Saturday, July 31, 2010

Stats on your Blog

Dear Readers,

If i say there are some blogs without counters in their page then i am sure that you may feel bad on them. Yes, hit counts and keeping track of our blog traffic is one of the most important task for any blogger user. Everyone knows about Google analytics which gives stats on your webpage that we have registered with.

Other than this for ease use of blogging users on their stat tracking mechanism, Google has created a easy way to get information on your blog stats. Yes, instead of login into blogger.com you should log into http://draft.blogger.com and check it.

Let's see how, Click on the Stats button that you see on the dashboard page of http://draft.blogger.com, Now you can choose whatever you want. It's very cool. The stats shows like how many users has opened up our blog with IE/Chrome/Firefox etc even using their phones :).. Very cool Just give a try, i am sure that you will love it. It has many features.


Blog Search in Google

Dear Readers,

I am 99% sure that you might have noticed this, If not Please. To optimize our search results Google's new search techniques narrow us directly to what we are searching for. In-case if we are searching some keyword which is present in any blog then we can just click on Google.com then select Blog from the left pannel then finally give a kick with your keywords.




Data Snatchers - Safeguard your Data

Dear Readers,

It's not an easy statement for any IT technicians to say the best antivirus software in this world. None of the antivirus software is 100% protected is a generic statement that everyone says and knows. As like early, thread attacks thru web emails are comparatively less due to real time scanners on web mails. Now webpage attacks are more popular instead. 90% of the web materials including songs,videos, movies and documents are listened/viewed thru online  so the data snatchers started playing around these webpages.

What is Data Snatchers? 
Data Snatchers are the new breed of thief. Data Snatchers hide in even the most trusted websites, to steal your personal information: credit card details, private files & your identity. They don't normally leave any evidence that they have came into your PC and stolen your personal information. These type of threads are not captured by any antivirus/firewall protectors.  They stay in your PC for more than 24 hrs which you may not know though you have updated antivirus software.



Any antivirus softwares are powerless before Data Snatchers. They can live in your organization or on any most trusted webpages. AVG LinkScanner can only protect you from the Data Snatchers and raise your internet security to the next level.


Key features:


  • Validates the webpage before we open it.
  • Auto update on new threads in web.
  • It runs in the background without screwing up your normal work
  • Free Free Free Free Free
Click here to download.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Firefox Fake Update

Dear Readers,

Please be aware of this fake update on your Mozilla browser. Recently this is happening in many users PC, the moment you open the firefox browser you will be notified like your browser is outdated and required update for latest version. It also informs us to update Adobe Flash Player right away. 

90% of the users will never notice the address bar and will just click to update link to enjoy the recent changes. By clicking on the link the download starts and the file will be saved on the local drive. By Running it you will get a antivirus product named as "SecurityTool” which starts finding threats which aren’t there and demanding payment in order to  remove them.

















Curtesy: El Guru

We should be alert on the following things


  • Mozilla updates will only alert in a pop-up window not on any web page.
  • You should always notice on the address bar before reacting on it.
  • Try to double check by clicking on "Check for Update" option in the Help menu.
  • Check for the updates on plugins thru mozilla plugin option.

YouTube increases video length from 10 mins to 15 mins

Dear Readers,

It's a happy news for us today from Google. It's not only for you it's 100% for me atleast. I am a frequent up-loader in YouTube. In-case If i goto any get together or to any birthday function i am a default photographer and i will convert into video finally into YouTube :). As i love that i will take that responsibility in all those functions.

Now it's not only the challenge for me but for all other users who upload their videos into YouTube. Yes the challenge is to fit the video for 10 mins of length. The moment you think of uploading any video into YouTube the first item that struck in our mind is about cropping the video into 10 mins of its length.

The happy news is from now the video length is increased from 10 mins to 15 mins. Wow!!! We always love you Google. It was been for many years that the video length was for 10 mins hence Google had a work around and the experiment was successfully resulted in increasing the length of video from 10 mins to 15 mins. We wish we will get more lengthy uploading in another short period of time :).

