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| Canon Cameras are Most Popular on Flickr [Quick Online Tips] Posted: 16 May 2008 08:33 AM CDT
Canon Cameras are Most PopularVisit the Flickr Camera Finder and you will see the trends of Most Popular Cameras in the Flickr Community. The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi followed by Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT by far rule the charts as the most popular cameras used on Flickr, and they are DSLR! in the Popular Point & Shoot Cameras category, Canon PowerShot SD1000 leads by far followed by Canon PowerShot S3 IS, Canon PowerShot SD750 and Canon PowerShot SD600… These chart reveals Canon cameras are extremely popular on Flickr, and with millions of images being uploaded every month, the large group data seems very reliable. However, they clarify that the data is “only accurate to the extent that we can automatically detect the camera used to take the photo or shoot the video (about 2/3rds of the time)”. Visit the popular Canon cameras page on Flickr for indepth study and you find the Canon EOS 40D is next in line, though far behind. The stats there reveal that both the Canon Digital Rebel XT series cameras have together snapped over 70 million photos! And just in case you thought that the Apple iPhone is limited to a small part of the world, it tops the category of most popular cameraphones and its coming to India. Related Copyright 2008. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.      | ||||||||||||||||
| Backup and Share files with SugarSync- 3 Accounts GiveAway [-| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-] Posted: 16 May 2008 07:21 AM CDT SugarSync is popular online backup and file sharing system. SugarSync allows you to keep files in sync across PCs and Macs, remotely access your files and also access your computer (PC or Mac) on your BlackBerry, Windows Mobile or iPhone device. We have three 30GB one year subscription to SugarSync worth $49.99 each for giveaway, so keep reading on how to win one. For uploading files online and sharing them, first you need to create an account with SugarSync. Once you activate the account, download the SugarSync Manager for Windows or for Mac (in Beta). Install the application on you PC and then login to SugarSync with your details. You can select the name of your PC and then synchronize with your account. Once this is done, you can start adding files to your online account. To do this click on "Add/Edit Sync Folders" button and then click Add. Select the files and folders you wish you upload to your account and then click OK and the selected files will be uploaded. Whenever you make any changes to the files uploaded, then it automatically gets synchronized if you are online and SugarSync is installed on your PC. The updating process was very quick, the moment I clicked save after modifying the file, it was updated in my online account. Another great feature of SugarSync is that it creates a folder named "Magic Briefcase" in your documents folder. The feature of this folder is that, if you save or add any files to this folder it will be uploaded automatically to your online account. You can also access the files through browser using the url provided. The url provided will be signupname.sugarsync.com, where signupname is the name you used for registration with SugarSync. You can upload files and view Magic briefcase through web browser. You can also access your files from an internet enabled Smartphone or you can directly type the url m.sugarsync.com to access files from mobile phone. Pricing Details: Initially you can sign up for free account which gives you 10GB of space for 45 days, after that you need to chose a paid plan. Paid plans starts from 10GB of storage to 250GB. the basic plan with 10GB online storage can be purchased for 24.99$ yearly fees. You can sign up for an account from here. Life Rocks 2.0 SugarSync accounts Giveaway: SugarSync has offered three 30GB account for one year each worth $49.99 free for our readers. You can be one of the 3 lucky people to get the free account. The procedure is as follows; 1.Sign up for SugarSync free account. 2. Leave a comment on this blog stating what you plan to do with this free account and how you are going to use it in case you win it. 3. Make sure that you comment on this blog using the same email ID which you used for signing up with SugarSync. 4. I'll announce the 3 winners who makes the best and compelling comment and their accounts will be converted to 30GB one year subscription. The contest will run for one week and winners will be announced on May 26th and dont forget to Subscribe to this blog for the updates. NB: Feed Readers, sorry for the double posting, the first article disappeared mysteriously from the blog.       | ||||||||||||||||
| Make Your Gmail Look Snazzier With Gmail Redesigned [Techie Buzz] Posted: 16 May 2008 06:54 AM CDT Gmail has been a powerhouse for me and made my life simpler in managing emails and responding to clients, using keyboard shortcuts for quick access, starring important emails and tons and tons of more features. Gmail has really revolutionalized the way people look at email first with providing users with enormous amounts of email storage space and bringing AJAX to mainstream. With these and many more features they made the Inbox a much better place. The one thing that lacks with Gmail though is no support for skins and templates. Gmail has sported the same look from the day it has launched with little improvements in them. Not that I am complaining but there are tons of users who do not like the plain old interface. So if you are looking to make Gmail look more snazzier here is a template which you can use to get rid of the plain old look, take a look at the screenshot below to see what this small trick will transform your Gmail look to.
