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Another search engine is brought into the internet. This time it's different. This is a unique video search engine, ScienceHack which indexes all the videos related to science. Currently, it indexes the fields of science related to Physics, Chemistry, Space. They are currently working to include Geology, Psychology, Robotics and Computer videos and may be coming soon.

A team of scientists screens the video and approves to be included in their index based on accuracy and quality. Their site is designed using PHP and MySql. This search engine doesn't host videos, they just index the videos from popular video sites like YouTube and MetaCafe. You can also help them by submitting videos to their database.

Microsoft has launched low cost PC in India. It was named IQ PC and having plans to start selling through computer retailers, bookshops in Bangalore and Pune. These systems were aimed at students from kindergarden to 12th grade.

IQ PC was built upon AMD processor and comes preloaded with Microsoft Windows Vista Basic Edition, Office, Encarta, Works and Student 2007 and third party software like exam preparation, English learning programs and other. They are looking at a starting price of around Rs. 21,000 ($513) which may come down in future.

We know that the Microsoft Silverlight is now the hottest technology in the current market. It is getting more popular nowadays. Currently, Silverlight supports only Microsoft Vista and Windows XP SP2. In order to cater the silverlight features to the common open source user, the open source crowd has plans to come up with what is called "Moonlight". Mono has started building up the Silverlight's version for Linux and open source systems, i.e., Moonlight.

Looking for a good software to check your page rank in popular search engines like google, Yahoo and Live Search. SERPs Finder is a free SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tool which exactly does this for you. It allows you to check your page rank for a given search query. It is very easy to use and its size is around 40Kb.

It's a simple exe file which has two inputs. One is your site/blog url and the other the search query string. It has the options of querying in different search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Live Search. Once upon clicking OK, it searches for the search string in the search engines and then pops a message box showing your page rank position. It also opens the default web browser and browses the page of the selected search engine and shows where your page positions in the search engine site. I have downloaded and tested the tool. Here are my findings.

UniveRSS is a 3D RSS reader provided by Microsoft. It currently works only on windows Vista and on Internet Explorer 7.0. It provides a way of visualizing the feeds and their content in 3D. It collects all the subscribed feeds and shows them in a visual attractive manner. The name itself says that this application brings all the feeds from the universe and presents the RSS feeds to the users.

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Testing AJAX web applications is very difficult. Ajax relies mainly on requests to the server ( and responses received from them). We can't test what is sent and received from the server. The way to solve these problems is to use HTTP Proxy.

A HTTP proxy is a small program which intercepts between the client requests and responses to and from the server. The browser sends a request and the HTTP proxy receives the request. It then sends the request to the server and when it is processed, the response is sent back to the HTTP proxy. It is then sent to the browser. In addition to the interception job, it also records the information transfer. Fiddler is one such HTTP proxy tool which is used for testing and debugging Ajax applications.

Apple Corporation has released a beta version of their web browser Safari 3 Beta for windows machines. It's look and feel is similar to the Apple's trademark. If you use Mac OSX and iTunes, you would feel the similar. Apple corporation included Safari web browser in Mac OS X. Previously, Apple hasn't released any of their safari versions for Microsoft machines.

The Beta release offers three choices for download.

Here is another site which offers to make money online. Tumri, a merchandising network offers to generate revenue for our blogs and sites. It is similar to eBay and Chitika, but offers a rich UI to the users. The ads are attractive and gives a different look when compared to other revenue generating sites.

Unlike Google, where it generates contextual ads, the publisher has to select the category which suits his/her blog. Tumri calls the ads as AdPod's. Tumri offers hundreds of product categories containing over 10 million products from 2300 merchants like Walmart, Sears, BOSE, Wine.com etc.,

Read more to know the Features and benefits of integrating Tumri onto your site.

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Microsoft has finally announced publicly during this week's TechEd 2007 about Microsoft Acropolis. Microsoft Acropolis is a set of components and tools that make the developer and client easier to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is a part of ".NET Client Features". It builds on the rich capabilities of Microsoft Windows and the .NET Framework, including Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), by providing tools and pre-built components that help developers quickly assemble applications from loosely-coupled parts and services.

It's America Online who has announced it's AIM mail with unlimited storage to the users of their email service. Rediff and Yahoo! were the forerunners who announced umlimited storage. The "AIM" in the name stands for AOL Instant Messenger, AOL's instant messaging program.

AIM Mail has a good stellar spam protection with solid security features. It has a rich interface which makes AIM mail very easy to use and also integrated with calendar and chat.

WBox is a simple HTTP Testing Tool written in ANSI C which works on a POSIX system like Linux. Windows systems are not supported and compiles on a MacOS X system. It is a 20 Kb zip file which has code written in ANSI C. We can use it to perform many different tasks which include

Benchmarking how much time it takes to generate content for your web application.
Web server and web application stressing.

3D web browser experience with SpaceTime. An innovator of 3D Technology has announced its flagship application which is now available in Beta. SpaceTime is a free consumer PC software application that enables searching, browsing and shopping in an unlimited 3D environment.

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