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Upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to RC Build

2009-05-04T09:42:00.000-07:00

Now that the RC build is official from Microsoft, users can start downloading the latest RC build 7100 and install it. Microsoft recommends user to do a fresh install even if you have installed the beta version of Windows 7 released in Jan 2009. But it is also possible to upgrade from beta build to RC build using a simple hack. If you want to upgrade from beta to RC, you will need to bypass the check for pre-release as mentioned in the Windows 7 blog.

Steps to upgrade from Beta to RC;

1. Download the ISO and burn the ISO to a DVD.
2. Copy the whole image to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive or a directory on any partition on the machine running the pre-release build).
3. Browse to the sources directory.
4. Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
5. Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. You need to change the value to 7000 as it is the beta version build number.
6. Save the file in place with the same name.
7. Run setup like you would normally from this modified copy of the image and the version check will be bypassed.

With this change, you can upgrade from the beta version to the RC build.

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Now proved:- Facebook Users (kid) are dumb

2009-04-25T08:00:00.000-07:00

If your kids’ grades are not improving but falling tremendously, maybe you should consider having them to spend lesser time on the world’s most popular platform - Facebook. According to a new study conducted by Ohio State University, it says that those students who use Facebook frequently will tend to spend less time on their schoolwork, hence resulting in lower grades. It seems that these young kids aren’t admitting the truth as the study noted that more than three-quarters of Facebook users claimed that their use of the social networking site didn’t interfere with their studies. This two statements are so contradicting.

“We can’t say that use of Facebook leads to lower grades and less studying – but we did find a relationship there,” said Aryn Karpinski, co-author of the study and a doctoral student in education at Ohio State University. Additional information includes Facebook users had GPAs a full grade lower than non-users. Facebook users also studied on average one to five hours a week, compared to 11 to 15 hours for non-users.

Surveying 219 students at Ohio State, including 102 undergraduate students and 117 graduate students, 148 of the participants commented that they had a Facebook account. Also, the study found that 85 percent of undergraduates were Facebook users, while only 52 percent of graduate students had accounts. Science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) and business majors were more likely to use Facebook than were students majoring in the humanities and social sciences.

Well, the irony with the result of this study is that Mark Zukerberg and his fellow computer science major students founded Facebook while he was a student at Harvard University and it was meant for students to connect and interact with one another online. On the other hand, the study claimed that using Facebook are bad for the brain, especially for kids. Probably the main reason is because it’s too addictive due to its wonderful and interesting features such as “poking” their friends, posting photos and even playing games on the social platform.

Currently, there are 200 million users worldwide who have signed up for Facebook and the bulk comes from United States. The main demographic still lies within the 30+ age group and kids under 18 doesn’t make up a huge percentage of the entire population.

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Moving To My Own Domain

2009-04-24T08:16:00.000-07:00

Now i am going to get myself my own custom domain with wordpress. After about an year of blogging with blogger i found that there are few features available in blogger where as in wordpress we can modify our blog in the way we want.

Lots of plugins and themes mixed together with professional design and features makes blogging more interesting. Now i am looking for awesome wordpress theme and some plugins and within a few weeks i will be having my own domain.

Waiting for the best

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Ubuntu 9.04 as competition to Windows 7, Mac OS X

2009-04-24T07:39:00.000-07:00

Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October.

So much so, in fact, that I am starting to prefer using my Ubuntu "Jaunty Jackalope" desktop over the similarly slick Windows 7 beta (which I am currently running full-time on one desktop) and Mac OS X Leopard operating systems, which I also use regularly.

I left Windows Vista, XP, and even Debian lying bruised and battered by the roadside some time ago.

You won't be able to notice the vast improvement in Ubuntu's desktop experience over the past six months by browsing screenshot galleries of 9.04 or looking at new feature lists. What I'm talking about is that elusive slick-and-speedy feel you get from applications launching fast, windows moving around without jerkiness, and everything simply being where it should be in the user interface.

Launching and using Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10 on my 2GHz Core 2 Duo-based machine with 2GB of RAM, a 7200rpm hard disk, and an Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS always seemed to feel like I was going back a few years, to a time when Web browsers were not considered something you always had open to service Web applications like Gmail and Bloglines.

It was the same with Windows Vista.
In short, Ubuntu is now as slick and beautiful as Mac OS X or Windows 7.

Now, just like Microsoft has taken the blowtorch to Vista to produce the lightning-quick Windows 7, which so far runs well, even on older hardware, Ubuntu has picked up its own game.

I particularly noticed the Ubuntu difference when I put the operating system to the test by simultaneously launching and using multiple applications, listening to music and more while using my spare CPU cycles in the background to encode high-definition video with Mencoder. Ubuntu still felt very fast--even with traditionally sluggy pieces of software like OpenOffice.org.

It's not just the speed changes, however, that has got me excited about Ubuntu 9.04. It's also the subtle additions to the interface; the logical move of shutdown and reboot options to the far right of the menu; the slick new notifications system; the seamless (finally!) integration of the Nvidia accelerated drivers, and the cleaned-up options and package install systems.