To get this look for your Gmail Inbox simply follow these steps. Note you can achieve this only in Firefox, if you don’t have it then Download Firefox now.
That’s it once you have Installed the new style refresh your Gmail Inbox for the new them to be applied. There is a note of caution though, this style does not work with Lifehackers Better Gmail 2 and Remember the Milk extensions for Firefox, so if your heavily dependant on these extensions you should wait for future releases of this style which the author is working on. On the other hand this style only works with “new versions” of Gmail and only has support for English language right now, multi-language support expected in the future. For more information visit the Gmail Redesigned page. What do you think of this theme? Do you think it’s high time Gmail gave in to popular demands and add in themes just like the did with Google IG? Let me know your comments and views. Via: [Welcome to the Fallout] Technorati Tags: Gmail,Gmail Redesigned,Gmail Theme,Gmail Template,Firefox,Stylish,Templates,Gmail Style Featured Ads: Get 500 GB Webspace online. Signup for Dreamhost. © Keith Dsouza for Techie Buzz, 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us ---
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| How to get rid of Unread Mail Count in Windows XP [Online Tech Tips] Posted: 16 May 2008 06:28 AM CDT If you’re using Windows XP, you might have noticed that annoying “X Unread Mail Messages” message that shows up below the user name on the logon screen. It’s actually a pretty useless number considering it never seems to be right, at least for me. By default, the Unread Mail Count is derived by looking at all accounts that have been checked within the last three days, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail, and the MSN browser client. The problem is that it includes all the accounts of other people who have checked their email under the same user name. Image Source: Poremsky There are two ways to get rid of the unread mail messages line under the user name in XP: edit the registry or download the Microsoft Tweak UI Power Toy and change the setting there. I’ll go ahead and describe both methods since they are pretty easy. Remove XP Unread Mail Count - RegistryBefore you modify the registry, always be sure to make a backup! If you don’t know how to make a backup of the registry, then don’t use this method! First open the registry editor by clicking on Start, choosing Run and then typing in REGEDIT. Now navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail Note that you will not see this key if you are in a domain environment, so it won’t be there on office or corporate computers most likely. Once there create a new DWORD Value (right-click on the UnreadMail key in left-hand pane, New > DWORD Value) and call it MessageExpiryDays. Double click on the MessageExpiryDays value you just created and set the value to 0 though it should be the default value already. That’s it! You’ve now disabled the unread mail message count in Windows XP! Now you’ll just see the usernames without all those useless unread email counts. Turn off login screen Unread Mail Count using Tweak UIAhhh so let’s just do it the easy way! Download the Tweak UI Power Toy and install it. Now open it up and go to Logon at the bottom. Under that you’ll see the option Unread Mail. Go ahead and uncheck the “Show unread mail on Welcome screen” option to disable the Unread Mail count. That’s it! A lot easier right!? The next time you log on, the screen will not display your unread message count like shown above. Enjoy! Source: Poremsky Technorati Tags: unread mail count, unread mail messages, disable unread mail count, xp unread mail count, logon screen unread mail messages, turn off unread mail count
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| Move your files to any folder by dragging using teracopy [Technix Update] Posted: 16 May 2008 06:27 AM CDT There are some instances when you would want to move a downloaded file or folder to a different location. Well it happens with me most of the time because, what ever I download any thing from web I tend to download it to the desktop and then at the end of the day, I categorize my downloads then move them to the different folders, like software downloads , Music etc.
