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Google AdSense Ads Display Live Prices Like AuctionAds 2008-07-04 04:58:50 Google may have plans to take on advertising programs like AuctionAds
, Chitika or WidgetBucks that have become quite popular alternatives to AdSense ads.That’s evident from an AdWords campaign current up on Google that is also contextual and displays live products prices fetched directly from eBay auctions. Here are some screenshots of these new and dynamic AdSense ads (click to enlarge):To see Read more:Google
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Surprise Yahoo! Messenger Friends Who Pretend to be Offline 2008-07-04 04:56:35 You want to chat with a buddy on Yahoo
! Messenger
but his status on Yahoo! says Off-Line.There are two possibilities here - your friend could be really offline or he may have logged into Yahoo! Messenger in “Invisible Mode” to avoid interruptions.(Yahoo! Messenger has a Stealth settings feature that lets you choose the people who see you as online and offline.)You can however beat that mask e Read more:Surprise
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Stay Connected To Your Computer While on the Move 2008-07-04 04:55:36 Q: All your documents, photos, MP3 music, and other files are on the home computer and you need a simple solution to help you access these files and folders from any other computer.A. Leaf could be the ultimate solution - it’s a small software that you can install on the home computer as well as on other machines from where you want access content stored on the home computer. You can also invite Read more:Connected
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Google Press Releases Caught By Gmail Spam Filters 2008-07-04 04:53:44 Google just sent out two press releases related to the Open Social platform.Though the emails were from press@google.com (an official Google address) and had no mention of either Viagra or those 25 millions dollars hidden in Africa, Gmail
marked both the messages as Spam.Gmail no doubt offers the best spam filtering features among all web email programs but it’s always safe to check the spam fol Read more:Google
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Ask Orkut Friends a Question - New Feature Inspired by LinkedIn Answers 2008-07-04 04:52:40 The first application for Orkut
- Google has added a new feature in Orkut that’s very similar to LinkedIn
Answers - you can post a question in your Orkut profile and ask friends to provide an answer.You can either open the question to your entire Orkut friend network or a select group of friends.Here’s something that will leave you impressed - when you type a question, Google will automatical Read more:Friends
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How To Capture Scenes from a DVD Movie Into Still Images 2008-07-04 04:51:07 You are watching Star Wars on a DVD and wish you could capture some of those movie scenes as still pictures for using as a desktop wallpaper. Or you have a home video recording and want to extract photos from the video for printing.That’s not tough. To capture snapshots of a video playing in Windows Media player, you have the following two options:1. Use the Print Screen key but only after you d Read more:Images
Your BlackBerry Curve Can Record Video via BlackBerry OS 4.3 2008-07-04 04:49:07 The still image camera of your BlackBerryCurve
will soon transform itself into a proper video camera thanks to new BlackBerry 4.3 update that’s due very soon. That means if you have own a BlackBerry 8300 Curve, you’ll be able to capture video clips with your BlackBerry phone in addition to still images.Video recording feature are probably integrated in the latest BlackBerry Curve models like Read more:Record
Camera Shutter Speed and Aperture Explained in Simple English 2008-07-04 04:48:05 If photography related terms like “shutter”, “f-stops” or “aperture” sound confusing, you’ll love this video.This 2 minute film explains the terms in plain English
, and how you can achieve some amazing shots with them.It’s worth taking the time to fiddle about with ShutterSpeed
s and Aperture – if you know what you’re doing you can take some amazingly unique and kooky photos, a Read more:Camera
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A Google Ready Computer System for Less Than $200 2008-07-04 04:46:11 This $200 PC is not an official Google
product but close - it comes pre-installed with desktop icons that link to the websites of Google Docs, Gmail, Blogger, Google Maps, and YouTube.[click the green apple-esque desktop screenshot to enlarge]Sounds a bit surprising but NYT also says that “gOS Linux is specially made to run Google applications like GMail and Google Documents”.And this Google Read more:Computer
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Make a Family Tree with help from Relatives & Family Members 2008-07-04 04:44:36 One Family
