Friday, October 19, 2007

Embed Flickr Slideshows With Slideoo

Slideoo is a web tool to create horizontal streaming slideshows of your Flickr photos.


By entering your Flickr username you can create photo slideshows using your sets or photostreams of Flickr. If you are not a registered member then there is a chance that you must be known the others’ username.

This tool features customize option that lets you specify the image size, object width and the number of pics. Then click Create your Slideoo! button which previews the slideshows. Slideoo is having another option of quick post to your profile or blog like Myspace, Facebook, Orkut and Blogger etc.

After all just copy the embed code and paste in your website or blog to share your photos in beautiful horizontal slideshows.

Friday, October 12, 2007

How To Restore Closed Firefox Tab

You are a big fan of tabbed browsing which creates multiple browsing sessions within the same browser window then you had a chance to get back your unfortunately closed tab from Firefox.

If you are dipping into new and very interesting site on the net through Mozilla Firefox web browser, accidentally you done a small mistake which lets the browser closed. No need to worry. Here you had a Firefox keyboard shortcut that reopens the most recently closed tab.

Ctrl + Shift + T (Windows)
Cmd + Shift + T (Mac)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Boost Your Internet Surfing Speed With OpenDNS

DNS (Domain Name System) is a system that converts domain names into IP addresses on the Internet. If you type the domain name (example www.yahoo.com) in the address bar, in the background the request goes to DNS servers of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) then these DNS servers translates the URL into an IP address (example 87.248.113.14). Sometimes, while doing this conversion there may be chance of slow internet speed.

Without DNS, you would have to type the four numbers and dots into your browser to retrieve the Web site. You can type it for a single domain, but in case of many, it would be awkward to memorize the IP addresses.


Here is an alternative DNS resolution service to your Internet service provider's DNS service. OpenDNS is a free DNS resolution service that makes you the internet safer, faster and reliable.You can enable the OpenDNS in your computer from TCP/IP Properties section by following this manner.

Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Local Network Connection -> TCP IP Properties. Then click the radio button and use the following DNS server addresses.

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

OpenDNS offers you Phishing Protection, Domain Blocking, Typo Correction and Shortcuts features. If you type Bharatstudent.cm instead of Bharatstudent.com then it corrects the type mistakes automatically. The speed increase in browsing can be noticeable with requests that are not stored in local cache.

source:OpenDNS Lifehacker

Monday, October 8, 2007

Add Website Ribbon To Your Blog

If you want to support a cause online or like to give your blog cool look, there is a simple and free way to add cute little website ribbon on the corner of your blog in a matter of seconds.

Free Website Generator lets you to customize the look of your ribbon very easy. If you click on generate button after choosing the ribbon color, font type and title then the JavaScript code will be generated. Just copy the code and paste it in your page's source code.

*And it can works like link exchange program between websites to boost up your traffic.

My blog is looking cool and neat after adding the website ribbon on the top right corner. Have a look at there.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Temporary email Address For 15 Minutes – GuerrillaMail

There are so many web services launching day by day that ask you to register with valid email address. If you share your personal email address with a new or unknown website, there is the risk of getting more spam.

Here you have anonymous web service GuerrillaMail that let you generate email address which expires after 15 minutes. This service works like your regular email service until that temporary email account expires. It’s perfect for web sites that you don't want to communicate with you but require email registration.

I think the temporary email address will be stored in its database with creation time and assigned to the user by session cookie. This disposable email address really works nice in case of registering unknown web services to avoid spam.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Google Celebrated Sputnik- 50th Anniversary

Today Sputnik reached the mark of 50th anniversary. Google is very quick in celebration with suitable logo.

On October 4, 1957, Russia launched the first manmade Sputnik which means fellow traveler. The world’s first artificial satellite, about the size of basketball, weighted 183 pounds was first satellite to be placed in orbit.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Recover Your Scratched CD/DVD


Can’t you play a CD or DVD to watch a movie and to listen to your favorite music album!! Here is the way to clean scratches of useless CD or DVD and get them back to working condition by simple home remedy.


To clean them you just need a banana, banana peel and some glass cleaner. Take CD / DVD that has scratches, apply a fresh banana piece on it in circular motion.

Then Wipe it down with a banana peel because the wax of peel will help polish and clean the disk.

