tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230162452011-04-22T06:07:10.664+05:30News, sites, tips & tricks, amazing or laughable things, etc..etc..whatever I see on the net.............Just want to make a noteAdminnoreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23016245.post-81731649216306135652007-03-10T20:38:00.000+05:302008-12-09T05:04:08.692+05:30

WaveNine is moved to http://naveen.info. As I got my name in an auction, I decided to install Wordpress and run my own blog. It's easy to remember for my friends and also to the visitors of this blog. See me there.Bookmark WaveNine's New Home -- Naveen.Info.

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eBlogs is a free blogging service, which allows you host your blog for free and you can also get a chance to read what others saying or sharing on their blogs. It has an easy to use editor and also a User Guide to help you format the text and embed the images in your posts.Choose a preferred user name and your blog look like http://www.eblogs.in/username. I think it is easy to remember and also

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Today, Google Apps came out of beta with a premium edition. Free edition will also continue to exist. As it was stating, Google has come up with a premium edition where users will get 10 GB email accounts, extensible APIs, partner services, 99.9% uptime guarantee, and 24/7 assistance, including phone support. Charge is $50 per account per year. This time, it has also included Docs &

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Now, anybody can signup for Gmail account without invitation. No more waiting...click here to get your free Gmail account. It comes with 2.8 GB (as on today and counting) mail space, in-built chat, mobile access, RSS feeds, free POP access, and much more. Click here to see all the features of Gmail.

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Want to change the theme of your GTalk? Bryan created some nice themes for GTalk. I like the yellow theme and added some screenshots to this post. Get the theme file, which is an edited googletalk.exe file, and replace the original exe in the folder C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk with it. When you restart it, you will find the theme changed. He also explained in his post how to create

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Though I got the Orkut invitation from a US friend when it was in testing mode, I did not use it. Now, it seems that Indian users are increasing on Orkut and the word 'scrap' is heard everywhere. 'Scrapping' is becoming more popular than chatting. I think Google Talk is also gaining some popularity because of Orkut.I also started orkuting and adding friends. I also found the community of my

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Just come across a tiny browser - Browzar, which promises complete privacy by not storing browsing history, stored files, or cookies. There is no installation needed. It is only 273K and downloads in seconds. Just download the exe file and run it directly. You can copy this tiny exe file onto your USB stick and run. It is based on Internet Explorer browser engine. Much smaller than the

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It is sad to hear that Google is closing Answers, which is similar to Yahoo Answers, but not a free service. Actually, Yahoo copied the idea of Google, but implemented in such a way that it attracted a lot of people than Google Answers. The main thing is it is open to all and anyone can answer the questions posted on Yahoo Answers unlike Google where answers will be given by Google screened

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One portable software missing on http://portableapps.com/’s list was CD/DVD burning software. All the applications available there are freewares or open source software. So, I searched on Google and find this portable CD/DVD burning software – DeepBurner, a portable application that can run from your USB drive. It's a freeware too.Read the features HERE and get it HERE.

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When there is any problem with my net connection, I have to go to net café to download the files, which takes only 15 mins and costs Rs. 6/-, but burning them to CD costs Rs. 10/-. This is the situation if you browse at IWay and if you are surfing at local net cafes, it costs Rs. 10/- per hour only. If you have a USB drive, you can just insert it and write the data to your USB stick free of

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Using userbars in signature line at forums is a fashion now. With AmitySource Userbar Generator, you too can create very easily. It is a tiny, less than 1 MB, freeware. There is an option to input image to create bars with image embedded. Below are the images I have created for my use in forums.Download it here: http://www.amitysource.com/downloads.php

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Today afternoon, my friend called me stating that he lost his motherboard drivers CD and can I help him in getting them from internet. Though I didn’t get them at that time, after three to four hours, I am able to find this nice site with all drivers listed at one place. DriversPlanet, you can get the drivers for motherboards, sounds cards, printers, CD, DVD, notebooks and much more. Take a

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Just have gone thought the site, Bear Bottoms. It has a great list of top Freeware and Open Source software. You can find lot of software divided into categories to easily find them such as Internet, Web Development, E-mail, File Management and Hard Drive, Office, Graphics, Multimedia, etc. Really nice collection. I appreciate Site Admin for wonderful info compilation.Take look at the Bear

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JotSpot is now a part of Google as it has been acquired by Google. In a few weeks’ time, Google acquired two companies, YouTube and JotSpot. JotSpot offers a wiki collaboration suite with interesting plug and play applications that run from wiki framework. Email Lists, Blog, Forum, File Cabinet, and Photo Gallery are my favorite ones among the list.I have signed up with JotSpot a year ago to

