eDevelopments A to Z

ViTaDiN- Browser based chat site

2009-06-07T13:34:00.009+05:30

Vitadin.net is a new Browser based chat site which resembles Alamak with some additional features. It has a lot of new cool commands which operators will enjoy. This is a good place to chat for those who want to chat from work places but can not use Orkut, Facebook or IMs. Operator Account is free right now but Later they will be charging some amount from the operators.
Soon after you login, click on 'NewAccount' link u see below and register your nick. Leave the Promotion code empty and give nick 'Aries' in the referer box. Hope you enjoy your time chatting at Vitadin.net.

3D Search

2008-10-06T13:16:00.002+05:30

ExitReality is a cool site where you can search the web in 3 dimensions. It also provides 3D chat, avtars, social networks and 3D virtual worlds etc. You have to download the ExitReality client and install it on your computer. The drawback is, its quite slow. It was ok on a 512 MB RAM and worked well on 1GB RAM. But its free and its fun. Try it at ExitReality

Careeb Blog started

2008-10-02T14:34:00.006+05:30

Careeb has started its Official Blog on 26th september, 2008. It gives detailed explanation of how Careeb is different from other social networking sites. The Blog is named 'Push The Envelope. It gives a brief introduction to the 4 membered team f Careeb, its aims and objectives. "Every morning we come to work to realize a dream - to build something remarkable." says Mr.Naveed, the founder of Careeb. You can see the press release of Careeb at indiaprwire.

Careeb team: These are 4 simple looking guys with a dream, determination but they are experts in their respective fields. Cheers to this budding networking revolution.

You can know more about Careeb at its official blog directly. The blog is enjoyable to go through because of the col colors and self explanatory charts.

If you want to get an account at Careeb, I can help you. Mail me your email address here and I will send you the invitation to Careeb. You can not get into Careeb directly unless someone sends an invitation from within. This is to ensure genuine network of friends.

Alamak- The cool web based chat

2008-07-23T00:33:00.008+05:30

This is the front page of Alamak chat. You don't have to register or download, just select a nick name and a room and start chatting. The site is popular for its easy availability and user friendly nature.

There are a few commands you need to know to be able to enjoy the chat at alamak. For example the /who command that shows the total number of people in a room and the /whoall command that shows the total number of people in the server. This is a sample of how the chat looks when you use the command /who.

This is a sample page of how the main screen of the chat at India room (I chat at India room) actually looks. Another speacial feature of this chat is its cool icons. To be able to use the icons, you should signup as an Operator or you should be given a 'grant' by an operator to use icons. By becoming an Operator, you will get number of privileges like kicking and banning bad users, clearing objectionable messages posted in the chat and much more. This is a really good place to chat from offices and work places where messengers, orkut, myspace and facebook etc are blocked. So login and have a nice chat.

Pro-Tibet supporters targetted by Malware

2008-04-15T21:10:00.000+05:30

Internet users downloading pro-Tibet content are being targeted by cybercriminals for the second time in a fortnight.

The latest attack consists of a key-logging application which uses a rootkit to hide itself on users' Windows PCs. According to researchers at IT security vendor MacAfee.

he malware appears to be sending users' keystrokes to a computer in China.

The malware is hidden in a Flash animation that pokes fun at a Chinese Olympic competitor. But as users play the clip, the Trojan downloads the rootkit and keylogging software to their PCs. The malware is being distributed as an email, RaceForTibet.exe, McAfee found.

It is the second such attack in just a few days. Last week, hackers placed the "Fribet" Trojan on a number of pro-Tibet websites. That exploited a vulnerability in Windows.

According to Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee's Avert Labs, the attacks are part of a wider trend for cybercriminals to exploit interest in the Olympics and other current affairs events to distribute malware.

Businesses should warn their computer users about the risks of downloading media files or playing media files contained in unsolicited emails, cautioned Bill Nagel, security researcher at industry analysts Forrester.

Most business-grade anti-virus applications will have been updated to detect the Trojans, he said, and company systems should block users from downloading attachments containing executable code, or .exe files.

"If not, attacks of this kind can be a problem, mostly because rootkits are so difficult to remove," he said.

"Businesses might even have to re-image their computers' hard drives to get rid of the rootkit. Media files have become a very popular way of distributing malware. We had the [Anna] Kournikova Trojan a few years ago... the malware authors try to make their content as attractive as possible. Anything to do with the Olympics is going to reach a wide audience."