Want Adobe Flash or other proprietary software like multimedia codecs on Ubuntu? Just search for them in the one location, under their own names. No downloading anything from any Web sites. No package management or dependencies. No apt-get. Point and click.

I'm not a Linux novice (in fact, I'm a former Linux and FreeBSD systems administrator), and I've been using Linux on the desktop since the late 1990s. I usually run a combination of Ubuntu and Windows on my PC, and the latest Mac OS X on my laptop.

So I'm in a position to notice step changes in user interface behavior like the one that Ubuntu has brought to the table with 9.04. In short, Ubuntu is now as slick and beautiful as Mac OS X or Windows 7.

As we've noted in earlier articles, Microsoft has also brought its best to the table with Windows 7. However, it's a pity that Apple didn't seem to do so with Leopard. Like some reviewers, I felt that Steve Jobs' latest operating-system opus added a lot of new features, but also some unfortunate erratic behavior that muddied Mac OS X's position as a user interface leader.

As the magazine Macworld has noted, the new Stacks feature in Leopard's Dock is a "mess" and replaced the formerly utilitarian approach to keeping folders in the Dock with a "snazzy but generally less useful pop-up window."

The new "Spaces" feature in Leopard is nothing new; it provides multiple virtual-desktop workspaces, which Unix has had for decades; but I found Apple's implementation erratic.

Then, too, there was the speed price some users paid in Leopard for all the upgrade, though that could just be the older-hardware penalty. On my 1.5GHz G4 laptop with 1280MB of RAM, Leopard runs sluggishly, whereas Tiger runs like a dream. As I don't use any of the new features, the upgrade seemed worthless.

When you consider Microsoft's remarkable rebirth with Windows 7 and the fact that Ubuntu is free, open source, and runs on anything, you would have to wonder what sort of rabbit Steve Jobs will have to pull out of his hat with Snow Leopard to keep growing Mac OS X's share. Sure, there are some apps missing on Linux (say, Photoshop). But the same can be said of Mac OS X in certain areas, and VMware and CrossOver solve a lot of problems.

Looking back to the genesis of Ubuntu 9.04 six months ago, I suspect that its subtle but powerful changes are due to the new user interface team that Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said at the time he would put in place. If so, that team has already earned its paychecks and even more, and we're looking forward to seeing what another six months of development will produce.

In the meantime, kudos to Ubuntu 9.04: you got game.

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Now Track Locations With Google latitude

2009-04-22T08:43:00.000-07:00

Google Latitude is a free application that brings location tracking to your mobile phone even without GPS. That means if you are travelling with a mobile phone that has Google Latitude installed, your family members and friends can track your exact location on Google Maps through any Internet connected computer.

The software is currently available for most BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 phones though an iPhone version of Latitude is still in the works - you can visit google.com/latitude from your mobile browser to know if Latitude is supported on your phone on not.

Google Latitude Tips & Tricks

Tip #1. You don’t want a stranger to know that you are inside a bank’s ATM so make sure that you don’t approve every incoming friend request on Latitude even if the request has come from a person who is listed as a contact in your email address book. Only family members and close friends should be part of your Google Latitude network.

Tip #2. Google Latitude determines your current location using the nearby cell phone towers. If, for some reason, Latitude is unable to detect your exact location, you can set it manually on your phone.

Tip #3. Google Latitude is a data intensive application and I don’t really recommend it if you have a pay-per-byte data plan on your phone.

Tip #4. You don’t need a mobile phone to broadcast your current location via Latitude. If you have a web browser with Google Gears and you’re inside a Wi-Fi zone, Latitude can still detect and update your location on the Internet using the GeoLocation API.

Tip #5. If you are travelling with a laptop and there’re no wireless access points nearby, you can manually update your location on Latitude though this iGoogle Gadget.

Tip #6. Google Latitude can drain the battery of your phone more quickly as the application attempts to update your location as you move around. Please keep point this in mind if your phone battery is low.

Tip #7. Entering a pub but don’t want mom to know about it? Make sure you either hide the location in Latitude or set it manually to a different place.

Tip #8. Google Latitude won’t work inside an airplane so prior to boarding the aircraft, you can set your status in Google Latitude to something like "Boarded flight American Airlines 4815 to New York - On time - ETA 5:30 PM." You can now switch off the mobile phone but your Latitude status will help family members who are planning to receive you at the airport.

Tip #9. Google Latitude can bring some piece of mind. For example, if your kids have just joined kindergarten, you can mute the ringer of your mobile phone and drop it somewhere inside their school bag. This will help you keep track of the school bus and you’ll always know where your children are.

The only piece missing here is a Google Latitude API - that means you can’t update your current location on Google Maps from external apps like Twitter or Facebook.

