Portal – A single player first-person action game developed by Valve Corporation is now available for free download. The Game includes a series of puzzles and the player’s character has to solve the puzzles using a Teleporter.

Portal for Free

The Game has won around 70 Game of the Year awards and Valve has decided to give away the game for free. Have a Mac ?? No Worries . Valve has decided to give away the game free for both PC and Mac Platform.

This is what Valve has to say regarding the free giveaway :

“Capital news! But the excellent puzzle adventure Portal won over 40 Game of the Year awards; Surely it must cost at least five or six hundred dollars.”

You’d think that, especially since it actually won over 70 Game of the Year Awards. But, like we keep saying, Portal is free. Free on the Mac. Free on the PC. But only until May 24th.”

Hurry Up !! Because the Offer is only valid till 24th of May. You can download the game for free here.

Summer is here and Exams have ended. Well you can choose to sit in your house and idle off your summer but at the same time you can choose to intern at reputed organization. Being an Intern always boosts up your resume and also enhances your professional skills.

But where to start up with if you have to start Interning ?? . Companies usually post for Internship openings on the World Wide Web on various places but I am listing here four sites where you can search for Internships. So go ahead and give it a try

1) Students to Business : Microsoft’s Student To Business Portal is Microsoft’s Initiative to Connect Students with Business World.Submit your resume and Fill up the Forms. Apply for the Internships that you are interested in and if eligible you will soon hear from your prospective future employer. You can visit the portal here

2) 10internships : A Nice Site and it has exhaustive collection of Internship jobs available. No Need to Register/Login . Just select your city, desired stipend and you will be presented with relevant queries.
10internship

3) Hello Intern : Hello Intern is another site where you can register and apply for internships. Currently it is in Beta mode and we can expect the makers to add some more features to it.
Hello Intern

4) Indian Internships : Although the site is not well designed and has no features. There are extensive Internship postings in the website to which you can apply
Indian Internships

Did I miss any of them ?? Found an Internship site with more features than the above listed ones. Let us know in the comments.

“Last time there was this much excitement about a Tablet, it had some commandments written on it.”

The Wall Street Journal

Steve Jobs unveiled the much hyped Apple tablet amongst applauses and breakdowns on the interwebs. Guess what is it named ?? iTablet , iSlate ?? No, Apple has chosen to name it’s latest gadget Apple iPad.

Here is a quick look at what Apple iPad seems to be at the moment

1) 0.5 inches thin and weighs at 1.5 pounds, the iPad is  thinner and lighter than any other netbook

2) 9.5 inch IPS display

3) Rotate it any direction you want to, and the screen will adjust. You can resize it according to your wish.

4) Built in Virtual Keyboard, Multi Touch Sensors

5) 10 hours of battery life (Over one month standby time).

6)What does Apple iPad run on ??

“iPad is powered by our own custom silicon. Our own chip. It’s called the A4, and it screams.” 1GHz. 16, 32, or 64GB of flash storage. “It’s got the latest in wireless: 802.11n, WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.”

Steve Jobs

Apple is back to making chips again.

6) Built in i-Tunes Store. You can Flickr through the photos. Presence of address book and a great maps application with Google Maps.

7) A Cool gadget for Gaming freaks with its multi touch sensors.

8 ) Includes accelerometer, compass, speaker, mic, dock connector.

9) Has an ebook reader called iBook.Supports iWork

10) Apple has struck a deal with AT&T for data plans. The terms of the deals are

$14.99 for 250 MB

$29.99 for Unlimited Plan

Free use of AT&T WiFi Hotspots

No Contract which means you can cancel it anytime you want to

11) Basic Model Pricing starts at $499 and goes on increasing till $829. Apple plans to ship iPad’s in 60 days. $130 for adding 3G model is a bit over priced.

12) Compatibility for  iPhone  applications

Update : The Site for Apple iPad has been up . Check it out here

First Look : There was too much hype around before the release of the tablet. The name has been something that has been a surprise . At first look, it is something like the big brother of iPhone.

