Firefox tweaks

Have you ever lost your web page by clicking by fault on the close button of individual tab????Here is something which can help you revert to Firefox 1.5 like menu with a close button on the right hand side of the browser after the tabs.Follow the steps for it.

Type about:config in your adress bar and go to browser.tabs.closeButtons
You will find its value to be set on 1 .Modify it to 2 not show close button of tabs at all and 3 to show a close button at the end of tab button strip

You don't want your bandwidth and CPU cycles to be wasted by Firefox downloading the links which it thinks you might use them like the top pages on Google search???? Follow the following steps for it

Type about:config in your adress bar and go to network.prefetch-next
Change the value to false and you are done

You thing Firefox is eating up the memory of your computer???Lots of times I find Firefox using almost 70000k of RAM which means a lot of resources being eaten up by a single process.Here is the tweak for you.

Type about:config in your adress bar and go to browser.cache.memory.capacity
set its value as per your PC memory i.e For 512Mb and 1Gb RAM,start with 15000. For RAM sizes between 128MB and 512M, try 5000.

I hope these tweaks help you to some extent
Fore more knowledge on Firefox,check out Total Guide to Firefox
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Restoring even when the Firefox is closed normally

For a normal person :

Go to Tools --> options --> main --> select "Show my windows and tabs from last time" from the drop down menu of When Firefox starts.

Semi technical way :

Type about:config in your address bar and search for browser.startup.page -- right click on it ,go to modify and set the value to 2 If you want to restore it.


Browser.startup.page values and their functions :

0

Start with a blank page (about:blank)

1

Start with the webpage defined as home page. (Default)

2

Load the last visited page.

Resume the previous browser session (Firefox only, implemented after Firefox 2 beta 1)

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Tutorial to speed up you Firefox

Firefox has got good tweaking for increasing the speed of your internet especially on broadband.Follow the rules which I'm mentioning below and it will increase the speed of your internet

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30.

This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.
If you have any more tweaks of Firefox which I had not mentioned in my Firefox tweaks,tips & tricks

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Firefox Keyboard shortcuts

Fed up surfing on the net with one hand on the mouse and the another on keyboard????Do you want to surf like a geek???If it's so you need to use keyboard shortcuts.All you have to do is just to hold down your ctrl or control key on the keyboard and the type the letters given below to perform the required actions [ E.g T means ctrl +T ].

T	Opens a new tab and takes the focus to the new tab
O	Open Local File. This is one of the biggest changes from IE where both Ctrl-O and Ctrl-L opened a dialogue box for a URL.
L	Changes focus to the Address bar
Tab	Scrolls through the tabs from current window towards the right. Loops back to the first tab when rightmost tab is reached
1..0	The numbers 1 to 0 takes the focus to Tab 1 to 10
N	Opens a new window like IE
W	a tab or if there are no tabs, close the window
B	Open bookmark sidepanel
D	Bookmark current page
H	Brings up the history dialogue box on the right. Useful if you closed a page accidentally and forgot the URL. Or to make sure your kids are not looking at pr0n
U	Show page source
Y	Open downloads window
K	Focus goes to search bar

Some of the more common shortcuts just for your reference

R	Refresh current page
F	Find in page
G	Find Again (used in conjunction with Ctrl F)
J	Page Info (same as properties in IE)
-	Decrease font size
+	Increase font size
S	Save current page to disk
P	Print current page
A	Select All

If you have any much useful shortcuts,dont forget to post them
Dont forget to visit our Firefox tweaks and tricks -Total guide to Firefox

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Firefox week

On request of readers and other users,Im starting Firefox edition from now.The next consecutive posts will be on the Firefox
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Google blog list

Official Google blogs :

Adwords API
Google Blog
Google blog korea
Google reader blog
Google code
Inside Adsense
Inside Adwords
Inside Google siteMaps
Google desktop
Google Video
Google Maps API
Blogger Buzzz

If you know anymore blogs of Google dont forget to post them as comments

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How to maintain your LCD screen

Instructions for cleaning LCD screens:-
Your LCD television and monitor or laptop is designed with liquid crystal technology. These screens are very sensitive to the touch and can be easily damaged. Also, because the screens are not made of glass, ingredients typical to glass treatment agents, such as Ammonia, should not be used on your laptop or flat screen monitor.Dust can quickly accumulate on the display of your TV, computer monitor, or laptop screen. That will strain reading ease and clarity. Clean your screen whenever it's necessary, but do it correctly to avoid scratches or degeneration of screen quality.These displays are not constructed to be touched. It is very important for you to exercise care in the handling of your liquid crystal display, because it is a liquid crystal display rather than a glass display. The tiny dots that make up the images on the screen are each a separate transistor/crystal. Pressure can "crack" pixels easily, and even the "rough" surface of paper towels may scratch the display surface. When the pixels are damaged, black spots fill those areas of your monitor.

Pressing and poking, whether with a dull object such as your finger, or a sharp object, such as a pen or knife, typically damages far more than one individual pixel. Imagine not being able to read lines of text on your screen, or loose image visibility in a section of your television! Extensive damage will obliterate entire areas of imaging. Therefore, keep your fingers and other objects away from the display. If you need to point out text or image details to others, "point" them out electronically by using the mouse pointer. Alternately, add a computer filter over the surface which will help prevent accidental contact, or you can maintain a distance between any "pointer" and the display's surface.

When dust, pet hair, or other dirt builds up on the display, it is important to clean the surface. Prior to treating your unit, unplug it. Then, use a soft cloth such as soft, untreated eyeglass cloths or micro fiber cleaning cloths, rather than tissues. Also, use the correct solution. Be aware that you should not use any product containing ammonia or ethanol, as these components will degrade LCD screens. Make certain the commercial computer monitor cleanser you purchase specifically states that it is for use as a screen cleaner. Instead of buying a commercial cleaner, some people make their own solution using 50% isopropyl alcohol and 50% distilled water (tap water may leave mineral spots).
Spray the cloth, not the monitor. When cleaning LCDs, laptops, computers or televisions, make sure they are unplugged. Do not place or spray the liquid directly onto your notebook or TV. Instead, dampen the special cloth slightly with the cleanser and then gently wipe your screen in a consistent motion, such as counter clockwise, rather than haphazard motions. Use the cleaner sparingly to avoid the leakage of excess fluid into the keypad.

All these suggestions apply equally to laptop displays as well as your other LCD monitors.

"Read your manufacturer's cleaning suggestions. Check your owner's manual for instructions from the manufacturer regarding their suggested methods."

Using a protective computer filter minimizes opportunity for dirt or damage to your LCD. Placing a glare filter over your computer monitor or attaching a protective cover over your laptop display provides added protection against damage or the build-up of dirt. Check our Computer filter and Glare filters by clicking on the image below for information about the various glare, privacy, and protective filters available.

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How to find Number of online visitors

Want to find the number of visitors on your site at any point of time????? like I having the count at the end of the page???

" Now: 1 visitor(s) online
On 26 February 2007 at around 21:32 we had 1 visitor(s)
WhoisPresent..? So... you are..? "

You have to do nothing except registering yourself on whoispresent

About who is present :

What does WhoisPresent do?

It counts the visitors on your site and gives them the opportunity to enter their names, their homepage and a quote. And it keeps track of the maximum number of visitors you ever had on the same time. That's basically it! No more, no less.

What does WhoisPresent NOT do?

It does not keep any statistics for a longer period then 10 minutes. Except for your maximum number of visitors. We don't share anything with anyone. Promissed!
Ow... and it does not guarantee anything. It's stil in beta, so we hope it stays online. If not, you'll be one of the firsts to know

Just go to Who is present - register yourself- go to edit your who is present - save your settings - get the code and paste it on your page

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Gmail theater

Observe the homepage of Gmail
and you will notice a new change on the bottom side of it.A new addition is there as follows

..and videos of our engineers (New!)
See the Gmail features you love in a whole new way. Watch the videos.

Looks like Google is trying to make its users know more about the benefits of using Gmail.The description of the videos they uploaded is as follows
Provided By:
google
Gmail Theater: Why Use Gmail?
Four benefits of a Gmail account...as told by puppets.


They showed four benefits using the puppets.The video is the one embedded below:

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Railway Budget '07 rocks

Lalu prasad Yadav - the minister who has been through so many controversaries than anyother is always in the news ever since he became the railway minister of India.His way started with maintaining modest prices for passengers,then advertising on coaches,getting railways to profit after a long time and now reducing the prices for first time in Indian railways.This strategies made him get to IIMA and then to Horward.
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad in his pro-poor Railway Budget for 2007-08 presented in the Lok Sabha on Monday announced major relief for passengers by cutting fares across the board.The minister cut passenger fares cut by 4 per cent for sleeper class rail travel.Lalu Prasad also kept the freight rates unchanged.AC Ist class fares reduced by 6 per cent in lean season and by 3 per cent in peak season.Re 1 cut in daily non-suburban train fares.For AC two-tier, the busy season reduction is 2 per cent and lean season 4 per cent.He also lowered fares for all classes of high capacity new design reserved coaches which would be 4 per cent for AC three-tier and AC chair car in busy season and 8 per cent in lean season.In sleeper class, the fare-reduction would be 4 per cent in all seasons. The railway minister announced that discounts for the busy season shall be applicable in popular trains throughout the year.Superfast charge on second class tickets has been reduced by 20 per cent from Rs 10 to Rs 8, he said.Mr.Prasad announced introduction of tourist ticket in Mumbai suburban services with facility for unlimited travel.He brought down charges for e-tickets booked on the Internet.The railway minister also cus petrol diesel freight rates by 5 per cent.
Fed up with getting your ticket reserved by standing for a longtime in Railway Reservation centres???? Lalu sir has again got something for you.Lalu Prasad on Monday said that rail tickets will soon be sold at petrol pumps, ATM centres, et cetera to make life easier for passengers.Ticket bookings and hotel bookings can be done through railway call centres which will soon be set up, the railway minister said.He also said that 6,000 automatic ticket vending machines to be set up in next two years.
Note : New telephone number for railway inquiry to be 139 across India.

For more detailed full coverage of railway Budget'07 check this Highlights of railway budget'07

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Precautions for internet traders to prevent fraudulent credit card customers

Its not always the customer the one who faces problems due to these fraud people.Internet merchants also have same problems as the card users do making them suffer heavy losses.Merchants who offer a product or service online have to take the risk of losing the cost of the product sold online, plus the added cost of charge back fees, and they even face the possibility of having their merchant account terminated by the financial institutions serving them. While this cost can ultimately be passed on to the consumer, the development of this environment hurts business as a whole, and particularly hurts the small business owner.So here by I'm giving you some measures which might come handy in preventing the fraud customers.

