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English Fun SMS - Funny English SMS you can end your friends
2008-05-24 17:20:00 So, now you have figured a way to send free SMS Worldwide. What to send now? Here are some of the best funny English SMS you can send to your friends. Simply use one of the methods to send free SMS and then type these English Fun SMS into your mobile or browser and send them to your friends.The rain makes all things beautiful.. The grass & flowers 2.. If rain makes all things beautiful why doesn't it rain on you?Roses are red, violets are blue Monkeys like you, are kept in Zoo.....the Heart Beat of my Phone .....is ur Message ToneThe rain makes all things beautiful.. The grass & flowers 2.. If rain makes all things beautiful why doesn't it rain on you?When i am not messaging u it does not mean that i have forgotten u, i am just giving u time to MISS ME... More About: Funny , Friends
Call for free to anywhere in the World
2008-04-25 14:31:00 I have always wanted to call my pals in the US but due to peak high ISD call costs in India, avoid to call them. There are a lot of apps and software which provide damn cheap call rates. Some of them include Skype and Yahoo VoIP. While they do provide cheap calls and free PC to PC calls , these services mostly fail to provide free call service from PC to mobile or Landline.Then there is a website called GizmoCall which lets people call to anywhere in the blue planet for free. They do impose a limit on the free call and that being that you can call for only one minute. But that should not be a problem. So, happy free calling. More About: Internet , Hacks , Mobile , World , Free
Send free SMS to any country from your computer or Mobile
2008-04-18 04:56:00 Many of you(myself included) are SMS junkies. More than half of the mobile bill is because of SMSs. So, why not just send SMS from computer or mobile for free. What you will need is just a computer or a mobile with internet connectivity. Only minus point in such free services is that they will most of the times send small advertisement included in your SMS, but this should not matter as we can get our message across for free.Send Free SMS from Computer All you need to send SMS from computer is to have an active internet connection on your computer. Go to http://www.gizmoSMS.com and select the phone number to which you want to send the SMS. There are many other services where you can send free SMS. Some of them are given below:IndyaRockz.comYouMint.comBabuki.com Text4Free.netSMS2India.netSendSMSNow.comc bfSMS.comSend SMS from Mobile :To send free sms from mobile phone, you should have a mobile with internet connectivity (GPRS). You will need to install a small app on you mobile. This app... More About: Tools , Downloads , Country
Pimp your GMail with a new Design
2008-04-02 13:11:00 Like me, many other users of GMail have been fed up with the same old look and feel. Here is how you can change the look of GMail as if it had got a redesign from Google . But you will need to have Firefox installed. Believe me, if you don't have Firefox installed you are not making the most of Internet. If you have not firefox installed yet, get Firefox here. After you have installed Firefox you will need to go to this Firefox addon page and add Stylish to your Firefox. After that you go to this Userstyles page and install the script. That all, when you now open Gmail , you will have a new dark look. More About: Design , Hacks , Downloads
SMS in a unique way with Airtel SMS 2.0
2008-03-13 05:49:00 We all are getting bored of sending all those messages we call SMS, in the simillar fashion over and over again. Now SMSing getting cheaper and cheaper, we all want to do more than just message our buddies. Airtel SMS 2.0 promises to do just that. It is real fun using SMS 2.0 on your Airtel mobile phone. It has got some really cool and fun features like the ability to send 28 different cool emotion icons (that is emoticons)and 15 different font colours. What is the fun of using a mobile phone when we can't see the latest Scores. We are Indian and proud to have Cricket as more than just a game. With Airtel SMS 2.0, you can view live cricket scores, download latest songs, ringtone, MP3 all that for free. And the best and the most promising part of Airtel SMS 2.0 is that you can network with your online buddies right on your mobile phone. Though this feature is not yet available, let us hope it will be launched soon. How to Use it To use this service on your Airtel Mobile Phone, y... More About: Unique
Related Posts / Articles in Blogger / Blogspot
