India likely to remain the hot pick for world
In the age of globalisation, saying no to foreign money is almost unheard of. But in a rare instance, the Indian government led by finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has been campaigning hard to curb foreign inflows into the Indian market. After all, foreign money has been relentlessly chasing the Indian growth story. Out of the $68 billion that foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have been pumping into India, as high as $16 billion have entered into the Indian market this year alone. Even in foreign direct investments (FDIs), about $30 billion is expected to land up in India, up from last year’s $19 billion, including reinvested earnings. The forex reserves have been surging, and it has crossed $270 billion.
By now, the India story is fairly well known to the rest of the world. A trillion-dollar economy with a GDP growth rate of 9% or so, India has been the hot favourite among emerging markets, thanks to its strong fundamentals, transparent policy framework and vibrant corporate sector. Yet, the highs of 2007 could result in major challenges in the year 2008. The big question here is whether India will be able to grow at the same pace while coping up with unprecedented phenomena such as appreciating rupee against dollar, flooding of foreign capital in a few select sectors, lack of capacity building in infrastructure sector and above all, unforeseen political turmoil emerging from a pre-poll milieu.
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ADB’s managing director, General Rajat M Nag feels that no one doubts India’s growth story by now. What’s needed is a massive outlay in infrastructure. “The needs are huge, and the fiscal space is limited. As a sizeable amount of public resources has to be spent on education, health and other social sectors, public-private partnership (PPP) is crucial for infrastructure sector,” he says. For Mr Nag, the shortage of power and lack of power reforms in the country could play a spoilsport for India story in 2008 and beyond.
According to ADB’s estimates, India requires $700 to $800 billion of investment in infrastructure in the next five years, which is substantially higher than the estimates made by the Planning Commission. Prof Raj Raina of Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, in South Africa, says that India will keep its growth story in tact for 2008 and beyond. “That India is now determined to build its infrastructure is itself a positive sign.
No country in the world will spend so much money in infrastructure for the next five years as India is planning today. I am sure that India will maintain 9% plus GDP growth rate in the years to come,” he says. Yes, the spending on infrastructure itself could be a big driver of growth for 2008 and beyond. According to Planning Commission estimates, $145 billion or 30% of the total investment in infrastructure will come from the private sector. The growth of PPP framework in India will enable many infrastructure companies to increase its size and scale in the coming years.
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India's market cap crosses Rs 70 trillion mark
Real estate holds a lot of opportunity in 2008
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30 December 2007
Brand Reliance rules over Indian bourses: ET
Brand Reliance rules over Indian bourses
Just about 30 years on bourses, and yet the Reliance brand is ruling over the 125-year-old Indian stock market, while the year 2007 saw this dominance further growing with its size nearly tripling against less than doubling of the overall market. The two Reliance groups, run separately by the two Ambani brothers, added Rs 5 trillion to their market value of Rs 3.4 trillion at the end of 2006. This is a lion's share in the overall rise of Rs 34 trillion in the total market cap, considering the thousands of listed companies in India.
Interestingly, the surge came despite the financial crisis in global markets, a sharp volatility and the market regulator SEBI adopting extra vigilance on foreign inflows, a key force behind Indian markets' buoyancy in the recent past. Earning the distinction of being one of the fastest growing markets that held the overseas investors in a trance, the bourses also recorded many a milestone such as peaking at over 20,000 points, crossing seven thousand-point marks and the fastest 1,000 point rally, in just four days.
The markets also proved wrong all the experts by demonstrating unprecedented rallies that made lakhs of crores for investors or dried them out in the course of just a few trading seasons. At the same time, market leader Ambanis continued to demonstrate that they were a cut above the rest. The belief seemed something like this, Let the hell break loose or heavens fall, the two brothers could do no wrong for investors and they rightly showed so. The 170 per cent surge in the Reliance market value to Rs 8.4 trillion was much higher than a 92 per cent rise in the total market cap from nearly Rs 36 trillion to over Rs 70 trillion.
Today, the two Ambani groups account for more than 11 per cent of the total market value, against just an iota when Reliance entered the bourses early in 1978. The surge has been of 80,000 times in the Ambanis' market value since then, when it stood at just Rs 10 crore, which is 8 times faster than a jump of about 10,000 times in overall market size, which was about Rs 7,000 crore 30 years ago. All this has been happening when the relations between the two brothers were deteriorating and their names were mentioned in news together only if there was a bout brewing between them.