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Download Youtube Videos In High Defination

2009-04-22T08:04:00.000-07:00

Youtube is shifting from normal videos to HD videos, the why we shall remain engaged in downloading youtube videos in poor quality formats. Now you can download youtube videos in HD. KeepHD is a sweet tool that lets you download HD videos off Youtube. Not only can you download HD copies of your movies, you can also download the mobile 3GP version for your mobile devices plus the standard MP4 and FLV format.

Just enter your Youtube video URL below, and KeepHD will automatically grab each version of the video you want to download.

How to Download High Definition Videos from Youtube

Go to KeepHD, enter the Url of the Youtube video and hit the download button. It then generates a few links that allows you to download videos in High Definition 720p quality, 3GP, FLV and MP4.
KeepHD also gives another way to get stuff .

Whenever your watching a video on Youtube, just replace Youtube with KeepHD and it will automatically download the video!

For Example:

Just change http://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=wgS0KgT5APc
to
http://www.KeepHD.com/watch?v=wgS0KgT5APc

In order for you to download youtube videos in 720p HD, the video must meet Youtube's requirements listed here.

Go to KeepHD.Com to Download High Definition Videos from Youtube

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SmartFaucet Boasts Facial Recognition, Touchscreen Display

2009-04-21T07:55:00.000-07:00

Ready for the ultimate in convergence overkill? Meet the SmartFaucet from iHouse; a tap with built-in face recognition technology that automatically adjusts the water pressure and temperature to your preferred settings. The touchscreen display even features widgets for at-a-glance access to eMail, appointments, and the outside temperature while LEDs illuminate the flow with temperature matching colors. iHouse's Fadec also adds face recognition to a 2.8-inch in-house remote control. That little trick allows the remote to respond to pre-programmed scenes (think AC, lighting, audio) customized by inhabitant. Too much? Never.

Combining sophisticated design with high-end technology, the SmartFaucet by iHouse brings the utmost convenience. Using a facial screening application, the iHouse Smart Faucet recognizes the user and automatically turns on the water to the preferred temperature and flow. With the help of face recognition technology, the SmartFaucet triggers the heater, which heats the water quickly to the desired temperature and flow. Different people can trigger the tap in different configurations, without having to reconfigure it. You just don’t have to worry time and again for mixing cold and hot water to reach the ideal temperature and pressure. The integrated LEDs in the tap illuminate to show the variation of temperature, with transition from blue to red for higher temperatures. This superb intersection of form and functionality is bound to attract admiring comments.
via [Engadget]
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Skydrive Offers 25 GB Of Free Space

2009-04-21T07:43:00.000-07:00

SkyDrive is a Windows program that is password protected online file service. Its a program that allows you to upload your files so that you can access them anywhere in the world. It's not a website or a place to host your files. Its almost a way to carry your computer with even if you don't physically have it with you.

SkyDrive offers an online storage of up to 25 GB. You can use your Windows Live Account to access this free service.

Features:
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* Available in 6 more region and 13 languages.

* Download entire folders as Zip files.

* Slide show for your photos.

* Increase the display size of your photos.

* More control over your online data such as download photos directly to Windows Live Photo Gallery, download as a zip file, move files between folders and copy files to multiple folders.

* Easily share your files and photos without requiring your recipient to register for Windows Live ID.

Visit: http://skydrive.live.com

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Airtel 16 Mbps wireline broadband launched

2009-04-20T08:05:00.000-07:00

Bharti Airtel has launched a 16 Mbps wireline broadband connection in the country.

The company plans to launch the Airtel 16Mbps wireline broadband in Delhi, Chennai, and Bangaluru in the first phase of the roll out. Later, it will extend the 16 Mbps wireline broadband to other cities like Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata.

Airtel claims that it is the fastest wireline broadband on digital subscriber loop (DSL) in India. The Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL) technology provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network.

The Airtel 16 Mbps broadband service is powered by Airtel’s carrier ethernet network. The last mile delivery is on copper using ADSL2+ technology.

Airtel has said that the technology enables ultra high-speed broadband that is scalable and affordable.

Airtel Telemedia Services joint president K. Srinivas said, “We are the leading private broadband service provider in the country and pioneered 8 Mbps broadband. It gives us great pleasure now to be able to introduce the fastest, wired broadband service on DSL.”

“We will be able to offer 16 Mbps broadband to 70 percent of the households in Delhi and NCR (national capital region), Chennai and Bangalore,” he added.

Currently, two tariff plans are being offered by the company for its 16 Mbps broadband at Rs 2,999 and Rs 4,999. The data transfer limit under the Speed Combo 2999 is 20 GB, while that in the Speed Combo 4999 is 50 GB.

The Speed Combo 2999 and Speed Combo 4999 plans offer a fixed line connection too.

Airtel provides broadband connections in over 95 cities across the country, and has nearly 9.92 lakh broadband customers as on December 31, 2008.

In March 2009, Tata Teleservices has announced a 100Mbps broadband access, priced at Rs 10000 per month.

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The Top Ten Twitter Celebrities

2009-04-20T08:00:00.001-07:00

Given such popularity, it’s almost inevitable that celebrities and luminaries would utilize it as a Platform to promo their work & stuff.