Tracing the location of IP adress :
Ip adress which is unique for all the users can be used to find the location of a particular customer in real time as soon as the order is placed thus by alerting you when order comes from location where the probability of fraud is high.As a result, Geolocation technology delivers data that helps merchants determine which transactions to review and which to allow. This creates a beneficial balance between the risk of fraud losses and that of blocking legitimate customers. Legitimate customers will actually welcome legitimate authentication measures, which will protect them from credit card fraud also and keep the costs of doing business on the Internet down, especially if the customer is properly informed and advised by the merchant of these protection measures.

IP address comparison :
Compare the adress from where the bill is going to be paid with the place where it is going to get delivered as there is no chance that fraud person can recieve the delivery at the bill paying adress.Although this situation could be legitimate, but it's probably worth a phone call to the customer's phone number or other measures to confirm the order and the identity of the credit card user.

Identify Top risky locations :
Pay more attention if the card or the shipping address is in an area prone to credit card fraud. According to a clear commerce® survey, the top 12 international sources for online fraud are Ukraine, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Egypt, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Israel. The same survey also showed that the 12 countries with the lowest fraud rates are Austria, New Zealand, Taiwan, Norway, Spain, Japan, Switzerland, South Africa, Hong Kong, the UK, France, and Australia.Although all the people ordering from high risky locations cant be doubted,but it can be used to what extent you should take security measured for preventing fraud.

Check email address :
Check the name of the user ordering from the email adress with the name of the credit card owner.Most of the business people who order have their own domain names.So be careful with anonymous free email service users as you cant trace their IP.Also be alert while delivering to a person with a email address in a newly opened domain.

Anonymous proxy servers :
Anonymous proxy servers allow Internet users to hide their actual IP address. The main purpose using a proxy server is to remain anonymous or to avoid being detected. While well known businesses use this to protect internal networks, fraudsters hide themselves behind anonymous proxy servers. It is not easy to detect anonymous proxy servers because they appear and disappear from time to time.

Check the delivery address :
Fraudsters prefer to stay untraceable but still need to collect physical merchandise. One way is to use a public P.O.Box, a private mailbox, or a drop shipment forwarding address as a temporary point of receiving. Never send merchandise to a public rented mailbox, a P.O. Box (except for those you identify as legitimate major companies by phoning their listed number), or shipping forwarder, because the actual location and identity of the receiver is undetectable.

Check the validity of the phone number and the zip code :
Often, merchant will discover orders with invalid zip codes or a mismatch between the zip code and area code will produce fraud rates that are significantly higher than usual. They may wish to apply more rigorous fraud prevention standards by verifying the validity of zip code and the area code. In addition, if the phone is identified as a V.O.I.P phone, offered by many services these days, a delay in shipment until the payment clears may be in order, especially for non-times sensitive items.

Compare the credit card issuing bank’s country with the billing address country :
Another key point to bear in mind is to check the issuing country and the billing address. Make sure the issuing country and billing address country are the same. This is especially important, because minor banks may not have rigorous identification procedures.

Call the credit card issuing bank to verify the validity of credit card :
If online merchants have any suspicions about an order and need to confirm the details of the order, they can call the issuing bank and ask to confirm the general account details. This is to make sure that the card is not stolen. The issuing bank phone number is based on the first 6 digits of credit card number known as the Bank Identification Number (BIN).

Request more identification if in doubt :
While consumers value their privacy and require quick web site ordering facilities, it is important to gather sufficient customer identity details during the ordering process. The customers’ name, credit card number and expiry date is not enough. Merchants should call them for verification through phone or request a photo ID to be faxed if they have any doubts.

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Measures for credit card users to prevent identity theft

One of my friends who uses a credit card has recently been cheated by fraud usage.This thing has prompted me to write this article here.There are ways to protect yourselves from these problems.Steps are

• The most primary step is always shredding credit card offers and any documents containing personal information before throwing them in the trash so that no one get your details.
• Know where your important documents are kept, including your passport, driver's license, and social security card, and make sure they stay safe by checking everyday.
  
• Immediately report the non-receipt or disappearance of any mail from your inbox which you should have received from a credit card issuer or your bank.
• When credit card bills or banking statements arrive, look them over then and there and Contact your credit card company or bank directly if you spot any unusual or unauthorized charges.
• Investigate any credit card or other bills, invoices, or receipts for good or services you have not ordered.
• Get a copy of your credit report from all three major issuers and look for any items that are unfamiliar.
• When moving, be sure to get your mail forwarded to your new address. Then, follow up by ordering a copy of your credit report two to three months after the move.
• Keep a list of the phone numbers you need to call if credit cards or debit cards are stolen.
• If you have a safe deposit box at the bank, consider storing valuable financial information there.
  
  Hope these things might help you in preventing your cedit card from being used by some fraud person.If you have any other suggestion for my readers,please post it as a comment

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Yahoo! Messenger fo Windows Vista

Yahoo messenger says it has built the new yahoo messenger for Windows Vista from the ground up specifically for Microsoft Windows Vista, this all-new version combines the reliable and easy-to-use features you've always loved from Yahoo! Messenger with the cutting-edge experience of this new operating system.
The features of this new messenger will be
* Instant message, voice, webcam video, and more
* Use the integrated Yahoo! Messenger Sidebar gadget to keep up with the friends that matter most
* Also add Windows Live™ Messenger friends to your contact list to see when they're online and IM them
* Keep conversations organized by dragging and dropping them into one tabbed window
* Brand new emoticons, program icons and alert sounds
* Instantly change the look and feel of your Yahoo! Messenger interface
* Automatic groups are created in your contact list based on your Yahoo! interests (i.e. Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football league)

Check out the video preview

Also check out Yahoo ! messenger hidden emotions

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Yahoo messenger ! Hidden emotions

Emotions or smileys are little animations that add colour to your chat windows beyond the text you type.If you use yahoo! messenger you wont be able to see all the emotions but when you use other messenger clients like Gaim,you can see all the hidden emotions.Still you can use these emotions by typing the shortcuts of them in your chat window.Click on the image to enlarge if you are unable to see the shortcuts in image below

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Technocrati problems

Technocrati which most people prefer to rank a blog is in the news these days regarding its updating of blog ranks, links that connect to the blog and its ping service.All the big bloggers has reported this problem like problogger.
Technocrati team is to be appreciated for achieving such a success in a short span of time But these latest problems are worrying some bloggers a bit as they want to use the potential of the service.There are four issues that are considered to be the major ones these days.

ping service :
I had been observing from a lot of days about the indexing of my claimed blog Five point someone
. As I look on to the posts,I found that very a few of them got indexed by the technocrati i.e ones which are there whn i submitted the blog to Technocrati.I tried to ping them through pingomatic but no use as they didnt update my blog details from the day i submitted it in technocrati.Here by im posting a screen shot of the problem.It has been long time I changed the blog title from Anything 2 everything to Five point someone.But Technocrati still shows the same old title.As per Technocrati no one linked to my blog so far But i have more than 11 pages on google search showing people linking to me.And it has not been updated since 116 days :D

Top 100 problem :
Some blogs even when getting raced into the top 100 list still didn't get listed in the top 100 list due to the admin not updating the page..

API problems :
problems with other site’s trying to access websites details through Technorati’s API.

Customer service problems :
Many of the readers mail me that they sent a lot of mails to the Technocrati team regarding to the problem but all of them are answered with silence from the customer support which is quite frustrating.

As Technocrati is still used by most of people to rank a blog ,it is better for them to work on these problems than getting stormed by the increasing number of bloggers and their posts

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proxy

On requests of users from colleges where orkut and myspace is blocked, i came up with new proxy segment by embedding the homepage of the proxy site.Let the frame below load fully and then login yourself to orkut.Remove the tick on checkbox of remove all scripts for browsing orkut.

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Feedburner now reports number of Google subscribers

Feeburners official blog reports that Starting with Saturday February 17th subscriber reporting, FeedBurner publishers will be able to see how many Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage subscribers they have.This information will show up in tonight's subscriber reports (meaning that most of you will start to see the data on Saturday morning, U.S. Central Time).

What does this mean? This is one more data point to help you understand how many people have asked to receive your feed (aka "subscribers"). For those who are interested in the particulars, the number that Google is reporting is the total number of Google users who've subscribed to your feed in Reader or with Personalized Homepage.

While the subscriber number reflects overall interest in your content, keep in mind that there are plenty of other metrics within FeedBurner that help you more fully understand distribution and consumption. Now would be a good time to remind you that you can track clickthroughs for each item in your feed, and each item will show a breakdown on an aggregator-by-aggregator basis to help you understand which clients drive the most traffic to your site.still TotalStats service measures Item Views (actual reads of feed items) and Reach (number of unique people who viewed or clicked on content). And feedburner free StandardStats website metrics will provide you with numerous additional details on your inbound traffic from aggregators.

Want to build your subscriber numbers with Google's services? Make subscribing easier for your visitors. Look for the Google subscription button as an option in both our BrowserFriendly and ChickletChooser services for FeedBurner feeds in your account. Both give you the ability to offer Google as a subscription option in your feed and on your website with just a few clicks.

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5 tips for getting a page rank,PR 7

There is a blogger who says that he had came up with 2 new domains/blogs getting PR7 in less than 6 months.He suggested five tips which can come in quite handy for you people also.Here are the 5 tips that he shared.

• Get links from old and highly trusted domains.
• Get site-wide links from a huge site with 150,000+ pages (a large forum perhaps).
• Get a few deep links from relevant articles or content.
• No massive and low-level directory submissions.
• Avoid link exchanges, esp. from new domains.

If you have any tips regarding increasing page rank,post as comment

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Quick tips for organising and using your mailbox better

EMAIL - the latest heart of the Internet world.Everyday we get lot of emails in hundreds ranging from news,personal messages,RSS feeds,instant messages,social bookmarking links.This becomes a problem if the numbers keep growing on continuously.When someday if you have to find a important email how will you find it???Here are some tips which might come handy in organising your email archive.[May be some services like Gmail give you enough space and search feature but nothing makes you feel good watching your inbox than organising it ]

Searching or Filtering or Tagging :
These three are the important features which you can use in organising your inbox.Search in inbox is sometimes but most of times comes up with lots of results.People who dont like to sit and organise their inbox mostly prefer this searching.Filtering is better than searching as filtering shows all same type of mails in one folder.It sends the mails to their respective folders and when you search in a folder,the accuracy of result will also become more.If you spare sometime everyday for this ,you can feel comfortable in later times.Tagging is something like labelling the mails for search so that search can find faster.There are softwares available for doing the three of these things.

