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Send free sms to India from Desktop with AOL.IN

Ashish Mohta — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:43:21 +0000

AOL.IN has now allowed to send free sms to any Indian Mobile by simply adding a buddy and a phone number to it through Desktop ( AOL Mail or AOl Messenger). This feature also allows the recipient mobile user to answer back to those SMS instantly. Currently the service providers included are Airtel, Vodafone, Spice, Aircel and MTNL.

This will be a huge setback to the Already discussed free sms services in India which we talked about few days back. You can get the all the details at the AOl.In Promos

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Messenger TV goes live in 21 Countries

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:03:06 +0000

Messenger TV for Windows Live Messenger is live now in 21 countries which include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

This means the new service lets you watch MSN Videos with a friend as you have live text conversations about the videos you are watching together. This is similar to Inline Videos which had already been implemented in Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk.

I will be testing this out once I get back to home but till then enjoy it Messenger TV at http://MessengerTV.msn.com. See the official Announcement at Windows Live Blog

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Convert your music / video files into Stand Alone Players

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:18:26 +0000

In case you don’t have any media player ot play your music files its time you convert them into stand alone players. How ? Audio/Video To Exe converts any music or video file into an EXE or stand alone program which can play the music right for you.

It supports extensions like: 3gp, aac, ac3, exe, flac, flv, gif, mp2, mp3, mp4 and many more which covers almost every format. However the free version does not allow to change bit rate but I don’t think you will be requiring in case you want to use it for time being.

Via Instant Fundas

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Grab your Free Open Solaris CD Today [ Download or Post ]

Ashish Mohta — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:20:29 +0000

Sun Microsystems Inc is giving out free cds of Open Solaris 2008.05 for x86 which you can request by just filling in simple form which asks for your name, address.

The OpenSolaris 2008.05 Live CD makes it simple to boot to a fully functional desktop environment, including Firefox and Thunderbird, without the need to install onto your system. After familiarizing yourself with the OpenSolaris environment, you can then choose to install it onto your disk. Once installed, you can connect to the OpenSolaris Package Repository to install additional software at OpenOffice.org

Not sure till what time the offer is availble so don’t miss out, request now.In case you have good internet speed , consider downloading the CD image if you have a fast Internet connection.

Thanks Atul

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Amazing Striped Iceburgs or Photoshop ?

Ashish Mohta — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:18:34 +0000

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melt water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.

When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.

or Its Photoshop ?

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Perfect Example of Process Control [ Have a laugh ]

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:02:33 +0000

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Watch You Tube Videos in 3d

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:03:05 +0000

Now if you are already tried of loading pages after pages to find a good video on Youtube, Its just time you start using at PicLens which has integrated You tube Video Search in the latest Firefox Extension update and It works like a charm.Its really cool than Not only I can see them in 3d but searching is like just scrolling similar way we were doing with images both in Web and on Local Machine

Here is a snapshot

You can use it on any page of you tube or in you tube searches. Good work by the Piclens team.

You can download Extensions and support for Firefox (Windows), Firefox (Mac), Internet Explorer and Safari.
or just check all versions.

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End of the Random Thoughts Series

Ashish Mohta — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:54:57 +0000

It was a nice experience for me experimenting with the random thoughts series which not only gave me courage to do something different here from time to time but also an idea for future posts.

Some of the things that happened with this

More comments on the posts.
Various Expressions which was positive and negative both.
An idea of another experiment in coming months.
Killed my boredom with it.
Came to know many new people who emailed me asking different things on random post.

There are few of them and many more which would take a long time if I start writing. I hope you enjoyed ( Some of them did not but still thanks as you read the posts ) and we will be back with our regular posts soon.

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Winners of SugarSync Competition - Congrats!!!

Ashish Mohta — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:37:58 +0000

Few days back we started competition in our forums where we decided to give our one year 30 Gb subscription for free . Here are the names of the winners

Their account had already been upgraded ( Confirmed by The sponsor) and I will be contacting the winners personally on email. Many congrats to them for winning this. You can read their answers right in our forums post.

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Luck !!!

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:20:07 +0000

Take a look at the first picture above and you can see where this guy broke through the guard rail
(right side where the people are Standing on the road) His truck left the road, traveling from right to left.
He flipped end-over-end, across the drainage outlet and landed on the left side of it. Now look at the 2nd picture below

IF YOU WEREN’T A BELIEVER IN LUCK BEFORE, WOULD YOU BE AFTER THIS?

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Well written and Complete or Verbal and Halfway [ Random Thoughts ]

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:59:27 +0000

Today I got a very honest comment one of our posts on Random Thoughts where a reader of us said he did not like the post and I was not able to say it clearly what I mean to say. Really appreciate this. That triggered a thought in my mind of coming with this post and express much clearly on what I am trying to do here.

