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Download Google Chrome OS Torrent

Raju — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:36:44 +0000

Earlier today we spoke about Google announcing the release of their much hyped Chrome OS source code and provided some exclusive Google Chrome OS Screenshots to get an idea on how it looks.

If you consider yourself as a Geek God and want to try out the Chrome OS yourself, you can download Google Chrome OS through torrents. The Chrome OS image from torrents can be run using VirtualBox from Sun.

Download Google Chrome OS Torrents

Download Google Chrome OS Torrent via TPB. GDGT also have uploaded a Google OS build themselves.

Once you are done downloading the torrent/GDGT build, read the step-by-step guide prepared by TechCrunch to install Chrome OS on your PC/Mac/Linux via the VirtualBox.

The default login to Chrome OS is your Google username and password. But my sincere suggestion is to create a dummy username on Google just for testing out the Chrome OS, so that you nullify any risk coming via torrents.

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Google Chrome OS Exclusive Screenshots & Video

Raju — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:49:53 +0000

Late last night, Google hosted an event giving insight into its much hyped Google Chrome OS, an overview of the technology and launch plans for its launch next year. Google has also released the open source Chrome OS source code which can be downloaded as well.

As per Sergey Brin, 7 seconds is all it takes for Google OS to start running after a cold boot. Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, said the OS would boot as fast as turning on a TV, and run even faster than the Chrome browser on Windows. All of the applications will be web apps – nothing will be installed locally. “In Chrome OS, every application is a web application. There are no conventional desktop applications,” Pichai said.

In case you are wondering how Google Chrome OS would look like check out these exclusive collection of screenshots we have been able to gather up till now.

Chrome OS UI Screenshots

Click on the screenshots for the better view.

Google Chrome OS Demo video

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Download Google Chrome OS Source Code

Raju — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:27:27 +0000

Google just hosted an event giving insight into its much hyped Google Chrome OS, an overview of the technology and launch plans for its launch next year. It has been speculated that the internet giant would release its Chrome OS Code as open-source code and this in fact seems to be the case. The source code for Google Chrome OS is available for download now and is ready to be explored. A Twitter update from Google employee Matt Cutts detailed where you can download the source code.

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Chrome OS is an entirely new approach to computing. The average computer user spends most of his or her time on the Internet, so Google wants to cut out the middleman: the traditional operating system, which sits between a computer’s hardware and a Web browser.

Chrome OS is a operating system that is a Web browser – or a Web browser that is an operating system. Essentially, it is Google’s current browser, Chrome, bulked-up with systems for browsing files, connecting devices, printing documents and keeping the computer secure.

Download Chrome OS source code

Download Chrome OS Source code here

[via]PCW

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Buy Nokia N900 Maemo Unlocked Phone for $559 [Gadget Deals]

Raju — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:38:30 +0000

Here is a quick heads up on the availability of Nokia N900 Unlocked mobile phone in US and the best deal available as of date. Nokia N900 began shipping to other parts of the world earlier this week and has just arrived in US. N900 is undoubtedly a powerful gadget and the best bet against Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android. Just recently, Nokia announced that from now on all the models under the N-series will now be powered by Maemo OS.

The N900’s hardware specs are equally impressive to match: ARM Cortex A8 processor, 256 MB of dedicated RAM, 32 GB of storage expandable via microSD, full QWERTY keyboard, 5-megapixel camera, and a 3.5-inch touchscreen at 800 x 480 resolution. It features native Adobe Flash support for full-featured web browsing, with even the ability to run Google Wave.

Best Deal for Nokia N900 Unlocked phone

I must admit that I was unhappy to see the pricing of Nokia N900, especially the unlocked version of it. Nokia has priced it at $649 which is definitely on a higher side. Luckily, Amazon has a nice offer going on where it would cost $559 after $50 rebate and Free Shipping.

Buy Nokia N900 Unlocked Cell Phone/Mobile Computer with 3.5-Inch Touchscreen, QWERTY, 5 MP Camera, Maemo Browser, 32 GB

You can check out the above details page for additional info, screenshots and features of Nokia N900, along with the latest offer price.

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Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta for Windows

Raju — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:11:44 +0000

The first public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available as a free download on Microsoft website. And other then Office, you can also download Visio 2010 beta, SharePoint Server 2010 and Project 2010 beta for your Windows computer.

These are what included as part of MS Office 2010 beta download:

* Microsoft Word
* Microsoft Excel
* Microsoft PowerPoint
* Microsoft Access
* Microsoft Outlook
* Microsoft OneNote
* Microsoft InfoPath
* Microsoft SharePoint Workspace
* Microsoft Publisher
* Microsoft Communicator

Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available. The Office installer weighs around 700 MB in size but you need around 3 GB of free space on your hard drive for the installation. Note that, the beta version of Office 2010 will expire in October 2010. What Microsoft is offering essentially is the Professional Plus edition, but customers are able to get not just the actual bits from Microsoft, but also the product keys necessary to activate the productivity suite.

Download Microsoft Office 2010 beta for Windows

Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta

Download Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta

Download Microsoft Office Web Apps Beta

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TechPP Google Wave Invites Giveaway!

Raju — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:54:52 +0000

Update: The giveaway is closed and winners have been sent an intimation via email. Please reply back to the mail to confirm your mail address within 23rd Nov 2009. If you don’t a new winner will be selected. Others can keep requesting for an invite and those who have just won an invite will invite new ones very soon.

This is a season of giveaways over here at TechPP! This one is rather minuscule compared to the upcoming Mega Christmas Giveaway.

Anyway, even after a month and a half, I see that many people are still desperate to get a Google wave invite, be it on Twitter or facebook or on our articles. Luckily, we managed to get 8 invites to test Google Wave, and as always, decided to share with the TechPP community.

