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| How To Predate your Gmail. |
| Google has introduced a new feature, called the Gmail Custom Time. When you create a mail, you click on Set custom time, and you can enter an earlier time that will become the time stamp of the email. You'll only be able to send email back until April 1, 2004, the day we launched Gmail. |
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| Morality apart, this feature allow you to send upto 10 predated emails per year. Why 10 ? "Our researchers have concluded that allowing each person more than ten pre-dated emails per year would cause people to lose faith in the accuracy of time, thus rendering the feature useless." Well, manipulation could never have got easier ! |
| Popularity of social networking websites in different countries. |
| This world map shows the popularity of social networking websites in different countries. |
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| Orkut sweeps India, Brazil and Pakistan, LiveJournal is in Russia while MySpace is all over Australia. More at Source. |
| The World according to Bloggers. |
| This world heatmap shows the kind of attention each country gets in the blogging community. |
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| For example, more bloggers like to talk about events in a country that’s painted in red vis-a-vis some country or region painted in orange or yellow. Source. |
| Domain Rank From Live Search. |
| After Google's Page Rank, Yahoo's now abandoned Web Rank, we now have Live Domain Rank.
Most webmasters are familiar with PR, but few are aware of Live Search's Domain Rank. |
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| To know the DR of your site, visit webmaster.live.com and register with your Hotmail/Live account. Create a User Account and enter the site url, sitemap url and other details. Once your website has been verified, you will be able to know your Domain Rank which is depicted in the number of green bars. You can also submit your Sitemap here to Live Search; and Ping it too ! |
| You may also want to checkout Microsoft AdLabs. It looks like a great tool for search marketers, webmasters and anyone looking to gain some insight into how people use search. The data comes from Microsofts own search engine. |
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| Google Anonymously ! |
| Whenever you search using Google, your IP address and time are stored in their database ... forever ... as well as the subject searched ! Google willingly allows authorities access to their database, should the need ever arise ! |
| Enter Googlonymous ! When you use Googlonymous, it goes to Google and searches for you. So Google notes only the Googlonymous's IP address; and Googlonymous does not keep records of anything in its database. One can now search without a care in the world 100% anonymous ! |
| Find Invisibles in Yahoo! Messenger ! |
| Yahoo! Messenger has the Invisibility Feature. This allows users to remain 'invisible' from you even when online. With this website you can find out exactly if your friends are Online, Offline, or Invisible! Visit www.invisible.ir. Incidentally, BuddySpy is a downloadable program which can also be used for this. |
| Download Free Inaugural issue of Windows World. |
| Mar 1st, 2008. Windows World, a new magazine has been launched by IDG, the publishers of titles such as CIO & PC World. The magazine hopes to introduce you to a whole new perspective of comprehensive information on the management and deployment of Microsoft operating systems, applications and related topics. |
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| Its website WindowsWorld appears to be under construction still, but you can Download its Free Inaugural Issue here. |
| Incidentally, those of you who may not be aware, Windows Vista Magazine, is one good magazine, whose focus is primarily on Vista Operating System ! |
| Special Google 'Hidden' Pages. |
| There are some special works of Google, that are known but to a select community of people. They are the Special Hidden Google Pages, and are worth having a look at. Check them out ! |
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Google Moms
Rare Google Beta Logo
Google’s Metaplex
Google Heart 1 & Google Heart 2
Google Newsletter
Google’s Search Statistics and Tribute.
Google Doodles
Plus UncleSam, Microsoft, Mac, Linux, BSD.
Google Zietgeist
Google’s Help To Build Better Query
Google’s Languages Which Only Google Can Understand
More “un-understandable’s” ! Bork, Bork, Bork!, thlngan Hol, H4×0r, lgpay Atinlay.
A collection of how people go wrong with spelling while searching for Birteny Spears
Google’s Librarian Central Newsletter. |
| What Can You Do If You Find That Your Content Has Been Plagiarized!? |
| If you find that your content has been blatantly copy-pasted, without any link to your site as source, here is what you can do. This is rampant! These may or may not help, but if you are one of those who doesn't like to sit back and let go, then you will atleast have had the satisfaction of having tried. |
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| SiggyBar/UserBar Creation. |
You can download a siggy-bar or a user-bar from several sites like FreeSigs, UserbarsOrg, UserbarsNet. |
You can even customize it here at SiggyMaker.
