This is a most common question that comes up in mind when you see the HRA component in your salary and want to maximise tax benefit. Well, there are three rules which determine the cap on the HRA tax exemption that you would get.

We have created a simple Calculator to calculate optimum rent for maximum tax exemption limit which takes care of all the above points and gives you the optimum value that should be paid as rent. [More]

The only substantial change is the increase in standard deduction of Rs. 20000 (from 1,60,000 to 1,80,000) for males. There are no favors done for females and they would be getting the same amount of standard deduction i.e. 1,90,000.

The net effect of this rebate is the increase of Rs. 172 in male tax payer's monthly in-hand salary. For females, the take home pay remains same. [More]

This one is a new feature that has been added to Facebook today itself. You can now opt to show your Facebook page (could be any business or community or any other page that you have created) on your Facebook profile itself.

All the wall postings of your Facebook page will be shown on your Facebook profile page. So, in a sense your profile will be impersonating your Facebook business page. [More]

Some time back, Facebook introduced new features on the people profiles. The photographs on the Facebook profile were allowed to show on top of the window. Many creative people made use of this opportunity and arranged the photographs in such a manner that they conveyed some kind of meaning.

Now, the same feature has been introduced on Facebook pages also. i.e. if you have created a facebook page for your business or community or something else, you can now use this feature. [More]

A sitemap is a simple file which contains the URLs of all the pages on your website. It is recommended to submit your site's sitemap to all search engines as it used by search engine bots to crawl your website and traverse all the links.
If you do not submit a sitemap, then there is a possibility that some of your webpages may not get traversed by serch engine at all. This is because search engine bots reach a web page only through a link and if they don't find a link to the web page, it may never get read by them! [More]

I have seen that people generally like to have a glimpse of what is contained in the mail before reading the full content.
If you have published more than 1 article in a day and you use Google FeedBurner to distribute your blog's content via RSS feed, your users would not be able to see all the articles until they scroll through the full email.

That is why it is always good to have an index or a list of articles at the top of the email. This helps the reader to have a glimpse of all new articles and choose (click) what they want to read without reading through the full email. [More]

Did you ever had the need to search for a person's activity on internet if you his email-address?
Well, this was certainly possible in the 90s era on internet where most of the sites had exposed the email addresses of its visitors, commenters and other users. But with the inception of spam, almost all of them have closed the email address exhibiting to save its user base from being exploited and send unsolicited mails. [More]

As you would know by now that the Gawker commenting user's passwords have been hacked and they have asked all their users to change the passwords immediately.

Gawker Media's servers were compromised, resulting in a security breach at Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel,
io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot. As a result, the user name and password associated with your comment account were released on the internet. If you're a commenter on any of these sites, you probably have your password leaked. [More]

Google has added a new search filter option to the advanced search page named "Reading level."

The purpose is to give users a way to find content based on their reading level. [More]

Vincos.it maps social network dominance around the world according to traffic data from Alexa and Google Trends.

As a matter of fact, the Facebook was not the preferred social network in India and Brazil. But, it has taken over Orkut in both these countries quite fast. [More]

I don't know if this is a co-incidence or a unique design but the four buildings in US Naval Amphibious base coronado form a shape of Swastik sign when seen from top. I have taken this image using Google Earth and have posted here as it looks interesting. [More]

I was just going through Google Earth surfing through various images and reached the Infosys (An Indian IT services company).
The unique thing about the Infosys Mysore office is that its buildings have been specially designed to show the name of company itself when seen from top. [More]

Sometimes you create a PDF that people can purchase and then download from your site and you don't want the pdf to show up in search engine results just to avoid its direct download or illegal copying of your content.

Here is an easy way to prevent your PDF file from being indexed by all major search engines like
Google, Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo. [More]

Has this ever happened to you? You're asked a totally illogical and unrelated question like: "If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be?" Or, "what's your favorite color?" or "Do you have a girl friend?"

If yes, then most probably your first impression would have been like what is this non-sense? But keeping in mind that it is your interview, you can't take it lightly and pass the question on like a TV quiz. You need to answer and answer in a way that should make your interviewer feel like you are the best. [More]

If you are reading this, then you must be looking to install your software using its ISO image. ISO image is nothing but a combination of opaque files and need to be burned into a CD/DVD before one can see the actual files and install the software. [More]