Online Photo Editing Free

Dear Readers,

I feel you would be very happy to play in this website that i am gonna introduce to you all today. As i am very much interested in photo/music/video editing i love this website very much.

http://www.befunky.com is the name of the website and it allows us to do online photo editing and adding effects to our photo's. All you need to do is just upload your photo and add some basic effects then download your colorful photo to your PC.

Features:

• Free to use with many features
• Add graphics, text, frames etc.,
• No Registration required
• Many photo effects with no ad disturbances.

Abbu's Rating: 3.5 / 5

Disposable Email account

Dear Readers,

Today i am gonna to introduce a website which gives temporary email address for a day. Yes, we can create one email address which will be valid for one day and it will automatically be deleted from the server after that.

You can use the email address to send/receive emails for the given time frame of a day. The website will automatically refresh itself and notify you if any new emails arrives @ your account. The best part is we do have RSS feed for this and it's not a mandatory thing that we need this website to kept open.

Site name : http://www.webemail.me/

Interview Tips

Dear Readers,

I am getting emails from my juniors requesting to share some interview tips. Let me put this word first i am not an human resource expert as such, but with my professional experience and the things that i have learnt will be more enough to this post i hope. In-case if i am wrong somewhere please correct me.

Attending an interview is not a big task unless until if you have few stuffs in your brain and clear vision in your life. Following points will help you to get prepared for a interview.

1. Plan Ahead : Little homework is required. Check the companies official webpage and read who are they and what are they doing? Try to get details of who is CEO and regional heads.
2. Be on Time: Avoid driving yourself in bikes, go for public transit or car should be fine. The reason is bikes will make your dress dusty and in case of more heat / rain it will mess your dress more easily. Reach 30 mins before your interview time, as many of the companies have some formalities of filling forms and other registrations @ receptions.
3. Switch off your Cell phone: A Mandatory task for everyone. Remember getting this job is gonna change your life talking over cell phone can be done at any time. Don't mute it switch it off nothing is gonna happen in 1hr call break. 4/5 people don't turn off their cell phones during interview which will annoy the interviewer. It may result to loose your interview.
4. Bring Resume : Bring 2/3 copies of your resume that you have sent to that company. Make sure you don't lie on your resume.
5. Dress professionally: Make sure you have dressed very neat. I am sure you are good in that.
6. Avoid Badmouth: If you are a fresher don't give any negative feedback about your college and if you are a job holder please don't tell bad about your previous manager.
7. Self Discipline: Behave yourself once you enter into the company for interview. Every single moment is screened from you enter until you exit. Don't talk stories with your co-friends who came for interview. 
8. Eye Contact: It's must and known thing. It will express your truthfulness and your boldness. So keep your eye contact with all your interviewers.
9. Ask Questions: Once your interview is over it's a common thing that your interviewer will ask you "Do you have anything to ask us?" Don't simply say NO. You should make sure you have some questions to ask him/her other than asking to them like "Am i selected?". If he didn't give this chance you can put your question yourself. This will reinforces your interest towards this job.
10. Give a Thank Note: Make sure you thank him before you leave the room.

Use your common sense everywhere that's more enough.

Free Text to Speech Service

Dear Readers,

Today i got  introduced to a web page where it gives a free service to convert any text / text document into male /female voice.

I hope this would be loved by frequent travelers. Yes, instead of reading a big document when you travel you can just convert that big document and it would read it for u. Just listen and keep going. This way i found it's really helpful website.

You can convert word, power point, pdf any thing as you wish and one more advantage is it has various language support too.

Click here to start converting.

Abbu's Rating : 2.75/5

Free Photoshop Brushes

Dear Readers,

I am a very big lover of photoshop. I can say it's my hobby to do some editing in photo's and make some fun. I am not an expert as such but i love it. There are few fans for my workouts :)

Coming to our point, Often it's hard when editing a photo and place some trees, leafs etc., so there are brushes that we can use which will resemble like a leaf/tree/ anything else. Adobe doesn't give the brushes like this with it's software all we need to do is to get the brushes from third parties and install it in your tool. That's it with the sizes you will get the object.

To get the free brushes click here.

Abbu's Rating would be : 3/5. 

