Yes, Indian government is now eying to earn their share of income by enforcing TAX to free-lance web related workers and professionals.

It seems Paypal has made it mandatory for all users to enter their PAN card number to get the withdrawal service started again. Read more at Paypal FAQ for PAN card details. So you would need to have a valid pan card to get / withdraw money from paypal to your bank or even as cheque.

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IPL T20 2010 team standings and up to date (March 15, 2010) points table. This data would be updated every night after the games are over. If you are viewing a saved page then it is requested to refresh the page to obtain current status.

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2010 IPL T20 (twenty – twenty) is now been streamed live and free of cost in Youtube. Youtube has launched an separate channel -> http://www.youtube.com/ipl, where anyone (apart from US regional IP) can log in and view the matches.

The previous IPL match highlights are also available as on demand

IPL T20 2010 Points table and team standing

IPL T20 2010 Match Schedule

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It was a disaster for online business owners and professional bloggers since RBI directions and policy forced paypal to suspend their operation (Withdrawal of funds) in India.

According to RBI, with the present system, it wasn’t possible for them to monitor cross border transactions for both security and tax issues hence RBI issued few guide lines to add some extra information along with the incoming money so that Indian Banks could act accordingly to add TAX information and security agencies could also monitor.

Since 3rd march 2010, Paypal has implemented the given instruction of RBI and started the withdrawal process once again.

You may review the following categories given by RBI. And do note that according to Indian law, based on the value of withdrawal and the purpose code in your declaration, your bank may require you to provide documentary proofs such as invoices / goods receipt forms as applicable to reconcile with your withdrawal.

So here we go, as per Indian LAW, blogging is now a profession in India.

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Finlay after a long delay and a super secrete development process, Microsoft is launching their next version of Windows mobile.

The Windows Mobile 7 series, which is suppose to change the way smart phones worked. Check out the launching video to get a more inside look at the upcoming device.

• Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series – Watch the launch press conference video
• Discover the new features of this new slick device – Windows Mobile 7 website
• Behind the scene – Development of Windows Mobile 7
• Windows Phone channel on You Tube / Facebook / Twitter

Things what we get to know from this early videos and projections are like,

• Every Windows Mobile 7 series phone would be a ZUNE HD also, hence expect them to be Hard disc based.
• Windows mobile 7 heavily concentrates on cloud hence just like iPhone, expect it to be bandwidth hungry.
• Full touch screen (HD) with multi-touch feature
• Microsoft is concentrating to integrate more and more 3rd party cloud services with Windows Mobile 7 than any other manufacturer have done previously

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

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WordPress recently have released the WordPress 2.9 update to patch up and address few security and performance issues along with minor feature improvement.

However it has caused a major problem for regular bloggers, specifically speaking those who are pro-bloggers having large blogs with lots of activity.

One of the widely used and one of the must have plugin for wordpress is the WP-DBManager. A very popular plugin which helps to setup a system in which a blogger can automatically receive periodical database backup via email.

It seems ever since upgrade to WordPress 2.9, WP DBmanager have stopped working. In user report, it has came forward that for some reason with WordPress 2.9, the cron jobs are effected and not working properly.

So, if you are using the said plugin, then use any manual method to get your backup done.

Update (Jan 08, 2010)

After the release of WordPress 2.9.1, the said problem seems have solved. So update your WP installation and see if it has solved the issue for you or not.

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It was Windows 95, where we first had the option to switch themes to enjoy a new desktop everyday. Back in those days it helped to refresh the old computers with new themes but some how with Win2k and onwards, themes went missing as the OS started come with just 2 option, one graphics hungry and another light version.

But with Windows 7, Microsoft has brought the concept of themes back to mainstream. The default installation of Windows 7 would carry couple of themes with it, where as one may find a bunch of themes based on many concept at Windows 7 Personalization Gallery hosted by Microsoft.

What is a Theme ?

A theme is a combination of pictures, colors, and sounds on your computer. It includes a desktop background, a screen saver, a window border color, and a sound scheme. Some themes might also include desktop icons and mouse pointers.

There are close to 50 official Windows 7 theme files available for download from Microsoft ranging from few KBs to as high as 15 MBs.

All the theme packs are available as individual download and it has been a issue of talk in many discussion boards and forums that it is a painstaking process for those who wants all the themes as one has to download one by one, each of the theme packs.

Where can you download all the theme packs together ?

Well, there are no official location of ZIP given by Microsoft, but I have downloaded all the theme packs and uploaded them here as a single ZIP file.

Download them all (All 48 official themes of MS Win7) from Choto Cheeta Online.