For all these folders like Sangeet , Software Downloads I have shortcuts created on the desktop so just need to drag the files on the shortcut icon to copy the files over that folder. But what ever you do you can’t move files, they will always be copied if you drag files on the shortcuts icon. So after coping I have to delete the files from the desktop, all this makes the whole process somewhat unproductive. But I found out a solution to this problem using TeraCopy, Let’s see how The only thing you need to do is to install TeraCopy on your machine. download it from here
As shown in the image above, you need to press mouse right click on the file and then drag it over the shortcut to the folder , or over the folder itself you will get the options like 1. TeraCopy here - select if you want to copy the files 2. TeraMove here - select if you want to move the files. and other options like copy here , move here and create shortcuts here. We hope you may find this small tweak usefull. If you like it do give some comments.     | ||||||||||||||||
| Download Free PCmover Software [Quick Online Tips] Posted: 16 May 2008 06:08 AM CDT PCmover claims to be the #1 selling PC migration software in world which lets you transfer your files, settings, and even programs from an old PC to your new PC easily! Laplink Software is celebrating its 25th Anniversary and you can download free PCmover for 24 hours today. Laplink software partners join the celebrations and are offering exclusive 1 day only deals on best selling software from Webroot, Uniblue, Raxco and others! While most other softwares are less than $10, some free software deals available today (as part of Laplink Gold 2008) are Lavasoft File Shredder - Delete your sensitive files permanently. Download PCmover today and move your selected files, settings, and even programs to a new PC easily. Related Copyright 2008. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.      | ||||||||||||||||
| ScreenHunter - Free screen capture program [Online Tech Tips] Posted: 16 May 2008 06:01 AM CDT I recently went on a quest for the best screen capture program available. While I could have paid a fortune and obtained one of the “professional” screen capture programs, I opted to save my money and search for a free program that would still do everything I needed. Luckily, I found it! ScreenHunter 5.0 Free is available for download at http://www.wisdom-soft.com/sh/sh_free.htm and offers great features including:
Whether you are taking screenshots in order to convey your message to someone or you want to preserve something in its current state, this program is a perfect one to help you accomplish your task. It is free to download and does not take long to install. Additionally, it has a stand-by mode so that you can have the program virtually disappear from your window, but still be able to use the hotkey to enable a screen capture. For those who want increased functionality, there are “Plus” and “Pro” versions of the software available as well. (Currently priced at $19.95 and $29.95 respectively.) The table below shows some of the features - for full features list, visit the download website. However, for all of my screen capture needs, I have found that the free version is sufficient and meets my needs. It is easy to use and best of all, the price is definitely right! This is a guest post by Karen Worthy, a tech enthusiast. Technorati Tags: screenshot, screen capture, ScreenHunter, ScreenHunter 5.0 Free, software review, web capture, image capture, internet browser image capture, screen, image, freeware, free download
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| How to make safari emulate (not really) as IE! [ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!] Posted: 16 May 2008 02:41 AM CDT David alison has written an excellent tip, where he tells that how you can make safari pretend that it’s IE. It certainly is not the emulation, however it may work for those sites where you get a message that this website requires IE only. Why exactly that will happen ?
Please note that don’t use this tip for any important, as there are many secure websites (read : bank portals) which still want you to access their portals through Internet explorer and I’ll suggest that don’t even think of trying this technique and that you should refrain from using it on such important and critical websites. I don’t have IE - Microsoft doesn’t provide one for Mac I understand that and I find it frustrating too, however Adam Pash has written an excellent tip where he tells you that how you can run Windows and Mac applications side by side as if they were native Apple applications (ah! just with windows looks and UI). Apart from that you can also use free software called innotek VirtualBox and run Windows XP in a virtualized machine. © BloggingSaurus - ReviewSaurus | TipsoSaurus Partner : TechZilo - useful software reviews and hacks, web tips and applicationsCopyRights : ReviewSaurus       | ||||||||||||||||
| Grab Free Ebook on Photoshop [ Download ] [Technospot.net] Posted: 16 May 2008 02:33 AM CDT
The Book is in 2 versions 64 MB ( High Resolution ) and 23 MB ( Low Resolution ). They have covered topics like
So just go and grab it. Its worth downloading.
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| Why is Apple not releasing gaming console ? [ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!] Posted: 16 May 2008 02:30 AM CDT I came across an interesting article by Don Reisinger, who suggests that it’ll be wise if Apple will release a gaming console and I second that motion! It really makes sense that Apple should jump in the gaming industry with some beautiful and sexy looking consoles and on top of it, it’ll be even cool if they jump with some amazing games too. Don also makes a good point that these days consoles are used not only for games but for various different purposes like downloading movies, music, TV shows etc. and with iTunes store in place, Apple has a huge market to capture. What do you say about the idea ? Will you drop the idea of buying Xbox 360 or Playstation if at all, Apple decides to launch a gaming console, what will be the impact of the news, if at all Apple decides to go for gaming console ? © BloggingSaurus - ReviewSaurus | TipsoSaurus Partner : TechZilo - useful software reviews and hacks, web tips and applicationsCopyRights : ReviewSaurus       | ||||||||||||||||
| White Box Testing and its Types [Technospot.net] Posted: 16 May 2008 12:23 AM CDT Let us take a scenario where you go to the market to buy a cell phone.Before finalizing the cell phone, you check for the look and feel of the phone, features, technical specifications such as battery life, dimensions, color etc.Here what you are actually doing is testing the structure of the phone. Technically speaking, in this example, testing the structure of the cell phone is white box testing. Here is an Image to give you an idea on types of white box testing and then we are discussing each of them one by one. Please consider the following piece of code as an example for further understanding. Fig 1. Unit Testing
Drawbacks : If testing scope is too broad, developers does random testing, that’s risky, because each part of the system is not tested. Statement Coverage Testing
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Fig -2 Branch Coverage Testing
For above example ( Fig 1. )
Drawbacks: Decision coverage of object code is not ensured, through this testing Condition Coverage Testing
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Mutation Testing
Drawbacks of White Box Testing: –For large systems exhaustive testing is impossible this means to test each and every path of large system is not possible Its time consuming Patience and complete knowledge of the code is required Detailed documentation is required Conclusion on White Box Testing: -The catch here is to understand the essence of what white box testing means and where it can be used. The more we understand in terms of practical example and can relate it the better control on performance you can attain. Note: Unit tests tell you whether your code performed as expected, and code coverage tells you what remains to be tested.
