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Ethnic Sounds On Google Earth Now.

Posted by admin on May 12th, 2007

A great news for all Google earth users. Ethnic sounds (right from the brazilian rain forest to arctic ice sheets) will now accompany the location-sighting venture on google Earth. As we know Google Earth is a virtual program that was originally called Earth Viewer. It maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery etc.
According to Times Of India a California-based company wild sanctuary created this software with the objective of bringing the world alive. It will make virtual visitors more aware of the impact of human activity on the environment as the recording of sounds of birds, animals, leaves movements with air is considered in it. Users will also be able to hear various modern day sounds at a particular location. It is planned to have the software ready with 26 sounds on demonstration on may 29. So let’s wait and watch…….

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Create New Email Account Within Your Existing Gmail Account

Posted by admin on May 11th, 2007

Creating multiple users or writers from the one gmail address…..sounds cool naa!!! Gmail lets you create a new email account or you can say a child email account within your existing Gmail account. Follow the given steps to enjoy this:

1. Open your GMail account.

2. Click on the ’settings’ option given on top of left.

3. Click on ‘account’ tab in the settings screen and then Click on ‘Add another email address’ link.

4. Type the new EMail ID you want to create.

5. Just click on “Add Account” tab there and you are done.

Now whenever you will try to compose a mail, you will have the options in the ‘from’ feild.

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Fix Google Reader In Opera

Posted by admin on May 10th, 2007

Opera is now getting much popularity in comparison to the IE and FireFox because of it’s speed and some other functionalities. Generally Google Reader being a Google product do not works in the Opera but now it works just fine in opera with the help of the javascript given here http://files.myopera.com/Stoen/files/reader.

All you have to do is, follow the steps given below:

1) Open your google reader page and right click on “edit site preferences” option.

2) Navigate to scripting and see the box for choosing a file there.

3) And type “C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\reader.js” there.

4) Make sure that you placed that reader.js or http://files.myopera.com/Stoen/files/reader file in the folder of opera as indicated above and ‘refresh’ the page.

Now Google reader can work in opera.

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Ja Kel Daily Dot Com

Posted by admin on May 8th, 2007

JaKeldaily.com is offering to link to your blog if you review his blog. He is conducting an experiment to get a higher SERP for the keyword make money. He is making a batch of 10 reviews each and then moves to other batch of 10. You will get a link back from him in return, if you will review his blog on your blog. All you have to do is to write a review with the required anchor text make money.

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EditGrid-An Online Spreadsheet Service

Posted by admin on May 8th, 2007

EditGrid is an online spreadsheet service with real-time update and extensive collaboration features and a good Web 2.0 counterpart of Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc. EditGrid is not really the web version of Excel, infact it is robust web-based spreadsheet application. Its Real-Time Update (RTU) feature allows multiple users to see changes on a spreadsheet immediately. Its Remote Data feature can retrieve live data on the web, while its My Data Format (MDF) feature allows users to customise the output format. EditGrid is free to use. EditGrid is a strong companion of Google Spreadsheets and Documents. EditGrid can be reffered as a free alternative to Microsoft Office. EditGrid is compatible with all common spreadsheet formats including Excel, CSV, Open Office, Gnumeric, and Lotus. EditGrid supports spreadsheet formatting, multiple sheets per workbook and much more.

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Disable Blinking Elements In Firefox

Posted by admin on May 7th, 2007

2. Type “browser.blink_allowed” into the filter bar.

3. Change “browser.blink_allowed” value to False.

4. Then close Firefox.

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Make Your GMail Login Fast

Posted by admin on May 6th, 2007

You must have experienced gmail login problem especially for low speed connections which usually occur in a dial up connection. Sometimes the gmail login screens gives an error instead of opening the Gmail Page. Well to make your login into gmail faster even with low speed, You can use HTML version of gmail instead of standard version directly from http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ or you can also try gmail mobile version http://m.gmail.com. In case GMail access is blocked on certain PC (mostly happens in schools), you can overcome this problem by using https://www.gmail.com instead of http://www.gmail.com.

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IE AutoLogin-Password Manager

Posted by admin on May 5th, 2007

IE AutoLogin is an Internet Explorer Web Password Manager that allows you to log into a website with just one click. It is integrated with Internet Explorer and can be accessed from a toolbar that becomes a part of Internet Explorer, HTML page context menu or Internet Explorer main menu. IE AutoLogin Web Password Manager saves all login information from web form as your profile to a protected location on your computer and easily completes and submits login form when you next time select this profile. IE AutoLogin allows import of Internet Explorer AutoComplete usernames and passwords. Try our IE AutoLogin free downloads. No Adware, No Spyware.
Operating System Requirement:
1.Windows XP
2.Windows 2003
3.Windows2000
You can download the IE AutoLogin from http://www.softtag.com/ieautologin.html

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CustomizeGoogle:Enhance Your Google Searches

Posted by admin on May 4th, 2007

Enhance your Google searches by including extra info from other sites like Yahoo and MSN and also eliminating unnecessary info like spam or ads to enhance credibility. CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like Yahoo, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). Firefox is the only requirement for downloading CustomizeGoogle. It has the features like Google Suggest that,well, ’suggests’ words to you while retyping if your earlier search didn’t yeild desired results. You can download this software from http://www.customizegoogle.com/
or http://www.download.com/CustomizeGoogle/3000-11745_4-10438818.html

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Permacop-redirect any URL of your site

Posted by admin on May 2nd, 2007

Permacop is a plugin for WordPress which allows you to easily redirect any url of your site. It allows you to chose any URL of your blog to be redirected to any URL.

Procedure:
1. Download this plugin from http://myfla.ws/projects/permacop/.
2. Then unzip to your plugins directory.
3. Activate the plugin.
4. Navigate to Manage — Redirects.
5. Enter the URL you want to redirect from (relative you to your blog home) in the “From” field.
6. Enter the URL you want to redirect to in the “To” field.
7. Click “Add!”.

One of the impotant feature of this plugin is that it can redirect to any URL even if it is not on your site.

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