Google's Tips and Tricks from PC Mag

Last updated on: October 18, 2005 at 2:29 am By Desh Kapoor

Source Link: PC Mag Highlights: Google Desktop ARTICLE DATE: 10.11.05 By Preston Gralla (Note: For the tips in this section, you'll need Google Desktop, Google's free desktop search application. Get it at http://desktop.google.com/) Change the Location of Your Google Desktop Index Depending on how many files you have on your PC, the search index Google Desktop creates can get pretty substantial—easily 1GB or more. If you don't want the index clogging up your main drive, you can easily move it to a different drive. To move it, follow these steps: 1. Exit Google Desktop. 2. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMELocal SettingsApplication DataGoogleGoogle Desktop Search, where USERNAME is your user name. (Note: Local Settings is a hidden folder, and you might not be able to see it. If you can't, you can unhide it. To unhide it, In Windows Explorer, choose "Folder options" from the Tools menu. Click the View tab, and under "Hidden files and folders," click "Show hidden files and folders." Then click OK.) 3. Move the entire Google Desktop Search Folder to a different drive. You don't have to replicate the entire original folder path—you could, for example, move it to D: Google Desktop Search. 4. Open the Registry Editor by choosing Start->Run, typing regedit, and clicking OK. 5. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareGoogleGoogle Desktop. 6. In the right-hand pane, double-click "data_dir" and change its value to the new location of the Google Desktop index, for example, D: Google Desktop Search. 7. Exit the Registry editor. 8. Restart Google Desktop search. Read more

– People I share Birthday with…

Last updated on: October 17, 2005 at 11:52 pm By Desh Kapoor

I have quite an interesting company: - a dictator - one of the greatest Movie Directors in Hollywood ever - one of the leading actress sometime back in Bollywood and they are/were: - Fidel Castro - Alfred Hitchcock - Sridevi. Read more

Oil prices rise on new storm fear

Last updated on: October 17, 2005 at 11:22 pm By Desh Kapoor

News Highlight: Oil prices rose by nearly 3% a barrel on Monday, as dealers grew nervous about the possibility of another storm hitting output in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Wilma, caused by a depression in the Caribbean, could move into the Gulf by Friday, said the US National Hurricane Center. It comes in the wake of hurricanes Rita and Katrina, which shut US oil facilities. Six remain closed. US crude was up $1.73 at $64.36 and Brent crude up $1.09 at $60.57. However, prices are still off the August highs of above $70 a barrel. Iran concern A heightening of tension in Iran - the fourth-biggest global producer - also buoyed prices after bombings in the oil city of Ahvaz. Read more

– Forbes 200 Best Small Companies

Last updated on: October 17, 2005 at 4:56 am By Desh Kapoor

The top five are: 1. Hansen Natural 2. Cognizant Technology Solutions 3. Travelzoo 4. Remington Oil & Gas 5. Usana Health Sciences. Its amazing how the outsourcing enabler Cognizant has grown to be a threat to the Big Four. Watch out for this company as well as Infosys and WIPRO. Read more

– Can you really "DO" ANY Good??

Last updated on: October 14, 2005 at 8:27 pm By Desh Kapoor

I borrowed one book from an 8 book series of lectures and writing by Swami Vivekananda from the AS temple library last week... if you get a chance you SHOULD read him. He was a great thinker! In fact, he starts from a different point ... takes a diff route.. and ultimately ends up where Krishnamurti says.. but he uses lot of scientific thought in what he says..and very often is strong enough to make statements - which though logical ... but could be blasphemous to others.. like in one place he calls Budhha and Jesus - second rate .. although he praises them profusely elsewhere.. but his point is good... that they came out to show their knowledge.. and "teach".. while the 24 "Buddhas (Gautam Buddha said he was the 25th) passed off quietly.. without showing off their "stuff"... Read more

– German Names

Last updated on: October 13, 2005 at 12:41 pm By Desh Kapoor

Here is a scoop from Germany. This came in Wall Street Journal. The Government there has rules on how people can name their babies! Some rules: 1. No hyphenated names - like Leonard Matthias Grunkin-Paul! Why? Because if both husband and wife come with two hyphenated names - then their kids have FOUR hyphenated names and the grandkids have EIGHT and so on... Of course, it is not anywhere assumed that the generations down the line could be smarter to see it and abandon the practice themselves! 2. Some names are illegal - like Lenin or Schnikis. 3. The First Name should indicate the GENDER of the person. If it doesnt then the second name SHOULD be given to "clarify' the matter! Eunuchs presumably cannot live in that country! Read more

– Blogger for Word

Last updated on: October 13, 2005 at 12:34 pm By Desh Kapoor

Blogger - the blogging service from Google - seems to be at the forefront of blogging tools! It came up with Audioblogger.com for moblogs.. and now a service to post entries directly from Word to Blogger!! If you use Blogger - then do look up "Blogger for Word" Read more

– Zakaria on Devleopment and Globalization

Last updated on: October 13, 2005 at 11:52 am By Desh Kapoor

Personally, i have found Fareed Zakaria to be a very incisive and sharp observer. He is touted by some as possibly the person most likely to be the first Asian-born Secretary of State in US. He recently gave an interview to Outlook India - which I found rather interesting. Here are some excerpts for you. On dark side of globalisation Of course, globalisation has a dark side. It increases development, which means pollution, urbanisation, sprawl, building, and the destruction of communities. But that cannot mean one wants to stop development. It is scandalous that urban intellectuals, living privileged lives, want to stop people from getting out of poverty. Read more

Pak Earthquake: A deadly Blow to Jehadis!

Last updated on: October 12, 2005 at 10:34 pm By Desh Kapoor

News Source: DNAIndia News Highlight: At least 200 hardcore terrorists have been killed, and major terror camps and communication centres of at least three terror groups have been fully destroyed. This is according to the most authoritative assessment of the impact of the quake on Kashmir terror groups. The quake has dramatically reduced the number of trained terrorists available for Kashmir jehad and its impact would be felt for sometime to come, say intelligence and security assessments accessed by DNA. But that is no assurance on the quantum of violence coming down, warn senior officials. "The surviving terrorists in fact could step up violence," they warn. URL of the news item: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=5463 Read more

Delhi could be devastated by strong quake

Last updated on: October 12, 2005 at 2:58 pm By Desh Kapoor

News Source: Sify.com News Highlight: The massive earthquake of October 8 has seeded fear among residents in New Delhi’s new high-rise apartments. But experts say the real worry is the city’s patchwork of illegal homes. Newspapers and television networks reported how thousands of residents of apartment blocks around New Delhi panicked after an earthquake that measured 7.6 on the Richter scale swayed the multi-storey buildings on Saturday. But Subir Saha, director of New Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture, said the real danger to the country’s capital lay in the sprawling patchwork brick and mortar homes stacked almost back-to-back across the city. URL of the news item: http://headlines.sify.com/news/ Read more