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| IndiMeme: A Meme Tracker For Indian Blogs [Techie Buzz] Posted: 16 May 2008 12:14 AM CDT One of my blogging Pal’s Ram has just launched a new site called Indimeme, which indexes Indian blogs and stories from around the Blogosphere. Indimeme is something that can rival Techmeme in the future for Indian News but it has still has a long long way to go. Here are my opinions about Indimeme.
The Good ThingsOn first glance I saw that Indimeme has quite a good relevancy factors and displays proper relevant posts to their content. This is definitely the best part I liked about Indimeme. The other thing is that it has a simple design which makes navigation real simple for the user and does not create hassles while browsing for content.
Concept and idea are both good, the results will be determined by the reach and improvements Ram can put into the project. The Bad ThingsComing to the part which everyone hates to know, but it has to be eventually be told. Though it’s still early days for Indimeme I hope Ram can take these views positively and work on them rather than wanting to put a gun to my head :). Indexing is quite poor and does not move at all I had checked the site around 9.30PM today and its already 1AM here, between the last view and now I did not see a single new post being added, whereas I read quite a few posts being added by the blogs Indimeme is tracking within the same time. Another thing that I saw is that authority is tracked using inbound links to the site which is quite fair enough but seems the site uses some internal linking rules to rate sites. In my opinion they should use some external API’s like one from Technorati to track inbound links to any given post, this would be a better option atleast in initial stage till Indimeme can develop their own linking logic. SummarizingA good idea but bad indexing and link tracking logic should definitely be handled and fixed fast. Other than that looking forward to more and more improvements in the near future for Indimeme. Featured Ads: Start making money on your site. Sign up for Text Link Ads. © Keith Dsouza for Techie Buzz, 2008. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us ---
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| Compfight now sports a new design [TechZilo] Posted: 15 May 2008 10:45 PM CDT Compfight, is an AJAX-powered website that allows easy and quick searching of Flickr images. It has now undergone a revamp in its design, and looks more modern now, moving away from the sparse interface that was present before. In my review of Compfight, I had noted that Compfight featured a very minimalist interface with just a text field and a couple of buttons and options (reminding me of Google), hence loading very quickly (inspite of the numerous scripts required for AJAXed search). Now, it features an updated interface. See the screenshot below. Interesting bit: See the last line in the screenshot - “Do not disable safe search unless you’re of legal age, in a legal country, promise not to tell your mom etc”. We know that the first two parts (legal age and country) are necessary, but the third one? Perhaps the Compfight team have also gotten a good sense of humour, like Google (when Google shows a server error, it says “Bad server, no dough nut for you”). Partners:
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| AOL Joins Yahoo Bandwagon Debuts Free SMS In India [Techie Buzz] Posted: 15 May 2008 10:39 PM CDT AOL has joined Yahoo Messenger in allowing users to send Free SMS using their AOL India Mail and AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) which they had debuted in India last year.
The offer looks good enough since it allows users to send Free SMS directly from AOL mail. This though is not a new phenomenon as Yahoo Messenger has allowed users to send Free SMS through their messenger client to any mobile devices for quite some time now. The only catch with Yahoo was that the person who you send a SMS too needs to reply atleast once to you or else you cannot send more than 5 SMS messages to them.