Please be advised that  if you’re trying to upload any video that was rejected in the past for being too long then you need to goto "My Videos" and delete that video before you attempt to upload that video. Happy Uploading!!!

Say birthday wishes over phone to a friend

Dear Readers,

Imagine today is your friends birthday and till date you might have tried to wish him/her over phone/send SMS/send an e-card etc... The technology has grown how about wishing him over phone with a song. Yes, we can either schedule/make a immediate call with a selected song.

Click here to send a phone greeting to your loved one.

We can also purchase some tokens so that we can setup some user defined greetings. For free users they allow us to send only the list of songs which you are seeing above.

Currently they are allowing US & Canada phone#'s for free. By purchasing the tokens for cheaper rates we can try to dial for any international#'s.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Create your own Website for Free

Dear Readers,

Creating our own website has became very common now-a-days. Many companies in the name of blogs they have given us an option to design our own webpage on which we can share our thoughts/knowledge as i am doing it :).

May be by seeing this competition Microsoft has jumped and introduced a new offer to users. Yes, it allows us to create our own web page with our custom designs. It gives us the simple tools thru which any user can design their site by themselves. We don't want to be a web page designer to create this. It's very user friendly and allows you to create in simple steps.

If time permits i shall post the step by step design procedure for your convenient. If you are confident on how to create then what are you waiting for?

Click here to start designing your own web site.


Features:


  • Free Website hosting
  • Free templates and easy tools
  • Free email accounts
  • Free online support

Chat History of a buddy in Gmail

Dear Readers,

Google has introduced a new feature in Gtalk ie., to know the past chat history of a particular buddy. There are some scenarios that we might have came across to get the chat details of particular contact for some reason. But we may need to search in gmail search box where you will end up with all the emails and other stuffs of that buddy and it will be tough time to get the info thats required.

For this we have a two alternate choice.
1. In Gmail search box type "Chat example@yahoo.com" to get the chat information of that buddy.
2. Alternatively in Gtalk open the chat window of that buddy and choose the option "View Past Chats" as shown below.

DVD to iPhone Converter (Limited Offer)

iSkysoft Company gives a limited time offer for it's Facebook fans on DVD to iPhone converter. It's a professional DVD to iPhone converter software which is used to rip and convert DVD to iPhone 4 MP4, M4V files and extract music from DVD to AAC, MP3 files with great quality and high converting speed!

















Below are the key features of this tool:
  • Convert DVD to iPhone video
  • Convert DVD audio to MP3
  • Support iPod and Apple TV
  • Select DVD subtitle and audio track
  • Advanced encoding settings
  • Merge file
  • Trim DVD title or chapter
  • Video crop
  • Set video effects
  • Preview
  • Easy to use


It supports the following devices:
iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod, Apple TV, Mobile Phone (Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, iPhone, Samsung, LG, Smart Phone... ), MP4/MP3 Player, etc.

Note: This is a limited time offer and you should have a Facebook account. 

Monday, July 26, 2010

Home Network settings

Dear Readers,

Every internet users have network settings connected to our PC where the packets are transfered. Most of the laptop users connect to internet via wifi which is known as Wireless local area network based on IEEE 802.11 standard.

If time permit let me explain you the wifi concept in detail. Coming back to our title as all laptop/notebook users connect to internet via wifi which has routers for signal transmission. A router is a networking device whose software and hardware are customized to the tasks of routing and forwarding the information from modem to our laptop/notebook.

These routers are very important for data transmission. Depending on the cost of routers the signal strength and security measures vary.

Router has it's own MAC ID and it's ip address which is called as gateway. Router software will vary as per the manufactures. This software has the option to setup network name , password and other personal settings. 80% of the home users will be connecting to their network with network name & password alone. What happens is when we connect with this type of connectivity it's easy to crack the network and password. I have wondered myself when i saw 10 users connected to my network without my knowledge.