Next, using cotton cloth, wipe the entire surface of disk moving in a circular motion and be sure to apply moderate pressure. This should be done for around 3 to 4 minutes.

Finally, spray the disc with glass cleaner and wipe it clean. It’s done!!

Now your disc sparkles like a new one and you can enjoy by playing your music and movies.


Thursday, September 27, 2007

What Is An Email Signature And How Is It Used?

A block of text attached to the end of an email message containing the sender's name, address, phone number, fax numbers or other contact information.

Most of you know that you can create a signature to your email messages in Outlook Express. A signature can contain your address, interests, programs, quotations etc.But it should be brief and simple.

Creating a simple text signature is so easy. Open Outlook Express then click on Tools then Options and then Signatures. Click New button, under Edit Signature compose your signature then click OK. It’s done.

Very long or more than five lines of signature can spoil the goal of signature. If length of signature is excess than that of message it would probably irritates the email receiver. So trim the signature to four or five lines and use the Standard Delimiter "-- ” (two dashes followed by a white space character) on a line by itself.

Example

--
Tech Swamy
*********, ********
*************,*****
*****************.


Source: About.com Answers.com

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Clean Crap From Your Computer with CCleaner

CCleaner is freeware software that removes unused and temporary files from your computer freeing up valuable hard disk space.

The fast and free optimization tool cleans secret logs of the every website you visit CCleaner also erases Temporary internet files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history from both the browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox.

It can cleans recent file list from various third party applications including Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip.

CCleaner also scans unused old entries including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

How To Tie A Tie - Full Windsor Knot

The Windsor knot is a method of tying a neck tie around one's neck and collar. It is also called as Full Windsor knot to distinguish Half Windsor knot. By following this simple video guide you can master the full Windsor knot. This site also explains you step by step tutorial to tie a tie.

A full Windsor knot looks better than a half Windsor. Try this knot that looks great for your more formal occasions.

Friday, September 21, 2007

What Is An Rss Feed

If you are looking for new things happening on the web, you probably turn to your favorite blogs or lates news websites. Every time you see for something new which is not there, you are wasting lot of time.


There is new and fast way to overcome that old way is RSS Feed. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is web feed format used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines.

New things from blogs and sites come to you with a single website by Google Reader or Bloglines or Newsgator. First you have to signup for any reader site. Then you need to set up a connection between reader and your favorite websites. Setting of connection is nothing but a subscription towards the blog. After subscribing, the updates will appear on the reader from those sites.


While you are reading any website, if you feel it could be useful then click on RSS feed icon or button and subscribe the site to have a brief look on Reader site. That’s it.




Thursday, September 20, 2007

Pack Your Clothes Like a Professional

Bundle wrapping is the technique of wrapping of clothes around a central core object. By using this brilliant and professional method of packing you can avoid the folds and wrinkles.


If you wrap a piece of paper around a cylinder, it will be easy to straighten again. If you make a fold in the paper, it will be more difficult. Here OneBag website instructs you fairly How to Pack and what to Pack techniques. It educates you to master the art of traveling and living.

The Bundle wrapping diagram visualizes well organized step by step word illustrations neatly.

Source: Lifehacker

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

SnagIt – Best Screen Capture Software

SnagIt is powerful screen capture and image editor software created by TechSmith, lets you capture, edit and share an article, image, text, video or web page directly from your screen. Use SnagIt to save time and enhance your screen shots.

Using SnagIt, you can capture windows, menus, icons, and regions from any application on your screen, then add text or effects and save screen capture or share it to your friends by email or instant messenger.

It is very helpful to create and share high quality screen captures for your presentations, documents and blogs. I use SnagIt to capture a screen area and then edit that capture with titles, borders, arrows, watermarks in SnagIt editor. Using this you can also download logos from websites which are impossible to copy.

SnagIt is shareware software that you can download trial version from here.



Tuesday, September 18, 2007

How To Find Related Websites

I think most of you people already know finding related websites using Google. By using related: keyword you can find similar websites of any site indexed in Google.

Example – related:www.youtube.com

__________________________________________________________________________________

Here, an alternative for Google in search of related websites is Youlicit. It serves you more relevant recommendations.
Youlicit – A search engine that lets you search more sites similar to the website you are on. It gathers data from its users as well as other sources of user annotated web data from sites like Del.icio.us, Digg, Amazon, and various different sources.