With AOL I do not see any such restrictions listed out on the site, but guess they will definitely have some cap on the SMS messages you can send out. Though with SMS messages costing as low as 30 paise (approx The service allows you to send Free SMS to Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel, MTNL and spice networks only. If you want to start using this free service checkout AOL promos for sending Free SMS or start using the AIM Client for India. Featured Ads: Looking for a job. Find one at Techie Buzz Jobs. © Keith Dsouza for Techie Buzz, 2008. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us ---
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| SugarSync Review and Three SugarSync 30 GB Annual Subscriptions Giveaway! [Killer Tech Tips] Posted: 15 May 2008 10:10 PM CDT SugarSync is a complete, and a really perfect online backup and file syncing solution for your data. In this post, I’ll be writing my review and thoughts on the application, how it works and why it’s better than some other online file syncing tools available out there. I’ve got three 30-GB SugarSync annual subscriptions (each has a retail value of $49.99) to give away. You’ll find details on how you can grab one for yourself at the end of this post.
What is SugarSync?SugarSync is an application that synchronizes files and data across your devices - desktop or laptop computers and even mobile phones. How Does SugarSync Work?First, sign up for Sugar Sync and then download and install the SugarSync manager (available for Windows, Mac and your mobile). Installation is straight forward, and happens without any hassles. When you run the application for the first time, you’ll need to login to your SugarSync account using the ID that you created during when signing up. Once that is done, give a name to your current machine whose files need to be synced across other devices. Then, choose the folders that need to constantly monitored for changes and then synced - you can choose the predefined My Documents, Pictures or Music folders or point to more additional locations using the Add button in this window: If you’ll need access to your data from your mobile phone, you can configure that too from the next window. You should see the SugarSync Manager window popping up now. As you can see in the screenshot below, the manager lists the folders that have been selected for syncing - and instantly starts uploading stuff to the SugarSync servers. You make a change to your file on your PC and then save it - the file is updated instantly across devices - your laptops and other machines - if they’re currently online and have SugarSync installed. Nothing explains things better than the official SugarSync screencast. (This is a must-watch video!) SugarSync also creates a pre-configured folder called Magic Briefcase in your My Documents folder. If you happen to save something inside that folder, it is immediately synced between all your devices. You can also configure your folders to be archived on the web (Web Archive). The folders that you want to be archived are copied only once online and edits to the file are not synced. Use this when you’re editing a file, but also want to preserve an earlier version of the same file online. You can browse through your synced photos in photo gallery mode. Get SugarSync installed in your mobile device, take some snaps and they’re automatically synced and can be viewed in photo gallery mode. You can also access the synced files from your web browser by pointing to your-name.sugarsync.com (your-name refers to the name that you allotted during sign-up). Concluding ThoughtsSugarSync is an absolutely awesome service - it doesn’t have any niggles at all. I tried it and I loved it. Only thing is that people want file SugarSync syncs any folder that you’ve told it to sync. Dropbox, another file backup service that I’ve tried previously, requires you to put your files in a specific location for them to be synced online. However, I should also mention that SugarSync does not come free of cost - you can try a 10 GB plan for free up to 45 days, after which you can pay to choose from 5 different plans according to your needs. Check the rates and features here. You can sign up for SugarSync from here. Free SugarSync Subscriptions GiveawayThe guys at SugarSync have offered THREE 30 GB annual subscriptions to giveaway to KTT readers. Each will cost you $49.99, but you can win them for free here! Here’s how: First, sign up for a free 45-day trial of a 10 GB SugarSync account (NO credit card required). This is an absolute must. Then, come back and tell us in the comments section below why YOU need a $49.99 worth SugarSync subscription and how you’ll use it. In the comments form, make sure that you leave the email that you have associated with your SugarSync account. The three most compelling answers will be chosen by me, and the winners will be announced in about a week from now. Just subscribe to the blog for updates.       | ||||||||||||||||
| Locate Radio Stations Across the World with Radio-Locator [-| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-] Posted: 15 May 2008 09:32 PM CDT Radio-Locator is a website where you can search for various radio stations across the world. This useful and comprehensive list of radio station displays the radio stations according to genre and location. This site is mainly developed for locating radio stations in US and Canada. You can search based on various criteria like zip code, city, frequency etc. If you want to search for various radio stations in a particular country, then select the country from the list and the result displays all the radio stations with links to their website. I did a search for India and it fetched me around 20 stations, although the list is not a complete one, it displayed most of the top stations. You can also find Internet streaming radio stations based on various formats. Radio-Locator is one of the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the Internet with over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams.       | ||||||||||||||||
| Google Experiments With Search Boxes in Search Results [Techie Buzz] Posted: 15 May 2008 09:13 PM CDT Google has been experimenting quite a lot with search results lately and I was glad to see another new experiment today where they added a search box within the search results to search the site itself. This is much like having site search right within the search results. Check out the search results in the screenshot below. The search box is place right below the first result with a button to search the site.
