Digital Zone-Software,Internet,Revenue and Technology

Save a picture with One Click

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:55:00 +0000

Whenever I wanted to save a picture of something in my computer , (for example the picture of my desktop) I used to press print screen on my keyboard, open paint tool in windows xp ,then press CTRL + V on my keyboard and then save it

But I have a better option now – use Gadwin Systems Print Screen Software

This software has a very simple user interface and very easy to use.

Once we install it and whenever we press the print screen button on the keyboard, a window will automatically open which allows us to save that image with one mouse click

Once we select the location , it will automatically save the picture to that location. We can also send the captured image via email directly using this software.We can also save the image in different formats like jpeg,windows bitmap,gif,png,tiff bitmap,targa bitmap

Facebook Threatened For Hidding Account Details

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:30:00 +0000

Orkut and Facebook are two popular social bookmarking sites used.There is an option for both facebook and orkut users to delete their accounts if they dont want them any more.Facebook has made easier for its users to delete their accounts.and all the content associated with them by posting instructions on its user help page.

Facebook has already displayed its statement that it will not store any user related content in its servers and cannot produce the content if the users want to reactivate their accounts.They said that they will permanently remove the user content and their account once the user deactivates hi/her accounts.But a group of face book users had formed to support the need for an easy way to permanently delete profile information from the social network.

The administrator said
"Do I first have to go hunting for HOW to leave, and then explain WHY?"

Firefox Hacks\Tricks For Better Performance

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:25:00 +0000

Ok, its no secret..Firefox is my favorite browser.. infact, if you are not using it (for example using... Gasp, IE) you need to change. Well I decided to write an article on how to "hack" Firefox to make it even better. Using a few tweaks here and there, we can make FireFox considerably faster, enable advanced tab options, make newer versions compatible with older extentions, run directly from a flash disk, and on and on.
First, Lets change some hidden options to make it faster...
Open Firefox 1.0 and in the address bar type: about:config

1. Find browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs and double click on it so it = true
2. Find network.http.pipelining and double click on it so it = true
3. Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests double click on it and change it from 4 to 100

What do these changes do?
1. Then enables advanced tab options in your Tools/Options page
2. This enables option #3.
3. This makes FF use 8 threads to each page.. Bascially, if you thought FF was fast before, try it after this.

Second, lets make it look better...
Visit the Mozilla Firefox theme page and select a theme that looks good to you.
I personally like the Noia eXtreme skin, but choose one that looks good to you.

Now lets make it work FOR us...
One of the sweetest thing about Firefox is the ability to use extentions. At the time of this writing, there are 226 extentions that we can use to make it better.. I will only touch on a few of them that I use. (Alphabetically Sorted)
Adblock: Remove inline ads.

Bookmarks Synchronizer: Save your bookmarks to an XML file, and sync with an FTP server. Keep your work/home bookmarks current!

Digger: Navigate to parent directories, switch to ftp equivalent of site, climb subdomains, etc.. Very helpful in "scouting" a site.

Download Sort: Automatically send downloads to specific folders based on file's extention.

Gmail Notifier: Lets you know if you have new gmail

Google Pagerank Status: Lets you see the Google PageRank of the page you are visiting.

refspoof: "Spoof" your referer.

Spiderzilla: Download an entire site to a local directory.

Super DragAndGo: Drag a link to blank space on a webpage, and it will open it in a new tab.

SwitchProxy: Manage and switch between multiple proxies. Make sure to read my article on finding and useing proxies.

User Agent Switcher: Switch the user agent of your browser.

MouseGestures:
This is the "Mouse Gestures" firefox extension. Basically, to go forward you draw a line from left to right while holding down the mouse button, to go back you draw a line from right to left while holding down, to close draw a L, to open a new page, from bottom to top - there are other options such as switch tabs, source, view cookies, etc.
I have personally found this to make my browsing experience much easier and much more reflexive (I don't think about pressing the back button, so much as automatically drawing it); when I use internet explorer oftentimes I right click by accident.

x: Gives a Toolbar "paranoia" button, click it and it can clear history, form info, saved passwords, download history, cookies, & cache.

Fasterfox: This extension automatically employs link prefetching, network tweaking, enhanced pop-up blocking, along with simultaneous connections, pipe-lining, enhanced caching, DNS caching, and initial paint delaying to make FireFox so fast it can break servers (or at least hurt them).