2008-02-27 05:58:00 Many of you might think that related posts and articles can only be shown on Wordpress blogs. But that is not the case. Here is step by step guide which will show you how to shw related posts or articles on blogger.com / Blogspot blogs. This hack was originally created by Hoctro. Before applying this hack, make sure you backup your template as you should do before applying any hack in your blogger template. Then go to Dashboard >> Layout >> Edit HTML. Search for the below given code in your template's HTML.<data:post.body/>Enclose the above given code in <p> tags. The code should now look like this<p><data:post.body/></p>Then copy the below code and paste it below the above code. That is below <p><data:post.body/></p><!--C ode starts here--><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <div class='similiar'> <div class='widget-content'> <h3>Related Posts</h3> <div id='data2007'/><br/><br/> ... More About: Articles , Blogger , Widgets , Tips , Blogging
Free Airtel GPRS 2008
2008-02-05 19:46:00 As I had earlier written about free airtel gprs. But airtel people have come to know about the trick and have firewalled all their servers.But you don't need to worry. I have a friend of mine who works in airtel and will inform me about the free settings as soon as the become available. So, what you have to do is to subscribe using the options on the top right sidebar and we will inform you as we get the settings. More About: Free , Airtel , 2008
The Best plugins for wlw
2008-01-23 09:44:00 Here it is. Yesterday I wrote an article about the best plugins available for Windows live writer. It was received quite well by Social bookmarking sites. I got about 2000 visits in the first hour. And I rank 7th for Plugins for Windows Live Writer. For those of you who don't know, Windows Live writer is free offline blogging software from the Mighty microsoft. I am writing this post in Windows Live writer and it is much fun writing with that the Bloggers's Write Post. Thats not the only cause I am writing this article, I wasnt to see how much the anchor text used in linking to my other site will help its ranking with google. So if you want to read the article, read it here and if you like that blog, please consider to subscribe to its feed here. More About: Internet , Technology , Tools , Downloads , Search Engine Optimization
Make Money just by surfing the internet
2007-12-14 12:35:00 AGLOCO is a company that is taking the blogosphere and the entire Internet by storm for one simple reason - it is the only way you can earn money online by doing what you already do - simply surfing the web.The company is brand new and it's exciting to be involved with an Internet company right from the beginning. If you join AGLOCO now, you can be the one to tell all your friends and blog readers and get them involved too. Wouldn't it have been cool to be the first person in your group to introduce everyone to Google, YouTube, or MySpace? Don't miss out on the chance this time!Is AGLOCO Free? Yes, it costs nothing to sign up with AGLOCO. AGLOCO pays you! Where does the money come from? The money that AGLOCO uses to pay you, me, and the rest of the members comes from the advertisers. Advertisers today crave to be able to put out their messages to highly targeted audiences. This model delivers that ability effortlessly. For example, if you are viewing a site about movies, then i... More About: Blogger , Money , Surfing , Make Money
ShareThis for blogger
2007-11-13 05:49:00 On this blog I have been speaking lot about the social bookmarking icons for blogger. I have even written a couplee of articles showing how to put them in blogger blogs. I heve shown you how to add AddThis to blogger and also to put multiple icons. This new one, this time officially launched by the people behind original ShareThis plugin for WordPress, is the best of all. you can even track your bookmarking code and save preferences with this widget. But it is still in development. Visit the official blog of ShareThis for more details and stay in touch with the rest of the development. ShareThis is available for Websites as well as Browsers. More About: Blogger , Widgets , Social Bookmarking
Add footer sections to Blogger/Blogspot blogs
