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2009-02-28T22:49:00.003+05:30

Experience Internet with Internet Bus from Google India

2009-02-04T16:55:00.000+05:30

Experience Internet with Internet Bus from Google India

orkut Blog: Redesign Preview: True Blue Simplicity

2007-08-29T23:23:00.000+05:30

orkut Blog: Redesign Preview: True Blue Simplicity

A detail post with screen shot is HERE.

orkut Blog: Welcome!

2007-07-07T06:19:00.000+05:30

orkut Blog: Welcome!

The detail post can be found here.

NDAH-NDOH: Get An Actual Link From D List Blogs

2007-06-04T18:59:00.000+05:30

NDAH-NDOH: Get An Actual Link From D List Blogs

Bidding Adieu

2007-05-10T12:25:00.000+05:30

Hi Friends,

As I have been migrated to Wordpress and will be concentrating full time on my Wordpress blog I have decided to call it a day here. I am not going to post any new topic here. I encourage you to visit my new blog Techie Zone.

In the mean time I also suggest those interested in making money online to have a visit HERE. It is not so hard to make money online and there are many tricks involved in making money which I will write in my new blog.

I just found this program called Text Link Ads where you can purchase advertising on other sites and promote your product to a large audience. It's pretty cool. I wish I'd used it earlier as it would have made my site more successful.

Anyway, I've decided not to update this blog anymore. See ya!"

Thanks a lot.

Divshare: Your online Harddrive

2007-04-13T23:48:00.000+05:30

What about an online storage system that offers you unlimited file storage, unlimited download, a simple yet powerful User Interface and support virtually any type of file extension. Above all the service is offered free of cost that is without spending a dime. Yes you can have all this in Divshare an online file storage system.

I have been using this for more than two months and I am 100 percent satisfied with their service. It is the best Online Storage available till date and could not find a flaw. As it is comparatively new entrant in this field the company is gradually adding new features and making it more user friendly.

Features Overview:

1. Upload unlimited files.

2. Download unlimited number of files in a day without waiting (unlike rapidahare and mega upload)

3. Files stay online forever! (Even if your files are not downlaoded they stay online)

4. No pop-up ads or spam.

5. Incredibly fast, reliable servers.

6. Keep your files private if you have any sensitive document.

7. Customize your download page by adding your own logo.

You can see an example here.

8. Uploaded file icon gets automatically created based on the file type.

9. Support of almost all types of files.

10. Inbuilt audio player to listen to uploaded audio files and also put them in your web site or blog.

11. Directly you can share your link in many social bookmark sites like Digg.

You can even upload files without signing in. But being a free member has its own advantages like tracking your link and joining different groups, individual personalized profile link like this.

About Me The Guy behind this blog

2007-04-10T23:18:00.000+05:30

I am an absolute fanatics..a gizmo freak.. I spent like any thing to acquire the latest innovations.. Out of 24 hours a day I am wth my computer for more thn 16 hours coz I cannot live without my computer. 3 things I never like to share wth orthers viz. Chocolate, Underwear and My gal. Like to saunter on a lonely road wth my Mp3 player listening to pink flyod or raeth.

I have done my B.Tech in Textile Technology from Orissa. But currently working as a Tech Support Engineer for Microsoft and currently located in Bangalore. This you can term as my destination and doing B.Tech in Textile Technology as my destiny and a man's destination and destiny are never same.

I also provide technical support as a freelancer. So if you need assistance with any issues with your computer please drop me an e-mail.

You can reach me at:

Mobile: +91-9886779379

e-mail: ajaykumarmeher@gmail.com

Blog: http://imnotatechie.blogspot.com

IM:
Yahoo: ajay.meher
Google: ajaykumarmeher

Send Free SMS Worldwide with Gizmo SMS

2007-03-10T00:53:00.000+05:30

After creating a niche for themselves by offering free call to any mobile and landline phone the Gizmo Team has now come up with Free SMS service. And this is absolutely free. You can send unlimited SMS from yiur computer web browser to any mobile and landline phone with SMS receiving capability. Hats off to Gizmo team. They have made our life so much easier and have given us chance to keep our pocket from burning out. This service is offered through their another web site which can be accessed here.

The Interface is so simple and easy to navigate that a beginner on Internet can send an SMS using this site. You can visit the website and just select the country from the drop down list to which you want to send an SMS and then enter the mobile number, put your name in the from field, Enter the message (Maximum 120 characters) you want to send and correctly put the verification code (captcha code). Isn't it simple???

So what are you waiting for send some quick sms to your friends and family.

How to put Adsense in New Blogger

2007-03-06T17:02:00.000+05:30

When Blogger transformed into the new XML based interface I was quite apprehensive of moving into the new blogger template. I found it damn dificult to customize the template according to my wishes but now I am gradually getting hold of the new template. And now onwards I will post some hacks I have made in new blogger. It is time for putting the adsense code in new blogger.

