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An Awesome Trick If It Goes Well With Your Conscience!

2008-02-04T20:59:00.000+05:30

I found a code that you can use to e-mail anybody using ANY email Id.(Sorry For The Banner Ad couldn't help it!). You can do truely wicked things with this but please listen to what your conscience says before trying this!
[Found At:www.funmaza.com]

Well How Was That???

Which Page Should Be Your Home Page

2008-02-04T20:35:00.000+05:30

These days Internet is a regular part of our lives and the component of the computer that connects us to the internet is our Web Browser. So what should be kept as a homepage for our web browser?

After lot of thinking and trial and error i have reached my conclution.

Should it be a personalized homepage (iGoogle or Yahoo)-No

Should It be a web portal- (MSN,Yahoo,AOL)-No

Should it be a search engine-(Google,Live)-No

The Best option for your homepage is Blank:

That's right- blank and that is because:

It saves time as a page does not have to be loaded when you start your web browser. You dont have to see the same page when you start your browser for the nth time during one session.

If you really are a time freak a better option would be to create a favourites group containing all the Login Pages Of websites you regularly visit and then using the "Open In Tab Group" option on the right click menu.

Microsoft-Yahoo : Our Take

2008-02-04T20:13:00.000+05:30

This is the hottest news in the WWW these days- Microsofts offer for Yahoo. We are no businessmen and don't care about the deal or anything but one thing is for sure that if this deal takes place its gonna be awesome.
Together they have the potential to take on Google and i'd prefer them even if they are a notch lower than Google because i prefer my privacy to anything else. But the current Live search is to pathetic to use maybe Microsoft+Yahoo may be a better search.
Also it would mean serious competition for Google which hasn't seen any in last 5yrs.
It would also mean the revival of services that suffered just because Google didn't like them (Payperpost,Reviewme).
Also it would combine the two best messengers in the world and who khnows they might create an email service better than Gmail!
AND ABOVE ALL
I would also like this merger because nobody wants Google to become the Microsoft of internet!

Google Experimental Search

2008-01-30T21:29:00.000+05:30

A very interesting page i discovered at QuickOnlineTips:
http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html
This page has a lot of Experiments that Google is giving a try to and may be included in their main search engine in the future.Their are many interesting search prospects that one may like to join but unfortunately its one at a time.
Google is even more in the news recently with the TLA,ReviewMe and Payperpost controversies and a popular blogger said he got an email from someone saying google are launching their own Review service and he believe they may do it....!
All we can do is wait and watch :-(

Speech Recogination In Windows Vista: A Terrible Joke!

2008-01-30T20:53:00.000+05:30

I couldn't think of a better title that would tell any body anything about speech recoganition in Windows Vista. Today I had some free time so i decided that it would be fun to give the long unused speech recogaintion a try. After an hour of painstakingly setting up the whole thing as recommended by Microsoft i get an application that is totaly usesless and takes space as "Empty" Ha Ha Very Funny.

I think i could have typed faster than I would speak using speech recoganition.

For Example i am going to speak :"A Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog" and let us see what speech recoganition makes of it.."

P.S.- I also said "peech Recoganition Is totally useless"which somehow made it move downwards...!

-ok-

Click on the image to see what Speech Recoganition did to it! If that is not enough i have another piece where i sspent 15 minutes dictating "My Name Is" but tried in vain to make it spell my name:

Well if you still have time to kill and happen to own Windows Vista,

Start>All Programs>Accessories>Ease Of Access > Windows Speech Recoganition.

Although I would recommend not deleting it, it would be a good laugh when someone comes over!

{Remember Wild Hogs?}

MacBook Air is certainly in the air!

2008-01-22T21:24:00.000+05:30

Proving rumours true Apple introduced us to the ultra-slim, ultra-light and ultra-portable Macbook Air at the MacWorld last week. I read all about it and for the first time read the keynote live through Engadget- It was a good experience but i had to cut my sleep for it!

The Notebook is the thinnest notebook in the world and has a great processing capacity to. It can fit in anywhere you might think. The only compromise made is of the optical drive though Apple promises it won't be required through application of many innovative ideas. You can head over to engadget for the full review of the device which i think comes at a reasonable price too.

Google Woks Pretty Fast!!

