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Online casino and traditional casino comparison

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:24:00 +0000

If you compare online casino with traditional casinos, then you may find the purpose of both of these is same but they are totally different from each other. The traditional casinos are still considered as status symbol and are for super riches, as compare to online casinos where anyone can test is luck comfortably without investing too much of money. For casinos owners, the cost of running a online casino is very low as compare to traditional casino. They only thing they have to worry about in case of online casino is security. If you are choosing any online casino, just checkout my recent post [http://tech.rsoni.com/2007/11/online-casino-which-one-to-choose.html] for the same.

Scrap all orkut friends without any ads or links

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:53:00 +0000

There are lots of communities in orkut which allows you to send scrap to all of your friends in one go. This is basically done by using javascript and HTML. If you join their community then they will provide you a script which could be used for scribbling all of your friends. When you use them they all shows links to their communities as ads in the scraps. You can use this utility without any extra ads of links. Just follow the below instructions.

Download the script from this link http://www.rsoni.com/Orkut.js and host it where ever you like. You can also use it from same location.
Login to you orkut account.
Copy and paste the following line into the address bar and hit the enter:
javascript:d=document;c=d.createElement('script'); d.body.appendChild(c); c.src='<script location>';void(0)
e.g.
javascript:d=document;c=d.createElement('script'); d.body.appendChild(c); c.src='http://www.rsoni.com/Orkut.js';void(0)
Wait for the friends list to populate. After this, just write down the scrap and send it to all your friends.

This script is not created by me. Most of the communities are using the same script. It just took it and removed ads from it.

Search care homes online

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:04:00 +0000

You can search for care homes online here for you loved ones. This provide you easy online access to available options locally. If you have any questions regarding their services just ask them, they will get back to you.

Create robot hand in just 20 min

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:31:00 +0000

Create robot hand in just 20 min using strings.

[Use It!]

Windows Vista styles controls

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:41:00 +0000

I recently decided to put some vista style controls source code on my open source web site OpenWinForms. Today I posted one control under this section, Vista style Progress bar. Its about how can you create a vista style looking progress bar using winforms in .net.

This is how this look. You can specify three different theme color to control its visual appearance.

I will keep on posting new controls in this section as I get new ideas.

How e-commerce Works?

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:15:00 +0000

Ecommerce stands for Electronic Commerce, is something where a business customer purchase anything like good, services etc. on the Internet using electronic medium like credits cards. The purpose of this is to make the purchase over Internet fast and easy. At anytime, whether its day or night; from anywhere whether its USA or India; anyone can go to Internet and make purchase online. This really brings the world closer. This is how it works:

Customer visit a merchant's web site.
He purchase something and make online transaction.
Payment gateways handles his transaction and make the whole process secure.
Merchant process the customer payment and funds debited from the customer account to merchant's account.

From a business prospective view, they have to integrate ecommerce software into their product in order to make it available for online selling. This integration could be a custom solution for their web site, or they can use readymade services available on Internet like shopping cart software, third party payment gateway. In a recent post "Sell your products online using shopping cart software" I already wrote some benefits of using third party integration.

Making money from your blog

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:53:00 +0000

I recently posted an articles describing describing "How do we get paid for blogging?". There are lots of sites which allows us to register and writing paid reviews for their advertisers. In this post I want to cover one of the site under this category, bloggerwave. This is one of the several good options for you if you want to make money from your blog. Their approval process is quite easy. Also unlike to some sites its not necessary that your posts should be English. They also supports Spanish, German, Italien, Swedish, Norwegian, French depending on advertiser. I registered to them couple of day ago. So far this looks good.

Don't have enough space for your TV?

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:36:00 +0000

In big cities the houses are generally small due to very high rates of properties. Affording a big house with enough space is not an easy deal. People generally have problems in setup furniture and equipments all together. Here comes the best utilization of space. Television is one of common thing which almost every one have. It covers a lots of space of the room. The best way of putting TV is to use wall brackets for it. Using a wall bracket can help effectively utilize you room space. You can easily find sony tv wall brackets online. A plasma television takes less space as compared to a normal CRT television as it can be adjust against the wall. These wall brackets can also be used to plasma televisions. Moreover you can have other brackets like mount arm wall bracket, plasma/LCD/TV wall bracket, 3 directional LCD Screen wall bracket, multi-directional wall bracket etc. Just choose the right wall bracket for you need and type of television and avoid the compromise from you room space.

Choose right loan for your need

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:41:00 +0000

A loan is very easy way of completing our wishes before we earn that amount. There are several benefits of loans, but some limitations too. Loans has really made our lives easy and cool. But if we see other side of loan then its like a postpaid saving, in which we get the saving amount first and we keep on making saving for this in future. The benefit is we have the money in advance but limitation is we need to pay the interest rate for this. We can choose a right loan depending on the requirement.

Personal Loan - A personal is a small period loan ranging from 3 months to 4 years. Its generally a large amount and basically for your bigger cash needs.