Testing your webpage in different browser

Dear Readers,

Happy new year to everyone! This is my first post this new year. I am very proud of my readers who gives constant support and hits to my blog and i hope it will continue this year too.

Today's post is something which would be interested for web designers. It's not an easy task to test your webpages in different browsers on how it looks and loads. There are many web browsers introduced every year and the top hit competitors are opera,chrome,mozilla,safari and IE. So any web designer who designs a webpage will test on these top browsers to ensure it works good.

How do we test it?Click here, this site offers us to test it for free. You can see how long it takes to load your webpage.

One minute and thirty seconds time duration is given to us for testing our webpages without any registration. Once you register the time line increases. You also can use this by paying for unlimited access.

Check out the video to know how it works. Happy hosting.

Unsubscribe from Unwanted Newsletters, promotions, etc

Dear Readers,

Often we use to register our products that we buy thru online or in shop. During the registration obviously our email id is mandatory. In this cases normally i have one crap id on which i use to register these things so that i can stay away from  few crap newsletters.

But what to do if you don't have any separate ID and you already have registered many products. To stay away from this you have 3 golden steps.

1. Create an account with this provider (Click here to create) 

2. Login to you email and select the newsletter/ subscription emails that you don't want to receive.

3. Forward the email to mail@unsubscribe.com and relax yourself. Rest will be taken care automatically.

SMS Alert on PNR + Train Schedule Status

Dear Readers,

It's posting time, I couldn't stop myself to serve you now. 

If you are in India and a frequent train traveler then you will give a big smile @ my blog once you read this article. Yes, Often we book tickets in IRCTC / directly in railway counters then we will not be informed incase of any delay in train schedule or change to our PNR#. 

How will you react when i tell you this? I found a website where you need to register your PNR + Your Mobile#, it will alert you via SMS on the status + train schedule. Wow!!! You now no need to rush to internet centers or call your friends to check your online status. Stay cool and have a safe journey.

Don't panic as i could see a promise in this website stating your information will not disclosed.

Click here to subscribe your PNR#

McAfee Security Center showing Blank Screen

Dear Readers,

I am quite busy for long time as all the weekends are busy with some travel out of this state. What to do family is also important for everyone. Cool!

As i said you already for many security reasons i use LinuxMint OS rather than Windows OS. Almost it's a month that i logged into Windows OS. I connected to windows OS yesterday and i observed that McAfee Security Center has alerted me with a message stating "Your computer is not fully protected". I clicked on the McAfee Security Center to fix it but to my surprise McAfee window was blank :(. Except help screen nothing was shown up. 

I truly didn't understand what's going on and i tried to install McAfee Virutal Technician to resolve the issue. After trying with Virtual Technician also nothing worked well for me. Then after deep analysis i came to know that the issue was with IE9. Yes, McAfee runs with Internet Explorer defaults. As IE9 was installed in my machine which is beta version and Microsoft didn't fix all the outstanding issues with IE9 our McAfee product was unable to determine its settings to proceed further.

I un-installed IE9 then finally downgrade to IE8 then my McAfee Security Center was working normally. So, in case if you are having this issue please try to use the same method. If still the issue persists then please contact the Support person to help you.

Resume Writing Tips and suggestion

Good day to everyone. The following post is about how to make your resume very professional and tips on Do’s & Don’ts in your Resume.

I am drafting this post with my own professional experience and the study on various management sites. This post will be helpful for all professional and my dear student friends.

Let’s start with Do’s and Don’ts in your resume.

Do’s:

1. Your resume layout should fit in A4 sheet.
2. Your resume should talk more about your professional exp/ studies (for freshers).
3. Your resume should have date & place which will ensure your latest resume and your current place of preparation.
4. Fit with some readable fonts (Arial recommended).
5. Refer someone in the same industry (Eg: If you are in IT industry refer someone in the same industry instead of referring someone in chemical industry)
6. Always project your details from latest to oldest as you can easily remember the latest one.

Don’ts:

1. Lie on your resume.
2. Draw any background colors for your resume as it will not look good when you take print outs.
3. Change your font’s for heading and content.
4. Place your photograph on your resume, incase asked paste the hard copy of your passport size photo.
5. Underline the headings instead bold it.

Now you just have a look into the attachment which will give you the format of the resume. Just fill and enjoy. All the best.

