Last week, after the protest of SIPA, POPA the internet piracy act – the US Justice Department came down hard on Megaupload and its mega founder, Kim Dotcom was arrested. You all might have known about Megaupload.com, a site that lets users to upload and share files with friends and public which also had movie, music streaming online. The American FBI shuts down the Megaupload.com for copyright violation which causing $500 million dollars and arrested the owner Kim Dotcom and several of his employees.

Want to know about Kim Dotcom, the owner of Megaupload ? I read an article few days back about the luxurious life of Kim dotcom who owned a $30 million dollar mansion and few luxury cars including mercz and RR phantom. Check out the photos here. Also you should check out this article at WSJ ‘Inside the Lavish Life Of Web’s Mr. Dotcom – link‘

Today, here is a Megaupload video game that rises after the closure of Megaupload.com. The game is inspired from the shut down of Megaupload and the arrest of Kim dotcom. So taking the opportunity to create a video game based on the popular storage service.

The popular spanish gaming company has developed a game where it puts the users in the skins of megaupload founders. The game is titled ‘MegaUP: Upload if you can! where the objective of the game is to escape from FBI agents and run out. All you have to do is run, run and run! There are many obstacles in the gaming session where you need to overcome all those obstacles and run away from the FBI agents.

Playing the game is so simple. You need to move the character (read it as founder of megaupload :P) and make him run away from the FBI agents. In the game, there is a van named ‘Internet SWAT’ which is chasing after him and there are some obstacles stand in his way.

So what is the reward or gaming points while you keep running ? Once you keep him running away, the files will be stored on the web, on the screen you will see how the load is progressing and that will be your reward.

Here is a small snippet from the description ” In 2012 four men owners of a known uploader web were sent to prison by the government of freedom for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from prision. Today, still wanted by the government of freedom, they survive as uploaders of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire them. ”

The game is currently available for Windows Phone and XBox live.

MegaUP : Upload if you can! Xbox, Windows Phone 7 Game Inspired By Megaupload Shutdown is a post from: Madras Geek

Few days back we told you about few android apps to find used cars, dealers and their reviews. Today we are going to see set of android apps that helps you to find cheap hotels, last minute book hotels around the world. You get to find cheap hotels, discount hotels at lowest fares right at your palm of your hand via android apps. Let’s check out some Hotel android apps :

Hotel Finder :

Once you’ve installed the Hotel Finder app on your android mobile, based on your GPS, it finds the location and near by hotels automatically. Positive feature is the crisp and easy to use interface and lowest rates. The app is very simple to use. Starting it with, it has 3 rows. First row you need to enter your location. It can automatically take the location using Android GPS data, or you can also manually enter the location.

The second thing, enter the Check-in and Check out date. Third row select the number of Guests and number of Rooms you need. Hit the search button. It displays the list of Hotels that are around the location. You can categorize them based on the star ratings such as 5 Star, 4 star hotels etc.

You can also select the language (the app supports more then 10 languages and has list of more than 10,000 hotels around the world). You can view the hotels based on the popularity, price range, hotel name and distance.

If you click on the hotel name, you get the details such as address, phone numbers, map view etc. Also the price details are listed. The app also displays the types of rooms (luxury, suite etc) along with the photos. You can also know more about the specific hotel description, activities it has (gym, spa, pool, salon etc). Finally you could also view the reviews from customers.

Simple and easy to use. Download from android market.

Expedia Hotels

Expedia hotels android app helps you to book a hotel room in just 4 taps. Smooth easy user interface which is customized for tablets too. It has one of the biggest database of 130,000 hotels in 20,000 cities worldwide. Similar to the above mentioned app, this one too finds your location based on GPS, you can browse through hotels, look out for room photos, filter the hotels based on price, distance etc.

You can read reviews from people and supports 19 languages. Download it here.

Hotel Saver :

I should say, it is an exact clone of Hotel Finder app. If you want, you can download and try it.

Hotel Tonight :

Using this app, you get last minute deals on Hotels. Hotel tonight, from the name itself you can guess it right. It has deals for one night stay on hotels. You get some amazing low cost deals on the same day bookings and the bookings are open till 2am.

You get discounts sometimes upto 70% and worth trying it out. Download it here.

Hotels.com android app

This app is great for quickly searching for rooms & paying for them. Very much useful for people on the go and last minute bookings. Bookings through Hotels.com you get reward points which you can redeem later.