The easiest method to put adsense code in new blogger is by creating page elemet for adsense or html/java script at the top and bottom of blogpost element as shown in picture. But the main
problem in this technique is that the adsense ad will appear at the top and bottom of the page and not in each individual post.

Now we will do something so that adsense ad will appear at the beginning and end of each posts. And that can be done by adding the code by directly modifying the html (rather XML) code of the template. But when you will insert the adsense code directly inside XML code of the blogger you will receive an error that reads something like this:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.

The above error means that the adsense code is not a standardized XML format. So we need to modify the code (But google does not allow the modification of adsense code, do not worry..google only tells that minor edits on Google Adsense Code for Blogger Beta/XML are allowed as long as the resulting Adsense Code generated by Blogger is exactly the same as given from Google Adsense Code Generator. So as long as find the same adsense code as the adsense code generator generated by viewing the page source where the adsense code appears you are not violating the TOS.). In XML, <, >, " and " are not recognized. So we need to replace these character with their valid XML notation as shown in figure below:
Once you create the adsense code from the adsense code generator, you have to make the above changes, which can be done with the use of a notepad (by find and replaced command) or with a html parser.

Now in the following steps we will put the modified adsense code where we want it to appear:

1. Go to your blogger dashboard and click on Layout.2. Click on Edit HTML3. Click on Expand Widget Templates4. Now put the modified adsense code at the place as shown the following figure:

The final result will be shown in your blog like this:

In order to make the ads appear below the post body you can add the code at the place as shown in the figure below:

Have you seen this????

2007-02-28T10:27:00.000+05:30

Today I came across an Interesting Interface of google and thought you guys will like this. Have you ever seen this page of google:

Global Mobile Awards 2007

2007-02-23T10:05:00.000+05:30

The highest ranking award in the field of mobile communication is Global Mobile Award and the 2007 Edition has been announced. It consisted of 9 categories and many subcategories which are given below with the name of winner in each category:

1. MOBILE INNOVATION FORUM

1a. Most Innovative Technology:

Winner is Polymer Vision for the World's first rollable display.

1b. Most Innovative Mobile Application or Content:

Winner is ShoZu mobile for two applications called Zucasts and Share-it.

2. MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT

2a. Best Made for Mobile Game:

Winner is I-Play for the Fast and The Furious Tokyo.

2b. Best Made for Mobile Music Service:

Winner is Vodafone for Mein PC.

2c. Best Made for Mobile Video Service:

Winner is Marble Media for Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction

2d. Best Made for Mobile Infotainment for Sports & News Content:

Winner is EMPICS Ltd for GameOn.

3. MOBILE SERVICES

3a. Mobile Enterprise Product or Service:

Winner is Telepo Ltd for Fixed-Mobile Convergence Solution and Orange PCS Ltd for Business Everywhere.

3b. Best Mobile Messaging Service:

Winner is 3UK for connectivity between Windows Live Messenger with 3 users.

4. MOBILE HANDSETS

4a. Best GSM Mobile Handset or Device:

Winner is Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for SGH-D900.

4b. Best 3GSM Mobile Handset or Device:

Winner is Sony Ericsson - Sony Ericsson K800 Cyber-Shot ™ phone and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd - SGH-Z560.

5. MARKETING AND PROMOTION

5a. Best Broadcast Commercial:

Winner is Turkcell for Turkcell-im came, boredom’s gone’ and Ancel - Ancel Baby’s Berp

5b. Best Mobile Advertising:

Winner is Qwikker for Virgin Mobile V-Festival

6. BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

6a. Best Use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development:

Winner is GrameenPhone Ltd for Healthline.

6b. Best Ultra Low Cost Handset:

Winner is Motorola for MOTOFONE F3.

7. TECHNOLOGY

7a. Best Radio Access Product or Service:

Winner is ip.access for femto3G.

7b. Best Network Quality Initiative:

Winner is Commprove Ltd for Netledge 3G Radio QoS.

7c. Best Service Delivery Platform:

Winner is mFormation Technologies - mFormation Service Manager (MSM)

7d. Best Billing or Customer Care Solution:

Winner is IDEA Cellular Ltd for CARE – SMS based Self-Service Solution

7e. Best Roaming Product or Service:

Winner is TECORE Wireless Systems - TECORE Over-the-Air Local Prepaid Roaming Service

8. CHAIRMAN'S AWARD

Winner is Mo Ibrahim - founder and chairman of Celtel International

Taken from Global Mobile Award website.

How social bookmarking helps...

