```Cheery Picking for PC's```

The PC is changing. In the last year or so we've seen a significant change in the portable market with dirt cheap, low spec laptops such as the Asus Eee PC taking the world by storm. These devices are cheap because they use low end processors and Linux operating systems but are web-enabled, giving users access to the ever growing number of applications that are available online. The term netbook seems more suitable than laptop. So if you need to surf, email, knock out the odd text-based document or spreadsheet, most people will be more than happy with a $300 netbook. Now a similar change is happening in the desktop market. This week, we're hearing a lot about CherryPal, a low spec desktop machine that costs only $250. The CherryPal unit accesses all its applications through a central server for which there is free 24/7 support. Perhaps, but the likes of Google and other providers of online applications who have been providing services to "the cloud" for some time now, might argue with that. Apple might also have something to say given that it launched the Mac Mini more than three years ago. But the CherryPal still looks exciting, not least because it starts up in 20 seconds and uses only 2W of power.

~The Making Of Orkut~

This guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....

but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web..

Things went as planned...

n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!

It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a
word with this guy n took over this application,

This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year,
which we today know as ORKUT.

The guy's name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN Yes its named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping.He is expected to b the richest person by 2009..

ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to

monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!!

Some other Cool Facts about this guy:

* He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.

* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.

* He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if
anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.

* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.

* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.

* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

* He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.

* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.

* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.

* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.

* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend's friend-list.