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San Jose or Pueblo de San Jose is proud of its marvelous ethnic diversity which has found its way to its cuisine. So it has a variety of options for those who crave for unique flavors. Though popular cuisines are American, Mexican and Chinese; fusions like Cal-Mex are also popular.

Check out the 5 best restaurants in San Jose :

* Original Joe’s Restaurant is one of the all time classic restaurants in San Jose as it has been around since 1956. The cuisine served here has the traditional San Francisco flair. The interior of the restaurant has the retro 50’s atmosphere. The food and service are excellent. This is the place for those who love tasty Italian American food.

* The top rated Chinese restaurant in San Jose is Sino. The dishes served here include the traditional Dim Sum and the modern Chinese cuisine. The menu includes the Crispy Kumquat Chicken Medallions, Braised Tofu, Sizzling Beef Filet Mignon and the Spicy Dragon Prawns. It’s a non-smoking restaurant.

* Cicero’s Pizza is the best pizza restaurant in San Jose . This restaurant has been around since 1961 and therefore is hugely popular. Make sure to reserve your seats if you don’t want to stand in the long waiting line. Their specialty is thin crust pizzas available in different varieties of toppings. The service is friendly.

* La Victoria Taqueria, a Mexican restaurant is open till late in the night and therefore is the top spot for late night eats. It makes one of the best sauces but the recipe is a closely guarded secret. It has won the audience appreciation for being the best budget eatery in San Jose.

* Ramen Halu, a fast food restaurant has a cozy atmosphere with excellent service. They serve the best Ramen in the whole of San Jose.

Happy munching!

The wedding month is upon us and whether or not you’re going to take a chance and fly there, max your credit card out on gas to drive there, or just stay home, you’re going to need to buy a wedding gift. There are some great gadget gifts in all price ranges that will make any newlywed’s life more fun and fulfilling.

Gadgets That Capture Memories
Camcorders and cameras make great wedding gifts. A new camcorder should last a newly married couple well into the child rearing years. The latest crop of camcorders include some reasonably priced handheld camcorders and some consumer-friendly high definition camcorders that can fill the wide screen of an HDTV set.

The Canon Vixia HF10 has a 12X optical zoom with image stabilization and records to a flash memory card in AVCHD format. The Sony HDR-SR1 records 7 hours of 1080i video on a built-in hard disk and gets good ratings. Flip Video’s $179 Ultra took the camcorder market by storm with their very user-friendly flash-based camcorder that holds 1 hour of very good quality video and fits in your pocket or pocket book.

There are so many compact digital cameras to choose from the task of selecting a good camera for newlyweds can be difficult. We recommend features like optical image stabilization and face technology that make it easier to take good pictures. The Sony DSC-W170, is a fun new camera that performs some very cool image editing right on the camera. The "Smile Shutter" works with the face technology to detect "smiling" faces. The Canon SD1100 fits easily in a pocket or pocket book, offers 8 MP resolution, image stabilization and new face technology.

Digital Picture Frames
Just remember, you’re not losing a daughter or son….on second thought, just in case you do end up seeing less of them, there are a couple of ways you can stay in the picture and one of those is to literally put you and the rest of the family on a digital picture frame. Digital photo frames look great on a mantle or bookcase and won’t break the bank either. The Kodak SV1011 is a 10 inch digital photo frame that has built-in WiFi that can be used to manage the photos. The Pandigital PAN80-2 is an 8 inch 800 x 600 pixel frame that can store 128MB worth of images. You upload images using the card reader or USB connector.

Personal Navigation Devices (GPS)
Helping the newlyweds find their way in life may be more than should be expected from you however, a GPS for their car or outdoor adventures might be just the thing to help point them in the right direction. The Garmin nuvi 260 has text-to-speech (TTS) and a large 3.5 inch display and sells for under $300. The TomTom Go 920 is a popular GPS that has Bluetooth built-in for hands-free phone calls.

