Novaway- The November Contest

Update: Results Announced. Scroll down to view the winners.
Hi friends,
We are launching our first contest ever on Blog4Info today. We have found very supportive sponsors for our contest. Prizes of up to $80 are to be given away for the winners. The sponsors are Avast Antivirus and WinRar.

About our sponsors:

Avast Antivirus is one of the world's most powerful and efficient antivirus softwares with experience of years in handling your security measures. You can also try the Avast Free Edition, to protect your computer free of cost. To download the free edition click below:

WinRar is one of the fastest and secure compressors in the world. I don't think that you need any further explanations for this. So have a try on this too.

Let us come in to the contest:

Option 1: Blog about "Virus free cyber world" along with a link to this page on your post. 
Share your blog post link through the comments form below.


Option 2: Share the below text in your Facebook profile, Twitter and MySpace (Any two). 
You must give us the link to the the Facebook share, twitter tweet and Myspace share through the comments form below. To get the link click on the link associated with the time placed below the post.

Text to share:

There is a wonderful contest going on in Blog4Info. Prizes of about $80. Do take part and have fun. To participate visit: http://www.theblog4info.com/2010/10/novaway-november-contest.html

Note: Using tiny URL is allowed, we'll verify that for your convenience. 


Option 3: Blog about this contest in your blog. 
Share your blog post link through the comments form below.


Note: Priority given to those contestants who write the post on the given topic. 


What are you gonna grab? 
You can win two cool premium softwares through this contest.
1st Prize: Avast Internet Security (1 Year License), worth $50.
2nd Prize: WinRar Compressor, worth $29


So don't waste your time. Try top grab those cool softwares. The contest will last until further notifications. We will contact the contestants for the announcement dates. If you have any suggestions or doubts contact us at admin@theblog4info.com .

Contest Sponsored by Avast Antivirus and WinRar.

Winners are:
Finally the Novaway Contest have come to its end. I hereby thank all our sponsors for their whole hearted support and co-operation. I also thank all our participants for making this contest a grand success. We will come up with more interesting and entertaining contests with better gifts soon. Congratulations to the winners and the others try your luck next time.

The winner is Rakesh Narang who is entitled to grab the Avast Internet Security 1-Year License and Ganesh Babu who is entitled for a WinRar license. Once again congratulations to the winners.

Orkut Vs Facebook fight getting worse!

Hi friends,
As you all know both Facebook and Orkut are well established social networking sites. Both of these providers have already created their signature in the social networking world. But the fight between them is becoming worse in the past few months. There are a lot of reasons for this. The main reason is the boom of Facebook's development. Facebook has acquired unbelievable development in the past few years, which has obviously created a head ache for the other providers such as Twitter, MySpace, Orkut, Friensdster etc. But the most threatened provider is Orkut as Facebook has a lot of common features.

But in the case of security, Orkut is more vigilant than Facebook, we presume. Let us start from a very basic restriction. Saving the profile picture. An unknown user who visits you profile can easily save your profile picture in Facebook but cannot do this in Orkut. You may wonder, what is the security aspect in this. But yeah it has. Unwanted distribution and misuse of your picture can be restricted. Starting from this very basic option it ranges up to very complicated privacy features.

Google Launches Music Search

Google launches its all new enhanced feature- The Music Search. As always currently its available for users from the U.S only. Let us have a peep into this service.


The search engine is able to help you discover music you'll like, even if you can't tell it what exactly you want to hear. They've partnered with Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody to include links to their sites where you can discover music related to your queries as well.

This feature doesn't just make search better. It also helps people discover new sources of licensed music online while helping artists to discover new generations of fans and reconnect with longtime listeners.

The all new secure search from Google!

Google, the legendary search provider is up with a new update . The all new SSL search. Bit to bit security. Here is more about it!

With Google search over SSL, you can have an end-to-end encrypted search solution between your computer and Google. This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party. This provides you with a more secure and private search experience.

To use search over SSL, visit https://encrypted.google.com each time you perform a search. Note that only Google web search is available over SSL, so other search products like Google Images and Google Maps are not currently available over SSL. When you're searching over SSL, these properties may not appear in the left panel.

MySpace Unveils New Logo

Logo redesigns are always a big deal filled up with a lot of mess. MySpace has taken this challenge recently. It has unveiled its new logo to the visitors. But the history always has a lesson to teach us. And in the case of logo redesigns, history has taught us that it is always a kick to change it. The same issue with the new MySpace logo too. Personally, I'm against this change as the previous one was much better than the new hero. Let us wait for the further responses from the tech world.

MySpace VP of User Experience Mike Macadaan explains the philosophy behind it, “MySpace is a platform for people to be whatever they want, so we’ve decided to give them the space to do it.” Apparently the blank space to the left will be filled with user generated artwork when users hover over it on the redesigned site.

Have a Facebook page? Need a username?