IT departments should remind users to be watch out for downloads with executable files attached, he added.

KeepVid

2008-04-08T12:45:00.003+05:30

keepvid.com is the right place to download Videos from popular video sharing sites like Youtube, Google, iFilm, MySpace etc. All you have to do is give the link of the video and select the site from the top down list provided by this site and click 'download'. It gives you a download link, clicking on which, your download will start. Easy and simple way of downloading online videos. You can also convert .flv files to wmv and avi files at this site. If you are using Firefox, download the RealPlayer plugin for firefox which allows you to download online videos just with a single click. So say goodbye to the headache of downloading and installing softwares to download online videos.

DoctorsHangout

2008-04-03T01:53:00.004+05:30

doctorshangout.com is a Social networking site especially for doctors. Its really good place for doctors to hangout. You can view all latest activities of the members like who commented whom and who joined what community right from the entrance of he site which makes the site lively. The site is technically advanced and is highly user friendly and easy to use. You can add RSS from various sites in the groups you create and also in your main entrance page. Dont forget to have a look at my page after you join the network.

Free Web Hosting

2008-03-25T16:11:00.006+05:30

I found freewebs.com a wonderful place for building a free website for people who have no knowledge of website building.

It has cool web albums, handy blogs, Fun stuff (containing games and widgets), Guest book and you can also put up your other sites on the nav bar of the site. It gives 0.5GB of bandwidth and 40MB of free storage space. You can find new friends, participate in discussions, chat and lots more to do. Visit My Webpage

Solution for Error 678- Fix it

2007-11-05T13:29:00.000+05:30

According to Microsoft, error 678 mostly occurs in Windows XP service pack 2 users. The cause is very vague and almost unknown. Some say its because of faulty modem-computer interaction, some say its due to pure computer problem. I use BSNL DataOne broadband service as it is one of the most trusted broadband providers in India. It is very fast and reliable. But, few days back, I started getting 'error 678' and I could not login. The error message says "Error 678: The remote computer did not respond". I called to almost all the related officials at BSNL broadband office. Even they responded well and did everything they could to help me out. But no one actually knew what the problem was.

They had my computer, modem, username and password checked. My modem worked well- It connects to the internet with other accounts. My computer was in perfect condition too. My computer connected to the net with other Internet service providers on the same modem. It became almost impossible to figure out what the reason for this error was. Assistant engineers at the BSNL office were assisting me to get the connection back. But in vain. At last, a senior Engineer suggested doubtfully to change the port and check again. So the Assistant engineer who was working on this at the BSNL exchange, shifted the port and my account connected fantastically. I brought the modem back and connected to my computer and logged o with my username and password and it connected very well.
So the etiology for this problem is unknown but the solution is to change the port. So, if you tried all possible solutions which Microsoft suggested to fix Error 678 and if none of them worked then ask your service providers to change the port.

Techtribe

2007-10-30T16:57:00.000+05:30

Techtribe is a social networking place for techies. Its a San Fransisco based company whose objective is to connect various IT companies in the world on a common platform where they can share their innovative ideas. On september 14, Rohit Agarwal, the CEO of Techtribe met Kiran Karnik, the President of NASSCOM. On this occassion, Mr.Rohit Agarwal said "All big companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Sun developed when diverse people got together to share ideas. So techTribe believes in connecting rather than competing."

The company would also award Rs 10 lakh each month to an innovative idea collaboratively developed by professionals using the techTribe platform. Mr.Kiran Karnik also had few words of which this statement attracted everyone "Innovation thrives best in diversity. So, when people thinking differently come together would create a platform for ideas to germinate". He strongly believed that lack of mentoring, networking and lack of finances prevented talented Indians from innovations. Techtribe claims to be the right step in encouraging innovative IT professionals.
Apart from creating and joining Tribes (communities), one can write blogs and articles, find answers to their doubts in 'Answers' section and search for jobs.

