Wikipedia Rival : Knol by Google

Google opened a new service to the public recently called Knol . The company announced it last December. Knols are articles about specific topics, written by people who have knowlodge about those subjects.

The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol article will have an author or group of authors who will sign the article with their name. With "moderated collaboration", Google introduced a new method for authors to work together.

Google also made an agreement with the New Yorker magazine which allows any Knol author to add one cartoon per knol from the New Yorker's cartoon collection.


"Knol has been described both as a rival to encyclopedia sites such as Wikipedia and Scholarpedia and as a complement to Wikipedia, offering a different format that addresses many of Wikipedia's shortcomings. The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which owns the name Wikipedia and the servers hosting the Wikipedia projects, welcomed the Google Knol initiative saying that "The more good free content, the better for the world."

While Wikipedia articles are written collectively under a "neutral point of view" policy,Knol will highlight personal expertise by emphasizing authorship and, like articles provided on Squidoo, HubPages, oondi.com, and Helium.com, knols will contain the personal opinions of the author." (Wikipedia.com)

Knol can be found at knol.google.com.

'All Weather' Handset from Intex

Intex's, has added the IN 3030 – "all weather" music phone to their range of mobile handsets. The phone is a complete music gizmo equipped with water, sweat & dust resistant technology.

"Intex is all set to make a noticeable mark in the segment by striking a chord with two of the most important user categories in the segment. This includes music lovers on the move and the masses on the street seeking protection of their handset in a high temperature, high humidity and dusty environment." said Shailendra Jha, DGM, Intex Technologies.

Equipped with features that include a music player , FM radio, voice & and an audio recorder

with an apparent rugged feel, this handset has the potential to be exactly what individuals interested in traveling and sporting activities would find extremely handy. It’s also designed to cater to the common man - farmers, fishermen, factory and construction workers, etc.- who normally use the phone with sweaty and dusty hands.

IN 3030 conforms to the Japanese JIS (IPX grade 5) standard for water resistance. The electronic circuitry is protected by a special film and all the joints are effectively sealed by rubber gaskets. As a result, the phone can withstand dust, moisture and water splashes. It is also designed to perform at very low and very high temperatures with high humidity.

Other features built into the handset include a mobile tracker and expandable memory up to 1GB, etc. The handset has been launched at a special introductory price of Rs. 3,500.

Find Secret Websites And Articles

There are a lot of sites on the Internet whose site owners that like to hide some of the site's ages or even the entire site from the search engines

. You can now find those sites with robots.txt.

Robots.txt is a text file present in the root directory of a site which is used to control which pages are indexed by a robot. If you use the 'disallow' word you can block parts of your sites to be found by search engines.

Step 1. Open the link http://www.google.com and search for the keyword :

"robots.txt" "disallow:" filetype:txt

Step 2. You will find the robots.txt file from sites that uses disallow command in it.

Step 3. Let's open for example the first site: WhiteHouse. We can see that a lot of pages were made invisible.

Step 4. To open 'forbidden' pages just copy the text from what disallow command you want, without the "text" at the end.

Step 5. Now replace in the browser /robots.txt with your copied text and press Enter. The page will open.


This is the hidden page from WhiteHouse.

There are many more interesting sites which you can unlock using this tutorial. Happy unlocking!

Nokia N97

Nokia has officially announced the N97, their latest mobile phone or maybe you can call it a mobile Computer!
The Nokia N97 has a huge(or quite huge for a cell phone actually) 3.5 inch touchscreen with a resolution of 640 x 360 and a full QWERTY keyboard with tactile feedback.
It is called by Nokia "the World's most advanced mobile computer

". Being like a little computer it features a whooping 32GB of memory, with the option of increasing it to 48GB via the use of a microSD card.
Other features include:

- 5 Megapixel Camera
- Carl Zeiss integrated optics coupled with a dual LED flash
- WiFi and HSDPA
- DVD quality video capture and 16:9 display
More and more people are using their phones to browse the net, share photos online or view movies online we expect that people will love N97 and will become one of the most popular phones.
The Nokia N97 will go on sale at the beginning of 2009 for around $693.

Advanced GameBoard by Logitech

Logitech has launched recently a new gaming accessory, the Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard. This cool device has 25 programmable keys, 3 game modes and a programmable analogue stick.

It also has a 160 x 43 Game Panel LCD display , which you can use to display game

statistics or messages from other players.

It comes pre-programmed with settings for some games ( for example World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings online ) and you can program your own settings and if you want and store them on the built in 20MB of memory. In that way you can take them with you to your next LAN contest.
The pricing of The Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard is kept at $80.