Technotips - Hub for latest Technical alerts: October 2009

Now add lists to your own twitter profile

Twitter has launched it's new Beta service called lists such that create muliple lists to your twitter profile and categorize based on your own likeness such as friends,colleges,fav blogs...etc

Now check the twitter's team list here.Here are some screen-shots that helps you well understand these lists.

By this you can create as many lists and twitter has decided to expand this feature for all.

Also create your lists either public or private and Add your contacts to the lists and so on...

I've created my twitter list here..and there could check out the updates of my subscribed tweets,also follow them and check out your followers just as normal twitter profile...

Twitter Tips,Tricks and Tweets[eBook]

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.

Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access.

Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

This Book Will Learn you everything about Twitter :Tips, Tricks, and Tweets..

Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets | 12 Mb| Wiley| ISBN: 0470529690 | May 11, 2009 | PDF | 272 pages

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Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

Microsoft has make a great comeback on it's latest OS Windows 7 that also incorporates nearly 100 other features of Vista..here are some of the best Keyboard shortcuts.

Win+h - Move current window to full screen

Win+M - Minimize the current window

Win+R - Open the Run window

Win+T - Cycle through task bar opening Aero Peek for each running item

Win+U - Open the Ease of Use center

Win+Space - Aero Peek the desktop

Win+i - Restore current full screen window to normal size or minimize current window if not full screen

Win+Shift+arrow - Move current window to alternate screen

Win+D - Minimize all windows and show the desktop

Win+E - Launch Explorer with Computer as the focus

Win+F - Launch a search window

Win+G - Cycle through gadgets

Win+L - Lock the desktop

Ctrl+Win+Tab - Open persistent task selection window, roll mouse over each icon to preview item and minimize others

Check Firefox download status worldwide

As all knew Firefox downloads has crossed Billions and till now it's the best browser used by all.Here is the link where you can check for Real time Firefox downloads worldwide.

It shows the overall downloads and location's here Firefox being downloaded by country wide represented via map and can zoom and drag them in download status table to look for specified country/location.

It shows download status in real time with graphically mentioned,Categorized based on country.Enter Country code in column to check download status for specified country.

firefox download status graph

The column represents various attributes like country code,cur,min,max....etc

[How To]Create a custom gmail theme

Earlier Gmail users are made available with some themes.. so fascinating but now Gmail comes with yet another set of themes and also it has introduced custom gmail theme.

Gmail users can go to Settings>Themes tab and check for latest themes and there is a option with "Choose your own colors" where they can customize by varieties of colors where you can customize the header,sidebar,body,link color..and so on..

Just customize and save the theme to be visible and also can apply the saved themes later.

BSNL New Combo limited plan for Home and Business categories

BSNL has launched new Combo plan for all of it's BSNL Broadband users under both BB Home and Business categories.I found this cheap and economic while compared to previous Home Combo plans 199,299,500C and 500C+.

People who likes to browse a lot and need free calls ,the new limited plan is advisable since it has nearly 250 free calls for Combo 749 plan whereas the old Home UL 750 plans is unlimited but who uses that much since this new plan can give you nearly 8GB usage that is quite enough for all users.

BSNL has become competitive with Airtel and began to introduced new plans and people who were using old 500C+ can prefer the new Combo 599 since speed is also reasonable of 512 Kbps.

It also introduced the new limited Business plan Speed Combo 1111 that comes with 2Mbps bandwidth and offers 15GB Download limit per month.

The Other new thing is while compared to Home 500 C the download usage beyond the limit is charges just Rs 0.4/MB(2 To 8AM) and Rs0.8/MB for rest of time.

Google 404 pages

As i was browsing some google related stuffs especially google homepages in various countries like Brazil and Finland etc i checked for some 404 pages..In Google Home page, Check for "About Google" link below the search bar and if you click the link you could see various Google services and Google logo's may be seen last.

I was amazed y Google has not created these logo pages in some countries..

But in Google Brazil and Svenska pages if u click on Google logos it returns "404-Page Not Found" Errors.

Check out the following links and have a look...

http://www.google.com/intl/sv/logos.html
http://www.google.com.br/intl/pt-BR/logos.html

Mystery Google - Have a look at this

The Mystery Google website which i tried today and get amazed..