HDTV
HDTV sets are not cheap but they can be a very sensible gift in times of high travel costs when taking a vacation at home becomes more common. Don’t forget how great the Summer Olympics are going to look in high definition. If you can’t swing an HDTV set by yourself, get a few other friends and relatives together and buy the newlyweds their first HDTV set. The Syntax Olevia 747I is a 47 inch LCD TV that does 1080p and gets very high ratings and very good reviews. The 42 inch Vizio VU42LF, does 1080p and can be purchased for well under $1000.

Roomba Vacuum Cleaner
Some people treat these little creatures like pets. The iRobot Roomba 4150 is the entry level Roomba vacuuming robot but for less than $200 it could go a long way toward matrimonial bliss.

Gadget Gift Card
Why not let the newlyweds have the pleasure of selecting a gadget for themselves. Just get a gift card from your favorite gadget seller like amazon.com, Best Buy or Circuit City and let them pick out their own gadget.


The wedding month is upon us and whether or not you’re going to take a chance and fly there, max your credit card out on gas to drive there, or just stay home, you’re going to need to buy a wedding gift. There are some great gadget gifts like, camcorders, digital cameras, GPS, HDTV etc will make any newlywed’s life more fun and fulfilling.

Sharing Digital photos, videos or any other media has evolved much beyond carrying them on USBs or CDs. Even photo sharing through dedicated websites has become a thing of the past. Welcome to the new world of PC Media Sharing, where you share all your digital media from your own computer. Your computer hosts the files and the recipients just need to click on the URL to view your digital media extravaganza. There’s no need to upload the file on to any website. All it takes is a broadband connection and the computer to be switched on for others to access the file. With this innovative concept of PC Media Sharing one can bid good bye to the monotonous job of uploading one’s media on to the photo sharing websites.

The process is very simple. One needs to identify a good PC Media Sharing product, which would be compatible with all the media one wants to share. The installation of the PC Media Sharing product is done through user friendly installation techniques. At the end of the process, a dedicated website URL is obtained which serves as the key to the media sharing treat from your own computer.

It comes as no surprise that for the past 10 years San Francisco has been named as the top city for dining out by the readers of Bon Appétit magazine; all because of the quality and the quantity of its restaurants. The popular cuisines are Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Japanese and American. All this has made it a one-of-kind destination for food lovers. With so many choices in this city of plenty that it is difficult to decide where to eat.

Of the top-rated ones, let’s take a look at the5 best restaurants in SF :

1. Pancho Villa Taqueria, a Mexican restaurant has a great atmosphere, great service and great food. You can find the selected works of local artists on its walls every month. The menu includes varieties of luscious Tacos, Quesadillas, Nachos and Burritos.

2. Those who dined at House of Nanking are of the opinion that it is the best Chinese restaurant in San Francisco. Hot and Sour Chicken or Beef in Garlic Sauce, Tofu with Curry, Imperial Rolls full of vegetables, BBQ pork are some of the local favorites. The main drawbacks are that they do not accept reservations and the payment is by cash only.

3. Delfina Restaurant is the number one Italian restaurant in San Francisco. It is a tiny restaurant but the atmosphere is elegant and relaxed; and the service friendly and informed. Its menu is not that long but their specialty is seafood. Highlights of their menu are the different varieties of pastas, risottos, and the home made dessert Buttermilk Panna Cotta with caramel and kumquats.

4. Ozumo Restaurant is a Japanese restaurant known for their (you guessed it right) excellent sushi. The ambience is relaxed and the service friendly and prompt.

5. House of Prime Rib is the popular restaurant in San Francisco for American cuisine. It is an ideal hangout for meat lovers and their specialty is Prime Rib. It’s a non smoking restaurant and the other facilities include valet parking so you need not struggle for parking your car.

Well, you must have understood by now why it is known as ‘The Food City’.

Outsourced Product Development is a comparatively upcoming field in the software industry. Software companies are saving millions of dollars by outsourcing their product development or at least a part of it. The tight competition demands the software companies to produce qualitative products faster and cheaper as compared to their competitors.