This zip files contains following theme packs,

* Australia * Avatar * Avatar * Baltic * Beaches (Poland) * Baltic Beaches (Poland) * Bicycle Ride (Taiwan) * Bicycle Ride (Taiwan) * Bing’s Best * Brazil * Canada * Cats Anytime * China * Happiness Factory * Dogs in Winter * Ducati * Ferrari * France * Gears of War * Germany * Green Island (Taiwan) * Greg Straight (New Zealand) * India * Infiniti * Italy * Japan * Korea * Landscapes (Latvia) * Landscapes (Poland) * Lugares Coloridos * Mexico * Nature (Latvia) * Nature (Poland) * Netherlands * Refresh Everything * Poland * Porsche * Russia * South Africa * Spain * Summit on the Summit * Syue Mountain (Taiwan) * Taiwan * Turkey * Twinkle Wish * United Kingdom * United States * Wieliczka (Poland) * Zune Characters * Zune Elements * Zune Zodiac *

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TATA indicom becomes the first Indian ISP to offer live television streaming via its EVDO / HSIA wireless network. Recently TATAindicom has tied up with Apalya Technologies, a Hyderabad based company to launch the Photon TV service on Adobe Air platform.

TATAindicom is presently providing the CDMA 1x service in 22 states and has a large EDVO / HSIA network on most of the big cities.

How to get Photon TV

You may start the service by downloading the TV viewing tool. Which is around 17MB and available for free download.

Do take a note here, the Adobe Air run time given with this tool seems to be out dated as right after the installation, my adobe update center informed me that there is an updated version of Adobe Air run time available. Meaning another 10+MB of download.

Presently the application supports only Windows platform and I have tested and found it working with XP (x64) / Vista (x64) and Win 7 (x64).

The Application interface / How to use TATA Photon TV

The main start up screen of the application would through you a window with 3 options

• Channel list
  
• My channels
• Help

For a first time user, you may find My Channel to be empty. Where as under Channel list, you can click any channel to get the option to select your subscription.

Tariff / price and subscription Plans

• Single Channel : @ Rs. 4 per month.
• My 10 : Combination of 10 channels @ Rs 29 per month.
• My Full Pack : All channels @Rs75 per month.
• Around 2 MB/minute of data consumption while streaming.

There are around 40 channels available to chose from and under Full Pack, you get to see all of them.  It may appear dead cheap given that you can watch it in your notebook while you are in move but the biggest down side is that TATA is going to charge you for streaming video.

It seems, it is consuming around 2 MB of data for each minute of streaming, meaning even if I am under the top plan (15GB), still I would run out of bandwidth within 125 to 130 hours. That’s around 4 hours of TV each day for Rs. 1500/- + 10% TAX.

How is the performance

Its developed with Adobe Air. Meaning Web technology brought to desktop. It feels like streaming youtube but via a desktop based application.

So everything depends on the speed of the device and network. Although the HSIA network which is suppose to be a 3.1 MBPS network but on real time, if having 95+ singal bar and off peak hours, like night time, the real time speed stays around 2 mbps and streaming seems quite OK with occasional lags while my mail client or any other application is accessing the network.

But its a big let down when I am on move, like accessing it from a moving car or at peak hours like at noon. There is a lot of lag on real time streaming.

Verdict and final call

TATA has the edge now over its competitors like BSNL (EVDO) and RelianceNET connect (HSIA) as they are the first to offer this service.

But Rs. 1500/- + Rs. 75/- + 10% TAX for 4 hours of TV per day (2mb/m with highest data plan) and then Rs. 1 for per minute of TV ??

Certainly not a service for me at-least.

But people like share traders and business owner will like it a lot as they can watch their favorite business channel like CNBC TB 18 or NDTV profit, right on their notebook while enjoying their coffee break or a little outing.

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Netbook computers are fast becoming mainstream products. To cut weight of the portable devices, its now becoming a common practice by vendors to ship portable computers (Laptop / Notebooks) with smaller screen and without any optical (CD / DVD) drive.

Ever since we have stepped in to the broadband edge, people are finding it easy to stream or download (purchase) movies / music / software online rather than buying physical copy of it. Hence lack of an optical drive is not causing any major issue for day to day computing.

However, there is one major section of computing, which requires an optical drive as must. That is, the phase of installation of an (OS) Operating System. Although, most of the time, any new netbook (ASUS EEEPC / Acer Aspire One /  7″ / 10inch / 11″ screen based products) / notebook / laptop would come with an pre-installed OS, but there are certain situation, where we may find you self in need of upgrading or installing the OS (let’s face it, Windows installations do get wrong sometime), where as, many Netbooks are coming without any OS or with Freedos or Linux, in which an user may feel to put his own OS.

