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Distinguishing fraudulent e-mails 2007-07-13 13:28:14 Checked out my spam folder today and an email from PayPal diverted my attention. OK, I’ve been receiving spam mails calming to be from PayPal, asking me to ‘reset my password’ even before I owned a PayPal account But this one was better than the simple textual ones I used to get. This was an exact look alike of the original PayPal emails.. Complete with CSS formatted right infobar !
Sender : <service@paypal.com>
Fake PayPal email
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Guruji.com - Indian search engine 2007-07-12 23:01:07 Guruji.com is the first crawler based search engine for India and India related content.Guruji’s algorithm automatically identifies ‘India related’ content on the web and organizes it in such a way that you get the most relevant results fast. They are a team of young, dynamic and passionate engineers from India’s premier institutes like the IITs,IISc and other top engineering colleges, working arduously to make guruji better each day.
They are holding a search and win contest (To participate in the contest you need to be a resident Indian with more than 14 years of age.) (more…)
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[Review] Literary Jewels 2007-07-12 00:07:36
A great blog on some of the masterpieces in Literature.
Recent Posts
Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’
‘The Outsider’ by Albert Camus
Samuel Johnson Prize 2007
Man Booker International Prize 2007
Visit LiteraryJewels
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[Review] Juicy Gossips and true Confessions 2007-07-11 23:59:49 The name says it all.. Love, lust , poll and survey information, relationships .. Just try JuicyGossips
and true Confessions
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The grass is always greener on the other side.
Poll
Myth And Fact
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Combating spam with your Gmail ID 2007-07-08 16:45:16
Did you know that Gmail
doesn’t recognize dots (.) as characters within a username ? This means think.dj@gmail.com is the same as thinkdj@gmail.com for Gmail servers. OK, Great .. Now how’s that useful for me ?
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Attempts to Shut down BitTorrent community 2007-07-07 13:34:43
Last month has been really bad for the BitTorrent community
. If you are not completely sure of what I’m talking about, the last month saw BREIN trying to shut down Demonoid.com, ISOHunt and TorrentSpy deciding to filter out copyrighted content, the Swedish police trying to shut down The PirateBay…
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iPhones breaks AT&T record - Over 700,000 sold 2007-07-06 06:00:23 Apple has sold more than 700,000 iPhones over the weekend (that is more than what Motorola’s RAZR sold in its first month.) Most of the stores are out of supplies, in US. Apple’s stores in Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah and Washington have sold out their iPhones in three days from the launch date.
According to American Technology Research, they predicted that the iPhone would likely become the company’s fastest selling product in history after reviewing initial sales numbers, and even speculated that the iPhone could rank among the fastest selling consumer electronics.
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how NOT to fight spam with gmail ? 2007-07-15 06:05:15 This is in response to the Fighting spam with Gmail post…
Kurt Wismer [anti-virus rants] has a point there. Check out his post on how NOT to fight
spam with gmail.
Anyways, the filtering using (.) method can still be used to categorize your incoming mails ..
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Samsung 19 inch SENS G25 2007-07-18 07:22:19 Samsung Electronics is launching their new 19-inch Desknote ‘SENS G25’ in Korean market in late July. Designed in high glossy black, it boasts of a Core 2 Duo processor, SATA-II 320GB hard disk, seven USB 2.0 ports and an ATi GPU. Its 19-inch wide LCD supports 1000:1 contrast ratio and 300cd/m2 brightness. This laptop comes with numeric keypad and AC power supply, thereby doing away with the external adapter. It will be priced at around $1100.
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Alternative to Yahoo! photos 2007-07-17 09:48:33 Yahoo will close down Yahoo Photos within the next 2 months, in favor of Flickr, the competing photo sharing site the company bought about two years ago. But Brad Garlinghouse, SVP of Yahoo, admits that Flickr isn’t the right sharing site for many users of Yahoo Photos, so people will be given the option to instead move pictures to Shutterfly or the Kodak Gallery.
I came across SnapGalaxy, which is taking advantage of the scenario. As a promotion, they are offering all the Yahoo! customers 25 free prints upon successful photo transfer from Yahoo photos
account, 10 free prints to all new users and 20 free 4×6 prints as a referral bonus for each friend.
They have fulfillment enters in India & USA and a tie with DTDC to deliver the prints reliably on-time in India. That is great news for us Indians. Recipients in India and USA do have local low-rate shipping options available.. Check out SnapGalax today !
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When Geeks Will Rule the World - Hillarious Video 2007-07-17 09:20:21
There will be a day when the stuff you make is cool .. It’ll be worth billions and you can talk to girls .. It’ll be the day when the rest will look like fools.. Thatz the day the computer geeks will rule the world..
Download it here [12 MB, WMV] Source
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Meet SPARKY - The Alexa Toolbar for Firefox 2007-07-21 10:02:29 Finally, we have an AlexaToolbar
for FF… and it’s way better than it’s IE counterpart.
The trends, reach and traffic rank are displayed on the bottom right part ( on the status bar) and the Related Links pop out as an extra menu item. I wonder why they still call it a ‘Toolbar’
Sparky Features:
Related Links: Find sites that are similar to the one you are currently visiting.
Traffic Trend: A sparkline showing the traffic trend from the last four months.
Reach Meter: A neat little indicator that shows the site’s Reach.
Traffic Rank: Shows the current site’s Alexa Traffic Rank.
Get it now
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Gogole Page Rank updation imminent 2007-07-20 14:15:24 Google takes 3-4 months to update Page Rank. Got to know from the blogosphere that a Page Rank updation was around the corner. This is quite a good news for bloggers.
