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Make free calls - VOIP




Cheap international call markets is already breaking the Free international call market by reducing long distance calling rates every month. Mediaringtalk joins the party by giving the best calling rate to India ever possible.

MediaRingtalk is a VOIP services by Mediaring, a Singapore based VOIP Provider serving billions of minutes worldwide each year. And it offers free calls to 8 destination. The audio quality is very good.




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Google Video Chat



Google recently launched its video chat service as a part of audio chat, similar to one available in Yahoo chat. This can be used inside the google mail interface with a few mouse clicks.

Google chat can be done by simply installing a browser plugin which works in all popular browser. Once you downloaded and installed Google voice and audio chat plugin you need to restart the browser to enable the plugin.

Now login to your gmail using Google ID. In the top right click 'New! Video chat' option. In the setting menu select verify your settings under video category. Set the required options and click save.

Once you save the option the video chat will be active for your account. to make video chat select the user in the voice tab in left panel of the gmail interface.




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eWedding - Invite your friends with personalized page



There are wedding invitations in the form of elaborate e-mails, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, DVDs and even text messages and Facebook and MySpace pages.That save trees, time, money. Most important thing is it save hours spent hand-addressing envelopes.

Recently I received a e-wedding invitation of my friend. It is really interesting to see an invitation in my inbox. I was amazed by the quality and information provided in the invitation. Everyone believe that the page is designed by a geek with all the cool features you can add with the inbuilt template with a click of a button.

I would recommend e-wedding invites to any bride who is operating on a very limited budget or to anyone looking to have a “green” wedding. And I am sure that I would save my wedding budget by sending e-weeding invitation for my friends and relatives and I hope that the honeymoon would be lucky without breaking the bank, huge saving. And finally I wish my friend a Happy Married Life.




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Rapidshare Search



Rapidshare Search Engine is very good website for searching rapidshare.It shows the name of file along with the size for every search. You have to click on the rapidshare link(http://rapidshare) and then enter confirmation code then click on Download. It is as simple as it seems.


Note : Although site is safe I assume no responsibility for content downloaded. Continue at own risk

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Google doesn't know Wesley Gibson



In the movie Wanted (2008), Wesley Gibson googles himself and Google returns zero result which is not true. Searching oneself is often referred to as Ego Surging.

gooogie.co.uk creates fake Google search result similar to the one above. It is fake page very similar to google.




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Enable Right Click In Orkut Friend Album


Right Click not working in orkut friend album photos. Dont worry Orkut have introduced its Privacy Feature by disabling right click inside yours friend album. This feature is introduced for orkut users to protect them from any illegal activites with there photos specially girls as these days all there problem has been arised uncertainly.

These feature is introduced only in single photo view in which you can view only the photo but not able to save it into yours system , but there are many other ways by which you can save all such pictures into yours computer.

To Re-Enable Click on yrs Friend AlbumPhotos. Go to Tools -> Page Info -> Media and Scroll to get the protected photo image Url or Click SaveAs botton to save the image.

Else with that url of that Picture, simply paste thae url in Adress Bar and Hit Enter from there you can save yours Friends Image In Yours System.


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Next Generation Antivirus


Will your antivirus software catch the latest malware that just came out today? In most cases, no, because it simply does not know how to detect it yet. But ThreatFire's ActiveDefense technology does, and has proven to provide up to 243% more protection when combined with traditional AntiVirus products.

ThreatFire is dramatically different to traditional antivirus software. Normal antivirus products usually need to have first identified and seen a threat before they can provide adequate protection against it. The protection is then provided via a signature or fingerprint update, which must first be written by an antivirus researcher. ThreatFire uses 5 different detectors that act together.

With this technology CloudAV produced a quality in-cloud antivirus system, which includes a lightweight, cross-platform host agent (Win32, Linux, FreeBSD, Sendmail/Postfix milter, Nokia Maemo) and a network service with ten antivirus engines (Avast, AVG, BitDefender, ClamAV, F-Prot, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro) and two behavioral detection engines (Norman Sandbox, CWSandbox).

Researchers evaluated this antivirus software programmes against 7,220 malware samples, including viruses, collected over a year. CloudAV, act in parallel to analyse a single incoming file. Each detector operates in its own virtual machine, so the technical incompatibilities and security issues are resolved.

CloudAV is accessible to any computer or mobile device on the network that runs a simple software agent. Each time a computer or device receives a new document or programme, that item is automatically detected and sent to the antivirus cloud for analysis.

CloudAV also caches analysis results, speeding up the process compared with traditional antivirus software. This could be useful for workplaces, for example, where multiple employees might access the same document.

