Google has got a new face on the Web. A smaller one, just 16x16 pixels.The internet mammoth updated its favicon, the small logo that appears in URL location bar, tabs bookmarks and a few other places. The older icon, an uppercase multicolored G has been supplanted by blue colored lower case g. It's just a minor change, but coming from a company which gives detail to its design, I could not help, but draw my (and yours) attention to it. Given the fact that icon is beaming across our browsers like a bulb in a room, this aspect of their branding deserves some attention.But do note that this new icon doesn't appear on all Google sites.

Orkut is the most famous social networking websites in India. As the developers of orkut are facing problem in converting the popularity of the website into big bucks, the website is riding high on its powerful networking feature and easy interface. Recently (Nov last year ) Google introduced the opensocial application programming interface (API) following the trend started by Facebook.

I recently met two developers at the Delhi Bar camp 4 where they demonstrated how they had developed an application on Facebook last year and how it brought their server down within few months because of the enormous amount of traffic (million page views daily). Finally they decided to sell their application in January this year. Not a bad start for two students.

According to the CHIP magazine, 8 out of 19 applications on Orkut have been developed in India. A game Teen Patti is attracting a lot of people and is all set to become a rage in future. Teen patti which is a cards game played by people on festive occasions can be players between people and the players can chat with each other. It also has a ranking system that tells you who is the best player.

The successful social networking website Orkut is still proving to be a fat elephant to push in terms of revenue it is generating. Manu Rekhi, the product general manager of Google says that it is just a matter of time. It took three years to get the search revenue model right.

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement
It supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

Supported Languages

C C++ Java C# XML HTML
PHP CSS makefile ASCII art (.nfo) doxygen ini file
batch file Javascript ASP VB/VBS SQL Objective-C
RC resource file Pascal Perl Python Lua TeX
TCL Assembler Ruby Lisp Scheme Properties
Diff Smalltalk Postscript VHDL Ada Caml
AutoIt KiXtart Matlab Verilog Haskell InnoSetup
CMake YAML

Features

• What you see is what you get (Useful in getting coloured printouts of the source code)
• Auto complete feature: (view screen shot)
• Edit several documents in tabs:The tabbed feature
• Multiview: In multiview you can edit several codes simultaneously (view screen shot)
• Multi-Language environment supported(Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew Windows environments are supported)
• Bookmark feature:This feature is very useful where the lines of code increase and the code becomes difficult to manage
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting:When the caret stay beside of one of those symbol { } [ ] ( ) , the symbol beside of caret and its symmetric opposite symbol will be highlighted, as well as the indent guideline (if any) in order to locate the block more easily It is very important when it comes to bugs that come up because of improper nesting.
• Macro recording and playback: You can save several macros

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