Organise your folders :
If you are into filing and foldering your mailbox,take the time to think about what’s the most important dimension of e-mail recall for you.One failing of most current e-mail applications is that any given message can only be filed in a single folder.So think about what you’re most likely to remember when you want to search a message in the future. If it’s the sender, you should build your hierarchy based on people. If it’s the project, then a set of project folders makes sense. Avoid starting to build a system where you have some folders for people and some for projects

using desktop search :
If you are a windows better,there are some applications which can help you index your mail box like Google Desktop, Windows Desktop Search ... If you are a MAC user you have spotlight there.For windows users they have to check which one of the applications is better for them as each of them differs in terms of usability,showing previews and ability to search faster.

Email organising software :
Programs like Nelson Email Organizer and Omea Pro (both for Microsoft Outlook) provide an indexing and filing layer on top of your regular e-mail application. Typically these programs add features such as the ability to file a single message in more than one folder , more thorough indexing, faster searching, and their own system of applying meta data to messages. ClearContext IMS Pro (also for Outlook) combines automatic project-based filing with a system like automatic prioritisation system for incoming e-mails.

Organise your sent items :
If you’re a big sender, don’t neglect that huge folder full of sent items. It might make more sense to create individual Sent Items folders for each contact, and file the appropriate messages where they’re easy to find.

Use Virtual Folders :
Mail calls them Smart Mailboxes. Outlook calls them Search Folders. In either case, the aim is same.you can set up a folder whose contents depend on criteria you set, rather than messages you file in it. Obvious uses include folders for unread mail, old but unanswered mail, mail from particularly important people, and newsletters identified by subject line. Virtual folders are another good way to create the illusion that things are filed in more than one place.

A final destination :
There is always this way waiting for spam mails,junk ones,office jokes,news letters,RSS updates...... in your mail box.Just select them and press delete and you are done.Mails which are important to you like your project related ones or a mail from your sweet heart... can be saved and its better to delete the rest junk messages as they can be a havoc in long terms

If you have any suggestions on organising the mail box please post it as a comment.

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No reservations for Creamy people

Great news for those who says "No to reservations".Supreme court bench has given a new order in this context regarding to whom this reservations should apply to.The new reservations will be applicable to only who are economically deprived in backwards caste also.This decision is welcomed by most of the people because most of the times the motto of the reservations is getting diverted as highly settled people of backward castes are enjoying the benefits and the ones for whom they are meant to like economically deprived dalits and all never get them.As per the ruling reservations wont apply to creamy layer of people I.e people who are holding good posts in govt sector jobs and those who have high income levels..A bit of relaxation is given to the people from kerala regarding the max income level for reservations which has been set to 3 lakhs per annum.This move is welcomed by students from most of the parts of the country.Post your comments on this ruling by the supreme court.

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How to search for free books on internet

Here is a simple trick for finding free ebooks on Google with extensions .chm,.pdf,.zip.Its not targeted for any particular book.Copy the text of link below to your Google search box or click on the link

inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" +("/ebook"|"/book") +(chm|pdf|zip)

The above query removes all the html pages and searches for folders like ebook or book and search for file types chm, pdf and zip.You can add more extensions to the list by editing the above text,

Note: You may find copyrighted content or illegal books for which Im not responsible
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New pricing of adsense referrals

Google Adsense team has notified its users about the new pricing of Adsense and adwords referrals which are looking quite profitable to the publishers than the earlier ones.Earlier publishers used to treat these just as some mere waste of their space as they are able to make very little money with these.But new pricing is looking good for some publishers atleast for the big boys out there. AdSense Referrals:

• When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns their first $5 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5.
  
• When that same publisher earns $100 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payment, you will be credited with an additional $250.
  
• If, in any 180-day period, you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than $100 within 180 days of their respective sign-ups and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a $2,000 bonus (bonus payouts are limited to 1 per year).
  

AdWords Referrals:

• When an advertiser you refer spends $5 within 90 days of sign-up (in addition to the $5 sign-up fee) you will be credited with $5.
  
• When that same advertiser spends $100 within 90 days of sign-up, you will be credited with an additional $40.
  
• If, in any 180 day period, you refer 20 advertisers who each spend more than $100 within 90 days of their respective sign-ups, you will be awarded a $600 bonus (bonus payments are limited to 1 per year).

Google still pays very less for its firefox referrals which depends on the number of users using that referral in that country.Google pays less for Firefox in India as people in large numbers use it.Lets hope it will liberalise some rules for other referrals also.
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How to add RAID drivers and Service Pack 2 to your original Windows CD!???:Slipstreaming XP

slipstreaming—the mystical art of creating an up-to-the-minute Windows XP setup CD with all the latest patches preinstalled.I’ll help you add RAID or Serial ATA controller drivers to your CD so you won’t need a floppy drive (or the F6 key) to install Windows.
Things you need:

· Windows XP setup CD

· Internet connection

· CD burner

· ISO Buster (www.isobuster.com)

· Nero 6 or 7

step1:
First download the standalone version of windows XP service pack2.Go to download.microsoft.com and look under the Windows XP section or simply run Windows Update from Internet Explorer.While you’re at it, download the latest drivers for your RAID or Serial ATA controller. If you add them to your install CD, you won’t need to use an old-fashioned floppy drive to install Windows. For an add-in RAID or SATA card, look for the drivers on the web site of your controller chip’s manufacture.

Step2
Our next objective is to extract Service Pack 2 to a folder so we can update our existing Windows setup files. Open the command prompt by clicking Start, Run, and typing cmd.exe. Use the cd (change directory) command to navigate to the folder where you just saved the SP2 executable in the previous step. (The syntax for cd is cd , so if you saved the SP2 executable to, say, C:\Downloads, you would type cd C:\Downloads to go there.) Extract the SP2 files by typing xpSP2 –x, where xpSP2 is the name of the SP2 executable you downloaded. When prompted for a destination to extract the files to, enter C:\xpSP2.Once the files have been extracted, insert your Windows XP setup CD into an optical drive and copy its entire contents to a different folder on your hard drive. For the sake of simplicity, use C:\xpsetupcd as the folder. Now, return to the command prompt and type the following command: C:\xpSP2\i386\update\update /s:C:\xpsetupcd. This will update your existing Windows setup files with the new code contained in Service Pack 2. A message box will pop up to notify you when the process is complete.

step3:
. Open the folder to which you copied your Windows XP CD (C:\xpsetupcd) and create a subfolder called $OEM$. Then, create a subfolder of $OEM$ called $1 and a subfolder of $1 called drivers. The resulting path should be C:\xpsetupcd\$OEM$\$1\drivers. This is where Windows Setup will look for drivers that aren’t contained in its standard driver library. For organizational purposes, make a subfolder within drivers named for the type of driver it will contain—for instance, create a RAID folder for RAID drivers or an SATA folder for Serial ATA drivers. You can use any name, as long as it has fewer than eight characters.

With the aforementioned folder structure in place, copy the Windows XP RAID/SATA drivers directly into the folder you created above (we used C:\xpsetupcd\$OEM$\$1\drivers\RAID). If your drivers came in a self-extracting executable rather than a zip file, you may be able to extract its contents manually by opening it in a program like WinRAR. (Alternately, you can run the self-extracting executable, then dig around in your system’s TEMP directory—usually C:/documents and settings/YourUsername/LocalSettings/Temp until you find the right directory). Finally, locate the SYS file for your RAID/SATA controller from among the files you just extracted; it should be named after your specific controller (e.g. fasttx2k.sys for a Promise FastTrak TX2 RAID controller). The drivers for different operating systems may be split into distinct folders, so make sure you find the SYS file that’s intended for Windows XP. Once you find the SYS file, copy it to the i386 folder of your Windows CD (C:\xpsetupcd\i386).

step4:

Now that we’ve added our RAID/SATA driver files to the mix, we need to tell Windows Setup about the existence of these drivers and how to use them. But unless you happen to have this information memorized—and if you do, this might be a good time to turn off your computer and spend some time in the real world—you’ll need to look it up in your driver’s INF file. This file is usually found in the same place as the SYS file you located in the previous step and will probably have the same name, albeit with an INF extension. Open the INF file in Notepad and copy the PCI identifier string, which is a series of characters beginning with PCI\VEN—for instance, PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376. There may be other text on the same line as the identifier string; if this is the case, start at the first occurrence of PCI\VEN and copy the text up to but not including the last period (or the end of the line, whichever comes first).

Next, open TXTSETUP.SIF (situated in C:\xpsetupcd\i386) and paste your PCI identifier string under the [HardwareIdsDatabase] section of that file. At the end of the string, add an equal-sign followed by the driver name in quotes. In the case of our Promise RAID controller, the resulting line is: PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376 = “fasttx2k”. Note: If your driver’s INF file contains multiple PCI identifier strings, copy all of them into TXTSETUP.SIF.

Now scroll down to the [SourceDisksFiles] section of TXTSETUP.SIF and add the following text:

driver_filename.sys = 1,,,,,,_x,4,1

where driver_filename.sys is the name of your RAID /SATA driver’s SYS file. Note that you should include the .sys here. Then, under the [SCSI.Load] section, enter:

driver_filename = driver_filename.sys,4

Once again, driver_filename is the name of your driver’s SYS file. Note the lack of a .sys suffix on the left side of the equal-sign.

Finally, in the [SCSI] section of the file, add the following:

driver_filename = “RAID/SATA Device Name”

You can enter whatever you want for “RAID/SATA Device Name,” but we recommend using a meaningful description (such as the name of your RAID/SATA controller). Finally, save and close TXTSETUP.SIF.

step5:

You’re almost there. In this step, we’ll make a file called WINNT.SIF in the i386 folder of our Windows setup files (C:\xpsetupcd\i386). This file can be used to create an unattended installation routine—a subject beyond the scope of this how-to—but we’ll simply use it to point Windows to the drivers we’ve slipstreamed. Create WINNT.SIF and enter the following:

[Data]
AutoPartition=0
MsDosInitiated=”0”
UnattendedInstall=”Yes”

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=ProvideDefault
OemPreinstall=Yes
OemSkipEula=Yes
NoWaitAfterTextMode=1
NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1

WaitForReboot=”No”
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
OemPnPDriversPath=

[GuiUnattended]
OEMSkipWelcome = 1

[UserData]
ProductKey=
FullName=”“
OrgName=”“

You’ll need to customize the OemPnPDriversPath line by entering the path to the INF file for your RAID/SATA driver (for instance if your drivers are in C:\xpsetupcd\i386\$OEM$\$1\drivers\RAID use: OemPnPDriversPath=drivers\RAID\FastTrack\WinXP).

There are a few other fields you may want to customize before you close WINNT.SIF. Type your product key, name, and company name in the ProductKey, FullName, and OrgName fields respectively to avoid having to enter them during setup. And if you’d like to install Windows to a folder other than C:\WINDOWS, edit the TargetPath field as needed.

WINNT.SIF is a powerful file that allows you to customize and automate many parts of the Windows installation process.