So much so, the Anil Ambani group shot up a complaint to SEBI charging top officials of Mukesh-led Reliance Industries of sabotaging its group company Reliance Power's upcoming IPO, touted as the biggest ever to hit the market, The bitter battle was even called a blessing in disguise for investors, with market watchers saying that one up-manship between the two was egging them on to grow faster and faster. During 2007, Mukesh-led Reliance Industries (RIL) further extended its market position while becoming the first Indian company to attain a 100-billion dollar market capitalisation. RIL was given a good company in the upsurge not only by the companies belonging to his other group companies such as Reliance Petroleum and those from Anil's camp, but also from traditional conglomerates like Tatas and companies run by new-age entrepreneurs like K P Singh and Sunil Mittal.
As the year drew to an end, conglomerate Tatas held on to their position as the second most valued group, followed by the Anil Ambani group. However, there was not a real challenge to market leader RIL whose appreciation in the year at over Rs 3,00,000 crore was equivalent to the total size of the Anil Ambani group or the Tata group, the two nearest rivals.
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Just about 30 years on bourses, and yet the Reliance brand is ruling over the 125-year-old Indian stock market, while the year 2007 saw this dominance further growing with its size nearly tripling against less than doubling of the overall market. The two Reliance groups, run separately by the two Ambani brothers, added Rs 5 trillion to their market value of Rs 3.4 trillion at the end of 2006. This is a lion's share in the overall rise of Rs 34 trillion in the total market cap, considering the thousands of listed companies in India.
Interestingly, the surge came despite the financial crisis in global markets, a sharp volatility and the market regulator SEBI adopting extra vigilance on foreign inflows, a key force behind Indian markets' buoyancy in the recent past. Earning the distinction of being one of the fastest growing markets that held the overseas investors in a trance, the bourses also recorded many a milestone such as peaking at over 20,000 points, crossing seven thousand-point marks and the fastest 1,000 point rally, in just four days.
The markets also proved wrong all the experts by demonstrating unprecedented rallies that made lakhs of crores for investors or dried them out in the course of just a few trading seasons. At the same time, market leader Ambanis continued to demonstrate that they were a cut above the rest. The belief seemed something like this, Let the hell break loose or heavens fall, the two brothers could do no wrong for investors and they rightly showed so. The 170 per cent surge in the Reliance market value to Rs 8.4 trillion was much higher than a 92 per cent rise in the total market cap from nearly Rs 36 trillion to over Rs 70 trillion.
Today, the two Ambani groups account for more than 11 per cent of the total market value, against just an iota when Reliance entered the bourses early in 1978. The surge has been of 80,000 times in the Ambanis' market value since then, when it stood at just Rs 10 crore, which is 8 times faster than a jump of about 10,000 times in overall market size, which was about Rs 7,000 crore 30 years ago. All this has been happening when the relations between the two brothers were deteriorating and their names were mentioned in news together only if there was a bout brewing between them.
So much so, the Anil Ambani group shot up a complaint to SEBI charging top officials of Mukesh-led Reliance Industries of sabotaging its group company Reliance Power's upcoming IPO, touted as the biggest ever to hit the market, The bitter battle was even called a blessing in disguise for investors, with market watchers saying that one up-manship between the two was egging them on to grow faster and faster. During 2007, Mukesh-led Reliance Industries (RIL) further extended its market position while becoming the first Indian company to attain a 100-billion dollar market capitalisation. RIL was given a good company in the upsurge not only by the companies belonging to his other group companies such as Reliance Petroleum and those from Anil's camp, but also from traditional conglomerates like Tatas and companies run by new-age entrepreneurs like K P Singh and Sunil Mittal.
As the year drew to an end, conglomerate Tatas held on to their position as the second most valued group, followed by the Anil Ambani group. However, there was not a real challenge to market leader RIL whose appreciation in the year at over Rs 3,00,000 crore was equivalent to the total size of the Anil Ambani group or the Tata group, the two nearest rivals.
