Google Hacks

Google phone G1

2008-09-24T20:41:00.001+05:30

Google launches the much awaited Google phone and it's called G1. Google phone is pitched gainst Iphone , blackberry.. This was earlier known as "Android Phone" . lets have a deep look at it.This is a touch screen full qwerty smart phone.

This was launched this Tuesday. Like the iphone This will be available for T-mobile customers. though initially it will be available on lin US. Soon it will launched for T-mobile customers all over the world. In US you iwll get it as early as October 22(launch date) and in the U.K. in early November and throughout Europe in the first quarter of 2009. There is no info for other part of the world.

Thsi phone is built by HTC and supports the Google's open Android Linux Os. HTC is Taiwan based company that has some great products like HTC touch (the original so called iphone killer) This being a Linux and a open source os fewer virus. .

How much it costs? JUST $179.
Thats 20$ less than iphone. Other that that you have to pay a contract fee like the iphone

This phone Supports all the latest technology 3G, EDGE and Wi-Fi and is built in with all the Google applications i will soon present a full specs of the phone till then it's all it.

This may not be as revolutionary as Iphone buts it sure has more features than Iphone

Multiple searches box in Google chrome

2008-09-24T19:06:00.000+05:30

To get multiple search engines in chrome with out clicking a single button just read on. what would you do if want to search wikipedia but your default search box is Google in Firefox or IE. Just click on the search icon / change search box button and select wikipedia.

Ie is better it will revert back to your default search box next time you open the browser but Firefox makes this as your default search box. in chrome you have to do the same expect for This simple trick .

Just click on the wrench icon . Now select "options" .

Under "basics " tab you will find "default search". Click on manage . Now select any other search engine that you want . Make this search engine as your default search engine. Click ok and job done.

Now open a new tab. In the special chrome page you will see the previous default search engine below "search history" box..

You can use the default search from the address bar and any other search engines by just opening a tab. Ok here you have a click a button but it's very unlikely that you will search in the same tab in any of your browser

You can have any no of search box by repeating the process.

10 hidden pages in chrome

2008-09-22T17:54:00.000+05:30

Like any browser Chrome has some hidden "about" pages. Lets look at them. . the provide a lot of info on what the browser has been doing . Some are just for fun to show their funny side.

Some images are edited(to decrease width). Click on images for a larger view.

1. about:version - Google Chrome shows the version number of the browser, WebKit and V8 ( V8 is Chrome's JavaScript engine).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19

2. about:plugins - You might have installed tons of plug ins. by typing this Chrome will display the list of plug-ins installed in your Google Chrome like Adobe Acrobat, Shockwave Flash, Google Update etc.

3. about:cache - This page will display the list of all the web pages cached by Google Chrome.

4. about:memory - This pages measures memory usage in a multi-process browse i.e compares the memory used by all the active browsers

5. about:dns - Google Chrome prefetches the DNS records. Thsi helps it to load pages faster . Prefetching is done only for 10 frequently visited hostnames. Thsi page displays them

6. about:stats - Thsi page displays a internal counters and timers. thsi page a s specail sub-title "Shhh! This page is secret!".. why such a title go ask google

7. about:network - dont exactly know what this page doest but it seams to besome thinf to do with I/O tracking

8. about:hang - If you type this on a active page it will cause the web page to hang the process The other tabs will continue to work fine but this will just vanish(something like clear screen) .The tab remains as it is but will no longer show any thing

9. about:crash - This displays the page the is visible when an tab crashes. Actually this will cause the tab to crash. crash the active tab. Google Chrome displays the image of a "sad tab" with the following text below it "Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page".

10. about:internets - This is the best page. It is basically one of the windows screen saver , Pipe 3D or 3D pipe Google Chrome displays 3D Pipes screensaver from Windows

Blogger feed problem in Google chrome

2008-09-09T16:32:00.000+05:30

Google chrome unable to handle blogger feed pages. Just check out these screen shots. First one is the RSS feed page of my Blog. The second one is the atom feed of my blog. For those of you dont know this is a blogger blog and Blogger is a Google product.
My point is why does not it support rss/atom feeds of blogger. i checkout the feeds provided by feedburner and they were perfect.. This just means that they forgot to test blogger feed pages during testing or they have decided to leave the ball in the blogger's court and let it handle the problem. Anyways this is nothing to worry about since it will be a year or so before we can really count Chrome as a player in the field of browser

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Hope Google/Blogger irons them out soon.