I think this would be a rather good addition since I can directly search for more resources from the site right from the search results itself. When I searched using the additional search option in the results it redirected me to the default Google site search. Check screenshot below.
I have also seen few other experiments which I heard earlier where they added links from their index below the top search result. Check out the screenshot below.
What do you think of these experiments in Google Search? Will they be helpful to you? I would be happy to know if you too are seeing this experiment or it’s being phased our slowly to users. Do let me know about them in your comments. Featured Ads: Get 100$ in free Ads. Signup with Text Link Ads. © Keith Dsouza for Techie Buzz, 2008. | Permalink | 3 comments | Add to del.icio.us ---
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| Browse Internet on your Mobile using Opera Mini [Madhur Kapoor's Blog] Posted: 15 May 2008 04:31 PM CDT
When i started using Internet on my phone, i used the crappy in built browser. Then i was introduced to Opera Mini browser and my browsing experience has been entirely different ever since. Opera recently released a new version Opera Mini 4.1. It has a lot of wonderful features such as
All these features makes the existing Opera Mini browser even better. If you browse the net using a mobile phone and is not using Opera Mini, you are missing something. Have you used Opera Mini or any other software ? Leave your thoughts in comments.        | ||||||||||||||||
| Convert YouTube Videos to iPod Format with DVDVideoSoft [-| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-] Posted: 15 May 2008 01:54 PM CDT YouTube being one of the most popular video sharing site, you would like to use these videos on your iPod. DVDVideoSoft is a free convertor which can download and convert Youtube videos to Apple iPod and Sony PSP formats. Download you favorite video directly from YouTube or Google Video and convert to your iPod, PSP or a mobile phone with one mouse click. It’s clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run. To use this software, add the urls of video from YouTube and Google. Select the output folder and also select the device for which you want to download and convert. Click on the Download and Convert button and the video will be converted to the format selected. DVDVideoSoft YouTube to iPod converter is a simple and pretty useful software to convert YouTube videos. This free Converter contains no spyware or adware. Download YouTube to iPod Convertor       | ||||||||||||||||
| Flogos Flying Logos for Sky Advertising [Quick Online Tips] Posted: 15 May 2008 12:41 PM CDT Want to create flying logos to showcase your brand? Flogos is a new form of advertising in the sky, the brainchild of two international special effects inventors, Francisco Guerra and Brian Glover, who wondered what would happen if we could generate clouds into shapes. Flogos are made from proprietary surfactant (soap) based foam formulations that can last from few minutes to an hour. Once the Flogo generator releases the Flogos, they travel with the direction of the wind flow and can travel 20-30 miles and go as high as 20,000 thousand feet! The Flogo generators are available in stand sizes of 24 inch and 36 inches with larger Flogo generators creating more complex logo designs. One Flogo generator you will produce one Flogo every 15 seconds, so if you want a rush of Flogos, get more. Flogos are currently only available for white clouds and they claim it is 100% environmentally safe. See how the Peace Symbol Flogo is generated in this video Flogos Everywhere… Float your logo (err… Flogo) over the neighbourhood or business district and amaze your new target audience. I see they have SnowMasters offices in US, Australia and Japan. Related Copyright 2008. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.      | ||||||||||||||||
| Google Reader Goes Desktop with ReadAIR [TechBuzz] Posted: 15 May 2008 12:41 PM CDT ReadAIR is an Adobe AIR-based cross platform application which runs Google Reader as a desktop application. It features an OSX-like interface, with a typical feed reader type layout. The application synchronizes with your Google Reader account, so you’ll need to log in with your credentials the first time you run the program.
You can search through your feeds or manage feed subscriptions from the application, just like the web interface. Resizing viewing pane and managing tags is also possible with ReadAIR. Quite a few things have been left out, but the developer plans to add them soon:
The developer built this application as a fun project to improve his coding skills, but it sure looks killer for Google Reader fans. I switch from Google Reader to FeedDemon, as I felt it was more productive to use a desktop client to manage my feeds. If you have already installed Adobe Air, then go download the latest version of ReadAir from here.  | ||||||||||||||||
| Download Multiple YouTube Videos In One Click [Techie Buzz] Posted: 15 May 2008 11:55 AM CDT I watch a lot of videos on YouTube and many a times I tend to download those videos and save it on my drive. The problem occurs when a video tends to have multiple parts I have to download all of those one by one. That was till I came across a solution to download multiple files from YouTube in one click. 1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader is a real life saver for me as it allows me to download multiple files in one click rather than having to navigate through each URL. The one thing that makes this software unique from other YouTube downloaders is that gives you a option to download multiple files at once. The videos can be converted into mp4, wmv, and mov formats. You can also join multiple videos to create a single file which is another feature that rocks. Watch the Videos below to see the 1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader in action. Downloading Multiple Files  Join Multiple Videos to make it One file
 Download Individual Video with 1 Click. No more Save As… No more renaming to .flv!
