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Internet Version 2.0 2007-07-26 09:33:20 sHow will the Internet
be, tomorrow ?
Before we even attempt to answer that question lets answer this one : How is the Internet, today ?
When we think about it, we realize that there is more to it than we know. It is a part of our lives, it has morphed itself from some-bunch-of-information-lying-out-there to everything-that-I-want-and-served-the-way-I-want.
Its also not any more go-out-and-get-it.
With RSS feeds you can get a piece of the Internet in your mailbox.
What’s more you can now have Podcasts. You can listen to your-piece-of-the-Internet by getting it on your iPod. Have a peek at these audio-blogs and you will see that the Internet is no more a text interface, it can now talk to you.
In the 1990s the Internet was seen as an extension to business, with everything in business being prefixed with an ‘e-’.
However, since human needs shaped it, the Internet has taken a tilt towards the social side of human life.
The natural approach to entertainment, decision ma
30 Firefox Ext. used by the best Webmasters in the world 2007-07-26 08:43:43 Did you know that Firefox
is a very Powerful web developing tool? Here are the best ever Firefox Extensions that will help you to make web developing lot more easier. These are huge time and money savers for web developers. Not only the web Surfers use Firefox you know
see how a page will look on mobile screen : Small Screen Rendering XPI
change user agent for certain sites : User Agent Switcher
see IP address of the site : ShowIP
simulate WAP browsing by viewing WML : wmlbrowser
run automated tests on a site : TestGen4Web
download an entire website : SpiderZilla
preview the Adsense ads that might be shown on a page : Adsense Preview
measure pixel width with a ruler : MeasureIt
see cookie information for a page : View Cookies
debug ajax/css/html/javascript : FireBug
see anchors on the page : Show Anchors
find whois information of the site : domainFinder
see web development references in a sidebar : DevBoi
find the color code of a given pixel : ColorZilla
capture screenshots : ScreenG Read more:Webmasters
How to Get Indexed by Google in 6 Days 2007-07-26 07:38:25
I justed checked and Google
has finally indexed this site. I was beginning to wonder as I think I’ve had other sites listed sooner - but 6 days is nothing to scoff at. It would take many experiments to figure out what factors speed up the time it takes to get listed, but I’ll summarize some important things I did that may have played a part:
Submitted my URL to Google’s add url page.
Linked a word in one of my posts to an permalink on Google’s Blog.
Did the same thing to an article on TechCrunch.
Posted legitimate comments on a few blogs I enjoy reading
Announced this blog at BloggerForum.
Spent two or three hours writing a good article to submit to social news sites, submitted
Added RSS feed link to my site
Added blog to Technorati
Installed plugin to add Technorati tags to my posts
Installed this Google Sitemap plugin, created sitemap and pinged Google.
Optimized this blog using these excellent tips to make it more pleasing to the search engines.
Posted at least one article Read more:Indexed
Google May lose It’s Name! 2007-07-24 21:06:56 We all know that Google
is our friend. But, do we know that where that name ‘Google’ came from?
Well read the story below to know the secret behind it –>
A Chinese company is suing Google’s China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the U.S. search engine’s registered Chinese name is too similar to its own and has harmed its operations.
A spokesman for Beijing Guge Science and Technology Ltd. Co. said Google’s commercial name had led to the company being constantly disturbed by people calling up its office trying to contact the search engine.
“We just want Google to change their commercial name,” Tian Yunshan, a company official, told Reuters on Friday. “We have already passed our demands on to Google … We will see what happens in court.”
The search engine’s Chinese name — a transliteration of the English word “Google” — was also used in Beijing Guge’s commercially registered name, Tian said.
People searching for Google through a loc Read more:Google May
eBay Search Secret 2007-07-24 07:47:27
www.ebay.com is great place to shop for anything including Real Estate Supplies. From marketing materials to sign pegs, you can find tons of stuff on eBay. I regularly shop at www.ebay.com for any bargains. Usually, I’m the only bidder to same item that attract multiple bidders.
How do I search for bargains that nobody knows about? Yes, there is a search secret. Quite simple and fast.
Take advantage of seller’s typos on listing titles. Thousands of items on www.ebay.com are listed with descriptions containing spelling mistakes. These items often expire with no bids on them as no-one can find them. It’s time to uncover those hidden gems.
Type in a keyword below and click the generate button. It will generate many possibilities of misspellings with your keyword. Try now~!!!
Instruction:
Type in a keyword below and click on the Generate button.
