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Useful Indian Websites, 17 May 2013

Madhav Tripathi — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:47:02 PDT

Sometimes we publish useful Indian websites.

(1) Myindiapictures:
It is a website for cool pictures from India. A cool picture that makes you laughs and makes your mind cool in a fun way. Above picture is an example of what I mean for cool pictures. Simply you get info with fun.

(2) Zomato:
It is an Indian International restaurant directory gathering data for 19 cities with five outside of India. You want to go in a restaurant in Ahmedabad, but not sure, about the menu or the experience, here Zomato helps you. Zomato helps you to find restaurant address, phone number, and menus, read reviews with pictures, timing, and other facilities as air conditioning, outdoor seating, and typical costs.

(3) Mouthshut:
It is an Indian website for reviews. It does not pay for reviews. Individual users share their experience about products and services they use. As you bought a Nokia mobile and you liked it, you would share your experience with others and recommend it but if you are unhappy, you will warn others. Users share personal reviews on any general subject electronic products, movies, restaurants, foods, travels, books, sports, fashion and much more.

(4) Tweetwood:
It is for celebrity tweets, celebrities are popular people as film actors, writers, politicians, sports players and businesspersons. This website aggregates their pictures, videos and text updates.

(5) SiliconIndia:
It is a community of Indian professionals, its news section is popular It also has other sections as blogging, community, job boards, events, life, education etc.

(6) Districts in India
Do you want to know about Indian States, Districts and their names, Districts is a governmental website for this. When you click on a district name, the official website of that district will open if any is there, or the State website of that district.

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5 websites to check blacklisted IP Address

Madhav Tripathi — Tue, 14 May 2013 06:16:10 PDT

If you do unlimited downloading in less than 24 hours, spam on websites and send spam emails, ISP providers ban your IP address; it is a common cause of email delivery issue. Sometimes it happens without any reason. Once they block, you become unable to use many online services.

Anti-spam organizations manage these blacklists and blacklist spamming IPs. ISP providers use these lists to identify spammers and block them for some time. If virus infects your computer or network or someone in your network is spamming then organizations blacklist your IP address. It gets in a blacklist even if you are innocent because of a shared network. Blacklisting is automatic; it uses some scripts to check the bad behavior. However, manual reporting is also possible. Go to some websites and check blacklisted IP Address database, if you are unsure that, it could be in a blacklist. These sites show you the result but cannot remove it from any list. Check your IP address if you cannot access some sites online or domain name if your emails not reaching to the customers.

If your IP address is in a list, you should make an appeal to the blacklisting organization.

(1) Mxtoolbox
(2) Spamcop
(3) Blacklistalert
(4) Dnsbl
(5) IP-blacklist

5 Sites to check your IP Address

Madhav Tripathi — Sun, 12 May 2013 01:23:12 PDT

What is my IP address? Have you ever asked this question to yourself? Have you ever check it? It is a unique name for your computer on the internet.

The easiest way to search your IP, go to Google and type, “my IP Address”. And Google will tell you, “Your public IP address is 111.111.45.111″.

If you want to know more, you should visit other sites.
All the sites will show you below information.

The address (Dynamic or static)
Remote port
Internet service provider (ISP)
Organization
Connection
Services
City
Region
Country
Location on map

The famous five

(1) Whatismyipaddress
(2) Whatismyip
(3) IP-Adress
(4) Whatsmyip
(5) ipaddress

When you will find, a service knows this much, you would want to do something. People use proxy servers but it is unsafe until you go for a VPN (virtual private network).
If you have a WordPress blog, it shows the IP address of commentators.

We have two types of internet protocol addresses, ipv4 and ipv6. The format we are familiar with is ipv4 that has numeric number separated with periods (.), and ipv6 has alphanumeric number separated with colons (:).

Websites in this post have other related services as blacklist checker, DNS lookup, email trace, IP range, internet speed checker, system checker, and Who Is info. These sites detect proxy servers, and you check information of other IPs, if you have any. Websites will show, also computer information as browser, operating system, language, time zone, local time, screen resolution of computer and referer.