Lance Armstrong - Followers: 550,543

John Cleese - Followers: 134,283

Al Gore - Followers: 523,035

John Hodgman - Followers: 56,131

David Lynch - Followers: 52,170

John McCain - Followers: 388,798

Shaquille O’Neal - Followers: 591,534

Barack Obama - Followers: 761,288 - President of United States

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Followers: 40,278 - Actor turner Governor

Martha Stewart - Followers: 329,723

Although there are many Missing in the List like Britney Spears, Google etc.

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Create Round Image Corners Generator

2009-04-20T07:56:00.000-07:00

Here is a great tool for giving all your pictures beautifully rounded corners. It's simple to use and can save you a whole bunch of time. While most web designers use photoshop to achieve this very special effect, now it possible to accomplish in just a few seconds.

How to Use:

All you have to do is give the URL or upload your image below (in either JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP file type). RoundPic will do the work for you and let you choose which corners to round, the round size, the quality of the rounded image, background color for rounded corners, and even if you want it exported as a transparent PNG image.

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Internet Explorer 8

2009-04-20T07:50:00.000-07:00

There is good news for those who use Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 8 has been released.

Internet Explorer 8 has been completed with the features that are not available in the previous versions:

* more fast
* History management
* Web slices
* Map directions
* Search suggestions
* and More …

The final release of the browser comes almost two months after the release of the RC1, which we had previewed back in January. While the feature set is expected to remain similar to the existing RC1 (which is still available for download as of now), the final version is expected to have ironed out all bugs and issues that is expected of a final release. It will be released in as many as 25 languages.

With the IE8, Microsoft aims to lure users away from advanced users who had migrated to more "secure" and feature-packed browsers. IE has been steadily losing its once unassailable market lead to the likes of Firefox from Mozilla and more recently, Google Chrome, which had more features and were touted to be more secure than the erstwhile editions of IE. Even now, a large chunk of Internet users still use IE6, which is two generations old now and for the same reason, is an obsolete browser.

Microsoft has devoted close to a year developing the IE8 which is obviously the most secure version of the browser ever. In fact, a commissioned report by Microsoft had placed the RC1 at the number one spot in detecting malware and suspicious content. The research was conducted by NSS labs and they had included the likes of Firefox (3.07), Apple Safari 3 and Google Chrome in the study.

Microsoft will eventually start pushing the browser through automatic updates. For those who can't wait, it is expected to be available for download starting 21:30 hours India time today from the Internet Explorer homepage.

We will of course be taking a closer look at it a soon as we get our hands dirty - but we're not expecting something radically different from the RC1!
You can download the Internet Explorer 8 from here. Make sure you Select respective home country and appropriate Windows Operating System. Do let us know if you liked the new browser and observed any issues/bugs?

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Sim 3: Make And Upload Movies

2009-04-19T08:01:00.000-07:00

A new Sims 3 trailer from EA shows the game's surprisingly powerful movie editor, and an example movie by Sims staffers who apparently have issues with their neighbours.

On Friday, EA has announced that the upcoming The Sims 3 strategic life simulation computer game to include a new feature to its game which enables users to create a movie using an impressive built-in movie maker. Players can record their advantageous footage, edit and upload it online. Functioning just like desktop-based softwares like Windows Movie Maker and Apple’s iMovie, users can edit their videos in an editing room using a impressive drag-and-drop interface into a timeline.

After capturing clips of your sims, enter them in a timeline to rearrange them, add transitions, effects and a soundtrack before publishing your movie to the Sims website.

Other wonderful features include transitions, zoom, black and white, noise and many more visual effects that turns your clips from a simple and plain to a more interesting one. After users are done with their masterpiece, they can upload them on popular social networking websites Facebook and YouTube to share with their friends or even other gamers who are interested in your experiences while playing the game. Of course, there will be privacy settings whereby you can control who gets to watch your clips. According to EA, the new and fun movie maker feature is the latest addition to the popular and critically acclaimed The Sims franchise which is going to launch in both PC and Mac platforms in 5th June this year.

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How to Stop Advertisement Calls & SMS on mobile

2009-04-19T07:47:00.001-07:00

Today it was too much when I received 12 advertisement sms about “I am priyanka Inorder To Talk To Me And My Friends Just Dial (********) 3Rs/Min ”. One of the most annoying stuff is the promotional calls and hello tune calls you receive daily in your mobile from your service providers. Here is the way to stop these promotional/offers and advertisement sms calls from Airtel and Vodafone.

How to Stop Advertisement Ads SMS & Calls to your Airtel & Vodafone Mobile

Both Airtel and Vodafone users can sms START DND to 1909 (toll free) to stop these unwanted calls.

Stopping Advertisement Ads SMS & Calls using Airtel and Vodafone websites

Go to Do not Disturb Page to Stop unwanted calls for Vodafone users. Add your name, email and mobile number to this page and stop all unwanted promotional/offer calls.
Airtel prepaid and postpaid customers Do not Disturb Page
Airtel landline Customers use this Page. You need to put in your Airtel land line number, account number and email.