The slowness in connectivity, traffic in our network will irritate us very often. This is because we may not know whether our network is secured and we are the only users to this network. Many of us call to the internet provider and shout to them stating the network is very slow. Before we complain to the internet provider we should make sure whether our network settings are good and secured.

I use to check the following measures before i call them up.
  1. Connect the laptop to modem and check the speed of the internet.
  2. If the download and upload speed is good then we are okay else call the provider right away. Repeat the same by connecting with router.
  3. If the speed difference is huge then the issue is with router. Login to router settings and check who are the users connected to the network.
  4. If you are the only user or the known users are connected then probably the signal is very less with router. Buy a new router with good signal strength.
  5. In case more users are connected to the router then your router may not be protected with password/ router password is distributed/ your router is hacked :(. You have no other choice to change password immediately. This is very serious.
In such cases i strongly recommend you all to connect the routers with MAC ID along with password protected.  Change the settings as below
  • Make your network invisible
  • Have router password as more complex one with more than 8 char length. 
  • Connect the users with MAC ID which is unique to all system. Now even the password is distributed the users cannot connect if this network as that MAC ID is permitted to this network. 
This way we can secure our home network.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Sparkline in Excel 2010

Dear Readers,

Everyone knows that office 2010 has some great features compared to Office 2007. When office 2007 was introduced with some graphical changes the visual was very new to user and slowness + other stuffs are reported as a bug. Microsoft has did a deep study with the early bugs and fixed it in it's latest version. 

Today i am gonna show you an awesome features in excel 2010 i.e., Sparkline feature. It makes it possible to analyze information in more ways than ever before. Sparklines are mini-charts that you could place inside cells so that you can view the data and the chart on the same table.

I shall show you how to do the same today. 

1. Enter the data in five different columns as shown below.


2. Now select the adjacent column where we need spark-line to be shown (Here it's column-G2:G5).
3. Goto Insert--> click on "Insert Column Sparkline" 
4. Select the data range as B2: F5 as the data in this example is from B2 to F5.
5. Click on "OK" will have sparkline columns in Column G.
6. As per your requirement we can either select column/line/Win/Loss style sparklines to be shown in our sheet.

Here i have chosen as Line style.


From now on you can create sparkline graphs for better presentations. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial. See you again.

Online Mp3 Cutter

Dear Readers,

With this advanced technology there are lot of improvements that we can see it in web in our day to day life. Many of the companies/individual has started to publish online pages for most of our routine requirements that we can do without any softwares. This is purely with respect to the internet speed growth and competitions b/w each other.

If you are a music lover you will love this post. Many of us love a portion of song than the full song. We would be using some mp3 cutter softwares or wave editing softwares for this purpose. But not all softwares are free. 

Cut mp3 is an online website which allows us to cut a full length mp3 song. With this website we can open the full songs that we have and cut a particular portion of this song.
What are you waiting for , Open a mp3 song from your PC and cut the lovely part and save it for you.

Key Features:

  • FREE FREE FREE
  • No Signup or registration required
  • No limits as no uploading of file required as it cuts the file locally
  • Easy to use

Download video's from Online for FREE

Dear Readers,

Many of us use to view videos from youtube,metacafe, etc and we may like that video then feel like downloading it. We may not have some downloading tools in our PC/ Our PC may not support any downloading tools. In such cases we would love this site.

Save Video helps us to Download video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Veoh, Flickr, Google, Blip.tv easily! Just copy paste the URL the rest will be taken care by this site.


Key Features of this site is:

  1. Videos can be downloaded in MP4, FLV, MOV, AVI or 3GP formats as per the video provider
  2. Different Video qualities such as Low, Medium and High are supported.
  3. With no doubt this website is FREE FREE FREE FREE

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Email alert by VM,IM or SMS

Dear Readers,

Today i read a powerful web application which will notify you with a call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or delegate the message to someone you specify when we receive an urgent message to our mailbox.
For example, if we receive around 500 emails per day and imagine that we are very busy with some deliverables. Couple of emails came from your boss which needs your urgent attention and we have missed it :( with 500 in our queue. I don't wanna explain how it will be as you all know it well :).