2007-02-22T04:07:00.000+05:30

In one of my blog I posted a post called Some Unforgettable Moments captured in frame. And the response I received from people is overwhelming. This post contains a set of 20 famous photographs taken by very famous photographers. They have been awarded best photos of the year in the respective year they have been taken. It generated more than 15000 page views in 15 hours of my posting and it put my blog as the second hottest topic in reddit. (A corresponding picture is presented below)

The above two pictures from Mybloglog stats page depicts the effect of the social book marking site on my blog views, I have taken reddit as a reference. The left side picture shows the stats after 10 housr of my psoting and the right side shows after 15 hours of my psoting and 2 hours after i discovered it in reddit. Even when I posted this and published it in Digg I never expected it to touch to 625 diggs in 5 hours.

This post has become a hot topic in web and all the credit goes to the social bookmarking sites. I hv received many comments from my reader some encouraging me for this post and many discouraging me about the copyrights. So looking into this I removed the zip file which contained the photographs in larger views and I also added a link to the original location of the photographs.

Update: The latest screen shot from the bloglog stats

Gmail is now open to public.......

2007-02-14T15:15:00.000+05:30

As usual to day I woke up and when I logged in to my computer and typed www.gmail.com I was much surprised to see the most awaited feature in gmail. And do you know what is that ????? Yes google has become public and now you can find the sign up for gmail option at he bottom of the gmail main page. This was the most awaiting event in Internet community. Almost all who are familiar with Internet and e-mail wish to have a gmail account due to its simplicity faster opeartion and massive storage space. G-mail has become public after almost 3 years of its launch. When G-mail was launched it was in such a big demand that an invitation for gmail was being sold for as high as 10 dollars in e-bay. Now all this has ended and any body want to have a gmail account can get one. So enjoy with your new gmail account.

Make FREE calls anywhere to any phone......

2007-02-07T11:59:00.000+05:30

Now a days with emerging voip technology many voip service based companies are offering free pc to pc call. But do you know or ever imagined that you can call from your computer to a landline or a mobile number in almost any part of the World fro free. Yes it is possible and Gizmo Call has made it possible. Now you can save quite a lot from calling your kith and kin through STD or ISD call.

Gizmo Call is a modernized way to make call directly from your web browser. It uses a flash plug-in to manage your calls. And it is compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox (Both I have tyested) which are most widely used browser. In order to start making call you need the following:

- A Windows (2000/XP) or Mac (OS 10.3.9+) computer
- A headset, or speakers and a microphone
- A web browser with Adobe Flash Player 9 installed (If you are a regular web browser then your is equiped with that)
- The Gizmo Call Plugin. Once you visit the website and start to make call, it will prompt to download and install the plug-in.

When everything is done, you are ready to make call...simply dial the number in the following format irrespective of the country you are located:

+(Country code)(Area code)phone number.......or.....+(Country code)mobile number

For example if you want to make a call to India to a number 22467725 located in Mumbai then you have to dial +912222467725 and click on Call button or simple press Enter. You can notice that once you dial the country code the flag will show the national flag of the country you are dialing.

As an unregistered user, your first 5 minutes of calling (each day) are free! Once you register with Gizmo Call (which is free), you will get 10 minutes of free calling per day.
Please note that calls to US toll-free numbers, Gizmo Project users, Google Talk users, and any other purely VoIP phone calls are always free.

If you want to call for more than 10 minutes a day, then you will need to purchase some Call Out credit. Basically, you might purchase $10.00 of Call Out credit, and then after your 10 minutes of free calling per day runs out, you will be charged from the call out credit.

For further information and Frequesntly Asked Question, please visit the following link:
http://support.gizmoproject.com/FAQs/gizmoCall.php#1

Update:

In this few days I noticed that there is lots of issue with Internet Edxplorer, so I recommend to use this site using Mozilla Firefox. I have been using it in Mozilla Firefox without any issue. Please downlaod Mozilla Firefox by clicking below:

Want to Earn Money Online????

2007-02-04T09:29:00.000+05:30

This is not the stereotypical earning money on the Internet post. This is totally different and uses the pay for posting methodology to give you money. Yes mylot pays you real dollar for your posts, opinion and comments and even for uploading photos.

The technique is simple, you have to just visit their web site and sign-up and start posting and make dollar, this is as simple as this.

As of now there are 65,950 registered user in mylot and it is still growing. Each response to an existing post gives you 1 point and each sommend to nay response alos gives you 1 point. And till you touch 100 points your earning from each point is equal to 2 cents and that also stands for each photo you posts in any discussion. Apart from that they have a nice referral program by which you will earn 25% commission from the earning of your referral, say an user whom you have referred earned 2 dollars in a day then your commission will be 50 cents whcih is not bad at all. Their payout is per month basis and it is around 15th of each month. Minimum payout value is 10 dollars. So if you have earned 10 dollar till 15th of a calendar month then you will be paid that amount if not it will be carried forwqard to next payout. And they pay through paypal
After that you can either spend it for your online payment through paypal or transfer it to your bank account.