If you were searching for anything you won't get the related search but takes you to the search results for the user who searched just before you.

Really amazed??It seems Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button is re-imagined!!Just returns a random result

But i tried certain results and got some amazing stuffs.

If u search for Hello,you get Hi in homepage
Just type Facebook in the search result and you will get landed to facebook directly.
Also type Mystery Google in search and it says "That is the site you are on."
Search for Hi and u get "Your search is too short."

Check for different phrases and get excited results

Adobe Photoshop CS4 eBook downloads

There are few eBooks on Adobe Photoshop exclusive for all including a book for dummies and hence make you the creative Photoshop designers.Just have a look and comment below.

Creative Photoshop CS4: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques [Paperback] By Derek Leas

Adobe photoshop book preview

A truly unique guide to the creative side of Photoshop showcasing phenomenal artwork by one of the world’s best.

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS4

“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” —Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training

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How to Do Everything Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Paperback)

Maximize the power of the industry-standard tool for graphics professionals

Written by an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor, this hands-on tutorial features real-world examples that reveal how cutting-edge design techniques are created. The book also introduces the Extended version for 3D and video users.

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Photoshop CS4 All-in-One For Dummies (Paperback)

Intended mainly for all those beginners merely like image editing software

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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CS4

Has got all tutorials with web gallery and sophisticated explanation....Have a look

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Photoshop CS4 Bible (Paperback)

The ultimate comprehensive reference to Adobe now updated and revised to cover the CS4 release!
More than 1,200 pages are packed with advice that demystifies even the most complex Photoshop tasks

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FavBackup - Backup and Restore Web browser Settings

Browsers are the essential applications that we use daily and not only the browsers but the browser settings such as bookmarks,profiles,history etc are the one that makes user friendly such as they can have their own profile settings and bookmarks of favorite websites.

Suddenly if your system needs a format or system files accidentally deleted,then you may plan to reinstall the operating system where you may lose all installed software's including browsers.so there's no problem you cn reinstall your browser my be IE,Firefox,opera...

But what about the bookmarks,profiles you've created unless you have a backup of bookmarks you would lose some valuable websites or your own profiles.

FavBackup_browserbackup

No need to worry,FavBackup utility helps to backup and also restore all your profiles,history,cookies,saved passwords,extensions......etc.

Also Fullbackup Option available where you need to backup or restore all browser settings (Say ex: Backup Firefox,chrome,IE settings all at a time).

Just a One click backup and it get's saved as .dat file and to restore, Point to the location where our .dat file is saved.

Supports 6 browsers including flock and safari.

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Google user profiles Indexed in Gstatic

Google as now started to index all it's user profiles in it's gstatic Profile Sitemap XML as robots.txt.It indexes as many profiles as the above XML file has nearly 850 sitemap robot.txt files each of 5000 profile users.As this dated on 8th october 2009 it has nearly 425,000 profiles.

It has more than the above figured profiles in gstatic and each profile shows his/her bio,photos..etc . I was looking for something different from Google and i got those sitemaps indexed in gstatic, domain controlled by other google servers.

Just look for your profile here.It not only shows bio but the persons location via Google maps and her interests of profile and as mentioned earlier it also shows the person's shared Picasa images,blogs and other profiles such as facebook,twitter...etc.Also check for Sidewiki entries in your profile.

Android Developer Challenge 1 - Top 50 Applications

Android developer challenge(ADC) has been a real challenge for all those Android developers and ADC 1 has completed and those results are announced nearly an year ago.But check out the top 50 application of ADC 1 and simply amazing and innovative.

Some of the top applications were cab4me,GoCart,CompareEverywhere,Ecorio etc...as those applications were amazing and essential for Android SDK.

ADC 2 has already been announced May 27and the all applications have been submitted and the final round winners would be announced on November.

Goodreads - Share Book Recommendations with your friends

Goodreads is the one which i came through the web, a place for Booklovers where they can share book recommendations with all other friends and answer trivia and also join other book clubs.

Book lovers can go for many sites such as Google books to view and search for their favourite books but this one Goodreads is more or less like a community such as orkut, facebook etc..as they can share their thoughts on one's book in their review and share their own sweet moments.