It reduces the information overload using Collaborative filtering, the method of making automatic predictions about the interests of a user by collecting taste information from many users.

Youlicit uses different algorithm, which processes the sites that people are finding important and interesting unlike other search engines such as Google or Yahoo! or MSN.

And it produces you more relevant information with one-click access by Youlicit Firefox Extension. You can also connect to more sites you love by searching tags.


Monday, September 17, 2007

Tie Your Shoelace Knot like a Flash

This video helps you to learn fast knot to tie your shoelace. Make a loop with both ends and simultaneously pull them through each other to form an almost instant knot. This is also called as Ian Knot, the World's Fastest Shoelace Knot.


Ian's shoelace website features great video and written instructions to tie your shoe laces quickly. Now I am trying to master this trick to make it like a flash.



Source: Ian's Shoelace Site

Friday, September 14, 2007

Truveo - Video Search Egine

Truveo is an online video search engine from AOL that searches millions of videos on the web very appropriate to search queries.


Search various types of videos all over the web here, including videos from Youtube, Myspace, Google Video, Dailymotion, Veoh, IFILM, Revver etc. It also features television shows, latest news, movies, sports highlights and muic videos from different sites like CNN, CNBC and BBC News.


If you are not in mood to search videos, all the videos are organized in many categories News, Sports, Entertainment, Music, Movies, TV Shows, and Channels. And you can filter the adult oriented videos from the Truveo which supports Media RSS Feed feature.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Meebo Chat With File Transfer

Meebo is a web based messenger program which supports instant messaging services Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber.

A much awaited new feature file transfer added at last to Ajax based multi network messenger service Meebo. It allows only Meebo account holders to send files, but anyone can receive files even though they are not on meebo.

Source: Meebo Blog

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

How to Clean Your Laptop

The best video tutorial Videojug offers you this video explaining how to clean up your notebook computer or laptop using Compressed Air, Cotton Buds, Soft Cloth and Cleaning Solution.

Keeping laptop clean is the most important to get better appearance and work fine.Applying some items according to this tutorial will revive your laptop new one and clean the screen, keyboard, DVD drive and various ports.


Free Online File Converter - Media Convert

Media Convert a free and online converter that converts various types of files into several kinds.

There is no need of software downloads and registrations which can contain viruses and spywares. By just having any internet browser you can convert any type of files.

Media Covert has two more features Hosting of files and Website screenshot capture besides Converter. It converts and splits sounds , ring tones, images, docs and videos.

The main and important file formats that Media Covert supports MP3, WMV, 3GP, AMR, FLV, SWF, AMV, MOV, WMA, AVI, MPG, MP4, DivX, MPEG4, iPOD, PSP, OGG, WMA, AAC, MP4, MPC, MMF, MIDI, REAL AUDIO, JPG, PSD, DOC, PDF, RTF, TXT, ODG, ODP, ODS, ODT, SXW, WK1, MDB, XLS, VOB etc.

You can use and access Media Convert everywhere in the world through internet connection. It is very user friendly to download the result into your cell phone, computer or any other hardware.

Anti-piracy Ad From The It Crowd

The IT crowd is a British television series created by Graham Linehan for Channel4 television station.

This brilliant video is featuring humorous parody anti-piracy ad from opening of The IT Crowd, series 2, episode 3. You can find earlier episodes of them on Youtube.



Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Use Google As Calculator And Currency Converter

Most of people using or experienced Google as a largest search engine or online advertising agency that fetch you the information from nearly more than 8 billion web pages based on search terms or keywords.

Try these services of Google as calculator and converter that really saves your time a lot. If you have a Google toolbar on your browser you can calculate from there also.

Examples:

1 USD in INR


5+2*2


Note: Google cannot guarantee the accuracy of the exchange rates used by the Currency Converter because of rates provided for information only.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Access Firefox Bookmarks Quickly

If you are spending hours of time on internet reading favorite blogs and visiting websites regularly, it would be a fantastic idea of creating keyword short cut to the firefox bookmarks. There is no doubt about it that you are having handful idea web addresses. Still it is good idea of Shortcut to the Shortcut and works really beautiful.



There is already a shortcut to the bookmark in firefox as you can do it on Bookmarks Toolbar. But in case of little more bookmarks on that toolbar that let you awkward. So try this trick of shortcut keyword to the bookmarks.