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PCNames.com is a free domain name search engine with an Ajax touch. You can search the domains as you type for the TLDs – COM, NET, ORG, INFO, BIZ, and US.You would have seen Google Suggest and PCNames looks the same way. Besides this, it has tools like Word Search where you can search the domains containing a specific word, Bulk Lookup<!--a> to checkup the domains by pasting a list into the

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I have been watching different forums and sites about the articles on how to splint and join the large files and everyone is using and recommending HJSplit. Anybody knows that there is a better and tiny utility available named “FileSplitter”. It is written by two Indian students and I am using it since year 2002 and I like it very much. HJSplit needs to be on the enduser’s system to join the

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Multi protocol instant messaging software allows users to connect to different IM networks through a single software, which eliminates the use of installing different IM clients for different networks such as Yahoo,MSN, AOL, ICQ, GTalk, and Jabber and also the space required to install different softwares.GaimOperating System: Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and WindowsSupported IM networks: AIM and ICQ (

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Though it is well known to tech world, still lot of people don’t know about it, so I wanted to come up with this article.As earlier said in one of my articles, lot of organizations are still using the e-mail of Yahoo, Hotmail, Rediffmail, and Gmail though they can opt for their own e-mail like info@TheOrganization.Com. Recently, I have come across a University website where departments using the

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If you have a lot of web-based email accounts, checking all of them in certain time range will be tedious. In that situation, email notification softwares will work fine and eliminates the need to check for new mails in every account. Here, I review two of them, which are free.ePrompterePrompter is a tiny program that lets you check the emails from 16 email accounts simultaneously. It also

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I have come across lot of discussion forums and Yahoo! Answers asking how to download the Yahoo! mails into their favorite email client and there were answers saying that it is a paid service from Yahoo! called Yahoo! Mail Plus and subscribe to that service. Yahoo! Mail Plus is a paid service and costs $19.99/year when I am writing this article.There are lot of companies, institutions,

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Google merged the Writely and spreadsheets into a new product “Google Docs & Spreadsheets”. I was looking for this as my online documents were in Writely and spreadsheets in Google spreadsheets and had to open different sites to manage them. Now, it’s become easy and just typing http://docs.google.com, an easy-to-remember and short URL, I can browse both spreadsheets and documents in a single

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To send sms freely, you have know the operator and the area of the service. Then, open your webmail like Gmail, Yahoo, or Rediff and send email to the MobileNo@OperatorWebsite.com and the mobile user receives it as a normal SMS, but "from" will show your email address rather than mobile number. I use Aritel AP and the messages are delivered instantly like the normal SMS. If you have to send

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I have come across an interesting article while browsing through a Linux forum explaining newbie Linux user’s perspective while changing from Windows to Linux or trying Linux after using Windows for years. It is a must-read article for Linux newbies and really, I have learned a lot from this.I really liked the examples of Firefox, cars and motorbikes, customer-supplier relationship, and Lego

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I have found some humorous quotations on Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University website. Read some of them and you can find complete list on VirginiaTech HERE."Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM,

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I have been subscribed to more than five groups and all these groups are hosted on Yahoo! Groups. Easy to use interface and lot of features made it more preferable. Three to four years ago, I have created a group on Google mainly to use for book marking of sites and content that I want to make a note (setting it as restricted and invitation only). There were no more options than sending a

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I receive mails from friends and from Yahoo and Google groups forwarding chain emails containing:God’s photo and says: “Only few people have actually seen this photograph before. Send this to at least 14 people within 5 minutes of receiving this mail to have a good time for the rest of your life...Believe me this is true. I tried it and got instant results.” --- even I get some sayings of God in

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I have requested a free Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Linux Distribution) CD on August 19, 2006 on their official site and received it on September 12, 2006. I was wondering whether they send it or not. I am using a 64 kbps connection with download restrictions and downloading of a CD takes hours.Fortunately, I have received that CD and it was shipped from Netherlands. I am very much interested in Open

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Search giant, Google will now warn the users about the sites that host spyware or malicious code. Warnings to be shown before landing of the site, which is reported by StopBadware.Org, as harmful and suggests to try a different site. User can go for another site or continue to visit the site that is potentially harmful. This is an initiative of StopBadware.Org and it provides the data of bad

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I see lot of posts in blogs where images used in blog posts appear with their image hosting service ad stating that "Bandwidth exceeded, use thumbnails" and sometimes they show just the image hosting service site name. Some sites like ImageVenue put up a link to their site with lots of ads. There is a way to overcome this problem.Use of free webspace services. Upload your images into them and