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| Then you can club two or more and animate them at Ubanimator. |
Or you can generate your very own customized user-bar using this small freeware Userbar Generator.
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| While Gates plans to retire; Paterson loves selling widgets ! |
| Tim Paterson, developed the DOS OS. In 1980 he sold it to Microsoft for $50,000. This later went on to be called as MS-DOS. |
| Tim Paterson, the architect of the computer code that helped spawn Microsoft's fortune, is busying himself with a small firm operated out of his home in Issaquah, Wash., selling modified widgets designed to improve the performance of aging digital-video recorders. |
| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is making plans to step back from the company he founded in 1975, with a vast fortune, estimated at just under $60 billion, according to Forbes. |
| Paterson Technology, which Paterson founded in 1989 as a diversion, will exceed $50,000 in sales this year. |
| DOS then formed the core of what became Microsoft's Windows software, a flagship product that has stoked the Redmond, Wash.-based company's colossal fortunes over the past quarter of a century. Microsoft's first fiscal quarter ended in September, the unit that includes Windows contributed $4.1 billion in sales. |
| Paterson, the original DOS developer, is content with life as high-tech 'tinkerer'. |
| Gates now plans to focus his energies on philanthropy, funding efforts like fighting AIDS and educating impoverished children. |
| Strange are the ways of Life ! Extract from MENAFN. |
| Desktop Evolution Through the Years: Windows and Mac OS. |
| Dec 5th, 2007. Since Windows 95 dropped more than a decade ago, our desktops have evolved to no end. Gizmodo has a side-by-side comparison/image of Windows and Mac operating systems by visual interface alone. All the major releases are here, and it is interesting to see the general progression made by even just the UI. It is interesting to see how our desktop has evolved from Windows 95 to Windows Vista. |
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| The breakdown shows Windows to be making major aesthetic development around the release of Windows 2000. Mac OS took off a little later, with OS 9 looking like a gimped UI in comparison. Mac OS X saw Apple make a large step up in the graphic department. The eye candy at present seems pretty level between the two. Source : Gizmodo. |
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| MyRightPC website from Microsoft India. |
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| If you are planning to buy a PC, then this site is for you ! Microsoft has launched a friendly interactive website for India. This site helps you to select the right PC & OS based on your needs and requirements. Check out MyRightPC. |
| Clickety-Clack ! "Google Adsense Cracked ?" |
India's leading technology magazine DIGIT, has had in its November 2007 issue, a serious look at what one Indian Security Analyst Manish Arora, claims is a flaw in Google’s AdSense ! He "Earned" $5000 by his own script just by doing nothing. |
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| Smashing 404 ERROR PAGES ! |
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| If you are tired of the same old bland 404 Not Found Error page, and would like to present your visitors with some of the most beautiful, creative and user-friendly one's, then this site is worth a check-out ! |
| How much is your Website or Blog Worth ? |
| A nice, simple, harmless, fun widget to put on your blog. |
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| How much is YOUR site/blog worth ? Now, this one, dnscoop is more like it |
| Create Disposable E-Mail Id's. |
| With Spambox one can create a temporary e-mail address that will forward all incoming mail to your usual e-mail address. Many websites ask for your e-mail address to download software or to register. But you don't know what they'll be doing with your e-mail... |
| Mailexpire is another simple, clean way for you to keep your inbox spam-free. Their system allows you to create a free email alias for yourself. For a period you choose, from 12 hours to 3 months, anything sent to this email alias will be passed on to you at your actual email address. |
| 10 Minute Mail will give you a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes. |
| GuerillaMail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame. |
| Take your pick! |
| AirTalkr : An install-free IM. |
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If you want instant messaging without a full installation, try a new solution called AirTalkr BETA. It does multiclient IM sans a full installation using Adobe's Integrated Runtime (AIR). The service works with five of the major clients, along with several Web services including YouTube, Flickr, along with Twitter and MySpace. In addition to its AIR namesake, there's also a Web version that has identical functionality sans the install, if you're willing to relegate yourself to the Windows Vista-style virtual desktop it creates in your browser. HomePage. |
| Test Your Hacking Skills. |