Bugs in Google chrome

2008-09-08T16:04:00.001+05:30

These is one minor bugs or incomplete/missing feature in Google chrome.In The following screen shot one of the icon has a problem. May be the icon no longer exist on the server. Idid a right click to select the option "View image " just to sure that the icon no longer exists and to my surprise i did not find any such option. .Just see the screenshots below. I just found "open image in new tab". Thats an ok alternative for proper images i.e photos but not for icons . Hope they iron it out soon.

I am currently testing chrome so you can hope more reviews/ bugs on chrome soon

Google Chrome

2008-09-03T12:21:00.003+05:30

A good first browser. This is not revolutionary(expect for looks) but a excellent start by google. In terms of looks it's Firefox on steroids. in terms of features it has a long way to go.

On the up side it looks great. The best thing is that the address bar acts as search bar. it has a stealth mode that prevents what you visited from being stored/recorded. It has a task manager too.No menu bar instead 2 icons on status bar. It has a auto hide status bar. "Page cannot be displayed" has a link to google cache and also displas the correct error with the page.The start up page just shows the bookmarks and commonly visited pages and recently closed tabs.

On the downside the status bar just says connecting and does not shows the progress.

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Great browser from Google with the coming versions it will be excellent. Although i must admit it cant compete with Firefox on features. Even in reach/size i will take lot of marketing effort to reach even 50% of Microsoft. just look at Google backed Firefox has just 19% of the market share despite google paying users who promote it.And the 19 % is because of it's features and not because of google.

I am sure with in a year it will be the third most used windows browser and second on apple

Create Fake pages

2008-08-29T20:24:00.000+05:30

I will give some lessons to budding web designers . This will tell you how to create copy of a pages. Here is how you create one. Let me show how you do for Google.com.

Open Google in a new tab or Click Here .
Now select "View" from menubar
Then select "Source"(IE) or "Page Source"(firefox).
This will show you raw html of the site in a notepad in case of IE. In firefox this will be visible in firefox.
Now You need To save this page.
Just select "Save page as " . Change save type as to "All Files". and save it as XYZ.html(anyname.html)
Now just double click on the html it will open in your browser. You will be get the exact replica of the google page

Only problem is the images are not visible. This is because most sites uses relative path. Just visit the actual page and save all images. Now upload it anywhere on the web. Just get the links of the images. In many cases even the css file(for how sites appear) are also relatve. You need to download them too (just type http:/ /sitename.com/name of file.css in the browser and the fill will be downloaded)
Go to the html file and Right click on it and select "OPEN WITH" notepad. Now If you know html job's done in a minute else it will have to use trial and error method.
Relative Path is one thing like this "/images/google.gif" you need to give the complete path names where ever possible like "www.google.com/images/google.gif". In case of images you may even replace these with your links.
Tip for those who dont know html : Html consists of tages image is represented as follows "< img. src="actual image link" /> Click here for Html Tutorials
Similarly change all relative path to actual path and the job done.
If you are a hacker or Pro Html programmer then you all ready know about this. But if are newbie to either hacking or html then this is a good exercises. Html programers use this frequently . If they like the design of the site they copy it to their sites . But if use this with a wrong intent or create a look alike of the site that will confuse the users into thinking that it's the orginal site you will land behind bar then dont say didn't warn you.

GOOGLE Games

2008-08-29T15:27:00.000+05:30

Do you know google has developed some games and puzzles too. Though the games are silly you might still try them out . But as far as puzzles re comcerned they are too tough to crack . just check out the links

Great videos

2008-07-27T18:51:00.000+05:30

Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com

Note:- Click on the box icon next to play for more videos . Videos are on Hacking, Technology and How to tips

Best antivirus review

2008-07-09T10:45:00.000+05:30

Every one should have a good Anti -virus. Let me rate the top 3 antivirus for you from my experience and the extensive study i did online.

