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Discover most popular blogs posting using Google Blog Search

You can keep track of what’s buzzing on the blogs around the world currently through the new Google Blog Search.

Google Product Manager, Michael Cohen explains,

Today, we’re pleased to launch a new homepage for Google Blog Search so that you too can browse and discover the most interesting stories in the blogosphere. Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we’re now showing categories on the left side of the website and organizing the blog posts within those categories into clusters, which are groupings of posts about the same story or event.

Grouping them in clusters lets you see the best posts on a story or get a variety of perspectives. When you look within a cluster, you’ll find a collection of the most interesting and recent posts on the topic, along with a timeline graph that shows you how the story is gaining momentum in the blogosphere.

A screenshot of the new Blog Search.

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Alice Schroeder, author of Warren Buffett Biography The Snowball and the Business of Life

Life and career of Warren Buffett
Alice Schroeder, a Wall Street analyst and managing director at Morgan Stanley, discusses the biography she wrote about the billionaire on NBC Today with Matt Laurer.

• Excerpts from The Snowball and the Business of Life
• Warren Buffett Admits Regret Over Wife’s Departure In New Biography - NY Daily News

F1 Singapore GP Photos

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Photos of F1 Singapore GP posted on the internet.

• Flickr: Singapore F1 pool
• The Singapore Grand Prix - boston.com
• singaporeshots.com
• f1fanatic.co.uk
• ClubSNAP Photography Forums
• auto123.com

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

“Life is like a snowball.  The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”
- Warren Buffet

Following the announcement for the release of the first ever Warren Buffet official biography on the 29 September 2008, below is a video by the author, Alice Schroeder:

CNBC website wrote,

In a video clip posted by the publisher on YouTube this week, Schroeder talks about the title and how she would up writing the book.  Her goal: use excerpts from her hundreds of hours of formal interviews with Buffett to give “the reader an intimate experience of being with him, so you feel you’ve sat down and had a nice, long leisurely dinner with Warren Buffett.”

For excerpts from the book.

The Snowball offers an unprecedented portrait of Buffett’s life, of his values and his strategies, of his total experiences—all of which combine to tell a great American story.

Unlike any book ever written about Mr. Buffett or derived from his words, this book will be both a life story, and a biography of ideas.

Get it now for a discount now. 

How to protect your Gmail account

Colin Bogart, Gmail user support team wrote in the Google blog on simple ways to protect our Gmail account.

You Shall Not Forget Your Attachment Again

Forgotten Attachment Detector - that’s the latest features in Gmail. 

Whenever you type “attachment” in you email body text, and click the Send button without actually including the attachement, Gmail will remind you that you have forgotten to include the attachment.

As mentioned in the Gmail blog

Many of us have experienced the embarrassment of having sent a message without attaching the file we said we were going to attach. Turn on the Forgotten Attachment Detector in Labs, and you’ll get an alert if you mention attaching a file but forget to do so.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

To turn on the “Forgotten Attachment Detector” feature, click

and scroll down, select  ”Forgotten Attachment Detector”

Read more about:

• Gmail Labs
• Introducing Gmail Labs
• Google to let users test new Gmail features
• New Gmail tool keeps you from making a fool of yourself

Looking inside the new ipod Touch

If you are curious to see what’s inside the new ipod Touch, iFixit has disassembled the iPod and revealed its inner parts.

Read the step by step disassembly of the new iPod Touch >
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Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Grass Text Effect

Glass, Liquid Text Effect

For more beautiful, awesome Photoshop text effects tutorials:

• Sixrevisions.com
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• Shining neon text effect
• pshero.com
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Access Gmail Directly from Google Chrome

When using the new Google Chrome web browser, you will experience better Gmail experience:

• Application shortcuts:
  You can create an application shortcut to access Gmail straight from your desktop. Simply go to Gmail while you’re using Google Chrome, click the page menu and select ‘create application shortcuts.’ When you double-click a shortcut icon, it opens in a streamlined window.
• A browser built for speed:
  Google Chrome features a new JavaScript engine, V8, that has been designed for performance from the ground up, so web applications like Gmail that use the browser to its fullest run lightning fast.
• More room for your stuff, less browser window:
  We’ve removed all the unnecessary clutter from the browser window to give you more room for your favorite applications and websites. If you use an application shortcut (below), you can launch Gmail in its own streamlined window that gives you as much working room as possible, without the URL box or browser toolbar.

