Details magazine has recently conducted a poll for sexiest woman in Hollywood. This week the results of the poll are published on the magazine. According to the poll, the sexiest woman in Hollywood is Jennifer Aniston. She is followed by Megan Fox, Gisele Bundchen, Frieda Pinto(Slumdog Millionaire main actress) and Kim Kardashian. Jennifer Aniston became famous during mid 90s for her role as Rachel Green in the popular US sitcom Friends. For this role she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has starred in several Hollywood Comedy films like Bruce Almighty, Office Space, Rumor Has It, and the romantic comedies Along Came Polly and The Break-Up. She has also appeared in horror and thrillers like Leprechaun and Derailed.

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Today I will tell you about the creator of Google news. So the man who invented Google news is an Indian. His name is Krishna Bharat. Krishna is basically from Bangalore. He completed his schooling from St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School in Bangalore, and received an undergraduate degree in computer science from IIT Madras. After completing the computer science degree at IIT, he did Ph.D from Georgia Tech in Human Computer Interaction. Before joining Google in 1999, he worked at the DEC Systems Research Center where, with George Mihaila, he developed the Hilltop algorithm. Krishna is the creator of Google News. Actually in 2003, he developed an algorithm which can automatically index about 4500 news websites around the world and provide a summary of the News resources. This algorithm is the base of all the major functionalities of Google news.

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Yesterday while browsing the youtube website I found a memorable speech on leadership by Al Pacino in the movie Scent of a Woman. It is a 1992 film which tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irascible, blind, medically retired Army officer. It stars Al Pacino, Chris O’Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In this speech, Al Pacino defends for his assistant and describes the real meaning of leadership. I am confident you will definitely love watching this speech. For this role, Al Pacino also won the oscar award for best actor.

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Which email client you use? It may be Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird or Lotus Notes. An e-mail client or e-mail reader is a front end computer program which is mainly used to manage e-mail. However, I prefer to use Louts Notes. The Lotus Notes client is not only used as an email client, but also acts as an instant messaging client (for Lotus Sametime), browser, notebook, and calendar/resource reservation client, as well as a platform for interacting with collaborative applications. Now a days, Notes also provides blogs, wikis, RSS aggregators, CRM and Help Desk systems, and organizations can build a variety of custom applications for Notes using Domino Designer. Today I will tell you how to configure your gmail email on Lotus Notes 7.0 and higher versions.

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Do you know which is the most subscribed YouTube channel in India? YouTube’s channel is basically a username through which different videos can be uploaded. In India, Rajshri is the most popular and most subscribed YouTube channel. Rajshri which is a movie production house of India, is mainly famous for some of its superhit movies like Maine Pyar Kiya, Ham Aapke hai Kaun, Nadiya Ke paar, Vivaah etc. Till now, Rajshri has produced over 50 films, many of which have attained significant commercial and critical success. Rajshri also runs India’s leading broadband video streaming and download portal called rajshri.com. The portal offers a comprehensive range of films, TV shows, music videos and special interest videos, a majority of which can be streamed free and/or downloaded at attractive prices.

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The 80s was the era of Doordarshan with soaps like Hum Log, Buniyaad and comedy shows like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi which made Doordarshan a household name. Circus, Gul Gulshan Gulfam and Nukkad are some of the serials that come instantly to my mind when I think of the good old days of Doordarshan. Those were phenomenal days when people gathered in crowds to watch the telecast of these serials. The characters of Ramayan and Mahabharat were almost worshiped like God and Goddess throughout the country.

Other popular programs included Hindi film songs based programs like Chitrahaar and Rangoli and crime thrillers like Karamchand, Byomkesh Bakshi, Tehkikaat and Janki Jasoos. This is the big list of Old Doordarshan TV shows and serials.

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Today is second anniversary of my blog abhisays.com. Now it is 2 years old on internet. This is my 850th article. Two years 24×7 online, 850 articles, more than 2500 comments, 90k alexa ranking, 4000 unique visitors everyday are some salient features of abhisays.  I  already explained the journey of my blogging in first anniversary article. In last one year I learned the art of attracting new visitors on the blog as traffic of this blog has increased by 4 times (in one year). Earlier abhisays was more or less US centric blog. Now most of my articles are for Indian users as I think India is the future of Internet. It has big market of internet users. Still, abhisays has to cover a long way to become one of the top blogs of World.

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Have you seen the Eye of God? No, no I am not joking. God’s eye is staring everyone. Actually, the image of Helix Nebula which is taken with a giant telescope at the European Southern Observatory, looks like Eye of God. This amazing object is a shell of gas and dust that has been blown off by a faint central star. The Helix is a sun-like star and is in its final explosion stage before it retires into a white dwarf. Even our solar system will have the same fate after 5 billion years.

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Last week, Indian Government announced that around 500,000 Indians have lost their jobs and almost 25,000 have returned home after losing their jobs in US companies. Now job-seekers are in search of companies which are still hiring in this period of economic recession. Don’t you think it is silly question. Layoff announcements are piling up and unemployment numbers are reaching the sky but I am talking about companies which are still hiring. According to rediff, the leading Indian portal, India Inc’s hiring plans saw a marginal increase in January 2009, with the PSUs, telecom, banking, education and hospitality sectors showing a marked improvement. Other industries including legal, government and defence continued to see an increase in jobs.

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Today I appeared in written test for NIC (National Informatics Center) for the post of Scientific officer. National Informatics Centre (NIC) of the Department of Information Technology is providing network backbone and e-Governance support to Central Government, State Governments, UT Administrations, Districts and other Government bodies. Some of my regular readers would be surprised to read this article. Actually I am already working in a big multinational company with a handsome salary. Then why I am trying for job in public sector or better say Sarkari Naukri. Earlier people in India used to think if you want to earn more money, rapid growth in corporate ladder, then its better to join private sector or MNCs. Now latest developments in Indian economy has completely changed this mentality. They are

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