In this scenario we will think like why don't we have a person notifying me by reviewing all my 500 emails. Everyone cannot have personal assistants as we an employers. 

Alwaysfind is a one point solution for all these. This application allows you to set up a filter on the incoming messages on the basis of FROM addressesAll you have to do is to enter your login information in the AwayFind account. As per our filter information once the message arrives your inbox it will alert you as per your alert configuration ie., it has options like SMS, phone calls, email, Twitter direct messaging, AIM, MSN Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger.


How it works?


Mozilla browser has an add-on for gmail account user for this AwayFind application. 

Click here to install that add-on to your browser.

Google Image Results - New view

Dear Readers,

From last week i have seen many news on the web like Google has improved it's image search results but only today i saw it practically. Yes, from now on if you click on the Google images and search any image we will be very happy to see plenty of images on our results. Informations on the images are hidden and more results are shown on the page.

When you start scrolling on the images we will be seeing the information of that particular image. This way we will get more image results on the first page itself. Wow!!! We all love you Google!

I know you will become very lazy if i show you any results. Check it out my lovely readers .... :)

Client only rule in outlook

Dear Readers,

Today my friend Mani called me and asked "Abbu, when i create any rules in outlook it's going as Client-Only Rule. Why so?" Then i asked him to share his screen to know what exactly the problem is. Finally i found out his requirement is like Moving the emails automatically to personal folder from inbox once it arrives with certain words in subject.

Now this is client only rule. Before i explain the reason let me say you what is the difference between client only and server based rules in outlook.

What is rules in outlook?

Rules are one of the powerful feature in Microsoft outlook. It is similar to filters in web mails such as Gmail/yahoo etc.,. We can setup rules such that if we receive emails from a particular person/with particular subject we can redirect to some folders in our mail box. 

Server based Rules:

Server based rules are nothing but the rules which can run in absence of outlook execution. Server based rules can be configured such that the rules are defined on your mail servers. These rules are not machine dependent and it can it will be running from your mail servers.

Client only Rules:

Client only rules are something which cannot run when outlook is not in execution. Client only rules can be configured such that it fully depends on your local machine. These rules will not run automatically when outlook is closed.

Example:
Server based rule : If we need to move emails with subject which contains "SIFF" to a folder in the mail box called SIFF then it's a server based rule because it purely depends on the folder which is in your mailbox. This rule is ran in server as your mail box folder SIFF is defined in your mail server.

Client only rules: The same scenario if we wanna move emails with subject which contains "SIFF" to a personal folder(in your local machine) called SIFF, then it's a Client-only rule which will be inactive if outlook is not running. As personal folder(.pst) is the one which is referring to your local machine so this rule will need to refer to a file in your local machine. When outlook is closed it wont be able to refer to your local machine files. Hence outlook execution is mandatory.


Simple, A rule which runs within your mailbox is server rules, if a rule which depends on Personal folder(.pst) file on your local machine is client-only rule. Another example is if you wanna display desktop alert if we receive an email from particular person is a client only rule where as we are showing some alert on your local desktop and obviously the alert is needed for you to see it.

All client-only rules refers to your local machine only. In Mani's scenario he was trying to move emails with particular subject to his personal folder. As i said above it's referring to his local machine. This is client-only rule. Now he has created a sub-folder in his mail box and changed this rule into server based rule.

Thanks mani to make this as a topic in my blog.

Photo View in iOS4

Dear Readers,

In iPhone with new OS ie., iOS4 we have a cute features like playing your photo's either by order or by random.  Let's see how to modify the settings to play it.

1. Goto Settings --> Choose Photos
2.  Select the duration that you wanna play the photos under "Play Each Slide for".
3.  Select transition method under "Transition" option.
4.  Once all the photo's are played if we wish to repeat from first then we can turn on the "Repeat" option.
5.  Instead of playing in serial manner we can turn the random photo's by turning on "Shuffle" option.


Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Edit Picture and Add Watermarks online for Free

Dear Readers,


Today i am gonna introduce you all to a website where you can edit and add watermarks/text to your own images. There will be some scenarios in everyone's life where we need to edit pictures suddenly and send it to friends or others. We also feel like adding text to it. But we may not have our own pc's with required softwares. In that case we can use this web site for editing image and adding text to it.




PicGhost handles all image edits and it has the following features:

  • Upload multiple images at once (max 20).
  • Select images to upload from your computer or website.
  • Apply effects on some or all of your images.
  • Process multiple images at the same time.
  • Resize your images using very simple settings.
  • Protect your images by adding text and watermarks.
  • Preview all images after upload and before download.
  • Download all images at once in a zipped file.
  • Process images from any computer, no software needed.
  • PicGhost proudly provides all these features for free.
  • No Pro version, or hidden fees.
  • More image editing features are coming soon.

shva in Gmail

Dear Readers,

I am not sure whether you have noticed this or not. If NO then check it right away. If you are Gmail user then when you login to your account you might notice this as shown below. This is unique for everyone.


Have you every wondered what is this? Is it an acronym? Or Is it a secret word if so why it's unique? Many questions raises if we start thinking. Let's pause and see what exactly it is. 

As per Mike Sego ( Gmail Frontend Engineer, 2005-2007) "shva" is an acronym for "should have valid authentication"
Upon successful authentication of your credentials shva is populated.

Antenn-Aid for iPhone4

Dear Readers,

I have no idea what to say for iPhone4. Apple is $%^&*( :).

After the press conference Steve Jobs has agreed to give a case for all users for free. Between this deal there is a new product that's launched by Etsy. They give stickers which should be pasted it on your phone as shown below. This will give good signal strength as per the company. I have no idea how it will be but for 6 bugs you buy 6 stickers with different color. Try it once until apple gives you the case.


Sunday, July 18, 2010

Convert PDF to PowerPoint Presentation

Dear Readers,

There was a scenario last week for me to prepare presentation for a client presentation purpose. I was having some charts and flow diagrams in pdf format which i want to move to my presentation. I was searching throughout the web for better solution. I found convertpdftopowerpoint.com does this job online.

It's free and easy to use. You can also use this link for your own purpose.


Invisible ID scanning for Yahoo Users

Dear Readers,

This happens to many of us. We may have Yahoo messenger id with 100's of Friends in our list. May be due to their busy schedule some of our friends may have their status invisible but they would be online most of the time. In that case if we see them we would be thinking like they are offline and won't contact with them :(.

In this scenario i am happy to introduce you to a website which allows us to find out whether invisible ID’s are online or offline

http://invisibleim.com/ is the website that does this job.

This website has the following features

  • No Sign-in/registration required
  • Ad-ware/spy-ware free
  • Unlimited scanning for as many id as you have
  • Easy to use

Small Girls Dance

Dear Readers,

This girl might have grown big by now, but still she has given her best performance. My family love this video badly. Whenever we are sad we will see this video it will relax us. I thought of sharing this with you all.

MP4 to DVD burning

Dear Readers,

MP4 files are nothing but Mpeg-4 format videos. In general these types of videos are used to play in DVD players. A day ago my friend was questioning me like how to burn MP4 videos in to DVD. As like other files it's not a direct method to burn MP4 files into DVD.



MPEG-4 technology has been developed to provide DVD quality audio and pictures in an extremely small file size. As most of the burning softwares doesn't support for burning MP4 files into DVD, we have couple of free softwares which does this job. Let's see what are they?

Daniusoft DVD Creator is a simple tool which allows you to burn any MP4 files into DVD.



Click here to download and use it.

4Media DVD Creator is the another software which makes our job easy. We can just add the files and create DVD menu finally burn it.

Click here to download and try it.