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Sify Stories
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2007 fades out on buoyant note for entertainment
Indiabulls ties up with French insurance company
E-commerce transactions to reach $100 b in 2008
Starbucks products enter India through tie-up with PVR
India, China should lead world aviation sector
PepsiCo to set up seaweed processing plant in Tamil Nadu
Financial sector reforms key to higher GDP: FM
Weekly Wrap: Sensex spurts 1,044 points on all round buying
India to be the first bourse to greet New Year
Brigade signs contract with IHG
Career Launcher setting up new B-school
S Kumars demerges retail biz
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2007 fades out on buoyant note for entertainment
Indiabulls ties up with French insurance company
E-commerce transactions to reach $100 b in 2008
Starbucks products enter India through tie-up with PVR
India, China should lead world aviation sector
PepsiCo to set up seaweed processing plant in Tamil Nadu
Financial sector reforms key to higher GDP: FM
Weekly Wrap: Sensex spurts 1,044 points on all round buying
India to be the first bourse to greet New Year
Brigade signs contract with IHG
Career Launcher setting up new B-school
S Kumars demerges retail biz
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Index funds struggle to beat benchmarks
Chidambaram backs IFCI’s rejection of conditional bid
Indian IT stocks underperform on US bourses
There’s no one to blame if your ATM hands you a fake note!
Steel capacity to touch 60 mt by this fiscal end
Index Outlook
Ranbaxy Labs: BuyMore
Rounding off 2007 with rich valuationsMore
Figuring out fund performanceMore
‘Banks need to think of larger scale for growth’
HCL Infosystems: Buy
Amtek Auto: Buy
Gujarat Apollo Industries: Hold
Joint venture
Gail India has joined hands with OIL India for joint cooperation in various business areas. As part of the agreement, the two companies will jointly participate in the potential blocks, mainly onshore and offshore blocks in the forthcoming ... More
Towering above
International investors such as Temasek, The Investment Corporation of Dubai, Goldman Sachs etc. will invest around Rs 4,000 crore in Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary, Bharti Infratel. ... More
Rounding off 2007 with rich valuations
After build-up could come the softening
Will 2008 be a better act?
Tata Pure Equity: Invest
JM Small & Mid-cap Fund: Hold
DSPML Opportunities : Well diversified
Query Corner
Figuring out fund performance
Trader's Corner
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The other day, we met an investor who trades for a living. He has been consistently outperforming the market since 2003 until last month. Since then, his losses have increased sizably. It has nothing to do with his trading strategies. His ... More
Portfolio promises for the New Year
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
Baskets of X
Bull's Eye
Nifty future regains bullish momentum
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Index funds struggle to beat benchmarks
Chidambaram backs IFCI’s rejection of conditional bid
Indian IT stocks underperform on US bourses
There’s no one to blame if your ATM hands you a fake note!
Steel capacity to touch 60 mt by this fiscal end
Index Outlook
Ranbaxy Labs: BuyMore
Rounding off 2007 with rich valuationsMore
Figuring out fund performanceMore
‘Banks need to think of larger scale for growth’
HCL Infosystems: Buy
Amtek Auto: Buy
Gujarat Apollo Industries: Hold
Joint venture
Gail India has joined hands with OIL India for joint cooperation in various business areas. As part of the agreement, the two companies will jointly participate in the potential blocks, mainly onshore and offshore blocks in the forthcoming ... More
Towering above
International investors such as Temasek, The Investment Corporation of Dubai, Goldman Sachs etc. will invest around Rs 4,000 crore in Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary, Bharti Infratel. ... More
Rounding off 2007 with rich valuations
After build-up could come the softening
Will 2008 be a better act?