Keeping in mind, it is an Apple product, the basic model pricing is cheap but adding $130 for 3G is quite an overkill. Only time will tell how the data plan with AT&T works out. Nothing sort of an innovation but again marketing tactics have went on to garner huge publicity for Apple.

So that is it with the iPad. Did the iPad meet your expectations ?? Let us know in the comments section

P.S : The Post will be updated as soon as we get to hear anything new about the Apple iPad.

3 Dimension has been the recent trend in technology with most of the reputed companies jumping into the bandwagon with offering many 3D related products. The Release of Avatar has definitely increased the attention and interest in 3D . Recently i stumbled upon a software called as Bumptop which gives a 3d feel to your desktop.

BumpTop is a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. As you can see below, the desktop has got a 3D view with 4 walls.You can select the icons and play with it. By playing I mean , you can bump it over on a wall or stick it on the wall. BumpTop totally recreates a virtual wall on your desktop. You can have photo frames pinned to your desktop, send them to any folder by just moving over to the folder.

What more!! You can even upload your photos to facebook just by moving over the photos to the Facebook Icon. You can also mail and tweet anything from clicking on the icons. Just encircle the icons on the wall with the marker and an option will pop-up asking you for related features.

One more cool feature of BumpTop is you can zoom into the walls and shift the camera angle. Besides there are lots of themes available for eye candies.You can even change your the wallpaper of the 3d desktops and customize it to your need.

Check out more features about BumpTop in this video

Seek2Geek Review : A Really Cool Application to bring reality to your PC. It supports Multitouch, which means running it on Windows 7 Multitouch PC is bliss. It is bound to take up lots of graphic memory, so a decent graphic card /video card is a must for performance. The Pro Version costs around $29 and supports many more features.Available for Mac and PC. You can check out those features here. In short, a cool application to enhance the eye candy and at the same time your productivity.

Download Bumptop here

Seesmic has launched a Windows only Twitter client with the support of Microsoft and termed it as Seesmic Look. In an event held at New York, Seesmic Look was launched. Built for Windows Xp, Vista and Windows 7, Seesmic Look is made only for the Windows platform.

Seesmic Look X-factor as I put it is the look itself. While lots of effort has gone it to give it a cool look, the cool look and the features just don’t seem to embed anywhere.

This is the screen that greets you when you start up with Seesmic Look. As said earlier, the look is really cool. Here you can see the recent trends bubbling up.

This is how your timeline appears to you. To your right you can see all the controls in the vertical control panel. The controls are applied to the tweet that is on the top ( in this case that of @manan ). You can view the tweets in Alphabetical , Timeline or Playback mode. The problem with the playback mode is that the tweets disappear after sometime and there is no setting to change that.

This is the navigation panel. One new feature that is the channel which features some popular companies like Kodak, Red Bull. Clicking on the channel will show you tweets from the official accounts of the companies. There is no option to manually create a channel.

The Inbox shows up all your replies, DM’s. The interests section comprises everything from Tech to Humor. Clicking on them pulls up tweets related to the subject. It’s just like the Twitter Lists. This is something really helpful. Also pictures are embedded in Seesmic Look with the tweets as you can see below.

Embedding Pictures in Tweets

Seek2Geek Review : Seesmic Look is just another example of  applications which try to look cool but cannot embed the features. Other Desktop based Twitter apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic have support for Multi User account Tweeting and Facebook which is not present here. The real motive of this application as @loic says is to help the masses explore twitter, but Mr Loic how can they explore Twitter, if they get confused with the application itself ??. Final word – All Look and heavy animations seem to do no good to this application. Features not well embedded. Download it may be to just have a look at it but i am pretty much happy with Tweetdeck.

P.S : Use any other Twitter Application, or do you disagree with me ?? Let me know in the comments section. Waiting for your comments.