Step 6 – Prepare your bootable CD and burn it

Our next task is to extract the boot image from our original Windows XP disc so we can use it to make our slipstreamed CD bootable as well. With your original XP setup CD inserted, launch ISO Buster and select “Bootable CD” from the left pane. In the right pane, right-click Microsoft Corporation.img and choose “Extract Microsoft Corporation.img.” Extract this file to the folder where you copied your XP setup files (C:\xpsetupcd).

Fire up Nero Burning ROM (or EZ CD Creator, or any other CD burning app) and go to the New Compilation window (click “Close Wizard” if Nero’s wizard comes up). Select “CD-ROM (Boot)” from the left pane and open the Boot tab. For “Source of boot image data” choose “Image file” and use the Microsoft Corporation.img file you just extracted. Check to enable expert settings, and set “Kind of emulation” to “No emulation” and “Number of loaded sectors” to 4. (These instructions will vary if you use another application, of course.)

Next, head over to the ISO tab and set “File/Directory name length” to “ISO Level 2.” Ensure that “Format” is set to “Mode 1” and “Character Set” to “ISO 9660,” and make certain all four checkboxes on this tab are checked (“Joliet,” “Allow pathdepth of more than 8 directories,” “Allow more than 255 characters in path,” and “Do not add the ‘;1’ ISO file version extension”). Finally, click the Label tab and set the “Volume Label” field to the value used by your original Windows XP CD—this is the name that appears next to your CD-ROM drive in My Computer when your XP CD is inserted.

At this point, we’re almost ready to rock. Click the “New” button to open the Nero File Browser, and then locate the folder where you copied your Windows XP CD. Open the folder and add its entire contents to your CD image. When you’re all set, mash the “Burn” button and bask in the glory of your shiny new slipstreamed Windows XP CD, replete with RAID/SATA drivers and Service Pack 2!

Make your slipstreamed Windows CD bootable by extracting the boot image from your original Windows CD and feeding it to Nero
source:http://maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.html
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When your monitor gets rotated

Most of time people sitting on win2000 or xp press some keys by fault and finds their screen rotated by 180 degrees.Most of my friends call me about this problem which is now forcing me to post this article
keys that control the screen rotation :
cntrl +alt + down arrow --- monitor turns upside down
cntrl +alt + up arrow ---Reset the monitor to normal position

If ever you find your screen rotated press the ctrl+alt + down and get it set.
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Femina Miss India Hunt is on now

The Femina Miss India Pageant which has been the platform for Indian beauties to enter the world of fashion and glamour, now in its 44th year, has commenced its search for icons to represent India at international pageants in 2007. Two trendsetters of the fashion world—Femina Miss India and Pantaloons—have joined hands in the hunt for that winning combination of beauty and brains.Past winners of Femina Miss India such as Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai, Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra and Dia Mirza have brought great pride to the country by winning international pageants. Liberty and Tanishq have scaled up their association with the event as associate sponsors. Liberty is also the Official Footwear Partner and Tanishq is the Official Crown and Jewellery Partner. For the seventh year now, Richfeel Trichology Centre continues as the Official Hair Care Experts. Young single women between 18 and 25 years (as of Jan 31, 2007), who have both style and substance can apply. Entries close on March 4, 2007.
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Nice Firefox extension for orkut users

If You Have Logged In To Orkut With "Remember Me On This Computer" Checkbox Checked & While Closing The Browser Window You Have Not Logged Out, Still The Next Time You Open Browser & Open http://www.orkut.com, You Are Asked For password
With Its Autologin Feature, You Can Login, Without Entering The Password Again.
Also, If You Are Logged In Gmail With "Remember Me On This Computer" Checkbox Checked, You Get Logged Into Orkut Automatically On Opening http://www.orkut.com
It Uses The 'Cookie' Of Gmail/Orkut To Login.
It just sees whether your Cookie is present or not...
Your Password Is Never Checked.

Download the plugin

☺ View "My Scrapbook" Link On Each Of Orkut Pages, Not just On Your Profile/Home Pages.

☺ "View Scrapbook" Link In Front Of Profile Link, so that you can go to their scrapbook, without going to their profile.
Similarly,
☺ "View Album" Link In Front Of Profile Link
☺ "View Message" Link In Front Of Profile Link

☺ "View Community Topics" Link In Front Of Community Link
☺ "View Community Events" Link In Front Of Community Link
☺ "View Community Members" Link In Front Of Community Link

☺ Copy Smileys within the scraps/posts so that you can copy Entire scrap/post, including the smileys [:)]
☺ Replace Orkut Smileys With Animated Smileys. Don't you think, the orkut smileys are static images, would you not like some 'animated' smileys.

☺ Replace The Links In Scraps/Posts Which Point To Images By Their Corresponding Images. So that you don't have to click the link to view the images.
Similarly...
☺ Replace Links To SWFs By Their Corresponding SWFs.
& above all, each of these feature can be turned on or off individually.

☺Also You Can Right Click On Any Profile Link To Go To Scrapbook/Album/'Send Message' (& others) pages of any Profile.

☺& You Can Right Click On Any Community Link To Go To Members/Topics/Events (& others) pages of any Community.

☺You Can Search Within Your (or in general anyone's) scrapbook.

Similarly You Can Search for a Topic within community topics or a Post in a community topic. or u can also search within messages...
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Youtube videos in Google search

Searches for images or research papers or projects on Google may now return videos from the California-based Internet search giant's YouTube unit.Google, which acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, says the change is part of its effort to differentiate YouTube from its similar Google Video service.To get returns that include YouTube videos, added Thursday, users must use the video search tab, the company said.Google Video's goal is to be the definitive search engine for video Internet-wide, not just on Google's sites, said David Eun, company vice president.For now, Google Video and YouTube remain separate, with both offering space to upload and share videos. Over time, users will be encouraged to share videos on YouTube and search video on Google.Including YouTube videos in Google's video search will "dramatically increase video viewing on the Web.People will start finding lots of videos they never even knew existed.Rivals Yahoo and AOL have separate video search engines, but neither link to YouTube.Lets see what will be their next step
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Microsoft in mud

Software giant Microsoft corp. has landed itself in trouble when it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.While Wikipedia is known as the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, founder Jimmy Wales and moderators have blocked public-relations firms, campaign workers and anyone else perceived as having a conflict of interest from posting slanting entries. So paying for Wikipedia copy is considered a definitely considered wrong.Microsoft acknowledged it had approached the writer and offered to pay him for the time it would take to correct what the company was sure were inaccuracies in Wikipedia articles on an open-source document standard and a rival format put forward by Microsoft.In a blog posting Monday, the blogger said that he was surprised to be approached by Microsoft but figured he would accept the offer to review the Wikipedia articles because he considered it important to make sure technical standards processes were accurately described.But the proper way for Microsoft would have been to write or commission a "white paper" on the subject with its interpretation of the facts, post it to an outside Web site and then link to it in the Wikipedia articles' discussion forums.
source :CNN

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Engineering today

Disclaimer : The article is not targeted on anyone.If any finds it related to them, dont take it personally
A small child sitting idle at his home watching TV or A Schoolboy watching his dad's motorcycle or some small kid who sees the today's electronic gadgets asks his elders "who made this???How are these things made???" The immediate reply from his dad is "Engineers make this and they know how to make these".Interesting finds the child.He sets his career aim as to become a engineer someday.Depending on the things he love he choses the type of Engineer.If he loves cars he wants to become Mechanical Engineer,If he love TV,he wants to become electronic engineer....But the thing is no one understands what is engineering until they are into it.That kid choses the branch of engineering which most of others prefer.There is no TV for that child to build here or there is no practical involving a car.All he sees out there is small of chips and physics of engines..In some colleges they dont even find this.
Right now in India ,some states like Andhra Pradesh,Tamil Naidu... have atleast 3 engineering colleges on an average in each town.There will be a single big building on the outskirts of the city named as "XXXXXX engineering college".These colleges dont have Masters courses or above undergraduate courses.They dont even have labs.There are no campus placements.{You have to pay money to some external job consultants to sit in campus placements [E.g JKC in Andhra pradesh]} . They have faculty who completed Btech from the same college and working for 5,000 rupees.I have a lecturer of engineering college staying beside my house who is a computer science lecturer and she/he don't know terms which i know in the computer languages.I went to their labs and I find computers loaded with windows 98,ball mouses and no connectivity.There will be one or two computers with dial up internet and the college charges 10rs per hour from students to use that.Students don't even know how to use Google search ,All they know is using yahoo messenger to chat.The only project they do in their engineering is the final semester project.There will be no classroom projects for them in between.They don't have knowledge about higher studies as they don't have training and placement cell.They have to approach educational consultants for this thing also.OOOPS!! i forgot these colleges have library which might have some books each 1 copy taught in their classroom.They don't have research Journals,tech magazines,publications and all.Since they dont have proper labs there is no chance of them looking into research.Most of the students have the aim of just getting a IT job.There is one thing with these colleges.No one scores below 60% in their engineering in the last irrespective of the knowledge.You might want to know how??? Simple.Same questions appear in their question paper every year.All you have to do is just buy a test paper booklet and read the questions given in the previous 5 year papers.If you do this properly you can get 90%.Most of my friends studying engineering in local colleges say this logic to me.Whenever I go home with 70% in engineering,i find a lot of my friends who have more than 90% asking me why I have less percentage as I scored high total in my 10+2 above many of them. And to the people knowledge never matters.What they compares is percentages.Some idle people residing in my neighborhood goes to my home and tells my dad " your son is ruined.His percentage is less.i think he is roaming in the city".This thing irritates the people studying in best universities as they have to screw themselves the whole day to bring a decent percentage in engineering.I'm not blaming the every student there as there is some exceptional talent standing out there when sent to good engineering colleges can create wonders unlike getting screwed up in life.The only job these local engineers know is IT job and they dont even know the company names of their core engineering subject.They will never look into core engineering jobs as it requires a lot of knowledge.The don't have even proper residential facilities.Then what does they have??????

AICTE approval

AICTE gives approval to these colleges and its ready even to give more colleges to the towns if the institute owner has got some political influence.What does this AICTE wants from these colleges??I dont think they want to make some engineers out of these colleges.

