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Google Talk Blocked ?? Run Google Talk in Firefox Sidebar
2007-11-27 18:33:00
The Google Talk Gadget is clearly more usable than the stand-alone GTalk desktop client or the floating AJAX version in GMail.Here, each chat session opens up as a tab (like Firefox browser tabs), it can show previews of images or video and the chat client can easily be embedded inside webpages.There's however a small problem - while we have browser windows in front of us all the time, the same may not hold true for the webpage (like the Google personalized page) where we have embedded the GTalk gadget.So here's an alternate option - put the Google Talk client in the Firefox sidebar so it always stays in the foreground no matter what website you are on currently.To add Google Talk to your Firefox sidebar, bookmark the following URL (right-click and choose Bookmark this link)Click Here To Book MarkNow goto Bookmarks menu, navigate to the above bookmark, right click and choose Properties. Tick the checkbox that says Load this bookmark in the sidebar.Places where Google talk is banne...
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Access Orkut, MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Xanga from School or Work
2007-11-27 18:26:00
In colleges students and office workers asking for workarounds to access social networking websites that are blacklisted.The most common websites that are blocked in schools include Bebo, MySpace, Hi5, Xanga, Orkut , Facebook and in some cases, Youtube. We share a couple of options to bypass the internet ban and they includes using proxy servers, special mobile websites and screen sharing software:Trick A: Most solutions to unblock websites suggest using web proxies to bypass restrictions. Open Directory has a comprehensive list of public anonymous web-based proxy servers that you may want to try. [How proxies work ?]But chances are that your school administration has already blocked access to most proxy servers as well. In that case, you have some more options:Trick B: Surf the web using Mowser, a new service that's free and converts any website into a mobile phone friendly format. The other option that may help access blocked website is Bitty Browser, a miniature web browser that ...
More About: Myspace , Social Networks , Work , School

Send Free SMS to India and Abroad From Yahoo! Messenger
2007-11-25 07:08:00
Latest version of Yahoo ! Messenger help you to send a free SMS to your friends' mobile phone, and receive their replies as well. In India , you can send an SMS to Aircel, Airtel, Hutch, Idea Cellular, MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited), RIM (Reliance India Mobile), BPL, Spice Punjab and Spice Karnataka mobile users. To continue receiving SMS from you, the mobile user needs to reply to at least one of the three SMS sent by you from your Yahoo! Messenger.You can also send SMS to the following countries and the respective operators' mobile users:Argentina (Telecom Personal), Australia (Vodafone, Telstra, Orange), Bolivia (Entel Movil), Canada (Rogers), Hong Kong (Hutchison), Indonesia (Telkomsel, Excelcom), Kuwait (Wataniya), Malaysia (Tmtouch, Maxis), Philippines (Smart, Globe Telecom), Singapore (M1, Starhub), Thailand (Dtac, AIS Thailand) and United States (AT&T, Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile).How to Send SMS Text Message from Yahoo! MessengerTo send SMS from Yahoo messenge...
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Orkut Privacy Settings - Lock Your Album, Video and Scraps
2007-11-25 06:57:00
After the user interface redesign, Google's Orkut has added more functionality to make it a better social networking website to complete in the market. Orkut has recently improved privacy to give the members control over whether their album, video feeds, scraps and testimonials can be viewed / written by everyone or just their friends. Orkut scrap has been a concern for many people, because anybody could have read anybody's scarp. Social engineers could just browse through any profile and gather personal information about any Orkut member. Not anymore if you set these options in your Orkut Privacy Settings.
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20 Ways To Aggregate Your Social Networking Profiles
2007-11-24 07:50:00
In an inspired blog post, Jason Kottke said that social networks aren?t helping us organize; since all of them require different credentials to log in, they?re just adding to the noise. He just might be up to something there. It?s getting harder and harder to remember all those logins, passwords, and most importantly to remember which of your friends are using what network.Social network aggregators is a relatively new breed of applications which try to consolidate all your various social networking profiles into one, with varying success. Let?s check out 20 biggest competitors in this field.Profilactic has very recently been upgraded to version 2, which brought a decent amount of new features - a new look, support for Pownce, LinkedIn, Shelfari, and the ability to add more than one account for the same site. At its core, Profilactic still does the same two things: it displays your personal lifestream, which consists of your social networking activity, and a group lifestream from yo...