Click here to download the format with sample headings.

Creating slide show photo's in your blog/website

Dear Readers,

Often i wonder @ some sites when they do the photo slide show on their webpages. I was looking for some tools that could do the same. Meantime i got introduced to this website which allows us to create photo slide show for free.

No registration required, we can sign in with our Google/Facebook/Twitter account. We can upload the photo's and create design templates which we like. Not all the templates are free there are some templates which are paid. Free one comes with watermark of the distributer.

Once the slide show is created then we can get the embedded code and put it in our blog/website. It's so easy.

Click here to start creating photo slide shows.

Abbu's rating: 2.5/5

Saving Warranty information Online

This happens often to everyone, Buying a product, keeping the bill safely for 2 months at max  in wallet then keep the bills safely either in kitchen/ in file/in cabin. After 8 months when the product is not working properly then trigger all your family members to search for the bill information :). Finally no one remembers where did you kept the bill :(

At-least 8 out of 10 people should have crossed this scenario. Today i am gonna introduce my readers to a website which will keep your bills safe and remind you before it expires. May be i think the guy who developed this site had a bad time with these type of scenarios it seems. 

Warranty Elephant is that site which allows you to save your warranty information of the product that you purchase and send a remainder before it gets expired. 

The remainder is sent 3 months, 1 month and 1 week before your warranty expires. You also can scan your bills and store it online.

Features of this site:

• Free Registration
• Can store many bill information online
• No spam alerts / sharing information with others
• Remainder emails before the product expires
• Bills can be scanned and stored online

Click here to register and get rid of forgetting your bills for your warranty claims.

Abbu's Rating: 3/5

Battery University

Dear Readers,

This site was bit funny when i first visited later i realized many useful information from this site. Hence sharing the same with you.

In this electronic world starting from kids toys to adults electrical equipments everything runs with battery. Battery has became one of our handy product in most our daily used items such as watch,mobile, computer, etc. There are various type of batteries available for different devices. We are just aware of couple of things that we use. Even that also we are not 100% clear on it's usage. Battery University is the website which gives lot of information and research documents that is really helpful for us to understand. Especially for electronics student who want to have a deep study on batteries this site is really a helpful one.

Just hit the link, you will love to read it.

Page loading analysis

Do you own a webpage/blog/ do you feel like comparing the time/speed that any particular website takes with other? For example Google Vs Facebook?

With no doubt Google is gonna win but still you may need to know the deep analysis to see why Google loads faster than Facebook. Click here to know the reason.

This website gives you a clear idea about which site is loading faster and why so? 

1. Once the website is opened click on "Try my own matchup".

2. Enter Google.com in left side and Facebook.com in the right side box.

3. Click on Go.

4. Once the result appears click on "More" to know the detail analysis that this website has done. What are the parameters that it has taken to measure the speed of the webpage. Now i leave it to you to compare for your own choice.

Website address: http://whichloadsfaster.com/

Sharing Documents Online

Though i say Google has given wonderful online feature to share and edit the documents i found this tool is very good for sharing your personal PC documents to your friends online.

I might have MS-Office 2010 in my PC and create a document, if i might need to share a 2010 format document with my friend or others who doesn't have even the basic version of MS-Office :(. So how do he/she read my document? mmmm quite complicated until i found out this site.

This site will take care of every formatting options. It doesn't need any tools that need to be installed in your machine. All you need to know is the link to open the document. It will take care of readable format. Give a try you will love it.

Features:

• Upload documents in nearly any format.
• Share the document via eMail, Twitter or Facebook.
• Fast HTML preview of the uploaded document for readers.
• Let the reader choose in which format he wants to download the document.
• Multiple file upload is possible.
• Password protection is possible.
• Supported formats: PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, PAGES, RTF, OTT, XLS, XLSX, TXT, PPT, PPTX, ODP and more!
• Documents can be deleted by you or are deleted after 60 days without view.

Abbu's Rating for this site is 3.7/5.

Click here to start.

# sign in Excel

This could be simple tip to an expert in excel but smart tip for a beginner. In excel often when manipulating some figures & Values we use to get # sign instead of the actual value. A beginner thinks like he did a mistake in copying.

Whenever i handle any currency validation/manipulation i use to see as below. By seeing the figure you might have recalled the one which you might have faced in past.