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My Space Japan,cultures going to clash

World's No .1 social networking site Myspace entered the Asian market by making its debut through partnership with Japanese telecommunications and Internet giant Softbank earlier in 2006.But it's not a easy game for Myspace out there in Japan.Japan's leading Social network Mixi is going to give it a hard competition.Mixi has prim,organised columns and boxes of stamp size photos-not the flashy text and teen Magazine like layout of Myspace.The difference in the appearance between the two online hangouts reflects a broader clash of cultures and illustrates the challenge Myspace is gonna face in Japan.Mixi knows how to thrive of the nations cliquish culture so different from the agressive me orientation prevalent in United States.If Myspace is about me,Mixi is about us says the Japanese.Japanese tend to be more reserved and prefer to know each other in long terms.Mixi requires an introduction from some member to join in it which gives a sense of security to shy people.It doesnt mean Myspace is not going to compete.It arrived in Japan in November 2006 with a 50-50 partneship with softbank corp.Theysay that they might not be able to knock out Mixi but they can make Japanese use the both.Lets see what Myspace is going to do to make Japanese use it.
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Rapidshare tricks and hacks

Rapidshare is on of the biggest file sharing or hosting services on the web today. But it isn’t free. You will have to pay to get a Premium Account and for unlimited downloads. Most of us don’t like to waste money to buy a premium account. So here are some simple tricks to for Rapidshare.

Rapidshare premium link generator [Working]:
Want to generate a premium download link of rapidshare ???Here is the site which generates the link

Rapidshare premium link generator

Right now the generator is working with only.de version of the website and doesnot support .com.They are trying to fix the code for .com website also

Proxylist :
Sometimes you might get error like this on your download page " The number of download slots for your country are over ".For those here is a web proxy.This site allows you to bypass rapidshare, megaupload download limits.Paste rapidshare url to form and then choose web proxy and click 'Go' - it will change your IP. If it wont works you should choose another web proxy.

All that you need in rapidshare include:

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RapidLeecher v 5 Alpha

RapidLeecher is the ultimate, easy to use and free software to leech links from file share service Rapidshare, you just paste the link and your download will automatically get downloaded to your desktop with maximum speeds and minimal user interaction. The free software also has support for using proxy servers so that you can download many files at the same time (using different proxy).It works with Rapidshare new website also.

1. Automated Downloading.
2. Auto start and system tray support.
3. Clipboard monitoring.
4. Silent operation mode, will sit and wait for links in system tray.
5. Proxy Support for simultaneous downloads and unlimited downloading.
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After you click on the link below,you will find the countdown on the bottom right of the page,After the countdown is over you will get the download link

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I updated most of the link of downloading.If you have any new tricks of getting premium downloads please post it as a comment

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Mahesh Babu Atidhi shooting in Shipra Mall opp my college [JIIT,noida]

I was having lunch today afternoon ,Suddenly i received a phone from one of my friend Hemang [from Rajasthan] Who saw Athadu.He told me "Dude one of the heroes in Athadu is here in shipra mall".I asked him "Is it Mahesh or Sonu sood??".He replied its not Sonu.Immediately I rushed to Ram's room and both of we left for Shipra mall just a few metres away opposite my university on bike. No crowds there as people dont know the hero.All the telugu'ites there are from my college only. I was seeing for Mahesh there and to my surprise he was standing just beside us like other normal people.Dressed up in violet jacket and white cargo, Mahesh babu is slim this time and looking better than pokiri.he showed no signs of herogiri like other fundoo heroes like getting irritated on people.I went to Mahesh,introduced myself and asked him about the movie.Everyone on the sets is saying others not to fear"Just go and talk,sir is very friendly".Mahesh was replying everyone softly and speaking in a very elegant way.Hats off to him.His brother Ramesh babu is also accompanying him.Then Mahesh went for the shot in which he has to walk after searching for lighter in his pocket.Amrita Rao is checking the stores and the mall in the mean time since her shot is the next one. After the first shot they shifted the location to the front of Barista.Then me and my friends went to Surender Reddy,introduced ourselves as Mahesh Fans and had a autograph from him.The second shot started and people assembled this time as they know Amrita Rao.She was also looking cool.The second shot is like both of them walking opposite each other with Mahesh having a cigarette.After that i left the spot.Surender Reddy confirmed that the movie is going to get released this April.After the second shot is ok everyone in the mall stormed towards the hero and heroine and took photographs.The photographs and the videos can be downloaded from here.
Pics

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Im sorry about the quality of the pics and video as i forgot to take the digicam in the rushing.But Mahesh Babu rocks at the end of the day with his impressive behaviour with people and looks.All the best for Atidhi.I have other pics and videos which ill upload later.


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How to prevent your mail account getting hacked

Mail account hacked !!! people say ' wow,hackers hacked it '.But do you think yahoo, Gmail , Hotmail are sitting idle there watching their accounts getting hacked ? No.They have strong security policies.The only chance that your mail account can get hacked is that you make it get hacked.The hackers who can hack mail accounts by using proper techniques will never target normal people accounts.They will try for something more.Still Ill tell you some techniques which are employed to make you tell your password.

THE HOAX

Let's dispose of one technique that is absolutely a fraud (meaning a fraud: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.) If you see a newsgroup post or web page with something like the following, it is a hoax and will not work.


(1) send an E-mail to passwordrecovery@yourdomainhere.com

(2) In the subject box type the screenname of the person whose password you wish to steal

(3) In the message box type the following: /cgi-bin/start?v703&login.USER=passmachine&class=supervisor&f={your aol password}&f=27586&javascript=ACTIVE&rsa

(4) Send the e-mail with priority set to "high" (red ! in some mailprograms)

(5) wait 2-3 minutes and check your mail

(6) Read the message.-Where YOUR password was typed before, NOW, the password of the screenname in the code string is there!!!

Why does this work? It´s a special decryption-server that AOL-employees can use to decrypt passwords.The aolbackdoor account is a bot that reads your authentification from the message body and identifiying you as a valid AOL Staff-member, you will get the password mailed back to you. The trick is that this Bot´s script seems to be a little bit buggy and it automatically recogises you as an supervisor (AOL-Staff member), even if you use a normal AOL account. This means, that EVERYONE having a valid AOL account can hack as many other accounts as he wants.

This is just a scam to steal your password and may explain some of the calls we get from people saying they were hacked. Never give your password to anyone. No legitimate web service or customer service representative will ask for it or need it. There is no magic email address or series of commands that will reveal the passwords of users.

LOCALLY STORED PASSWORDS

Most browsers, including Internet Explorer® and Netscape®, the AOL® client, and Windows® Dial-Up Connections allow you the option to store passwords. These passwords are stored on the local machine and (depending upon where and how it is stored) there is usually a method of recovering these passwords. Storing any password locally is insecure and may allow the password to be recovered by anyone who has access to the local machine. While we are not currently aware of any program to recover locally stored AOL® passwords, we do not recommend that these are secure. Software does exist that can recover most of the other types of locally stored passwords.

TROJAN

A Trojan is a program that is sent to a user that allows an attacker to control functions of the target computer, recover information from the target or to delete or damage files on the target. The name Trojan is given because the program will usually come attached to some other program or file that entices you to run it. There are a wide variety of Trojans any number of which can be programmed to capture passwords as they are typed and to email or transmit them to a third party. To protect yourself against Trojans, you should never execute or download software or files that are not from a trusted source. It is critical that anyone working on internet use a virus protection program (which should catch most Trojans.) Note that since a Trojan requires the password to be typed or stored in order to be recovered, this is not an effective way to recover your own password. It could explain, however, how someone could lose their password to a hacker. Sending someone a Trojan program is certainly illegal and we do not recommend or condone this activity. A Trojan is unlikely to be effective in recovering a particular account password since it requires the target to install it. However, hackers will often bulk mail Trojans to thousands of people in the hope that a small percentage will get caught. Legitimate account holders who may have been caught by a Trojan and can authenticate themselves should contact their service provider to have their account passwords reset.

SNIFFING

If two people do not share the same computer, but do share the same network, it may be possible for one to sniff the others' packets as they sign-on. The traffic between your computer and the internet site you are accessing may be able to be recorded and decrypted or "played-back." This is not a simple attack to execute, but is possible if two people are close to one another and share a hub. Again, this is likely to be illegal and we do not condone this activity.

BRUTE-FORCE ATTACK

Many people want to find software to perform a brute-force attack. This is really impractical. It would take hundreds of thousands of years to attempt any kind of reasonable brute-force attack on AOL®, Yahoo® or Hotmail® and this would expand exponentially if the password is longer than the minimum length. Using multiple computers or multiple sessions could reduce this to merely thousands of years. This is highly illegal since these services own the servers on which an account is hosted. Even if you are hacking your own account, you don't own the servers and the service is going to monitor and log this activity. It is extremely unlikely that you could recover a password in this way, but it is extremely likely that you'd be arrested and prosecuted for doing this.

SOCIAL ENGINEERING

Social engineering is the name given to the art of attacking the person, rather than the computer or system. The basic principle is that many people can be talked into giving someone else their id and password if they think it is someone that they can trust. For instance, I might call someone and say I was from AOL and that I was finally getting around to responding to their technical support question. I would then ask you to describe the problem that you are having and tell you that we have a solution. However, I just need to verify the account. Can you give me the username and password again? A surprising number of people would fall for this obvious scam. There is no limit as to how elaborate this can be. The more information that is given by the caller, the more realistic or believable the call is. Again, never give your password to anyone. No legitimate customer service representative will ask for this information.

Most of the users fall a pray to these techniques since they are not accosted about these.Social engineering is a very common technique used by your friends or some other people who know that you dont have much knowledge about computer.So readers beware and dont ever give your password to anyone through mailing as Mail account providers never ask for password through mail and always use a antivirus software to prevent Trojans from entering.Last but not least never exit with out signing out.
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what's new

I was resolving some issues related to the top header banner of the blog for widescreen users.The blog will be updated from tommorow.
- subhash
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No posts

Since i was busy since the last two days with my exams,I was not able to post articles on the blog.Posts will start from tonight
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Express with Roses

Most of the proposals are made with roses.People give red rose normally but there are many colours of rose which signify something special individually.So choose the right one

Red : True love,respect,courage [If I ever get a chance ,I prefer this [:X]]
Yellow : Gladness,freedom,friendship
Pink: Happiness,gentleness,sweetness
White:Reverence,purity,Innocence,secrecy
Lavender:Enchantment
Light pink :grace,joy
Dark pink:Thankfulness
Peach pink:Gratitude,appreciation,admiration,sympathy [ hmm it represent a lot]
Orange:Fascination,Enthusiasm
Coral:desire
Red and white:unity
Black:Farewell and death [ I hate it]
Red and yellow blend: jovial and happy feelings
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Valentine's Day

Its the day where most of the people in the world celebrate their love and romance with joy and happiness.But very few of them knows about the history of Valentine day.
Tales about the day and the history :

• The day probably took its name from a priest who was martyred about AD270 by the emperor claudius || gothicus.According to tale,the priest signed a letter to his jailer's daughter,with whom he had fallen in love. ,"FROM YOUR VALENTINE"
• The day may also have originated in the ancient Roman celebration of the feast of Lupercalia in honour of Juno,the queen of the Roman gods and goddesses on feb 14.At the feast held the next day,the women would write love letters and stick them in an urn.The men would pick the love letter and from the next year will pursue the woman.
• The custom of exchanging cards and other tokens of love on Feb 14 began to devolop in England and France in the 14th and 15th century and became popular in USA in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• In Us the first commercially produced cards were manufactured by Robert H Elton of New York in 1834.
• Since 1984 couples have been married on the 80th floor of Empire state building on Feb 14
  