So many groups are also there on different categories such as Entertainment,Business,Geography etc..Just join the groups of your niche and get updates from your friends when they notify or add any books.

goodreads_bookhub

Also categorized groups based on country location such as users join their own country groups for interesting books they can get updated.

Also form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes.

It was started in December 2006 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer and entrepreneur.The website permits individuals to sign up and register books to create their library catalogs and reading lists.As dated in Wikipedia , this site has over 620,000 members and over 10,000,000 books added..

Google Celebrates Bar Code Invention

Just the day before i thought of posting on Bar code creation..But today when i Googled, i am bitter confused "Is Google Hacked??"what is this some sort of logo???

Then it's the Google's Bar Code logo to notify Bar code invention as all of us knows it wont meant to normal Eye but detects through bar code scanner . It marks through First,Second and now the Third generation Bar Code.This is Google's second logo of this month after it marks Gandhi's birthday on October 2nd.

Google barcode invention

Go for Your logo____
Now it's your turn ...create your Own Barcode here

Get your World's Longest Email Address for free

Now World's Longest Email ID is offered free.Just send a mail with this address and surprise your friends.

Here comes the Longest Website URL
http://abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com .

Provided by Email Hosting service Everone.net.

This comes with 3 packages 1 Free service and 2 premium Email service.

Free service offers you mail space for 1GB storage with other services such as Spam and Virus Filtering,Personal calendar and Address Book. It's Entirely Free Unless you got to pay for other premium services.

I got my longest Email ID here

Create your Free longest Email ID here

BSNL IPTV for all Home users

BSNL has released it's Internet Protocol Television(IPTV) for all commercial Home users along with broadband starting this month in Chennai.I was expecting when it would be released due to unreliable Cable television and DTH services as growing businesses.

But now happy news for all BSNL broadband users whereas just it comes along with monthly broadband.Earlier 4 months ago,IPTV is released for testing purposes but now this has becomes commercial for all Home broadband users and also Broadband becomes free those who subscribed for this service.

This has been already for all other states such as Karnataka, Himachal pradesh..This service is brought by MyWay IPTV Services and Digital IPTV.

IPTV allows users to make recordings on the client-side [through hard disk in the set-top box] or the server-side [video server at the main-end]

Some of the features of IPTV are

Quad Play, a combo of voice, video, data and mobility
Subscription-based video-on-demand
Ability to stream TV programs to mobile phones or PC rather to watch on TV sets alone
Easy and Fast Internet access with subscriptions.

Effective Blogging through Comments

Blogging can be more effective by many ways but comments play effective role in developing one's blog. You may ask how this can be? If you notice in some of the famous blogs there may be top comment makers because they like to read articles from those particular blogs and they interact with blog author via comments.

Comments not only meant by Thanks or Good but also serves as one-one communication where he/she expresses their views and get replies.If one likes a famous article or reads a news from a magazine,we like to Quote or comment by a reply so that makes a effective conversation and this too make one's blog more effective so that other users can get interested in commenting.

Reponding to comments or question by a visitor tells what he thinks of that particular comment and users views are reflected, so that the blog author may edit or make a new post if one request some answers or particular topic to be posted.

Also it helps the blog admin to know some thing from others rather just by a post it makes him absurd.Blog comments also encourages one to post in a effective manner and Negative comments makes him to tackle and improves a lot.

Essential tips for best PC performance

Here are some tips and tweaks that can be used to improve the Overall performance and efficiency of PC and overcome poor PC performance.

There are many reasons that can degrade the performance of PC such as Junk files,Hard drive Errors,Blue screen death, Dump memory,temporary files etc...

To my best i like to describe some steps..Follow these and sure this will improve and makes the PC faster than before.

1.Delete temporary files that are accumulated in temp folder due to browsing.Go to Start>Run>%temp%
this opens the temporary folder that contains unwanted junk files delete them all.

2.Delete the browser cache then and there so that makes cache empty and increase PC and browser performance.This can be done by pressing Cntrl+Shift+Del buttons in Firefox browsers,that removes the cache files.In IE Go to Tools>Options>Remove Temporary data.