Payday Loan - A Payday Loan is very quick and easy loan. Payday Loans sometimes referred as payday check advance or payday advance, is a very short period loan. Its generally for small amount. Its called as payday loan because you have to repay this till you next salary day. They are for your urgent needs for which you don't have money in hand but you are sure you can pay those from you coming salary of following month. These kind of loans can be taken online also.

Interests only Loan - This is a special type of loan in which you principal loan amount remains same. You only need to pay the interest for the time period you have taken the loan. And at the end you will pay the principal amount. This loan is beneficial when you can't afford the big EMIs but you know that in near future you are going to get that amount. These loans are good for investment purposes.

There are some others loans which are very specific to to their areas and they don't give you cash. e.g. Car loans, home loans, education loans etc.

How do we get paid for blogging?

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:17:00 +0000

There are lots of web sites which can pay you for blogging. For this you have to write sponsored reviews about the topics as told by them (like one I am writing :) ) in your blog. To do this you must have a nicely maintained blog. Good pagerank and traffic can increase the amount you can earn out of it. Sponsored post is different way for advertise on blogs. How this system actually works? How they managed to pay us $5 to $20 per post on an average?

All the sites under this category have one advertiser's section, which is the actual source of income for them and bloggers. They actually earns commission from what they get from advertisers. Now if we see all three sides of this business then:

Advertiser: Gets lost of reviews written for his product which makes his site more popular and optimized for search engines which drive lots of traffic to his site. The more traffic he have the more new customers he will get.

Bloggers: Get paid for writing sponsors reviews. Usually its a good amount and worth the effort put for making the sponsored post.

Paying web site: Earn money from the commission out of the amount paid to blogger by advertiser (Advertisers don't pay directly for bloggers but pay on basis on number of posted written for them).

I recently started posting sponsored reviews on my blog. Will keep on posting about my experience. So far I didn't make any money.

Online Casino: Which one to choose?

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:18:00 +0000

Online casino has become very popular now a days. Lost of people invest money for gambling in casinos. Some play for making real money and some play because they have lots of money. I know a guy who earned about $8000 once, but at the same time I know another guy who lost his whole income in gambling. All the way it must be real fun.

There are lots of web sites for playing casino online. You must be careful before choosing a web site. There are several factors based on which you could select any online casino. But there are some points you should keep in mind before using it:

Security: Since you are playing online and making/receiving your payment through web sites, the security should be the most important concern. You could get into trouble for any misuse of you credits card or credentials.

Welcome bonus: Most of the casino offers welcome bonus which will be given to you after you sign up and start using their service.

Games rules: You must have the proper knowledge about the rules of the games you are playing. Lack of knowledge could lead to waste of your money.

Sell your products online using shopping cart software

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:58:00 +0000

If you want to sell your products online, but you don't have sufficient resources like technical staff, credits card gateways etc. then the most easiest way is to integrate with a third party application for shopping cart software. They are really easy to integrate and use. They can be work with html pages also.

Here are some benefits you will get if you use a third party ecommerce software solution:

Less investment: Its might be risky to spend your money on making you own application just for shopping cart. So its better to try easy solution first rather to directly invest.

Paypal/Credit Card Gateway: You don't have to buy and integrate your application to credit card gateway for online payments. This will not only saves your money but also gives to securely implemented payment processing system.

Inventory management: This will also help you in managing your inventory system and can warn you before you run out of stock.

So depending on the requirement you can choose the best shopping cart solution for your web site.

OpenWinForms in top stories of DotNetKicks.com

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:58:00 +0000

As you know I am running an open source web site for windows forms and controls - Openwinforms. Recently I submitted this link to Dotnetkicks. Today I got surprised when I see this in the top stories listed on the home page of the dotnetkicks. Moreover this is listed on the top of the list(For those who don't know about dotnetkicks, its a digg like site for .net links). Its truly a great feeling to see this. Here is the screen shot of dotnetkicks:

Atleast till its there in the home page, it will keep on driving traffic to my site :).

Create your talking picture... Really funny!!

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:12:00 +0000

If want to create your funny talking picture, then you must visit this online service blabberize. To start just signup or use guest account for logging in and upload any image with visible face. You will se a flash based online tool. In this you needs to locate the mouth of the image.

Then record the voice which you want to play on you character and finally save the whole thing. Your blabber is ready to use. Just test this once to make sure that its working fine. You can share or embed this in you web site. They also support integration with facbook.

I created one with mickey as a character. see this below (Click on pink button to play).

Choose your email domain name on CoolHotmail

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:01:00 +0000

Yesterday while I was watching television, I saw a commercial of Windows Live Hotmail's new product CoolHotmail. This actually allows your create an email address on Windows Live Hotmail in which you can choose any of the more than 100 listed domain names based on different categories. It gives you email id with new and uncommon domain name instead of the same old <yourid>@hotmail.com. Seems a nice concept.

Moreover if you have got your own domain name then you can go for Windows Live Custom Domains, very much same like the Google Apps.

OpenWinForms - Some feedbacks

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:48:00 +0000

I am running an open source web site for winforms controls and source code - OpenWinForms. The idea of this site was to make contribution to the open source for all the help(source code/articles) I have taken from it so far and I will take in future. Though its a very small contribution but I want to go long way. I don't know what could be its future.