How to get a Google Wave Invite?

The rules are very simple.

1. Just Tweet about this giveaway and leave a comment below with the link to your tweet. Make sure your eMail address is a valid one. You can copy paste the tweet below.

TechPP Google Wave Invites giveaway – http://bit.ly/2D8sZx #googlewave #techpp (via @rajupp)

2. You should spare 4 out of the 8 invites you will be getting (after a few days) with the other fellow TechPP readers. As I mentioned before, I see TechPP as a community of tech enthusiasts and helping out fellow readers by sparing half of the total number of invites should not be too much to expect.

Of-course, Point 2 is not mandatory, but it is a sincere request. The contest will end on 20th November 2009 [11:59 pm IST]. Winners will be picked randomly and contacted by email. Happy Waving!

P.S: In case you do not have twitter account, you can still leave a comment saying why you want the wave invite.

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TechPP Mega Christmas Giveaway : Coming Soon!

Raju — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +0000

This is HUGE. I am very proud to announce the first ever annual TechPP Mega Christmas Giveaway. There is a reason for having the word ‘Mega‘. We will provide visitors with the opportunity to win licenses of excellent software programs worth more than $10,000 this holiday season, starting last week of November!

Many well known and respected software companies have already agreed to provide us with FREE Licenses to their amazing products that we could hand out to the lucky readers of TechPP. Each day we will be providing free licenses to one excellent software product. I do not want to spoil the fun by revealing the names of the software products, but you can be sure that these products are best in what they are supposed to do.

Some of the giveaways will be for lucky few winners while some others will be ‘free for all’. Isn’t that exciting? Most of the software developers have confirmed their participation in this mega giveaway and we are still in talks with few others.

Stay tuned for further updates on TechPP Mega Christmas Giveaway. You can follow us on facebook or Subscribe to the updates via RSS.

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Watch Leonid Meteor Shower 2009 Live Online for Free!

Raju — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:27:15 +0000

A “prolific” Leonid meteor shower is expected to light up the skies of Asia and Europe tonight. This meteor shower can be viewed from November 13-20, 2009 but the peak will be early tomorrow morning, November 17, 2009. The most activity will occur and best hours to view the Leonid Meteor Shower will be after 1:30 am EST and before sunrise.

The moon will not be visible from the Earth so the meteor will be easy to view than ever before. According to NASA, every hour 20-30 meteors should be visible during the peak time (1:30 am EST until dawn). You don’t even need a special camera to observe the leonids because you may see it with your naked eye just make sure your in the right place and pray for a clear skies.

Even if you can’t get clear skies or for any other reason, you can still watch this rare astronomical event live online for free!

Watch Leonid Meteor Showers 2009 Live Online

1. Watch Leonid meteor showers Live online for free on Ustream

2. Watch Leonid Meteor shower video on JustinTV

You can also follow all the updates on Leonid meteor shower on twitter by following the hashtag #Leonids

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IP Privacy Pro Free Licenses Giveaway – Winners

Raju — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:35:44 +0000

“Better late than never“.

This is the excuse I am giving myself for being late in announcing the winners for IP Privacy Pro Free License Giveaway. Because of the weekend, it took more time than expected to get the licenses generated. Though the response for the giveaway was awesome, with more than 100 comments made in a week, I guess a shorter duration for the giveaway would have been better. Thanks everyone who participated and those who helped in publicizing the giveaway.

IP Privacy is a wonderful application which is both anonymous browsing software and a browser cleaner. It normally costs $39.95 per license and the guys @ privacy-pro were kind enough to share 20 licenses, each valid for 6 months! As usual, we have used Random.org’s List randomizer tool to pick the 20 lucky winners and by the time you read this post, you would have got your license key in your mail inbox.

Winners List:

1. Omar Play
2. Samrat P
3. clydeman
4. bowlby4
5. Bishnu
6. Ágoston Tordai
7. Thomas
8. blogrpro
9. lucifer
10. alain
11. Murphy
12. Budha
13. Garrett
14. H2o
15. Regine
16. Persian boy
17. kopo
18. hafiz
19. princevit
20. Hotshot05

Once again, congrats to the winners and others do not need to fret. Some MAJOR announcement coming your way in another 24 hours which would give you higher and guaranteed chances to win something as cool as IP privacy.

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Download Torrent Files Without BitTorrent via HttpTorrents

Raju — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:06:17 +0000

Now-a-days even technically enabled guys are finding it difficult to optimize their BitTorrent clients for the highest speeds and/or bypass the ISP/firewall blocks while downloading torrent files on the internet. Here is where, httpTorrents comes to the rescue!

Direct download of Torrent files

httpTorrents provides the option to download files directly without having a BitTorrent client! As per TorrentFreak,

The integration with httpTorrents gives users the option to download the files directly without having to use a BitTorrent client. Music tracks can also be streamed directly from the site itself. The service works in a similar way to most other files hosting services such as Rapidshare, but only works with torrents and doesn’t allow users to upload files themselves.

These direct http downloads are particularly helpful for people who have restricted access to BitTorrent, such as those whose ISP or firewall blocks or slows down transfers. There are currently 4000 files available as a direct download, but this number is growing rapidly.

httpTorrents is a sister site of KickassTorrents, which is another popular torrent search engine. KickassTorrents’ users can submit a request for files that are not yet available as direct downloads.

Currently the service is Free since it is in beta stage. Once it comes out of beta, there will be premium option available with added features and lesser limitations. Hosting the copyrighted material on the site directly definitely pushes the service into legal complications in the future, it will be interesting to see how it evolves from here on.

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