 If you like what you see in the videos don’t wait go ahead and download the Free 1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader. Featured Ads: Get 5 Terabytes Bandwidth. Signup for Dreamhost. © Keith Dsouza for Techie Buzz, 2008. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us ---
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| Download Adobe Flash Player 10 [Quick Online Tips] Posted: 15 May 2008 11:41 AM CDT Adobe Labs has released Adobe Flash Player 10, code-named Astro, that introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that will allow designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. Get Adobe Flash Player 10Adobe Flash Player is a high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, devices and allows you to enjoy the interactive, rich content with video, graphics and animation. You can also download the currently final version of Adobe Flash Player 9. Probably you already have it installed, as your browser would have prompted you to get flash player on select flash content enabled sites. Some amazing new features of Adobe Flash Player 10 are - 3D Effects - Transform and animate any display object through 3D space; Custom Filters and Effects to create your own portable filters, blend modes, and fills using Adobe Pixel Bender; Advanced Text Layout, a new, highly flexible text layout engine; Enhanced Drawing API for easier runtime drawing and more powerful with re-styleable properties; and Visual Performance Improvements such that applications and videos will run smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration. Here are the release notes. Remember Adobe Flash Player 10 is a prerelease software for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms and is available for developers and consumers to test their content output quality and compatibility issues. The prerelease installers are available only in English. Flash Player 10 no longer supports Mac OS X version 10.1 and Ubuntu support has been added. Users should uninstall any previously installed Flash Player before installing the beta. Download Flash Player 10 Beta today and experience the difference. Related Copyright 2008. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.      | ||||||||||||||||
| Recover accidentally closed programs in Windows [Online Tech Tips] Posted: 15 May 2008 06:33 AM CDT Have you ever ended up closing a program that you didn’t mean to close? For example, maybe you have several browser windows open, your email open, instant messengers connected, and a photo editing program like Photoshop open. You go to close Photoshop, but you accidentally click the wrong “X”, thereby closing the browser and all of the tabs that were open too. Now you would have to re-open your browser window and load up all of the pages you had open previously, if you can even remember what was there! Pain in the butt! Wouldn’t it be nice if you could recover any accidentally closed program for up to 60 seconds? Yes, you could re-open it manually like normal, but why not save yourself time and energy, right? GoneIn60s is a nitfy little freeware app that takes care of this small, yet annoying problem. What does it do? Basically, whenever you click the X button on any program, GoneIn60s tells Windows to not kill it for 60 more seconds, thereby giving you a chance to instantly load it back up with no loss of data or settings. Once you have it download, just run the EXE and you’ll see a small icon in the system tray, which you can right-click to see the list of programs that you can recover (will only show stuff that was closed in the last 60 seconds). As you can see, I had closed a Firefox window while on the Google AdWords tab. I had several other tabs open and was able to simply click once to get my window back! Sweet! The program basically acts like a middle man for you. Close the program, it’ll capture your request before the operating system does, wait 60 seconds, and then send the close request to the OS. There are also some settings for the program that you can change, including the shutdown delay, which is by default 60 seconds. Just right-click and choose Settings to customize. You can also add programs in that you want it to ignore, which means it will not delay the shutdown of the program. Go to the Task Manager to see the name of the process for the program if you want to add it to the ignore list. There is also an option “Kill Windows”, which basically means that after the 60 seconds time expires, the program will not ask you to save any changes you may have made. I would recommend keeping it unchecked! I would definitely use this program if you are someone who has lots of stuff open all the time and especially if you use programs that don’t prompt you when you close them, like browsers, email, etc. Note I just thought of another great way to use this program! If you’re at the office browsing the Internet or watching a video in Windows Media Player, you could close it out quickly so that the program would be hidden and after everything is safe, you can bring it right back up from where it left off! So it’s useful for hiding programs or windows quickly without having to close them! Enjoy! Source: Tech Xpress Technorati Tags: recover windows programs, recover closed programs, recover accidentally closed windows
