tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:53:48 +0000Internet Leashed : Where nothing goes unnoticed. This blog is all about the internet news &amp; views.http://www.sanzrao.com/sanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)Blogger87125InternetLeashedhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-1020690025523697427Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:35:00 +00002009-07-04T14:05:17.781+05:30spottedGoogle You must have noticed that Google  redirects you to your country specific Google domain name even if you had typed Google.com.  i.e. google.com will redirect to google.co.in if you live in India. This results in displaying the country specific searches in the search result. So if you want to avoid this and use Google.com for your search query then just a simple url will do the trick.  The trickhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/qzoNBzKVT3E/how-to-disable-googlecom-from.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/qzoNBzKVT3E" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/07/how-to-disable-googlecom-from.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-6334142299047750065Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:51:00 +00002009-06-30T23:21:03.752+05:30spottedmsnemailVery few know that you can have email address @msn.com which can be accessed in same way as hotmail.com. If you are interested in getting one just click here & register yourself.This is better than @hotmail.com as it is small and very easy to remember. To access your email @msn.com, just go to hotmail.com and enter your registered email and the password.So what are you waiting for.. Grab your id http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/j8KERubIE9k/get-email-address-msncom.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/j8KERubIE9k" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/06/get-email-address-msncom.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-2168254162843996826Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:41:00 +00002009-06-26T11:12:24.612+05:30spotted Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died on Thursday 26th June 2009.  Jackson had been due to start a series of concerts in London on July 13. He had been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the past couple of  months. The shows for the 50 London concerts sold out within minutes of going on sale in March.But now that he is no more, people are just trying to cash in on his death on the net.  http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/zkrZdhRCoKU/cashing-on-michael-jacksons-death.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/zkrZdhRCoKU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/06/cashing-on-michael-jacksons-death.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-1011243756069851519Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:56:00 +00002009-06-06T20:28:40.826+05:30spotteddisposable email Afraid that you might start getting junk mails by providing your email address at some site. Then YopMail is the site you should head for. All you need to do is provide some random name @ yopmail.com (e.g. sanzrao1000@yopmail.com)  while registering your email address at any site.  Then head to YopMail and just enter the same name that you provided in the email box. No need to provide any http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/M9uAOYIAz7w/easy-disposable-email.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/M9uAOYIAz7w" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/06/easy-disposable-email.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-7360712209951549096Sun, 31 May 2009 14:46:00 +00002009-05-31T20:18:13.788+05:30spotted   Free-ocr is an online tool for OCR (optical character recognition). There are many other sites which provides this kind of service, but what makes this different is that this is free. This site currently supports PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG or TIFF formats to convert to text format.You just need to provide the file and select the language of document to improve recognition of language http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/7VEcUjkdONo/free-optical-character-recognition.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/7VEcUjkdONo" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/05/free-optical-character-recognition.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-8338267227890509440Wed, 20 May 2009 18:36:00 +00002009-05-21T00:06:53.051+05:30GoogleLogo Google today changed its event logo to the findings and unveiling of the 47-million year old skeleton, which scientists claim may provide a missing link in human evolution. You must have noticed that Google always modifies its logo as per the events. If you have missed previous Google Logo’s then you can visit http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html to find the logo’s.  The collections of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/ooY70iOSaV8/google-events-holidays-logo.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/ooY70iOSaV8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/05/google-events-holidays-logo.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-7084258573172022149Sun, 17 May 2009 08:59:00 +00002009-05-17T14:43:55.491+05:30feedbackotherssurvey Everyone knows that Google Docs is a free online document, spreadsheet, presentation processor. But there is more to it than what meets the eye. You can also  use Google docs to create free online feedback and survey forms. With just few clicks you are ready to embed or email the feedback/survey forms to your user and collect the feedback/survey in a single place. To begin with just http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/0x1O6QS5HA4/feedback-survey.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/0x1O6QS5HA4" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/05/feedback-survey.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-3278209328442347159Sat, 16 May 2009 18:50:00 +00002009-05-17T00:47:00.358+05:30visual tagspotted Another useful widget I came across today known as Taggify.  Taggify is a web widget which allows bloggers and publishers enhance their sites by adding image tooltips linked to certain image's regions. You just have to move over the image and a inline popup will show additional image, description, link related can be displayed.You can also use it to show the actual image of the thumbnail http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/cDIXjVDv10s/add-visual-tags-to-images-on-your-site.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/cDIXjVDv10s" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/05/add-visual-tags-to-images-on-your-site.