2008-01-22T21:14:00.000+05:30

Well just a week i removed all things PayPerPost from this blog and vow to start building it again, i find that i have been updated to my old PR! That was pretty fast- Thank You Google ;-)
Now I am scouting for interesting things to blog about and take this blog to higher levels.
The traffic has becom steady and has increased a bit since I restarted working on this Blog.
I am searching for a desktop blogging client now...
My past experiences with Windows Live Writer have been good but since then it had mysteriously stopped working with my blog and after that i lost all my data because my Laptop crashed due to Windows Vista.(Which isn't as good as i claimed,in fact i sometimes think it is no good at all expect for the eye-candy!)

Yahoo Messenger For Vista:All Show And No Work!

2008-01-12T21:23:00.000+05:30

The much hyped Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista was launched a few days back and i have been using it for a day or two. I think the messenger is truely built for Vista because it looks more stylish than it can work.
Infact when it comes to work all you can doe with it is text chatting and send emocation.
No Video Confrencing, No PC-to-PC calls not even the "BUZZ". So all you can do is sit down and admire its looks! Even the sidebar widget is useless it helps you keep contact od one of you friends but for that also you have to start the messenger which makes the widget practically useless.
The other thing that has gone missing is the Chat-Rooms which were obviously a hit.
Since its looks are all its worth here are some Pics:
The start Up I Took The Shot At The Incorrect Moment Otherwise the logo looks beautiful!

The Sign In Screen Nothing New...

The Actual Thing do you notice the widget on the Sidebar??
The only good thing about this is "Tabbed Chatting" (Maybe I love Tabs!!)

Inside A Mobile!

2008-01-12T21:03:00.000+05:30

Here is the inside view of mobile parts as i promised. The mobile is very ancient infact it willl look like a stone to the current iPhone generation. As far as i remember it has a blue display i kept it when it was rendered useless and had a lot of difficulty opening it. I used to play Mobile-Puzzle with it taking out all parts and rearranging them again, because of which the keypad was lost! Anyway take a look:
(Sorry about the quality of the images i dont have any better camera available right now!)

A picture with all the parts together.

The part we love- Circuit Board!!

The Battery...

What is left of the keypad.

The Screen

Inside A Webcam !

2008-01-12T10:18:00.001+05:30

I don't get many opportunities to break gadgets and then see what is inside them but sometime back i got a chance and decided that its good enough to share with the world. I did go ahead and by a latest product and take it off it was just an old webcam that didn't work anymore.
I expected the webcam to be cramed from inside but was surprised to find that it just had a circut board along with the lense.
So without further ado here are the pics:
Everything taken out with the help of a knife!

Side view of the circuit board attached with the lens.

Back Side of the circuit board.

Ok look at the lens (Say Cheeese)

Separating the lens from the motherboard .(took out the convex lens inside it.)

Well Thats That!
Not satisfied??
Dont worry "Inside a mobile" is coming very soon!!

Yet Anoher ComeBack !

2008-01-11T23:07:00.000+05:30

Well I am back again to revive this blog for the n^th time since it started. I going to bring back its glory days and the good times. Here are some measures i am taking:
>Ditching PayPerPost - I am not interested in quick bucks from this blog anymore i'd like my meagre PR back (listening Google??)
>I am going to maintain a strict posting schedule with atleast 3 posts a week.
>The blog wont wander off to topics outside its niche ever again! (My b"day was on christmas BTW)

So time For The Return Of AGeekyLife.Com!

Microsofts Finally Lets You Make Live.com Id's

2007-11-11T13:57:00.000+05:30

Ya thats the news currently taking rounds in the blogosphere...Microsoft is finally allowing you to make @live.com id's on Windows Live Mail er... Windows Live Hotmail.
As a result of which the server is down on the first day itself! But it would be a good idea to get yourself a live.com ID now so that you can get your desired username...

Another interesting feature is the ability to switch between different accounts just using your primary ID. That will definitely help in saving time...

[Image Courtesy : http://www.googlesystem.blogspot.com/ ]

Google Phone Suspense Finally Ends : Hello Android!

2007-11-06T10:02:00.000+05:30

The news that technology sites have been living on for the fast few weeks is finally out now- Google officialy announced Gooogle Android platform which will be a free OS for smartphones in the future. The OS is expected to come to handsets by 2008. Google seems to be taking on Microsoft again by offering for free to manufacturers a mobile OS for which Windows Mobile charges them. But this time its also taking on Apple, Nokia etc all those who make Mobile OS. The price of a phone using Android is expected to be more affordablr compared to others because the manufacturer won't have to pay for the Os.

The OS will be Linux based and is not Googles alone according to the announcement 33 companies have collaborated to build Android. Companies such as Nokia, Apple and Microsoft have already dismissed dangers from an Android but knowing Google this is certainly not the end!