In any company a technical management team can visualize the product based on their customers need. But it requires a skillful engineering effort for the product to be realized into a successful, profitable one. The cost of building up a strong development team is quite high. Outsourced Product Development is just a money saving substitute for in-house development.

Outsourced Product Development companies help in accelerating new product development while keeping the cost of engineering low. Many ISVs (Independent Software Vendors)/ software product development organizations and start-ups adopt the smartest outsourced product development strategy. Company’s valuable resources are directed towards the more vital activities of product innovation, product management, differentiation, CRM, marketing & distribution.

The growth rate of the Outsourced Product Development is expected to outsmart that of traditional IT services and already companies are making their presence felt in this sector. This segment is also expected to fuel the next boom for technology professionals seeking challenging roles. From close to a hundred thousand professionals, this segment is expected to offer a million jobs in the near future.

The human mind is in a constant hunt for information. Such information could be in the form of reviews, referrals, recommendations, suggestions etc. In short, the human mind is in a constant search for social opinion; in other words, the general opinion of people. Such opinion could be about anything including people, products, companies, services, activities, politics, religion, feelings, emotions and health.

While everyday interaction with people helps understanding general opinion, it may not be comprehensive. The most important prerequisite to understanding social opinion is access to the thoughts of people regarding a certain issue, product or service. This is now made possible through websites, which help gain access to information by creating a common place for people to pool in their opinions.

While it’s a well known fact that outsourcing is good for business, offshore software development is an icing on the cake providing more advantages. Today most of the offshore software developing companies are business conglomerates with a capacity to deliver services beyond expectations. India is a perfect example which showcases how offshore software development can be a driving factor for an economy boom. Factors like low development cost, high skilled man power, and competitive billing has triggered the great IT boom in India. There’s a great demand from all over the globe to outsource their work to India.

Gone are the days when outsourcing to India means fixing a few y2k bugs. The software outsourcing industry in India has matured over the years from the low end bug fixes and testing to bigger pieces of the pie like entire product line maintenance. More and more software firms are realizing the importance of getting Indian engineers involved from the product design phase, leading to complete development or at least completely independent modules being done out of India. Outsourcing firms are moving onto the consulting bandwagon and are positioning themselves as high end consulting companies - from outsourcing key component to complete product development. Today the buzz is about Outsourced Product Development than offshore software developing.

World Touring Car Championship, WTCC , as it is shortly called is one among the most important and eventful car races in the world. It is regarded as the third most important FIA championship after Formula One and the World Rally Championship.

The first WTCC was held in the year 1987, and then it was held simultaneously with the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC). Later it gained immense popularity and was a victim of its own success with FIA stopping the championship, fearing that it would take money away from Formula 1. But soon after, in the year 2001, ETCC was resumed which was later renamed as WTCC in 2005 at the request of interested manufacturers.

With the support of major car manufacturers like BMW, Chevrolet, SEAT and Alfa Romeo, the race is held at major prestigious circuits. The race features compact and midsize cars that fall between slightly modified super production cars and the extinct super touring class. Being the next most popular race after F1 and WRC, WTCC attracts car enthusiasts s from all over the world.

Trying out a new restaurant with company is a tricky task. The name might sound interesting, the place might look great, but the service and food can let you down badly. Or the food and service might also be great but the pocket can take a thorough beating. The worst thing one wants is to cut a sorry figure when taking someone out for dinner, especially if it’s a date.

It is of utmost importance to get a heads up on a restaurant before you go there. A great way to do this is references. A disadvantage here might be that what your friend or relative thinks is a great place might fall short of your expectations. Today, the internet makes restaurant search very simple and dependable too.

Restaurant search engines are a great way to source out good restaurants that go with your personal requirements. They provide local restaurants reviews with emphasis on cuisine, ambience, service and pricing. Some very good search engines have an average of 800 reviews per restaurant, which can give you a clear idea of the place. Any restaurant that has more than 75 to 80 percent positive reviews can’t go drastically wrong.

So the next time you want to take someone special out on a date, do your ground work before choosing a restaurant to save yourself embarrassment and to have a great dining experience.