Some cool SEO tools for Firefox

2007-10-29T19:58:00.000+05:30

Meta Tag Analyzer
Meta Tag Analyzer examines the Meta information of the given URL and lets you know if the content is Search Engine Friendly or not. Find it here
From: www.rankquest.com Author: Vincent S Brown

Keyword Suggestions for Google
SEO Tools - Keyword Suggestions for Google. Find it here
From: www.seochat.com Author: Thaminda Wijeratne

Link Explorer
Link Explorer, Explores links in the URL provided and creates a tree view of the same. Find it here
From: www.rankquest.com Author: Vincent S Brown

Backlink
Find all sites that link to this page (i.e., backlinks). Find it here
From: www.cs.umass.edu Author: Guray Alsac

Keyword Finder
Keyword Finder lists the keywords present in meta keyword tag of given url / site. Find it here
From: www.rankquest.com Author: Vincent S Brown

No security to Privacy and Identity on the net

2007-10-28T16:14:00.001+05:30

No am not talking about hacking am not at all talking about porn sites or low grade sites. I am talking about Yahoo! and Google.

According to a report by a consortium of telecoms and finance companies, including BT, Yahoo and Lloyds TSB, 8% of internet users have been victims of online fraud. Almost double that proportion know someone who has been targeted by criminals through their computers.

In the year 2003, a Chinese pro-democratic activist, Wang Xiaoning was arrested by the police with the help of his private information that Yahoo provided the police. Wang had been using an anonymous e-mail account to participate in a Yahoo Group to disseminate his political views. He advocated open elections, a multi-party system, and separation of powers within the government. In addition, he called the Chinese government despotic.

Google was thought to be very strict and protective in regard to the identity and private details of its users until recently, when three software professionals were arrested by the Pune police with the help of Google India.co. Google traced the telephone number that was indexing the profiles of these people and supplied this information to Cyber crime officials of Pune. All these guys did was they used bad language against a king named Shivaji who used to live centuries ago. This was surely bad behavior but the question here is 'Do they deserve to get arrested?' A Warning from the Google or account removal would have been enough punishment.

Lets put aside freedom of speech and expression and concentrate on the privacy and identity threat onliners are facing. This is indeed an ethical break down on the part of these online service providers. Another example of forgotten ethics by Yahoo is the recent removal of Iran from its list of world countries in its sign up page. Where does the fault lie? Is it with the officials working in the gain companies or is it that the companies should revive and tighten their privacy policy?

> A letter written to Yahoo! by an young Iranian journalist.

Dont Cross 15!!

2007-10-27T22:59:00.000+05:30

Never send more than 15 messages at MyBlogLog or else you will land yourself in an extremely embarrassing situation. This is the 'decent' message which you would be facing in case you cross the limit of 15- Message:* Now just slow down there, rock star! It appears you've become a bit overzealous with your messaging. Remember, you are only allowed to send 15 messages per day. No sweat though, you can start sending messages again tomorrow.

Go on, get some fresh air, enjoy the great outdoors!

To my surprise and horror I found this extremely uneasy and unconfortable message from MyBlogLog server. This does not suit a site like MyBloglog to act so irresponsibly.

20s30socials- A cool Yahoo Group

2007-10-27T07:18:00.001+05:30

Real people, real friends from all over the world sending real messages for friendship and partnership activities. This group is different from other Yahoo groups. You wont feel neglected, you wont feel rejected. You wont feel as an outsider. You get real mails from real people who become real friends and partners. You can reach this group at http://sfoutside.com/ . Its a place for people who like to hang out with new people. For those who like adventure and variety in their life, you will find a link to http://www.snowpals.org/ in 20s30socials home page. Hope you find good friends there. Best of luck.

Careeb

2007-10-27T06:05:00.001+05:30

Cool colors and handy descriptions make Careeb a product worth to hang in. Careeb is in beta stage. Apart from its album's cutting edge technological features, lots of features like chats, user communities and video sharing are yet on their way. Brief descriptions of Careeb features are found all over the site which help in taking full advantage of its features to an average internet user.
What makes Careeb different and special from other social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook the privacy and security it provides to the users. You can share and 'hide' whatever you want and with whom ever you want. You can even hide one set of friends from another set and restrict unwanted users to message you or gain access to your profile. This is a class and decent social networking site.
Here is a video clip showing how to invite friends at Careeb.
I will keep checking the latest developments at Careeb and keep updating this blog time. Those who desire an account at Careeb can send a mail at admaniablog@gmail.com to get a Careeb Invitation.

Careeb

2007-10-26T01:45:00.000+05:30

Careeb is a new extremely advanced and secure Social networking site I have ever seen. Careeb pronounced as 'Ka reeb' (Hindi करीब) is a social networking site created by an Indian young entrepreneur from Hyderabad named Naveed. Careeb is a web based platform that helps users build separate networks for friends, family and co-workers, ensuring them privacy and social security across your networks.
Careeb is an Urdu word which means 'getting close' or 'getting together'.