The reason for showing # sign is, there is no enough room to display the figure in column C. If you see Q4 under column C $987,765 has enough room but other's doesn't have such room. Now we should just double click on the Column C on which the arrow is marked (i.e., the edge of the column) or in technical terms just expand the column C. You will be seeing the values as mentioned below. 

14 Useful websites for Students

Dear Student Friends,

It's Microsoft who initiated the bond with you all and it's technology. Always this bond is very strong and Microsoft keeps giving more student programs to keep you updated with it's technology.

A student partnership program is the best example that i can say you now. Microsoft has given 14 best useful websites for students.

Web Literacy and general Reference

Information Literacy 

Internet Public Library 

Reference Desk 

Fact Monster

Microsoft Download Center

Microsoft Students Experiment

English and History

Free Translation

Project Gutenberg

Internet History Source book project

NovelGuide

Shakespeare online

Match & Science

Math

Science Made Simple

How Stuff Works

I wish Google to come up with more programs like this. 

Kids Question

Dear Readers,

Often i face this issue with kids. Couple of years ago i remember i was playing with my uncle's son. He was just 4 years old and suddenly he questioned me "Bhaiya, what is time?" I was finding all possible way to explain him what is time as he is 4 yrs and need to understand. Can you try to answer to this question immediately? mmmm i know it's bit complicated answer to explain to a kid. Some how i managed him and explained with my watch.  

I always spend most of my time with kids, the reason is we can learn more from them. Truly speaking i learnt many English words when i started to talk in English with kids. Yes, some of basic words which we can easily talk with our mother language is bit tough when we speak in English.

I just gave an example on the above but in practical life there are many kids questions which we cannot find answers easily. Till now many of us don't know why do we have 24 hours in a clock. How do they define it. In such scenario i found the below website is very useful. We can get many good answers for simple questions. Just give a try.

Click here to start reading answers to kids question.

Abbu's Ranking for this site is 4/5.

Knowing your password strength & Free ringtone for mobile phones

Dear Readers,

Today i have got a chance to view couple of useful websites. This post is about that.

• Knowing your password security:

If you have only 2 online web id's then you are the most lucky person in this world. Wow!!! Are you happy now? Hold on, If you have only 2 online id's then you may be happy but alternatively it means that you don't have much exposure to the present world. 

In the present world even a student will have 1 login id, Personal PC id, 1/2email id, online bank id, social network id. These became mandatory + necessary for a student at least. Now think about a professional person. He will be having 10+ id as minimum. As you all know that keeping a similar password is not recommended and can be easily hacked. Alternatively remembering  password also matters.

But how do we know we have chosen a strong password? Simple, every online sites offer this when you try to create password.  mmmm, now can we think how secure our password is with respect to the strength of the password.

Click here to know how secure is your password.They calculate the cracking time as ‘number of possible characters’ to the power of ‘length of the password’ divided by‘calculations per second‘.

If you are really interested to know more on the programmatic way of calculation click here.

• Free Ringtone for your mobile:

We are living in the world of technology. Usage of mobile is like equivalent to tissues @ our house. Without mobile not even a kid is okay to live. Sending SMS, making calls, having chat, browsing etc etc teens love it. 

Having a ringtone is very easier now a days. Assigning ringtones for various groups such as family members, Friends, Office etc is really an interesting + funny.

This site allows you to upload your favorite song and cut your lovely part finally assign it. Wow!!! You love it i know. What are you waiting for? Click here to start creating it.

VLC Skins

In my previous post i have explained on the Online streaming of videos into VLC player. 

This post will be helpful for the VLC users who get bored by using the standard skins. Yes, We can now change the skins of the VLC player.

1. Click here to download all the available skins ZIP file.

2. Unzip the file and copy into the location where you have installed your VLC player. Eg: C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\skins

 Note: This skin will not work in MAC OS.

3. Open VLC player and choose Tools--> Preference.

4. Select Interface option from left hand side and click on the radio button "User Customs Skin". Now browse the above unzipped folder location and change it.

5. You can choose your desired skin already there or change it when you are in the skins mode by rightclicking somewhere on the skin and going toInterface>Choose Skin.

Note: Restart your VLC to change to skins mode.