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If ever you feel like you’re never going to find the right words to what you sat down to search, give Google Suggest a try. With easy access keyword suggestions, as you type, you can remember what you were looking for, and more, in no time. By providing suggestions up-front people will search more efficiently and conveniently.

Google Suggest, a search feature that provides real-time suggestions while you search, will be available by default on the Google homepage from now, as it is done with the works, meaning it is out of testing phase. Now you will see a bigger list of query suggestions when you start typing into the search box.

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With the latest version of Gears, you are now able to upload YouTube videos more than 100 MB and the best part is that you don’t need any specific software to do so. Gears which is now being used by YouTube to upload videos, contains some cool features according to which it is now easy to upload videos with larger size.

With the new features of Gears, you can now upload a clip of size 1 GB and duration of 10 minutes. According to YouTube, the files after processing will be available in the ‘My Videos’ section. Though the files with bigger size may take upto half an hour to appear on the My Videos page.

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LAT reports the teaming up again of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to kick in some investments in Qik; a platform that enables users to have streaming live videos from their cellular phones. The amount that the duo intends to invest remains shrouded but the two are set to join in as investors and board members that already includes Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com. Marc Benioff.

The two presently enjoy success with their current occupations; Andreessen being the co-founder and chairman of social network, Ning as well as having a seat in Facebook’s board of directors and Horowitz being the VP and GM of HP’s business technology organization unit. Previously the duo had their heads joined up to create a web browser, Netscape and it wouldn’t bee so unpredictable that the two can turn Qik into something much better with their advice and recommendations.

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Budgetforlife.com allows you to manage your financial budget, basically making a budget for your entire life! Hence the name. Use this service to create your lifetime financial plan and find the meaning of getting a lifetime of financial planning within minutes.

BudgetForLife looks into the future to develop a financial plan and simplify all the complexities involving with handling on making the budget, managing income’s rise and fall, coming and going of expenses, debts being paid off, and sale and purchase of assets.

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As the name depicts its an instant IP Messaging service. Sounds weird! well it is a messaging service that allows you to send instant messages to your friends by typing in their IP address. The receiver will be able to read the message as soon as he/she will access the site from that particular IP address.

IPMessage allows you to send messages internationally without even logging into your email client. So, if your office has blocked access to various IM than suggest IPMessage to your friends and enjoy a stream of messages from his/ her side. You can even have a good chit chat by answering on your friend’s IP at the same time. The site consists of  a single page and is stunningly simple to use. Anyone would start enjoying it as it does not need any kind of cumbersome registration process. All you need is an IP address to which you are interesting in sending a message and IPMessage will do the rest for you.

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Picateers, is an online photo sharing site that lets schools, teams and organizations to run their own portrait programs while raising the fund. The San Mateo, California based company has raised an amount of $6.6 million in the series B. The round was backed by investors including the Norwest Venture Partners.

Schools and parents are allowed to set up an online shop where they can sell photos themselves. 25% of the whole proceedings goes back to purchaser’s favourite school/organization. On each sale the school/team gets 50%, so there is something for everyone.

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OpenClip made its debut recently and we reported of its copy/paste functionality within the iPhone across the various applications that are run on it. It wasn’t something out of the box but more like utilizing a hole within the iPhone that enabled applications to read across others’ sandboxes. The idea sounded great given it was based on the non-profit slogan and developers thought of it to bee within the Apple’s SDK legal framework.

Things have however turned around as the copy/past procedure creates a bit of a problem for the users; which is it creates a temporary place for the data to be paste and the user has to make his way up the home directories to find that out. The drawback comes when each application has to be seen through in series and the idea is no more supported by the 2.1.

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Facebook with all the drama conflicts that it has with its users over redesign to introducing the best and most successful applications to help improve user experience over the social network has crossed the line extending to a 100 million users. The announcement made its way via Twitter, when Senior Platform Manager, Dave Morin.

It has seen quite a lot during the times it reached this milestone; from introducing the redesign (which according to a survey revealed a yes vote by only 20% of its users as reported) to mud slinging with accusations and being accused. Whatever the case maybe; Facebook is heading head over heels towards success that too at a rapid pace.

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Tweetrush is a newly hatched Ireland startup that provides latest stats updates about Twitter usage. User can view total tweets of the last week along with a hourly average. The simple service is powered by an analytics engine ‘Rush Hour’ with an aim of providing estimated tweets updates.

The site allows you to check your accounts stats and daily average tweets while you can also glance top tweeters and active tweeters on the main page. Being based on a new analytics engine (Rush Hour), the site focus on actions and events instead of page views and clicks. Thus, Tweetrush  analysis the tweets and public messages sent via twitter and is actually a test bed for this new engine to test load capabilities. It chose Twitter as it has a sizable User base, that could be served as a good medium to test load competency of a new service.

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TripHub a service launched with a purpose to create an easy and creative way to plan, share and coordinate gatherings that involve travel has now decided to pull the plug off and go into slumber wishing its customers enjoyable travel and an apology for the end.

The reasons for the closure lay heavily on lack of funding; which comes off as a surprise since the company has shared success from the start with partners that include Orbitz and Alaska. The Blog reads:

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