Those who like keyboard short cuts generally enjoys this feature from firefox browser. Even though you are not a fan of keyboard shortcuts this technique will saves you lot of time while browsing as it loads a site in fraction of seconds.

How it works:

  • Lets say you are daily visitor of Bharatstudent, if you have bookmarked this site already its ok If not just click CTRL+D or click Bookmark This Page under the Bookmarks menu.
  • After that go to the Bharatstudent bookmark and right click on it and select Properties in the popup menu.
  • Then write a keyboard shortcut as “bs” without quotation marks in keyword field.
  • After all, just type that shortcut “bs” without quotation marks in the address bar and enter return key.

Its Done !! dialog window and click OK.

Incredible Magnetic Bracelet

Normally we have been heard about Magnetic and Copper bracelets that they help like medicine towards body pains and blood circulation.

Anyway this video featuring Magnetic Bracelet miraculous play.

World's Largest Reebok Store In Hyderabad (India)


Reebok launched its largest 15000 square feet exclusive store at Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, India. This offers special categories like Running, Walking, Aerobics, Tennis, Cricket and Lifestyle products.

Reebok, currently a subsidiary of Adidas is one of the top producers of footwear,
apparel and accessories in the world. Here in Hyderabad it also features customers to
customize their shoes with selected styles and models.

This photo featuring Tollywood film star Jagapati Babu in the store.

Source : DWS review

How To Map Your Real Time Blog Visitors

There are so many tools to find out the location and statistics about visitors on your blog generated daily.

Here is the cool way of embedding code from maps.amung.us that easily maps you real time blog visitors. It offers two types of maps smaller and normal maps. You can customize map with different styles and background colors. Special feature is no need to refresh your page every time.





Source: Techcrunch

"Gimme More" Of Britney Spears Leaked


Gimme More is a song recorded by famous and popular pop singer Britney Spears for her fifth studio album was leaked on internet.This song was featured in youtube. Even though not yet titled fifth album is really super.



Source: HollyScoop

How To Fold A T-Shirt In 2 Seconds

Have you ever tried to fold a T-shirt at home !!

Try this sticky idea. This video reveals an in-depth explanation of folding your T-shirt In 2 Seconds! It is really stupendous trick that guides you cutting your folding time down to almost nothing.


VideoJug: How To Fold A T-Shirt In 2 Seconds

Yahoo! Photos Closing Date Anounced

Yahoo! Photos, photo sharing service from yahoo, specially for yahoo users announced its closing date as October 18, 2007 at 9 p.m. PDT. It is offering opportunity to its users to download their original photos or to move to award winning photo sharing service Flickr.

After closing date any photos remaining on Yahoo! Photos will be deleted and user can't access them permanently.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Get Rid of Shadow Icon Labels on Windows XP Desktop

Are your desktop icons in Windows XP looking ugly with bordered shadows? You can easily remove them step by step by this following manner.

  • Go to Desktop.
  • Right click on the My Computer Icon and click the Properties option.
  • In System Properties click the Advanced Tab.
  • Click the Settings button under Performance area.
  • Use Adjust for check the “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop” under Custom option.
  • Apply the effects.

Done !!

Monday, February 19, 2007

BharatStudent, Young Soul Of India


Bharatstudent.com is a social utility that brings together all the young Indians living across the globe. Bharatstudent.com helps young Indians better understand the world around them. Bharatstudent.com is focused on providing comprehensive solutions for any personal and professional issues of young Indians.

It is another social networking or community web site like orkut, targeting mainly Students in schools or colleges, Fresh graduates, Employees in corporates, Young Entrepreneurs, Groups of Artist or talented youngsters in different regions.

Communities

There are different communities for different people like Friends, Gangs, Bharat Café, Study Abroad, Campus TV, Girls Only. Registered members can grade their schools or work places, write reviews, connect with old friends, Make new friends, share interests, join groups, send messages, write blogs, View videos and share photos.

Video Sharing

Campus TV is a place like Youtube for members to engage in new ways with video by sharing, commenting and viewing campus related and user created videos.

Earnings

Members can earn money or get gifts when other members watch their videos. Bharatstudent is offering Students, Fresh Graduates, and Employees to earn money by promoting the site as representatives, Ambassadors and Reporters.