  
  
  Five point someone wishes all its viewers HAPPY VALENTINES DAY and If anyone want to tell us about your love you can express yourself in comments or mail to me so that I can publish it in the next posts
  
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Microsoft's DRM for mobile

Microsoft introduced another DRM[Digital Rights Management] technology to the mix this morning at 3GSM in Barcelona: PlayReady, which appears to add streaming media and pay-per-view capabilities to the PlaysForSure platform it already had in place.This indicates Microsoft attention on the DRM in the era of Zune. Playready is a result of extended dialogue with the mobile industry which is looking for flexible ways to transfer content between devices.Playready primarily lists mobile service operators, including Verizon and AT&T.PlayReady does not appear to be associated with specific devices, though its formats are said to be downwardly compatible with Windows Media 10.PlaysForSure is typically associated with WM10, and Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6 operating system.Microsoft said it will be implementing what it refers to as an interoperability program "so content may flow to qualifying DRM and content protection technologies." It did not list any specific technologies that qualify just yet, nor did it explicitly mention PlaysForSure or Zune’s DRM as perhaps qualifying under the terms of this program.The WM6 rollout today also involves AT&T (formerly Cingular) and Verizon, as well as Sprint and T-Mobile. Apparently managed separately, WM6's content protection technologies are being referred to using a carefully chosen new phrase, information rights management or "IRM," perhaps in an attempt to distance Microsoft from "DRM" - a phrase and abbreviation that has become a magnet for negative attention. Technorati Tags:
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JIIT radio -Msoft Euphony

JIIT ,Noida has started its own radio station on is Local Area Network.The whole digital streaming methodology is devoloped by the JIIT'ians themselves.Created by a student of CSE from 4th year Mr Manish himself acts as the RJ for the radio station.The radio is extended to all the hostels through a central server.The design work for the radio is also collaborated by other 3rd year students under the name of FVP and V design labs.They are right now hosting different programme's like Euphony dedication'sx,Night DJ,valentines day special...Efforts are being made to increase the quality of the tunes.This service is available only to the people inside JIIT,noida Average review - 4 Five point someone is acting as co sponsor for the valentine special edition tonight
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Inferno Indian blogger hunt 2007

On Feb 9th and 10th 2007 (online events continues till 15th March) AIMK celebrates it's annual B-school management fest Inferno'07. Events are Portfolio Guru, Brand-it, Creative CV writing, Negociado, Indian B-School Blog Hunt and many more.Inferno-07' would be witnessing some unique concepts like Creative CV writing (company based CV with 99% value for creativity), Face to Face (Student taking interviews of other student), Blog Hunt (a search for Indian B-School Blog of the year), The way out (A real Ad agency solution), Sell your face (painting your face to sell your product), and also other events like BrandIT (A game based on STP), Portfolio Guru and many more. Almost 50% of the programs are virgin ideas, which are expected to leave a long lasting mark
Five point someone blog is already there in the blog hunt.If you want to vote for Five point someone write comment here.Your vote will be counted only if you become a member by signing up.

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Five point someone on Inferno

Click on the thumbsup icon next to click to vote in the page and write your comment in the popup window.Its going to be one of the proper blogger hunt unlike ibibo.

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is also participating in Indibloggers 2007 competition in the categories best new blog,best design blog and nest Indiblog.I thank the readers for the continued support to the blog.
Apart from the blog hunt one more competition is there which is looking quite interesting,Creative CV writing. What you have to do here is you make a CV which no one has made earlier.The most creative one will be awarded.The most good thing with the inferno is they came to pick the talent from online unlike the other fests which send invites to colleges.This competition is open to everyone.I strongly recommend my other blogging readers to submit thier blogs for the blog hunt

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Quick tips for Adbrite : A adsense alternative

Adbrite ,one of the good alternatives of adsense gives you very good control of the ads to be displayed on your page unlike adsense.The various features in adbrite include control over ads,settign your price bid manually or automatically.showing the advertisers where you are going to place their ad .....Here are some tips for adbrite

1. Never start your pricing too high. If you set your price high in the starting the less of them will come.You should concentrate on getting some advertisers in the start.
   
2. Make sure your placement is worth buying.Show the places which shows their ads in the best way.
   
3. Spend some time tagging your site and giving proper demographic information.
4. In your site description provide ideas of advertisers that you think might convert well. You know your audience best.
5. AdBrite is more successful if you sell a few premium placements as opposed to just many backfill placements.
6. putting adbrite in rotation might not work much better,
   
7. AdBrite is a tool to help sell your space, and think of it as a virtual salesperson for you. Any salesperson needs some time to gain traction. Just like an auction, the beginning price is never the final price.Just keep you site in the market for sometime.
   
8. Lure your adertisers with occasional special pricing,So that they keep coming to you.
   
9. Enable AdBrite's auto pricing which will raise automatically as inventory sells, and lower itself as vacant inventory sits unsold.

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Indian cricket team for world cup

Indian cricket team for the world cup has been announced yesterday in wankhede Stadium,Mumbai.
The squad is Rahul Dravid (C), Robin Uthappa,Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Dinesh Karthik,Mahendra Singh Dhoni (WK), Harbhajan Singh, S Sreesanth, Anil Kumble, Munaf Patel, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Yuvraj Singh and Ajit Agarkar. The players will assemble in Mumbai on February 26 and leave for the West Indies on February 28
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hutch takes the lap of Vodafone,woos Essar

Of the four contestants vying to buy the Hutchison Essar,the British telecom giant Vodafone has finally emerged as winner above the Anil Ambani's Relicance communiations and the Hinduja's.On sunday,vodafone,the world's largest player in GSM technologies,acquired Hutchison telecommunications International Ltd 67% stake in Hutchison Essar with a bid of 19$ billion.Official has yet to be made about the acquisition.Vodafone has already extended an olive branch to Essar,which hold the remaining 33% stake in hutch essar,which was also among the bidders for HTIL stake.It would like Essar to continue as its local partner.Essar hasn't yet decided whether to accept the proposal or not.Since existing regulations of the TRAI ,vodafone will have to find another partner.Such a investor would hve to invest 5$billion in the venture to acquire 26% stake mandated ,without getting any manaement control in return.
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Top most firing IT companies in India

Im not sure whether these stats are recent ones or not but im posting for you guys.


1) IBM --- Right now this is the most firing and dangerous company for IT professionals. >From the last 6 months, this company fired nearly 20% of their employees because of BG check and performance issues. This is most unsecured company from IT professionals point of view. They didn't have any strategic plans at HR policies regarding employee security. v

2) Accenture --- This is second top most firing company. This company was also have good firing rate like 15%. This is basically depends upon outsourcing, so there is no job security for an employee in this company.

3) Intel --- Recently they started firing of the employees.

4) CTS --- Always having firing policies(checking the Educational background and previous employment and also employee performance in work)

5) CSC--- Basically not a firing, but be careful about Back ground.

6) Satyam --- Basing upon their projects requirement they used to fire the people. Currently they stopped firing. Attrition rate is very high.

7) Patni ---- They fired so many employees, currently they are in very mcuh deficiency withe employees. Attrition rate is very high in this company.

So take care before accepting offers from these companies.

Secured IT companies in India
1) Microsoft --- Has project till 2050.

2) EDS --- Most secured company in india. Not laid off any of its employess even during 2001. Has lots of projects in Defence and financial areas .. Basically a gud company to be in. Also called as a retirement company.

3) HP --- Dream company. Inhouse and outside projects

4) TCS --- A govt. IT company. Secured.

5) WIPRO --- Doing gud as ever. Lots of project. Recently accuquired GM project ..So doing better.

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Quick tips to drive traffic to your blog or website

If you started a blog and you want to make some future,you need to concentrate on your traffic in the start,rather than getting your friends to click on the ads.But how to make people come to your website,read it and come again.Analysing and detailing it will take almost a year.Here by im posting some quick tips for the new bloggers.

Content :You post even just one post a day,it should have content which has quality.Its better to have single good post than 10 bad ones.viewers always appreciate the pages with good content.You should make your best effort in getting them back to your site again.Make your posts conversational, pithy and topical. Keep them short and stick to one topic per post.Write often and regularly so that both readers and search engines visit your blog more often.
Search Engines : one of the best sources of traffic if you make your site well organised.Come up with nice keywording and you will get good page ranking .The more is your page rank the more the ad provide want to pay to you.Make sure your blog URL has got very good keyword in its title.Use submission sites to submit your URL in all the search engines like google,yahoo..Dont forget to submit your feed in RSS directories.There are sites which has submission directory links in bulk.Go there and submit your feed URL.use feedstats to attract users like the feedburner chicklet i have in my subscribe box.
Signature : post your blog address in the signature in your email making the users know your presence in the web.Go to each and every place where you find a lot of surfers like forums,social networks,community discussion and write your link over there.Write your link in the comments of the most famous blogs.But remember that Google dont count this as a linkback to your site.
Email subscription : Dont forget to give a link of subscribe to updates through email on your blog.
Social bookmarking: Add a link of submit my site to digg,redditt,blinklist,buzz it and ....at the end of each article your write like i have on my blog.Submit your articles to these sites to get best traffic.
Backlinking : Try to contact authors of good blogs and request them for backlinks.It should nt look to them that you are begging,Write a letter like this"I have something interesting for you on my webpage.If you find my site or blog interesting,give me a link o my site on your webpage"

I hope these tips might had helped you to a good extent.Dont forget ot post your comments and anyother additions
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Oil and the world