Try Gmail in Google Chrome

Ramadan Best Iftar Food

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Good restaurants for Iftar in Dubai

•  Al Bustan Rotana
  The air-conditioned Layalina tent can hold up to 450 people and is open from 9.30pm-3am every night during Ramadan. Its live cooking stations will be dishing up Oriental mixed grills, shawarma and fatteh. Next you can sample several flavours of shisha under the stars while listening to Lebanese Superstar 2008, the oud-playing Mohamed Jaafeel.
• Dubai Marine Beach Resort & Spa
  Take your pick between the traditional Arabic food (including dates, mezze and fried kibbeh) being dished up at Al Qasr’s buffet for Dhs140, or the Suhoor set menu in the Al Khayma tent, which will feature falafel and an Oriental grill, costing Dhs160.
• The Monarch, Dubai
  Mizaan, the hotel’s all day dining restaurant will host an elaborate Iftar buffet with classic and contemporary Arab dishes, sweets and juices priced at AED 165 per person. “Ramadan under the Stars” can be experienced in its full glory at The Monarch Dubai’s Quantum Pool Lounge, where after dinner shisha, drinks and a selective a la carte menu will be served. For larger groups of a minimum 30 people, the exclusive Al Massa ballroom, or Nur Al Ain meeting room overlooking the foyer, offer Iftaar menus starting from AED 165 to AED 195 per person.

More good restaurants for Iftar in Dubai.
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Good restaurants for iftar in Pakistan

• Avari Towers
  Fatima Jinnah Road
  Karachi, Pakistan
  Tel: (92-21) 566-0100
  UAN: 111-282-747
  Avari Towers will donate 100 Rupees from each Iftar sold to several nominated Charities.
• Marriot Hotel
  9 Abdullah Haroon Road
  Karachi, Pakistan.
  Tel: (92-21) 568-0111
  UAN: 111-223-344
• Lal Qila
  10/A, Main Shahrah-e-Faisal
  M.A.C.H.S.
  Karachi, Pakistan.
  Tel: (92-21) 438-8363, 438-8364
• Mughale Azam
  22-C, 5th Commercial Lane, Zamzama
  Phase 5, D.H.A.
  Karachi, Pakistan.
  Tel: (92-21) 536-0147, 536-0148

Find more restaurants for iftar in Pakistan
Ramadan Restaurant Guide - Iftar & Sehri

Good restaurants for iftar in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

• Byblos
• Il Villagio
• Waterlemon
• Yildizlar
• Cafe Blanc 98 SR Buffet
• Abu Shakra

Find more restaurants for iftar in Jeddah

Good restaurants for iftar in Turkey

• Divan
• Kanaat
• Beyti
• Hac Abdullah
• Anadolu Sofras
• Izmir Hilton

Find more about restaurants for iftar in Turkey

Ramadan in Ramallah, Palestine
A Christian Palestinian writer breaks the fast with Muslim friends.

Being a Christian, I do not observe the fast. But last year was different. Last year I did celebrate with friends of mine, and out of respect to my hosts, I had skipped lunch. So by the late afternoon, I too was beginning to feel pangs of hunger and walked with quickened steps that echoed in the empty streets.

The guests included a mix of Muslims and Christians. Many a Ramadan meal is enjoyed with Christian friends and neighbors, just as special Christian dishes and sweets are shared daily amongst members of the two religions that have lived, mostly harmoniously, in Palestine for centuries.

 Read Ramadan in Ramallah

Ramadan Remembered
Huma Siddiqui on cooking for the Muslim holy month and what Ramadan means in Pakistan.

In fact, during Ramadan, food assumes more importance than usual in Pakistan, explains Siddiqui. As the day draws to a close, “You look forward to breaking the fast,” she says. “The family comes together and dedicates several hours just to eating. No one has to rush off anywhere—you just sit around the table, eat slowly, and spend time together. You have some of your favorite foods, and everyone feels fulfilled and happy.”

Read Ramadan Remembered

Fasting and Feasting
May S. Bsisu shares her Ramadan recipes and reminiscences her childhood in Kuwait and Lebanon.

The fast is traditionally broken slowly, with dates and a glass of water, followed by hydrating juices and soup. The dates hark back to a belief that the Prophet Mohammed used this fruit to break his fast. The juices often include jallab, a sweet, refreshing beverage made from berries and garnished with pine nuts. To break the fast, Bsisu shared an Orange Lentil Soup that’s a common Ramadan dish in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Read Fasting and Feasting