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Google Talk Services Review

There are many ways, using which you can access your Google Talk account. These might be using a mobile wapsite like ebuddy , or might be using a mobile application like MGtalk. On desktop it can be accessed via default Google Talk client, using any Jabber client or by use of some web application like iGoogle, Orkut, GMail, Google Talk Gadget, Developer Sand box etc. Check out how I use to access my Google Talk account, according to my preferences- If you are unable to view my Google Talk Services Review, then visit http://bit.ly/zcr0c to see full page version. You can use the comment form below to suggest me any other service by Google, for Google Talk, that I might missed off… Related Posts Play Games in Google Talk Gtalk Shortcuts Check if user is invisible in Google Talk

Autocopy Add-on

Whenever you prepare for a presentation or report, you Google it, copy from different sources and then paste it. It took a considerable amount of time to copy and paste the data if you have large number of sources. Also it would be a great help for bloggers .Select text on any web page and it will be automatically copied to the clipboard. It works in much the same way as does Trillian or mIrc. Paste on middle click into textboxes, the url bar, and the search bar. Select some text. Right click on it and see the autocopy content area context menu item filled with usefull features. (old users of autocopy will want to turn this on. In the options page look for "Content Area Context Menu Item"). You can undo a copy; there is a clipboard history of up to 10 items; paste to the search or location box with a click of the button; search for and open in new tab for when you select a text only url. Plus a handy append url to clipboard feature that will make sure your quotes can always...

Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms

Now whenever you search for Katrina or Shahid Kapoor, just beware as you might be inviting some of the blacklisted anti-viruses to your computer. According to a search conducted by Mc Afee , these two keywords are the very harmful in India. McAfee searched for more than 2,600 popular keywords. For each keyword, they examined the first five pages of results across each of five major search engines. On average, each keyword generated a little more than 250 results. Overall, they examined more than 413,000 unique URLs (web addresses), assigned each keyword a category and a country and then ranked them by the risk of their resulting URLs. In addition, using data from Hit wise, a search intelligence company, they conducted much deeper dives into specific keywords.Keywords were ranked in two ways: 1) the average risk of all results and 2) the maximum risk of the riskiest page of results. Here is the list of country specific keywords:     No need to panic as the soluti...

Study Smart …Study Blue

Now you can easily share all your ideas,  lecture notes, flash cards and all other sort of things that you require for your studies easily.StudyBlue.com is an online academic network available to students and teachers at both high schools and colleges. The Web service provides a variety of study and organizational aids, course management features, academic networking capabilities and other functions to assist students in improving their academic performance and help them study more efficiently. These tools also allow users to become part of a class-based, online, academic network helping them learn from each other through collaboration. Tools & Features StudyBlue has tons of academic and communication tools to help students study more efficiently: Class Notes – makes test prep easy. Flashcards with Reminders – study anytime, anywhere; we’ll remind you when. Textbook Outlines – save time with quick review. Share Files and Flashcards – beat the curve, sh...

Type in Indian Languages, anywhere…

Now, you can type in Indian Languages , any where over internet, like creating a message, writing an email or while using Gtalk. Google Translation team has come up with easy to use bookmarklets, based on Google Translation API. Supported languages include Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. It is very easy to use a bookmarklet, just drag and drop it to bookmarking bar, like shown here   Now, whenever you will click this bookmarklet, all text box on that page will be able to accept input in your language. You can use any of following links to get their bookmarklets- Arabic bookmarklet Bengali bookmarklet Gujarati bookmarklet Hindi bookmarklet Kannada bookmarklet Malayalam bookmarklet Marathi bookmarklet Nepali bookmarklet Punjabi bookmarklet Tamil bookmarklet Telugu bookmarklet Urdu bookmarklet For Hindi Bookmarklet, drag this link - [अ...

Simple Grey Blogger Template

After working on, learning web designing for last few days. I am up with my first blogger template which is inspired by free CSS layout at Templatemo . Now, I can also convert Wordpess template to Blogger xml templates. Here are some of the features of my first blogger template, Simple Grey . Customize site logo by replacing the image address http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww248/chillgeeks/templatemo_logo.jpg in template. Elegant background. Featured post with Image on every page. Top Custom links navigation bar. Ads below post titles, change the publisher id to yours. Read more feature enabled. 5 column links section at bottom of page. Blogger default navigation bar removed.   Preview | Download

Create Your Online Card

You don’t need to master any html or photoshop ( leave them for the nerds). You just have to work smart not hard and in few easy steps, you will be having your own Card and that too absolutely free. Make your "tiny" portfolio online in which you'll be able to integrate your networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.), a little about you and how to contact you . Choose between many nice skins and features Here is look at my Card.ly : The design is simple and attractive and the site is too easy to handle. Just signup there for free and you have dozens of designs to chose upon. Apart from this, Card.ly has something for the designers too and by asking for skin submissions; each skin can then become a source of revenue for the designers as users select and purchase their skins. Just go ahead and make your own card at card.ly