2007-10-30 12:38:00 I wanted to edit my template a bit because I hate the speed of loading. My solution? I added a new Footer section.I have my blog arranged so the posts load first, then the sidebars, and my cellar loads last. So, unless you are a speed reader, by the time you reach the footer, it is fully loaded. No waiting.My cellar is defined by a horizontal line with text across the top and a horizontal line across the bottom. This is how it appears on the Page Elements page.Not only does it contain the 3 column area, it contains a full width column before and after the last horizontal line!As always, it is a good idea to save your template before starting.Now, add this code to the CSS sheet between :#footer-column-container {clear:both;}.footer-column {padding: 10px;}.footer-bottom {padding: 10px;}Next find this code: <div id='footer-wrapper'><b:section class='footer' id='footer'/></div>Replace <b:section class='footer' id='footer'/> with this code:<div id='f... More About: Blogger , Blogging , Tricks , Blogs , Blogspot
Need for Speed ProStreet Screenshots
2007-10-04 03:34:00 Checkout these pics of the Newly launched NFS ProStreet.October 3, 2007 October 3, 2007 October 3, 2007 October 3, 2007 September 5, 2007 September 5, 2007 September 5, 2007 September 5, 2007 September 5, 2007 September 5, 2007 August 25, 2007 August 25, 2007 More About: Gaming , Games , Speed , Screenshots , Cree
How to know how many readers a blog has:
2007-09-15 15:01:00 When I saw the article of SmashingMagazine in which they were giving free gifts, they has more than 4000 comments. On the average they have only 100+ comments on their articles, but on this particular article every reader seemed to comment, which meant that not every reader comments. This made me wonder how many readers does SM have. As they don?t show their reader count, I had to see for myself and came with this trick.This trick will help you know the number of readers of every blog that maintains it feeds with feedburner. Open notepad and write the following code in it<html><img width="88=" height="26" alt=""style=="border: 0pt none ; "src=="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/ma shable?bg=99CCFF&fg=444444&anim=0 ="/></html>Change the text in orange with that, of which you want to know the feed count.Save the file as .htm and view it in browser. More About: Hacks , Readers , Blogging , Tricks , Blog
Show Skype Status in your Bloggger Blog
2007-09-14 12:48:00 I have been always looking for ways to let my blog visitors to chat with me. But as you can't just install a plug-in in blogger, this task is not simple(or what I thought First). But this task was much simpler than downloading a Wordpress plug-in, uploading it to your Web host, activating it and playing with the options. The Skype button, as you see on the right took me only 2 minutes to put it there.There are more than one ways to show your Skype status, like a widget from Widget box, creating a flash button, etc. But i ruled them out because they could increase the load time of my blog, and i hate the link Widget box puts below the Button. So I ended up using the Skype's very own buttons. They provide you a bunch of option, and most of all you don't risk privacy. A decent two minutes on the site, and you will have your own Skype button installed on your blog. More About: Social Networking , Tips , Blogging , Show
Search Flickr by color
2007-09-11 16:55:00 So, you want to get some cool green images from Flick r for your green website, or you want to get blue ones to show everybody the love for blue. The Color Fields Colr Pickr webapp searches Flickr for images using only a color wheel. You don't need to do anything but to select the color you want to search for and see the rest happening before your eyes.Found via (Lifehacker) More About: Search
Most Weird social networks:
2007-09-04 15:45:00 So, now you think you have joined all the social networks. But I bet, you have not even seen these weird social networks?Not every social network is alike. Social networking is basically about individuals, and also for those who have offbeat interests. Here are some of the weirdest networks that fulfill those offbeat interests.Geni.comGeni is a powerful family organizing tool. Using Geni, you can create your family tree. Al you need to do is enter your name, name of your parents and start your family tree. Then you need to enter the details of your spouse, kids, and siblings and expand the tree of your family. When you reach a point where you don?t know more details about your family tree, you can enter the email ID of the last person in your tree you know, then he will be invited to join Geni enter more members of your family tree and eventually completing it.SociaLight.comThis is a location based social network where people connect ideas and suggestion to physical locations. You ... More About: Weird , Social Networking , Social Networks , Networks
Turn your Windows XP PC into Vista