Tata Pure Equity: Invest
JM Small & Mid-cap Fund: Hold
DSPML Opportunities : Well diversified
Query Corner
Figuring out fund performance
Trader's Corner
Placebo effect Placebo effect
The other day, we met an investor who trades for a living. He has been consistently outperforming the market since 2003 until last month. Since then, his losses have increased sizably. It has nothing to do with his trading strategies. His ... More
Portfolio promises for the New Year
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
Baskets of X
Bull's Eye
Nifty future regains bullish momentum
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29 December 2007
ET, Myiris Updates
The Economic Times
IPOs set the Indian market sizzling in 2007
Weekend Platter Analysts'picks
Rich Indian tourists making a beeline for Malaysia
Finance Minister expects more bids for IFCI
Wipro named leader in SAP implementation services
Buyout rumours boost Cairn stock
IFCI's board's decision correct: FM
R Pillai is first executive on Reliance Retail board
IIMs set to hike fees from next session
Harry Potter book, DVD tops Amazon's '07 best-sellers list
Analysts' picks: M&M, Tulip IT Services, Alstom Projects India and L&T
Indiabulls, SocGen arm form life insurance JV
High five: 5 Best world cinema
High five: 5 best books
Web, outsourcing make freelancing an attractive career option
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Myiris.com
Renaissance Jewellery arm launches new Victorian collection
Vijaya Bank likely to raise Rs 3 bn in Q4
Textile sector among the worst-hit by rupee rise
NTPC in talks with Bharat Forge for JV
Maruti 800 to compete with Tata`s Rs 1 lakh car
OIL to infuse Rs 45 bn in next two years for expansion
ITC`s Fortune Park on expansion mode
Brigade Enterprises to list on bourses on Dec. 31
eClerx Services to list on bourses on Dec. 31
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IPOs set the Indian market sizzling in 2007
Weekend Platter Analysts'picks
Rich Indian tourists making a beeline for Malaysia
Finance Minister expects more bids for IFCI
Wipro named leader in SAP implementation services
Buyout rumours boost Cairn stock
IFCI's board's decision correct: FM
R Pillai is first executive on Reliance Retail board
IIMs set to hike fees from next session
Harry Potter book, DVD tops Amazon's '07 best-sellers list
Analysts' picks: M&M, Tulip IT Services, Alstom Projects India and L&T
Indiabulls, SocGen arm form life insurance JV
High five: 5 Best world cinema
High five: 5 best books
Web, outsourcing make freelancing an attractive career option
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Myiris.com
Renaissance Jewellery arm launches new Victorian collection
Vijaya Bank likely to raise Rs 3 bn in Q4
Textile sector among the worst-hit by rupee rise
NTPC in talks with Bharat Forge for JV
Maruti 800 to compete with Tata`s Rs 1 lakh car
OIL to infuse Rs 45 bn in next two years for expansion
ITC`s Fortune Park on expansion mode
Brigade Enterprises to list on bourses on Dec. 31
eClerx Services to list on bourses on Dec. 31
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VC, PE updates,Jobs from VCCircle.com, Indiape.com
VCCircle.com
Bharti Infratel Raises $1 Billion From Temasek, Goldman & Others
Analytics Firm eClerx To List On Monday; Expected Price Above Rs 400
UBS Calls Off Standard Chartered AMC Deal It Struck A Year Ago
DLF To List At Least Five Subsidiaries To Raise $5 Billion
ICICI Venture-Funded Metroplis Health To Buy Labs In India, Overseas
Future Capital IPO Cleared; Reliance Power Issue Getting Closer To Clearance
IDG Ventures, Erasmic Invest $3.5M In Medical Electronics Firm Perfint
PE-backed Time Technoplast Acquires Bahrain’s Gulf Powerbeat
Jobs: Financial Associate; TresVista Financial Services; Mumbai
Advani Hotels Sells Flight Catering Business To Switzerland’s Gate Gourmet
Spice Communications To Sell 875 Towers To Quipo
Blackstone’s Ushodaya Deal Yet To Be Cleared By Government
Nazara Set To Receive Second Round Funding Of $7 Million
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IndiaPE.com
International investors to invest 1bln usd in Bharti Infratel
IDG, Erasmic invest $3.5mn in Perfint
DLF plans to raise $400 mn via PE route
VSNL sells 10% in Lankan arm
PE investors may acquire 15% in Nahar Retail for Rs 120 cr
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Bharti Infratel Raises $1 Billion From Temasek, Goldman & Others
Analytics Firm eClerx To List On Monday; Expected Price Above Rs 400
UBS Calls Off Standard Chartered AMC Deal It Struck A Year Ago
DLF To List At Least Five Subsidiaries To Raise $5 Billion
ICICI Venture-Funded Metroplis Health To Buy Labs In India, Overseas
Future Capital IPO Cleared; Reliance Power Issue Getting Closer To Clearance
IDG Ventures, Erasmic Invest $3.5M In Medical Electronics Firm Perfint
PE-backed Time Technoplast Acquires Bahrain’s Gulf Powerbeat
Jobs: Financial Associate; TresVista Financial Services; Mumbai
Advani Hotels Sells Flight Catering Business To Switzerland’s Gate Gourmet
Spice Communications To Sell 875 Towers To Quipo
Blackstone’s Ushodaya Deal Yet To Be Cleared By Government
Nazara Set To Receive Second Round Funding Of $7 Million
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IndiaPE.com
International investors to invest 1bln usd in Bharti Infratel
IDG, Erasmic invest $3.5mn in Perfint
DLF plans to raise $400 mn via PE route
VSNL sells 10% in Lankan arm
PE investors may acquire 15% in Nahar Retail for Rs 120 cr
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Wealth creators
Some scrips had an incredible run in the stock markets
and gave amazing returns to investors.