In order to ban spamming they do not allow copy/pasting till a user reach 500 points. Another good feature is that once you reach 100 points you will get a star with a rating depending upon your performance (which takes into consideration various factors) and the rating constantly changes depending upon your activities. I got a 8 star rating but currently I am at 6 star. This star rating in turn decide your earning per posts or photos after you cross 100 points. There are instances where people have earned around 5 cents per post.

Some guidelines before you start:
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1. Please try to provide valid opinion about any post. ANd avoid one liner like thank you, congrats just for the sake of increasing count. (It will severly affect ur earning)
2. Try to reply/put comments to responses for discussions started by you.
3. Always put tags to the responses and discussion.
4. Rate the discussion and opinion you come across.
5. Make as many friend as possible.
6. Reply to your friends discussion and rate them.
7. Try to put relevant images to your posts it will earn you more.
8. Be regular and active or you will loose your rating.
9. The earning is updated once in 24 hours, so try to analyse ur earning trend and act accordingly.

So if you are serious about earning money and want to utilize your time, dont think twice and sign-up now.

For further information please write in comments section.

Google planning to launch a new layout

2007-01-25T05:15:00.000+05:30

I was just browsing to get some information about google and guess wot I found. Yes, I found that google is planning to recreate their web site with some changes. The changes are quite obvious from the screen shot attached here. But they have not yet released this new layout and randomly it is appearing in various choosen ip address. so if you are lucky then you can view this new layout while searching for something but next time you may again see the same old layout. Nothing to worry about this. Hope google will make it public soon.

I have launched Version 3.0 of my Blog

2007-01-13T03:11:00.000+05:30

Hi...

I have upgraded my blog to version 3.0. And now it has the look from the Blogger beta... The template is based on Minima and modified by Annie. It is a fluid 3 column template.

I am thankful to Annie for the kind advise and sharing the template with me.

Want something better than Gmail...Walla Mail is for you

2007-01-10T02:40:00.000+05:30

Gmail with its offering of more then 2 GB space has created quite a stir in the market. The simplest yet powerful interface of google made the people crazy. At some point of time the Gmail invitation was for sale in E-Bay. But dont you think this 2-3 GB space may fall sort for you if you have subscribed to many mailing list and you receive large attachments with pictures and many files.

Here is an alternative for you in the form of Walla mail. It offers you an unbelievable 5 GB space and that too without an invitation. It means you can just go to their website and fill up a simple form and sign-up. Now you have 5 GB of space at your possesion and you can store all the e-mails and any attachments you would like.

With popularity of g-mail, in many of the corporate houses it has been blocked but the walla mail is open to all users. So you can access it nay where any time.

It has a very simple Interface as evident from the screen shot below:

The compose screen is having a very Rich Text Editor:

It even offers a Rich text signature that means you can insert pictures and Animation in signature (which lacks in gmail).

You can create your own folder and sort incoming e-mail into respective folders (but you can not set rule, you have to do it manually)

One of the annoying feature they have what they call is for abuse protection is that each time you send an e-mail you have to go through a verification process.

So if you feel like having a 5 GB e-mail account without wwaiting for an invitation then click here.

Host your online Album with Picassa Web Albums

2007-01-06T23:55:00.000+05:30

Another nice product from Google stable is the improved online version of Picasa Photo Album which is now called Picassa Web Album. So Picassa now allows you to publish your photos to the web from the software itself. If you do not want to download and install Picasa, you can simply use the web interface to create an album and upload photos to show it to the world. And if you do not want to make your album public it offers you the feature to make it private and share among the people you would like to share.

In order to access this feature you just need a google account, if you do not have one then you can create a account in the Picasa Web Album Link at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/

As a free user it offers 250 MB of space, which is enough to host around 1000 photos taken in a camera with 2 MP resolution. If you ever feel then you can always upgrade your account and as a paid member you can have a space upto 250 GB at a nominal cost.

To see the Picasa Web album demo, please click here.

Create document in your own language: Microsoft Phonetic Tool

2006-12-30T05:07:00.000+05:30

The recent development from Microsoft stable and devoted to Indian users is the “Microsoft Phonetic Tool”. This tool as the name suggests is intended for users to input text in 13 Indian languages e.g Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Assamese, Oriya and Konkani using a standard QWERTY keyboard. And the best part is that you can type it in English in the way it sounds in the native language. For example if you wish to type मुज्हे हिन्दि मे लिखना हे then you can just type (mujhe hindhi me likhanaa he) and it will appear in Hindi.

Uses and Feature of the Phonetic Input Tool:
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1. Useful for bilingual users who use English keyboard and wish to write letter or document in their native language.

2. As the tool uses phonetic schemes for transliterating the text the scheme of writing is included in the help file of the tool which will faciliate for each writing.

3. Reverse Transileteration feature converts the transliterated text back into phonetics. Also helps in converting characters from one language to another.