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-8310492075539969652Fri, 15 May 2009 05:56:00 +00002009-05-15T11:28:14.973+05:30Free hostingspotted Couple of months back we had posted about free apps invitation code from DreamhostApps. Now they have come up with another good offer. Go to Dreamhost and get a free domain and webhosting for 1 year for US Residents only.The webhosting offer is with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited diskspace.  Choose a yearly plan in signup and choose a new domain name. Enter the required details as requestedhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/-XCq5pkmxVg/free-hosting-and-domain-for-1-yr.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/-XCq5pkmxVg" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/05/free-hosting-and-domain-for-1-yr.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-979603584751384621Sat, 09 May 2009 14:54:00 +00002009-05-09T20:25:31.924+05:30New Session in IE8MicrosoftHow many of you have multiple accounts for same site, say Yahoo or Orkut or some other email or networking site or forums, which you would like to browse simultaneously. One of the option available was to install different browsers and then log in into the same site using different ids. But with the new features of Internet Explorer 8 you can do this within IE8 itself.To make use of this featurehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/nLZGD8K-Z6E/login-to-multi-accounts-simultaneously.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/nLZGD8K-Z6E" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/05/login-to-multi-accounts-simultaneously.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-8673997005149817686Sat, 09 May 2009 13:04:00 +00002009-05-09T18:40:13.116+05:30safe browsingspottedTime Limit Browsing Sometimes it happens that you just forget about the time while  playing some addictive online games or browsing some networking sites until some one from your friends or family interrupts you to go take a walk or to sleep. Minutesplease comes to the rescue for handling such situations. You can set your time that you need to spend on a particular site through this online application. Just visit http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/L9-A1vNk7YU/setting-time-limit-for-browsing-site.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/L9-A1vNk7YU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/05/setting-time-limit-for-browsing-site.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-6968721898859858417Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:54:00 +00002009-05-01T00:24:14.136+05:30gmail labGoogleemoticonsToday while I was at listening to & eating my friend called me to say that a new lab feature has been added by Gmail. This is another great addition to the labs feature . Gmail is . I am very happy and thats why I am .Hope you have understood by now what I am pointing to. Yes Gmail has added one more feature to its Lab named “Extra Emoji”. The name sounds like a Japanese word because Gmail http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/FM-jscVt-h8/additional-emoticons-for-gmail.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/FM-jscVt-h8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/05/additional-emoticons-for-gmail.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-3706129506958075710Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:08:00 +00002009-04-26T19:39:27.777+05:30spottedweb hostAre you looking out for a webhost and are confused on which host to select? Getting stuck with the wrong host is a very costly mistake. The best way to search for the host is to look at your favorite sites and find out where they are hosted.  So your immediate thought would be to contact the owner and find out where he is hosting his site. I have a better idea than this!!.Visit Who Is Hosting http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/sHI9qrauGLM/how-to-find-webhost-of-your-favorite.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/sHI9qrauGLM" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/how-to-find-webhost-of-your-favorite.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-8546156740792438213Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:56:00 +00002009-04-24T01:26:24.418+05:30geocitiesYahoo Free hosting service acquired for $4.6 billion 10 years ago by Yahoo Inc will be shutdown in few months. GeoCities is no longer accepting any new subscription.  As per them they would soon provide the information at their help centre site how individuals could save their data.Yahoo last week had announced to shutdown Jumpcut which is an online service for editing videos too. Tough competitions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/D3MeEn3jo_Q/geocities-to-close-down.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/D3MeEn3jo_Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/geocities-to-close-down.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-71619956835123569Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:17:00 +00002009-04-23T22:12:53.557+05:30Googleyoutube Visualize this: You are watching a movie on Youtube & for some urgent work you had to close the movie before it finishes. Now when you are free again you want to continue watching the movie from the point you had left.  What would you do?You would probably scroll the seek button and hope it starts from the point you had left. You sure would have to go left/right and waste some time getting http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/fZgcPOpEpPY/go-to-specific-movie-location-in.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/fZgcPOpEpPY" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/go-to-specific-movie-location-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-3574125891917094349Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:39:00 +00002009-04-22T00:46:05.646+05:30google labsGoogle Google labs launched one more new feature called “Google News Timeline”. This will arrange all your search criteria for Google News and other information into chronological order.   If you subscribe to some reader then at most you can see around 20 to 30 posts but Google News Timeline allows you to navigate date wise all the posts on that blog.  One more useful apps released byhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/Sbu7eOW1qjg/news-timeline-from-google-labs.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/Sbu7eOW1qjg" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/news-timeline-from-google-labs.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-4822540305737101903Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:39:00 +00002009-04-22T00:49:35.403+05:30google labsGoogleGoogle has added a new feature to its wings. I am referring to the new similar images feature.  Existing Image search does allow you to search for images but it was sometimes difficult to find the right angled image using words. This drawback has been handled by similar images from Google labs.   For more information go to the link mentioned below: Official Google Blog: Hard at play in Google http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/TClUMVJGwQQ/search-similar-images-with-google.