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Good news for Indian twitter users. Twitter has struck a deal with Bharti Airtel (the largest mobile carrier in India) which would allow Indian users to receive free twitter updates on the go. Twitter has already started promoting this deal. If you are an Indian, be prepared to be greeted by the following notification on the home page.

If you are an Airtel subscriber, setting up your Twitter account is really simple. You can either do it from the Devices page or simply text START to 53000. Receiving SMS updates is completely free. However, standard text messaging rates (Re 1.00 per message in most cases) will apply for sending updates.
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Make no mistake; Twitter poses a serious threat to Google. And Google knows it. They have already declared real time search as their biggest challenge. Real time search is all about picking up on ‘What’s Hot’ right now. Twitter does that very well and is a good indicator of what people are interested in at that moment. Unknown to many, Google has had a product similar to Twitter’s Trending Topics for more than a year. It’s called Hot Trends. It is basically a list of the hottest search queries in the United States during the past hour. The biggest problem with Hot Trends was that there was no easy way to access it directly from Google Search. Hence, most people weren’t even aware of its existence.

Earlier today Google decided to change all that and make Google Trends more accessible. Google Hot Trends is now directly integrated into search results. If you search for any term present in Google’s Hot Trends list you will be presented with a one box displaying more information on the trending topic. Interestingly enough Google has reduced the number of trends listed on Hot Trends to 40. However, the Google Trends onebox will be displayed for all queries present in the top 100.
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Why use separate software to convert video, audio and images when one software can take care of all your multimedia conversions? Format Factory is a powerful multimedia converter which supports a staggering number of formats and doesn’t cost a dime. Here is a short list of stuff Format Factory can do:

Convert Videos: Format Factory supports multiple containers (MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV, RMVB, MOV, 3GP, MOV, FLV etc.) and codecs (Divx, Xvid, H.264, MPEG2, WMV etc.). It even supports conversion to SWF (Flash) and GIF.

Convert Video for Mobile Devices: You can easily convert your rip your videos to formats compatible with mobile devices like PSP, PS3, iPhone, iPod, Zune and XBox. Format Factory comes with built in presets for more than two dozen mobile devices and supports MP4, 3GP, H.264 and AVI.
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Windows provides a Process Manager (called Task Manager) out of the box. Although it’s more than sufficient for most people, advanced users will find it to be a bit too basic. SysInternals Process Explorer is probably the most popular Task Manager alternative. However, it may have an worthy competitor in YAPM. YAPM as you may have guessed stands for Yet Another (remote) Process Monitor.

YAPM’s interface looks stunning and definitely makes a great first impression. The Ribbon interface ensures that in spite of being packed with features YAPM doesn’t look cluttered and confusing. And in case you are not comfortable with the Ribbon UI you also have the option of using the old school Menu based UI.

YAPM is one of the most advanced Process Manager’s available. Here are just a few of its features:
Support for remote monitoring of processes.
Ability to set process affinity in a multi-core system (i.e. specify the Core that will be favoured by a Process).
Ability to trim a process’s working set and release unused RAM.
Includes a Process Viewer which offers extremely detailed information about each process.
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Although broadband penetration has improved in leaps and bounds over the past few years, truly unlimited broadband connections are still a rarity in India. Most unlimited connections have speed caps and fair usage policies associated with them. On top of that, most unlimited broadband plans are outrageously priced. The combination of aforementioned factors has led most people to opt for broadband plans with bandwidth limits but night limited mode (i.e. download and upload during the night is not charged).

The trouble with night unlimited plans is that the timings are rather odd. For example, India’s most popular ISP – Dataone’s night unlimited mode kicks in at 2:00 a.m. and ends at 8:00am. It’s simply not feasible for most people to stay up at such odd hours. This is where Broadband Scheduler comes in.
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