Give Your Friends Shock Of There Lives

2007-11-05T10:17:00.000+05:30

Ever suspected that a friend on Yahoo is online but is in the "Invisible Mode"? Now you can check that with http://www.xeeber.com/ and give your friend a shock! You just have to type the Id of the person and Xeeber will confirm if he is on the computer or not!

Google's Homepages: A Study

2007-11-04T21:13:00.000+05:30

Thought that Google's same old boring homepage doesn't change at all?? Lets have a look at different Google homepages.....

1.)The Ususal Lot:

They just have the standard features, and contain the list of we are hiring etc etc..

The countries in this list are:Google Australia and Google UK

2.)The standard Google Homepage/Google Usa Homepage:

The same as the ususal ones but does not have the "search for pages from" option. But in its own class because it is the "Official" Google homepage for the world.

3.)The language Barrier Ending Homepages:Google South Africa, Google Canada,Google India,Google Malaysia,Google Pakistan

These are for multi-lingual countries where Language is a bar for free flow of information.

I have screenshots of homepages of all the above countries but i am really sorry i dont have patience to upload them ;-0

4.) The Unique One : Google China

I am sure you must have guessed that! It has a rather iteresting navigation system at the different coloured balls...

So here was a study i know there must be over a hundred more homepages but all will fall in one of the above categories....

Microsoft A History

2007-11-04T21:00:00.000+05:30

The following video shows a development in microsoft OS back from the days of their first OS.
The videos shows start-up screen and sounds of the Windows Operating system generation by generation. Also this is the first video in a series of the videos coming your way.....
{Note: I found an updated version that also has Shut Down Sounds...!}

Blog Update

2007-10-31T21:00:00.000+05:30

1)How did you like the new theme??
I just installed it a few days ago but couldn't do much due to lack of time.I am planning to buy the domain AGeekyLife.com for this blog pretty soon but made the necessary changes sooner than later.

2)The new rating system is for those who feel too lazy to comment a review and how-to of the service is coming pretty soon.

3) I have fixed a posting schedule : from now until March 2008 i will post only on Sundays because i am having some very important exams in March so the post scarcity will continue for sometime but the post quality will never decrease...thats a promise.

4)I seriously considered going over to Wordpress after taking the new domain name but i stopped because i just like Blogger so much that i can stand the pathetic commecnting system and the lack of abilty to create multiple pages for the blog.

Page Rank 2!

2007-10-31T20:30:00.000+05:30

Yes its true! Google has updated PR and the current Page Rank of this blog is 2. Although it is not a very high score but its an improvement from the big o we had earlier. I am very excited about gaining a Page Rank in just 4 months but there are many who have done better.
The main reason this blog has not showed uniform growth is that i am not been able to stick to a regular posting schedule. Now i have decide only to post on Sundays and post good quality posts rather than just creating a bulk of posts.
I just going to write a blog update for the next post then we can settle down with some uniform posting schedules.

Free Domain Name:

2007-10-11T20:35:00.001+05:30

For all the small blogs out there....this is you chance to get a free domain name without spending a penny! Yes www.freedomains.co.nr offers free .co.nr domain names to blogs and websites hosted on different servers. And they don't make you put advertisements on your website. The only catch is that they make put a small (tiny) banner on your site's homepage that tells everyone that you are using a free .co.nr domain name.

Before you start using the service here are some facts about it....

1.)You will not be allowed to register domains which already belong to a high profile web company.So forget Google.co.nr or yahoo.co.nr

2.) They won't be hosting your website that means that if you're site is www.xyz.blogspot.com you can have www.xyz.co.nr which will look much more professional and better while it will allow you to control your settings using blogger.com.

3.)You can use features such as URL cloaking - Suppose you register www.xyz.co.nr for your blog www.xyz.blogspot.com then the browser would still display www.xyz.co.nr when someone visits your site using that name.

4.)You cant fool them- the link visible on the first page is highly essential- trust me and don't try cheating them because I have tried to work around having to put the banner in al possible ways but they won't budge with their policies....

That's All Folks!

PS-This blog is of course using the system... check out www.techview.co.nr

Get More From Wikipedia Using Discussions....

2007-10-06T12:12:00.001+05:30

The World is using wikipedia these days and I am no exception. I have at times found myself hooked to it searching for one topic after another and 99% of the times finding relevant articles. I even found articles about some less popular TV shows that were about a decade old!

I have been using the Wikipedia data for all sorts of projects etc. But the fear that the article had been edited to suit some ones choice always haunted me... Not now! Ever since I discovered the power of the discussions tab!