While old economy stocks held sway, the strong rupee and a somewhat subdued US economy kept pulling the investors away from the IT counters for a better part of Year 2007. High overhead costs, the Fringe Benefit Tax, Dividend Distribution Tax and Minimum Alternative Tax played a part as well in making IT an unfancied sector last year.
Sustained inflow of funds from FIIs, strong economic growth and fairly impressive results from top-notch companies kept the market upbeat. The market did see a few big corrective spells during the year. But, by and large, it turned out to be another profitable year for the capital market.
The star performers of Year 2007 have been from among the capital goods, realty, infrastructure, power and metal sectors. While the benchmark indices -- Sensex and Nifty moved up by 48% (6589 points) and 52.77% (2093 points) respectively, some of their components outperformed them in a telling manner.
Here's look at some of the big stocks that had an incredible run:
The tussle between the Ambani siblings made many an investor in Reliance group stocks richer. Reliance Energy owes a fair measure of its sparkling run to the government's thrust on power and infrastructure development. Mega expansion plans that are being spelt out every now and then by the management and expectations over the forthcoming Reliance Power IPO have also contributed to the success story of the energy player.
More about this article @ http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14575932
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Mergers & Acquisitions
From steel to pharma, India Inc was on an acquisition spree in the global markets throughout the year. A quick look at big-ticket merger and acquisition deals.
Indian companies continued their acquisition spree in 2007 also with nearly 210 M&A deals reported. At this pace, the M&A numbers may touch 400 by the year 2010. India is now among the world's most competitive producer of steel, auto component, pharmaceuticals, chemicals offering low-cost high value products, and the future merger & acquisition (M&A) activities between India and Europe would concentrate around them. Cross-border deals by Indian firms during the year are expected to be in the region of $35 billion, compared with $15 billion in 2006 and $4.3 billion in 2005.
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Mega IPOs
Mega IPOs Barring one or two IPOs, all the public issues got good responses.
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Markets & Economy
India on the move!
The Indian growth story has just begun.
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More @ http://sify.com/finance/yearender/
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Some scrips had an incredible run in the stock markets
and gave amazing returns to investors.
While old economy stocks held sway, the strong rupee and a somewhat subdued US economy kept pulling the investors away from the IT counters for a better part of Year 2007. High overhead costs, the Fringe Benefit Tax, Dividend Distribution Tax and Minimum Alternative Tax played a part as well in making IT an unfancied sector last year.
Sustained inflow of funds from FIIs, strong economic growth and fairly impressive results from top-notch companies kept the market upbeat. The market did see a few big corrective spells during the year. But, by and large, it turned out to be another profitable year for the capital market.
The star performers of Year 2007 have been from among the capital goods, realty, infrastructure, power and metal sectors. While the benchmark indices -- Sensex and Nifty moved up by 48% (6589 points) and 52.77% (2093 points) respectively, some of their components outperformed them in a telling manner.
Here's look at some of the big stocks that had an incredible run:
The tussle between the Ambani siblings made many an investor in Reliance group stocks richer. Reliance Energy owes a fair measure of its sparkling run to the government's thrust on power and infrastructure development. Mega expansion plans that are being spelt out every now and then by the management and expectations over the forthcoming Reliance Power IPO have also contributed to the success story of the energy player.
More about this article @ http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14575932
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Mergers & Acquisitions
From steel to pharma, India Inc was on an acquisition spree in the global markets throughout the year. A quick look at big-ticket merger and acquisition deals.
Indian companies continued their acquisition spree in 2007 also with nearly 210 M&A deals reported. At this pace, the M&A numbers may touch 400 by the year 2010. India is now among the world's most competitive producer of steel, auto component, pharmaceuticals, chemicals offering low-cost high value products, and the future merger & acquisition (M&A) activities between India and Europe would concentrate around them. Cross-border deals by Indian firms during the year are expected to be in the region of $35 billion, compared with $15 billion in 2006 and $4.3 billion in 2005.
Start
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Mega IPOs
Mega IPOs Barring one or two IPOs, all the public issues got good responses.