So how can you install Windows on a Computer / Netbook / Notebook / Laptop which doesn’t have an optical (CD / DVD) drive ?

There are couple of options, like,

• Using an external USB based optical (CD / DVD) drive
• Network deployment installation
• Installation via USB / flash / pen / thumb drive

Up-till now, Microsoft didn’t have any official method or way for supporting the USB installation method. If someone wanted to do so, had to do via many complicated guides on How to install Windows via USB drive or how to create bootable installation USB drive.

However things are about to change with Microsoft releasing a tool called Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.

What is Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool ?

It is a tool which can either create a bootable installation DVD or USB drive of Windows 7 from an ISO image of Windows 7.

How to use Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool to create a bootable installation USB / pen drive and install Windows from it ?

The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool requires a PC running Windows XP / Vista or Windows 7. You can download the tool from here.

Installation

The installation is pretty straight forward, simple few clicks and you have the program installed and ready to be executed.

Using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

• Click the Windows Start button, and click Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool in the All Programs list to open the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool.

• In the Source File box, type the name and path of your Windows 7 ISO file, or click Browse and select the file in the Open dialog box.

• Select USB to create a copy on a USB flash drive or DVD to create a copy on a DVD disk, then click Next.

• If you are copying the file to a USB flash drive, select your USB device in the dropdown list and click Begin copying. If you are copying the file up to a DVD, click Begin burning.

Hey its open source by the way..

Developers may find this very interesting as the product is open source and available under GPL.

Read more @ TechNet and Codeplex

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Daemon Tools (Free / Paid)

Daemon tools is one of the oldest and widely used software in this category. There are 2 versions of this product available, as both free and paid-ware. Supports Windows XP / Vista / 7 (x64/x86).

Since the time they have started to sell a paid copy of the product, the free version has started to pack some bloatware like browser tool bars and certain add-ons. However you would be presented with options under custom installation to install the software without these add-ons. Where as the paid versions allows you to create 32 virtual drives supporting Blue-Ray also.

The free version wights around 9MB in size and the Advance version costs around 40 Euro.

Alcohol 120% and Alcohol 52% (Paid)

It was meant as a burning software but became popular for its ability to create and load virtual disc images.

The Alcohol 120% is also known for this ability to read from scratched or damaged discs. It allows you to create upto 31 virtual drives and has a support for wide range of operating systems, supporting Windows 2k, XP (x64 / x86), Server 2k3 (32bit / 64bit) / Server 2k8 (x86 and x64), Vista (x86 and x64), Windows 7 (32bit / 64bit).

One may obtain a time limited trial version of this software before purchasing the full version at Euro 40.

PowerISO (Paidware)

Another software originally made as a CD / DVD burner, but have succeeded more as a mounting software.

Although the software itself is a paidware but the actual mounting support is given free as an add-on download. The software supports a wide range of imaging format, including .DAA (Direct-Access-Archive is an advanced format for image file) files. This is the only software in this list which supports Windows 98 and Windows ME along with all above version of windows, both 32 and 64bit.

The software retails at USD 30 and allows a time limited full featured trial via their trial download given at their website.

MagicISO (Paid) / MagicDisc (Freeware)

Once again another burner turned virtual drive software. The MagicISO provides a free independent add-on called MagicDisc.

The software retails at around USD 30, where as the MagicDisc is offered free. One may also try out their trail version of the burning software MagicISO.

MagicISO / MagicDisc supports almost al versions of Windows, starting fro Win98 to 64bit version of Win7 and Server 2k3 R2 (Beta).

Virtual Clone Drive (freeware)

Arguably the best free solution available for virtualizing the CD or DVD image files. It supports almost all imaging format like ISO / Bin / CCD and allows you to create upto 8 virtual drives.

One of the popular feature of this software would the context menu add-on which allows you to mount or unmount an image file by just right clicking on it.

The Virtual CloneDrive weights just a couple of MB and can be downloaded free. It supports Windows 98 to Windows 7 including both 32 and 64bit version of it.

By the way, what are the use of these software in real life computing ?

It is possible that the question may pop up to those who are not used to using virtual disc drives, as whats the purpose of these software.

Now days, as we have bigger hard discs, would not it be easy to make an image of the disc you need and keep it in your hard drive. In that way, you can avoid physical ways of changing discs from drives and in case you are a notebook user, then you don’t have to carry so many discs either.

Just one thing to keep in mind. Not every End user license may allow you to make an image of your disc.

If you know about any software supporting Windows 7 (x64) which I have missed to list here, please do post a comment to let me know.

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