It has a special tab ‘Tonight Local deals’ which shows some huge deals discounts on hotels. The database is large with 140,000+ hotels throughout 200 countries. Powerful search interface and you can access your past, current and future reservations, even when offline. Supports more than 34 languages.

Download it here.

5 Android apps to Find cheap hotels is a post from: Madras Geek

It’s been a long time since we talked about twitter apps. Previously we had reviewed alot of twitter applications such as to find who unfollowed you on twitter, twitter plugins for wordpress, share music on twitter and ultimate list of 170+ twitter apps, tools and guides. Today we are going to see a tiny app that helps you to delete multiple tweets at a time or you can say it deletes all your tweets at once.

You cannot recover deleted tweets, so beware before using this app. If you had planned to start a new twitter account, instead of creating a new one – you can simple delete all your tweets, change the handle and do a clean start. This tiny app named ‘TwitWipe’ helps you in deleting all your tweets at single click. You don’t have to delete tweets one by one manually.

What Twitwipe had to say about itself ” TwitWipe is a tool to wipe or delete all your tweets in one go. You may need to do this to start over, to clean it out before handing the account over to someone else, or maybe you’ve just realised how shitty your tweets are. ” The greatest disadvantage of starting a new account on a new id is that, you don’t get your desired twitter handle these days. Most of the names are alreayd taken.

How to use Twitwipe ? You don’t need any technical knowledge to use twitwipe and also it doesn’t harm your twitter account anyway. So, just go to Twitwipe, grant access to your twitter account by clicking ‘Sign in with Twitter’ button and click the link ‘Start Wiping’.

TwitWipe deletes only your tweets and it keeps all your followers, favorites and the people you’re following the same. It takes seriously a long time if you have more tweets to delete.

If suppose, you want to recover your deleted tweets ?

How to Recover deleted tweets ?

You can first backup all your tweets using Backupify. Then if you want, you can recover all your tweets.

Twitwipe. If you had used any other similar service, do share it with us on comments.

Delete All Your Tweets at a Time is a post from: Madras Geek

Recently I got my Facebook cards for free from Moo.com. Moo, a leader in printing custom business cards, online flyers, stickers etc. Their new initiative that lets you to print your Facebook timeline cover as your business card and send it to you for free. Yes, they made it free all over the world. You get 50 cards for free. Today we are going to see some of the best websites that helps you to get your business card printed online and ship it over to you.

The business cards can be designed with the easy template or you can upload your own business card design to these sites. You can create a custom business cards design online and get them printed. Let’s check out some useful websites that helps you in custom business cards printing.

vistaprint.com

They not only print custom business cards, they also do bumper stickers, rubber stamps, caricature design, free pens, banners, posters, car door magnets, sign boards etc.

moo.com

As already said, one of the industry leaders in printing custom business cards online. Finest quality of cards and super print design they’ve got. Some of the creative designed cards can be found here.

uprinting.com

uPrinting offers 20% off on business cards. You can design and print all types of business cards, calendars, door hangers, flyers, certificates, greeting cards, invitations, posters etc. You can order a free sample kit before you place your customized order.

staples.com

Staples is one of the biggest brand that has almost everything right from ink and toner, pc drives, accessories, printers, phones, cameras etc. On their Copy & Print section, you can print custom business cards.

zazzle.com

Zazzle’s business card section has lot of variety. You get upto 50% off on ordering business cards. You can use the coupon code : BIZCARD4LESS. It has business cards catered based on the jobs such as animal business cards, bakery business cards, computer cards, dental, construction, DJ business, fashion, fitness, music, photography, plain, retro and more.

printsmadeeasy.com

You get cheap business cards here starting from $2.99. Great service and high quality cards.

tinyprints.com

It has lot of customizable templates and design to start with. You also have cards available for different industries. You can design your own custom business cards and get it printed.

Other similar services to print custom business cards includes overnightprints.com , printingforless.com , printspal.com and uvcards.com

If you ask me to select from the above mentioned sites, I will go with Moo.com. They are the best.

10 Websites to Print Custom Business Cards Online is a post from: Madras Geek

This might sound crazy, because there are many health guides that advices you on how to quit smoking and how to overcome the addiction, but how come these android apps will help in quit smoking addiction. I know quitting can seem so hard, but with regular practice and tips you can easily overcome it. I just read this post ” 50 Creative and Crazy Ways to Quit Smoking Once and for All ” – Just loved it. So adding to it, lets discuss some of the creative android apps that helps you in the process of quitting smoking.