is a new place to build a personal family tree with photographs and other details of your family members, friends and relatives.To get started, you are shown a basic family tree chart with nodes representing you and your parents. You then expand the family tree by either adding details of other family members yourself or just send out email invites to relatives so that they can fill th Read more:Members
Both gPhone and iPhone Get Equal Love from Techmeme Crowd 2008-07-04 04:43:04 January 9, 2007 - Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone
at Macworld 2007 (link).November 5, 2007 - Google announced the gPhone software (link).I was comparing the Techmeme conversation length of both these stories and it’s such a coincidence that both announcements have exactly the same length on Techmeme. See screenshot. Or it is that Gabe has a “secret” limit on the maximum number of link Read more:Equal
Video: Replace the Laptop Batteries Without Buying a New One 2008-07-04 04:41:16 Is it time replace the dead laptop battery ?Watch this short video as it explains how to manually replaces the cells inside the laptop computer without having to buy a new replacement Li-Ion battery from the laptop manufacturer.Even if you have no plans to follow their advice, the video is still worth a watch as you get to know how stuff is arranged inside your notebook battery. Read more:Laptop
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Happy Halloween Logos 2008-07-04 04:37:38 October 31, 2007 - Almost every popular website on the Internet is now sporting Jack-o’-lanterns to celebrate Halloween
. I think the YouTube Halloween logo is the most creative of all.Ask.com haven’t changed their main logo but the carved pumpkins can be found all over the homepage. The Google Halloween Logo isn’t up yet so this Google Doodle was picked from the archives. The Halloween logo Read more:Happy
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Mahalo Daily with Vernoica Belmont - Interesting Trailer 2008-07-04 04:35:54 Veronica Belmont
, who joined Mahalo from CNET, has just released a trailer of her upcoming daily video podcast - Mahalo Daily
. It’s both creative and fun as Veronica tries to adopt the styles of Ask A Ninja, Ze Frank, Rocketboom and Diggnation. Read more:Trailer
Find the Latitude Longitude Of Your Home with Google Maps 2008-07-04 01:02:07 Q: How to find the latitude and longitude coordinates of a place when you either have the street address or the zip code or just the name of a city.Following are steps involved:1. Open the Google
Maps website and enter the address details in the search box.2. Zoom In the Google Maps as much as possible until you locate the place for which you need the latitude and longitude.3. Right click that ex Read more:Latitude
The Five Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google 2008-07-04 00:57:53 Google is the world’s favorite web search engine but there are a couple of cool things that you can do only in Yahoo
!. Take a look:1. Compose emails from the Yahoo! search box.Type !mail abc@xyz.com in the Yahoo! search box and it will automatically compose a new email message for you in Yahoo! mail.2. Get Lyrics of any song or your favorite artist.Type madonna lyrics (for lyrics of Madonna song Read more:Google
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FeedBlitz Introduces AdSense for Email Newsletters 2008-07-04 00:54:06 FeedBlitz, a popular RSS to Email
service, today launched an easy-to-use FeedBlitz Ad Network that will allow bloggers to monetize email newsletters dispatched through FeedBlitz service.To participate in the FeedBlitz program, you first have to pick the different categories that fit the theme of your blog. Then you decide the ad format (like leaderboard, skyscraper, rectangle, etc) and the number Read more:Newsletters
Guess Who Makes the World’s Fastest Windows Vista Laptop 2008-07-04 00:52:15 Can you guess which company manufactures the fastest notebook computer that runs WindowsVista
? Your choices are Sony, Lenovo, Acer, Gateway, Dell, HP, Toshiba or none of these.According to PC World
benchmarks, the fastest Windows Vista notebook they they’ve ever tested is the MacBook Pro from Apple.This 17″ Apple notebook is not just the fastest Vista computer, it is also the lightest 17-inc Read more:Laptop
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Whois Data - The Day It Disappears, Plagiarists Will Have a Free Run 2008-07-04 00:51:13 The Whois Records play a very important role in fighting plagiarism. They tell you the contact information of the domain owner and when it’s a private registration, you get the details of the domain registrar.But this “extremely useful” Whois database is under some serious threat as privacy advocates now say that it should be scrapped completely. Their logic is that one shouldn’t have to
Download Yahoo! Messenger 9 for Windows 2008-07-04 00:49:16 Yahoo
! today released a new version of Yahoo! Messenger