2007-09-01 09:54:00 Many of us still think Vista is too Expensive and of course it is. Another bad thing about Vista is the compatibility. So, why don?t just turn our Windows XP into Vista.I had installed Vista ultimate on my PC a Couple of months ago. I worked fine but I really hated it because:* I was not able to install my Sound card on it.* I was not able to Install Nero on it.Everything else was a charm, especially the Windows Aero and 3D flip ( Vista is all about these two things). Everything else was like XP, and XP is also much faster than Vista. So I got rid of Windows Vista. But I really missed the Aero effect. After a month I figured how to turn my Windows XP in Windows Vista. It looked so much similar to Vista that my brother got confused so did everybody else who saw it. Here are the screenshots of my Windows XP PC which look like Vista. Here is how you can also turn XP in Vista: First you need to patch Uxtheme.dll, because the themes won?t work if you have not patched it. Download this... More About: Softwares , Windows Xp , Turn
Content writters are welcome
2007-08-18 06:04:00 Sorry, But I wil not be available for at least a month, as I will be preparing for my examination. Sorry dear readers. But I can't help it. Please do understand. But if you want to write for this blog, you can mail me at nebuz.i21{at}gmail{dot}com. The content can be anything that fits into the categories on the sidebar.Please include your Name :E-Mail ID :Website/Blog :And interests :Thank for being a part of this blog. More About: Content , Tent
Share This like bookmarking Widget for Blogger
2007-08-14 07:50:00 As I had written in my previous post that AddThis social bookmarking tool is best choice for blogs at blogger.com. The disadvantage is that we have to give an extra click for each time we bookmark a certain post using it. I had written in my previous post about social bookmarking widget for blogger. It was a big hit, but some of the bloggers want clean interface which that hack lacks to provide. It clutters the interface with lot of small icons. So here is a solution for the problem. As you may have seen on most Wordpress blogs, there is a Share link, which once clicked gives a drop down menu with links to the most popular Social bookmarking Websites. For us Blogger s at blogger.com, addthis has come up with a similar but faster tool. If you still don?t what I?m speaking about, see the live demo of the Wordpress?s Shrare link here (click on the share link to see) and bloggers AddThis Link here (Hover the mouse over bookmark link to see).To have the same AddThis bookmark on you b... More About: Widget , Blogging , Social Bookmarking
New Add-on Allows you Access Pownce from IM
2007-08-13 05:21:00 The Twitter(which already has this feature) killer Pownce has become now more easily accessible after the release of the new add-on from IMfied which allows you to access Pownce even via Instant messengers. This allows you post messages, links and events right from you IM software. You also get IM alerts for new messages you get at pownce. IMfied has a bunch of other add-ons which allow you to take the most of your IM software, be it Yahoo, MSN, or AIM. More About: Softwares , Access , Allo
Flickr can moblog your photos for you
2007-08-11 07:30:00 Flickr can serve as your one-stop hub for posting photos via email from a mobile device, while simultaneously auto-blogging each one at a wide variety of compatible services. Fortunately, setting this all up isn't very difficult.. Guys at Download squad tell you how to do that if you don't get the idea. Click here to go the upload by e-mail page or got to http://flickr.com/account then click on"Your Flickr upload email" and "Your blog upload email." You'll be prompted with a setup wizard that walks you through allowing Flickr to post to your blog and also add tags to your images when uploading via email. Happy Moblogging More About: Tools , Mobile , Photos , Tips , Blogging
Submit Multiple URLs to del.icio.us Bookmarks as a Batch
2007-08-10 11:10:00 If you have a tutorial site, especially of HTML or any other coding, then you know the pain it gives when you have to parse 10, 40 or even 100 lines of code one by one, or even use find and replace tools. Some people have exceptionally great skills to do it in seconds, but this if for the rest, and majority of bloggers. If you still don't understand what I'm talking about here is an example. Say you have to write a simple piece of code in your blog entry like<html> </html>, you have to convert it first in the format& l t; html &g t; & lt; /html & g t;By now you may have understood what I'm talking about. It really makes sense for a blogger to look for an easier way to convert those hundreds of line of code into post friendly format i.e, that format of code which can be written in blogger posts. If you have seen any other tip pertaining to this topic, you may be told that only way to parse the code is to parse it manually or hire a professional to do that(can you really affo... More About: Tricks , Social Bookmarking , Submit , Bookmarks , Batch