But this system might be heavy on resources.




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Speed up IE's Web page loading - Vista Tweak


By default, IE allows only two simultaneous download sessions from a single Web server. This affect the speed of your Web browsing. If you could force IE to download more objects at once, Web pages would display more quickly.

A tweak to the Windows Registry does the trick. With this tweak, you can force IE to use more than two simultaneous sessions.

1. Go to Registry Editor by typing regedit at a command line or in the Windows Vista Start Search box.

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings.

3. Choose Edit -> New -> DWORD Value.

4. Create a new DWORD value called MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server, and give it a value of 10.

5. Choose Edit --> New --> DWORD Value, create another DWORD value called MaxConnectionsPerServer, and give it a value of 10 (recommended).

6. Restart IE, the new value will be in effect and your Web browsing should speed up.

Note : If you find difficulties in browsing after tweaking, roll back to the previous status.


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Overcome - Rapidshare IP Ban


Rapidshare has banned all the IP's of BSNL, India. When a user tries to load the rapidshare page, an error is being displayed saying "Massive RapidShare hack attempts detected. IP block 59.90.0.0 - 59.99.255.255 blocked. Please call your internet provider."

There is no idea as to when Rapidshare will unban the IP's. To overcome this issue temporarily you can use some proxy sites to hide your banned IP. There could be tons of reasons why you might want to use proxy but here are some valid reasons :

1. If you don't want the website collecting your IP address / location for example like Google records details of your search including what you search and your IP address.
2. If the website had limits imposed based on IP address for example file downloading sites Rapidshare have bandwidth limits on IP address.
3. If you want to use multiple accounts at the same time if the website is IP based login. Most sophisticated websites are IP based login that means even if you change the browser your login id remains the same.
4. If your IP address is a victim of mass IP ban, many websites ban IP address in block or range.

In this case, you are forced to use a proxy site to solve the problem. Here are some proxy sites which i prefer are :

1. kproxy
2. orkuch
3. vmathpie
4. englishtunnel

Through this proxy sites downloading from rapidshare is possible even from banned IP.

Note : use of proxy site may be illegal in some place. use it on your own risk.

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Great Firewall Of China - Open For Journalists



The Great Firewall of China, or the Golden Shield Project, to give it its full and official title, is a system blocking people within the People’s Republic Of China from accessing websites deigned inappropriate by the Chinese authorities.

The Chinese government has agreed to open the Internet for press during the Olympic Games, apparently after being pressured by the International Olympic Committee(IOC), which in turn was pressured by the International Journalism Community. The IOC announced today that the press would, again, be able to report on the Games as freely as they have in other countries, and declared the issue "solved."

The Beijing 2008 Olympics Games are going to be censorship free, since the Chinese authorities finally agreed to allow journalists attending the Games unfettered Internet access. 253 million Chinese people aren’t so lucky.

It has been in existence in some form or another since 1998, and now stands between the estimated 256 million Chinese Internet users and websites such as the BBC, Wikipedia, and countless others that those of us living in uncensored countries have to live by.

With just a week to go to the start of the Olympics, journalists started arriving in Beijing only to find that this wasn’t the case. Internet connections were ultra slow, and ever when they were working properly, many international websites remained blocked in the Olympic Village press centre.

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Google Movie Search


Another important Google service is Google Movie Search. Want to know, which movie is being showed in which theater in your city. This service covers most of the cities in India. Just enter your city name and the list shows everything.

This search result provides you information like Movie name, Theater name, Address and Show time.

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Scour - Get Paid


Scour.com is a new search engine. The search result is the consolidate results of google, yahoo, msn. they are providing voting and commending option along with this search. If you are a member of scour.com you will get points for each search, vote and comment. They are paying according to your points.

Not only can you earn from your direct searches, comments, and votes, but you can leverage the power of friends and people you introduce the program to - 25% of the points they make.

Your referral link is in the form of: http://scour.com/invite/username

At this point, there are no banners, and widgets, but will be coming soon. Within your "My Profile" page, you can invite people, using the preferred Yahoo, Live Hotmail, Gmail, or AOL address.


Health Problem caused by Computer

One more occupational hazard! I may be late but I want to say it nevertheless. That this is computer age. With countless conveniences, the computer also brings some health issues. Let us discuss health problems caused by computers with corrective measures.

We sit in front of the computer looking into the screen without taking a break and blinking eyelid. This hurts many parts of our body. Before the problems go out of hand and we may have to say goodbye to using this machine, let us deal with it.