Quit Now :

A simple android app with a minimal user interface that helps you to record you non-smoking days and by that it displays what are all the benefits you get from it in a graphical style. On the main screen, you have health, gallery, achievements, settings etc.

When you click on the health icon, it displays technical details from your number of non-smoking days such as the ‘sudden death risk lowered by 5%’, your taste and smell senses regained by 3% etc. If you keep entering the non-smoking days, you get to unlock achievements. There are total of 15 achievements that you can unlock. Fun little app. must try!

Quit Smoking :

Quit smoking is a widget application that calculates based on statistical data from other users, and it’s continuously adjusted to your specific smoking pattern. It helps you to gradually wean you from dependency on cigarettes.

Once you’ve installed the app, go to homescreen, touch and hold an empty space to popup the option from that add widgets and select Quit (standard).

Smoke Control :

Yet another app with interactive user interface that uses flings/swypes to guide your way through different statistics and graphs. Just enter the number of smoking counts and it summarize your progress, and indicate if you are allowed to smoke again, or better wait some more. Download the app from android market.

Android apps to Help Quit Smoking is a post from: Madras Geek

On your Android smartphone, just open the Google search, you get all the previous search entries as suggestions or it displays your search query history. If you want to delete the Google search history from your android smartphone, it is so easy.

Make sure you’ve the Google search app from android market. Not a problem because these days all the devices has this app by default that helps you in quick search. So, just enter into Google search app. You can also directly hit the search key on your android phone.

Now the Google search box is open, you get to see all the search history (previous search queries as suggestions). Which ever keyword you want to delete, just hold the keyword for a long press and you get then a option to delete the keyword from the search history.

You can just click the delete option to delete the search keyword from the search history. You don’t have to login to your Google account to delete the search history of your android phone. By tapping it from your android device, you can delete it.

Delete, Clear Google Search History on Android is a post from: Madras Geek

Here is a simple extension that lets you to repeat Youtube videos automatically in a loop. Are you looking for a YouTube repeater that keeps on play Youtube videos on repeat mode ? Then here you go. Before we check out the chrome extension, here are some useful links below :

10+2 Little Known YouTube Tricks

Best YouTube Chrome Extensions

YouTurn is a simple chrome extension that will repeat YouTube videos forever till the end of time. The extension repeats YouTube videos automatically. Just click the grey circle on the right corner in the address bar while watching a YouTube video – the circle turns green indicating ‘Automatic Repeat’ is ON.

You can switch off automatic repeat by, clicking the green circle. So simple to use and very much useful if you’re playing some of your favorite tracks on a loop mode.

There are two options to listen, if you want to listen to a set of songs, then you can use playlist on YouTube that automatically shifts songs after it gets over. If you want to listen same song on repeat mode, then use this extension.

Download Youturn for Chrome

How To Put YouTube Videos on Loop ? is a post from: Madras Geek

Tumblr is a great resource to create an auto blog that fetches posts from various other web blogs and posts more than 100 items per day. Recently tumblr has stopped importing Rss feeds from other blogs, but with the help of third party web apps you can easily import Rss feeds into tumblr blogs. Today we are going to check out an app that does the work for you.

Tumblr RSS app allows you to fetch the feed from different websites and post them on your tumblr blog. Tumblr RSS updates feeds once every hour and has a limit of 100 posts per account, per day. If you change the tumblr url, this setup will won’t work.

Here are step by step instructions to get started with. All you need to do is, just have your tumblr blog and give permission to Tumblr Rss to access your tumblr blog. Get into Tumblr Rss website and hit the login button on your right side. Grant access to your tumblr blog.

Now click the Get started button and enter your email address. Now you can start entering feed URL’s. Just add the feed URL’s and select the tumblr blog to which it has to be posted and also you can select the post type (full text or only links) and finally submit.

At the moment, it exactly fetches the post as in like RSS feed and publishes them on Tumblr. It doesn’t have support for post tags, categories etc. Also you can select only text or links. No photos etc. Sometime formatting may cause an issue in Tumblr.

Tumblr RSS app

Create Auto blog with Tumblr by Adding Rss Feeds to Tumblr Rss app is a post from: Madras Geek

When looking out to buy some used cars, just bumped into some android apps that helps you to check out some used cars, new cars online via your android smartphone. Here we are going to discuss about some of the best car apps for android.