Free Airtel GPRS is back and this time more rocking
2007-08-09 13:02:00 Continued from Airtel GPRS is backFree Airtel GPRS AgainAfter going through trials and errors, I have created new Airtel Free GPRS settings, but due to the following reasons I can't write them here:* This blog is being monitored by Bharti Cellular (See the image as proof)* Content stealers copy my settings and put them on their sites, as if they have created the Free Airtel GPRS settings themselves.* Airtel will firewall the addresses I write here, again.So, If you want the new settings, Let your e-mail ID come in the comments section below.Note: Write your email IDs in this format name{at}gmail{dot}com so that your e-mail ID doesn't come in Search engines like google.I will mail the setting to you as soon as possible, but the keeps those secret for your own benefit.After you get the free Airtel GPRS settings, follow these steps:Open the Connection Settings in your Mobile.Create a new connection and name it as Airtel GPRS or any other name.Type in the malled Proxy Server address a... More About: Time , Back
Anarchy at the Theatre, an Extensive report
2007-08-07 07:28:00 Disclaimer: Before I start, I'd like to say that any damage caused by this document is not my fault and if you get beaten up doing anything in this document, it's not my fault. If you read this document, you're responsible for the results - not me. Basically, it's not my fault.Caution: This is only for people who draw sadistic pleasure from the pain and suffering of others. By reading this article, you have agreed to be part of the socialist proletariat anarchist revolution. People are always telling me I have a loud voice, so I decided to put it to good use. I didn't create this technique, but I refined it. The art has existed since the dawn of the motion pictures - what I've done is only get the whole act together and define, refine and per¬fect the fine art of public heckling.Very rarely will you come across a movie that inspires you and makes you think. We live in an era of vacuous entertainment that is care¬fully constructed to mimic the real world and extract money from ... More About: Tips , Report , Theatre , Anarchy , Narc
iPhone unlocked using SIM cloning
2007-08-07 07:25:00 It's not a consumer-friendly hack, but some of the uber hackers over on the hackint0sh forum have figured out a way to use other carrier's SIM cards in the iPhone using some SIM cloning techniques. The method was posted by a person claiming the device now completely works with service in Croatia.Hopefully a reader who understands more about this stuff can correct me, but I'll take a pass at explaining how this works. First off, the SIM in your device is like a small computer. In addition to storing a small amount of data, it also contains a mechanism for performing a challenge-response sequence using an internal secret key, which is how the carrier detects if your SIM is a legitimate card and hasn't been tampered with. This key, referred to as Ki, cannot be read from the card, so the only way to obtain it is to get it from the carrier (not a chance), or by way of a brute force attack (takes 4 or 5 hours).So, with the hack, you use some special hardware to extract the carrier inf... More About: Hacks , Iphone , Lock , Unlocked
310+ Essential readings, tools and Resources for Bloggers
2007-08-05 11:42:00 I was looking for them and then I found them at Problogger, mashable and others from Matt Huggins. While some of you might be aware of some of them, for others it may be a new world. But then these tips help everyone. Essential Readings Can You Make a Living Blogging? (Graywolf SEO)Five Beginner?s Blogging Tips (John Chow)The First 7 Days of Blogging (Pronet Advertising)Put on Your Game Face (Pronet Advertising)How to ?Announce? a Blog (Blog Traffic School)How to Use Social News Aggregators as a Source for Content Ideas (Dosh Dosh)5 Ways to Building a Better Blog (Pronet Advertising)Bring Your A-game to Write for Blogs (Freelance Switch)What Are You Learning from Leading Edge SEO Bloggers ? (Graywolf SEO)How Great Headlines Score Traffic (Copyblogger)10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas that Work (Copyblogger)Declaring War on Blogger Apathy (ProBlogger)How to Market Your Blog in 2007 (ProBlogger)21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (SEOmoz)Five Steps to a Truly Unique Blog That Attracts ... More About: Tools , Resources
