Google's working environment | Google Sets The Standard For A Happy Work Environment

Google is the place to work according to Fortune magazine, which listed the top 50 companies to work for. Google appears as a top contender for most features, including unusual perks, cafeterias, health cover and work environment. Most of the other companies that made the top 50 only excel in one or two areas. This is the second year in a row that Google has managed to capture the number one position on Fortune's company assessment.

Standard perks that Google offers include 100% health care coverage and onsite childcare facilities. In addition, new moms are entitled to 18 weeks of paid maternity leave while dads get 7 weeks. Some perks that aren't quite standard include 17 cafeterias that offer free food to all employees.

The rule at Google is that no staff member should ever be further away than 100 feet from a source of food. That doesn't mean that they only have access to vending machines with junk food, or that the cafeterias give out quick, easy and grease-laden meals. Chefs of the highest calibre prepare range of meals, with unique variations on everyday meals. Macaroni and cheese, for instance, comes with wild mushrooms and truffles.

They also have a keen interest in environmental conservation and have a department dedicated to researching "green" technologies. Google makes every effort to be as energy efficient as possible, which is a mind-set that is encouraged in their employees. In the spirit of energy conservation, they subsidise staff members who buy hybrid or electric cars to the tune of $1000. Employees based in California are entitled to special discounts if they install solar panels in their homes.

Google is also fairly unique in that they have a policy that allows ardent animal lovers to bring their cherished pets to work. The obvious proviso is that the various dogs, cats, and assorted others must be reasonably well behaved and house trained. It's been reported in The Inquirer, UK, that the pet's policy is under revision, after a pet python that was not very well behaved created chaos and terror in the New York branch.

Bingham McCutchen only made it to 41 on the list, but is the number one firm when it comes to high pay packages. The law firm is known for hiring promising law school graduates at a whopping $160, 000 a year. Their legal secretaries, whose importance is often overlooked by other firms, earn an average of $69,000 a year. This is higher than what some managers of other companies' earn. The average salary for staff at Bingham McCutchen is a staggering $211, 017 per year.

The eBay San Jose campuses have special de-stressing areas for employees in need of some serenity and relaxation. Rooms with comfortable pillows and tatami floor mats are ideal for midday prayer and meditation, so that staff can return to their tasks refreshed and revitalised.

Camden Property Trust gives a 20% discount to employees who live in the company's apartment complexes. Staff members going on holiday are also able to use fully furnished apartments for only $20 a night.

Nike is one of the most socially conscious businesses to work for, as those employed in the Portland office volunteer as Portland Mountain Rescuers. They respond to emergencies at a moment's notice, no matter what they are doing or how important it is. When prospective employees are interviewed and warned about the possibility of having their work interrupted by mountain searches, the standard response is, "what's more important, saving lives or selling shoes?"

The one thing that all of the businesses on the top 50 list have in common is that they all realise that a company is only as good as its employees, and so go out of their way to ensure staff happiness and contentment. Staff turnover is low, while job satisfaction is high. Who wouldn't want to work for a company that rents an entire movie theatre for a day so that their staff can see a blockbuster movie on its release date?

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Facebook to launch email service !!!

Social networking website Facebook is likely to offer email services to its 500 million users from Monday to compete with Gmail and Yahoo Mail, making it the largest such service provider on the planet.

TechCrunch, a leading Silicon Valley technology blog, has reported that the social network plans to announce a web-based email service — complete with @facebook.com addresses — at an event in San Francisco.

The blog said that Facebook's planned email service was part of a secret project known as ‘Project Titan,' which is “unofficially referred to internally as its ‘Gmail killer.'”

Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to retool their email services to build them more around people's social connections.

ADVANTAGE

Facebook would have a tremendous advantage because it owns a vast trove of data about people's relationships and would find it easier to graft email onto its existing social services, such as photo-sharing.

The launch of the new service will be made official on Monday, along with a likely announcement of a strategic alliance with Microsoft to incorporate the functionality of Facebook in Office applications.

The new Facebook email will fully integrate the social network, using the working model of the network of friends.

The aim would be to create an ecosystem of communication “sensitive” to the world of relationships of people, able to combine text, pictures, music and video in a single container of communications. And to give this information flow a priority-based on the social context of each.

If it is announced, a Facebook email service would allow its more than 500 million members to communicate with anyone inside or outside the walls of the social network.

If they use it, Facebook would leapfrog the 361 million global users of Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo Mail's 273 million, and Gmail's 193 million.

Source - The Hindu

Google Alert on the 10 most dangerous portals on the Internet

Google has developed a list of portals on the Internet more dangerous and can damage the computers of unsuspecting Web surfers.

The most popular search engine on the planet had a balance after two months of observation of automated web portals and about 4,000 sites have been identified as hazardous or responsible for the widespread distribution of spam that are associated with portals that experience significant levels of popularity.

How to Speed up your PC by this simple RAM tweak

Well this is a little tuto or in other terms tweak for the techs. SO… Faster PC , first of all why a faster PC ?? Well its not a question of a faster PC but this is more a question of when. If you’ve been running a large application (or several large applications, maybe a game, Photoshop, something like that) the RAM can get taken up quickly. Even when you close down these programs, RAM can still be eaten-up.


You’ll notice this effect at the end of the day. When you first power-up your PC it’s running smoothly, by the end of the day it gets sluggish. Yes, you can get various softwares to solve this. May of which costs but when free things matters, heres how a simple trick can work (in both XP and Vista)






Open up Notepad
Type in
MYSTRING=(80000000) 
Save the file as MEMORY.VBE (or RAM.VBE if you like…just remember the .VBE)
Make sure you save the file to your DESKTOP.
Just double-click the newly created file on your desktop whenever your PC seems sluggish. It will give your RAM a much needed boost.
Not that if you have less than 128mb of RAM (do you really? If so then Oh! wake up you need an upgrade) change the 80000000 to 160000000 and it should work the same. 


Have you tried? 

How to protect outlook with password?

Many of us having desktop and laptops and for sure we share those with our family or friends. In many of these occasions we get afraid of people intrusion into outlook. The archieved mail can be seen or read by anyone who opened outlook. (Note: The case is, if the user knows your windows login or no windows login at all.)

So as to make sure that nobody can access our mail archive in outlook, we can protect them using a password. Yes we can. Hey please note that this method of password protection is for the ".pst" file only not to each and every mail, Also I’m not sure that it can be cracked or not.

Now let us see how it can be done.

Open outlook.

Go to Tools --> options, a popup menu will be opened shown.

Click on the Mail Setup tab. a popup menu will be opened shown.

Then click Data Files button. Another popup menu will be opened.

Select the required personal folder. In this case it was one; In case you use more than one personal folder select the one which needs to be protected. Click on the Settings button. A popup will be opened again!

Click on the Change Password button, one more popup menu will be opened as shown below. Hey don’t get tensed this is the last popup. Leave the Old password to blank and type in your password at the text box of “New password” and “Verify password” as shown.

That’s it. Click OK, Exit Outlook and reopen it. A popup menu was opened as shown below.

Now the gate was closed and you will not be permitted to go beyond this point unless you provide the key, yes it’s your password. Be in peace while next time you share your lap or desktop with others.


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