First on the list is Kaspersky . This is the best Antivirus. It has a virus detection rate of 95%+. It detects a virus in less than 2 second.The best part is it that all this at just 10% of your RAM. The updates are Hourly. Only problem is it doesn't has a Registry protection.Other than that it gives you complete protection. It gives you IM, Mail, SPAM, Spyware protection. It gives you the option of triple protection (Fire/AV/anti spy) or just Anti virus. Zone alarm(best firewall) it self makes use of a tweaked version of kaspersky as a part of their complete protection suite. AOL'S Active Virus Shield is based on the Kaspersky antivirus engine This is enough to convince you.

Further list is just for those who what to know more.If you just want a Anti virus then you can download kaspersky and leave this site.

Next on the list is Bit defender.This is actually better than Kaspersky but sucks up your RAM like any thing up to 50%.What the use of such a Anti- Virus . if you have faster RAM (1GB+)then go for it. It has a virus detection rate of 95%+. It detects a virus in 0-4 seconds. It gives you complete protection like Kaspersky with registry protection too. It best feature is detection of new malwares. It has the highest new malware detection rate among the Antivirus available.Updates are hourly.

Next is Mcafee.This is quiet good if you have AV with firewall and Anti Spam. Light on your RAM. Least false detection rate. Only problem is once the protection period is over it wont give you any updates.Updates are daily.

Among free ones Avast is the best. It gives complete protection but detection rate is not high.

I was initially using Norton.Later i started using Mcafee since my broadband connection provider gave it for free. Once the period got over i didn't get any updates I didn't want to pay to switch to a newer version and start getting updates. So switched to Avast. Then i tried Trent micro again given free with by provider(they changed from mcafee to trend due to some contract issue). Finally i decided to get a paid one. That's when i did a extensive research and came up with this result.I am switching to Kaspersky as it's the fastest.

If you are computer Geek. You can even try Nod32.Try it if and only if you are geek.

Let's look at other sites ratings
PC WORLD

Kaspersky 6
Norton 2007
Bit Defender 9

About.com

Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium
Kaspersky 6
Bit Defender 9
McAfee VirusScan 2006

Toptenreviews (this does not takes into consideration of the that drain each program exerts on a computer's resources)

Bit Defender 9
Kaspersky 6
Nod32

Cnet (all are given 7.8)

Bit Defender 9
Norton 2007
Trend

Virus.gr

Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303,
Active Virus Shield by AOL

Googleopedia story

2008-07-01T18:49:00.000+05:30

This is the story of how i started this website. Once i read in newspaper about a Indian girl a who was living in New zealand . She was earning 1000$ a month that too while studying all that she did was create a blog and added a sign up form. This was a college sign up form basically a few links to sign up forms of colleges. If someone signed up from her site she got paid.

Thsi was more than enough for me. I knew basics on web design. So after a month or so i decided to dive in to this money pool . I initially started a website from freewebs but soon realised they show their own ads. Thus i created this blog on dec 06 "orkuttricks.blogspot.com"

I actually began blogging in Feb 07. I was initially all about Orkut.com .Later i added about joga.com . It is a orkut site with a football touch created for Nike. Later i began adding article on google talk . This was till june 07 . Later i stopped blogging till august.

In September i decided to blog about all google products and thus began blogging on Igoogle and Gmail . This continued till dec 07. In the new year i got busy with other tasks so almost stopped blogging with occasional postings.

In April i bought a domain "googleopedia.com" with the idea that i will build a proper site. I built a site in the next 2 months but not for me but for my college.In April i was contacted by my college to build a site for our college fest. So for the next 2 months i became busy with building the site and a toolbar and setting up a blog and a forum using free tools and thus topped blogging temporarily.

Later in July i transformed this blog into "Googleopedia.com"

"Orkut Tricks" was hugely popular but since i didn't regularly blog and then changed the url it went down. Till recently i was busy moving my blog to the new name .Now that is over i will start active blogging again.

this is not the only blog that i have have. In Feb 08 I started viruswrtiting.blogspot.com .This was started so that i could move all the offensive content into a separate blog and make Orkut Tricks clean.This remained largely dormant only recently have i began blogging actively into this blog.

In addition to this i started a separate blog called Techbangalore in Jan 08 as my friend too wanted to join in. This was just a copy of articles from the web. Very few visitors few pages visible in Google I thought it was a utter failure and left it . In july cane to know It had a page rank of 3. I was shocked how come such a Non-SEO blog have PR of 3. I took back the control from my friend as he too had stopped blogging . I changed the URL to tech.googleopedia.com and added a few posts.