9 IM client that features new skins (IM environments), more emoticons and a redesigned look-n-feel.Yahoo! Messenger 9 is a wonderful upgrade for users who regular share web videos and photos with other IM friends.Now when you paste a YouTube video URL in Yahoo! Messenger 9 chat window, your friends can watch the video clip inline without hav Read more:Windows
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Software Giveaway - Compress PowerPoint Presentations with PPTMinimizer 2008-07-04 00:46:44 Google Docs Presentations allows PPT files only upto 10 MB in size while Slideshare imposes a 30 MB limit. What do you when your PPT file(s) exceed that maximum size limit?Tools like PPTminimizer will quickly compresses your large PowerPoint
Presentations into smaller files (without sacrificing quality) so that you easily send them as email attachments or upload to any of those PowerPoint hosting Read more:Software
John Dvorak - Bloggers Hanging on Facebook Not Worth $300 2008-07-04 00:45:03 Microsoft acquired a 1.6% stake in Facebook
last week for $240 million. This in turn allows Microsoft to sell ads on Facebook web pages and share the ad revenue with Facebook. Some basic calculations:Total Value of Facebook = $15 billion (since 1.6% = 240 million)Total Number of Facebook users =~ 50 millionPrice Microsoft paid per Facebook member = 15b/50m = $300.John Dvorak argues that the deal Read more:Hanging
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Make Those Long and Ugly URLs Look Good with DecentURL 2008-07-04 00:43:53 The name DecentURL may sound just like any other URL shortening service but it’s actually the most useful of them all - it makes your web URLs short and meaningful.That’s because DecentUrl automatically fetches the title of the web page and appends it to the short URL. And if you don’t like the default title of the web page, type a custom title yourself. Consider the following cases:1. www.y
Moving to a New Computer ? Plan Ahead and Avoid Problems 2008-07-04 00:40:14 So you’ve finally decided to upgrade and purchase a new computer.You’ll soon get rid of that old computer in favor of a brand new desktop or laptop computer with the fastest processor, lots of RAM and hundreds of gigs of storage.Everyone in the family is excited about the new computer except for mom – she isn’t sure where to keep that old PC as the store room is already crowded and there Read more:Computer
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10 Email Addresses That Will Be Useful When You No Internet Access 2008-07-04 00:33:43 Have you ever come across a situation where you don’t have access to the Internet
but can send or receive email messages? With email and no Internet, how do you read websites and blogs or check the current stock prices, or find what’s the top story on CNN homepage.Well, you can do a lot of interesting things over email without a web connection - you can read any webpages over email, maintain y Read more:Email
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Adding the Word ‘Obama’ In Windows Vista Dictionary Requires 56MB 2008-07-17 06:11:19 Microsoft recently released a patch for WindowsVista
(kb 955020) that updates the English and German language dictionary of Windows Vista
to include these five words:
Obama
, Nazr, Friendster, Klum and Racicot.
That’s all it does - add five new words to the English and German dictionaries in Vista - but you’ll be very surprised to know that this patch still weighs a whooping 56 MB as pointed Read more:Dictionary
SnagIt Screenshot Challenge - Win Free Full Licenses of SnagIt 9 2008-07-17 06:10:30 We got some free licenses of SnagIt
9 for people who love taking screenshots.
SnagIt is a powerful screen capture software that can grab almost anything on the screen including complex stuff like scrolling web pages, desktop icons, long spreadsheets, menus, video frames, text in dialogs and so much more.
To win a free license of SnagIt 9, discover something on your desktop that cannot be Read more:Screenshot
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Set Advanced Settings in Firefox With About:Config Visual Editors 2008-07-17 06:07:08 The about:config page in Firefox
allows you set preferences and tweak certain settings that are otherwise impossible to edit via the regular Firefox Options dialog. For instance, you can alter the default behavior of address bar, set your own domain guessing rules, change user-agent strings, and so much more.
The only problem is that about:config settings are too technical and packed in a geek Read more:Settings
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Go Back & Forward When Editing Lengthy Documents in Microsoft Word 2008-07-17 06:04:26 This tip will come very handy if you are editing a document inside Microsoft
Word that spans more than a couple of pages.
Say you are writing something on Page 9 of a Word document and then scroll down to some place on Page 16. Now if you were to go back to the previous location on Page 9, just press Shift + F5.
Microsoft Word
remembers the last location of your cursor on the document just like Read more:Forward
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