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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock in Madagascar for the last few years, you undoubtedly already know about the All-Star open-source applications for Windows. I’m talking about applications such as Firefox , Thunderbird , GIMP , OpenOffice , and VLC . However, there are hundreds of lesser-known but highly-useful open-source applications available for Windows. A few of my favorites are below. These applications range from moderately popular to downright obscure, but all of them are open-source and FREE. All of them are worth the install time if you have never tried them. As a side bonus, many of them are cross-platform as well. Here they are, in random order: 1. ZScreen ZScreen is an open-source screen capture program that quietly resides in your system tray until needed. It can take screenshots of a selected region, the active window, or the entire screen. It can even send screen captures via FTP and copy the URL to your clipboard, all with just a single keystroke. Oh yeah, ...

AR Rahman wins 2 Oscars; clean sweep for Slumdog Millionaire gets 8 Oscars. It was a dream come true at the Oscars for India. Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire , won eight Oscar awards for best feature film, direction, original song, original score, sound mixing, editing, adapted screenplay and cinematography. Smile Pinki , a 39-minute short film in Hindi and Bhojpuri, directed by Emmy-nominated producer Megan Mylan won the best documentary short subject Oscar. Best Picture - 'Slumdog Millionaire' Best Director - Danny Boyle for 'Slumdog Millionaire' Best Actor - Sean Penn for 'Milk' Best Actress - Kate Winslet for 'The Reader' Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger for 'The Dark Knight' Best Supporting Actress - Penelope Cruz for 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' Best Original Screenplay - Dustin Lance Black for 'Milk' Best Adapted Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy for 'Slumdog Millionaire' Best Animated Feature - ...

Ramalinga Raju may face 10 year jail Satyam Computers’ chief, B. Ramalinga Raju, ambushed investors and Corporate India on Wednesday, admitting to long-running fraud of about Rs 8,000 crores in accounting and said the company did not have the money that it had claimed it had. He resigned later, saying his last-ditch efforts to fill the “fictitious assets with real ones” through the attempt to acquire Maytas failed. Mr Raju, who faces arrest, added that no other board member was aware of the financial irregularities. His brother and managing director, Mr B. Rama Raju, stepped down as well, days ahead of its January 10 board meeting. Mr Raju will still be the chairman of Satyam Computers till the board is expanded. The news sent Satyam shares and the equity markets into a tailspin. The stock lost 90 per cent wip ing off more than Rs 10,000 crore market capitalisation. Trading in Maytas Infra was stopped because of the size of its fall. The New York Stock Exchange halted trading in Satyam...

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From skimpy skirts to tight fitted tank-tops. From sleek evening gowns to bikinis. We have seen them all but when it comes to the sensuous quotient there is nothing that beats the Indian saree. Many fashion designers and Bollywood too swears by it. When going for an informal do or a hip party you can never go wrong with a saree. And the saree bug has bitten the foreigners alike. Here's a look at leading ladies from various fields who wore a saree and how... Popular American girl band, Pussycat Dolls Australian beauty Tania Zaetta Liz Hurley Anna Kournikova - She charms everyone both on and off the field alike Serena and Venus - The Williams sisters Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren Jelena Jankovic, the fastest rising player on the tennis circuit

Well known Indian actor Anupam Kher has opened Britain's first Bollywood acting school in Ealing . Kher has chosen the West London suburb as an ideal place to train British actors to crack the Indian film industry. Taking up the first class, the actor instructed his students in the finer points of cliches, once considered an essential ingredient for the thousands of commercial films churned out by Bombay based studios each year. Kher's purpose is not to replicate the Kitsch of past films but to demonstrate the traps that his students will be trained to avoid. "Indian cinema has changed because the audience has changed. They are not easily impressed anymore. They want to see films about how people behave in real life. What i am not trying to do is to get rid of cliches, which for years we've seen in Bollywood movies," he said. At the end of the course, each of the seven trainees will travel 4,500 miles from the Ealing Instisture of Media to Kher's school in Mum...

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