Lets take an example of a post which is Well Written and Complete:

Excellent English
Nice explanation with examples.
Includes Images or any other media like Video and Audio.
Step wise and clarity so the message is passed.

Effects :

People love it and praise
Most of the times these posts have nothing to say except a thanks.
Unless you are geeky enough there will be very less chance you would come out with more improvement.

What I find is the conversation is reduced between the authors and the readers unless there is scope of debate there.

Now lets take an example of post which is Verbal and Halfway

It delivers the message like you talk in to your friend.
It has ideas which might not be accurate.
It might be biased as “Author speaks what he likes” and expects readers to dicuss like you would expect your friend to get back to you when you discuss with him.
Its random, no orders , Just what the author feels.

Effects:

People might not like it as they might not get the idea in the first shot.
They argue what authors say is wrong and not appropriate.
Start a conversation which the well formed post failed to achieve.
The output is 10 times better because you find whats wrong and whats right based on valid arguments.

I gained 50% of what I aimed for with this experiment and these posts. So time for readers feed back.

Tell us what You actually felt with this series.
Was it triggering in your mind where some conversation can be made ?
Was it making you feel that author can be corrected ?
Or anything what you want to say back to me..

Feel free and lets get the discussion going on .

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Gmail or Outlook [ Random Thoughts ]

Ashish Mohta — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:01:08 +0000

Gmail and Outlook Express both had been the best tools for checking mails and each having its own set of features which them to be used depending on users choice and likeness and the complexity of usage. I had tried using Microsoft outlook express man a times but every time I tried harder It was one step moving back from using it. So what bothered me using Outlook Express and why I use Gmail instead.

Gmail is pretty simple to use. No complexity.
My approach is to use accounts separately instead of mixing all the emails at one place. Unless you have 100’s of accounts MS outlook is of no use to me.
Microsoft Outlook express is very powerful in terms of features its provides but then its yet one more heavy application I need to run on Windows which takes both memory and Space.
I don’t need to do any backup on Gmail. Its there and it will be always there. Outlook I need to archive and do this and do many other things. That ads one more step for me.
Many of the features which people look for like labels, filters and others are there on Gmail already. And soon we should get folder feature too.

I agree that its the user and the usage decides which fits for whom but when I see to myself , probably simplicity and light weight applications is what I prefer too. How about you ? What you intend to use ? Discuss with us in comment and suggest me something more.

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Bored or Writing ? Beat it in just 10 steps [ Random Thoughts ]

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:44:40 +0000

Many a times I just get stuck and don’t have any brains for writing any technical article and even though I try a lot but it just does not work. So what do I do next ? Stop blogging ? Get into bloggers block ? Nope I just don’t because I do certain things which kicks it off.

Human Nature doesn’t work normally when under too much pressure. Don’t push let it happen.
Now you passed the first test …Now relax for some time. May be just go out with friends or whatever and let the EVIL BOREDOM be happy that you are not doing anything.
Now your turn , come back and read something else. Which is absolutely not your types and do something like play game. EVIL BOREDOM is still happy.
Now you start your machine in the back end….think of some non traditional way to write something or just something which you always wanted to do but you never did as its out of your niche.
Write a small post and quit.
Come back see it , write another and quit.
Come back again open the post you wrote modify a little and post it.
Now keep posting 4-5 times like this.
See whats the reaction from people. Not good change the topic. The idea is to write on random topic , small posts and quick.
After couple of days ( less then 5 ) you would see your interest is growing back to write what you used to. Do you know why ?

What we did here was just playing with the mind. Human Mind gets bored of doing same thing and sometimes he wants to do something which we restricts because its the way we think.

When you started writing something which was different your boredom was getting over. You loved doing it and it was like something new. Thats how we killed the Evil Boredom.

And thats what I am doing exactly here in my random thoughts

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How to make your Photos look old

Manav — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:11:38 +0000

So, how about making your photo look old, the photo u clicked these days, making it look the way as if it was shot when your grandpa was a kid….lol. http://labs.wanokoto.jp/olds, access this page, and have fun, choose the English option on top right position of page, now you can see the ‘Browse’ button, so give the path and then click on the button below, named as ‘Convert’ and you will get the output, an antique counterpart of your modern photo. Save and enjoy.

You cant beat the way it looks after the conversion is over. Check my picture and see. It works pretty fast, photos really look old enough after conversion, Nice service to have fun.

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15 Smart Ads You just cant Miss!! Part 3

Manav — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:14:27 +0000

The awesome response for the first part of 15 smart Ads which was on Digg Fp and Second part of 15 Smart Ads which gets overwhelming response from Stumble, Here are some more business Ad which shows us how creative ad agencies have become.

This Time I am putting up instead of Ashish as he is busy with his Random Thoughts series and The Sugar Sync Give away ( Check it if you had not yet ) . As It takes a lot to make them and put then . You might have seen some but you wouldn’t have seen it all. So just check out the Smart Ads and comment what do you think ?

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