Keep An Eye On Your Tweets

You are running a site and you want to know all those people who are linking to your site and are constantly tweeting your website. With BackTweets you can easily monitor all those who are linking to your site. How can these be helpful to you ? Well here are the answers : Connect With Your Fans : Now if you know who are the ones who are tweeting your posts, you can easily start building a relations with them. Connecting with your fans is the most important step i the success of your site. Monitor Your Posts : You can easily monitor your posts and optimize them. If you know all the hit topics of your site, then you should start concentrating on that particular topic theme. Ability To Search Keywords : With an ability to search for keywords, one can easily see if the topic that he is going to post is already tweeted or not. BackTweets is developed by BackType which is a conversational search engine and index and connect millions of conversations from blogs...

Energy Bliss Visualization

You must have seen so many visualizations for Windows Media Player, but this one is awesome. I mean this is the most simple and yet captivating visualization. Here is the screenshot for the visualization. The dancing bars and the moving clouds look very charming.You can turn the album art feature either on or off by clicking in the Video and Visualization pane of the Now Playing feature. If you turn the album art off, you can still access it by moving the pointer over the upper-left area of the Video and Visualization pane. Note that not all album art can be displayed in the Energy Bliss visualization. For example, album art that you have manually added to a file by using the Advanced Tag Editor will not appear. This particular visualization requires a powerful graphics adapter (video card). If you keep getting a black screen or a dark sky when you are in full mode or full-screen mode, check to be sure your computer system meets the following minimum system requirements: ...

Get Random Posts in GMail Signatures

As a webmaster, I use to put a short signature at end of my every email. If this signature contain a random link from my blog, this would increase my visitor's traffic more. GMail Labs provides an experimental addon to Gmail, know as Random Signatures. This addon fetches random post links from a given feed url, and appends as your signature at end of post. This drives traffic, if someone reading email, finds that topic interesting. You can add random post signature to emails sent by enabling labs features and enabling, Random Signature in it. Then, follow these steps- Go to settings of GMail Click General tab Select Signature, and click on “Append a random signature…” You can specify the feed address, in text box, which can be your blog address, or any feed you like. Like I’ve done as shown here- Technorati Tags: Gmail , Google Mail , GMail Signature

Ankit Fadia on MTV

That’s true !! The renowned Indian Hacker is soon going to be on small screen and that too on MTV where the youngsters spend the most of the time. As per the news by The Indian Express, Fadia is launching a new programme on MTV named JUST HACK. Fadia was in Ambala for a conference and there  he unleashed his idea. He believes that JUST HACK will  help youngsters in positive way and would help them in creating more job opportunities for them . Here is the list of achievements of FADIA : Was voted one of the MTV Youth Icon 2008 Winners. According to the MTV Youth Icon Awards Website, the winners were chosen through national voting in India through Text Message & Online voting out of 8000 probables. Pepsi will feature the MTV Youth Icon 2008 Winners on 1 million Pepsi cans. Conferred the Indo American Society Young Achiever Award in 2005 according to Screen India. Awarded the IT Leader Award Youth by Singapore Computer Society in 2005. Awarded the ...

Best Of Wikipedia

Ever wanted to read the articles that created history ? Then this one is for you. Best Of Wikipedia has the collection of all sorts of articles that created history and were popular at some point of time. The  site takes all the articles from Wikipedia and presents before you in a beautiful manner . The articles that they show are varied and include the topics such as History, some Biographies, Some interesting topics, Sci-fi etc. The site vould a great time pass and would also add some interesting facts to your knowledge. These kind of articles would not help you to remember the ancient things but also would help you to succeed in competitive examinations. So go ahead and visit the site Best OF Wikipedia. Links : Best of Wikipedia

Make Windows Translucent

You can make your program windows transparent in Windows 2000 or late versions, using a very lite freeware known as Glass2k . Transparent windows are helpful to me and gives a good geeky appearance to Windows Desktop. You can download glass2k from here , it does not need to be installed, you can simply double click to start it, whenever you’ll right click on any window, it will ask you to set its transparency. It is very easy to use software and it is also having a feature to set any windows on top, according to your choice. Productivity Tip :- You can use glass2k in way to increase your productivity, as it will prevent you switching between windows, and you can do two works at time, like I keep browsing my computer by making explorer windows transparent and watching through my e-mail account. You can check out the screenshot below-   Related posts:- Easily Resize a partition in Windows Reduce Windows Disk check time delay