Example and How to:

Lets take that I wrote हिन्दि and I would like to convert this Hindi into Bengali font i.e হিন্দি then this can be done using the tool by following steps:

On the Word document select the text you would like to convert in this case select हिन्दि and click on Convert Selection, from the menu, select Convert from Hindi to Bengali…in this way you can convert it from one language to another.

4. Currently the Phonetic Input tool support the following languages:
Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujrati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit and Konkani.

5. Users can use Hotmail and other messaging services to send emails in their choice of Indian languages after changing the Encoding of the pages to Unicode (UTF-8) in their choice of web browser.

6. It is compatible with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Higher version of Operating System.

7. Microsoft Word is working fine to create your document in your own language using this tool , but hotmail is not properly supporting the feature.

8. The included Help file with this tool is very concise and has all the required help available.

So now click here or the following text to start downloading the tool and install it and have fun writing e-mails and create documents in your own language:

Microsoft Phonetic Tool

Another Cool Christmas Tree

2006-12-21T22:11:00.001+05:30

Get this widget!

Christmas Goodies Only for you...

2006-12-21T17:39:00.000+05:30

Hi friends this is the holiday season and everybody must be lookin for some or other kind of utilities and tool to color their web pages to represent the mood. So here I am with a couple of utilities:

Christmas Tree:
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Click Here to get this from pYzam.com!

Christmas Decoration light:
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Click Here to get this from pYzam.com!

Santa Claus snow globe:
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Click Here to get a Snow Globe from pYzam.com!

National Champion for 7 Wonders of the World

2006-12-17T14:17:00.000+05:30

Some dayz back I wrote about the New 7 Wonders of the World Campaign. The official announcement of the new 7 Wonders of the World declaration is going to be held in in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 that is 07.07.07. A date which symbolizes the event.
Now at the moment of writing this post there is exactly 202 days and 14 hours remaining to cast your vote for your favorite monument to make it into the new 7 wonders of the World.

The best thing is that I have been choosen as a National Champion for the campaign from India. So now it is my responsibility to drive more and more votes for the campaign. And here you play an important role for me. Please visit the new 7 Wonders web site and cast your vote now to make your favorite monument into the new 7 Wonders. You can vote here
While registering for vote please do not forget to put my Ambassador Code: 777145.

Below is a list of ancient 7 Wonders of the World:

The Temple of Artemis
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Lighthouse at Alexandria
The Pyramids at Giza
The Statue of Zeus

And the candidates for the new 7 Wonders of the World consists of the following:

The Acropolis
Alhambra
Angkor
Chichen Itzá
Christ Redeemer
The Colosseum
Easter Island
Eiffel Tower
Great Wall of China
Hagia Sophia
Kiyomizu Temple
Kremlin
Machu Picchu
Neuschwanstein Castle
Petra
Pyramids of Giza
Statue of Liberty
Stonehenge
Sydney Opera House
Taj Mahal
Timbuktu

Now as you know which are the candidates, please choose your favorite and make it into the new 7 Wonders of the World. Please click below to vote:

Ambassador Code: 777145

Vote for new 7 Wonders

For more information you can mail me at:
ajaykumarmeher@gmail.com
admin@techiezone.in

BollyWood Nite at Bangalore Habba

2006-12-12T15:19:00.000+05:30

Like every sun day I was watching TV and Silu called me n told tht he has passes for Bollywood night happening at Palace Ground. As I was feeling bored I wanted to go some where for hangout and nothing is better than this Bollywood night to pass the Sunday evening.

Model Showcasing Peter England Winter collection

When we reached Palace Ground the program has started and the first round of program which was a regional event was so boringg...After tht the real fun began at 7:30 Pm which includes Fashion show by Mr Prsasad Bidappa and Mr Hemant Trivedi, Then Arjun Rampal walking on the Ramp, A dance show by gorgeous Bombshell Malaika Arora and performance by Kailash Kher (Tuta Tuta Ek parinda fame).

I really enjoyed the program as this was the first time I had been to such an event. I was always thinking of getting bored in such place but I was wrong. This kinda events are actually fun and enjoying.

Links to more photos can be found at my online Album :
http://www.techiezone.in/gallery/index.php?fpp=10&did=0

Xdrive: Your personal harddrive on the Internet from AOL

2006-12-10T04:15:00.000+05:30

This post is the second in a the series of AOL goodies. With variety of work and business people are just not static these days. They are in a constant go moving across the world. So the primary concern is to access their data wherever they go and many player in the market has eveolved who offers online storage as a free subscription as well as paid subscription. But it is not possible to trust every Tom, Dick and Harry you see. Like wise you can not trust every online storage provider. Many of them are very small players so there is a chance that they may vanished some times with all of your important data. So your data becomes no more secure.