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4 Free Tools to Manage Passwords

Madhav Tripathi — Sat, 11 May 2013 00:27:53 PDT

Now every normal web user has several online accounts as Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail or some more for email services. We use Facebook, twitter, MySpace and Tumblr for social networking, Pinterest for picture sharing and WordPress for blogging. If you were a blogger, you would have many social bookmarking and forums accounts. Almost any active internet user has at least 25 online accounts. In addition, most of the users use same email and same passwords (which, you should never do) for all the accounts, which is easily guessable because it is their mobile number, bike number, favorite movie names, favorite actor name, a girl’s name living in society or studying in same school or female coworker name. It would more simple as 1234, 123456, password, and abcd. It is dangerous, you cannot let others play with your privacy and steal your information. In addition, it should be uneasy to guess, means it should be strong. A strong password is almost 15 characters long with alphanumeric and special characters in higher and lower case. If you make it strong, you cannot remember it, so how you will remember 25 different strong passwords? Here comes a tool, all you need is a password manager, which can remember all your passwords, usernames and emails, it is a handy tool; it let you fill forms, it remembers and manages passwords. However, you still need a master password, it must be a strong and you must not share it with anyone and must not forget it. If you lose it, you would not be able to use it.

Account security is very important if you do net banking and use ecommerce websites.

If you do not take care of your accounts, anyone, who has a little interest in hacking can easily hack it, and can steal your important information. That is very bad.

(1) Lastpass
It is available as free and premium. It supports many platforms as Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. It is available as an extension. It supports popular browsers as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. It is also available for Mobiles Operating systems as iOS, Android, Symbian, Blackberry and Web OS (HP). It also has fill up tool and strong password generator.

(2) Roboform
Roboform is perhaps most popular manager. It is for personal use. It is available on multi platforms. You can access them offline.

(3) Keepass
It is one of the oldest programs; it stores all the passwords in computer by encrypting it. You can use hot keys to fill in online forms. It is an open source program.

(4) Passpack
With the free account you can store up to 100 passwords. It is useful for professionals to share with other users in a workgroup.

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8 Sites to Send Free eCards and Greetings Online

Madhav Tripathi — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:06:59 PDT

eCard or Online Greeting is a virtual card. It has pictures, text, video or animation. You can send it to someone via email to show your love and support. Some websites offer it free. eCards have wishes, greetings for special occasions as happy Birthday, Mother’s Day, Congratulations, Sorry, Happy Anniversary, Love, Friendship, Humor, Miss You, Inspiration, Get well soon, Just married, Holidays, festivals, Poems and many other types.
These websites have ready-made cards and let you customize it.
You also can send invitations on special occasions.
The number one, two and five have login with Facebook support. Some sites have Facebook comment system. Almost all the sites ask you to add a code to prevent spam and misuse, and some sites let you send it without login.

(1) 123greetings
It is the most popular site for this purpose. Send invitation to anyone for party or any event, you can add multiple recipients. You can login it to get more benefits, create an address book of your contacts. Add custom message in the card and keep track of sent cards. You can upload your picture and send it as an ecard.

(2) Egreetings
You can find beautiful Flash greetings, share them on Facebook or email them. You get several options to customize the message look. Send a greeting to someone in Advance up to one year.

(3) Dayspring
Dayspring has a special free cards’ section. It also offers free screensavers.

(4) Dgreetings
Dgreetings have no options for login or signup means it is a completely free service. It also offers desktop calendars and desktop wallpapers download. You can find many ideas to make someone feel special on special occasions. You can email messages and flowers.

(5) Greet2k
Greet2k has 5 different sections as ecards, poems, quotes, sms/messages and Holidays.

Below mentioned sites are also good but things are similar. There are many other sites more than in this article.

(6) Meme4u

(7) Atmgreetings

(8) Regards

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3 Sites to Check Website Backlinks

Madhav Tripathi — Thu, 09 May 2013 06:57:08 PDT

Backlinks are backbone of any website, so almost all webmaster try to get it more and more. It is great medium to drive traffic to your blog and get good ranking in search engines, and to get good PageRank. However, this post is to check incoming links to your blog.
There are many tools but three sites to Check Website Backlinks to your site.

If you do not want to come back to these sites, you can save the result page as an HTML file or export in Excel.