How to Stop Advertisement Calls & SMS on Other Mobiles

BPL Mobile - Do Not call sign up page
BSNL Do not Call registration - you need to be registered to use this service.
Idea Cellular - Post paid users need to be registered to use this service. Prepaid users just need to enter their number to stop unwanted calls.
MTNL Delhi - A bit lengthy registration form
MTNL Mumbai - this page speaks for itself.
Reliance Mobile - Do not call me, I will call you
Spice Karnataka - Sms START DND to 1909 or call 9844098440 and place a request.
Spice Punjab
Aircel Chennai
Aircel Tamilnadu
Tata Indicom - sms START DND to 1909, or you can use the My account(for registered users) page for the same to stop promotional calls in your tata indicom mobile.

Finally you can do your work in Peace… after stopping Advertisement Calls & SMS.

Thanx To Realtrix.
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Bohemia:-Ek Tera Pyaar Ft.Devika Chawla

2009-04-18T09:31:00.000-07:00

Recently i watched this video and i liked this song so much that i decided to post it on my blog.

BOHEMIA:-

After immigrating to the West over ten years ago, Bohemia came to realize that the South Asian experience in America wasn't all nice cars and palm trees. On the contrary, he found himself living amongst murderers and drug dealers.

Through his experiences, come raw, hard-edged raps depicting not just California street life, but a life many South Asians lead in America. His lyrics are in Punjabi, while many of the hooks are in English. Placed over hip-hop beats, Bohemia makes it seem as though Punjabi was made to be rapped rather than merely spoken.

Bohemia looks up to artists such as Jagjeet Singh and the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His music has created a big impact on the streets of America and he has a large underground following and is widely recognized as the pioneer of Desi Hip Hop.

Bally Sagoo proudly presents Bohemia’s new album ‘Pesa Nasha Pyar’. A truly remarkable gift of rapping in Punjabi makes him a very unique individual who will make his mark in the global hip hop scene. ‘Pesa Nasha Pyar’ is a rollercoaster ride of brilliantly arranged tracks ranging from dark street themes, to upbeat party songs.

Bohemia: Ek Tera Pyaarft.Devika Chawla

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10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers

2009-04-18T09:08:00.000-07:00

Managing your followers and friends on Twitter is not easy. But its a fact that your success ratio and influence power is directly proportional to how active your followers are. I’ve realized that rather than who follows you or how many people follow you, its important to know whom you are following and how active they are.

Some of the factors that will determine your influence power on Twitter are
- How active your followers are.

- Do they ReTweet your tweets.

- Whether they are regularly updated and have a good following.

- Are those whom you follow, following you back etc.

With the default options on Twitter, its not really easy to manage your followers, but here are some interesting web based applications that I found to be of great help. Hope you find them useful too.

Twitter bird icon courtesy – Aravind Ajith

1. Mass Unfollow those who are not following you back with Huitter

I believe that there is no use in following people who aren’t reciprocating on Twitter. I use this tool weekly, to check for people who aren’t following me back. It automatically unfollows everyone who aren’t following you back. Huitter.

2. Automatically unfollow all inactive accounts you are following with MyCleener

This is yet another tool that will help us automatically unfollow all the inactive accounts based on when their last tweet was, and help you save your follow number. MyCleener

3. Find out common users following and being followed by two accounts

This is a great tool, because if you knew two power user accounts, say from your niche, then you can find out who are the guys they keep in contact with and who are the guys they are following and followed by with this tool. Running this tool with maximum five accounts will more or less reveal the “hidden” circle among them. Very effective if you know whom to stalk. Who follows whom

4. Manage your friends and followers with tags

This tool lets you rate and tag your friends and filter them on a timeline! You can also create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group. Very effective, but a little complicated to use. Twittangle

5. Unfollow people who have not updated within “X” amount of days

This is one of the best ones out there. It lets you find out the tweeps out of your followers who have not updated within a specified number of days (you can decide how many days is it) and lets you unfollow them. Extremely helpful when it comes to keeping your followers group healthy. Untweeps

6. Find out which Tweet made you popular and which one un-popular

One of the things that’s frustrating about Twitter is the un availability of a tracking mechanism. I personally would like to know what was that one tweet that got me popular and which is the one tweet after which people unfollowed me. Very effective in finding out what people expect from you and what they don’t. This tool helps you find just that. Tweet Rank (it’s German, you may want to translate it to English.)