More About: Social Networking , Networking , Social Networks , Profiles

Will Peta goes to police against Orkut
2007-11-23 18:52:00
Sometime Popularity become hurdle for any sucess and create problem for then for any small mistake ,peoples and organisation are searching issues how to cover orkut under laws ,but orkut is orkut and google is google lets see how google tackle community issue as peta want to close that community and google says that all dependent on user ,we are not responsible for that ,peta now goes to police against orkut for that.Drop them from building tops, run them over with your car - are just some of the ways to kill dogs that Orkut 's canine-hating members suggest while socialising online. Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has now complained to the police.Peta accused Orkut, the social networking site, of promoting cruelty to animals and has demanded action against it by cyber cells of the government.Peta has written to the Mumbai police and complained that among topics discussed on Orkut community sites was 'I hate dogs'Communicators on the sit...
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Peta points accusing finger at Orkut
2007-11-23 18:35:00
As Published By GulfNews that people for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta ) has accused social networking website Orkut of promoting cruelty to animals and has demanded stringent action against it by cyber vigilance cells of the government.The animal rights group has written to Mumbai police complaining that topics like "I hate dogs" featured on Orkut community sites and that the site encouraged discussions such as "How 2 kill a dog."Dropping dogs from building tops and running them over were among sample suggestions received by those socialising online, Peta complained.In a letter to Mumbai's joint commissioner of police, copied to the Secretary, Department of Information and Technology, Government of India and COO, Google, Peta has urged the police to immediately direct the website to block such illegal content.
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Will Android be more like Google Earth or Orkut?
2007-11-23 18:25:00
Google has ambitious plans for reforming the mobile Internet world. But not everything Google touches turns to gold. Given the challenges Google faces getting the biggest U.S. carriers to play along and the mixed report card on Google products, the Android isn't a slum-dunk.For instance, Google's foray into the social media space hasn't been as successful as the company would have liked. We've all heard about Orkut , Google's social network that's big in Brazil. The site, which has had its share of legal problems, doesn't make Nielsen Online's Top 20 list for the U.S. market. Last week, Google announced the OpenSocial set of common APIs for developing social-network applications, but it's not clear how that will translate into more market share, new products or increased revenue for Google.Then there's Google Finance, which is ranked as the 21st most popular financial news site in the U.S., according to Nielsen Online, below Entrepreneur.com and American City Business Journ...
More About: Google , Earth , Google Earth

Google Opens OpenSocial Site And Provides Orkut Support
2007-11-23 15:48:00
The Google OpenSocial site is now live (here). The video above comes from the Google OpenSocial Campfire held Thursday night and is featured on the front of the new page.The site includes the complete OpenSocial API Documentation, FAQ and Group area.Also now live is OpenSocial support for Google?s big in Brazil social networking site Orkut (here). According to Google, the OpenSocial implementation on Orkut has the following benefits:* Building both showcase and canvas views, with Apps having the ability to create multi-page experiences in the full page canvas view.* Foster communication among friends by allowing access a user?s profile information, friend list, and an update feed so that people can see what their friends are up to.* Learn once, write everywhere as apps written for Orkut under OpenSocial can be used to build social apps for other websites.The OpenSocial team also has a blog here.Orkut joins Plaxo, and possibly tonight Ning as being the first sites with OpenSocial su
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'Violent' Orkut community Closed
2007-11-23 15:38:00
Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has demanded an immediate closure of a Web community that "instigates violence" towards dogs.In a letter to the Union Information and Technology secretary, the organisation has urged the Central government to direct Google to block "some illegal and cruel content posted on its social networking site Orkut .""We have also requested him to initiate appropriate action against the members who claimed to have committed acts in violation of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Act) 1960," PETA-India coordinator (Campaigns and Legal Affairs) N G Jayasimha told.In fact, the letter followed after PETA spotted topics on Orkut community on 'I hate dogs', which discussed 'How 2 kill a dog?'.Through the discussion, PETA volunteers figured out that one of the members of the community "suggests killing of puppies by dropping them from a building" and also "admits to throwing three puppies", another member claims, "I have killed two by...
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Clone Your Computer on a USB Drive - Why Carry That Heavy Laptop
2007-11-22 18:52:00
If you are working across multiple computers that are not connected to each other, you probably use the good old USB drive (or external hard drive) to store and carry your Office documents, Photoshop drawings, personal pictures and other multimedia files. Perfect. Now imagine a situation where you have all required data on the USB drive but the computer you are currently working on (say in the cyber café or a friend?s place) doesn?t have the necessary software programs that are required to view or edit those files. That computer neither has Microsoft Office for creating PowerPoint presentations or Excel sheets, nor Photoshop and AutoCAD for you to edit those important CAD drawings. Even the media player is missing so you cannot watch your personal video and music collection that you have been carrying in the pocket. What if you could carry all your favorite software applications (and their settings), Office files, emails and everything else with you on a portable drive? You just plu...