AOL has come up to serve this need by acquiring Xdrive last year and has started offering free online storage of 5 GB to the masses. Any body with an AOL screen name can sign up for a 5 GB Xdrive and can have all the benefits of Xdrive as a free user. If you need Xdrive for your business or need extra amount of storage then you have the option to sign up for a paid account at $9.95 a month with 50GB space which is worth the amount they are charging. You can even sign up for the yearly payment plan, and you'll pay $99.50 (2 months free).

Features in a nutshell:

1. Massive 5GB online storage your personal hard drive on the Internet which is equivalent to around 1000 music files and 5000 digital photos.
2. You can share files and assign appropriate rights for the files.
3. Stream your favorite songs or an entire playlist from your Xdrive account directly to your web connected PC or SmartPhone
4. Files can be accessed Securely from any web-connected PC or PDA.
5. Xdrive desktop: a program which can be installed on your computer and accessed from Windows Explorer and appear like any other disk drive on your computer.

Important links:

Visit the following link for more information on Xdrive

http://www.xdrive.com/homepage.jsp

To download Xdrive desktop, visit this link

http://xdrive.com/downloads/index_dl_xdrive.jsp

Read FAQ on Xdrive Desktop.

So why are you waiting sign up now for Xdrive and access your files where ever you move.

Google: Putting its own mail in Spam

2006-11-28T20:33:00.000+05:30

On the other day I signed up for Google apps for your domain. As usual I was to receive a confirmation e-mail with my log-in details in some time. I was waiting for the mail but it never reached..I thought of being deceived by google team. But no it came to me. And you know the intelligent spam filter of google put its own e-mail into the spam folder. It is quite surprised that google has designed their spam filter in such a way that it is putting their own e-mail into the spam folder. Following is an attachment for reference:

Google should surely look into the matter. It is amatter of concern. Same thing happened some days back when Microsoft Windows Live Onecare blocked gmail as a virus.

DareDevils....

2006-11-28T14:41:00.000+05:30

Hi Friends...All Devils.

On Sunday we had a get together (Devils Meet) which started with a show of Casino Royale in Innovative Multiplex and then dinner in Sahib Singh Sultan in The Forum. It was a nice hangout n we really enjoyed the aprty. You can have a glimpse of the photos here:

Dare Devils

"Goodies" with Service Pack 2?

2006-11-25T20:17:00.000+05:30

Now that Microsoft has retired support for "Plain Vanilla" Windows XP (one with Service Pack 1 or just Windows XP), it has become a prerequisite to download and install Service Pack 2 just get support or even to install programs like iTunes! Hell.. all programs need SP2 to run these days.

However, after you install SP2, you will notice performance drop on your PC. There are tons of services that come enabled when you install SP2. As a result, they use up most of available memory on your computer. People having 256 or lesser will be affected the most. Most home users do not need any of these services at all!

In this article, I have provided a list of services that is not required. You can view its description in the left pane when you click on one.

Before you go ahead, let me take a moment to tell you that any issue arising from the steps below are provided to you to perform AT YOUR OWN RISK. Don't hold me responsible... Now that we have it outta our way, here we go!!!!!

To get started, click on Start -> Run -> and type "services.msc" without the quotes and hit Enter.

You will be presented with a new window. This is the Services Windows. If the status of a Service already show as "Disabled", you can leave it as it is. It is already disabled. A service that is running will show as "Automatic", one that runs when you manually enabled show as "Manual" and one that does not start at all or kept in reserve show as "Disabled".
To disable a service, just right click on a service and click on Properties. Under the "Startup type", select "Disabled" and click on OK.

1. Computer Browser:
2. Distributed Link Tracking Client:
3. Error Reporting Service
4. Help and Support
5. Indexing Service
6. Net Logon
7. NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
8. Network Location Awareness (NLA)
9. Network Provisioning Service
10. Performance Logs and Alerts
11. Portable Media Serial Number Service
12. QoS RSVP
13. Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
14. Remote Registry
15. Secondary Logon
16. Security Center
17. Server
18. Smart Card
19. SSDP Discovery Service
20. System Restore Service
21. TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
22. Themes
23. Universal Plug and Play Device Host
24. WebClient
25. Windows Time
26. WMI Performance Adapter
27. Workstation

Now restart your computer for the changes to take place.

That is all… And with that concludes my very first blog… Clap…Clap..Clap.. lol. If you want me to do a blog on how to improve your computer’s overall performance or have anything you wish to say, just drop me a comment. Happy Thanksgiving!

AOL- the grownup kid

2006-11-06T05:05:00.000+05:30

For the last few days I was looking for a nice post n finally to day at this wee hour, I found something and could not stop my self from blogging it.

AOL, which was once so adamant that it was not even offering a free e-mail service..but now it boasts of offering tons of free services which includes:

1. Free e-mail service
2. Free Instant Messaging.
3. Free e-mail with customized domain
4. Local US phone number.

I will describe the 3rd and 4th parameter in detail as the other two are very common.

