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If you are a regular visitor to this blog then you will notice that I do not use images or pictures that much. Well, the reason is that I am afraid of breaking copyrights in images. I know that some bloggers do it without giving that much thought. However, I like to follow the rules. That is why, I am so happy to see that Google has introduced a great new search feature in Image Search.

Official Blog of Google Wrote:

To enable this feature, go to our advanced image search page. Under the "Usage rights" section, you can select the type of license you'd like to search for, such as those marked for reuse or even for commercial reuse with modification. Your results will be restricted to images marked with CC or other licenses. Once you confirm the license of the image and make sure that your use will comply with the terms of the license (such as proper attribution to the image's owner), you can reuse the image. Some of you may already see these options, and we'll be rolling this feature out to everyone throughout the day.

This is a great day for all the bloggers. Google has introduced this feature mainly think of bloggers like us who want to follow the rule. That is why, I like the company and that is why, they are the best in Internet search engine market.

This is a question that has been going on in the mid of many Internet Users in India today. I found in Google Trends that some good number of people are searching about download chrome os. Many users are also searching about “Google Chrome” now. I am interested about this OS because it should be free (I could not find any concrete information that whether it will be free or advertisement supported) and it should be a great blessing for all the computer users in India and other South Asian countries as most people really cannot afford to buy Microsoft products. So, software piracy is very high in this part of the world. So, may be Google Chrome can help in this regard.

Well, there is one basic problem. What I understand is that Chrome OS will be browser based OS and in other words, you will not high speed Internet connection to use it. You will also need to be connected to Internet when you want to use it. Online connectivity is not a problem in Europe and America. However, it is a big challenge for users in South Asia. First of all, Internet is not affordable for most people and speed is not good either. So, unless Google comes up with an offline version of its Operating System, Chrome OS will not make any difference for the Internet users in South Asia.

Now, let us go back to the question of downloading Chrome OS. Well, what I understand is that Google has just announced that it is developing it. There is no way to download it. For that you will have to wait another few months.

Official Google Blog wrote:

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

So, you have to wait more.

I am Razib Ahmed. So, it is like blowing my own trumpet- sorry for that. Well, I know that some of my visitors are bloggers too and some of them want to open their own blogs sooner or later. Good thing is that blogging ha really revolutionized publishing. If you are passionate about something then you can open a blog at free of cost and share your ideas. If you are dedicated and can really produce quality content on a regular basis on almost any topic then you are bound to get some name and fame and some money from your passion. However, you need to be some disciplined and must know some basic rules.

Blogging37.com will contain mainly tips about blogging. For example, today I wrote this entry: Ten Things Every Blogger Needs to Start a Blog

If you are new to blogging and do not have that much knowledge about it then this entry can really save you some hours. Anyway, if you have time then please visit the blog.

Today, the share market ended with a positive note. On July 6, 2009, the Indian share market saw a massive downfall of indices after the Union Budget was declared. Today, the index went up 127 points.

The Sensex opened at 14,104 points and touched a low of 14,000 in the morning trade. It saw an intra-day high of 14,252 points. It then ended at 14,170 points. The fast moving consumer goods stocks led the gain today. However, the index showed a high volatility due to constant buying and selling of stocks.

In total, shares of 2,630 companies were traded today and out of them, share prices of 1,461 companies declined and 1,071 advanced.

Both the BSE Auto and FMCG indices gained around 4% to 4,635 and 2,401.

On the other hand, the Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) index lost 2% to 7,636.

Stocks whose prices went up are:

• ITC gained 7% to Rs. 211.
• Jaiprakash Associates surged around 7% to Rs 206.
• Hero Honda gained more than 5.5% at Rs. 1,437.
• Mahindra & Mahindra gained over 5.5% at Rs 750.
• Grasim gained around 5.5% to Rs 2,420.
• ACC advanced around 5.5% to Rs. 762.
• Share prices of Maruti and Bharti Airtel moved up 3.5-4.5% each at Rs 1,080 and Rs 811, respectively.
• Share prices of Larsen & Toubro, ICICI Bank, Reliance Infrastructure and TCS gained over 2% each.

Stocks who prices slipped are:

• Reliance share prices went down 2% to Rs. 1,855.
• ONGC share prices slipped 2% to Rs. 1,050.
• Share prices of Reliance Communications, Tata Motors, Infosys and SBI also went down at BSE.

The Nifty on the National Stock Exchange went up 0.88% to 4,202.15 points. It touched an intra-day high of 4,231.80 points and a low of 4,155.50 points.

Related articles:

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Business Standard

On July 6, 2009, the first budget of the new Indian government has been given out and it negatively affected the Indian share market. The sharemarket observed the biggest drop in the last six months. However, analysts and various business organizations expressed their satisfaction over the new budget. One of the prominent features of the new budget is that it focused more on the rural India.At the Bombay Stock Exchange, Sensex lost 870 points and closed at 14,043 points, a 5.83% decline. The Nifty of the National Stock Exchange went down 5.84% to 4165.70 points.

IT stocks took a nose dive in the share market. The BSE IT index went down 2.74% at 3236.33 points while CNX IT lost 114.75 points ending at 3430.55 points. In the budget Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee focused on “inclusive growth driven by IT.”

Bank, realty, capital good and metal stocks fell sharply in the share market today. The BSE Bankex plummeted 8.2% as the fiscal deficit pushed the bond yield.Shares of IndusInd Bank, ICIC Bank and IDBI, fell more than 9%. The BSE realty index fell 7.3%. The BSE capital goods index fell 7%. Areva T&D, Alstom Projects and Punj Lloyd in the capital goods sector fell more than 9.5%.

The BSE metal index fell 6.5% and BSE Power index fell 6.4%. Out of the 30 stocks of the Sensex, prices of 28 stocks declined. Tata Steel, JP Associates, and HDFC shares lost 9% each. Prices of Reliance Infra shares slipped 12.5% to Rs.1,131.

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Reuters

Environment pollution is a bad reality for all the people in this world. Rich countries are the main villain but these days, with continuous high economic growth, China has already become a major player in this field. India is joining the bandwagon too. Well, countries like India and China have a logic: first of all most of their people are poor and per capita pollution is much lower in these two countries compared to the rich world. Another sad reality is that for economic development, you need a lot of carbon emission.

Members of Major Economies Forum (MEF) would sit together in Italy and then they will discuss about this problem. Well, the main problem is that the rich countries like Japan do not want to sacrifice. The basic idea is that the rich countries should cut back on their emission and this would allow the poor countries to have more scope for more emission.

European Union officials feel that China, India, South Africa and Brazil have to do more for greener environment.

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Reuters

It seems that everyone wants to have a Michael Jackson funeral ticket. At least, Google Trends suggest it to us. So, if you can get one then you are lucky and then you do not need read my entry. Instead, celebrate for getting a ticket. However, if you are a lucky one then you can continue reading my entry. I know that you are upset and unhappy. Well, try to think that your idol Michael Jackson was doing in the days of his life. According to Media reports, one of the things that he did in his few days of life was to read the poems of Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet.

So, why not do the same thing? However, before everything, do you know who was Tagore? If you want to know about him then I have to direct you to Wikipedia’s entry on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore

I have plan to write about these two figures: Tagore and Jackson. Anyway, I am really curios to know that why the King of Pop became interested to read poems of a Bengali poet. Well, Tagore liked to think himself as a world citizen and his poems reflect universal values and spirits. That is why he got Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

I think that last year, Matt Harding caused sensation with a dancing video in Internet. The song of the video was based on a poem of Tagore.

I am giving here translation of another very beautiful poem of Tagore:

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action ...

Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Source: Wikipedia