Firefox on a USB Thumbdrive
Check out the article on Portable Firefox 1.0

Tell Firefox what we want to see (and what we don't)
Sick of Google Ads on everyone's page? Well lets tell firefox that we don't want to see them anymore. This hack will remove 95% of all Ads, including google Ads. (Yes, even from Gmail. Warning, Removing these ads may violate the TOS of Gmail)

This hack uses the magic of CSS and a Firefox configuration file named UserContent.css. We are going to edit this file, I suggest you download the plugin ChomEdit to make your job easier. (Go install it now & come back after restart)

Ok, now that you have ChromEdit installed, open Firefox and click on Tools / Edit User files. A new window will appear that has five tabs across the top. Click on the tab that is labeled userContent.css. Next click on the link below and copy all the text. Then paste it into the userContent.css file, then click the Save button.
Code

Now restart your browser.. Tada, Google ads are gone!

From Digital Media Minute:

The above rules make use of the *!important* property value to override any rules that may already exist within the page that is being loaded. In the first rule, GMail has an element with an id of rh and we are setting the tables that have a class equal to metatable within that element, to not display (ie . display:none)
A word of caution, we are only hiding the ads from displaying. They are actually still there, just not visible. This means that Google is still indexing your email messages to provide you with “targetted ads”. It is also worth noting that as this hack is based upon creating CSS rules for existing GMail code, it is very possible that this hack will break as GMail continues to evolve.

Best Alternatives For Nero Cd\Dvd Burning Software

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:56:00 +0000

Nero is the best cd/dvd writing software acccording to me.There are some other different softwares which come to this category.

1. CDBurnerXP

This is by far the most popular free alternative to the expensive Nero Software. Works on Vista as well, and here’s a features-highlight from CDBurnerXP:

* Multi Language Interface
* Support for Blu Ray/HD DVD
* BIN > ISO converter included

2. InfraRecorder

This is the software that I currently use on my computer as a Nero alternative, and I must tell, it’s damn simple and straightforward. Has all that you might expect in a CD DVD Burning software like Nero. Some highlights from this Nero alternative include:

* Support for Multi-Session
* Very Light on Resources
* Support for not just ISO, but also BIN and CUE images
* Burning on Dual Layer DVDs is supported

3. DeepBurner (Free Edition)

Another good alternative. Available both as a regular and portable app. So if you want something you can carry around on your USB Flash Drive then check this one out.

* Supports both internal and external CD/DVD writers.
* Burn any data, copy any disc.
* Create multiple disk copies.
* Make ISO CDs.
* Print CD labels.

4. Ultimate CD/DVD Burner

This simple solution can serve all your basic CD burning needs. Similar to above Deepburner, there is a portable version. The only thing I don’t like about this one is interface, it reminds of Windows 95.

* CD Photo Albums creation
* Easy Backup CD creation
* Disk copying
* ISO Creation and Burning

5. Burn At Once

Burn At Once is another good CD/DVD Burning Application. It can copy discs on the fly and has the following unique features:

* Tagging of media by importing data from FreeDB
* Multi Language Support
* Drag and Drop Interface

However, it looks like support for this application is stagnant at the moment.

6. Burn Aware Free Edition

This relatively new software is creating waves, and it’s intuitive interface is attracting users. It’s very light on resources, and supports every other format that you can imagine (including Blu Ray). Burning is fast because this software burns data directly on to the medium, instead of waiting for ‘hard disk staging’

7. ImgBurn

Another software that’s worth mentioning here is ImgBurn. It’s a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that can be installed both on Windows and Linux PCs. It’s probably the most extensive out of all. If you’re looking for something advanced and with lots of features ImgBurn seems like a good candidate.

Iphone -Dont Buy It,Build It

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:41:00 +0000

We might wish to build an iphone on our own,the simple answer for this is Yes.
Iphone is the coolest gadget ever in this decade.It has the pretty new interface and cool touch screen interface.If you are thinking to buy it , dont buy it ,try to build it.Well guess what you don’t have to wait in line to get those features, lets mod YOUR phone to emulate it!