In addition to this i have helped several blogger in setting up a site, creating a custom template , creating widgets and earning money from them.

Now atleast for a another year i will be actively blogging trying to reach the pinacle of success.

Google Helper

2008-06-28T17:15:00.003+05:30

Hi, this is an article on Google Helper admin of Googleopedia.com. Most people want to know who is this Google Helper so decided to write something about myself and how i started this site.

I Google Helper GH a true indian at heart. I am doing Engineering in Bangalore,India. I know several computer programing languages C/C++, JavaScript, HTML/XHTML, CSS, Perl, SQL, Assembly language(asm). In addition to this i have basic knowledge about Pascal and batch programming. Currently I am learning Java, PHP and C#.

If any of you have any problem or need any help or just want be mu buddy you can send me a invite at one the social networking sites(see sidebar for the sites i use). i would be happy to help you.

Gmail introduces gmail lab

2008-06-18T15:29:00.001+05:30

Gmail has introduced something called as gmail lab. Most new Google products are first released at Google labs(labs.google.com). these are in their beta version. once it fells it's working fine it's either launched or incorporated into one of theirexisting products.

Gmail to has launched something similar expect this is only concerned to Gmail. This means that their programmer can write any feature and trow it up for public. you can try them out and give your suggestions. if they feel it's a hit it may be launched for everyone.

The idea behind Labs is that any engineer can go to lunch, come up with a cool idea, code it up, and ship it as a Labs feature. To tens of millions of users. No design reviews, no product analysis, and to be honest, not that much testing

All this will actually be in beta so it means they may crash anytime or cause any serious problem. Currently it has 13 offerings and soon will have a lot more.

To try them out

Just go to Gmail.
Select settings(top right)
Go to labs tab
Now enable the features you wnat

It has features like snake game , more star icons , message bookmarks/quick links

Googel changes it's favicon

2008-06-11T17:57:00.000+05:30

was just wisting Google when i saw their favicon has changed. so did some research to find the reason. You too might have noticed that Google has a new favicon. . a favicon is a small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list.

It seams they wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices

Thats' not it i found a whole set of icons that has recently developed for it's use.

Google now search flash

2008-06-01T21:44:00.000+05:30

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files. They have been working with Flash indexing algorithm . Earlier it was not possible to index flash files content.

In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.

Now that they have launched our Flash indexing algorithm for web designers via google webmaster central Webmaster Central blog about the Searchable SWF integration.

Orkut demography page missing???

2008-05-29T14:37:00.000+05:30

Is the Orkut demography page missing??? If it still exists then where is it???

The answer is yes it still exists only that the links is nolong visible anywere. you can checkout the demography at http://www.orkut.co.in/MembersAll.aspxAs you can see at this page brazil is still leading at second pace it's USA and close behind is India.
Although the difference between India and USA is less than 1% but the Brazil is still at no 1 with a gap of 30%.

In age group people between 18-25 are the max users of this site as with most social networking site. Most visit orkut to make friends. So if you thought that demography was removed then you were wrong.

Google adsensce open to third party.

2008-05-25T18:07:00.000+05:30

This is what google had to anounce on their blog.

Today, we're announcing that Google is accepting third-party advertising tags on the Google content network in North America. This will empower advertisers to work with approved third parties to serve and track display ads, including rich media ads, across the Google content network through AdWords, giving them more options, flexibility and control over their campaigns.

What does mean now you can use Google ads with approved third party ad server. This means more revenue for you. Third party ad severs serve ads from multiple ad networks . This means if Google does not has enough ads to show then it it will show ads from any other ad network to which you belong. All that you need to allow your third party ad server access to your account. .