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Markets & Economy
India on the move!
The Indian growth story has just begun.
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More @ http://sify.com/finance/yearender/
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A peek into the world of free downloads in 2008: Rediff
A peek into the world of free downloads in 2008
How many times have you looked at the price of a software and felt as if you would have to mortgage your house in order to get a full set?
Genuine software prices, most of them at least, can be prohibitively expensive. Thankfully, there are still plenty of idealists out there who freely share their work and welcome others. We look at a few best free software downloads that you should not miss in 2008.
Gmail as a virtual drive
Software developer Bjarke Viksoe has developed a GMail Drive shell extension (http://www.viksoe.dk), a really dandy tool that creates a virtual drive on the computer linking the hard drive and GMail account.
This way, if there's ever a time when you need to access an important document, a picture or even a movie, all you need is this programme to have a peek at the files stored on the user's computer even if the computer is not accessible.
Once downloaded, the programme links a virtual Gmail hard drive with user's Gmail account. What it does not do is import any of the previous pictures, word documents, or any other attachments that are already saved in Gmail account previously. That needs manual syncing.
Make the web come to you
Browsing the web is just so 'uncool' these days. In 2008, let the web come to you, which is why RSS feeds were created. They are a way for you to keep up with your favourite blogs, news sites, political news or for that anything in the ever-growing web jungle.
RSS Bandit (http://www.rssbandit.org) makes it exceedingly easy to subscribe to and read RSS feeds and organise them as well.
A richer pocket mobile PC
Windows Mobile users would agree that the bundled clipboard by default is not so rich in functions like the one used in desktop Windows systems.
That is why you can install Clipboard Tool application to your Pocket PC and enhance the existing Windows Mobile Clipboard with this utility. (http://www.pocketpcfreeware.mobi/download-clipboard-tool.html)
Here, every time the user copies something, it is added to the stack. Once you want to paste something, just open Clipboard tool and select it from the stack. It has also additional features like the Links view, which allows you to filter out of the stack only the weblinks and the Filter view that adds regular expressions support, allowing complex searches.
DVD with a difference
The easiest way to separate features on DVDs is to compress them into .avi format. One software that does a pretty good job is 123 DVD Converter (http://www.dvvideotool.com). The installation file steals 5MB of hard disk space but installing the software is easy. While installation, it asks you to install the DivX codec which is also provided with the installation.
The user interface is shockingly simple, and yet it provides all the necessary tools for converting DVD video or just parts of it into .avi formats. The tool also allows extraction of audio files from the DVD, in which case the user has to select Extract Audio option. The audio files are saved in WAV format .
Back from the dead
Most Windows users are assured about being able to recover files which they regularly send to the Recycle Bin.
After all, that's why its there in the first place. So, why worry? But what happens when you may have emptied the Recycle Bin accidentally. Or worse , if you have deleted files from within a DOS window or a network drive, those files are not even sent to the Recycle Bin.
With Undelete Plus (http://www.undelete-plus.com), however, users can hope to retrieve files. All one needs to do is run the programme, let it scan the system for files that have been deleted including those removed from the Recycle Bin, deleted on a network drive, via a DOS window or from Windows Explorer with the Shift key held down.
Undelete Plus works fine with Windows 95/ 98/ Millenium/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista operating systems and supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives and also recovers images from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.
Delete forever
Most of us think that once we have deleted a file, it's gone from the PC, right? Wrong. Even after deleting a file and cleaning out the Recycle Bin, there exist special softwares that can re-create the file.
File Shredder 2 (http://www.fileshredder.org) is a freebie programme that overwrites files with a random string of binary data and that too multiple times. User has a choice of five different shredding algorithms.
Almost a Vista
If you have seen and fallen for the Vista interface, then here is a tool to get that great graphic user interface to your old PC.
Vista Transformation Pack (http://vista-transformation-pack.en.softonic.com) will transform your Windows user interface to ultimate Windows Vista alike looks that everyone will never notice it's the same old Windows XP (or 2003).
The tool dolls up the existing Windows operating system with new system icons, skins and toolbars and desktop tools like a dock bar or a different system tray clock.
Although the transparent glass effect of the windows is difficult to recreate within XP, this pack, used in conjunction with Windows Blinds, does an excellent job of imitating it and giving your system a style that is hard to resist.