For these instructions you will need a touchscreen phone running Windows Mobile 5 or 6. We will be using an HTC Mogul 6800 for our mod. Let it be known that you can also mod a Palm based device to look like an iPhone but in this article we will only be focusing on the WM based phones.

1) To add the iPhone look to your dial pad, you will need to find and install: iPhone_dialpad.cab

Here is a google search that can help you find it. I-Hacked members can download all required files from here.

2) Next in order to get the nice slide unlock feature, we are going to need to install the Slide2Unlock program. This is freeware and can be found here.

You will have to reboot once the slide2unlock has been installed.

3) Last but not least we will need to install the iPhone GUI. You will need to find a file called iPhone-0986.zip. I-Hacked members don't need to download this if you downloaded the pack above.

You will need to extract and drag and drop to a folder of your choice.

I used “\My Documents\iPhone”

Once installed on your pocket pc; Navigate to that folder and highlight “iPhone” and click menu ->edit->copy

Once you have the copy in memory navigate over to the startup folder “\Windows\StartUp”

This time select “Menu” Edit -> Paste Shortcut

You know have installed your iPhone skin on your Windows mobile phone.

You will need to configure some of the buttons by editing the "config.txt" file located in the iPhone folder that you copied to above (“\My Documents\iPhone”)

It is in the Following Format :

1. It first has the 16 icons paths as in \Icons\*.bmp
2. Then 16 Names for the icons
3. The then 16 application paths that will run for the apps as in \Windows\calendar.exe for example to launch the calendar

At the point where you have configured the buttons, your phone is pretty much iLike. If you would like to exit this interface, click on the battery.

The last couple things you might want to find would be the official iPhone ringer & maybe some extra icons for you to use. I-hacked members will find these in the iPhone Hacking Pack. (same pack as above)

This tutorial was taken from I-hacked

Monitor, Check, Set you Internet Usage Limit – Net Meter

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:19:00 +0000

After using so many net monitoring softwares, I came to a conclusion about a good software used to monitor, check, set a limit for your internet usage.

This software is especially useful for internet/broadband users who have limited account for their internet like Bsnl Broadband users in India.Netmeter shows how much internet usage used totally for a specific month, net usage for a specific day, and also warns you when you have reached the limit which you have set. The net meter also warns when you are using the internet excessively.

You can set the limit for a specific month in megabytes and gigabytes as well. Once you have installed the software, the software icon will be set in the startup.

To set the limit , right click the option button you can see different options where you can set the net limit, the options may vary for different versions of this software

Try to use this software , If you have any problems regarding the versions and the options post a comment with your email addresses I will solve it..

Controversial and Useful Gmail

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:18:00 +0000

Web-based email is not new; perhaps gmail introduced some extra features to make gmail user-friendly. So managing our personal email has become very easy and the addition of some extra tools has made it easier.

1) Advertising :

Well first of all I want to discuss about the controversial advertising by Google in gmail. They say that Gmail gives privacy to its users, they don’t breach inside and look the data inside our personal gmail account. But the fact is that when we open our gmail accounts we can see ads displayed inside our account ,the thing I want to stress here is , the ads which we see are all content-related ads , that is the ads get displayed related to our content. So if they give privacy to our content how do they display content related ads. God help gmail users.

2) Archiving :

The next good feature that I like the most in gmail is its archiving tool.

Using archiving tool we can transfer our messages in our inbox to all mails, then again if we need the mail into our inbox we can restore it.

3) Label :

Label is a thing which is use to give a name to our messages or differentiate our messages. This tool will be especially helpful when there are lots of messages related to money, medicine, army etc., and then we differentiate all the mails by giving a label name to each message related to money or medicine or army. So when we click the label money – all the messages with label-named money will be displayed, similarly medicine and army.

4) Accessing the Messages:

Reading email from our gmail accounts is lot easier and faster which is an open fact. I would like to specify that gmail doesn’t encourage any graphics in it

because there will be lots of spam entering into our gmail, so Google helps us to prevent spam up to some extent

Yahoo still tops Alexa Ranking Today

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:38:00 +0000

Alexa ranking is the one of the most important rankings for a successful website/blog.Website/blog owners earn huge revenue if they have good Alexa ranking. Alexa ranking is completely based on the number of visitors that view your site and how many topics/posts that they have visited.This time also Yahoo tops the Alexa rank as usual followed by google followed by google's own youtube and microsoft's live.The fifth,sixth and seventh positions are followed by msn and myspace and facebook. While wikipedia has decreased its position by one reaching ninth position which is leaded by hi5 which increased its position by one rank.

