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Broadband Speed Tests

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:13:00 +0000

What are broadband speed tests? Many of us probably have never heard those words. We have an idea of what broadband is but when it comes to speeds, the general rule is the higher the number the better right?

Well, a broadband speed test is exactly what it says it is, a test that measures the speed of your broadband Internet connection. Now, for those less technically savvy, a broadband Internet connection is a high data rate Internet connection in comparison to dial-up access over a modem.

There are many things a speed test can tell you about your Internet connection. Throughput is the amount of data that moves successfully from one place to another... usually your computer to another computer or from a website within a certain time frame.

Speed tests also measure the download speed that is the amount of data moving from server to computer, the upload speed which is the measure of speed of sending data from computer to server, and Ping which is a tool that tests hosts across an IP network and distance.

Speedtest.net offers a sophisticated, easy-to-use site that lets you test your broadband connection speed at a few clicks of your mouse. The site also lets you compare your speed to other people in the world as well as share your results and see stats for the entire world and more!

And why would you use speed tests? To find out your broadband speed and to see what else is out there in comparison. It’s important to compare broadband to the rest of the world. You might find out you’re actually below average when it comes to speed or you may find you’re the front runner in broadband internet!

Surveillance Cameras

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:46:00 +0000

Today, I came across a site alarmsystemstore.com which is great for the peoples who want to buy security systems for their home or office. AlarmSystemStore is an online store and has a great collection of Security System Equipments. This site offers many options like Wireless Alarm Systems, Home Alarm Systems, Fire Alarm Systems, Surveillance Cameras and more.

If you want to keep eye on your home areas or on office employees then the best option for you is Surveillance Camera. With the help of Surveillance Cameras you can view the home or office areas or can record it to view later. The AlarmSystemStore offers great quality surveillance cameras which can be used for day as well as night watch. The store offers high-res and weather proof cameras.

These are just a few reasons why you should choose

Guaranteed best prices!
Toll free tech support!
All items in stock and ship within 24 hours!
30 day moneyback guarantee!
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS OVER $150.00, FLAT $8.95 FOR ALL OTHERS! (US orders only, International orders based on weight)

AlarmSystemStore offers the best prices on top quality surveillance cameras for almost any application you may need with the best image quality and low light performance.

Atlantic Global - Timesheet and Planning Software

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:21:00 +0000

If you are a business owner or you have a organization then you must be experiencing difficulties in managing the business expenses, time sheets management and many other things.

The Timesheet and Planning Software by Atlantic Global will help you out. This software has some very helpful feature that will handle your difficulties related to your business or organization.

Timesheets Management

Using Timesheet Management, your employees will be able to capture their timesheets and expenses quickly and efficiently.

Project Planning & Resource Scheduling

Atlantic Project Planning stores all project data in a central repository enabling employees, project managers and executives to access project information quickly and efficiently via the web.

Project Portfolio Management

It provides a controlled and predictable method for planning, managing and executing your portfolio of projects and programmes as well as enabling you to manage the resource capability of your business more effectively.

Benefits of Timesheets Tracking

Reduce administrative work load
Provide real-time reports, project tracking
Access reports on detailed data
Manage business more profitably

Gmail: Google Enables SMS Text Messaging in Chat

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:21:00 +0000

Google first launched this feature in October, but was quickly removed due to bugs. Now you can use this feature in your Gmail Chat. You can send SMS Messages to anyone right from the chat window. Just enter the phone number to which you want to send SMS Message, then the recipient can reply you by simply selecting reply option from his phone.

According to the Gmail Blog, the service is currently applied for the US numbers only, you can send SMS Messages from anywhere in the world to the US numbers only.

what Google says about this feature..

Text Messaging in Chat
Send SMS text messages right from Gmail. You chat from your comfy computer and reach your friends on the go; they get your messages as texts and can peck out replies on their little keyboards.

To activate this feature in your Gmail account, simply click on Settings, and then click on Labs tab. Here, scroll through the list and find the option "Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat" and select Enable and Save Changes.

SecureZIP Express Software give-away and Contest

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:31:00 +0000

PKWARE, the inventor of the .zip standard, is giving away a non-commercial use license of SecureZIP Express and the opportunity to win great prizes in the new “Decrypt and Drive” contest!

