook.com/developercontestindia.

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Win Free Webdomain and Hosting

Please vist ChethStudios for more details. Check out its really cool.

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Enable Root Login in Ubuntu

Everytime i had to install any application in Ubuntu, i had to use sudo as a prefix. Recently i had installed a program which wass installed in the usr directory. Everytime i had to run the program, it was asking me for a super user priviledge. This was totally annoying me.By default when you install ubuntu, the root login is disabled by default. Follow the below steps and enable root login for ubuntu.

To enable root login:
1)Go to System->Administration->User and Groups
2)Click on Unlock and enter the password which you had given during installation
3)Select the root profile and click on properties, and set a password.
4)One last thing, after doing the above steps go to System->Administration->Login Window
5)Click on the security tab and click tick the checkbox which says "Enable System Administrator Login"

After doing the above steps, Logout and login as root.

PS: Be very careful when you are in the root profile coz you have access to everything. Any small mistake might crash your system.

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World E Book Fair

There is this World E-Book fair (From 4 JUL 2009 Till 4 AUG 2009) where 2.5 million e-books in PDF& MP3 format are available free to download.

Hope you guys get what you are trying to find.

Have Fun!!

worldebookfair

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Microsoft Vision of the Future!!

Absolutely Hilarious!!!

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Google Squared

I was just visitng the site labs.google.com and found this experiment intersting. It is called google square. So what is google square?

Google Squared is an experimental tool by google that takes a category(like digital cameras,mobile phones,US presidents etc) and attempts to create a square of information, automatically fetching and orgainsing facts from across the web. You can modify the square by adding and deleting rows/coloumns which you do not like. You can also save it and come back later.Hope you liked this post.

Google Squared

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Google Translate

Have u ever struggled of not understanding a language. Want a translation from one language to the other as in English->German or Vice versa. Check out Google Translate. Its cool.. Hope this helps you in some point in time.

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