Excessive internet and computer usage should be labeled as mental disease, as it has following disorder :

1) Excessive use, often associated with a loss of sense of time or a neglect of basic drives.
2) Withdrawal, including feelings of anger, tension, and depression when the computer is inaccessible.
3) Tolerance, including the need for better computer equipment, more software, or more hours of use, and
4) Negative repercussions, including arguments, lying, poor achievement, social isolation, and fatigue.

Problem Area: Lower back Pain
Causes: Wrong type of chair or desk, Right chair and desk but wrong posture, Sitting on the edge of the chair, sitting cross legged.
Corrective Measures: Always go for a chair that has a mechanism for lowering and raising the height of the backrest. Never buy a computer chair that has arms rest.

Problem Area: Neck Pain
Causes: While typing avoid moving the neck up and down, left and right too much it causes neck pain. Use of wrong type of glasses (like bifocals), Height of screen. It may sound strange to some of you but some people sit on the computer with mouthpiece of phone hanging around their neck. This casual attitude is not cool at all!
Corrective Measures: Take opticians advice and go for special glasses that you can use while in front of the computer. Screen’s height should be adjusted parallel to eyesight – not too high and not too low.

Problem Area: Pain In Wrists & Fingers
Causes: Height of the chair not adjusted properly. If you have bought the right chair you might a well make use of it! Striking the keys too hard. Mouse is not close to the body.
Corrective Measures: Make sure fingers and keys or mouse are at a perfect horizontal. Clicking finger is also horizontal for that perfect wrist support. Mouse should be placed right in front of the shoulder, close to our body.

Problem Area: Strain In the Eyes
Causes: Glare from monitor, lighting arrangement of the room are some causes that put strain on the eyes.
Corrective Measures: The correct thing to do is to place the computer table between lights and not directly under them. The best alternative is to switch off the overhead light. Ask your optician to put slight tint coat on your glasses. Adjust monitor’s contrast and brightness. Make sure the distance is right. Opt for a 17inch SVGA or XGA screen.

Some Important Tips & Reminders: Wrong chair or a chair not adjusted properly can result into knee, and shoulder pain also. Room temperature also plays an important part. Pain in the muscles may result into spasm if temperature of the room you are working in is very low. To avoid dehydration work in a room with fewer computers and people and avoid endless rounds of tea and coffee. Instead take water. Keep everything you need like phone, CDs etc at a distance that you can reach without overstretching yourself each time.

There are other risks as you sit in front of that computer but it would be to much to write about in this article, so if you would like to learn more about other risks. Please refer following issues in web.

* Eye strain
* RSI (Repetitive Stress Syndrome)
* Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
* Constant Head Aches
* Dizziness
* Breathing Problems
* Difficulty in Concentrating

Almost I have all this problems due to the serious addiction to Computer and Internet. So keep the above facts in mind and have a long and fruitful working relationship with computer.



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Access Blocked Websites - In Work Place



You can access blocked or restricted websites by various ways. Some of them are :

1. Use RSS Readers - Open the home page of Bloglines or Google Reader and subscribe to the blogger blog. Even some browser supports feeds.

2. Via Email Services Go to FeedBurner, type the blog address and you will automatically receive the entire posts in your email as soon as the blogger posts something.

3. Via Google Translate or Yahoo Babelfish - Open Google Translate, type the address of the blogspot blog you want to read and select the language of your choice in drop-down language box. The older English-English Google proxy server trick isn't working anymore.

4. Via Google Transcoder - which allows you to read websites on mobile phones using their Transcoder service. You may use the same service to read website on the desktop served via Google.

5. Anonymous Surfing - Browse the internet via free proxy server. A proxy server (or proxies) is a normal computer that hides the identity of computers on its network. Visit any proxy server with your Web browser and enter a URL or the address of the blocked website.



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LeechBlock for Wilfers


The Internet is without a doubt, a wonderful place to be. It contains many useful elements that can be used to improve our life. However, the Internet has a dark side too - sometimes we get too addicted with certain websites e.g. social networking sites, online forums, etc. and we can’t stop accessing them every once in a while.

That's the never ending world of internet. Now a report says that two out of three Internet users in UK lose significant portions of their time to irrelevant web browsing.

They have coined a new term - "wilfing" short for "What Was I Looking For?" and the workers who spend hours in aimless browsing are called Wilfers. And Men are found to be bigger wilfers than woman. It may take lot of will power to quit this habit of wilfing. According to BBC, hardcore Wilfers are offered drug therapy, acupuncture and mild electric shock treatment in China.