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Connect Google Talk With Yahoo! or Windows Live Messenger
2007-11-22 18:42:00
Yahoo! Messenger and MSN (Windows Live) Messenger users can chat with each other easily without changing clients. Similarly, Google is working with AOL to allow users of Google Talk connect with their AIM buddies. (Skype?)Now consider a completely different scenario - how do Google Talk users talk to their friends who are using Windows Live or Yahoo! Messenger ?Related: Web Based Instant MessengersHere?s a a possible solution to make voice-over IP calls between Google Talk, MSN/Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger for free.1. If you are on Google Talk and want to voice chat with someone on Yahoo!, add service@gtalk2voip.com as your Gtalk friend and then send the following message to your new buddy:CALL xyz@yahoo.com [use your friends Yahoo! ID instead of xyz]2. If you are on Yahoo! Messenger and want to connect with a Google Talk user, add gtalk2voip@yahoo.com to your Yahoo! buddy list and send the following message:CALL xyz@gmail.com [use your friends Google Talk ID instead of xyz]F...
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Make Internet Phone Calls From Regular Telephones (Without PC)
2007-11-22 18:39:00
Internet phone calls (VoIP), that you make from the computer to other landline or mobile phone numbers using software like Skype, are generally cheaper but then they require a computer and an Internet connection.Jajah earlier made some good start and allowed users to make long distance phone calls over the Internet using regular phone lines - a computer was required only for arranging the call - the actual voice conversation would happen over traditional phone lines.Now they have gone a step further with Jajah Direct that completely eliminates the need for a computer to make internet phone calls.With Jajah Direct, you can call any long distance landline or mobile phone by just dialing a local number, then enter the number you want to call and Jajah connects you. And since it?s a VoIP call, the calling rates remain low.And unlike the Skype phones, you require no special hardware to use Jajah Direct - it works with every phone that has a dialpad.Jajah Direct is currently available onl...
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Access Blocked YouTube at Office / School / University
2007-11-21 06:58:00
Accessing blocked websites is no more an art which can be mastered by techies. There are so many easy ways to access most of the blocked website. In our earlier posts we explained 4 different ways to access any blocked website and two specific tricks for accessing blocked Orkut.The work around to watch a YouTube video when YouTube is blocked is to download the video and watch using video players like FLV Player, Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, etc. To download videos from YouTube,my favorite free websites are Get2PC.com and Vixy.net . These two websites not only download the videos quickly but also support in downloading in various formats like Windows Media File, FLV File, 3GP File, MPEG file, etc.All you need to provide as input to these sites is URL of the YouTube video which you want to download and format of output file. They automatically convert the YouTube video to specified format and provides a link to easily download them.This is a safe and easy hack through which...
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Add Social Bookmarking link To Blogger
2007-11-20 18:56:00
Now a days traffic to the Blog is very important thing from where ever you are taking that .Social Bookmarks are one of the best source of the traffic to your blog.But many of us doesnt know How to add Social Bookmarking to our blogNow here is the trick or say hack to "Add Social Bookmarking link after each blog post"1.log in to your Blogger account (This is Most IMP step ;) )2.Then Go to Blogger Template>Edit Html3.Make sure that you are using Blogger Beta template4.Backup your template Code5.Then Put Below Code After Head TagAnd Replace Below Code From Template and Put Below Code In Place Of That Bookmark this post:showsbtext("sbtxt" + "",0) And save the Template. Now if everything is properly done then you can see the Bookmarking icons after each post that will help you for Getting better Traffic
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Block Websites Without Software
2007-11-20 17:21:00
Many people want to Block some websites that are harmfull to our PC or/and our life.Like some parents take care of our children by blocking porn websites and some offices blocks some special websites that may harm there network.You may need a costly (or even free) software to block such websites.Why to spend money and time and why give HDD space to such useless softwares.Just do this and block unwanted softwares from accesing .Steps:1] Browse C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc2] Find the file named "HOSTS"3] Open it in notepad4] Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.thesitenamethatyouwantblock.com , and that site will no longer be accessable.5] Done!Now You Can See That ....127.0.0.1 localhost127.0.0.2 www.blockedsite.com-->www.blockedsite.com is now unaccessableFor every site after that you want to add, just add "1" to the last number in the internal ip (127.0.0.2) and then the addy like before.IE: 127.0.0.3 www.xyz.com127.0.0.4 www.xyz.com127.0.0.5 www.xyz.com
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