Oil is the modern world's most needed resource. It is a resource created by nature over several millenniums and one that will be most probably be squandered away by humanity in less than a century. It is a resource that has dictated modern international diplomacy and politics, a resource now on the verge of extinction. I think it is time to look back at the way we have manifested this resource, how political games have been played and wars been fought under the cover of a philanthropic cause. Oil has been, till now, the driving force behind our industries. It has fulfilled human energy needs for several decades. In fact, several economic models measure a country's growth and economy by the amount of oil it consumes. From automobiles to kitchen gas to industrial usage, it wouldnt be wrong to say that oil as a source of energy has some influence on all our lives. So I cant understand why doesnt anybody today ask the question "What after Oil ?" Is it such a difficult global scenario to analyse or is it simply that we want to be like an ostrich, wishing the problem would simply go away. Instead of planning for a future for the coming generations, we have focussed our attention on gaining maximum control of the resource and passing the problem to the have not's. The problem is not mine or yours, but is something that will effect everybody, the whole mankind. This is an eventuality no one can deny and the solution can only be reached together. Consider this, the proposed American budget for the Iraq war was $70-80 billion, but so far has cost $290 billion with Mr Bush always keen on asking the congress for additional funds. $290 billion, thats almost equivalent to the entire value of Microsoft. Had even a fraction of the above funds been diverted to research regarding improving efficiency of energy generation, improvements in harnessing alternate sources of energy and funding fusion research programmes, the solution to our energy problems would have been with us and there for our future generations. Instead, let us see how the problem has actually been handled. It has been clear from events of the past few decades, that the foresight of the American leaders foretold the coming shortage and eventual exctinction of oil. It is indeed commendable that while the entire world was involved in developing their economies, solving regional disputes, maybe even a war or two, the largest global economy was cleverly, posing as a philanthropist, securing oil rights in the middle east through their oil companies through diplomatic and military means. US has always backed Israel, the regional superpower in the Gulf. Besides there were the Gulf Wars to gain dominance in Iraq and a direct strong hold in the region. Also through NATO, America has always enjoyed an upper hand in the region with its military bases and troops. The American Oil companies are extremely dominant in the middle east and american military presence there ensures safety of american investment in Saudi Arabia. And all this has been achieved after several decades of calculated political maneuvering and capitalising on every oppurtunity that comes their way. What troubles me though is the fact, that where ever the quest for oil has taken the US, there has been nothing but suffering and bloodshed for both the americans and the natives. The defenders of the world have not been true to their self appointed job. And the American people have been blatantly ignorant of their leader's lies and the media has been superficial, even biased at times in their coverage of these historic conflicts. Instead of acting as a responsible superpower, the country has ended up creating a mess. The war on Iraq has crossed over its allocated budget, with no repreive in sight. War on terror is a total disaster, with resentment to american presence in the region gaining momentum and american troops being targeted everywhere. Also the so called, elected governments established by the americans are weak and unstable. People are paying with their lives so American capitalists can reap the fruit. Meanwhile, the American economy is in a terrible state, with the inflation and the trade deficit touching new heights. With rising interest rates, mortgage and home finance, which has been the american golden goose, is now heading for a decline. The government has failed to create jobs in the economy with multinationals outsourcing to upcoming countries like China and India to increase their profit margins. Clearly the americans have not taken into consideration the consequences of globalisation and the increasing interdependence of the American and upcoming economies as consumer and producer. Hence, eventually the solution lies only in cooperation and mutual co existance and that will eventually be the key to the survival of our civilisation. However, in the current scenario, I see no end to this senseless quest fuelled by arrogance and lack of respect for human life. What is going to be the outcome of this whole chrade. Once this resource is finished, once the wars over controlling oil have been fought, once several million lives have been lost, we will be back where we were at the turn of the 19th. But by then it would be too late and it would all be over. What then??
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Indian team and "sport" ive politics

Team India - they lose 20 matches and then they win 3 matches in a bang making the fans happy.Then to make fans forget their losses,they come up with controversy between coach and a player or a match fixing sandal in the worst case.They have players in the team who never play well.They have player who fail 20 times and succeed in 21st time when he is about to get out of team.And that player wont be thrown out for 100 matches.I don't understand what criteria the team management follows in selecting the people.They cant select the 11 people who can win the world cup for India out of 100 crore guys.But one thing is for sure,There is lot of politics involved in the team.Everyone in the board wants to have their associated player enter the international arena.The president of the board normally looks like the big player of this game.Earlier it was dalmiya who always backed ganguly and now its the turn of powar who backs Mumbai players.Apart from this there are lot of players in the team who are in because of their seniority even if they dont play well.Take case of Tendulkar,he is totally out of form and even if he makes runs sometime he cant play with the josh he used to have earlier.But still the team management keeps him because he is the senior.There is lot of talent in the domestic cricket which is waiting for a single chance and you making these old players play for generations.Ain't it nuts???Stop playing with the reputation of the country for your selfneeds and select a team that can get the next worldcup some how.
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Playmate Anna is no more

Model actor Anna Nicole smith died on thursday afternoon in the seminole hardrock hotel and casino in Hollywood,Florida.A small town girl,Anna has a very quintessential wrecked up life,intriguing,eye popping and tragic. A highschool dropout turned dazzler was always fascinating to celebrity watchers-not bcoz she is a A star but because shje was always in the mid of controversary.After marrying a a billionare 60 years elder than her,she battled for his wealth after his death with the heirs and won the property from the supreme court.She becae a TV celeb getting feautured in a reality show that offered a candid look on how celebrity lived.she has a daughter and a son [found dead in her recovery room].Shots and videos of her ran on the cable channels for hours after the news broke.At 17,she met billy smith,a co worker at jim's crispy fried chicken and they had daniel as baby.A fter gettingf divorced with him she started working in topless bars in Houston to pay the bills.Her nick is sweet cheeks.In 1991,at 24 she entered the playboy contest and won.In 1992,she lited her "turnons" as "men who wear braces,cowboys!I also get off scary movies".In 1993 she was the playmate of the year.After this she was offered to become model of guess jeans.In 1994 she made big screen entry with Naked gun331/3.The final insult.After that she married j howard marshal who is 60 years elder to her.And after his death she started fighting for his fortune and that fight never ended.
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Google Adsense account blocked ???

You worked up for a longtime ,you wake up one morning and you notice a mail from the big boy saying your account is disabled,Dont worry,we got many alternatives to the adsense.Here by im giving you 5 best places and their descriptions who serve as best alternative to the Google Adsense.

Yahoo YPN - Right now its looking to be the best competitor to the adsense.If you are located in the US, this is probably the best alternative to Adsense. Yahoo Panama is launching on February 5^th.You can join it once it goes public

FeedBurner Ads - Feedburner has got FAN for displaying ads in the feed now and it is performing well as per the publishers. The ads are CPM in nature and they have decent reporting engine.

Text Link Ads, Adbrite - If you want to take a complete control of the ads in your website from format to pricing to positioning,this is the right place.You can sell text links on your blog pages using any of these programs. They also let you add advertising in your RSS feeds.

Kontera, IntelliTXT - These are inline contextual advertising programs that double-underline the keywords. Some users may however find this annyoying since the ad appears in a pop-up window.

BIDVERTISER - One of the best alternatives,gives you complete control of the bids unlike adsense.The only problems is you can have only one format of ad for the entire webpage as same code is given for all formats.But payout is quite good with range to almost 2$ a day.
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Ibibo - Great Indian idle people hunt

Ibibo.com has started a competition for the Indian bloggers under the name great Indian blogger hunt and they also set some prizes worth 1.5 crore.But I didn't understand to whom they really want to give the prize to.Initially when the competition is started ,I also joined thinking it will be fair.But in the end i found it merely a waste of time.There is nothing out there for a real blogger.It is just meant to cash the people who would love to waste their time sitting all the day creating new posts in Ibibo.They will give you rank on the basis of page impressions,comments,ratings by other users and posts.But the crap out there is your rating decreases considerably when some one rates you low but it wont increase with your ratings.They not even trace your ip.you can maintain two to three accounts easily rating yourself,writing comments.Most of the people do the same thing for getting comments as no one loves to see these blogs.All the things mentioned above can be done only by idle people only.Im pasting the top 5 blogs title,once you read them you can understand the quality of the competition out there.
rank 1 Mallika Sherawat - in the boldest clothes ever - Only for 18+
rank2 Bollywood videos pictures wallpapers desi babes
rank3 Pictures Worth Thousands of Words
rank4 All About All
rank5 . : M u s i n g s : .
Most of the content of the blogs is nothing except copying content from wikipedia,google.....and other sites.And you can find people to such a extent that they spend most of their day creating 200-300 posts.Normally after getting some score,you get 250 points a day.In almost one month the top scorer has 2823564.caluculate how many posts he might be doing all the day.Blogging is not junk.If you want to conduct some competition ,you should atleast come up with some policies that might get the best out of competitors.If you find yourself a really idle person,Go and join the hunt.
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Google feels it can't maintain youtube

Video hosting services are going to have a setback after some internet companies declared on Wednesday that they don't feel better investing this much heavily to keep the data flowing.Google which acquired online video sharing site youtube last year,said the internet was not designed for TV.It even issued a warning to the companies who think they can start distributing mainstream TV shows and movies on a global scale at broadcast quality over the Internet.The web infrastructure and even Google's cant scale.Google instead offered to work together with cable operators to combine its technology for searching for video and TV footage and its tailored advertising with the cable networks.high quality delivery of shows.The data involved in one hour can scale to one year's worth of emails.Most of traffic on net is peer to peer and video sharing.Even though the hosting companies are trying their best to increase user experience,the satisfaction of users is decreasing.Companies cant keep on investing on the same clip,says ONO chief executive Richard Alden.So people if you keep on sharing the video's on the net repeatedly,companies are not going to invest any more.So check before you upload something wheter its already present or not.
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Mc Donald's and Nirulas menu in your train

Fed up with the unboiled rice,rubberised chapati,watery dal and sabji in your journey???? ...
Here is some good news for you.IRCTC is now going to enter into a collaboration with Mc Donald's and Nirula's for offering their menu on the train.You will be getting burger from Mc Donald and roll from Nirula's.With the Delhi high court expressing anger over the IRCTC on unhygienic food making,The railways has came up with this decision.A surprise check by court appointed committee in november has revealed the nauseating state of kitchens in various trains even in Jammu Rajdhani also.IRCTC says that 150 locations has been identified for uploading of food from these reputed food chains.IRCTC is also in talks for devoloping some base kitchens.Efforts will be made to minimise food making in the pantry cars now.IRCTC has also heald a meeting about hygeine and safety.Also the employees in the train will be trained for hospitality,cleanliness,food management and courtesy. So people next time you get into train,there is no need to get your food packed @ home.You have yummy burgers in the jouney with you.
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50 + 40 = 70

The new marketing style of the branded cloth stores and goods in India is putting up a sale board infront of their shop.Normally some companies come up with flat a% offer and they offer some old stock to you or goods with minor defects.But for the good ones they cant come up with these flat offers.So they come up with upto 50% offer with upto written in very small size.Most of the people get into these stores thinking that they get 50% off.But now a days growing up companies like koutons,cantabil etc is attracting people by putting up boards like 50+x*% where x can be anything.Here by Im posting a pic which appears that its

50%+40% =90%.