Click on the “Find misspellings of ‘Your Keyword’ on eBay.com” link that will appear on the bottom
Happy Biddi Read more:Search
Google’s $4.6 billion plan for an open wireless Internet 2007-07-22 23:19:32 Would that all kings were so benevolent. Google
announced today it would set aside at least $4.6 billion
to purchase a slice of the public airwaves in an upcoming government auction of radio spectrum. The company is imposing one condition on its money: It will only participate, it says, if the Federal Communications Commission requires that all bidders for the radio waves be forced to adhere to principles of Internet
“openness.”
This is huge news, though to understand its implications you’ve got to know what’s been going on in the regulatory debate over the next wireless Internet. More than a decade ago, the government mandated that all TV broadcasters transmit their signals digitally, freeing up a huge slice of public airwaves for other uses. In January, the FCC will hold a public auction of the vacated radio spectrum — it’s known at the 700 MHz frequency — and traditional communications companies such as AT&T and Verizon are salivating a
Benefits of Installing Windows on a Mac 2007-07-20 06:13:46 First of all if you got a Mac, then you don’t need to buy a windows machine to use windows simultaneously. Although, I use windows, I personally prefer Mac as its a lot easier to use and faster.
Some of the basic advantages of using a Mac instead of a PC are-
ease of use.
ease of understanding how it operates.
ease of computer maintenance and keeping it operating.
enhanced computer security and privacy.
enhanced computer stability.
enhanced computer productivity.
The best feature that I like about an Apple computer is its capability of running both Mac OSX & Windows
OS. If you accidentally buy a Mac and somehow disappointed with it then you have a choice of installing Windows on it. But, if you are disappointed with your Windows machine which you probably would be, then you can’t install Mac on it! (Unless you choose to use Linux etc.)
You can use Windows & Mac OSX in different way on a Mac:
1) After you install Windows on a, you can either use M Read more:Benefits
A Google OS 2007-07-19 09:06:33 Google OS stands for Google Operating System.
ATTENTION: this is not a real news, it’s more likely to be a guess on what web service Google is going to acquire for next.
My guess is for www.youos.com.
What is YouOS, and why is Google supposed to be going to buy it?
Let’s explain.
YouOS is an on-line Operating System: it’s free, it’s open source and it’s very easy to use: you don’t need to install it because it’s ready to be used online. You just need an internet browser.
YouOS, despite its development still being in Alpha stage, is powerful: you can create, save and upload documents in the most used formats; you can read feeds; surf the internet and collaborate with other people on the same virtual computer machine. Everything remains safe on the remote web server.
Doesn’t it sounds unbelievable? So it sounded for me, but i changed idea when I tried YouOS: and you should do it, too.
Now, why Google Inc should buy YouOS?
Take a breath, and read on:
Google is trying to cr Read more:Google
Free Windows Security Kit 2007-07-28 22:20:02 Firewalls
The first step to good security, is not allowing anything unwanted to penetrate the confines of the establishment. This basically means to not let anyone or anything pass without permission. While many people recommend ZoneAlarm, I don’t. ZoneAlarm is supposed to be used to stop add-ware from getting in to your computer, well ZoneAlarm felt a whole lot like add-ware to me. It always popped up asking me if I wanted to register for the premium version or whatever, I also had to manually edit the values for allowing some programs to access the internet, such as Pidgin, with those programs it never asked me if I wanted to allow them to access the internet or not, it just wouldn’t them. That got very annoying. So, if you are not running a server, then I think the standard Microsoft Windows
firewall will do just fine.
Add-Ware
Speaking of add-ware, lets not about protection. No, not that kind of protection, I’ll leave that for your mommies and daddies to tell you about. The
Disable the Windows XP Boot Screen 2007-07-28 22:18:48 Do you hate Microsoft, but still are forced to use it just like me???
In that case you can try disabling the Windows
XP boot screen to feel better while using your XP.
Each time Windows XP is started, the Windows logo is displayed. To decrease boot time you can disable this screen. Click “Start” -> “Run…” and type “msconfig“.
After pressing the ‘Enter’ key you are presented the ‘System Configuration Utility’ window. Change to the “Boot.ini” tab. Enable the box labeled “/NOGUIBOOT” and click “Apply“. To close the dialog press the “Close” button.
Next time you start Windows XP, the boot logo is gone. Notice that this tweak will shorten the start time of Windows by only 1 second and be aware that boot time programs like CHKDSK or O&O Defrag will not be able to display their status screens. Therefore decide for yourself if you really want to disable the boot logo. To re-enable the XP boot screen just uncheck the box mentioned above. Read more:Disable
Faster XP shutdown 2007-07-28 22:16:38 If you shut down Windows XP, there can be some services stuck in the memory which Windows is not able to end the normal way. Therefore it has to “kill” those services. This can take some time because in default Windows for 20 seconds tries to normally end the services. To speed up the shutdown process, you can change this time.
