Marian College, Kuttikkanam, in association with MATRIX (Marian Association for Technical Research and Integral eXpansion) conducts M-CAT, a school level Mega IT aptitude test across Central Travancore, to evaluate the skills of students and prepare them for building a career in the IT Sector.

I came across a writeup about the event on a newspaper and visited the official site. The concept is pretty impressive: “prepare students for building a career in the IT Sector.” But, it would be better if it really checked the student’s intellect and knowledge on Web,Computers,and IT. But, the syllabus goes:

Basic Mathematics
General English
Computer Awareness
General Knowledge

An interesting aspect of the examination is that the final round is an “Interview”. The toppers are called for a personal interview to find the true winner. This is indeed an appreciable step, since they’ve took the step, which many others are not willing to. Almost all the examinations like this end up in a couple of written tests and that’s it. But, I’m glad this one doesn’t.

(The examination is only for the students of schools in Central Travancore, Kerala, India. I blogged this, even though, this is a regional topic; just to shout out that innovative plans like this are happening!!)
Visit the official site of M-CAT for more details.

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I’ve been a regualr reader over at Balkhis.com (Blog by a cool dude, Syed Balkhi, on Wordpress, SEO, productivity and many more cool topics). He has now released an eBook authored by him, named, “How to make a magazine style theme for Wordpress” It’s available for free download here.

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Many of my readers had sent me mails regarding my theme. They were of the opinion that the theme I used till now, is not suited for a regular blog. So, I decided to change it and have a nice ReDesign. And here’s the new fresher, cool, glassy look. This one loads much faster than the previous theme (47 HTTP Requests, though!!)

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We had much OS talks, which at many times, trasnformed into a war of mere fanboys. And the more-than-a-decade-old question of “The Best OS” couldn’t be still answered. Here I share my (short) experience of Linux and have provided a set of killer linux resources, including tools to decide upon ‘which distro suites you the best’ !!

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We have Summize for Twitter and now we’ve got Plurkerati for Plurk.

If you are an active tweeter, you can’t miss Summize, which provides real-time search of tweets; i.e. you can use it to track a keyword and see what/how much people are talking about it. There was a need for a tool like summize which provides a way  to search Plurks made by Plurkers. And, now we’ve got it: Plurkerati.

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UPDATE: FireFox now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3.
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Plurk has been the “next-big-thing” lately, and it was a week ago, I wrote an article on it which got featured on the Plurk Website. Now, here are some nifty tools or apps that are related to plurk which are aimed at making plurking even more exciting and fun.

Here is a list of Plurk services blogged at RevenueRobot.
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