(1) Backlinkwatch
It is most popular website for backlink checking. Ahrefs.com powers this website. You can see up to 1000 backlinks without an account and only 1000 are possible with this tool. You can see the PageRank of the given link, anchor text, outbound links from that page and you can see if the link has nofollow tag.

(2) Google Webmaster Tools
If you have verified your site and added it in Google webmaster tools, you can check linking sites to your site in traffic section. With the domain, it shows number of links and linked pages. It also shows anchor text and preview of the domain. You can export any data in CSV or Google Docs format.

(2) Analyzebacklinks
It is a simple and fast tool. It has many good options as do not repeat backlinks from same domain, show only from Homepage etc.

There are many other resources where you can check but for the detailed and quick results, the first website in this article is very useful.
You should try different tools to check coming links, because results re very different and in different way, you can compare results of all these sites. After seeing the results, you analyze the quality of a backlink, if the linked page has a high page rank and high site rank it is a quality backlink otherwise a low quality.

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8 Disposable Email Services

Madhav Tripathi — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:44:37 PDT

If you do not want to give out your real identity online to someone or to a company, you can use disposable email services. Sometimes you need these if you are doing an investigation. If you do not want to get your Gmail inbox full of spam emails, you will find these services useful.

Importance of a disposable email provides is that it is temporary, it does not live longer, it has a limited life, and you can create an inbox that will destroy after 10 minutes or 12 hours. These services always come handy, you can set a temporary address to your permanent one.

Sometimes, some sites ask you to confirm your email address there you can use these services especially if you do not want to give your real e-mail.

Most of these emails are not password protected, so you must not share it with anyone until it expires. Otherwise, someone will read your message.
All the sites offering free service.

(01) 10minutemail
This site will create a temporary email address, which will live for 10 minutes but you can add more minutes and keep adding. It is most popular website in this list. If you get any reply, it will show up on homepage and you can read and reply it. Sometimes, some websites require you to login to use but if you do not want to give real identity or just want to test the site, this is helpful.

(02) Fakemailgenerator
When you visit the site it generates an email address, which will live for 24 hours, just copy and paste it to sign up to some site. If you want, you can create a custom one. It offers several generic domain names that you can choose to create it. Fakenamegenerator is offering this service.

(03) Guerrillamail
Guerrillamail is live online since 2006. This website provides email address that will expire in 60 minutes, in this period you can read and reply. This service offers other services as well as password manager, file sending up to 150 MB, the file will deleted after 24 hours.

(04) Yopmail
After creating your unique and uneasy to guess address, you can check your emails on this site. They also provide alias, it is similar to the one Microsoft provides in Outlook.
They also offer a Firefox extension.

(05) Mailinator
You can use any_address@mailinator if a site requires, you do not need to create one, inbox is created when email arrives or it. Any name on the place of alias or any name followed by @mailinator without creating it.

(06) Jetable
You can choose the life of your created inbox from one hour to one day, one week or one month. As they say it, it is not an anonymous service. They forward your messages to your real e-mail.

(07) Mailcatch
You can forward your temporary emails for specific time as one hour or 30 minutes. They provide several domains, which you can use instead of mailcatch domain.

(8) Disposable
Just pick a random address ending with @dispostable.com. Alternatively, use automatically generated.

Read our Facebook note for more disposable services.

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4 websites for Hindi Song Lyrics

Madhav Tripathi — Mon, 06 May 2013 06:19:00 PDT

Bollywood is world wide famous in music and song industry. Many people want to read Hindi song lyrics and some people who are more interested in music they find chords and notes. Sometimes you can not understand the lyrics of a song but you like if know you the correct lyrics you can sing it in public. It is also very important for local singers who sing in orchestras in marriage ceremony. It is not clear who bring out these lyrics, mostly these are created by die hard fans, so we can find variation in lyrics of different sources. To understand the correct lyric of a song is not easy you have to listen many times to make a decision, you also have to write down it on apiece of paper.

(1) Lyricsmasti
Is one of most popular website for Hindi song lyrics. It has a very simple interface, you can listen every song while reading its lyric and vice versa. You can find playlists of select songs. You can browse the website using alpha and numerical order.