Firefox yesterday released the final version of 3.6 . This release comes within a short span of time since Firefox 3.6 RC 2 was released. Let us take a look at what 3.6 has in store for us

1) Inbuilt support for personas : Personas have become the themes for Firefox now. Go to personas section, choose it and install it. No need to restart the browser for changing the theme.

2) Improved Performance : Inclusion of the Trace Monkey JavaScript Engine has made Firefox 3.6 more faster as compared to the previous versions.

3) Form Complete : As the name suggest, Firefox 3.6 will suggest some information on the basis of your most common answers so that you can fill them up quickly

Among other special features include Native support for HTML 5 (as expected), Videos can be now played on full screen and lower start up time. For more features you can look up at this post by Mellissa Shapiro of Mozilla

Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6 here

Youtube and Indian Premier League have signed an agreement which will bring a whole new dimension to Internet TV. As Reported by theNextweb under the agreement, Youtube will stream the third season of IPL live on it’s website. This comes as a relief to cricket fans over the world who had no other options to watch IPL than on the Idiot Box.

This agreement takes streaming of Live Sports to the Internet and will give Youtube an image of more than a video sharing site. On the other side, it will help BCCI to further propogate the game of cricket through IPL 3 .

Streaming Live has not been a problem for Youtube, it has done so earlier with U2’s Rose Bowl Concert to more than 10 Million Viewers. So it would not be a problem with the Live Streaming.

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At this point of time, however nothing has been said about whether this would be a cost based service or free of cost, considering the fact that many sports channel allow premium users to watch live stream at a certain cost. So will Youtube would charge or not charge ?? For that we will have to wait for an official declaration by both the concerned parties.

Notes are the best way of remembering certain things. There are various widgets available for keeping notes but today we will review a widget called “Scribbly” which does more than saving notes.

Scribbly is built on the famous Adobe Air Platform and it can be downloaded from here. After Installing, you can make notes on the Scribbly Widget.

Scribbly comes with a feature of mailing your notes to your email as well as to multiple email id’s. You can find the option in the settings tab.

Clicking on the Time Stamp button will insert the time stamp and you can mail all the day’s note at one go.It also has an online status button to denote whether you are connected to the internet or not.

Seek2Geek Review : A small but useful note application. Adding themes to the application would have been a nice option. Mailing your notes to multiple email id’s is a welcome feature from other application

Do you use any other Notes application ?? If yes, let us know in the comments section

Ever wondered what your favourite website is made in, or are you confused about which advertising affiliates  to use for your site. If yes, Sitonomy is the perfect tool for you. Sitonomy is a web based free service that helps site owners to find out popular technologies alternatives to optimize their site or blog.

The Interface is too easy to understand. Enter the URL of the website that you want to look out for and click on Analyse.  Sitonomy will display the analysis results of the website and return you with the following components of the website :

1) Advertising Networks

2) Blogging Platform

3) Ads Management

4) Subscription

5) Stats Tools

6) Server Software

Sitonomy also detects other softwares or platforms like Scripting language present on your server. It also has an usage column shows percentage of analysed sites that are using the service. It also displays alternatives for the components which lists the other services for a specific component.

Seek2Geek Review :

An useful tool for comparing popular websites and checking out what is the popular choice  in various components. Go Check it out and let us know your views about Sitonomy in the comments section.

Facebook yesterday announced the launch of Reply-by-email feature to all its users. The new feature allows users to reply to comments on Photos, Wallposts, Status messages, videos via Email.

You receive an email, every time you get a notification on Facebook like comments on status updates. Just hit on reply and type in your comments and you are done. Your comment will be published on the status message.

An Useful feature for those who don’t get to access Facebook from offices and colleges. Looks like Facebook is really working hard on releasing new features to out do Twitter. What next , Facebook ?? Updating Status message through emails ??

P.s : Do not Forget to remove your Email Signatures in case you are using this service, it also gets published