But when you closely observe it you find it as 50+40* [* 40% is on the price after first 50%] i.e 50+(2000/100)=70%.Any new person who sees this board gets attracted and gets into the shop.If this is restricted to global brands its good because they tell the customer as soon as one enters the shop and they provide a bit of quality .But These days even a shop on the pavement comes up with a sales board.So beware before you get into these kind of shops.Some people even believe that these global brands also increase the prices sometimes and then comes up with a sale.This information is not guaranteed one.Still next time you go for a shopping get into best branded shop to get good things.
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Hackers attack on the root servers

Before you read this you need to know a bit of terminology

• A set of servers called domain name servers maps the human readable names to IP adresses.These servers are simple databases that map names to IP adresses and they are distributed all over the net
• When a computer on the Internet wants to resolve a domain name,it works from right to left,asking each name server to turn about the element to its left.
• Each top level domain has its own set of servers which in turn delegate to the name servers responsible for individual domain names
  

Hackers attacked the root servers* significantly after a long time since 2002 on Tuesday night.Believed to be from Asia ,hackers bombarded 13 root servers that serve as internet central adress books.But there was very little effect on the internet users.An average user would have barely noticed it.Hackers periodically try to overwhelm the root servers with requests and information which slows down the network and increasing the server response time.The servers are distributed through out the world and,like grid,can redirect their efforts when demand is highest.Root servers manage the internet's domain name system [DNS] ,used to translate web addresses such a gmail.com into numerical Internet protocol addresses used by machines.Two servers seemed to be the target of tuesday's attack.,one operated by US defence department and another by ICANN.The attacks lasted for almost 12 hours.But the good thing is the servers are able to withstand the attack.
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Exchange your secrets

Afraid to tell a secret to the public???No need to fear now.A website has been setup to encourage anonymous leaks of controversial government secrets.Government insiders around the world will be invited to leak evidence of corruption and injustice.It is just a copy of online encyclopedia,wikipedia
Depending on the contributions from the people
http://www.wikileaks.org
Will go live in a few months.This site is requesting the govt officials also to leak secrets and publish state documents.How ever the first major leak at the wikileaks was a textbook example of the viral,or word of mouth,marketing that sets the web buzzing.the site itself was a target.But the devolopers of the site wanted to maintain a low profile in the devolopment stage.But some blogger leaked the information of the project.The project devolopers are James Chen and Julian Assange.
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AMD making intel work

AMD,The leader in providing processor performance per dollar,never want to make Intel relax.After Intel released its core2 duo processors,people thought Intel has again regained its performance.But much to the expectations of its consumers AMD is again back by itself getting associated with ATI and ATI associating itself with Vista.making AMD -->vista :)AMD'S staff and its executives now believe that the time has come now for them to leave their benchmarks which are set on XP till now and set new ones on Windows Vista,the latest graphic sensation in the market.The executives in the company believes that Vista will improve the performance of both existing and future AMD processors, as well as Intel, though not by the same margin.Advantage for Non uniform Memory Acess[NUMA] in AMD enables multiple cores to have simultaneous access to memory by zoning that memory such that such accesses don't collide and the good thing is Vista actually does NUMA better.Apart from this AMD is working on graphics with a whole team working on it.Multicore processing for both brands, AMD argues, changes the whole nature of laborious tasks that real-world users would relegate to the background. If one brand of processor performs a typical background test in the foreground better than another brand, it doesn't mean that it will also be better if both processors were also playing a 3D game.
AMD now concentrate on tests that replicate environments where real-world users perform what AMD is now calling mega-tasking: a type of multitasking where the user isn't just running multiple tasks on his computer (which now takes place 100% of the time, on the granular level) but is actually doing more than one thing with the computer simultaneously. If laboratories could devise such tests, and devise them for Vista, then Schwarzbach[product marketing manager] believes the performance gap between Intel and AMD processors on XP might be closed, if not reversed.
With all these AMD appears to be always in neck to neck competition with Intel.All the best AMD
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'research' ing Indian's

Indians are considered one of the best engineers of the world these days.But one might had observed that very few Indians innovate and research a product.Even if they do so many a times it happens outside India.y??????
Our system is designed in such a way that students in universities have a kind of thinking like getting back the money they had paid for the education fastly and then setting up the assets and taking up the responsibility of the family and all.In US ,students have a option of part time job which helps them get the expenses needed for them for the higher studies facilitating them to think freely about the future.Apart from financial problems parents most of them behave as paranoids asking the child to get a good job and settle fast.They want to secure the future of the child.Not only parents its the surroundings that force you change your course of mind sometimes.When I was in x th standard i dreamt of becoming a scientist,but now i ended up somewhere else in IT job.Its your friends,the knowledge you acquire force you to change your course.In US ,universities get high funding for sponsoring research and education of students,where as in India getting funding for higher education is lesser case and if people study, they do it for sake of getting high salaries and for getting jobs.80% of Indian universites has very less interaction with the industry.By the time someone graduates from the university,he do know only theoretical concepts and nothin about the industry.The worse thing is except a few engineering colleges like IIT's,JIIT,BITS,NIIT.....has got faculty that can help student do research.Rest of the colleges teachers dont have proper idea of even IEEE.In such a condition how can Indians research?????
Thanks to the private universities entering the India backed by industrial majors.May they force the students do research when they are in their education itself.
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Wordpress Vs blogger

Wordpress.com and blogger.com referred here are hosting service which host the blogs for those who cannot afford webspace and domain.Both of these sites have their own advantages and disadvantages .some say wordpress has more feautures and blogger is for beginners.Here ill compare both of them
The best thing one can find wiith the blogger is that it gives you direct access to the HTML of the page,You can do anything with your page right from the scratch just by having a little knowledge about the HTML and CSS.You can have your own template in blogger.com where as wordpress doesn't support that[may be security issues prevented them].Unlike blogger its easy to republish the whole site with the wordpress.it takes very less time for republishing.Unlike blogger word press has categories and a quick search facility which doesnot rely on Google.Interface for them people rocks in wordpress covering each and every feature that users loves to have.There are lot of template you can choose from for wordpress where as very less of them [especially 3 column] templates are available for blogger.Wordpress has one more feauture called password protection of posts.You can lock the posts with password to prevent others from getting access,where as blogger don't have such feature.Blogger supports multiple blogs for a single user.It has great features to control the multiple authors of any blog [ if the blog has multiple authors].Blogger has one more nice feature of saving the drafts regularly while wordpress.com doesn't have it.[Users with poor UPS better use blogger hehe].Blogger.com has got everything clear like its copyright policy,its terms and conditions where as wordpress.com doesnt have any such things on thier home page.For posting comments and to prevent spam blogger has just introduced the word verification feature.Blogger has one bad feature that if you have to view a post posted long time ago,you have to go back ways in your archives while wordpress.There is no good inbuilt tracking system for blogger to get stats,you have to reply on external counters for that.Moreover so far as i know wordpress don't allow adsense ads on its pages.So for those who wanna make some bucks with adsense its a wrong choice.
Finally if you want to have a site built with some nice templates and want to have some easy interface to edit [like sidebar] i prefer wordpress for that.Where for users who want to play with HTML of their page,I prefer Blogger
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Australian student sells his life on eBay, including 'cranky girlfriend'

Fancy a new life? An Australian man is selling his on the auction site eBay, offering his name, phone number, worldly possessions and circle of friends to the highest bidder.

Nicael Holt, a 24-year-old philosophy student, has promised to introduce the buyer to his potential lovers - "around eight which I have been flirting with", as he put it on his eBay entry - and his grand repertoire of six jokes.

Bidding started at A$5 (£2) and closed yesterday at A$7,500. Mr Holt, from Wollongong, south of Sydney, said he would go through with the deal if any of the top five bidders were genuine and prepared to pay cash.

Under an entry posted on the site earlier this month, headed "New Life for Sale!!", Mr Holt offered a broken relationship with a cranky ex-girlfriend and a four-week training course "in becoming me", including fashion sense, food tastes and "style of seduction".

He wrote that he would give the buyer "lessons in my personal history (the good and the bad stuff)", and teach them his skills, including surfing, skateboarding, handstands and "fire-twirling". From March, the new Mr Holt would also "have access to a cruisy job delivering fruit".

The real Mr Holt appears to have loftier ambitions. He told ABC radio yesterday that he planned to make a documentary about his business venture. "If any of them [the bidders] are real, I'll definitely do it, and do this documentary, because I think it would be really interesting," he said.

"But if the next five bids aren't serious, I think I might be just about ready to give up."

The sale attracted 48 bids, with the identity and gender of the highest bidder - codenamed "ridderstrade"- unknown. eBay did not comment on the sale, but allowed it to run its course.

The possessions offered include Mr Holt's bed, clothes, collection of 300 CDs, surfboard, skateboard, childhood photographs, backpack, "nice lamp which your ex-girlfriend bought you", a bicycle with "wonky handlebars" and "piercings to the value of $180".

Mr Holt promised to introduce the buyer to his social circle, comprising "15 close friends and about 170 other friends". He wrote in his entry: "Friends will treat you exactly as they have treated me... take me running, surfing, climbing and cook for me."

But the deal would not include his passport, driving license, academic qualifications, legal identity or inheritance rights. And Mr Holt warned in ominous tones: "I have 2 nemeses."

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How to edit .pdf files

How do I edit pdf files?

As a general rule it is better if possible to amend the original document and recreate the pdf file, particularly if you are using both a printed and a pdf version as this helps keep them both in synch.It is also possible to edit only those pages with amendments and insert them into the old pdf file.
Please note that, while Acrobat Reader is supported software, Acrobat Professional is not.

Making text amendments

Using the Touchup Text tool click on the text that you want to edit.

Selecting the text you need to edit will bring up a boundary box showing you all the editable text on that page.

Within the box you can make minor text amendments line by line, providing that you have the font that the text was originally created in installed on your machine. If you don’t have the right font, it isn’t even possible to copy and paste the words or characters from elsewhere in the document.

You cannot create a new line of text if your additional text runs on too far - it will not wrap. Also, be careful in editing spaces because there is no set size for a space and if you may not be able to realign the text exactly.

Font amendments

Using the Touchup type tool, select the text that requires amendment. Right-click the selected text and choose Properties. You will then be able to alter the typeface and colour of the text, change the alignment or the letterspacing, or make the text bold or italic.

Selecting objects

Hold down the Touchup Type tool and select the Touchup Object tool This will allow you to select rules and text boxes and move them around. It is useful if you have a document which contains a lot of rules, for example, as these can sometimes distil into thick lines which are actually several layers of rules. These can be edited down by deleting them

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Gtalk customised theme

Bored with the same white Gtalk window without colours???check out this theme loaded with smiley's and background images.The help file is also attached along with the installation file.

Download the Gtalk theme

Help file

I'm pasting the necessary instructions :

After downloading the file,double click it to run the programme and run the installation.Once the installation is over,open the gtalk main window,go to settings and then to appearance tab.Select mytheme from there.You are done.You will see a lady image in your chat window.To change that background image go to start menu-->all programmes-->dash->mytheme-->change background.exe.show the path of the image and you are done
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