The discussion tab is a place where people can file their views on the article about something they agree over or not...Its basically like a comment's section of the blog. So that I can check what other people feel about a certain thing. If most of the comments are negative even though the post finds a thing positive I can skip or edit that article out or prevent myself from gaining wrong info. But beware! This can get addictive as I found out! These days I check out the discussions tab before the actual article itself!

Here is an How To:

Why Use The Expensive Business Suites ???

2007-10-03T15:23:00.001+05:30

Are you looking to buy the MS Office 2007? Do you plan to use only a handful of the software in the suite?? Are you running a small business? Do you use these suites only to manage your accounts and not for the presentations or sending data to clients?

If the answer is "yes" to most of the questions above you should not pay for all these softwares......Hang On! I am not here to promote piracy. I am saying if you just want to share some personal data among employees why don't you use the tons of free services such as Google Docs,Zoho etc,etc....?

These softwares will ad up to nil costing and most of them support the standard extensions so you don't need to worry about sending data to your clients...For starters you can use them side along with MS-Office and get used to them so that you don't have to set aside 100's of dollars for Office 2008 or something...:-)

Time Travel Made Possible!

2007-10-02T22:10:00.001+05:30

Yes! I haven't gone mad! Now you can view how a website looked like 2 years ago or 2 Months ago or 2 days with just a click of the button.

This has been made possible by www.archives.org using there service called- "The Way Back Machine". It just as simple as googling for a website and a tool that can be very useful for webmasters.Just for fun you can check out the previous layouts of Yahoo AOL or MSN as far back as the 90's. It would be interesting to see how long can these people hold the data.

The only complain I have with this service is that there cache is limited to a very few sites which were very popular. Also some great sites which also had the traffic but were hosted on a free sub-domain have been excluded.

Below I am putting a step by step graphical guide to using the service..

STEP 1:

STEP 2:

STEP 3:

This was my first guide sort of thing and I feel there is still a room for lot of improvement please contact me if anyone has any queries....

Windows Live Writer Review

2007-09-24T17:52:00.001+05:30

I have started using Windows Live Writer to post my blog posts and truly speaking I am lovin it!

I knew I'd like this because of the picture below the start was awesome..

I love the transparent blue thing that appears at the startup.This is my first post with the thing and it has corrected all the spelling errors. Inserting pictures,videos and tables is a breeze with this and I am planning to continue using it. The best part is that it directly publishes the post at the click of a button and you don't have to worry about anything but the content ;-).

Very good for those who don't know HTML but want a bit of formatting in their posts it is breeze with this software.The layout and navigation is very clean and uncluttered anyone can use it.

And best of all-The software is absolutely free! So anyone blogging should definitely try this...

I'll write more about its compatibility with Blogger ( i hope it works!) and will check out a few plugins to before I write some more about it. I shall continue to give tips and tricks about it as a get more and more experienced...

Here is another screenshot of the actual working area..

I Gone Dual Screen!!!

2007-09-18T00:14:00.000+05:30

Well I am back after yet another hiatus and given my year, it was for the exams again they are basically going on right now but I have taken a break today to experiment and have achieved something that had captured my imagination for quite a long period of time- Ya! I have gone dual screen!!
So putting emmm….around 15 topics that I will blog about on hold I am going to tell you it feels to have a dual screen. The idea wasn’t original of course….I saw it on a lot of blogs and people were gung ho about having dual screens, and this thing really captured my imaginations. So after hunting down and rejecting some old spare and monster sized monitors, I stole one from the family desktop for the time being (the hidden transportation was an awesome adventure…!)…Well the experience is truly amazing….I have made the monitor screen my main screen for it is a sony and much more vibrant than that of the HP laptop.
Its really easy if you have vista/xp and a fairly new computer that come built in with plug ins to support extra monitors…You will find some pix of the new config. Below….
By the way I have changed the theme of the blog and its going to focus mainly on reviews now…The new logo sucks and working to change it right now…

Morph Pictures And Have Fun

2007-08-28T00:02:00.000+05:30

www.morphthing.com is a free online service that lets you mix two faces....and see the fun...
You can upload your own pictures or create faces from celebity images. Its extremely easy and the fun part is the suggested names...for example here is a mix of...Harry Potter and George Clooney and the suggested names include:
1st Name 2nd Name
Harry | Potter
George | Clooney
Harge | Pottey
Harrge | Clotter
Georry | Clootter
Geory | Clooner
Time to treate your eyes on the mix....