I once read this great quote that "If we simply allow ourselves to more creative, we will be more creative." Yes its really true that given the right incentive and environment, we are all creative. The only thing that’s required from our side is to search and look out for that opportunity to be or do something creative. One such opportunity is provided by FunnyLogo – a web based application that enables you to create a search engine by your name instead of the title "Google" on the home page.

So the next time you need to use the search engine when online, you’ll be using your own personal search engine. The process involves four simple steps.

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Over 1.6 billion people in the world lack access to electricity. For these people, life comes to a standstill after dusk. Inadequate lighting is not only an impediment to progress and development opportunities, but also has a direct impact on the health, environment, and safety of millions of people, as they are forced to light their homes with kerosene lamps, dung cakes, firewood, and crop residue after sunset.

Recognizing the need to change the existing scenario, DoGoodHeadquarters have taken an initiative of turning our everyday web browsing into donations that will support Green initiatives and movements for positive social and environmental change all across the globe.

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One day, all of a sudden, sitting in your office cabin you realize that you want to be your own boss, you want be an entrepreneur, a businessman. Or else it was not a sudden thought but a childhood dream. You have some vague idea of what you need to do but are not quite sure of the path you need to walk in order to make a successful businessman/entrepreneur out of you. The other case here is that you are already running one, but you’ve got stuck up somewhere and you need an expert advice on the matter concerned. Your mind is fully occupied by several important questions that need to be answered before you can make a final decision. You are not alone facing this situation and its absolutely normal to be tensed. But AskMe is an web based service offered by Startups.com where you can ask any question relating to your business problems and can also answer others bringing your own personal experiences into the picture.

Here a community of dedicated and successful entrepreneurs, seasoned businesspeople, academics, advisors, and many more come together to give you a helping hand. Not only that, this community of users will be available to give you their best answer to any question you might have. With all these people ready to answer all your questions, it would not be difficult to find the answer to the business question that’s bothering your brain.

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Finding definitions of some words and terms and can be a cumbrous task in case you always have to dig into various dictionaries and other text sources. So, to save on the ample amount of time you tend to spend looking up for vocabulary words, a guy named Prabhav Jain came up with the idea of EasyDefine-a simple and fast way to look up for various definitions. He launched EasyDefine in 2009, in association with Chris Choi, while the two were in Torrey Pines High School.

With this website there is no need to spend countless hours looking up definitions. All one has to do is copy and paste the word list and all the words will be extracted and defined. Definitions are taken from Princeton’s WordNet 3.0.

Its very easy to use this online tool.  Simply copy and paste a list of words into the text box. Your list can be in virtually any format. The heuristic algorithm used in this application will extract the words from the list you’ll give. The procedure is also illustrated with example to make its use more easy.

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All the Gtalk users are aware of the ‘Custom Message Bar’ right at the top of the Gtalk tool page above the list of our friends on Gtalk. In this bar, depending upon our individual tastes and preferences, we can write whatever we wish like-any favorite quote, one-liners, any message or we simply use it to signify our status online at that particular moment with various options like ‘busy’, ‘idle’ or ‘available’. Therefore, its also known as ‘status message’.

Now, Twitter2gTalk is a simple web service that sets your tweets as the ‘status/away’ message on Gtalk.

The procedure is quite simple. To begin with, you have to ‘login’ and fill up the ‘settings’ form. After filling in the basic details, just click on the ‘submit’ option and you are good to go thereafter. Updates on this app are available every 30 minutes. Tweets that start with ‘@’ will not be sent to Gtalk.

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With Globalisation taking a toll over all the economies of the world, each and every individual is being continuously affected by it. In large MNCs, you never know when your boss sets you on an international assignment and asks you to leave for any part of the world. So you are there the next moment, amidst foreign people speaking their native language and you start believing yourself to be an alien. What you must be doing them? Doing a crash course in that particular foreign language? No way- will you have the time to do that and how many will you learn? Try NiceTranslator. Its a wonderful online application that will translate the words/sentences in any language to one or more other languages as desired by you.

It’s pretty simple and straight-forward to use NT. First, select the languages you would like to translate into. Nice Translator allows you to translate into multiple languages at once, so you may add as many Translators as you’d like. If you have cookies on, Nice Translator will remember which translators you like to have open for later.

Nice Translator will auto-detect the language you are translating from; you can just begin typing in the main input box at the top of the screen. As you type, your translators will go to work and begin translating your text. If for some reason Nice Translator misses a few words on the end once your done typing, just hit enter to complete your translation. When you’re done with your translation, you can just hit the ‘Esc’ Key to clear your input and start a new one.

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