Start the registry editor by clicking “Start” -> “Run…” and type “regedit“. Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control” and double-click on “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” located in the right window.
The value of this key is in milliseconds, the default is 20000. Change this value to 2000.
You can enter even lower values, however, some computers have problems running with a value of under 2000.
To shut down Windows even faster go to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop” and make sure the value of the key “HungAppTimeout” is set to 5000. In the same folder double-click on “WaitToKillAppTimeou
HP Labs presents Digital Colour matching technology for women 2007-07-28 11:01:10 The new colour matching
technology has been developed by HP Labs which will help women to find the cosmetic product best suited for their skin type .The customer has to sent her photo to the online HP service which will then decide which colours suits particular type of skin ,the new technology could changed the way people buy skin care products the .Women can get recommedation via text sms on which shade will suit them best after studying the photograph sent to HP online service .
How it works ?
The customer shoots her own photo via cell phone or a digital camera while holding a specially designed colour chart ,the photo recieved is then studied and compared with the database of previously captured images ,colour chart is used to countereffect the different lightning conditions which may be present due to indoor photo shoot etc.The latest technology will study the pixels of the face and compare it with the colour chart to fix the lightning condition and then look into the database for Read more:Colour
, Digital
Jobs says iPhone OSX Not open like Mac 2007-07-28 10:58:51 Jobs has stated in a couple articles this week, one from the New York Times and one from MSNBC, that Apple will be restricting third party applications for OS X on the iPhone
, unlike the open OS X platform for the Mac.Jobs describes the iPhone operating system to be more inline with the iPod, and less like the Mac or mobile computer, stating that the risk of loading custom built applications onto the iPhone could cause the phone to just not work, or even bring down the Cingular network.
“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” meaning that anyone can write applications for it, says Jobs in an interview with MSNBC. “You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”
Based on the presentation at MacWorld this week Jobs portrayed the iPhone as a powerful device, but could a poor programmer writing an application placed on one iPhone really bring down a portion of a cellular
Upgrade your Laptop 2007-07-27 06:49:22 My Toshiba Laptop
is two years old now and it still runs on 512MB RAM. After two years of continuous use I recently wanted to speed it up a bit.
Now as Google is our friend, I searched it for tips on speeding up my computer. Then I got all sorts of different methods of editing the registry, modifying the startup programs from msconfig.exe, defragmenting the disk often etc. etc. etc. But, all this didn’t seem to help much. Finally, I went to the Tips and Tricks section of Cnet.com and checked out some tips on speeding up my computer. According to Cent.com the best way to speed up my computer was obviously adding more RAM to my Laptop.
Now, you might know this but there are always two slots in a typical laptop for where RAM is placed. So, after I decided to add some RAM, the question that came up was ‘How do I know that both of my laptop’s slots are filled up?’ Well to clarify that I researched a bit on the net and found out a website that will tell you if both of
Are you stressed of your work? 2007-07-27 06:20:00
Here are 52 PROVEN STRESS REDUCERS. Hope these stress reducing tips will help you stay calm at your work and relive you from over stressing.
1. Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. The inevitable morning mishaps will be less stressful.2. Prepare for the morning the evening before. Set the breakfast table. Make lunches. Put out the clothes you plan to wear, etc.3. Don’t rely on your memory. Write down appointment times, when to pick up the laundry, when library books are due, etc. (”The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory.”- Old Chinese Proverb)4. Do nothing you have to lie about later.5. Make copies of all keys. Bury a house key in a secret spot in the garden. Carry a duplicate car key in your wallet, apart from your key ring.
6. Practice preventive maintenance. Your car, appliances, home and relationships will be less likely to break down “at the worst possible moment.
How addicted to blogging am I? 2007-07-27 06:16:11 I couldn’t believe that I actually was so addicted to blogging. But, I think the results come out to be pretty true. You should also try this and see how addicted to blogging are you actually.
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Tips on making Firefox better 2007-07-30 03:10:09 Firefox’s popularity and usage is increasing almost exponentially. Once you start using Firefox, you will probably replace Internet Explorer forever. Its fast, secure, easy to use, and clean. But, using some basic tricks to customize Firefox can make it faster, a lot easier to use, and cleaner. So why not try a few of these-
To quickly find a word on a web page type / and the word and it will highlight the word. You can then press Ctrl+G to find the next repeated word on that web page.
