Today's Times of India carries a small news story about Viadeo acquiring apna circle, a networking site. Such acquisitions are daily occurrences. One thing I found funny was that apna circle was referred to as India's number 1 social and networking site. It's not even among the top 10.
According to a recent press release by comscore, Orkut is #1 and Facebook is a distant #2.
I still don't know how to insert a table on blogger or wud have certainly pasted the list.
Bharat Student dot Com is the biggest Indian social networking site with 3.3 million visitors in December 2008. Over half of internet users in India visit one or more social media sites.
Apna Circle may have a point though. They have an option for a separate social and professional profile, so it's kind of Facebook + Linked In rolled into one :) ... One expected a bit more innovation from Mr.Bhatia.
Social Networks are very brittle and as people tire of communities on Orkut and applications on Facebook I won't be surprised if Twitter makes an entry in the list within a year.
Music files tag editor (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable TagRename on Drop.io (2.9 MB)
Extract on hard disk or USB key and run TagRenamePortable.
Language fixed by launcher according Windows localization: English, Dutch, SimpChinese, TradChinese, Russian.
Settings of installed TagRename should be preserved.
Download Portable OrbitDownloader on Share1t (2.0 MB)
Extract (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root) and run OrbitDownloaderPortable.
Language fixed by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in OrbitDownloaderPortable.ini): afr, ara, bgr, cat, chs, cht, csy, deu, ell, eng, esn, far, fin, fra, heb, hun, ind, ita, jpn, kor, mki, nld, nor, plk, ptb, ptg, rom, rus, sky, sqi, srb, swe, tha, trk, ukr, vit..
Downloads in portable folder (if you don't want: write PortableDownloads=false in OrbitDownloaderPortable.ini).
Settings of installed OrbitDownloader should be preserved.
Convert avi to DVD and burn DVD (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable ConvertXtoDVD on RapidShare (10.2 MB) (md5: 5aace4cd85e9dad48edc7d1ae24f3ba3)
Download Additionals Menus Templates on MediaFire (6.5 MB)
Extract (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root) and run ConvertXtoDVDPortable.
Only black mirror, minimal, no menu and old cxd2 templates, extract Additionals Menus Templates in your Portable Apps folder for classic, default, imagewall, thriller and vso glossy templates.
Working folder fixed by user. If you just burn you can fix it in TEMP (deleted when leaving) with WorkingFolder=temp in ConvertXtoDVDPortable.ini. You can also fix it in portable folder with WorkingFolder=portable (the worst on USB key).
Sound events language fixed by launcher according localisation of Windows : English, French, German, Japanese,Spanish.
Settings of installed ConvertXtoDVD should be preserved.
Disc burning software (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable BurnAware Pro on Drop.io (5.9 MB) (md5: eb9b36a03e3db04426e7927e0c958d6c)
Extract (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root) and run BurnAwarePortable.
Language fixed by launcher according Windows localization: English, Russian, Polish, Italian, French, German, Dutch, PortugueseBR, Spanish, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Czech.
Settings of installed BurnAware should be preserved.
Internet browser (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable Google Chrome Beta on RapidShare (7.8 MB) (md5: bda6eadd198b1d12522b577052031daf)
Download Portable Chromium on RapidShare (8.0 MB) (md5: bbcc2ab1bc1f572fb7fddc9d1a215645)
Download Portable Chrome Final on RapidShare (7.5 MB) (md5: 056dc3ae922f50f6b6042d02745bc943)
Download Plugins on Share1t (2.5 MB) (md5: d8dff930fcabd2536eb536228d35e9e2)
Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome.
Extract (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root) and run ChromePortable or ChromiumPortable.
If you want to start in incognito mode, delete cache or allow multiple instances: edit Chrom*Portable.ini.
Extract Plugins (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root): Flash 10.0.22.87 & Gears 0.5.8.0.
Settings of installed Chrome should be preserved.
Enable superior screenshots (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable WinSnap on Share1t (0.4 MB)
Extract (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root) and run WinSnapPortable.
Language fixed by launcher according UserDefaultLang (if you don't want: write UserDefaultLang=false in WinSnapPortable.ini): English, Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish.
Download more languages, copy in App\WinSnap\lang directory and write UserDefaultLang=false in WinSnapPortable.ini.
Settings of installed WinSnap should be preserved.
Fast and free Web browser (more infos) without installation.
Download Portable Opera 9 on RapidShare (5.7 MB) (md5: c90c0ecbad4c88a5b7db4c1d21d1b5fa)
Download Portable Opera 10 alpha on RapidShare (6.1 MB) (md5: 0316bbd7acd103c2406816a34f9ceb92)
Download Plugins on Share1t (2.5 MB) (md5: d8dff930fcabd2536eb536228d35e9e2)
Extract in your Portable Apps folder and run OperaPortable or Opera10Portable (9 and 10 in same folder with separated settings).
Extract Plugins (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root): Flash 10.0.22.87 & Gears 0.5.8.0.
Language fixed by launcher according Windows localization: English, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, NorwegianNynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBR, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, SimpChinese, TradChinese.
Settings of installed Opera should be preserved.