Hi friends,

Usernames are one among the best ways to brand your page. It may be for a blog, company or product.
By registering a username, you are reserving your place in Facebook so that people can easily find you. Not taking the post much lengthy but I'll have to explain a few things.

Is Google breaching our privacy?

Hi friends,
This post is written as a response to the request from one of my readers who asked me to blog about "google breaching our privacy". The user suggested this subject through the "What should we blog about" widget placed in my blog. I here by thank him for suggesting such a wonderful subject. Unfortunately he has not mentioned his name or e-mail address in the given form. The I.P address of the user starts with 117 and ends with 177 (not mentioned due to privacy policies of Blog4Info)

Let us get into the subject. I find that the reader has suggested me a very relevant subject. Under any circumstances, the e-mails received in one's account is his personal property. Either it is offered by a provider or individual. But we can find that Google displaying ads based on the keywords or sentences present in the mails we receive. But we cant conclude that, someone is reading our mails just due to such a system. It may be an automated system configuration which just takes the help of the keywords present in the mail to display matching ads. 

Etisalat and Du announces iPhone 4 packages!

Content optimized for users from UAE

Du's announcement comes at a time when Etisalat has also announced the rates for its iPhone 4 packages


Du announced Thursday that it will launch the iPhone 4 in the UAE on September 25 with a number of data plans tailored for iPhone individual and business customers.

“Combined with our bundled data plans, customers in the UAE can experience the new iPhone 4 as never before on the fastest and best network,” said Farid Faraidooni, Chief Commercial Officer at du in a release published Thursday.

The announcement comes at a time when Etisalat has also announced the rates for its iPhone 4 packages.

Yahoo Generation- Almost over

Google is one of the fastest growing web companies in the world which has its head quarters in California. While Yahoo is one among its greatest rivals in this field. Google mostly known for its search engine is developing its search engine day by day. Yeah, 88% of the world's web users use Google for their daily web search. While Yahoo is not far behind in this field. But certain beginners are gaining popularity in this branch like Bing and Ask in the past few years. But have you ever noticed whether Google or Yahoo or Bing is afraid of each other. Here is an answer. Yeah, Yahoo is a bit concerned on the rise of Google, Bing and Ask. 

Here is the proof:

Whenever you search for Google, Bing or Ask in Yahoo search, it recommends us to use Yahoo search instead of those search engines.....But the others are not at all concerned about Yahoo! 

Let us hear what our predecessors said………

Post for IndiBlogger Contest

Let us hear what our predecessors said………
UPDATE: I have won the second place in this contest...Thank You for all the care and  support you readers gave me...Thank you for your valuable votes and I hope this cooperation continues in future too.
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Technology has conquered heights in the past decade. Technology has reached to an unimaginable extend. Whatever we humans thought "Never" is now a silly gadget. Yeah, technology is developing at the speed of a ray of light. Thats really  positive growth but every technology harms the human culture and our mother nature. Whatever, we welcome each and every new gadget with two hands. Here is my technological dream or demand.


I wish for a technology that can retrieve the sound present in the atmosphere. Sounds strange? I’ll explain it. Our atmosphere is actually a storage space. Whatever the sounds we make, is heard by us with the help of the atmosphere. It is because of that, there is lack of sound in an atmosphere free environment such as in other planets. So, it is sure that these sounds are present in the atmosphere. It is the same with our predecessors. Their sounds may also exist in our atmosphere. Why can’t we find a technology to decode it, retrieve it? 

The wireless signals sent by our modems, T.V broadcasters, etc are retrieved by the associated technologies. Thus we should be able to develop a device that retrieves the sounds present in the atmosphere so that we can hear the sounds of our predecessors. We could have heard what they said on conflicting issues. We could have heard the words of many great men such as Gandhiji. Yeah it is possible. This technology would help us in different ways. Socially, religiously and politically it would help us a lot.

Before some years, humans would have been surprised to hear about a live broadcasting feature. But now it is not strange. We people take it as a technology which is very simple. So, I believe that this technology is also not so strange or surprising. Great innovators still exist between us, Humans. Hope that this technology also would become a truth in near future.

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Twitter- The News Maker

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Twitter is one among the social networking sites in the internet world. The feature which keeps Twitter special is the use of Twitter by celebrities, politicians, governments and other notable personalities. There are many advantages associated with this but disadvantages are equally following the advantages. In Indian politics, many people have suffered great losses due to their use of Twitter.

Facebook Places :: A brand new approach

Facebook has unveiled a new location based service called Facebook Places to help you easily broadcast your current location to your friends on Facebook.

For instance, if you are inside a shopping mall, you can tell your friends where you are through Facebook Places and the service will also show you other people who may be near that place around the same time. Watch the following video to learn more:

But unfortunately as always, this service is currently limited to users within the U.S!

The Revolutionary Blogger- Hands-off to him!

What is social blogging? The answer is here:

An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere, an inside view of their country's raging drug war.

Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story.

Many postings, including warnings and a beheading, appear to come directly from drug traffickers. Others depict crime scenes accessible only to military or police.