Special Features of Careeb:
1. Your friends are divided into groups namely Family, School friends, College friends, Grad School friends, Just Friends and Careeb friends.
2. You can 'Hide' one group from another. This means, you can hide your friends in one group from the friends in another group.
3. You can decide who can view your profile and who can not.
4. Your profile display picture can not be saved or downloaded by others which gives lot of security to the users.
5. You can fully enjoy taking complete control of your Album at Careeb. One can decide which photo others can save and which are not (save of photos in your album is disabled for others).
6. People who are not your friends can not view your message board nor they can send you nuisance messages.
7. Specialty of Careeb is that you have an option to make your pictures sharable to world wide web.

How to get a Careeb account?
Its very simple. You need to be invited form someone from within. This is to ensure reliable and genuine networking platform for its users.

on look up failed 551

2007-10-20T00:30:00.000+05:30

When I launch Firefox, I get an alert that says "on look up failed 551". I click it 3 times, and I get "firefox has stopped working. A problem caused the program from stop working correctly. windows
will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
I click that, then I get a window saying "problem is cause by firefox."

The problem is due to McAfee Site Advisor Extension. Upgrade it and if u still face the problem, uninstall this application.

Have more detailed look here

Orkut Banned? Firefox banned?

2007-10-05T13:23:00.000+05:30

Are you getting these messages?-
Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!
I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE... with title as USE INTERNET EXPLORER U DOPE.
If yes, its a virus named w32.USBWorm. I have searched and found out how to remove this bug.

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and go to the processes tab
Look for svchost.exe under the image name. There will be many but look for the ones which have your username under the username
Press DEL to kill these files. It will give you a warning, Press Yes
Repeat for more svchost.exe files with your username and repeat. Do not kill svchost.exe with system, local service or network service!
Now open My Computer
In the address bar, type C:\heap41a and press enter. It is a hidden folder, and is not visible by default.
Delete all the files here
Now go to Start --> Run and type Regedit
Go to the menu Edit --> Find
Type "heap41a" here and press enter. You will get something like this "[winlogon] C:\heap41a\svchost.exe C:\heap(some number)\std.txt"
Select that and Press DEL. It will ask "Are you sure you want to delete this value?", click Yes
Now close the registry editor.Now the virus is gone. But be sure to delete the autorun.inf file and any folder whose name ends with .exe in the pen drive.

Bloggers' Corner Campaign- Naive idea

2007-08-24T12:25:00.000+05:30

Joel Badinas maintains a lot of blogs. Yeah he is a blogging freak. This is a nice idea of growing your network and inspiring bloggers to blog. joelbadinas.com has recently started a campaign called Bloggers Corner Campaign. It aims at letting bloggers who their blogs and share their personal experiences with other bloggers. Click here to find eMarketing A to Z in the Campaign. All you need to get qualified is to have a 'live' Blog. Just enter Bloggers Corner Campaign and answer a few questions which will extract your personal experiences and views about blogging. One more advantage is this is a genuine way of making your blog popular. Other blogs by the same author are
onlinerecipe.grinhost.net
smartcoder.awardspace.com
organictraffic.blogspot.com
dyoks.blogspot.com

Browsers other than Explorer

2007-08-18T10:59:00.000+05:30

More than 80% of Internet users use Microsoft Internet explorer. This is not entirely because of the good will explorer has among the users. Most of them do no know that there are alternatives to explorer. This fact has been revealed in many studies.
Let’s see some alternatives.