Who visits your website or blog
2007-08-04 17:29:00 From analyzing your RSS feed to counting page views to visual representations of where your visitors are clicking, there is no shortage of companies looking to help you better understand your web site?s traffic. In our latest ?toolbox? installment, we analyze (pun intended) the wide variety of applications and tools available for keeping tabs on how your sites, feeds, blogs, emails, or even your intranet is performing.As with our other toolbox articles, we encourage you to add other applicable links in the comments area.Web Traffic Visualization Visualization tools use a variety of methods to show you where users are clicking on the individual pages of your Web site to help you make design adjustments that emphasize the right links and content. ClickTracks - Enterprise analytics software, shows visitor navigation directly on your site?s pages. Crazy Egg - Provides visual ?Heat Maps? to show where your visitors are clicking. Indextools - Provides web-based analytics package feat... More About: Tools , Website , Blog , Analytics
Hackers bite into "cookies" to plunder user data from websites
2007-08-04 08:25:00 Hackers and computer security specialists gathered in Las Vegas on Friday took aim at popular social networking websites, exposing ways to plunder data from software "cookies" used to track users. Revelations made at an international gathering of hackers dubbed DefCon come as Internet rivals Google, Microsoft, and Ask acquire firms that rely on cookies to better target money-making online ads. "Websites could easily fix the problem by encrypting cookies," Errata Security chief executive Robert Graham told AFP.US college student Rick Deacon arrived at DefCon on Friday ready to demonstrate how to use trickery and software skills to steal enough information from MySpace users' cookies to commandeer their profile pages."You can become them on MySpace; basically hijack accounts left and right," Deacon told AFP.The attack relies on duping MySpace users into clicking on a rigged link, perhaps in an online forum or bulletin board that routes them to a file that steals passwords and other i... More About: News , Hacks , Data , Cookies
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in 24 easy steps:
2007-08-04 05:58:00 Almost all blogs/websites speak of SEO but little do they tell about it. I myself shuffled through hundreds of sites to know more about SEO but all they tell you is to use the keywords you want to rank for, as many time as you can. While I except it is very important for SEO but there are still many other things you want to know when designing a niche site and when Search engine optimizing it. When designing niche sites, your only 3 objectives to know/do are:a) How competitive is it. IE: If you type 2 or 3 keywords into google of your niche, and you see 80 million other pages, then ranking on first page for that niche is highly unlikely. Of course it's possible, but that would imply for you get into SEO learning 24/7. Of course we don't have time for that right!b) Decide what keyword phrase you want to rank high for. What I mean by this is: What would uncle Sam have to type into Google so that your site is seen on first page? Let's suppose your niche site is about "how to teach p... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Tips , Blogging
Social Bookmarking Widget for Blogger
More articles from this author:2007-08-03 12:01:00 On a social bookmarking system or network, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists can be accessible to the public by users of a specific network or website. Other users with similar interests can view the links by topic, category, tags, or even randomly. Other than web page bookmarks, services specialized to a specific subject or format - feeds, books, videos, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. - can be found. The biggest way of increasing traffic to small blogs is Social networking. As such social bookmarking becomes very essential for small blogs such as ours. With that said, it is very important to provide the readers with a very easy way to bookmark the articles they find useful. As you may have seen till yesterday, this blog used Addthis social bookmarking tool which the most of bloggers at blogspot use. But it needs an extra click as compared to the social bookmarking widget of wordpress.com blogs and hence comes this article to t... More About: Social Networking , Blogger , Widget , Tips 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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