If you wish to remove an item from the Drop down menu that you don’t use often,
highlight it without clicking it and press Shift+Delete.
Clear your Download history to make the download manager more
responsive : Tools>>Options>>Privacy.
Type about:cache?device=disk in your address bar to view/save items
that you have in your firefox disk cache.
Type about:cache?device=memory in your address bar to view/save items
that you have in your Firefox memory cache.
Drag any link to Read more:better
, Firefox
, making
Eye of GOD 2007-08-01 22:50:43 This photo is a very rare one, taken by NASA. This kind of event occurs once in 3000 years.
This is a picture NASA took with the hubble telescope.
Called “The Eye of God”.
Too awesome to delete. It is worth sharing.
God loves you and watches over you every day.
Hiding a file inside a JPEG file 2007-08-01 22:37:09 Here is a handy tip that might be useful to you in case you want to hide a secret file of yours inside
a .JPEG file.
You will need to use some basic DOS commands for this process.
Consider you have a secret file documents.zip and you need to keep it safe from others or might be some other reason. Lets assume that the file is in the directory D: . Place any picture file in the same directory where secret file is. Go on to command prompt where the secret file is. Let me assume the name of the picture file is sample.jpg. Then in the command prompt enter the following command.
copy /b sample.jpg+documents.zip success.jpg.
In the execution of above commands, the documents.zip and sample.jpg file will be copied into success.jpg(optional : Delete both the documents.zip and sample.jpg file). In clicking the above success.jpg file, only the picture of sample.jpg will be shown and the file will not be known to the users.
The file can be retrieved by right clickin
Thinner, lighter PSP set for September 2007-08-04 01:19:14 A new PlayStation Portable was widely expected during Sony’s E3 press conference today; the only question was how new it would be. The answer? It’s thinner and lighter
all right, but otherwise pretty much the same. Bummer. Set for release in September
, the new PSP will reportedly be 33 percent lighter and 19 percent slimmer than the original, and it will also boast longer battery life and shorter load times—a development that should come as a relief to PSP gamers who’ve been suffering through lengthy pauses during games. You’ll also get a TV-out port for watching your games on a bigger screen, support for UMD movie discs, and a choice of three colors: the standard “piano black,” “ice silver,” and a white, “Star Wars”-themed variation. Otherwise, the revamped PSP comes with the same 4.3-inch display and more or less the same controls. Not bad, but not exactly the extreme makeover that many were hoping for. Each of the new PS Read more:Thinner
A simple magnet can change a liquids color 2007-08-04 01:14:59
(Nanowerk News) University of California, Riverside nanotechnologists have succeeded in controlling the color of very small particles of iron oxide suspended in water simply by applying an external magnetic field to the solution. The discovery has potential to greatly improve the quality and size of electronic display screens and to enable the manufacture of products such as erasable and rewritable electronic paper and ink that can change color eletromagnetically.
In their experiments, the researchers found that by changing the strength of the magnetic field they were able to change the color of the iron oxide solution – similar to adjusting the color of a television screen image.
Image shows the solution of iron oxide in water changing color under a magnetic field, with increasing strength of the field from left to right. (Image: Yin laboratory, UCR)
When the strength of the magnetic field is changed, it alters the arrangement of the spherical iron oxide particles in solu
Top 10 best Wallpaper Websites 2007-08-07 08:38:26 When you are in search of high quality, excellent looking wallpapers, you probably go to Google and search for the term “download free wallpapers”. Well when you do that, you come across a lots of websites that are hard to download from, and contain a lot of annoying pop-ups and advertisements. Well, I had been facing the same problem until I decided to explore a little bit and find out the top 20 websites for downloading high resolution, free and good looking wallpapers that you would always like to see on your Desktop screen. So now if I get bored of my current wallpaper, I just refer to this list of some of the ‘bestest’ websites to download free Wallpapers from.
This will probably be pretty helpful for you for getting hands on some of the most fantastic wallpapers on the net.
Here it is-
1: Interfacelift
There is a large selection of wallpapers on this website, with a well categorized system. They offer the best quality wallpapers of all.
2:Caedes
This web Read more:Websites
Top-10 Funniest Bush Quotes 2007-08-12 05:53:21 1. “I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.” - Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001
2. “Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” - Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
3. “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” - Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
4. “There’s no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world’s worst weapons.” - South Bend, Indiana, Sept. 5, 2002
5. “There’s an old…saying in Tennessee…I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says Fool me once…(3 second pause) Read more:Quotes
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