Free e-mail with customized domain:
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An e-mail address has two parts in the form username@domainname. Here the user name you can put according to your wish but domain name is solely provided by the service provider and it is generally the domain name of the service provider's domain. So guess how you will feel when you will be able to customize both the part of an e-mail address according the name you want. Thts exactly what AOL has started offering and it is the first initiative by any service provider. AOL has gone one step forward and started offering not only free e-mail service but you can also customized your e-mail address with a domain name you wish like you@yourdomain.com. As it has been started as a promotional base this service is only available in United States. I tried to register here but in order to validate your registration AOL will send a code as SMS to your mobile phone. So if you do not have a US mobile number you will not be able to validate your registration. But dun worry it will be very soon available worldwide.

You may bother to look at the following link:
http://free.aol.com/thenewaol/email.adp

Please check here for a complete list of FAQ :
https://domains.aol.com/personaldomain/app/domainHomeSearch

Benefits:
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- Once you sign-up you can invite upto 100 people to register their e-mail address with your choosen domain.
- Huge online storage of 2 GB.
- Access your email anywhere you can get on the Internet using AOL Webmail (or IMAP access using standard email clients like Microsoft Outlook).
- With your personalized email address, you can login to the AIM® client and send/receive IMs.

Limitations:
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- You can customized your domain name with two TLDs (Top Level Domains) viz .com and .net
- Only available in United States.

Local US phone number:
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How about having a US phone number at ur possession while U r in India...yeah AOL has made it possible. A personal, local free phone number you can give out to anyone -- complete with always-on voicemail!

This service is known as AIM digit. AIM Digits are part of the FREE AIM Phoneline service. AIM Phoneline gives you a free, local telephone number that comes with always-on voicemail, delivered right to your email box. On top of that, when you're online, it lets you screen and answer calls, using your PC microphone and speakers. It's a completely free Internet Phone Service.

Now I boast of owning a US telephone number while being here in India and you can also be one to have it. Visit the following link to sign-up for a free phone number:

http://www.aimphoneline.com/index.adp?promo=778964&page=welcome

Check List:
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I guess this service is again meant for people from United States as during registration it will ask for Zip code and you have to provide a 5 digit valid US zip code.

In the next post I will tell about another great free service from AOL so watch out this space...

Have some fun

2006-10-26T16:41:00.000+05:30

Hi, After a long gap this is a new post from me.
This is regarding some updates in the blog..
I have added a game tic-tac-toe in the side bar to have some fun while reading my blog.
As all of you must be aware of the new 7 wonders of the world campaign..I have also put a link to vote for the new 7 wonders of the world. You can click on it(present on the sidebar) to cast your vote for the 7 wonders of the world and be a part of the official campaign.

You can also vote directly from here:

Thanks
Ajay M

Section "49-O"--Indian Constitution...A brief Idea.

2006-09-08T12:48:00.000+05:30

Have you ever come across the term "49-O"?????? The answer is abig NO from the masses...
As per the 1969 act, in section "49-O" it states that A person can go to the polling booth, confirm his identity, get his finger marked and convey the presiding election officer that he doesn't want to vote anyone! Yes such a feature is available to Indian citizen, but has not been disclosed to the general public by our seemingly notorious leaders.

The motive behind this "49-O" is you can say "I VOTE NOBODY"... because, in a ward, if a candidate wins, say by 123 votes, and that particular ward has received "49-O" votes more than 123, then that polling will be cancelled and will have to be re-polled. Not only that, but the candidature of thecontestants will be removed and they cannot contest the re-polling, sincepeople had already expressed their decision on them. This would bring fear into parties and hence look for genuinecandidates for their parties for election. This would change the way, of our whole political system...only if people are aware of it.

It is seemingly surprising why the electioncommission has not revealed such a feature to the public....Please spread this news to as many as you know... Seems to be awonderful weapon against corrupt parties in India... show your power,expressing your desire not to vote for anybody, is even more powerful than voting... so don't miss your chance. So either vote, or vote not to vote (vote 49-O) and pass this infoon..."Please pass this information to as many as possible, so that we, the people of India, can really use this power to save our nation"

Use your voting right for a better INDIA. Jai Hind....

Release of 2007 Office System Beta 2 Technical Refresh

2006-09-07T20:12:00.000+05:30

Microsft has released 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) for Microsoft internal use. This means this beta system will be available to all Microsoft employees 7 days before the public release.

The public release of B2TR will not be announced publicly by Microsoft until 14 september. This b2TR promise to remove all those bugs present in Beta 1 and give the user a fast hand experience of Office 2007 final release. The final release date of the full version has not yet been disclosed by Microsoft.

Apart from this Windows Vista Rc1 has already been released for MSDN and Technet subscribers. And for those who participated in Vista Beta Customer preview Program (CPP).

Browse Faster With FireFox

2006-09-06T20:57:00.000+05:30

Have you lately started using Firefox...If not I suggest you to get Firefox and you will really enjoy with the ease of use and loads of customization available..