FireFox: This is well known as the browser of explorer haters. It took its origin and developed in the open source revolution. It is a strong competitor of Internet explorer. In 1994, Netscape navigator came into origin. It gave a strong competition to Internet explorer. In late 1990s, Internet explorer erased its presence and claimed itself as the leader. But in later years, with the help of open source, Netscape came back as FireFox. From that day, the number of FireFox admirers is growing every year. It has got good name in protection against spamming and fishing. Now its a Google product. It is well known for its privacy and security features. FireFox can be freely downloaded from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Apple Safari: Safari created waves in the field of web browsing. All these days, it was used in Macs and apple ipods. Recently Safari version 3 has been introduced into windows. 1. it’s 2 times faster than Internet explorer 7 and 1.6 times faster than FireFox. 2.Snap back- when you have gone too far browsing your way deep and do not actually remember where u started, this will take you back to the place where you started the entire browse. 3. Private browsing- if u chose this option, your browsing history and details will not be stored. You need not clear ‘cache’ addresses if you use this option. You can download Safari browser at www.apple.com/safari/download.
Opera: this was created by Telenor in 1994 in Norway. Present version 9 can follow your oral commands. It can also read out the text documents on the computer for you. It can translate the selected text into 12 languages in a click. It shows the live thumbnails of your favorite web pages. It can download large sized multimedia files very easily. It gives efficient protection against viruses. In addition, it allows you to customize your window as you like. Opera can be downloaded from http://www.opera.com/download/
Flock: Flock was designed for the development of web 2.0. it was developed on October 2005 by a group of American developers. It can be downloaded from www.flock.com/download

Coupons

2007-08-15T12:56:00.000+05:30

Coupon is a ticket which fetches you discount or rebate while purchasing a product. These Coupons are issued by manufacturers for sales promotion. They are widely distributed through magazines, newspapers and Internet.

CouponChief is one of the most popular sites in distributing coupons. Its all about money saving and it is absolutely free. CouponChief provides coupons for a wide range of products of various popular companies. You can directly search for the coupon you are looking for or you can search by Category. You can also check the large stores which contains products arranged in alphabetical order.

Click the above button and check the site for yourself.
You can also signup at the site for newsletter alerts. CouponCief will send alerts through your email as soon as it finds the product or coupon of your choice. You can also manage the alerts later on.

Technically, the site is good. It has a good page rank (3 at Google). It is well organised but needs to be more user friendly. There is a helpful link beneath each coupon- the 'Email it' link. You can Email the product/coupon details to your friends by clicking it.
To find out more and to enjoy the services of CouponChief, Click Here

Everyone needs Traffic

2007-03-04T08:05:00.000+05:30

Sign up
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Get paid for referring others
You get yourself exposed to lots of new traffic providing web sites here.

Place free Ads
Place your classifieds for free
Link exchange
Buy banners fot your site publicity.

Online Surveys

2007-03-01T07:42:00.000+05:30

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Vodafone adds Google Maps

2007-02-15T16:13:00.000+05:30

Vodafone has joined hands with Google to develop and provide 'Maps' to their clients.These maps have the potential to gain huge revenue if local ads are placed along with the results.These maps are not only going to be popular but also addictive because people would use them to locate famous shopping malls, holiday spots, medical shop, book stalls etc through these maps.In some places like Japan, people use their mobiles to organise important business trnasactions and meetings through these mobile search locators.Google maps on mobiles have a large revenue erning potential if Google Ads are Indexed beside the maps.

Yahoo has already introduced advertising on its mobile-specific Web sites display advertising on its mobile-specific Web sites in 19 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. The move, which follows a year of aggressive expansion in the wireless space, marks Yahoo's first formal rollout of graphical ads on its sites around the world.

Recent Microsoft mobile 6.0, then Google's and Yahoo! 's interest in mobile industry shows that Internet is no more pertained to computers and to those who are computer professionals.

Windows on your Mobile.

2007-02-11T09:15:00.000+05:30

We all are aware of the Windows Mobile 5.0 .
Now Microsoft Corp. has unveiled its new Windows operating system for mobile phones, Mobile 6, incorporating several features of Windows Vista, including HTML email support and additional security features.

The software will be available in the second quarter of 2007, the company said. It will support Windows Exchange Server 2007 and will also have Windows Live, which allows instant messaging with more than one person at a time, while it can send a file or image or record and send voice messages. Users will also be able to view, navigate and edit documents in Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint formats.

The OS also makes use of the direct email push technology, which is available in Exchange 2007, and help to receive and send email faster and more efficiently. It also offers better security like protection to data.Phones using the OS will be able to protect not only data stored on the device,but also encrypt information stored on a removable memory card.Businesses will be able to set policies requiring passwords to be changed regularly.

The company had codenamed the OS as Crossbow during the developmental stages and experts said it is expected to provide a virtual visual treat for users.

The software is available for both touch screen and non-touch screen versions.

According to the company, its hardware partners, which are supporting the new OS are Toshiba, Lenovo Group, LG Electronics and Samsung.

Is it internet in mobile or mobile in internet.