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Streaming allows the upload and download at the same time, without the first person completely uploading the file. New startup brings streaming of files to web — innovative!
Streamfile

Free, open-source boot disk utility Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) automatically and completely deletes the content of every hard disk it can find on your computer when you run it.
Darik’s Boot and Nuke Securely Wipes Your System in an Emergency

Scenario (for Windows): You’ve got multiple GMail accounts, say, one for work and another for personal use; and you would like to sign onto both Google Talk accounts on the same computer at the same time. By default, GTalk doesn’t permit multiple instances, but a simple hack can fix it.
Right Click on the Google Talk [...]

Yahoo! is taking a bold step tonight: opening up its index and search engine to any outside developers who want to incorporate Yahoo! Search’s content and functionality into search engines on their own sites.
Search War: Yahoo! Opens Its Search Engine to Attack Google With An Army of Verticals

JumpBox offers a neat array of read-made open source software stacks as Virtual Appliances, pre-configured with “best practices”.
JumpBox

The new version touts two major upgrades. ‘First, TrueCrypt now performs parallel encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, giving you a phenomenal speedup if you have more than one processor available. Second, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating system, so even if you’re forced to reveal your pre-boot password to [...]

Gmail has introduced a new privacy feature that will let users see how many computers their account is open on, and also allows them to sign-out remotely.
Google Lets You Monitor Access To Your Gmail Account

The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another. According to the creators — this building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime; and would be energy self-sufficient and even feed extra power back into the grid!
Dubai plans ‘moving’ skyscraper

“When fully commissioned later this year, the £250m farm set on abandoned state-owned land will be twice the size of any other similar project in the world, covering an area nearly twice the size of London’s Hyde park. It is expected to supply 45MW of electricity each year, enough to power 30,000 homes.” - Guardian
EU [...]

“Why? Because if you’re willing to take the company up on the offer, you obviously don’t have the sense of commitment they are looking for.”
An intriguing article points out the practice followed by Zappos (an online retailer with >$1 Bil sales), which pays its newly recruited employees $1,000 to leave the job.
Why Zappos Pays [...]

Occasionally I find myself in a situation where I pronounce a word differently to what my friend does. The solution? I look up theFreeDictionary.com or simply tfd.com. Two buttons right besides the word allow you to play recorded American and British pronunciations of words, a boon for my multi-cultural background and a need for improving [...]

ipipi.com provides a low cost, reliable and easy-to-use service to send international text messages directly from the mobile phone unlike other services which provide a web interface to do so. The text message takes the following format - s <number> <message>, and the message gets relayed to the desired number via the online service almost [...]

Paul Graham, co-founder of YCombinator, has written various thoughtful essays on topics such as ‘Why to not not start a startup’, ‘How to start a startup’, ‘A student’s guide to startup’ and ‘Good and bad procrastination’ among others. Of course, there’s no substitute to reading them, but if you want to take them around in [...]

Adobe joins the online ‘Office productivity tools’ race with the launch of Buzzword! Other notable ones include Google Docs and Zoho. All these new offerings at attacking well at the tail end of Microsoft Office sales, and more so, since most people only make use of the most basic functions in these tools, most of [...]

Alltop.com is a refined collection of some of the best blogs on the web categorised under different sections like life, gossip, startups, programming, travel, India, China, etc. (82 categories at the time of writing).
If it adds any credibility, one of person behind Alltop is Guy Kawasaki, that was a good enough reason for [...]

An interesting article about perception and performance. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, a study suggests that people at the bottom of the workplace totem pole don’t end up there for lack of ability, but rather that being low and powerless in a hierarchy leads to more mistakes.”
Does power corrupt? Absolutely not

An amazing tool for bloggers that makes use of client APIs to publish/edit blog entries for popular blogging systems. Firefox only. ScribeFire

Google mashup with photos and wikipedia entries!
Google mashup

Tomato is an open source firmware for routers that does a multitude of things — from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation—in addition to offering a simplified interface chock-full of fancy charts and graphs.
Turn Your $60 Router into a User-Friendly Super-Router with Tomato

Air Travel and Web 2.0 are making a tremendous impact in India. Here is the definitive list of Travel 2.0 in India.

Scientists are beginning to uncover evidence that meditation has a tangible effect on the brain — there is evidence that meditation changes brain structures.
Scientists probe meditation secrets

Sandboxie is cool technology - a sandbox-type isolation software for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It creates a “container” in which programs can be safely launched without modifying the host’s OS. Useful for browsing the web and throwing away the session completely.
Sandboxie

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Supports Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, MySpace, Google Images, Yahoo Images and more. Available as a Firefox add-on and IE Plug-in. Awesome tool for all photo enthusiasts.
PicLens

Often, even great new technology needs a partner to really change the world. Here are 10 marriages of technologies that have shaken the digital world over the last 25 years.
The 10 Most Disruptive Technology Combinations

In their own words: “Generate database and reporting applications for .NET in minutes. Quickly create visually stunning, feature-rich Web 2.0 applications that are easy to customize and ready to deploy. If you need an app built today, use Iron Speed Designer”
Iron Speed Designer