Anyways, here is a tool that predicts the page rank of a site based on the backlinks in the google database. Try yours out. I tried blogulate.com and it predicts a PR 4. Hmm, not bad for a blog which is less than 30 days old… isnt it ?
Predict you Page Rank with the PR Prediction tool at iwebtool.com
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Google on a spending spree 2007-07-20 12:20:12 Google’s revenue rose by 58% to $3.87bn, but its profits increased by a more modest 28%, to $925m. This is due to the fact that Google has spent heavily on acquisitions as well as on increasing its headcount to develops new products and enters new markets.
But its biggest outlays were acquisitions - Google made eight purchases, most notably the $3.1bn DoubleClick deal and the purchase of online security firm Postini for $625m.
Google added over 1,500 staff in the quarter. That takes its total headcount to 13,786, a 74% increase in the last 12 months.
The company also upped its spending on R&D by 88%.
Google is not transparent when it comes to revealing the %revenue shared with Adsense publishers. Considering the fact that it paid 1.15 billion $ as Traffic Acquisition Costs (TAC) [the portion of ad revenues Google pays to its publishing partners and affiliates], the commission comes out to be roughly around 40%.
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Click fraud rate rises 2007-07-20 11:56:17 The latest Click
Fraud Index from Click Forensics, which is out today, says that the fraud
ulent click rate is on the rise.
Key findings from data reported for Q2 2007 include:
The overall industry average click fraud rate was 15.8 percent for Q2 2007. This is an increase from 14.1 percent for the same quarter in 2006 and 14.8 percent for Q1 2007.
The average click fraud rate of PPC advertisements appearing on search engine content networks, including Google AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network, was 25.6 percent. That’s up from 21.9 percent for Q1 2007 and 19.2 percent for Q4 of 2006.
Traffic from botnets doubled from Q1 to Q2 2007 and contributed significantly to the increase in click fraud rates.
In Q2 2007, the greatest percentage of click fraud originating from countries outside North America came from France (5.1 percent), China (3.2 percent) and Australia (3 percent).
The report says that growing use of botnets is making the problem worse, with traffic from botnets doub
Milestones in data backup evolution 2007-07-20 04:47:14 Punch cards can be considered as the first data storage devices for backup
. They date back to the early 1950’s, being used as a medium for storage for the UNIVAC I.
Next came the Magnetic Tapes. Since one roll of magnetic tape could store as much data as 10,000 punch cards, it achieved instant success and became the most popular way of storing of computer data until the mid 1980s.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s hard drives were not suitable for backups because of their high price, large size and low capacity. However, already in the mid 1980s hard disks could already be considered for making backups. In the early 1990s they became a real alternative for tape backups. Even today, the “battle” between tape and disk backup still rages on.
In the early 1990’s CD-R were not commonly used for backups, because of high costs. But later, when CD-ROM drive became a usual device for practically every computer and prices for compact disks tangibly fell, backup on CD became very p
rand() - Insert dummy text in word 2007-07-23 07:31:28 There exists many myths on the rand ‘virus’. Some consider it to be an Easter Egg. The truth is, it is just an un-documented MS Word function to insert dummy text
The Microsoft Knowledge Base article How to Insert Sample Text into a Document in Word [212251] explains the use and syntax of the function:
Microsoft Word allows you to quickly insert sample text into a document. To do this, type =rand() in the document where you want the text to appear, and then press ENTER.
Examples:
=rand(1,1) inserts one one-sentence paragraph of text.
=rand(10) inserts 10 five-sentence paragraphs of text.
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Unavailable after …. 2007-07-25 13:13:23 Google is coming out with a new tag called “unavailable_after” which will allow people to tell Google when a particular page will no longer be available for crawling. For instance, if you have a special offer on your site that expires on a particular date, you might want to use the ‘unavailable_after’ tag to let Google know when to stop indexing it. Or perhaps you write articles that are free for a particular amount of time, but then get moved to a paid-subscription area of your site. This would also be appropriate for promotional pages where the promotions expire after a given time.
The TAG would look something like
< META name=’unavailable_after’ content=Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:01:00 GMT’>
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How much is your website worth ? 2007-07-25 12:49:44 CyberWyre has developed a tool to evaluate the value of a website
based on the site’s Alexa Ranking, Page Rank, Backlinks (from Yahoo, ATW and Altavista). It provides a rough estimate on the value of your site. It’s pretty much similar to the ‘How much is your blog worth’ tool based on the Technorati’s API, but throws up a different result. CyberWire tool indexes the site based on multiple params. and not just one factor like in the technorati tool.
It also shows an estimate of how much you can probably earn by Text Link Advertising, Affiliate Marketing etc..Check out Website Value Calculator
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Wait! Dont throw away that old cell phone! 2007-07-25 11:55:54 CellForCash.com offers you cash for your old cell phone
s. Cell for cash currently accepts mobiles from most manufacturers. So, if you have a cell phone lying around the house which is of no use, sell a cell phone to CellForCash.com .. They also have a referral scheme in which you can earn 5$ per referral. I think it is a flat $5 per referral, meaning if you get 20 friends to join, you get 100$. It did help sell my old cell phone
Herez a testimonial from their site
“My experience with Cell for Cash has been very pleasurable. This is my second transaction and it is so simple and completely worth the 5 minutes of time that it took me. The best part is that Cell for Cash does all the work from sending the box with the return postage already paid to sending an email when each step is completed. I have recommended Cell for Cash to all of my friends and family. If I have the opportunity again I will chose Cell for Cash in a heart beat! ” - S.M. North Andover, MA
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