Edmunds :

Edmunds android app allows you to check out used cars, pricing, you can trade in with a private seller or dealer. You can negotiate with them. The app displays the listings with photos, specs, pricing details. It displays the listings based on your location for accurate regional pricing. Not only that, it also includes the dealers, incentives and more.

So at first time you install the app, it asks for your location. You can enter your location zip code, set distance that you’re looking for etc. The interface is so simple and any one can use it. It has two tabs (new / used cars). Select the tab and start entering the options such as make/model no, vehicle type, price range, feature, location etc.

Loved the smooth scrolling in options. When you select a car type or price range, the smooth rolling is super. Now, when you have set all the options, it will display the results. It shows the number of matches according to your query.

If you click the model, it shows all the details of the car with photos. Pricing details, specifications, model year etc. When you click the inventory details, it will show you the inventory list, dealer list, map view etc.

Kelly Blue Book :

Kbb android app helps you with the information you need to simplify the car-buying process. You can view Kelley Blue Book editorial reviews and find a local dealer easily. We have in detail review about Kbb android app here. Check out! You can download kbb app from android market.

Auto Trader app

Auto trader android app is also one of the best car apps for android that helps you with buying/selling used, new cars from your android device. It has new, used, certified cars near your location with detail information about the dealer including phone number, email address etc.

You can scan the VIN barcode of a car you like to search for similar cars near you and also if you have an auto trader account (you can signup for free) that lets you to save your searches for later use through mobile or computer desktop.

Buy New, Used Cars, Find Car Reviews Online with Android apps is a post from: Madras Geek

Pastebin.com is a famous website to store texts online. From the title you can guess it easily. It acts as a repository to paste texts. Suppose if you’re working on a code, a particular set of codes can be pasted and reused anytime from anywhere by anyone with a unique URL.

Pastebin describes itself as a website where you can store text for a certain period of time. The website is mainly used by programmers to store pieces of sources code or configuration information, but anyone is more than welcome to paste any type of text. The idea behind the site is to make it more convenient for people to share large amounts of text online.

So similar to Pastebin, I have few of my favorite Pastebin like websites which provides similar usage. Check out the list below. If you have used any other website like Pastebin, then do share with us.

Hastebin :

The name is a perfect catch. With elegant look, simple user interface hastebin works similarly to Pastebin. You can paste anything, save it and you get a unique URL where you can share it with friends. All your paste will stay for 30 days from their last view.

dPaste :

It helps you quickly sharing pieces of code with multiple people. Like other services, once you paste it, you get a unique URL to share it. Also the gray background helps codes to stand out with multiple colors. Also the site lists codes in various categories such as Python, Django, Ruby, XML, Javascript, SQL, CSS and more. It has more than 4000+ codes. So these codes might help you in your project.

Paste.Pocoo Lodge It :

So what makes Lodge it so stand out from the similar services like Pastebin ? It has a clean user interface, different color schemes for the sourcecode, reply to pastes, diffs of two pastes, support for many python template languages, XMLRPC support, command-line and editor integration, reply notification and more.

Finally, My favourite pastebin is gist.github.com. No account needed, you can make it public/private, pastes are git repos, and history.

3 Favorite Pastebin Alternative Websites to Store Texts Online is a post from: Madras Geek

Recently Google has rolled out a new search results algorithm that includes ‘Search, plus Your World’ which adds results from your Google+ stream. This can be both useful and irritating at times. Instead of showing most wanted web urls and search results, it displays results which includes social stream from your friends and Google+ circles. Not going to talk more about Search, plus Your World. If you want, you can read it from official Google blog.

So, here is a quick way to disable, delete all the personalized search results that displays all the relevant results from your Google+ stream. How to stop displaying it ? When you search for a query and the results are displayed, you can see a gear icon on the results page.

Now you’re under the search results settings. Now you can see personal results tab. Under which select the option ‘Donot use personal results’ and click save.

By doing this, you have simply turned off the Google+ recommendation results in your search results page.

Share/spread the word. Thanks.

Disable, Remove Google+ Personalized Search Results from Google Results Page is a post from: Madras Geek

In Firefox, when you’re working with multiple tabs before closing it gives you a warning message like do you want to close with mutiple tabs and you have options either to leave the page or stay back. But in Chrome by default you don’t have the option. When you hit the close button, it closes at once with all the working tabs. (You can restore back, but it doesn’t matter).

With the help of third party extensions on Google chrome, you can get a warning message like in Firefox before you hit the close buttn when working with multiple tabs.

