When you hear the word ‘News Channels’, The Picture Which First Comes into your Mind is The Ticker/Scroller at The Bottom or Top of TV Screens with a 24X7 News on Various Categories, Breaking News, Alerts and Continuous News Flow…

How about Turning Your PC Into a Virtual News Channel where The Current News is Constantly Streamed and Delivered 24×7 ? Here is a Way, by Installing this Cool News Ticker by BBC.

Choose from over 300 news and sport options. Breaking news alerts in Ticker as well as Pop-up ..

The News Ticker includes a quick view option for faster story browsing.

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Download the BBC News Ticker for Your Desktop Now.. Direct Link (4 Mb)

After the Popular Click to Call Mobile ads, Google has gone one Step Ahead with a New Location Extension Ad Formats along with Map Features in Local ads for Mobile devices..

How Google Mobile Ads using Location Extension Work?

• Users Search on Maps for Directions
• Making Use of This Data, Google Pops Mobile Ads based on The Location
• The Ads appears as a banner text ad with a business icon.
• The User Can Expand or Collapse The Advertisement
• In This Ad, One Could See the Phone Number and Map of The Store  which is Nearby

For Advertisers

• Ads Are Shown on Mobile devices which Has Full Support for Browsers
• Existing Adwords users can Set Up Location Extensions
• The Advertiser will Pay only If  Some one Calls to Phone Number or visit their Business’ website, and is not Charged for Expanding and Collapsing these Ads..

What do You Think? How Effective is This Kind of Google Mobile Ads? Kindly Drop Your Comments..

Hey folks, back with new article about some thing that I was bugged from yesterday.

Punk buster is the program which is used to detect cheaters while playing multiplayer games like AA, COD4 & COD5.

I got a Heart Attack when I did something so called cheating unintentionally when I used some hacked profile ( Don’t ask me what I was doing )

So the show just started and I started getting kicked off the servers with PunkBuster aka PB. It put me in the ban list.In hardware ban they register your MAC address, HDD serial number and a number of stuff. It surely pisses you off when you aren’t doing anything.

I just browsed net! Found some noob ways which didn’t work! So I tried something on my own.

Here is what I did:

1. Change your HDD port like from RAID 0 to RAID 1. It mainly does nothing more but we will do it!
2. Changing your MAC Address is useful. You may use free ware utilities like MAD MAC’s Sniffer which is easily available to change the MAC of the adapter and the restart.
3. Using your old profile and your old key is not a thing I would do! Open COD Multiplayer! Delete your old profile. Make a new one with a multiplayer name (You may be banned from some servers). After that use a new key(Don’t let me say the ‘P’ word here) or just buy a new copy.
4. You must be done! If not try getting a new Hard Disk. (Not Joking)

Also you can leave some unban request on www.pbbans.com, but mostly they won’t help.

Hope it helped.

After The announcement that Paypal has Stopped Withdrawal of Money to Local Banks in India wef 1 August 2010. It is Necessary to Know the Alternative Methods to Cash out your Money present in paypal account…

This Time, Paypal itself is bearing the Check Withdrawal Fees of $5 USD. So If You are an Indian User you could request for Check to withdraw the money.. Paypal will Refund The $5 Amount to your account back.. The Processing Time to Issue a Check is 4 to 6 working days… (Indicated only Processing).. To Receive the Check you have to wait for 4 to 2 weeks depending on your Location …

Step1: Log In to Your PayPal and Click on Withdraw Tab at Top

Step 2: Click on ‘Request a cheque from Paypal’

Step 3: Enter The Amount to Withdraw and Check for the correct delivery Address..

Please Note: The Refund of $5 USD Check Withdrawal fee applies July 29 2010 Onwards… Withdrawal of Money to Bank accounts will be stopped with effect from 1st August 2010..

Sad News for Indians, Paypal has announced That it is Changing the Withdrawal functionality in India with effect from August 1, 2010. ‘Change in Withdrawal’ functionality means that you can NO Longer withdraw your Funds to Bank.

. To Compensate this, Paypal has directed its Indian Customers to Request for Money Withdrawal via Check and is Refunding $5 USD Check Withdrawal fee (which you had to pay for cheque withdrawal) .

It is Clear Now, That you can No Longer use electronic withdrawal service until Paypal Resolves this Issue.. Paypal writes That it is working ‘tirelessly’ to resolve this withdrawal of funds issue. Paypal has not Pointed out the Cause for Changing the Withdrawal methods. and calls it as “In accordance with regulatory instructions” which we think it should be as per RBI Instructions…

No Matter when they restore this service, Indian Users are the Big Time Losers here, facing the same problem once again… For Indians, Most of the Online Money Transactions are carried out using Paypal. There is a Tough Time ahead for Bloggers and Online Marketers who heavily depend on Paypal for Small or Bulk Transactions. Though Withdrawing money to bank account has been completely stopped by Paypal, It still offers Making Requests via Cheque for Free… which Indian should feel happy about.. Follow the following Instructions to Request Money via Cheque from your bank account

Step 1: Log into your PayPal account, click on ‘Withdraw’.
Step 2: Click on the ‘Request a cheque from PayPal’ link. It usually takes 4 to 6 working days to process the cheque (excluding delivery)
Step 3: Enter the withdrawal amount and select your mailing address, then click ‘Continue’.
Step 4: Click ‘Submit’ to confirm your request.

The Tor Project and Electronic Frontier Foundation(FCC) brings a Firefox Extension Called “HTTPS Everywhere” which encrypts your communication with Major Websites..