With SecureZIP Express you can compress/decompress and encrypt files that you store or send. Compressing files is a great way to save storage space, especially on thumb drives and CD’s, and we all have files we should be securing! The software also includes a digital certificate so you can exchange files securely with others without using passwords. Only the person the file was encrypted for can open it when you use a digital certificate.

The software is fully licensed for non-commercial use and has no toolbars or spyware! For years, PKWARE has given free .zip software away and wants as many users as possible to receive the benefits of SecureZIP.

PKWARE is giving away great prizes including a Honda scooter, bicycles, Wii games, gas cards, and more! Visit www.DecryptandDrive.com to play the game daily and/or download the free software. You need to have SecureZIP, and the digital certificate it installs, on the computer you play the game from.

You can also get SecureZIP Express at www.securezip.com

Good luck!

Hope you win something cool!

World Map - Popularity of Social Networks around the World

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:28:00 +0000

The above world map courtesy Oxyweb represents the popularity of various social networks across the world. The data available in this map is more detailed than previous world map, specially for Asia, Europe and African nations.

Oxyweb has used Alexa traffic data to determine the popularity and use of social networking sites across the world. [via Digital Inspiration]

Minoru - webcam that delivers 3D Internet Video Chat

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:16:00 +0000

Minoru is designed to deliver the experience of 3D video chat over the Internet. it is webcam that has two discrete lenses spaced at roughly human eye distance, these two lenses form one image which appears 3D, but it requires red and blue 3D glasses.

Minoru, which means "Reality" in Japanese, can be used with most Instant Messengers. You can also use this webcam for taking 3D photos or even 3D videos. You can upload the videos to YouTube.

To use this webcam you don't need a special platform or software for viewing 3D videos. The Minoru is supposed to be available in December 2008 for less than $100.

source

Free Laptop with Broadband Connection

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:56:00 +0000

Are you planning to buy a new laptop and broadband connection for faster Internet browsing? If yes then this is something I found for you.

These days most of the peoples would prefer to have a Laptop than a Desktop. Laptops are portable, you can take it with you where ever you go. It gives you to do your important work anywhere at anytime you want. Buying a standard laptop with better features is difficult because of its price.

Many Internet Service Providers are offering a brand new laptop to their customers. You just have to register and subscribe to the package that offers a free laptop with broadband connection.

I found one website www.broadband-expert.co.uk, here you will get answers to all your queries and this site will also help you to choose the best broadband deals with free laptops. This site will let you compare the services providers to choose best offer with free laptop mobile broadband.

About Mobile Broadband –
Mobile broadband is the technology which allows broadband access from anywhere by simply plugging your USB modem or dongle in to your laptop or computer. The popularity of mobile broadband has gathered pace quite quickly, with consumers keen to enjoy the flexibility, convenience, and mobility of this type of technology.

Here are some benefits of mobile broadband –

· 99% UK coverage
· Broadband speeds on the move
· Simple to install
· Compatible with any PC, laptop or Mac
· Can be used on multiple pc's
· No phone line required
· Next day delivery

Note: Remember to read all the terms and conditions before registering for the offer.

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - High Resolution (3008x1960)

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:29:00 +0000

Here's the Giant Machine.

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - Click on the image for large preview

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons charged with approximately 7 TeV of energy. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. It is theorized that the collider will produce the Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model, and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. - Wikipedia

World's Largest Solar Energy Project in India

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:46:00 +0000

Now this is a world record worth talking about!

The Business Standard is reporting that, US-based Clinton Foundation investing developing the world's lagest solar energy project in Gujarat, India. The project is currently in its planning phases, it's an 'Integrated Solar City' project with a capacity to generate 5000 megawatts (5 Gigawatts).

Over Five times the size of the current largest solar project in the world.

The project, expected to cost Rs 20,000 crore (approximately $475-million), as said its an 'Integrated Solar City', all the raw materials including glass and panels will be produced on site, bringing down the productivity cost so the power produced will cost around Rs 4 ($0.10) per unit.

The Government of Gujarat is considering a Kutch or Banaskanta as favorable lacation for this project. About five times the capacity of a typical coal or nuclear plant, this project would certainly a big step in the right direction towards the green energy. Recently prime minister Manmohan Singh announced that solar power would be a key part of his plan to deal with climate change.

The current largest solar energy project in the world is a solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert being developed by BrightSource, with an eventual capacity of up to 900 megawatts.