You can find the top 2o alexa ranking list at
alexa home page : Alexa

Alexa top 500 rankings at Alexa Top 500

Integrate Feedburner Into Adsense Account

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:20:00 +0000

Google has integrated feed burner into adsense , for all who dont know just login to your feed burner account and you will find an option to integrate feed burner into adsense. Keeping the popularity of feedburner in mind Google has bought the feed burner.
Feedburner is one of the most important thing for a successful blogger.Adsense users can take it as an advantage if they are already registered with feed burner. You can see the lighted area in the picture above where I found the link actually for integration displayed as (Sign in to Adsense or create an account).I think no website or blog owner doesnt maintain their content without adsense ,if you dont have go to adsense
and sign up for adsense.
The feed burner team is actually informing that integrating adsense with feedburner will display relevant ads related to our content but they also specified that adsene options for feeds are not available.

You can read the complete article at Feedburner website

Feedburner

So adsense users try this ,if you have any problem reply me,I will sort it out.

Increase Your Blog Traffic- Technorati and Blogrush

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:11:00 +0000

To build a successful blog or a website and earn good income from is not that much easy , For that we have to have good traffic first , then we get income automatically .

For getting good traffic to your sites ,you have to submit your sites to search engines, article directories and many more with good content.

There are so many of this kind , the website that I suggest and often use is Technorati and blogrush, they bring lot of traffic to your website or a blog once you register for them.
Once you register for technorati , if you have good and rich content in your blog your content will be displayed in their website.Believe me sometimes the content in the technorati will be displayed in google search sometimes when a user searches a content.
Technorati also uses technorati bots like google bots to index their registered website for contentand blogrush also uses some mechanism for similar , So I suggest you people who need good traffic to your sites and earn some good income.You can see how I increase my blog traffic by using blogrush widget at the right side of my blog and technorati and other feeds at the bottom of my blog

Dont forget to bookmark me or add me

Visit their link :
Technorati : www.technorati.com

Blogrush : www.blogrush.com

10 Hidden Windows XP Applications – Interesting

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:12:00 +0000

These are some of the hidden applications in Windows Xp which most of us don’t know

To use these commands , type themin command prompt and press enter , they will be opened directly

1) IExpress Wizard

Command : iexpress.exe

Description : Create all self-extracting and self-installing packages

2) Dr Watson

Command : drwtsn32.exe

Description : Trouble Shooting Tool

3) Character Map

Command : charmap.exe

Description : Tool for finding unusual characters

4) Disk Cleanup

Command : cleanmgr.exe

Description : Cleanup tool

5) Clipboard Viewer

Command : clipbrd.exe

Description : views contents of Windows clipboard

6) DirectX diagnosis

Command : dxdiag.exe

Description : Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards

7) Private character editor

Command : eudcedit.exe

Description : Allows creation and modification of characters

8) Microsoft Synchronization Manager

Command : mobsync.exe

Description : Appears to allow synchronization of files on the network

9) ODBC Data Source Administrator

Command : odbcad32.exe

Description : Connecting to databases

10) Group Policy

Command : gpedit.msc
Description : Manage group policies and permissions

Stop Cd/Dvd Autoplay – By Using A single Keyboard Key

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:10:00 +0000

Well many of us now how to do this by using registry tweak or disabling the option permanently.But sometimes we may need the cd/dvd to autoplay.In such situations

we cannot permanently disable the autoplay.

To do this when you insert your cd/dvd into your drive just press SHIFT button on keyboard , it will stop autoplay. By using these tweak we can temporarily disable the autoplay functionality.

For those who want to disable autoplay using registry tweak

In cmd ,press regedit , registry will be opened for you ,

Then and navigate to these one by one by clicking it one by one

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SOFTWARE

Microsoft

Windows

CurrentVersion

Policies

Explorer

and look for key "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" and set its value to 185 (decimal). This would stop autoplay.