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How many times have you looked at the price of a software and felt as if you would have to mortgage your house in order to get a full set?
Genuine software prices, most of them at least, can be prohibitively expensive. Thankfully, there are still plenty of idealists out there who freely share their work and welcome others. We look at a few best free software downloads that you should not miss in 2008.
Gmail as a virtual drive
Software developer Bjarke Viksoe has developed a GMail Drive shell extension (http://www.viksoe.dk), a really dandy tool that creates a virtual drive on the computer linking the hard drive and GMail account.
This way, if there's ever a time when you need to access an important document, a picture or even a movie, all you need is this programme to have a peek at the files stored on the user's computer even if the computer is not accessible.
Once downloaded, the programme links a virtual Gmail hard drive with user's Gmail account. What it does not do is import any of the previous pictures, word documents, or any other attachments that are already saved in Gmail account previously. That needs manual syncing.
Make the web come to you
Browsing the web is just so 'uncool' these days. In 2008, let the web come to you, which is why RSS feeds were created. They are a way for you to keep up with your favourite blogs, news sites, political news or for that anything in the ever-growing web jungle.
RSS Bandit (http://www.rssbandit.org) makes it exceedingly easy to subscribe to and read RSS feeds and organise them as well.
A richer pocket mobile PC
Windows Mobile users would agree that the bundled clipboard by default is not so rich in functions like the one used in desktop Windows systems.
That is why you can install Clipboard Tool application to your Pocket PC and enhance the existing Windows Mobile Clipboard with this utility. (http://www.pocketpcfreeware.mobi/download-clipboard-tool.html)
Here, every time the user copies something, it is added to the stack. Once you want to paste something, just open Clipboard tool and select it from the stack. It has also additional features like the Links view, which allows you to filter out of the stack only the weblinks and the Filter view that adds regular expressions support, allowing complex searches.
DVD with a difference
The easiest way to separate features on DVDs is to compress them into .avi format. One software that does a pretty good job is 123 DVD Converter (http://www.dvvideotool.com). The installation file steals 5MB of hard disk space but installing the software is easy. While installation, it asks you to install the DivX codec which is also provided with the installation.
The user interface is shockingly simple, and yet it provides all the necessary tools for converting DVD video or just parts of it into .avi formats. The tool also allows extraction of audio files from the DVD, in which case the user has to select Extract Audio option. The audio files are saved in WAV format .
Back from the dead
Most Windows users are assured about being able to recover files which they regularly send to the Recycle Bin.
After all, that's why its there in the first place. So, why worry? But what happens when you may have emptied the Recycle Bin accidentally. Or worse , if you have deleted files from within a DOS window or a network drive, those files are not even sent to the Recycle Bin.
With Undelete Plus (http://www.undelete-plus.com), however, users can hope to retrieve files. All one needs to do is run the programme, let it scan the system for files that have been deleted including those removed from the Recycle Bin, deleted on a network drive, via a DOS window or from Windows Explorer with the Shift key held down.
Undelete Plus works fine with Windows 95/ 98/ Millenium/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista operating systems and supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives and also recovers images from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.
Delete forever
Most of us think that once we have deleted a file, it's gone from the PC, right? Wrong. Even after deleting a file and cleaning out the Recycle Bin, there exist special softwares that can re-create the file.
File Shredder 2 (http://www.fileshredder.org) is a freebie programme that overwrites files with a random string of binary data and that too multiple times. User has a choice of five different shredding algorithms.
Almost a Vista
If you have seen and fallen for the Vista interface, then here is a tool to get that great graphic user interface to your old PC.
Vista Transformation Pack (http://vista-transformation-pack.en.softonic.com) will transform your Windows user interface to ultimate Windows Vista alike looks that everyone will never notice it's the same old Windows XP (or 2003).
The tool dolls up the existing Windows operating system with new system icons, skins and toolbars and desktop tools like a dock bar or a different system tray clock.
Although the transparent glass effect of the windows is difficult to recreate within XP, this pack, used in conjunction with Windows Blinds, does an excellent job of imitating it and giving your system a style that is hard to resist.
Source: http://www.rediff.com. We thank (will be grateful to) the owners of the above articles/sites/sources/Govts for allowing/referring this. We are just providing the link/information of business updates from the leading sources for the benefit of readers. Viewers are strictly advised to take own decision in Stock buying and make verification about the information. Blog is not responsible for any faulty information.
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