List of men you shouldn't marry

So you love your fiance, but is he the right person to marry? Well, Father Pat Connor, missionary, marital expert and the first priest ever to be quoted by Glamour magazine, sure knows the answer.

The Australian-born Catholic priest, now based in New Jersey, has condensed his wisdom from 40-odd years of counselling engaged couples into one manual of advice—Whom Not to Marry.

He has conducted premarital counselling and presided over more than 200 weddings.

He also lectures high school girls on the pitfalls of marrying the wrong guy.

And he likes to catch wo men young, because once they have fallen in love they will be less likely to absorb his sensible and often unromantic advice.

He believes there are no soulmates, only lovers to whom we commit.

Connor's central thesis is that you can be deeply in love with someone to whom you can't be successfully married.

He advises a year-long engagement to examine fully the values and character of your future spouse.

And Connor's 'whom not to marry' list is as follows:

1. Mummy's boys

2. Men who are bad with money

3. Men with no friends

4. Men who put you down in public

5. Men who are rude to waitering staff

6. Men unable to laugh at themselves

7. Men unwilling to share authority

8. Men who never make demands countering yours

In an Instant, Google pulls further ahead of Microsoft, Yahoo

Now that Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo officially have joined forces, Google needed to turn around and offer up a new, splashy feature that would give them a clear edge.

And that's just what Google did on Wednesday, when the company unveiled Google Instant, say industry analysts.

Google Instant is aimed at speeding search results by searching as you type. The new, dynamic feature, which began to be rolled out Wednesday, is about starting the search process before the user even finishes typing in the query. Google is now predicting what people will be asking for.

The move is a "dramatic break" from the traditional Google search experience, says Hadley Reynolds, an analyst with IDC. 

"While many of the familiar [search] elements are still in place, the speed and streaming aspects of Google's understanding of the user query and presentation of the results will be revolutionary," Reynolds said.

"The traditional Google search model was incredibly wasteful of users' time... Instant will help show what the right links are more quickly," he said.

Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of Search Products, said, "The user benefits of Google Instant are many but the primary one is time saved." Mayer announced the new feature at the company's launch event in San Francisco yesterday.

"Our testing has shown that Google Instant saves the average searcher 2 to 5 seconds per search. That may not seem like a lot at first, but it adds up," she said.

Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group, said he agreed that on first thought, it might not sound like a lot of time saved, but it could be enough to give Google a leg up on its search competition.

"Google did some more math and figured it would save users 3.5 billion seconds per day. I'm not sure what we're all going to do with the extra time, but hopefully we'll think of something," Olds said. "This gives Google something to brag about. I think that this is a feature that Microsoft will have to add to Bing in the near future. It's pretty useful and gives Google a clear competitive advantage."

try http://www.google.com

not http://www.google.co.in

The New Multitouch iPod Nano

 The new iPod Nano hardly bigger than an oversized stamp. It does away with the click wheel (and the video camera) in favor of a multitouch screen. But how do you use it?

Energizer's New Inductive Charger Is the First To Use the Qi Standard

Inductive chargers have been kicking around for a while now, but Energizer's new charging platter is the first to utilize Qi technology—the new universal standard for inductive charging. That's one small step closer to total freedom from cables.
Qi, which was recently approved as the inductive standard by the Wireless Power Consortium, will allow any Qi-equipped gadget that requires less than 5 Watts to power up on any Qi charging surface. Energizer's new charger is the first to support the new standard, but eventually the idea is that you'll be able to toss your phone or MP3 player on a charging station at your friends' house, even one made by a different manufacturer, and they'll just work, no fuss.

reference: gizmodo.com

What Does Today's Google Logo Mean?

try http://www.google.co.uk 

(try in firefox and chrome for a different animation)

Google UK users (and perhaps other countries, too) were greeted to an amazing sight today: an interactive logo made out of colored balls. But why? Is Google demonstrating the power of HTML5? Celebrating the birth of kiddywinks' ball pits?

They've only done several interactive logos since their hugely successful playable Pac-Man game back in May. Saturday the 4th of September celebrated the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the buckyball, the carbon dome. The second "o" in Google showed a spinning ball which could be spun with the cursor—check it out in the first YouTube video below.

Gizmodo reader Jason emailed me after the buckyball logo, to say that while some were complaining about Google's logo crashing their PCs and using up valuable CPU, the owner of GetBuckyballs.com (a website selling magnetic desktoys), saw terrific results. According to a tweet made on the 5th, he sold over 10,000 sets in just 24 hours. At $30 per unit, that's over $300,000 revenue, thanks to Google.

So what does today's logo mean? Normally Google's logos mark a birthday or anniversary, but so far everyone's scratching their heads over today's. There's no click-through for seeing relevant search results pertaining to the logo, and it's doubtful it's celebrating a Google birthday—they were founded on September 4, 1998, and the second birthday for Google Chrome was on the 2nd of September last week. I don't think it's related to Android either, with the announcement of the first Android phone, the G1, being on the 23rd of September, 2008.

reference: gizmodo.com

Olive FrvrOn with AAA Battery Arrives on Airtel

The phone is now being made available on Airtel and will come with a free connection. The handset will be available at a price of Rs. 1,299. Olive is also trying its best to promote the FrvrOn in the rural areas of India and according to a statement, has stationed 19 vans across various locations in the country to promote the handset.

 Villagers will also have the option to purchase the handset from the van. They would also give away a battery powered LED lantern as a free gift to the villagers. This offer would be initially valid only in some areas of West Bengal and would be expanded to other regions which are known to face electricity related issues. 

reference: techtree.com

Can You Identify These Star Brothers

They are the star brothers Suriya and Karthi. Though both of them hail from Kollywood, they have created a strong base in Tollywood and here is a look at how they looked when they were little boys.