Test-Hack is your own online hacker simulation. With 20 levels that require different skills to get to another step of the game, this new real-life imitation will help you advance your security knowledge. Test-Hack will help you improve your JavaScript, PHP, HTML and graphic thinking in a fun way that will entertain any visitor! Have a spare minute? Log on! Each level will provide you with a new, harder clue to find a way to get to another level. Only few people have gotten to the end of the maze. Can you pass the test? A fun challenge! |
| Go HERE. Hint : To Start you need the password. Search for it in the source code. |
| Like the Simpsons ? Simpsonize Yourself! |
| Like the Simpsons ? Upload any photo,and Simpsonize yourself at SimpsonizeMe. |
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| Have Fun ! |
| SnailMail too slow? E-mail too Impersonal? Try eSNAIL !!! |
| What is eSnailer? Fill their form. Addressing the envelope, then write a letter to a friend or relative. eSnailer will print, envelope, stamp, and send your letter via regular U.S. postal mail 100% free of charge! |
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| Remember the GMail Paper April Fools jole? Well, looks like eSnailer's out to make the joke a reality! HomePage . |
| Top 10 Oxymorons. |
01. Act naturally
02. Found missing
03. Government organization
04. Extinct Life
05. Plastic glasses
06. Political science
07. Working vacation
08. Exact estimate
09. Definite maybe
10. Pretty ugly |
...and ...err... "Microsoft Works", the 11th one !?!  |
| What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now? |
| <10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down. |
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| 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. |
| 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness. |
| 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way. |
| >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium. |
| The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water. |
| As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth. |
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better. Source : HealthBolt. |
How To Tell If Your Microsoft Software Is Genuine. |
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Visit Here. Also check out The Counterfeit Microsoft Software Rogues Gallery.
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| How observant are you ? |
There are two identical pictures that will appear on the screen. Over 10000 people were tested to see if they could find the 2 differences between them and only 20 got it. See how observant you are ! You will hear clues a few sec after the images appear, so make sure your speakers are switched on. Click Here. 
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| The Old Times. |
| Here is how the Windows 1.0 packaging looked and the MIT Altair 8800, Worlds 1st personal computer, etc. at Microsofts Museum, Redmond, USA. |
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| Green Computing. |
| A nice read here on Environmentally Friendly Computing. The article covers a wide variety of topics from buying a green PC to managing consumables and advanced power management. It also gives handy tips about disposing of your old hardware in a responsible way, all the time dispelling many myths about the perils of green computing. Complete Guide to Green Computing. |
| The War Of The Icons ! |
Vintage Material, but find it still as amusing, as when I first saw it on the net.
Sit back and enjoy the Show as you would, a re-run ! |
| Puzzle-Hacker. |
PuzzleHacker is a interesting puzzle I came across.
This is the 1st page of the puzzle.
You have to guess the next page of this link.
There are total of 75 pages to go thru.
Hints are provided for every page.
See how far you can go. |
| The Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web . |
| When you use a search engine on the Internet and can't find what you're looking for, what do you do? Maybe you're seeking to learn something, which means you're probably going to keep trying until you find it. Or give up in frustration. Don't give up that easily. There's information out there that is actually not indexed in the big search engines. Such Web pages are part of what's called the Dark, Deep, Hidden or Invisible Web...
Great info here at OEDB. |
| Wanna download the internet ? |
Click Here .
Expect it to take 4381+ years and high (!) disk space !!!
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| Metasearch Engine : Telescope. |
| Telescope is a metasearch engine for Windows, which automates web searching by combining results from several search engines. In addition to general web searching, it can access results from web directories, image search engines, news web sites, encyclopedias, and free software archives. Telescope searches 38 search engines including 7 in the web category. |
| WinVista Cocktail |
| Here is an home-made recipe of one of my favorite cocktails; Do try it out. Wont BSOD you, will at best give you a heady feeling ! And on the occasion of the launch of this site, I am christening it the "WinVista Cocktail" ! Its a nice mild Tangy, Creamy Drink for a Party ! |
You'll need :Highball/Collins Glass
Blender/Mixing Glass |
30 ml Vodka
2 tbsp Vanilla IceCream
90 ml Orange Squash.