At Present, Though Many of The Sites support Encryption over https the effect is Limited as almost all of the Websites have made Unencrypted http as default.

This Firefox Extension “HTTPS Everywhere” makes Everything https for the supported Websites.. That means it rewrites the requests and makes sure that https is default.

Download / Get “https Everywhere” Extension for Firefox here

Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and Identi.ca are few of the Sites which supports https everywhere. The extension forces your connection to HTTPS every time you try to access one of those sites

This Motherboard takes the popular EVGA X58 SLI design and boosts the performance by adding not only 2 USB 3.0 ports, but also 2 SATA 6Gb/s ports! The Intel X58/ICH10R chipset combo is optimized for the performance enthusiast, with 6 DIMM slots supporting Triple-Channel DDR3 Memory, Intel QuickPath Interconnect Technology, Intel Turbo Mode intelligent overclocking technology, NVIDIA 2-way and 3-way SLI support, and much more.

The 2 USB 3.0 ports allow for speeds up to 5Gb/s, more than 10x the performance of USB 2.0! SATA 6G allows double the performance of SATA 3G, and of course the award winning EVGA overclocking features put this motherboard in a class of its own. In fact, EVGA X58 motherboards have won over 20 awards from leading hardware review sites!

Awesomest of all..EVGA mobo comprises of the ELEET (EVGA Advanced Tuning) overclocking feature.

The  10 Powerful Features which makes you to  buy an EVGA X58:

1. 8+2 Phase PWM

• Cleanest possible variable power switching

2.EVGA Vdroop Control

• What you see is what you get
• Set your voltage in the BIOS and this is what you will get under load booted in your OS

3.EVGA Dummy OC

• Overclock at the touch of a button
• Automatically overclock your system with one simple setting in the BIOS

4.EVGA E-LEET Tuning Utility

• Overclock your motherboard from inside your OS
• Use E-LEET to test your OC settings without having to constantly reset into your BIOS

5.EVGA EZ Voltages read points

• Simple voltage points
• Easily read voltage levels using a voltmeter with several dedicated read points

6.Onboard Clear CMOS, Power and Reset Buttons

• System essentials at the touch of a button
• Troubleshooting and bench booting are simple with these controls

7.Onboard CPU Temp Monitor

• Monitor your temps quickly and easily
• Accurately and instantly see your CPU temperature once your system has POSTed without any other software.

8.Passive Chipset Heatsink

• No fans: lower noise and longer lifespan
• More than enough cooling wattage to keep those chips well within specs

9.Solid State Capacitors

• Higher quality, longer lifespan
• These high quality 100% solid state capacitors will just keep going and going

10.EVGA EVbot Support

• Handheld overclocking
• This next generation overclocking device interfaces directly to the BIOS while your system is booted in OS

STOP thinking and go get one…:)

This week has been a buzz about India. First, the new symbol for Indian currency; then, the epic browser: The Indian browser with an intention of impressing Indians; Recently, Olivepad: an Indian version of the Ipad. Now what’s the buzz? It is the age of tablets and we all had been hunting for an answer to our query “Cheapest tablet in the world” and finally, the answer is here.

Kapil Sibal launches the World's cheapest tablet

Indian resource development minister Kapil Sebal, in a press meet at New Delhi, said:

“We have reached a (developmental) stage that today; the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display and everything.”

The $35 electronic gadget is said to have been packed with web browsers, PDF reader, video conferencing facilities, pen office, sci-lab, media player, remote device management capability, multimedia input-output interface option, and multiple content viewer. The Linux based device will also have provisions for running on solar power besides the usual battery- operated systems. This gadget is brought out by the research teams of Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science.

Sibal said the Linux-based device was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from 2011 but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and ultimately to $10.

Via: Indian Express

We apparently are looking forward towards the all new $35 tablet launched by Kapil Sibal yesterday. Aren’t we?

While we wait for Notion inks -Adam to come to the market , OLIVE TELECOM launches a 3G tablet OLIVEPAD-VT100. The device was unveiled by Mr. Arun Khanna, Chairman, Olive Telecom Mr. David Hind, CEO, Olive Telecom, Americas and Mr. Artem Orange, CEO, Olive CIS/CEE.

The key Features of OlivePad are:

• Android Operating System 1.6
• 3.5G HSUPA
• Wi-fi
• Bluetooth
• 3 megapixel camera and a front camera
• GPS with google maps and map my india
• e-book reader
• flash support
• mini USB port

Olive Pad come @ a price of  25,000 . Quite expensive i feel. No Information about the battery back-up is available .It is said to have some heating issues. The touch interface is decent and comes with a little scratch resistant screen . The look of the device is quite fat but i’d say decently designed. Hope to see more of such devices in the Indian market. Hopefully by end of the year Indian market will be flooded by Tabloid Pc’s  from Nokia , Motorola and other major players.

Images are the best way of impressing people. In many places we might have to give the URL address of a twitter status. For example, in a giveaway, a competition or other such things… For that, instead of giving the address of a twitter status you can give a screenshot so that it is permanent. Here’s a short tutorial of how to take screenshots of a twitter status right from your browser:

• First let’s see how to get the address of any twitter status:

How to get URL of a twitter status

• As soon as you get redirected to the status’s URL replace twitter.com with chen.vc
• You can see an image, save the image. Though you can use the direct URL of the image, we suggest you to save the image
• Now you can use the image elsewhere in the web

Do let us know any other twitter tricks you use to show the status in the web.