You can browse through thousands of colour themes readily available and can change them as per your needs. Kuler gives you the chance to create your own colour themes and share them with the Kuler community.  Another great advantage of Kuler is that it allows you to create colour themes from an image too; you can upload your own images and use them as a base to your colour theme. But the best news is that Kuler allows you to download an Adobe Swatch Exchange file of your selected colour theme which you can use with your Adobe software. Believe me it is very easy to use this fascinating online tool.

To do all these things you just need an Adobe ID (Which you can obtain free from https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/membership/index.cfm?nf=1 while you can find Kuler panels in Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, InDesign CS4, Adobe Fireworks® CS4, and Adobe Flash® CS4 which helps you to access Kuler from the software itself.

Kuler is a great product, especially when you need inspiration on colours. You can access Kuler on http://kuler.adobe.com/ .

Go ahead and explore the world of colours and don’t forget to leave your comments on this blog.

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If you are looking for the next generation search engine here it is. They call it as Wolfram|Alpha, computational knowledge engine which is exactly what it does. To me it is more likely an analytical engine which gives a well presented result sheet based on a query. You can access the site by clicking following link, http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html

It is very simple; you just type what you need. I am not going to explain how it works since they have put up a wonderful intro to it which can be accessed at http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html . So go ahead and try it! I am sure it will give you a new experience and please give your comments too on this article and the blog.

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If you ask anyone what is the advantage of using Firefox, more than 90% will say it is because of the huge collection of add-ons it has got. After using Firefox for so long I just found out the most interesting extension for Firefox. Ubiquity is a set of natural language commands which enable quick access to various web services and activities such as search, e-mail, translation and social networking.

Once install (installation is as simple as a normal Firefox add-on) it is very easy to use. Let say you want to search on particular term you found on a web page, you can just select that term, pres Ctrl + Space to open the Ubiquity window and just type Google in the command line. It will give you Google search results for the selected term on the right hand panel of Ubiquity window. You can fine few useful commands by reading the following article, 15 Ubiquity Commands to Enhance Your Web Experience.

You can get Ubiquity at http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/ and it has help on commands you can use too. I am sure you’ll be able to enhance your web experience by using Ubiquity. Try it and please let me know your ideas on Ubiquity and this blog.

Personas for Firefox is treated as an add-on and it is very easy to maintain. You can select different “skins” for your browser by just selecting Personas for Firefox from Tools menu. Once you mouse over a skin name it will give you a live preview. You can click on it to confirm the change.

You can get Personas for Firefox http://www.getpersonas.com/ and you’ll be able to view different galleries of Personas available.

Just install, select your Personas and enjoy browsing! Please feel free to comment on this article.

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First of all it looks so simple (obviously it is from Google) but surprised me with its features. Mainly it allows you to find out what are the top search terms by country while you can filter them by web, images, news and products. You can specify a category for the search terms as well, plus it is possible to define a time period too. For an example you can get the top search for worldwide image search in sports for year 2008 which gives you ronaldo in number one position.

World wide PC vs mac web search comparison from 2004

My favourite feature of Google Insights is the ability to compare more than one search terms at once. Simply put your search terms separated by a comma to view the trend chart, regional interest for mentioned search terms as well as other relative search terms.

You can access the Google Insights for Search by clicking on following link. http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

I found Google Insights for Search very interesting and very useful to get an idea of what people are searching for. Feel free to comment on this article.

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For me it acts as a logo idea bank too while you can notice various ways to use your logo on your card. So just click here to enjoy this wonderful selection of business cards. Please feel free to comment on this article.

There are enough and more add-ons available on addons.mozilla.org covering different areas in web browsing but it might be difficult for someone determine what add-ons to be installed. But this feature allows you to select what is most suitable for you from various add-ons grouped in to different categories. All you have to do is click on a category and mark the add-ons you need. After you finish selecting desired add-ons just click on the button Install my Add-Ons at the bottom of the screen. It will install selected add-ons to your Firefox.

You can access Fashion Your Firefox through https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fashionyourfirefox

This feature is very useful, especially if you are new to Firefox and when you have right add-ons it makes Firefox much easier, friendlier and obviously more useful. Please feel free to leave your comments.

You can find in-depth details at CNET’s Defensive Computing blog article Time to patch Windows again, ASAP

Also you can go directly to Microsoft Security Bulletin at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx

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Always have your objectives right!

Web site or blog can be used for different purposes. So it is very important to determine what you are going to achieve by having your own site. It is always reasonable to have multiple objectives but you have to understand and define them clearly. As an example you can have your corporate information and you online sales in one site as long as you know what and how to achieve it.

How to achieve your objectives?

Today there are so many techniques which can be used to develop a better web site. Same objective can be achieved using different methods. So always talk to your developer and decide on most reliable, cost and time effective methods for your site and understand what you are going to achieve by using them. If it is possible, always provide the developer few existing sites as examples of what you need.

Site design and interface

Interface or the design of your site is very important. It will determine the effectiveness and functionality of the site. Attractive design and easy navigation will hold users for a longer period.

Information management

This is the ultimatum which decides the success of your site. No matter how nice and vibrant your site looks, you have to have accurate and appropriate information in your site where users will find them useful and helpful. You should never overload the site with unnecessary information.

Quality Checking

Before you bring your site on-line, always run few quality checking processes from your side as well as developers side. Do not ever bring a site on-line until you are confident that site is working properly. Make sure you do your quality checking on a test server.

These are just basic guidelines to follow before you out-source your web site. You might have to go in to detail to get the best for your site. Please feel free to leave your comments.

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Then I managed to find a solution. First you have to shut down ZoneAlarm (You can disable automatic loading on Start-up). Then go to Advance Settings on AVG Anti-Virus (Open AVG, click on tools menu and select Advance Setting) and select Exceptions under Resident Shield menu item. Then you have to click on Add Path button. Then just select the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs folder and click OK. Then click the Apply button and click OK.

After that you can start ZoneAlarm and see. If it still gives you problems, you can do the following.

1. Shutdown and uninstall ZoneAlarm (If you have problems with uninstalling the ZoneAlarm just close AVG and delete temp folder contains on your document settings folder.
2. Make the Above AVG setting
3. Then re-install ZoneAlarm

It worked for me, hope this will help if you have any problem as such.