180 ml Lemonade
Dash of Sugar Syrup |
-Pour the vodka in a Highball
-Blend the other ingredients, except the lemonade
-Pour it over the vodka and top it up with lemonade
-Perch an Orange slice on the rim of the Glass
Enjoy ! |
 Virus Collecting - As A Hobby. |
| If playing with fire, makes your day then this one's for you ! |
| Though NOT advisable, the best way/place to collect virii, is to lower your internet defenses; ie disable your antivirus/ firewall and visit crack/porn sites. You will get a lot of virii, and that too for FREE ! Then run your antivirus and set it to 'quarantine'. |
| Playing with fire is exciting...but rather dangerous. So be careful. |
| True, virus collecting has become quite a popular hobby these day. |
| H. D. Moore, creator of the Metasploit hacking tool, has crafted a search engine that finds malicious software using Google queries. The new "Malware Search Engine" finds Web sites hosting malicious files after a person enters the name of a virus or Trojan horse. To begin with just type ‘a’ and see what you get !!! DONT try this at home...if you are a novice... |
| These links Fun or Folly? and Why collect Computer Viruses? could be of special interest to virus collectors ! |
| Just enjoy; Don't debate ! |
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I'm a PC - I'm a Mac : Funnies
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| Google Bombs |
| Search for any of these in Google and click on "I'm feeling lucky" button. |
Search
she invented
a$$hole
Liar
french military victories |
| 10 Stunning Facts About Microsoft’s Profits |
| Microsoft recently announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. In other words, Microsoft’s daily net income is about $55 million. That’s $55 million in pure profit every 24 hours. Do some quick math and you’ll learn it takes Microsoft only about… |
- 10 hours to exceed Red Hat’s quarterly net income of $20.5 million.
- 4 days to exceed Research In Motion’s quarterly net income of $187.9 million.
-4 days to exceed Starbucks’ quarterly net income of $205 million.
- 1 week to exceed Nike’s quarterly net income of $350.8 million.
- 2 weeks to exceed McDonalds’ quarterly net income of $762 million.
- 2 weeks to exceed Apple’s quarterly net income of $770 million.
- 18 days to exceed Google’s quarterly net income of $1 billion.
- 23 days to exceed Coca-Cola’s quarterly net income of $1.26 billion.
- 5 weeks to exceed IBM’s quarterly net income of $1.85 billion.
- 10 weeks to exceed Wal-Mart’s quarterly net income of $3.9 billion. Just goes on to show successful Microsoft & Windows is. |
| What it meant to hear Bill Gates. |
| The "Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2007" was held in March 2007, in Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention Center. Last year, Steve Balmer, had addressed the Meet. But this year, since the Chairman & the Chief Architect of Microsoft, Bill Gates, had decided to address it, there was a different air of excitement among all the delegates. There was a record attendance of over 1,700 MVP Awardees and Regional Directors, representing over 90 countries. |
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| The "Most Valuable Professional" Award was established by Microsoft more than 11 years ago as a way to recognize amazing individuals who have demonstrated a willingness to reach out, share their technical expertise with others and help individuals maximize their use of technology. The MVP status is awarded to the most active community experts for their technical expertise and voluntary willingness to share their experience and commitment to helping others realize their potential within Microsoft technical communities. There are over 2,600 MVPs globally and around 82 in India. |
| In his key-note address, Bill Gates talked of the future of Computing and Internet. He said that of one were to look over a 5 year span, it would not be a surprise to see a 16 or a 32 processor desktop, from the 2 processor desktop of today. He saw a great future for Tablet PCs. Beaming after a successful launch of Windows Vista and The Office 2007 Suite, he added that Microsoft, because of its success, could take a long term view out into what it should be doing to have breakthroughs in software. The company even now has a group that's doing software for robots. He also predicted a bright but distant future for Web Services. It was a great feeling to be addressed to, by the richest man on the planet ! |
Being this years Microsoft MVP Awardee, I was invited to attend this Summit and participate in four days of intense technical lectures & breakout sessions, concerning Windows Vista Operating System, Vista Deployment & Licensing Policies, Windows Live, etc.
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