Increase or Decrease Text Size In your web browser

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:03:00 +0000

Sometimes we may come across a webpage which has small text size than normal or

having large text size . I posted this simple hack to increase or decrease text size in a web browser like mozilla firefox, internet explorer or opera. With this trick you can change the text size while viewing it online or even with a same webpage.

The two and only things you need to do this is keyboard Ctrl button

and mouse wheel button.

Check the text size in this browser

The procedure is If you want to increase the text size hold down the Ctrl button and rotate the mouse wheel button downwards .

Check the picture after increasing the text size by using these keys , you can see the increase of size in टेक्स्ट

Similarly to decrease the text size hold the Ctrl button on your keyboard an rotate the mouse wheel upwards.

After decreasing the text size , you can see that it is not visible properly.

I actually decreased the text size to show you how it works but not for some funny purpose

World Wide Web Consortium - Page Rank 10 in Google Index

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:24:00 +0000

Everybody who knows about world wide web might have been knowing about www.w3.org - listed in one of the page rank 10 of google.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

They say that there mission is:

To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

It mainly deals with the creation of web standards and

guidelines Since 1993 w3c has published more than 110 such standards, called W3C Recommendations। W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software, and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web। In order for the Web to reach its full potential, the most fundamental Web technologies must be compatible with one another and allow any hardware and software used to access the Web to work together. W3C refers to this goal as “Web interoperability.” By publishing open (non-proprietary) standards for Web languages and protocols, W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation and thus Web fragmentation.

Tim Berners-Lee , the director and inventor of world wide web and others created W3C as an industry consortium dedicated to building consensus around Web technologies. Mr. Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), has served as the W3C Director since W3C was founded, in 1994.

It is a huge bundle of resources for web masters also. So try to check the site atleast once.

Website : http://www.w3.org

Auto complete and Pre fetching - New Apple Iphone Features For Gmail

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:16:00 +0000

Keeping in mind the growing network of Apple Iphone users ,gmail on January 14th has released a new look with a good feel for mobile users , They said that “ Our goal: make Gmail fit nicely as part of the latest Google on your iPhone experience “. They want to make gmail faster and and more fluid .

The gmail members have used Ajax which is one of the powerful web development techniques that can make web pages more responsive and fast. They also included the coolest and most requested features - pre-fetching and auto-complete.

Now when you use Google on your iPhone, Gmail will automatically pre-load all your most recent messages for you। So when you decide to read a message it will be on your screen in a snap.

Auto address complete is one of the most favorite used features , You can get the emails addresses directly just if you type 2 or 3 keystrokes which is already used in Gmail.

Access Gmail From Your Cell Phone

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:09:00 +0000

Gmail, yahoo mail are the most used mail accounts by the users through out the world.

Gmail has some unique features for mobile users who want to access their gmail account from their mobile

Gmail for mobile browser offers a number of cool features:

The interface is automatically optimized for the phone you're using.
You can access attachments, including photos, Microsoft Word documents, and PDF files.
If you enter phone numbers in your Gmail Contacts list, you can reply to messages by call।

But be carefull , google may not charge you for accessing gmail from mobile but

depending on your service plan, you may be charged by your wireless provider. Check with your provider for more information about fees associated with accessing the Internet from your mobile phone.

For more information for accessing gmail from your MOBILE PHONE browser check this one :

You can access Gmail for mobile through your phone's web browser or from a downloadable application on your phone.

To find out which one suits you and your phone best, watch a video or read more info.

Visit gmail personal blog for more information http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/

The best Youtube Downloader

noreply@blogger.com (About Me) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:44:00 +0000

Sometimes If you see any you tube file and if you want to download it without logging into youtube without your email account, you might use a software specifically to download a file, but buying the software may be costly.

I use a powerful tool to download youtube videos from youtube which is indeed cheap just for $0.

It is not a tool actually but a website offering the download freely and also very fast than any other tool.

It’s a bit more easy way

For example I selected to download this UFO video from youtube

The url of this youtube video is

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BWKBfE6jmYs

The simple thing you have to do is replace youtube marked in red color with voobys

You will see this download link from voobys website

Now you can start downloading by pressing the Download video button the the website.

Features I found useful by using this when comparing to others

Fast to use than any other software

Easy to use in the sense user friendly

Free of cost

No need of installing any software

No registration