If you haven't noticed, when you hover on the X'mas doodle on Google India's English homepage, you get to see a "Happy Hodiays from Google" written in Hindi. (It's 10.50pm by Indian standard time.) Is it intentional? Maybe Google is trying to be like we Indians—using a mix of English and Hindi in our daily conversations.

Happy Holidays! :)

Portable apps come handy when you are no where near your own Mac but still need to use some of your favourite applications. How can you use an application on someone else's Mac even if it's not installed on it? Portable apps.

Here's a list of some essential portable applications for Mac OS X that you can carry on any portable device such as USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, etc. All of these apps can also be saved in your local hard drive so that you can use the application without the need for installation.