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| Edit MP3 metadata with Mp3tag for free [Online Tech Tips] Posted: 15 May 2008 06:16 AM CDT Do you have hundreds or even thousands of ripped and downloaded mp3, aac, OGG and other audio files with inconsistent or incomplete metadata? The freeware application Mp3tag (currently at v2.41) can make life a bit easier for those of us who like to keep files organized, with accurate tags. We've all ripped CDs that we have legitimately purchased which did not give accurate and complete metadata tags in the extracted tracks. You know, the ‘track 01′ of album ‘not indentified’ conundrum. And it’s a tremendous problem when you are converting large numbers of CDs. There are many tag editors available, and within iTunes you can update tag information as well, but not with the ease-of-use tools that mp3tag includes gratis. With mp3tag you can:
Getting StartedDownload mp3tag v2.41 for free here, and install it on your PC. Its XP and Vista compatible. I'm going to illustrate how to complete and correct metadata for several album tracks that I purchased online. I need the cover art, genre and the correct names of six album tracks I purchased online. After you've installed the application, you can peruse the default settings within the Tools – options menu. For now, leave these as they are. What you'll want to do is use the directory navigation to open a music directory that you want to work on. The application will open all nested subdirectories, so if for instance all your music is in a directory labeled 'iTunes' you can just open that directory. Warning – if you do this it is going to take mp3tag a while to scan all the files and metadata. So you may want to navigate down to the artist or album. In the example I will use, I navigate down to thealbum that I want to fill in data for: Mp3tag gives me a window showing all tracks within the selected directory. I select all my album tracks. You can use the normal Windows key combinations to select subsets. The window is divided into two panels. In the right-panel, you see the existing metadata. You can see that my metadata is incomplete for Genre. Four tracks have a null value and two have ‘Pop’. I want to change all to Disco. The left-panel can be thought of as the 'control' panel – it shows the values that you want to update into the tags for selected files. You can see in the example that mp3tag understands that for the selected tracks the metadata for the Album, Year, and Artist are consistent. It defaults the control panel to keep the existing values. The literal <keep> is used whenever multiple values currently exist in the selected fileset. Otheroptions are to type in a single new literal value to replace all the existing values for the tag, or use the <blank> literal to remove the metadata. So for instance in my tag for Genre I can use <keep> and the hodge-podge in my current audio files of empty tag or 'Pop' will be retained. Or I could type in 'Disco' in the Genre field and set all the instances of the tag in the selected files to 'Disco.' So that’s what I will do. But first I will access an external source to help clean up track titles, check all other tags, and try to obtain cover art. Updating from external sourcesA powerful feature of mp3tag is its ability to pull in metadata from outside sources. So, as I start to make my adjustments the first thing I do is to access either Freedb (which is configurable) or Amazon. I use Amazon in this example, and mp3tag pulls the following options for me: The highlighted row matches my album. I click OK and mp3tag downloads album art as well as metadata from Amazon. The software is smart enough to realize I have not bought the entire album, and matches as best it can based on my track titles with the album metadata. I click OK after reviewing the track match ups. Mp3tag now updates my metadata. Notice for instance that my song titles are corrected (Staying Alive is now Stayin' Alive;How deep is ur love is now How deep is your love, etc). In addition, I now have album art and an updated album title and release year. I will use the drop down for Genre and classify this as disco (rather than Pop). And the resulting: cleaned, consistent, complete song tags: Now, I’m not yet done. I will go ahead and rename the files, using the new tags. You can see above that my filenames still have the old track title spellings. I also want to put the artist and album directly in the filenames. I determine how I want my filenames standardized. Mp3tag will do it in all-at-once (how I like it!), or one-by-one if you so choose. It also gives you a preview, of the new filename based on the current filename / metadata parameters: Update tags from FilenamesThat's nifty but what if you have a lot of mp3s that have album – track no – title in the filename but no metadata? Mp3tag also let's you go from filename to tags, just as easily. You use the list of variables:
And a whole lot more actually. With these you map tags to your existing filenames. Mp3tag can give you a preview of how the metadata will be filled in – if it looks good click OK and have mp3tag complete the tags for your iPod listening pleasure based on the filenames you already have! Other featuresMp3tag includes context menus that are very helpful as well -including the ability to play a track within mp3tag. That comes in handy for those times when you have ripped albums that resulted in filenames like track01, track02. You can right-click/play, listen a few seconds, and then type in the correct title. You can also create and export playlists easily for groups of files and directories. So, go ahead and give mp3tag a try. After all, it’s time for spring cleaning! Pete Kushmeider, Writer and blogger Technorati Tags: mp3tag, audio metadata, id3 tag freeware, iTunes freeware
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