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Here is the funny difference between Google and Google India. I’m sure it is much more than this but it will give you idea. (click to enlarge). There must be more keywords for fun. Anyone?

Google India had launched a nation-wide competition for students to design a Google logo for 14th November, 2009. Finally, the winner is Puru Pratap Singh of Gurgaon – a student of class 4th.

November 14 is celebrated as Bal Divas (Children’s Day) in India. This logo will be live on Google.co.in on 14th.

Google have start sending the Google Wave Invitation to few (read it 1,00,000) early adopters. They have started sending them out yesterday and I wish I could get one. I see many peoples are trying hard to get one. I was not surprised to know that Invites are selling on ebay at $70.

With so much hype and buzz around it’s hard to wait for invitation. If anyone out there can send me an invitation at akajain [at] gmail [dot] com, that will be very appreciated.

If you have an outstanding idea for a StartUp and worrying from where all the money required would flow in. DON’T WORRY.

World’s largest search engine Google is ready to help you with your startup. Under the management of Rich Miner and Bill Maris google announces Google Ventures. Google Venture is a effort to use google’s resources to encourage entrepreneurs and new companies.

For Entire Story visit www.google.com/ventures

Recently, I fixed a very annoying bug of Google Talk or Winamp 5 (I don’t know). Google Talk and Winamp were freezing (hang/not responding) when the status was selected was “Show current music track” in Google Talk messenger and same time I have Winamp playing my songs. So Google talk and Winamp 5.x wasn’t working together. However, I saw that this was not the case with other media players. But I like listening to music using Winamp player. That’s the best player available and I don’t want to use any other. Someone suggested me that creating a blank “m3u” file (Winamp playlist file) in the installation directory of Winamp (usually “C:\Program Files\Winamp”) may solve this issue. I perform the following steps and Wow! It worked.

Step 1: Go to the root directory of Winamp which is usually in C:\Program Files\Winamp\

Step 2: Select Tools->Folder Options->View (Tab) and uncheck the hide extensions for known file types and click Ok.

Step 3: Now create an empty file (Right click the mouse -> New -> Text document), so the default file would be like “New Text Document.txt”.

Step4: Rename the above file to “winamp.m3u” and save.

Step5: Close Winamp and Google Talk. Now open again and Your Show Current music track status should work like a charm !

Happy Tweaking

Gmail CAPTCHA is cracked by a group of spammers, first reported by a security firm “Websense”. The firm believes that this attack is carried out by the same group behind the cracking of Windows Live mail CAPTCHA’s earlier this month. Here is full story on blog of this security firm.

Default Installation of Google Talk doesn’t allow you to login with two different Ids from a single computer. But you can run two different instance of Google Talk at same time on a single computer after tweaking it a little. Just locate the Google Talk shortcut in Start -> Programs -> Google Talk -> Google Talk. Right click on the shortcut and go to properties. A dialog box will open as shown in the image below.

Add “/nomutex” at the end of Target string, it should look like as shown in the image and click ok. That’s all now every time when you want an extra instance of Google Talk, click on this shortcut. Easy!

Recently, my site is put on warning by the Google. What I mean by put on warning is that when people search my site on Google, result lead to a warning page of Google instead of the targeted page of my site. The warning page of Google said that there is a badware/malware on my site. Google also suggest visiting stopbadware.org for more information. As shown in the pictures below

I have been experienced some delay in opening the home page, even sometime my I.E crashed. But I never thought that this could be due to some hack that had already taken over my website. It was only just two days, even before I could go deep into the details of error, When finally I got this mail from Google stating that they have identified my site as that one who distribute malware or badware. Now I found that some hack have happened to my site. It is trying to download some plug-in in background that is off course not from my domain. So I decided to redirect the user of my site to a maintenance page so that I can peep hard into the source code and do the cleaning stuff. Even I have tried deleting all blog entries and comments. But, I got no success finding malicious script/code.  Luckily, I have taken the full backup of my site few days back. So I deleted all current pages and uploaded the backup. It works fine.

Anyway this is the time for me to act fast as traffic of site has taken a plunge. It has gone down by 90%. I fear that Google may drop my pages from its index. This is killing me in frustration. However, I have sorted out the problem but Google yet to do a review on my site. It is necessary to remove that nasty warning message. I have made a Review Request on Google and Stopbadware and keeping my finger crossed. I hope Google and Stopbadware will remove my site from their defaulter list.

Probably, this could be a code insertion hack, some third-party supplied advertising may contain links to badware, or the server hacks may have resulted in the insertion of code onto the site’s webpage.

Stopbadware.org published some security tips – http://stopbadware.org/home/security

StopBadware discussion group – http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware