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See your uploaded Photos in Blogger Posts online all at once!
2007-10-29 14:00:00 Friends , all the bloggers who upload the Photos to blogger can see it on the Picasa Web Album online all the photos stacked in an album.Picassa Web Album is the newest feature designed to help users post and share up their photos quickly and easily on the web.Anyone who has signed up for the Google account can access Picasa Web Album.To upload Photos you have to click on the "Upload Photos" button on the Right .Enter the Title, Date ,Description and the Place where you have taken the Photo.It has a very interesting feature of "Map your Photos" by which you can sort your Photos in Google World Map according to the Place you took the Photo at !!You could categorize the Album as Public or Private according to your preferences .So friends just check out Picasa Web Album! More About: Blogger , Online , Posts , Uploaded
Increase your subscriber count using feedburner redirection
2007-10-27 17:20:00 Even if you burn your Blogger feed to Feedburner , some percentage of your visitors may still be reading the Blogger feed. This could happen if they had provided your blog URL (instead of your feedburner feed) to their feed reader and their feed reader auto-discovered Blogger feed. The side effect of this is that your subscriber count will not be accurate. The first useful development of Google buying Feedburner happens to be the new "Feed redirection" feature. Using this, you can redirect your Blogger feed to Feedburner feed. You can do this by going to Settings->Site Feed and providing your feedburner feed URL for redirection (as shown below). More About: Count , Subscriber , Scribe , Dire
StumbleUpon gets into Google (and Wikipedia and Yahoo and Flickr...)
2007-10-23 16:58:00 StumbleUpon, a fun Web discovery service, is getting a new feature, SearchReviews, that will take it beyond its historic role of hyperefficient time-waster.SearchReviews pushes StumbleUpon ratings and other information into the search results pages on major search engines and content sites like Wikipedia , Google Reader, Flickr , and YouTube.Users who run the StumbleUpon toolbar will now see little icons after search results on these sites that show them how popular a site is in the StumbleUpon community, the number of thumbs-up ratings it has, and who of their friends has rated the page.It changes the way you look at search results pages. Now, instead of just looking at a sea of links in descending order based on what your search site thinks is most important, you also do a quick visual scan of the results for little StumbleUpon icons that indicate that actual humans have marked the page as worthwhile. If you happen across a site that a friend has flagged, you'll have an even better... More About: Yahoo , Stumbleupon
StumbleUpon gets into Google (and Wikipedia and Yahoo and Flickr...)
2007-10-23 16:58:00 StumbleUpon, a fun Web discovery service, is getting a new feature, SearchReviews, that will take it beyond its historic role of hyperefficient time-waster.SearchReviews pushes StumbleUpon ratings and other information into the search results pages on major search engines and content sites like Wikipedia , Google Reader, Flickr , and YouTube.Users who run the StumbleUpon toolbar will now see little icons after search results on these sites that show them how popular a site is in the StumbleUpon community, the number of thumbs-up ratings it has, and who of their friends has rated the page.It changes the way you look at search results pages. Now, instead of just looking at a sea of links in descending order based on what your search site thinks is most important, you also do a quick visual scan of the results for little StumbleUpon icons that indicate that actual humans have marked the page as worthwhile. If you happen across a site that a friend has flagged, you'll have an even better... More About: Yahoo , Stumbleupon
Add Ratings To Your Blog Posts for Instant Feedback from Readers
2007-10-23 16:52:00 Blogs that are on Blogger, WordPress or TypePad can now add the wonderful outbrain star ratings widget to their blog posts. This ratings widget has been under a closed beta for some time but they finally made a public release today.It's light, requires no registration and very intuitive - visitors can hover the mouse over the five stars and click any of them to rate your current blog post. Even if you have a regular website that's not a blog, this ratings widget can be installed on your site as well. You need such a rating widget to get feedback from all those reader who are subscribed to your blog aren't contributing to the discussion because they are probably too lazy to write a comment. Give them a system like this ratings widget that requires no effort and they'll be happy to say if enjoyed or disliked reading your blog post. Get Ratings Widget here. Developer Blog is here. If you are using Windows Live Writer to insert ratings in your blog posts, make sure you remove ... More About: Readers , Blog , Feedback , Posts
Add Ratings To Your Blog Posts for Instant Feedback from Readers
2007-10-23 16:52:00 Blogs that are on Blogger, WordPress or TypePad can now add the wonderful outbrain star ratings widget to their blog posts. This ratings widget has been under a closed beta for some time but they finally made a public release today.It's light, requires no registration and very intuitive - visitors can hover the mouse over the five stars and click any of them to rate your current blog post. Even if you have a regular website that's not a blog, this ratings widget can be installed on your site as well. You need such a rating widget to get feedback from all those reader who are subscribed to your blog aren't contributing to the discussion because they are probably too lazy to write a comment. Give them a system like this ratings widget that requires no effort and they'll be happy to say if enjoyed or disliked reading your blog post. Get Ratings Widget here. Developer Blog is here. If you are using Windows Live Writer to insert ratings in your blog posts, make sure you remove ... More About: Readers , Blog , Feedback , Posts
Publish your photos to flickr with windows live gallery
2007-10-23 16:29:00 The DMX team has announced a beta refresh for Windows Live Photo Gallery that includes the ability to publish your photos directly to Flickr.Uploading photos to Flickr through Windows Live Photo Gallery is just as easy as it is uploading to Windows Live Spaces. To upload to Flickr, all is needed to do is to choose the photos that you want to upload and hit "Publish" in the toolbar. A drop-down list will appear that allows you to either choose Windows Live Spaces or Flickr as destinations I want to publish my photos to. Here choose Flickr.A new window will appear letting you to enter options for which set you want the photo to belong to, what size you want the photo to be uploaded at, and permissions of that photo.Windows Live Photo Gallery will notify you once your photo (or photos) have been uploaded and ask if you would like to view those uploaded photos.ho.So enjoy Flickering through Windows Live Photo Gallery More About: Photos , Windows Vista
Publish your photos to flickr with windows live gallery
2007-10-23 16:29:00 The DMX team has announced a beta refresh for Windows Live Photo Gallery that includes the ability to publish your photos directly to Flickr .Uploading photos to Flickr through Windows Live Photo Gallery is just as easy as it is uploading to Windows Live Spaces. To upload to Flickr, all is needed to do is to choose the photos that you want to upload and hit "Publish" in the toolbar. A drop-down list will appear that allows you to either choose Windows Live Spaces or Flickr as destinations I want to publish my photos to. Here choose Flickr.A new window will appear letting you to enter options for which set you want the photo to belong to, what size you want the photo to be uploaded at, and permissions of that photo.Windows Live Photo Gallery will notify you once your photo (or photos) have been uploaded and ask if you would like to view those uploaded photos.ho.So enjoy Flickering through Windows Live Photo Gallery More About: Photos
A new facebook Application :Second Life
2007-10-22 17:53:00 A new Facebook book application is combining two giants in their own spheres. This application called merges Facebook and virtual world Second Life .Users can display their Second Life avatar with this application and also indicates whether a particular user is online or offline in the virtual world. Similarly, if other users have installed application it is easy to identify that with their online avatars.With the new application users can share their favorite locations in the virtual world.To go to the myspace Second life Application click mySecond
A new facebook Application :Second Life
2007-10-22 17:53:00 A new Facebook book application is combining two giants in their own spheres. This application called merges Facebook and virtual world Second Life .Users can display their Second Life avatar with this application and also indicates whether a particular user is online or offline in the virtual world. Similarly, if other users have installed application it is easy to identify that with their online avatars.With the new application users can share their favorite locations in the virtual world.To go to the myspace Second life Application click mySecond
Jaxtr gets embedded to social sites like myspace and orkut
2007-10-22 17:27:00 Palo Alto -based Jaxtr, allows you to receive phone calls by embedding some code in your profiles on MySpace, Friendster, hi5, Piczo and the rest. It?s like a widgetized version of Jajah: your visitor enters his phone number and receives a call. Once he picks up, your phone starts ringing, and the call is connected. If you don?t answer, Jaxtr will take a voicemail message, and there are tools to block unwanted callers or only allow certain friends to call. The caller?s phone numbers are never exposed to one another. If you don?t want to use the widget, you can put a link in an e-mail signature.Possibly Myspace users will take to Jaxtr as there are no direct competitors at the moment, despite the fact that there are plenty of startups tying mobile to MySpace - Abazab, Umundo, Supcast, Nakama, Kindfish, FotoDunk, EQO and more. Most of these are concerned with sending media or text messages to your MySpace page, rather than direct calling. So for now the future looks bright for Jaxtr.F... More About: Social , Sites , Orkut , Embedded
Jaxtr gets embedded to social sites like myspace and orkut
2007-10-22 17:27:00 Palo Alto -based Jaxtr, allows you to receive phone calls by embedding some code in your profiles on MySpace, Friendster, hi5, Piczo and the rest. It’s like a widgetized version of Jajah: your visitor enters his phone number and receives a call. Once he picks up, your phone starts ringing, and the call is connected. If you don’t answer, Jaxtr will take a voicemail message, and there are tools to block unwanted callers or only allow certain friends to call. The caller’s phone numbers are never exposed to one another. If you don’t want to use the widget, you can put a link in an e-mail signature.Possibly Myspace users will take to Jaxtr as there are no direct competitors at the moment, despite the fact that there are plenty of startups tying mobile to MySpace - Abazab, Umundo, Supcast, Nakama, Kindfish, FotoDunk, EQO and more. Most of these are concerned with sending media or text messages to your MySpace page, rather than direct calling. So for now the future looks bright for... More About: Social , Sites , Orkut , Embedded
Trick to Increase firefox browsing speed
2007-10-21 15:21:00 Trick to Increase Firefox Speed 1. Open firefox and in the Address bar write about:config and press enter.2. Double click network.http.pipelining and set it to True3. Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set value to 10 from 44. Right click and create a new string nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0 Thats all. Enjoy lightning fast Firefox browsing More About: Trick , Browsing
Trick to Increase firefox browsing speed
2007-10-21 15:21:00 Trick to Increase Firefox Speed 1. Open firefox and in the Address bar write about:config and press enter.2. Double click network.http.pipelining and set it to True3. Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set value to 10 from 44. Right click and create a new string nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0 Thats all. Enjoy lightning fast Firefox browsing More About: Trick , Browsing
Sansa’s Superior connectivity over Zune
2007-10-18 08:18:00 Wi-Fi enabled media player Microsoft Corp’s Zune ’s wireless capability is stunted as compared to the Sansa Connect.Zune can connect only to nearby Zunes and users can use its Wireless capabilities only to temporarily share music. Sansa Connects directly to the Yahoo’s Internet based music and image services.If you subscribe to Yahoo! Music unlimited once you can find and download individual tracks and albums .You can also view Photos stored on Yahoo Flickr service.And it’s a rush listening to streaming net radio offered by Yahoo’s LAUNCHcast radio which offers about 150 streaming stations.Sansa Connect also does music sharing far better than Zune .With Zune , users who are near enough to connect directly via Wi-Fi can be connected .Whereas Sansa Connect uses Yahoo messenger to look for friends who are connected anywhere using a computer or another Sansa Connect.You can see what music they are listening to and download from Yahoo.Once downloaded you can listen to the ... More About: Connectivity , Superior , Ansa
Sansa?s Superior connectivity over Zune
2007-10-18 08:18:00 Wi-Fi enabled media player Microsoft Corp?s Zune ?s wireless capability is stunted as compared to the Sansa Connect.Zune can connect only to nearby Zunes and users can use its Wireless capabilities only to temporarily share music. Sansa Connects directly to the Yahoo?s Internet based music and image services.If you subscribe to Yahoo! Music unlimited once you can find and download individual tracks and albums .You can also view Photos stored on Yahoo Flickr service.And it?s a rush listening to streaming net radio offered by Yahoo?s LAUNCHcast radio which offers about 150 streaming stations.Sansa Connect also does music sharing far better than Zune .With Zune , users who are near enough to connect directly via Wi-Fi can be connected .Whereas Sansa Connect uses Yahoo messenger to look for friends who are connected anywhere using a computer or another Sansa Connect.You can see what music they are listening to and download from Yahoo.Once downloaded you can listen to the music all ... More About: Players , Connectivity , Superior
SanDisk’s Sansa connect Wi-Fi enabled Media Player is the First Significa
2007-10-18 08:05:00 The 4 GB Sansa Connect by SanDisk surpasses the Apple ipod in many ways.Its bright and simple interface is more engaging than the iPod’s.Sansa’s most notable offering is built in WiFi which is missing so far in Apple’s offerings.Sansa is tied to the online digital music and image services provided by Yahoo.These services allow you to easily download music from internet, listen to the internet radio and view digital images stored online(browse photos on the go by Flickr). You can also send music recommendations to other Connect users or to anyone on your Yahoo Messenger list--all you need is a Yahoo ID. Plus, the player grabs firmware updates wirelessly, which means you never have to connect to your PC to get the latest features. The very attractive, sleek design includes a 2.2”TFT color screen with advanced navigational features and an easy to use interface. The Sansa Connect provides superior sound playback and supports Microsoft PlaysForSure subscription music. The S... More About: Media Player , Media , Player
SanDisk?s Sansa connect Wi-Fi enabled Media Player is the First Significant
2007-10-18 08:05:00 The 4 GB Sansa Connect by SanDisk surpasses the Apple ipod in many ways.Its bright and simple interface is more engaging than the iPod?s.Sansa?s most notable offering is built in WiFi which is missing so far in Apple?s offerings.Sansa is tied to the online digital music and image services provided by Yahoo.These services allow you to easily download music from internet, listen to the internet radio and view digital images stored online(browse photos on the go by Flickr). You can also send music recommendations to other Connect users or to anyone on your Yahoo Messenger list--all you need is a Yahoo ID. Plus, the player grabs firmware updates wirelessly, which means you never have to connect to your PC to get the latest features. The very attractive, sleek design includes a 2.2?TFT color screen with advanced navigational features and an easy to use interface. The Sansa Connect provides superior sound playback and supports Microsoft PlaysForSure subscription music. The Sansa Con... More About: Media Player , Media , Players , Player
Google Themes get skinnable!!
2007-10-17 11:07:00 Recently Google has added a new feature of providing Dynamic themes for the Google Personalized Home Pages.Dynamic Themes change the prosaic look of Google Personalized pages and they have a modest effect on the colour scheme of Google Gadgets but the basic Googley effect still remains.There are a grand total of six themes now involving subjects like "Seasonal Scape" , a "city scape" , "a bus stop","beach" , a "Tea House" or "Sweet Dreams" and all of them look pretty slick and tasteful.The dynamic effect in the themes is that they change with your own local time of day, current weather conditions or season and provide you entertaining surprises. If you add the beach theme, for example (changes with time of day), it will ask you for your Zip code and adjust itself to match your local sunrise and sunset times.To use Google Themes just go to google.com/ig, login if you aren’t, and hit the “Select theme” link to the right side and you can load your favorite scheme.Google has giv...
Google Themes get skinnable!!
2007-10-17 11:07:00 Recently Google has added a new feature of providing Dynamic themes for the Google Personalized Home Pages.Dynamic Themes change the prosaic look of Google Personalized pages and they have a modest effect on the colour scheme of Google Gadgets but the basic Googley effect still remains.There are a grand total of six themes now involving subjects like "Seasonal Scape" , a "city scape" , "a bus stop","beach" , a "Tea House" or "Sweet Dreams" and all of them look pretty slick and tasteful.The dynamic effect in the themes is that they change with your own local time of day, current weather conditions or season and provide you entertaining surprises. If you add the beach theme, for example (changes with time of day), it will ask you for your Zip code and adjust itself to match your local sunrise and sunset times.To use Google Themes just go to google.com/ig, login if you aren?t, and hit the ?Select theme? link to the right side and you can load your favorite scheme.Google has given a m...
Automatic Photo Tagging(riya)
2007-10-15 17:13:00 A new service from Redwood City ,California called Riya has dveloped a software which can recognize who is in the picture and tag it with their names .Photo s can be uploaded to Riya from hard drives ,Yahoo! Photos, Picasa ,Flickr, Outlook, Friendster , and Myspace along with email attachments such as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo!Mail. The results are very impressive and the software can differentiate between identical twins and spot family members . Ofcourse to tag the photos the software needs to be trained .The training software is available on the internet .The user will train the software by identifying or tagging individuals in their photos .As the software earns who is in the picture it begins to autotag photographs quickly ,canning the rest of your photos and identifying each person it can recognize.Friends may search eachother images and even add their own tags.The link is www.riya.com More About: Automatic , Tagging
Automatic Photo Tagging(riya)
2007-10-15 17:13:00 A new service from Redwood City ,California called Riya has dveloped a software which can recognize who is in the picture and tag it with their names .Photo s can be uploaded to Riya from hard drives ,Yahoo! Photos, Picasa ,Flickr, Outlook, Friendster , and Myspace along with email attachments such as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo!Mail. The results are very impressive and the software can differentiate between identical twins and spot family members . Ofcourse to tag the photos the software needs to be trained .The training software is available on the internet .The user will train the software by identifying or tagging individuals in their photos .As the software earns who is in the picture it begins to autotag photographs quickly ,canning the rest of your photos and identifying each person it can recognize.Friends may search eachother images and even add their own tags.The link is www.riya.com More About: Automatic , Tagging
Listen music in cool 3D format!!
2007-10-15 17:02:00 If you want your music to sound great with or without those special earphones you need it in 3D format.MXPLAY is a 7.37 MB freeware that lets you stores music in 3D format to enjoy an unmatched audio experience .It supports all file formats .So friends go to www.mxplay.com and enjoy the wonderful quality of sound by downloading MXPLAY!! More About: Music , Cool , Listen , Format
Listen music in cool 3D format!!
2007-10-15 17:02:00 If you want your music to sound great with or without those special earphones you need it in 3D format.MXPLAY is a 7.37 MB freeware that lets you stores music in 3D format to enjoy an unmatched audio experience .It supports all file formats .So friends go to www.mxplay.com and enjoy the wonderful quality of sound by downloading MXPLAY!! More About: Music , Cool , Listen , Format , Music I
How to burn Bootable CD?
2007-10-14 07:24:00 Get the bootable CD or Floppy of the operating systemStart Nero v5.5 and select the CD Rom(boot) in the main Window .The windows that opens gives you the option to select the drive in which bootable floppy /CD is located .Here make sure that bootable floppy /CD is in the drive otherwise the drive letter will not be highlighted .Put the blank media in the writer and leave ISO and misc tab as it is .Give the appropriate name in the label section for the bootable CD .Select the burn tab and check ?Write and Finalise the CD ?.Select the disk at once write method and click on the new tab.The bootable CD will be left with lots of unused space ,it can be utilised to burn drivers and updates for your PC.Switch to the write tab and and select the safe writing speed ,according to your system?s configuration.You are now ready to write the CD.Check the CD by booting the system with it. More About: Burn
How to burn Bootable CD?
2007-10-14 07:24:00 Get the bootable CD or Floppy of the operating systemStart Nero v5.5 and select the CD Rom(boot) in the main Window .The windows that opens gives you the option to select the drive in which bootable floppy /CD is located .Here make sure that bootable floppy /CD is in the drive otherwise the drive letter will not be highlighted .Put the blank media in the writer and leave ISO and misc tab as it is .Give the appropriate name in the label section for the bootable CD .Select the burn tab and check ‘Write and Finalise the CD ‘.Select the disk at once write method and click on the new tab.The bootable CD will be left with lots of unused space ,it can be utilised to burn drivers and updates for your PC.Switch to the write tab and and select the safe writing speed ,according to your system’s configuration.You are now ready to write the CD.Check the CD by booting the system with it. More About: Burn
Internet Explorer 7 Shortcuts
2007-10-14 07:14:00 IE 7 Keyboard Shortcuts Open links in a new tab in background [Ctrl]+Left clickOpen links in a new Tab in foreground [Ctrl]+[Shift]+Left ClickOpen a new Tab in the foreground [Ctrl] +[T]Open a new Tab from the Address bar [Alt]+Enter Open a new Tab from the search box [Alt] +EnterOpen quick tabs [Ctrl]+[Q]Switch between tabs [Ctrl]+[Tab]Switch to a specific Tab number [Ctrl] +[n]Switch to the last Tab [Ctrl]+[W]Close all tabs [Alt]+[F4]Close other tabs [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F4]Mouse shortcuts for tabbed browsingOpen a link in the background tab Click the middle mouse b... More About: Internet , Internet Explorer , Explorer , Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 7 Shortcuts
2007-10-14 07:14:00 IE 7 Keyboard Shortcuts Open links in a new tab in background [Ctrl]+Left clickOpen links in a new Tab in foreground [Ctrl]+[Shift]+Left ClickOpen a new Tab in the foreground [Ctrl] +[T]Open a new Tab from the Address bar [Alt]+Enter Open a new Tab from the search box [Alt] +EnterOpen quick tabs [Ctrl]+[Q]Switch between tabs [Ctrl]+[Tab]Switch to a specific Tab number [Ctrl] +[n]Switch to the last Tab [Ctrl]+[W]Close all tabs [Alt]+[F4]Close other tabs [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F4]Mouse shortcuts for tabbed browsingOpen a link in the background tab Click the middle mouse b... More About: Internet , Internet Explorer , Explorer , Internet Explorer 7
Windows XP registry Hacks Tips
2007-10-13 11:07:00 Here are some common and useful registry hacks for XP. All these hacks are done via Regedit.1.Remove the "shortcut To" text on shortcutsBrowse to HKEY-CUR-RENT-USER>software>Microsoft>Win dows>Current VersionExplorer. Click on ‘Explorer’on the right-hand pane you’ll see a list of values . In the list, look for the value “link”.To modify it, double click it , or right click it and select 'Modify’. In the subsequent windows , delete the previous value and enter the 00”,and save the Registry .2. Disable balloon tipsBrowse to HKEY CURRENT USER>software>Microsoft>Windows >Current Version>Explorer>Advanced’and in the right –hand pane, search for “Enable Balloon Tips ”. Double click on it and modify the value to “00,00,00,00”,which is zero in binary and denotes”off”.3. Remove recent documents from the start MenuBrowse to HKEY-CURRENT-USER>software>Microsoft>wind ows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer, look for “no Recent Docs Menu”and modify the DWORD to “00,... More About: Hacks , Windows Xp
Windows XP registry Hacks Tips
More articles from this author:2007-10-13 11:07:00 Here are some common and useful registry hacks for XP. All these hacks are done via Regedit.1.Remove the "shortcut To" text on shortcutsBrowse to HKEY-CUR-RENT-USER>software>Microsoft>Win dows>Current VersionExplorer. Click on ?Explorer?on the right-hand pane you?ll see a list of values . In the list, look for the value ?link?.To modify it, double click it , or right click it and select 'Modify?. In the subsequent windows , delete the previous value and enter the 00?,and save the Registry .2. Disable balloon tipsBrowse to HKEY CURRENT USER>software>Microsoft>Windows >Current Version>Explorer>Advanced?and in the right ?hand pane, search for ?Enable Balloon Tips ?. Double click on it and modify the value to ?00,00,00,00?,which is zero in binary and denotes?off?.3. Remove recent documents from the start MenuBrowse to HKEY-CURRENT-USER>software>Microsoft>wind ows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer, look for ?no Recent Docs Menu?and modify the DWORD to ?00,00,00,00?. More About: Hacks , Windows X 1, 2 |
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