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Playfuls.com, a science and technology portal’s article says that United States accounts for 23.2 percent of world’s spam in second quarter of year 2006. The article also says that spamming is a crime or as an actionable tart via CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 in United States. I think that is why I find many people hiring freelancers from other countries to send large automated mails. I was in dilemma

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“Pageflakes” is your personalized online startup page, which you can accesses from anywhere. Get a free account, login, design your online startup page, save it, and recall at anytime anywhere. It allows users to access e-mail from Gmail or any POP mail acount, read news feeds, do web search from Google, Yahoo, MSN, or Ask; and variety of services like del.icio.us, Flickr, online file storage,

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Dentyne Frost Bites Gum AdHonda AdCriss Angel - Pulls a lady in two halves AliveHot HaircutHope you will enjoy these...Do you think Criss Angel's performance was real? Post in "Comments" section.

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Goowy.com is a web-based desktop like application offering free e-mail, free online storage, online calendar, games, and integrated IM client to receive IM from AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, ICQ, and GTalk developed in AJAX and Flash.“Goowy media helps you simplify your online digital lifestyle by delivering a virtual desktop that helps you manage your personal communications (instant messaging, email,

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Box.net is a free online storage solution offering 1 GB of free storage. You can register with Box.net with a valid email address and needs only two fields email and password, hassle-free easy way to get in. It’s neat and clean web design will make you really happy and user friendly and moreover…there will be no ads.As the Box.net blog says that “Online storage will soon become a Big industry.

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Nowadays, every free e-mail provider is trying to redesign their site to offer the functionality look like a desktop e-mail application like Outlook. After Live.com and Yahoo Mail, Rediff.com has followed the same way and is now offering the same functionality.What’s new in Yahoo Mail Beta:• Drag and drop messages into folders for easy organizing.• Search for messages containing any word or

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Just have gone through a blog, which tells about how to get rid of the ad that is located at the bottom of the Yahoo Messenger window. I have tried it and worked fine for Yahoo Messenger Beta 8, though the article describes the trick for Yahoo Messenger 7.5. No software or patch to install. It’s just a registry hack and any one can do it in 10 seconds.Click “Start” and then click “Run,” type “

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From July 11, 2006, Microsoft is going to stop the support of Windows 98, Windows SE, and Windows ME. Users of these versions will no longer get software updates and fixes. It is estimated that 70 million users will be left without security updates and leaving them open to hacker attacks. A more comprehensive article can be found HERE.

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An article on ComputerWorld says that Microsoft has no plans to do that, but they are making it harder to pirate the Windows Vista version. WGA product manager said that it will not turn off the system if it fails to validate the license, but you will not be able to download the full range updates and other software. It also said that who were affected by the WGA notification being marked as

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Yesterday, Adobe entered into a multi-year agreement with Google to offer Google Toolbar with various Adobe’s products. Presently, Google Toolbar is offered with Macromedia Shockwave Player and will be added into various products in the future. Press release can be found on the Adobe’s site HERE.Yesterday itself I have downloaded Shockwave Player into my Firefox browser, but it has offered "

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According to the press release on Opera’s webiste…Opera 9, its newest browser for PCs, has been launched in 25 languages for Windows, Mac, Linux, and other platforms yesterday. It includes the new features like built-in BitTorrent software– popular file distribution technology, “widgets” – tiny useful web programs that you can run right on the desktop, add your favorite search engine, site

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Creative has launched a new mp3 player today named as Zen V Plus – an mp3, photo, and video player with built-in FM radio. According to it’s press release today on their web site, the ZEN V Plus includes all of the following features:“• The smooth contours and tiny size of the ZEN V Plus enable it to fit naturally in your fingertips or to tuck away easily in a small pocket or purse. Available

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Sometimes, I feel bored with browsing the same thing for everyday. Do you? Just browse the following sites and let me know if you feel the same still.Google EarthGoogle Earth is a powerful software, which combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.Download Google Earth and try to point out your home, school,

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University of Abertay, Dundee is going to launch Britain's first degree course in computer hacking where the students can learn government-accredited "ethical hacker" course. As per the Times Online, students will learn how to crack the most sophisticated security systems with the chief aim of advising organizations on how to protect their networks.The course will begin in September. During

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Today, Google announced on their official weblog that they are launching a new service of online photo albums, which is free, called Picasa Web Albums. Picasa, Google's free desktop photo management software, now comes embedded with the feature to publish the albums online on PicasaWeb. Once the photos are published, any one can see the photos organized in albums and can see the thumbnails. On

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