7. Find out your ReTweet Rank

ReTweets I believe are a good measure to find out how popular your tweets are. This site picks up all the re-tweeted stories and grades you based on the number of re-tweets. Though its not sure what the algorithm is, its a nice tool to find out where you stand. Retweetrank

8. Find out who’s following who on Twitter

Well basically this tool helps you to find out if those people you are following are following you back or not. Shows you the number of friends, fans and followers. But I use it for a different purpose. If I find out a power user in my niche who is popular and is often re-tweeted, I would like to find whom he is following and what are his sources. Simply use this tool, give in the username and it will show who all are following him, his friends and fans. The good thing is that you can sort them by the number of followers they have. So if you want to steal a power users “precious friends”, this tool comes in pretty handy. Friendorfollow

9. Find out common followers between accounts

If you’re unsure whether to follow someone or not, just use this tool to find out if you have common interests and whether there are guys you are following in common. TwtrFrnd

10. Find relevant and interesting Twitter users to follow

As I said earlier, a good twitter life is all about following and keeping in company with the most active and interesting Tweeps. And Mr.Tweet is one damn tool that lets you connect with them. I mean, its a very simple concept executed in an awesome way. It shows interesting profiles and stats such as they are active or not, responds to tweets or not and whether they’ll follow you back. Mr.Tweet

Most of these tools require username and password, so use them wisely. Hope you like them.

UPDATE

Thanks to Mark, who introduced this tool called Tweepular to me. I wish I had known them before making this list. It is “the” best tool I’ve found so far. It has almost all the features I can think of for managing followers. Do check it out and you’ll quit using all others.

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22 Really Cute Twitter Bird Icons

2009-04-18T09:06:00.000-07:00

Twitter is one of many popular social networking site with their simplicity. Many designer has created a custom bird icons for them. Here is some of the designer works that has a really cute bird design. Hope you enjoy this list.

Free Twitter Icons - Happy Birds

Twitter Social Icons

Free Twitter Icon Set

free vector twitter icon

A Little Bird Told Me

Tweeties

Twitter Icon

Flockey’s Twitter Icons

High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons

Pracktika Free Icon Set

The Blue Bird

Twitter Birdy Vector Icon

IconTexto Webdev Social Bookmark

Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration

Glossy Twitter Icons

Free Fat Twitters

Web 2.0rigami

Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet

Twitter Bird

Twitter bird logo icon illustration

Lisa’s twitter bird

Twitter Icon Set

Source:-Ignati

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Unusual architecture

2009-04-18T09:02:00.000-07:00

Unusual architecture
84 images | jpg | Various ~570×640 pixels | 8.86 Mb

The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονική, architektonike) can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.

As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment, from the macro level of how a building integrates with its surrounding landscape (see town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture) to the micro level of architectural or construction details and, sometimes, furniture. Wider still, architecture is the activity of designing any kind of system.

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Play 3d Games Without graphic Card

2009-04-18T08:47:00.000-07:00

“Graphics card must have pixel shader ability of 1.1 or greater for program to run.”I ran Devil May Cry 3 using 3D analyzer

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The brand new game you just bought launches,but gives you a black screen and nothing else ? Or maybe you can hear some sounds but no video ?

have this ever happened to You ? Ah Well If Yes,then you are stuck like me (period) ,just like you I too don't have a proper graphics solution (read:onboard graphics) or if you do have,you are having a primitive card. Well,here comes our savior from Tommti systems - The 3D Analyzer Tool. 3D analyzer was created and refined to overcome limitations posed by modern 3D Games and other Applications on several current mainstream 3D Cards.

Using 3D Analyzer Run Next gen games without graphic Card

3D Analyzer sort of "Tricks" your system into thinking it has a Nvidia, or even ATI graphics card! Of course, your games and applications will run in the mode they usually will (with the default graphics and such). If you have an Intel like me, you can now play games like "Devil May Cry 3", “The Witcher”, “Resident Evil 4” and or any new gen games which earlier demanded of graphics card.I played my Favorites using it and I m thoroughly satisfied with this tool. You can fiddle with various options to mess with it,and get different games to work with.

To run any any game using 3D analyzer you have to follow these steps:

Download latest 3D analyzer 2.36 . Click Here.
Run 3D Analyzer.exe
Now click on "SELECT" button, search and open the main executable of the game you want to play. If you don't know file path just do a right click on game shortcut icon (it's usually on desktop or in Programs folder of "Start" menu) and select "Properties", then "Search destination".
Emulating lacking hardware feature with 3D-Analyze:If your video card hardware features don't match DirectX based favourite game's minimal system requirements - you can look for those reading on game box and/or game readme.txt file - try to emulate those "moving" your graphics board into minimal category necessary to play it. Following are main 3D-Analyze settings to check if you want emulate a DirectX version starting from previous one.
The text box VendorID and DeviceID are useful if the game won't work again and it will show error message unsupported video card.It emulate the video card with NVidia or ATI Rademon.
Filling these fields with values written in group box labeled DirectX Device ID's, it will make your game to use your video card like a different one.So if you want to your graphic card to be of Nvidia than change DeviceID from 0 to 1.
At last click on "RUN" button, then the game will begin; of course correct execution isn't ensured because 3D-Analyze can't perfectly substitute hardware lacks. However, higher success probability cases are from DirectX

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Making The Most Out Of Adsense

2009-04-18T07:47:00.000-07:00

Making money online is far easier than you may think. Here is my top tips for making the most our of adsense.