Currently these the certified third parties:

Advertiser ad servers: DoubleClick (DFA), Mediaplex
Rich media agencies: DoubleClick Rich Media, Eyeblaster, EyeWonder, Interpolls, PointRoll, Unicast
Research firms: Dynamic Logic, IAG Research, InsightExpress, Factor TG

So get ready to earn more officially

java script to

2008-05-20T19:39:00.000+05:30

If you are interested in replying to a post in your community then just paste the following javascript code in the address bar

javascript:window.location.href = window.location.href.replace (/CommMsgs/,'CommMsgPost');

You can just replace CommMsgPost with the community message post that you want to put up.. the post is put up at orkut.com/CommMsgs/ you can change it or tweak it suitably to post it at page-2 or page-3

Javacode to create a community post

2008-05-20T19:30:00.000+05:30

If you are interested in creating a new community post then just paste the following javascript code in the address bar

javascript: window.location.href = window.location.href.replace (/Community/,'CommMsgPost');

You can just replace CommMsgPost with the community message post that you want to put up.

Google translate in 10 more language

2008-05-16T22:14:00.000+05:30

Yes Google now translates in 10 more languages.. This brings the total to 23 languages. The newly added languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish..

Of this i feel Hindi is probably the toughest to translate as the script is completely different.. So now you can use Google to translate all these languages. This is i think now the biggest translate service. Most of these were in lab and after months of testing were released. These translation have not been done by Google but by people like you and me . You too can participate Google in your language program..

i have tried the hindi translation service as a part of the lab offering and it was quiet fine not good though. This seams to be a bit better.I cannot comment on any other languages.

Crack your Browser(IE / Firefox / Opera) password

2008-05-09T15:22:00.000+05:30

What if you have forgotten your IE/Opera/Mozilla/Firefox password or some one has blocked your Browser(either content advisory or any particular website) then use these softwares . These software will help you crack/recover them(pass). All these softwares are fully legal as they are actually password recovery software and are 100% safe . Most of these are not free. You can temporarily download these. If you want full version try risky torrent downloads. These help you unblock blocked sites and recover other passwords

Internet Explorer Key / Internet Password Recovery Toolbox-- These will help you recover content advisory password thus you can unblock any blocked sites
Mozilla Password Recovery -- This is for mozilla
Opera Password Recovery Master / Opera Password Recovery -- Use any of these for opera.

Crack OpenOffice files to recover passwords

2008-05-08T15:21:00.000+05:30

Openoffice.org is the most popular office software after MS office. I will tell you how to hack/crack or recover password of a password protected file.All that you need to do is use one of these softwares and it will reveal the password . These softwares are fully legal as they are actually password recovery softwares. All downloads are from download.com and are 100% safe . Most of these are not free. You can temp download these .If you wnat full version try risky torrent downloads.

If want such softwares to hack something else click on the label reveal password from below(see also).

Most relavant search result

2008-04-27T15:20:00.000+05:30

Ok Google is the most used search engine with 2/3rd of the market share in most countries expect countries like Russia, china and japan where local search engines are either far bigger or are as good as Google. But how relevantis Google .

According to a test by webmasterbrain.com Google seams to be the most relevant too . they asked user to perform search on their site for any keyword of their choice. It showed up results from the 3 search engine and people decided which one is the best or most relevant .

43 % voted for Google
32% voted for Yahoo
25% voted MSN

Google may not be really good but its the best available. And one more thing i think the people who voted for msn surely have searched for a Microsoft product otherwise who on the earth would vote for it.

Paid Surveys for North america

2008-04-23T15:32:00.000+05:30

If you are interested in taking part in paid surveys then we have a few options. These options are only for North America(NA). Na means US and Canada only.
The sites even pay you sign up bonus of 5$ i.e if you join all of these you will earn some cool cash. All that you need to do is have a Email-id and a free paypal account. As soon as a survey is available you will be informed. Just participate and earn.These sites may not be very good but ok for a beginner.

Tiktikcash.com
Panda research

For more oppurtunity to earn for participating in survey or for one in your country select "paid survey" label from below.

Paid surveys australia

2008-04-23T15:30:00.000+05:30

Want to get paid for taking part in surveys then we have a few options. These options are only for Australians
These sites even pay you for taking part in a survey. If you join all of these you will earn some cool cash. All that you need to do is have a Email-id and a free paypal account.
How does this work .As some is survey is availaible you will be informed via mail . All that you need to do is Just participate and earn.

paidsurvey.com.au --Genuine Work From Home Opportunity. $150/hour, Immediate Start, Cash Paid Daily.

For more oppurtunity to earn for participating in survey or for one in your country select "paid survey" label from below.