This had very few articles right now, but I always wanted to put more and more articles on this. I have received some good feedback by some developers by email/blog which is motivating me to post more articles on this. Some of them also suggested me bugs/changes in this code. All these thing make feel good.

I want to share some..

"Simply Awesome. I'm out of Words. You have made my rather Simple Application an Eye Candy. Thanks... "
- Sukhjinder

"Nice panel. You forgot to think about one thing thoug. If you put a control on the panel and you dock so that it fills the panel then you will fill it over the shadow... "
- Laufdal

"Very good initiative with winforms. What are your plans for taking it ahead. It would be great if we can have lot of open source controls on lines provided by devexpress/infragistics. Do let me know if I can be of any help in contributing towards this cause. "
- Ramjee Ganti

"Thanks a lot for this great control. I am using it in our application and it is fantastic!...... I also fixed a small bug that would cause the designer to go haywire if you set RoundCornerRadius to 0."
- Matthew Lowrance

Earthmine 3D street view - indexing reality

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:12:00 +0000

Firefox Web Developer: A must toolbar for web developers

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:53:00 +0000

"Web developer" is basically a Firefox add-on, which comes in a bundle of lot of web developer tool. This supports almost anything thing you want do with web pages like edit CSS on fly, edit html, meta tag information, view hidden elements, borders, images info, forms, cookies.... and lot more. You can easily extract styles, scripts or images from other web pages. I recommend this for a web developer. This could save lots of time which actually involves change in designer code and compile and view again and again.

The best part I liked about this is edit the html on the fly and see your changes immediately.

Download this from here.

Online diagrams, flow charts, network diagram etc.

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:58:00 +0000

Whenever creating any presentation, writing any specs doc or creating any technical doc you always need flow diagrams, flow charts, network diagram etc. I mostly use word to design all these as I don't have a Visio license. I am really happy to see a new online diagram creating web site Best4C. Its created in flash and is really cool. You can design a lots of things from flow charts, network diagram, shaped.. to home design, office layout and even road maps.

The best part is that it is an online tool. I really hate to install utility software for every small need, so I always prefer some online solution for these problems.

Find free windows controls here.

Need web site screen shot? Thumbalizr may help you

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:45:00 +0000

Thumbalizr is a new tool on Internet that allows its user to take screen shot of web sites for free which could be further used for documentation and presentations. Its very simple to use.. no login required and work directly from home page. Moreover that user has option to take the screen shot of whole page or only screen view with different resolutions as needed. The one thing I don't like about this is that its damn slow. This is currently in alpha phase, so no idea how long they will go.

Here is the thumb of my blog taken using thumbalizr:

This is what called a smart image resizing

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:30:00 +0000

Cheapest domain names and hosting stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:57:00 +0000

I was analyzing domain name and web hosting purchasing and their price comparison over Internet sometimes before. Here are the cheapest price I ever found:

For cheapest .com domain name Netfirms is offering lowest price. Just $ 4.95/year, however for second year renew you have to pay regular price.

For cheapest .info domain name scs-domains is offering lowest price. Just $1.99/year. Earlier the http://www.godaddy.com/ was offering this lowest price just $ 0.99/year but now I can't see this offer on their web site.

For cheapest asp.net + php hosting ServerSea is offering very low prices starting from just 1.79/month. And amazing thing is that they are also giving one free domain name on registration. The deal looks very good but I don't have any idea about their support and maintenance.

Check out for your need and find the cheapest.

Find free C# controls here.

Jooce - A web based OS

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:22:00 +0000

Jooce has introduced a new web system based on flash. They are promising to plug-in a whole new generation of mobile internet users. Its very simple just sign-up and start using this, however this is currently in beta phase. Its very much like Goowy, another flash based OS, but the review says Jooce is much better.

Users can have their private and public desktop. Public desktop can be shared with the friends and family.

Try Jooce here

Find free .net control here.

Windows Live SkyDrive: Online storage

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:29:00 +0000

Windows live has launched online storage drive - SkyDrive. Its a centralize service which allows you to access your files and folders from anywhere, anytime you need.

Store files for yourself

Using multiple computers? No problem. Store and access your personal files from anywhere online.

Share files with friends Sharing with friends, co-workers, or family is easy when you all add and update files in a shared folder

Share files with the world

Some ideas are too good to keep to yourself. Share them in a public folder that only you can update.

Get Started

Google pack: Getting bigger

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:33:00 +0000

Google pack is getting bigger. Recently this also starts distributing Sun's Star Office. Its pretty good package consisting of lots of useful things. The thing I like most is the Picasa desktop version. I can very easily manage my photos and videos. So far this has following items:

Google Earth

Norton Security Scan

Google Desktop

Firefox with Google Toolbar

Adobe Reader

Skype

StarOffice (includes Java™)

Google Toolbar for IE

Spyware Doctor

Picasa

Google Photos Screensaver

Google Talk

RealPlayer

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