1. Be realistic with your expectations. Google has close to half a billion dollars sitting on it's balance sheet, which is effectively made up of webmaster's
money, where they haven't made enough to make the minimum cheque payment.

2. Be realistic with your expectations. Sure, there are people out there making a heap of money with Adsense, but they have a heap of web-sites and a heap of traffic. Don't be fooled with statements how you can make a million dollars overnight.

3. Be realistic with your expectations (ok, enough, I hope you've got the message). Typical, across the board earnings, for a page with an Adsense ad on, not targeting high end earnings, is around $0.005 per page view. Let me repeat, yep, every time your page gets viewed and assuming your CTR (Click Thru Rate) is anywhere near normal, then you can expect to earn around HALF of one cent. Don't believe me? Then why not ask Google. To quote from the Google Adsense site: "From a publisher's perspective, the effective cost-per-thousand impressions (eCPM) is a useful way to compare revenue across different channels and advertising programs. It is calculated by dividing total earnings by the number of impressions in thousands. For example, if a publisher earned $180 from 45,000 impressions, the eCPM would equal $180/45, or $4.00. However, please keep in mind that eCPM is a reporting feature that does not represent the actual amount paid to a publisher.

4. Figure out how much you want to make from Adsense and then figure how many impressions you're going to need and then figure out how you are going to get those impressions. For example, let's say you want to earn $100 per day from Adsense. Based on $5.00/1000 impressions then that equates to 20,000 impressions PER DAY. All quite achievable and doable (probably not in left handed basket weaving) but you need to align your expectation with realistic targets.

5. Once you have a few thousand impressions happening, test and test and test again. The main things to change and test are the number, size and position of ads, and the colors of the font. There are some guidelines that suggest that the 336*280 works best, but my experience tells me that this isn't the case for every web-site. Best thing to do is to change ONE thing, then wait for 1000 impressions and if results have improved, keep the change, if no improvement, then revert back and try something else.

6. Always use the channel codes when creating ads. This is essential if you want to track where your earnings are coming from. I also use it as a quick stat counter when I'm building new sites. When creating my codes I also include the layout for example 728*90 AGOP BOTTOM to me means the large banner ad at the bottom of the page on A Gift Of Poetry

7. If you are just testing a whole page layout, you can use the same channel code for different sized ads.

8. You can now put a lot of Google ads on one page. To max a page out, you can have Two text ads, THREE normal ads and THREE referral ads AND Two search boxes. That's a lot of ads and I wouldn't recommend it. For example, the Google search box is a waste of valuable territory . Again, test and test to find best combinations that work for you and your site.

9. The world of the hyperlink is blue and it is not the blue that Google defaults the ads to. For the record, the normal hyperlink blue is 0000FF, why not change to that and test the results? {HINT}

10. I have a few strategies when it comes to Adsense. On some sites, I don't have it at all. On others, I create a 'visual ad road block' where the visitor has to scroll through a screen of ads to get to the content and thirdly, on other sites, I take care to blend the ads in with the content. To be honest, all three strategies work and if you haven't got the message by now, you should have, because you need to TEST to find out which works best. My final note of caution, don't spend ALL your time testing, you're probably only getting paid $0.005 per page impression.

11. When you do achieve some reasonable page impressions then it is worth using the alternate ad option that Google gives you. You will be pleasantly surprised (or horrified) how many times your back up ad will get shown.

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Get information about an IP address

2009-04-17T10:23:00.000-07:00

For those of you who aren’t familiar with computers, IP address are a numerical identification that is assigned to devices on a computer network. Each IP address is unique, hence we can easily gain much information from just an IP address. As such, the role of the IP address has been characterized as follows: “A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there.”
Check Location from IP Address
Now, with the right tools, we can pinpoint the origin of the computer with the particular IP address to a place on the map. However, the data achieved may not always be correct. This is due to the existence of dynamic IPs. These temporary IP addresses are recycled among other computers of the same ISP, hence the geographical readings achieved from these websites will most likely be the locations of the past owners of the same IP address.

One such solution to identify the geographical location of a specific IP address has been IP2Location. This Malaysian-based Internet R&D company based in Penang enables end-users to detect the country, region, city, latitude, longitude, ZIP code, ISP, domain name, timezone, connection speed, IDD code, area code, weather station code, and weather station name by using merely an IP address. It uses the IP2Location .BIN database as an internal lookup reference and does not require an external network connection. IP2Location Application is available in several platforms such as Windows (GUI or command line) or Linux/Unix (Perl). Following such success and popularity, many similar websites have sprung up, with each claiming to offer a higher accuracy than the latter.

1. IpLocator

This completely free localization service has been fairly accurate from my experience of using it. I have been using this service for almost a year and about 70-80% of the time, the results are always correct. It also provides interesting information about the location found, such as the population, the time zone, the distance to nearby cities and so on.