Window Close Protector is a simple chrome extension that show a warning dialog when closing a window containing multiple tabs. It helps protect against accidentally closing multiple tabs.

Whenever the browser tries to close a tab that is not currently visible, for example when closing a window containing multiple tabs, or when quitting the browser, it will prompt for confirmation. You can still close specific tabs or windows that contain only a single tab as usual without getting a warning.

Download Window Close Protector for Chrome

Get Warning Message in Chrome Before Closing Multiple Tabs Like in Firefox is a post from: Madras Geek

With the new Facebook Timeline feature, the special thing is the Timeline cover where you can showcase a beautiful picture at the top of your Facebook profile. In related to this, we had already told you a website that has the best facebook timeline cover photos and also talked about Facebook Timeline cover picture generator that helps you to create your own photos for timeline cover. Today we are going to see a simple free iPhone app that allows you to create Facebook timeline cover photos.

Facebook Cover Designer iPhone app helps you to create your own Facebook timeline cover photos for free from your iPhone. The speciality of this app is, unlike other apps you don’t get the cover pic and display picture separate.

What am trying to convey here is, when you add a cover pic to your facebook profile, the cover pic and your display picture which is shown as a small square box will blend together as single picture. It allows you to mix your profile image within the timeline cover for an added photo effect. Look out below pic for better understanding.

Facebook cover designer app gives you the unique and professional design for your profile. Utilizing professional filters, give your page a unique design that fits perfectly within the cover’s landscape mode.

You can select the photos for timeline cover from your gallery, facebook, picasa, flickr, photobucket or Instagram. You can zoom, crop, add filters, make shift & tilt effect and publish directly to your facebook profile.

Facebook Cover Designer iPhone app

Facebook Timeline Cover Designer iPhone app is a post from: Madras Geek

One of the highlights that Tumblr is liked by many people is mainly because of the ‘Reblog’ button. If suppose you love a tumblr blog post, you can ‘reblog’ it via your tumblr blog that will gain more attention and people loves this feature. So, WordPress.com has relaunched a feature which was part of their platform ‘Reblog’ button now again.

This ‘Reblog’ button appears on top bar of WordPress.com blogs where you can use the reblog button to share the post you are reading on your own blog.

You can reblog blog posts from any wordpress.com blogs from their top bar or you can just reblog using the wordpress.com feed reader. You can reblog posts directly from your reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account.

Also make a note that you’ll only see the like and reblog options while you’re looking at individual posts. It doesn’t work on the homepage. For example : it works only on abc.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/hello-world.html and not on abc.wordpress.com

Here is snippet from the WordPress.com on How the reblogging feature works :

” When a post is reblogged, it shows up with a link back to the blog it came from, the first image in the post, an excerpt of the post’s introduction (if it contains text), and thumbnails of any other images that the post contains. It also shows any comments left by the person who reblogged the post ”

All reblogs contain a link back to your original post, so the more people reblog your posts, the more likely it is that you’ll attract new visitors.

Tumblr Like Reblog button in WordPress.com Relaunched is a post from: Madras Geek

Normally if you want to send files, documents to Kindle, then you need to either connect Kindle via USB or email the files & documents to personalized kindle email address and download the attachments to your kindle. Now, you can easily send any documents, files from Windows PC to Kindle with a simple app that provides right click access ‘Send to Kindle’ option using Amazon’s new Windows app ‘Send to Kindle’ application.

Amazon ‘Send to Kindle’ Windows application helps you to send files & documents using right click context menu. You can easily send docs by selecting the option ‘send to kindle’ also you can send docs from any Windows app using the print option. While printing, select the ‘Send to Kindle’ as the printer. The documents are delivered in PDF format.

With this free tiny app you can choose to archive documents in your Kindle Library, where you can re-download them conveniently anywhere at any time.

All you need to do is, just simply download and install them. Once you’ve installed the app, right click any doc file and check for the option ‘Send to kindle’. Also in the print dialog of any Windows application check for the ‘Send to Kindle’ as a printer.

If you want to send multiple docs to kindle at one go, you can do it. Just select the doc files and use the right click option ‘Send to Kindle’.

The following file types are supported: .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .pdf. Also make sure that each file is less than 50 MB. Send to Kindle only supports Kindle devices and reading apps for iOS devices. If you choose to archive your documents to Amazon Cloud, you have 5GB of storage space.

Download Send to Kindle app (Support for Mac coming soon)

Send Docs Files to Kindle From Windows PC with Send to Kindle is a post from: Madras Geek