3.Check for Disk performance by Error checking and De-fragment the hard drives often.That reduces the bad sectors and keep the drives and PC performance faster.

4.Keep less number of shortcut programs and delete Unwanted programs from start up

5.Make Desktop background to None. Right Click desktop >Properties>Desktop>None>Apply.

6.Delete Prefetch files from Windows folder.Go to Windows folder search for prefetch folder delete all contents inside the folder.

7.Remove files from Recycle bin permanently.

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FireTune - speed optimizer for Mozilla Firefox.

FireTune is freeware utility from TotalIdea software to improve the speed of Mozilla Firefox.Browsing speed can be rapidly increased with other many options within the browser.

But rather this is One click Optimization with FireTune.This not only tweaks the values of delay,pipe-lining but also some innermost configurations to improve it's peek performance.

FireTune supports Firefox v1.x,2.x,3.x.This not only optimizes but also synchronize Firefox performance with Computer speed so as to prevent the browser from sudden crash that can be due to over processor speed or memory utilized by the browser.

It has 6 options ranges from Fast/Slow Computer with Faster/Slower connections so as to suitable for all low as well as high performance computers.Just select your Browser profile and Click Tune it button to optimize

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World's first 3D Digicam from Fujifilm

Japanese Photographic solutions provider Fujifilm unveiled world's first three dimensional Digital camera and it's new imaging technology -Finepix Real 3D system.

This three dimensional Digicam helps users to view 3D images with naked eye without in need for wearing special 3D glasses.

Also 3D images can be viewed on 8 inch viewer screen and also can print them using High precision production technology.But 3D screen and printing technology will be introduced in near future.

It's price range comes around INR 39,999 that aims in acquiring 15 percent stack in markets in coming 3 years said it's Managing Director Kenich Tanaka.

Google wave for Real time communication

Google wave preview for real time communication and collaboration.Mainly used to communicate and collaborate with pictures,documents,videos etc with other viewers..A wave is a parts of conversation where users can contribute,edit the message,content and view the results over real time.

Also can be used as gadgets using Google wave API and it helps to edit the content over all viewers at same time called as Real Time collaboration.

Since each wave represents equal part of document or conversation,Collaborators may use a playback feature in Google Wave to view the order such as which wave is edited and who is responsible for that in the wave.

It supports extensions for grammar check and translation in over 40 languages.

Get your invitation to Google wave here

Google App Engine – Must for Web application developers

Google App Engine is a Ideal place for all developers to develop and Run their own web application on Google’s Infrastructure.

Usually if one needs to run a web application, he/she can execute from their own work station or servers and execute to view the results.But this doesn’t need any servers to execute. Just upload your own application and serve your users.

Also integrate the application with your own domain name,But this can be done using another Google technology known as Google Apps.

Application Serving:

This can be done in 2 ways as follows

With your Own domain name using Google Apps.

Using freename on the appdomain as shown in screenshot.

Google App Engine can be used to create up to 10 applications. Also Application can be create using Appcfg Tool, SDK that contains a App Engine called Appcfg used to execute code in real time either using Python or Java Runtime appcfg.

The main advantage in using App Engine is it’s cost and resource free up to certain limit you use such as 500MB storage available and for more resource can be purchased.

Also many AppEngine SDK and plugin available for Java SDK for efficient Code usage.

Samsung Corby-full touch screen mobile

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has launched it’s new handset Corby designed to attract and support the youngsters aimed in social networking.

This Handset has been quite different from other touch screen mobiles due to its attractive design and has been notable for it’s colors and options such as orange,pink,yellow and white.It’s price ranges along INR 9600.

Since it’s aimed manly for youngsters it has supported nearly nine social networking community sites such as YouTube,Twitter, Picassa, Flickr, Orkut etc..And hopes to be high attractive among the young generations and Asim Warsi G.M(Marketing)Samsung India Electronics said the company has so far launched 34 mobile handsets. Of which 11 models were under Touch Screen, 10 Under Multimedia Segment and the remaining comes under business.

Due to it’s release, Samsung has it’s Edge among all Touch screen mobiles being launched and It’s report says 15 to 16% of the handsets are manufactured in India.

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