If you are using broadband connection and using Firefox then follow the simple steps provided below to make your Firefox work faster for you:
The catch here is by enabling pipelining in Firefox you can tell your browser to make several request at the same time, which means the site will load faster.

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and press Enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

- network.http.pipelining
- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
- network.http.proxy.pipelining

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
You can do so by double clicking on the row where the tags are present, so it will change to true/false alternately.
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you have any doubts submit in the comments section.....Enjoy browsing at a faster speed.

Orkut Profile Name in हिन्दी

2006-08-31T04:54:00.000+05:30

Orkut is now-a-days every netsavvy person's best friend and I am not the odd-man-out kinda. I usually spend 1-2 hours in a day browsing Orkut. But most of the time I fancy to decorate my Profile name with diferent designs...and finally I came across a web site where you can put any letter/word in English and convert it to many regional language..Hence a new look to my profile....which u can check it here:

http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=4914831960640932932

Relax.....M gonna give u the link where you can change your profile name in the language u wish.
Just visit the following page:

http://www.purionline.com/language/

The link contains the converter for the following language:
Bengali (বংলা) , Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) , Hindi (हिन्दी) , Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) , Malayalam (മലയാളം) , Oriya (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) , Punjabi (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) , Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) , Tamil (தமிழ்) , Telugu (తెలుగు) .

So its time to surprise others....:-)

अजय कुमार

Get your copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 at your doorstep.

2006-08-24T22:34:00.000+05:30

Have you ever dreamt of Windows Vista Beta 2 DVD delivered at your door by Microsoft. Yeah thats true. Just visit the following link and answer some question on Windows Vista. If you answer all questions correctly, then fill up the form with your correct address and Vista DVD will be delivered to you within some days.

Please mote that it is promoted by Microsoft India, so it is available for Indian customers only. So what are you waiting for go to the following link and get Windows Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/india/offers/vista/quiz.aspx

Answer to Question:
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1. Vista
2. Clarity
3. November 2006
4. True
5. Aero
6. All
7. All
8. 512

Happy computing with Windows Vista.

Got a chance to own a free domain name...

2006-08-22T02:29:00.000+05:30

Today I am too happy to get a free domain, u may call it a top level domain.
I was accidentally bump into this advertisement while searching for some warez in google.
And the next moment I was looking at a web site on my screen offering www.yourname.co.nr domain without paying a penny.

So now ths blog is accessible through the name www.azoo.co.nr
Will try to use Windows Live Custom Domain wth ths site and if possible thenh I will be able to provide the readers an e-mail ID which will look like yourname@azoo.co.nr

For more information on Live Custome Domain please visit the following link:
http://domains.live.com/

I ahve also registered a domain name www.theengineers.org at Microsoft Office Live.

To be continued.....

Install Windows Media Player 11 without WGA

2006-07-27T12:46:00.000+05:30

NOTE: This Post is outdated and the links are not working. Please scroll to the bottom to get the link for the updated post.

YOU CAN CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE NEW UPDATED POST.

Recently Microsoft has released the most awaited Windows Media Player, but much to everybody’s surprise even if you want to install this version of Media Player you have to go through a stringent set of processes to pass the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation(WGA), which is much irritating as compared to the joy of using Media Player 11. When I got the download of Window Media Player 11 Beta, I was too excited to get a chance to see the new creation of Mr. Gates. But alas..while installing the media Player on my pirated version of Windows XP (Like most people M also using a pirated version of Windows XP) I faced the brunt of validation. Any way I had to install Media Player 11 so experiment continued and finally I found the following methods to crack the process of WGA validation and successfully installed Windows Media Player 11 Beta.
The best way to get Windows Media Player 11 beta to install, of course, is to get the Windows validated. However, for whatever reasons, if you still still want to install WMP11, there are workaround ways to bypass and disable the WGA validation check during setup installation process:

1. Download WMP11 from the Microsoft website or from here:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Microsoft-Windows-Media-Player-11-Download-39801.html
2. Download and install WinRAR (http://www.download.com/3000-2250-10007677.html) and install WinRAR extraction tool.
3. Extract the WMP11 installer by using WinRAR to a directory (e.g. wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu). You can right click on the setup file and choose any Extract option or launch the extraction utility and choose the WMP11 setup file to extract it.
4. Download legitlib.dll (in RAR format) from http://depositfiles.com/en/files/144094/legitlib.rar.html and extract it.
5. Copy the extracted legitlib.dll and paste legitlib.dll into the extracted directory of WMP11 installer. Overwrite any existing file.
6. Run setup_wm.exe by double clicking.
7. Install Windows Media Player 11 Beta accordingly.

NOTE: I have found that the links are sometime not working. So I have updated the post at:

http://blog.techiezone.in/2007/05/06/install-windows-media-player-without-wga-2/

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