2. Geolocation

Geolocation by Ipligence is a free service but the end user is only limited to 50 search queries per day, which should be enough for the average user. This was the only website that managed to correctly query my current location based on my IP address at time of writing. Still, I’ve never used it much so I can’t really say for sure what the accuracy rate is like.

3. Syszilla’s Whois Lookup

Syszilla’s Whois Lookup basically query’s the target IP address to [URL="http://www.ripe.net/"]RIPE’s[/URL] database. The inclusion of Google Maps serves to literally paint a better picture of the users location. However, out of 3 tests, all using different IP’s, it wasn’t able to detect my location accurately.

4. Geo-IP

Geo-IP is rather simplistic with minimum information. It also did not fare too well, failing to detect my geographical location on all three counts using different IPs.

5. IpGeoInfo

IpGeoInfo has a simple barebones page layout, but still contains some useful information, which is only useful if it gets your location spot on. You can also query host names which are automatically converted into IP addresses.

6. IP2Location

Although it’s products are mainly shareware, you can input a test IP address on the right side of the page for a demo. I’m not sure how many times you are allowed to do so, but according to what I’ve tested, IP2Location managed to detect my location.

Obviously, these services aren’t very accurate, but at least they provide a rough guide of showing where the location of the target pc. Nonetheless, I’d say that IP2Location is the best of them all, as it does it’s job well most of the time. So, do you know any similar free sites or programs offering the same services? Why not post them in the comments.

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Exchange Links With Dvhacker

2009-04-17T09:41:00.000-07:00

Dvhacker was started by Dinesh Verma and is growing day by day, within 2 months Dvhacker got Page Rank 2 and Alexa Rank just above 1 million. If you want to descent Alexa Rank and want me to get Alexa rank within 400,000 then you have to exchange link with us.

Inorder to exchange link with us you have to put a link of my blog with name Dvhacker on your blog and in return i will put your links.

Wanna Link Exchange if yes then leave a comment along with name of your blog and Link.

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StumbleUpon goes back to its founders

2009-04-17T09:18:00.000-07:00

The founders of StumbleUpon have bought it back from eBay. Two years after Stumble founders Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith cashed out and handed stumbleupon over to ebay, they've come back with a team of investors and bought StumbleUpon back from eBay. It's pretty exciting.

In the company’s blog post it has been said,

After nearly two years as a subsidiary of eBay, today StumbleUpon returns to being an independent company. StumbleUpon is now backed by myself and co-founder Geoff Smith, along with several great investors who’ve backed companies such as Google and Facebook.

StumbleUpon had hit 7 million registered users last year, which was at the time 50% higher than the number of Twitter's users. Twitter's users have dramatically increased this year though.

Both Twitter and StumbleUpon, though, are tools of discovery, sharing and social connection. They are different in some ways but similar in others. There's a special kind of magic to StumbleUpon, though, and we're very glad to see its founders back in the driver's seat. A web where Twitter and Facebook are the only social discovery games in town is a poorer web.

In the company’s blog post it is further said that:

This change will help StumbleUpon move quickly and stay true to its focus - helping people discover interesting web content. Our goal is to make StumbleUpon the web’s largest recommendation engine and we think this is the best way to get us there.
Thanks to everyone for helping make this happen. While there will be some internal changes at SU, it will not impact the Stumbling experience and will help us create the best possible product. We are really excited about this change, and hope you are as well.

Lets see if the original founders of StumbleUpon will take it to the new heights.

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NIKON COOLPIX S710 ALMOST A PRO

2009-04-17T07:59:00.000-07:00

At times, you just don’t feel like lugging huge telephoto lenses and bulky digital SLRs. That’s when NIKON COOPLPIX S710 comes into play. Unlike other digital cameras, it has varied manual controls to focus on and get the exact shot that’s on your mind. On the flipside, it lacks processing power. A wee slow, it keeps you waiting while saving images. Though it’s quite compact, it’s not cramped-there’s a nice 3” LCD screen with a snug scroll wheel and thumb jotter to navigate through the set up.

Features:

14.5 meg resolution
3.6X zoom
3” LCD screen
156g weight

Price: - approx. Rs 22,250

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New Samsung Ultra Touch

2009-04-17T07:47:00.000-07:00

Samsung’s Ultra touch is an 8 mega pixel phone camera phone with a touch screen. Samsung Ultra touch is a kewl phone with 8 meg cam with 7.1 cm anti scratch, anti-smudge touch screen is encased in a neat brushed metal ,AGPS with geotagging, integrated FM radio, stereo Bluetooth, and microSD support up to 16GB. To enhance the images, it has a dual power LED. As far as its touch experience is concerned, flick your fingers and feel the magic of its interactive Touch wiz interface.

Features:-

Cam: 8 Mega pixels (awesome).

Touch screen: 7.1 cm (anti scratch and anti smudge).

AGPS with geotagging

Integrated FM radio

Stereo Bluetooth

MicroSD support up to 16GB

Dual power LED

Ultimate Touch Experience

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Price: approx. Rs 27,500

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