Business Standard via Treehugger and dvice

Download Google’s Help Files

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:00:00 +0000

No doubt, Google has the best free services with best user interface, but when it comes to help then it becomes little bit complicated. Google has help centers for each services, these help centers provides you information about features, tutorials, troubleshooting guides, but you have to go through some complicated hierarchy of topics or use the search box.

Unofficial blog Google Operating System found a trick to get all the information related to Google Service on a single page. With the help of this trick you can then save the page for your offline use and then you can get the rid of all your problems related to that service. All you have to just append ?fulldump=1 to the address of a Google Help Center. This trick may not work for all Google services. Here is the short list of addresses that dump all the information from a help center.

Gmail Help http://mail.google.com/support/?fulldump=1

Google Calendar Help http://www.google.com/support/calendar/?fulldump=1

YouTube Help http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/?fulldump=1

AdSense Help https://www.google.com/adsense/support/?fulldump=1

Webmasters Help http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/?fulldump=1

Analytics Help http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics?fulldump=1

Picasa Help http://picasa.google.com/support/?fulldump=1

Google Earth (PDF) http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/google_earth_user_guide.pdf

This is just a short list, you can get more from Google Operating System or go to Google Help Center and add ?fulldump=1 to the url of the service you want. After downloading the HTML help file, if you want to convert it into PDF then this Wikipedia article has the list of converters.

Test Website Load Time with One Click

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:23:00 +0000

To rank well on the top search engines like Google, content rich website is not enough, the website should be a fast loading website also. Webmasters can decrease their website’s load time by analyzing which elements are taking too much time to load.

How to Test Website Load Time

PINGDOM is one of the best website monitoring services. In addition to the monitoring, it offers a free online tool to test your website's load time. This tool will show you all information about a website like, the total time it takes to load the page, the total number of objects loaded, time taken by every element of the page. The loadtime will be shown visually with time bars.

The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScript's, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.

Recently, one of their users gave a smart suggestion to them to make a bookmarklet for this tool. They created the following bookmark for webmasters who want to test and analyze the load time of any web page they are visiting.

Analyze load time

Simply drag the above link to your browser's favourites/bookmarks toolbar, so you will have a button and then you can test any web page load time instantly.

Chinese Lessons For Computer Geeks (pic)

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:37:00 +0000

Source: Flickr [via makeuseof]

Researcher to Unveil Universal Attack Code for Intel Chips

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:25:00 +0000

Security Researcher and Author Kris Kaspersky claims to have found a flaw in Intel's processors that may allow hacker to gain full control on the kernel level remotly or just crash the system using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.

He is going to demonstrate how such an attack can be made in a presentation at the upcoming Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Kuala Lampur, Malasia, during October. The proof-of-concept attacks will show how processor bugs, called errata, can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler. Further he said, He is going to show real working of code and make it publicly available.

The attack takes advantage of known errata in chips, which most vendors have a workaround for in BIOS, but not all. XP, Vista, Linux, BSD and Mac operating systems are all vulnerable. [InfoWorld via engadget]

New Feature: Embedded Comment Form in Blogger Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:53:00 +0000

Finally Blogger.com added the most most awaited feature in their blogging platform that is "Embedded Comment Form" like WordPress blogs. In the old comment system, the comment form was on a separate page so the commenter have to click the Post a Comment link to get to the form, causing for low comments. Most Blogspot Blogger's were complaining about this. Now with the new feature of “Embedded Comment Form” you can put the form at bottom of the post.

How to Embedded Comment Form

1) First you have to login to your Blogger.com account through http://draft.blogger.com/. To Enable this Comment Form you must have to login through http://draft.blogger.com/.

2) Choose your blog and Goto Settings >> Comments. Search for the "Comment Form Placement" setting and set the option to "Embedded Below Post" and Save Your Settings.

3) Now you should see a comment form below your post. If you don't see the comment form then read the information below very carefully.

Do you use Customized Template?

If you use customized or modified template then you need to replace some HTML code lines in your blog template to display this Comment Form on your blog. Just go through the following steps and you will find a new Comment Form below your post.

1) Go to your blogs Dashboard then go to Layout >> Edit HTML. Before editing the HTML just Backup your template so if you do any mistake, you won't loose anything.

2) Tick the Expand Widget Template option.

3) Find the Following code in the Template Editor. If you have difficulty finding the code, just search for postCommentMsg from your browsers search option.