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/TClUMVJGwQQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/search-similar-images-with-google.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-7659820883250324338Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:40:00 +00002009-04-19T14:14:01.972+05:30gmail labGoogle     New feature released yesterday by Gmail is the one I like most.  I normally used to forget some or other friend while sending emails, also it was quite a time wasting to select the friends list from the contacts. The new feature named “Suggest More Recipients” as the name suggest will provided you with list of recipients whom you often add to your email address. Enter at least 2 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/BlFwRBAatqU/official-gmail-blog-new-in-labs-suggest.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/BlFwRBAatqU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/official-gmail-blog-new-in-labs-suggest.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-5476889530510010843Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:12:00 +00002009-04-13T05:44:23.854+05:30spottedIndia Election Polling Booth Details Another Gadget from Google to verify if your name is present in the voting list for current year and the polling booth details. Just enter your name and location in the boxes given below & Click on Search button. If there are many names in search list, just click on advance search and enter some additional details before clicking the search.The result will give you details on your address, wardhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/4pvfouWRTOU/2009-lok-sabha-elections-india-verify.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/4pvfouWRTOU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/2009-lok-sabha-elections-india-verify.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-8546942935070261871Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:03:00 +00002009-04-12T23:38:36.080+05:30gmail labGoogleGmail released a new feature in Labs which will let the user insert image in "what you insert is what you see" format i.e. the image will actually be seen in the body section of email, instead of links to download attached images. To use this feature you just need to turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under settings. Click on Save once done. Images can be inserted by either uploading http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/KEvFdUErOHU/inline-images-in-gmail.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/KEvFdUErOHU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/inline-images-in-gmail.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-7965865535285675392Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:26:00 +00002009-04-09T23:56:57.008+05:30gmail labGoogle Gmail has introduced a new feature in lab named “Sender Time Zone”, that allows users to quickly know if it is right time to send an email so that the receiver will reply back immediately. To enable this feature turn on “Sender Time Zone” from the Labs tab under Settings. Once enabled, this will display either GREEN phone icon to suggest that it is between 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in senders local http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/ItPiK5Yzo24/sender-time-zone-in-gmail.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/ItPiK5Yzo24" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/sender-time-zone-in-gmail.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-3428437516210241964Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:28:00 +00002009-04-08T23:58:36.542+05:30safe browsingconficker wormothers Conficker is a computer worm which targets Microsoft Windows operating system. First detected in October 2008 there are 4 different variants to this worm named as Conficker A, B, C & D. There is a simple way to detect if your PC is infected with Conficker A, B or C.Just check if you are able to view the 6 images below. First & last image is just to check if your browser is enabled to load http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/Nu3v-Z2CEdE/is-your-pc-infected-with-conficker.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/Nu3v-Z2CEdE" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/is-your-pc-infected-with-conficker.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-6087123763460631495Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:00:00 +00002009-04-05T23:29:52.299+05:30spottedIndia2Sms offers free SMS service to any mobile phone service in India. The best part is that while it reaches the receiver within seconds.  The receiver will receive the message from “LM-Indi2SMS” with currently just one line of advertisement stating “ Ad: Send Free SMS From www.india2sms.com”This is just in beta phase and hence you won’t find any fancy website design yet. The best part is therehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/YDC7WFnw4KI/send-free-sms-to-india.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/YDC7WFnw4KI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/04/send-free-sms-to-india.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-3235331388565333842Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:23:00 +00002009-03-31T22:53:26.628+05:30gmail labGoogle Gmail launched a new feature for Indians i.e. to type email in Indian language.  This feature is by default enabled if you are in India, if not then turn it on from “Language”  section  under “Settings” link. The languages currently supported are Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.To select the language go to compose mail and click on dropdown on the left side just below Attach a file http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/TCQfh1PYGK8/gmail-in-indian-language.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/TCQfh1PYGK8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/03/gmail-in-indian-language.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839396264339852560.post-1332904801322844115Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:57:00 +00002009-03-30T17:27:00.945+05:30Acronym finderspottedDo you feel lost when someone types an acronyms or abbreviations while  chatting online. So what if someone type WUU2 and you asked him what does that mean and the reply came back IITYWIMIWHTKY?Don't worry, Acronymfinder is here to help you get out of such moments. The Acronym Finder is a searchable database of more than abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications,http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~3/EZhnYd8QyHU/know-any-acronyms-or-abbreviations-in.htmlsanjaybrao.sanzrao@gmail.com (Sanjay Rao)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InternetLeashed/~4/EZhnYd8QyHU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.sanzrao.com/2009/03/know-any-acronyms-or-abbreviations-in.html