To curb the addiction to websites like these, self control is definitely not enough (at least for me!). If you are looking for an online productivity tool that can ease this problem, try LeechBlock. LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool that comes in the form of a Mozilla Firefox extension. If web procrastination is your sickness, LeechBlock can be the cure. It works by blocking websites at a time that you have specified previously.

To start, you need to install LeechBlock, restart your browser and access its option from the Tools menu. Next, you need to enter a list of websites that you want to block and set a few, time based rules. Whenever any of the rules are matched, LeechBlock will block you from accessing a website.


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Image to ASCII - Conversion


'Asciiconvert' is a wonderful utility which help you to make ASCII character of any image. You can fully make an image as a text. Even the conversion is also fast. You can use any format [They have not mentioned format limitation, but I tried with jpeg, gif and png]. You may use it to write testimonials for your friends on social networks. Just look at the examples, you wonder.

This service can be accessed at asciiconvert site.



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RapidShare - Happy Hour


Rapidshare is a great file sharing where you can download and upload. Rapidshare happy hour time where free users dont have to input the “cats” CAPTCHAs and enjoy the same like as premium users. Here are some tool you can download for checking your rapidshare happy hour time

1. If you are windows vista user, here is a gadget for the Vista sidebar, which always displays whether currently Happy Hour or not. check this vista gadget here.

2. Rapidshare happy hour tool: Its easy, just put your rapidshare link in the link folder and if the symbol is green, you start downloading. Check here.

3. Happy Cat Tool: It will run in your taskbar tray and is even capable of playing an audio whenever it detects happy hours. Check here.

4. Mozilla Firefox add-on Happy Checker useful which notifies the user when the Rapidshare Happy Hour is active which allow downloading without filling out the captchas and no waiting time if the servers can handle the download.



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Orkut Added Photo Tagging Feature


You may have recently heard or read the term “Photo tagging” in the orkut profiles. Photo Tagging is Used to create tags in photos. Tags are really nothing more than keywords which is used to describe yours photos in orkut.

This feature helps you in Tagging Photos In Group in orkut. Tagging any picture will add that picture directly into yours profile, which is visible to everyone. A icon is already created in yours profiles if you tag any picture. Icon name can be set as Photos of her” “Photos of me” “Photos of him”.

If you check that Option in Orkut all of yours orkut friends can Tag yours photos in orkut as well as see yours tag picture in orkut. If You disable that no One from yours Friend list Tagged yours photos ,Remember Tag Feature works with many condition,you can tab that person which is not in yours friend list.

Follow below Guidelines to Learn “Photo Tagging” In Orkut

* Go to any photo album in which you want to tag yours friend photos Tagging is generally done To insert name of yours friends in group or in single Picture.
* Open that Photo Individually to Add Tag in that picture.
* On the right side Of that photo you will get the Link ” add tag ” Click that Tab and move to picture to add tag into that picture.

Click here for further guidelines.



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RedBus - Book Your Tickets Online


RedBus, the Bangalore based startup founded by three software professionals from BITS Pilani, provides online ticket booking for long distance Buses across India. You can book your bus tickets online, over the phone or over the mobile.

RedBus has partnered with over 250 bus operators and operating over 3600 routes across India. You can book a ticket at over 30,000+ redBus outlets also. You can choose your seat online and book return bus tickets also. RedBus also offers home delivery in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune.

When booking online, you can pay using debit cards, credit cards, Internet enabled online bank accounts or cash on delivery. RedBus does not charge you more for their service. You just need to pay exactly the same price as you would pay to your travel agent.

The tickets booked through RedBus can be canceled online. When a ticket is canceled, your money will be refunded in the form of a Cash Coupon which can be used for an equivalent Indian currency during the next transaction, within 6 months of cancellation. However, if you wish to cash it through the customer care centres.

It is mandatory to take a printout of the ticket or the email and produce it at the time of boarding. May be redBus can look at options for using the SMS messages instead of printing tickets. Sign up with some SMS providers and deliver the tickets to the mobile phone. With the ticket details from the a particular number corresponding to the redBus on the cell phone and with a photo identity card, the traveler could be admitted to the bus. Or may be some better ideas could be implemented and deliver the SMS ticket!

Happy Journey !


Cute FTP


CuteFTP Home transfers files between your PC and remote computers. Whether you're publishing a Web page; downloading the latest digital images, music, and software; or transferring large files between your home and office, CuteFTP Home will get the job done quickly and easily, even if you're a beginner.

Features include an easy-to-use interface, a connection wizard, automatic-transfer-resume functionality, a built-in HTML editor, a transfer queue, directory comparison, custom commands, firewall and proxy options, path bookmarks, and filtered listings.

Click here to download.



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