<p class='comment-footer'> <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a> </b:if> </p>

4) If you found the above code then Replace it with the following code and Save Your Template.

<p class='comment-footer'> <b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'> <b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a> </b:if> </b:if> </p>

Just go and check your blog’s post page, You will find a New Comment Form Embedded in the blog. You can see the form in action below this post and comment if you like this post or have question or difficulties implementing it in your blog.

With the comment form you can comment with Google Account, LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad, OpenID, AIM, Name/URL, Anonymous. Though the form doesn’t look like professional one, but it is very useful feature for Blogger's.

What other blogger's say about this feature, Amanda from bloggerbuster.com and Jacky from jackbook.com.

Magnetic Fields Made Visible

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:15:00 +0000

We are all surrounded by a special power that is Magnetic Field, even our earth is stable because of this Magnetic Field. Human eyes can't see this Magnetic Field but British filmmakers Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt and their film group called semiconductor created a "Magnetic Movie" to visualise you the Magnetic Field. In this Movie they have turned audio recordings of Magnetic Fields into arty animation. This innovative work won them honours as Best Film at Cutting Edge at the British Animation Awards 2008.

Magnetic Field Video

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Their next innovative work will be a movie with animation of the (dangerous) waves swirling around all of us 24/7. Waves of the Sun, Radio, Microwaves even your Cell Phone waves. [via DVICE]

A to Z of Best New Age Technology

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:37:00 +0000

[Florencio via Pratham]

DialToSave For Cheapest Mobile Phone Deals

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:59:00 +0000

Confused to choose the best mobile phone deals from mobile phone retailers? Do you want the best deal with the cheapest call rate? then just (log on to) dialtosave.co.uk.

Who is DialToSave and What it Offers?

DialToSave.co.uk is a online mobile phone portal for UK peoples, that has been "offering advice on the various options available to people interested in other communications services, in particular the cheapest mobile phone deals" since September 2005. It was started many years ago with its International Calls function as the sole service offered.

Benefit

The mobile industry is growing very fast, each and every person want to use the mobile phone with the best mobile phone plan expecting low call rates and other services like internet. Many of them don't have inough knowledge or they get confused while choosing mobile phone deals because there are so many mobile phone retailers attracting customers to their services by offering defferent types of Mobile Phone Plans. So the buyer gets confused which plan should I use.

Here DialToSave comes to help you.

DialToSave brings you most affordable or you can say cheapest mobile phone deals from UK mobile phone retailers across the internet. Most featured mobile phone deals include discounted line rental, automatic cashback or free gifts and of course a free mobile phone. If you open their site, you will see lots of Mobile Phone Deals with their Mobile Brands, Tariff, Total Charges etc. everything is displayed on their plan itself.

According to DialToSave, they carefully select the best mobile phone deals from the best retailers to save you time and hassle. The mobile phone features include 3G and HSDPA connectivity, integrated digital cameras and MP3 players on the mobile phones.

Most profitable thing is that, Almost all deals include a free mobile phone. Some free mobile phone contracts even have 12 months free line rental on a 12 month contract. You will find the Featured Free Mobile Phone Deal on the front page of dialtosave.co.uk

In other hand, DialToSave offers various services for you like Mobile Phone Price Comparison so you can compare almost every brand. It also has a Mobile Phone Review section which will give you all the information of a mobile phone. I saw they have reviews of almost every mobiles.

Cheap Internation Calls

DialToSave also provides the facility of cheap international phone calls from just 1p/min with all the most popular cheap international calls at National Rate. You can make cheap international calls to anywhere in Asia, America, Europe or Africa. Their barfgain rates are available using access numbers.

Broadband Comparison

With all that services DialToSave also offers broadband comparison, it's a must have service in every house, right? DialToSave helps you to choose the best broadband plan by comparing features and prices on the best UK broadband providers. With the help of it you can search for home, business or mobile broadband and even check what home broadband providers service your home with the postcode checker. You can also pick the features that are important to you.

DialToSave Blog gives you latest updates about the telecommunication services. This blog updates frequently, so you might want to subscribe to the blog.