(2) Hindilyrics
Hindilyrics more simpler than above site. You can find translations of Hindi songs. You can lyrics of latest Hindi movies and albums, you can also find Kannada, Marathi, Telugu and Punjabi. You can also search for profiles.

(3) Lyricsmint
Lyricsmint looks like a gossip blog but it about. While reading a song lyric you can listen it or watch its video. This website has attractive look specially the magenta color. Every page has some graphic as movie poster or screenshot. Facebook comments is enabled so you can comment and share it.

(4) Hindigeetmala
You can browse Hindigeetmala by year wise, alphabetically by movie name or alphabetically by singer name. It has songs from 1930 to 2013. If you open a page of movie it will have all the detail about it as actors, director, singers, lyricist, YouTube links and list of songs.

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6 Sites to generate favicon

Madhav Tripathi — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:18:24 PDT

Favicon is favorite icon; you can generate it in different sizes as 16X16, 24X24 and 32X32 pixels. Many websites let you generate favicon. However, not all the sites are good. You can read more about it here. If you want to install it in WordPress here is guide here. Now Firefox does not show it on address bar, but you can see it on tab title.

(1) Favicon.cc
This is the best site to make a favicon. You can import an image to it or create it from scratch. You also can add animations. You can see top rated and recent favicons. After making it you can publish it under open license.

(2) Degraeve
Degraeve has an Apple icon; you can make your using color brush. You can use transparent color. It generates 16 pixels square ico.

(3) Genfavicon
To make favicon with this website upload an image from computer or import it from a URL, select the size and capture the purview. You cannot make it from scratch using brush. You can make a favicon in 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128 dimensions.

(4) Favicon Generator
This tool provides a big editor, color eraser, and you can see the preview of you progress. Alternatively, you upload an image to generate one. You can resize image dimension to fix size 16X16 or ignore it.

(5) Dynamicdrive
Dynamicdrive is for HTML, CSS and JavaScript tutorials but it has a tool, which let you make Favicon, you can upload an image in gif, jpg, png, or bmp, but the file size limit is 150 KB. You can merge it with a 32×32 desktop icon or 48×48 large XP icon, although both options are optional.

(6) Dagondesign
Dagondesign is for plugins and themes; their .ico maker is also popular. You can use JPG, PIN or GIF of maximum 100KB. And this tool will convert it to a standard 16×16 image.

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Chatwing Chatbox: Leading Chat App in Advance Customization

Guest Author — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:56:00 PDT

Chatwing chatbox has been in the competition for four years now and I’d say that a lot of useful development had been added to the dynamic website chat tool. Before it was literally a simple chat box, as simple as those available online, but recent improvements have made it worthy to top the ranking.

Chatwing remains to be user friendly with its very simple installation process, which is an advantage for new bloggers since they just need to allot a few seconds in embedding and then they can focus in other important tasks. Three easy to follow steps and the chatbox can go live within a few seconds. For users who are just concerned with immediately having a communication tool in their websites they can provide their email accounts and password, do some adjustments with the size, title of the chat app and modify the font sizes, colors and styles of the usernames, messages and links. Users can also modify the log in options, meaning you can choose whether to allow Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and Gmail accounts to be used as log in method or just some of it, other wise your website visitors can choose to stay anonymous by logging in as guests.

Now, let’s discuss the fun part- the advance customization mode! You can resize the chatbox whether it is in regular shoutbox or pop-up window form. You can change the theme color that will fit your site or a color that will make the widget stand out from the page to easily attract attention, it’s up to you. You can adjust the size of the chat box, again, depending on your intention.

There are five language setting available, too, aside from the thousands of customized background images to choose from. Let your imagination come at play, nothing can limit you since numerous customization tools are available at your disposal. To check if the combinations of colors and designs complement, a dashboard preview can be found in the right corner of the page.

Chatwing chat app is not just about great customization choices; it also facilitates fast online network expansion with its social media integration features. Chatroom messages can be easily shared to your own Facebook account. For more tips and ideas, visit Chatwing.com.

About the Author and Developer of Chatwing:
Aaron Kong is an active web developer and technology advocate who strongly strives to develop the power of open communication.

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