DialToSave is a best and 1stop shop to get your best and cheap mobile phone deals, cheap international call rates, mobile phone reviews and broadband plans. It has almost all the mobile phones of all the brands available in the market (Like Latest Apple iPhone 3G). If you are planning to get a best mobile phone deal or broadband plan then I suggest you to take a look at www.dialtosave.co.uk

Macbook Air Keyboard on the iPhone

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:17:00 +0000

Bored with the default keyboard layout of your iPhone, try this MacBook Air's keyboard mod. It is very simple to install, the package install directly from Installer.app. It will change your iPhone’s (boring) default keyboard layout to MacBook Air keyboard layout.

It will not affect your typing performance in any way-unless of course you type faster when you see black plastic. Want it? You might have to add this repository ( http://planet-iphones.com/repository/ ) first. [via Gizmodo]

Create Disposable Web Notes That Disappear After Being Read

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:35:00 +0000

Want to share any secret message with someone? Here comes privnote to help!

Privnote is a web service that can be used to send Private Notes over the Internet. This is very useful for sending secret messages that self-destruct or becomes unavailable as soon as they are read.

How to use privnote?

Simple, head over to privnote and type your secret message in the space provided and you will be given a link, you can send this link via e-mail, IM to whom you want to show the secret message, once the link is clicked the message is destroyed so it can only be seen once.

This service has a read receipt option also, if you check the notify option then you will be notified as soon as your message gets read by the recipient. If you send a note and suddenly regret having done so, you can click the link yourself which will destroy the note and prevent the receiver to read it. [Thanks to Digital Inspiration]

privnote.com

E-mail Encryption using Gmail, Firefox and Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:24:00 +0000

Giving security to your e-mails is one of the most important thing over the Internet. There are many hackers, crackers and even your friends who want to know what is in your e-mail. Sending personal or confidential information through the e-mail is very risky. But don't worry here is the solution for it, following is the video tutorial from instructable which teaches you how to install GPG4win and FireGPG on your PC to send and receive encrypted e-mails through Gmail. [instructable]

Send and Receive Encrypted E-mail in Gmail - video powered by Metacafe

How to Solve a Maze with Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:11:00 +0000

Justin Mason of taint.org found a very nice and secret way to solve a maze with the help of Adobe Photoshop. It takes just 2 minutes. Wow!

30 useful Yahoo! Mail Keyboard Shortcuts

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:52:00 +0000

Following is the list of keyboard shortcuts for Yahoo! Mail. For making your emailing experience better Yahoo! provides you the interface to Yahoo! Mail with Keyboard also. With the help of following Yahoo! Mail Keyboard Shortcuts you will reduce your trips to the mouse and can reduce the pain (future problems) of your hand which are being caused by mouse.

Yahoo! Mail Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	For the Task
m	Check Mail
Shift+m	Check All Mail
Ctrl+\	Close Current Tab
n	Write New Message
r	Reply
a	Reply All
f	Forward Message
k	Mark As Read
Shift+k	Mark As Unread
l (L)	Flag
Shift+l (L)	Clear Flag
del	Delete Item
p	Print
Ctrl+s	Save Draft
Ctrl+Enter	Send Message
v	Turn Reading Pane On/Off
Ctrl+[	Navigate Through Tabs - Leftwards
Ctrl+]	Navigate Through Tabs - Rightwards
Enter	Select Message and Press Enter to Open it in its own tab
Enter	Select Contact and Press Enter to Edit Contact
Ctrl+f	Find Word or Phrase in Message
F11	Expand Window to its Max Height
Ctrl+.(period)	Next Message (In Message Tab)
Ctrl+,	Previous Message (In Message Tab)
Ctrl+Shift+End	Skip to Oldest Unread Message
d	Move Message to a Folder (Dropdown List of Folder Name)
Esc	Close Read-Message Tab
c	Start a New Chat

Make your experience more better with these Yahoo! Mail Keyboard Shortcuts and if you know more Yahoo! Mail shortcuts or have doubt in these shortcuts, please add them in the comments below.

Hope you enjoy it!

Winner of $100,000 Microsoft Office Live Workspace Sweepstakes Selected

noreply@blogger.com (Shailendra Doke) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:54:00 +0000

The Microsoft Office Live Workspace team presented David Austin with his $100,000 grand prize today, as part of the Office Live Workspace sweepstakes that kicked off when the service launched on March 3, 2008. Participants entered for a chance to win by signing up for their own Workspace, and earned up to two bonus entries for uploading their first document to their Office Live Workspace account and the first time they shared a document or Workspace with others. The winner could choose to use the grand prize to fund a favorite charity, an education or build a business.