Just type about:robots in the address bar of your FireFox3 !
And here is a robot welcoming you , the human ! This is an Easter Egg in FireFox3 ! Another Easter Egg is The Book of Mozilla .
To eat this egg just type about:mozilla .
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As FireFox3 is releasing today , everyone on the Internet seems to be bitten by FireFox3 bug .
For the last two hours , I am surfing around the FireFox sites . I have installed many Add-ons and some new Themes .
I Just got a very useful Add-on Gspace , which can store your files online , in your Gmail account .
As , you know that Gmail offers a lot of space ( Currently , 6.67 GB ) and this space is increasing day by day . You can check your memory usage status here .
Gspace simply transfers your files to Your Gmail account . Hence, you have a nice online back-up all your data and you don't need USB pendrives to carry your important files . You can access these files from anywhere on the Earth , using an Internet Connection !!
Moreover , Gspace is a FireFox Add-on , so you need FireFox to use it .
Whenever , you transfer any file to your Gmail a/c using Gspace , it sends it as an attachment of an e-mail.
You can manage these e-mails by creating filters / Labels ( to Archive or Star them)
A similar service Gmail Drive is also there , which can even viewed and managed from "My Computer" and works as a stand-alone application ( Not a FireFox Add-on ) . But , I think that It doesn't work anymore ( as, I couldnot transfer any file and it shows that Gmail don't support it now !!! )
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Wink ( from Debugmode ) was my default screen capture tool for a very long time . As , it is 100% freeware and easy-to-use . But , since when I have became more serious about screen capturing and recording , I switched to SnagIt . After having a trail, I simply purchased it ( SnagIt 8 ) because of its powerful capabilities . Videos created with Jing are Flash SWF movies , that can also be embedded in web pages easily . You can see the FTP option in the screenshot ( above ) , hence you can upload it to your FTP account also . You can explore the Jing yourself also , as it is very easy to use . Now , the most attractive feature of Jing . It is FREE !!! As , Jing is in Project Period ( Beta ) , hence is offered free . But , in future you may be asked to pay for it . Well , it deserves to be paid , just like the SnagIt .
But , now I have found another very Powerful Screen Capture and recording Tool : Jing . Jing is also from TechSmith , the owner of SnagIt . Let me tell you some cool features of Jing .
The TechSmith describe it as :Is Jing a product? Not exactly. Is Jing a “beta”? Well, it’s not exactly that either. Jing is a concept that we’re evaluating to see if it can improve everyday conversations. Determining if Jing will be a product is what we are trying to do by gathering feedback from people like you. We think it’s a great way to improve daily conversations via email, IM chats and blog posts .Think of Jing as a supplement to all your chat discussions, email threads, forum posts and blog entries. It sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment’s notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and then click Share. Jing conveniently places a URL to your content on your clipboard ready for you to paste the URL into any of your conversations.
Hence , you can utilise Jing to create screenshots and videos and can share them easily with others . Your contents will be stored on TechSmith's Screencast.com , with a 200MB of space for storing screenshots and screencasts and 1 GB of bandwidth that renews monthly.
You can also opt for Video too !
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As The UPA Government has imposed OBC reservation on the talented young minds of India , it was desirable to open New IITs and IIMs across the country . And , Government has proposed some new IITs and IIMs . It released an official press notice regarding the location of new IITs and other central institutes for higher education. The press note can be found at http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=36955.
According to this notice , 8 new IITs and 7 new IIMs are going to be started . Location of 4 IITs (in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh), and one IIM (at Shillong) have already been announced. The Central Government has now decided to locate the remaining 4 IITs and 6 IIMs in the following States :-
This is perfectly balanced list .
IIT Gujrat with 120 seats, will start functioning from the Gandhinagar Engineering College, Chandkheda, from the coming academic session.The sanctioned institute will have 40 seats each in mechanical, electrical, and chemical streams and award a four-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree.The Chandkheda campus is already hosting an extension centre of the IIT-Powai (Mumbai) that conducts short-term high-end courses for mid-career engineering professionals in Gujarat’s industries.Though the state is not sure of when and where the new campus of IIT-Gujarat will come up, the government announced that it will try to locate it on the “knowledge corridor” between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad.
Indian Institute of Technology, Rajasthan would start functioning from the campus of IIT-Kanpur from the academic session 2008-09. This arrangement would continue for the next three years. Along with IIT-K, Prof Sanjay Govind Dhande would also be the director for IIT-R.
The other new IITs would also function in a similar manner.
Previously , Government was working on Upgrading some prominent institutes to IITs . These Institutes were : Institute of Technology BHU Varanasi ; University College of Engineering combined with University College of Technology, both belonging to the Osmania University; Bengal Engineering College Howrah; Jadavpur University's engineering and technology departments; Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology, AMU Aligarh; Andhra University College of Engineering; and Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Well , Hoping that these new Institutes will get academic excellence and young Talent will get much care by the Government .
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I couldn't stop myself from posting about a nice explanation of Theory of relativity .
That is here :
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
- Albert Einstein
I found this on the weblog of Gaurav.
Doubt cleared ?
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First of all , I thank to all those who have send me their advices , comments , tips and have subscribed my blog .
I am blogging seriously for past two months . During this period , I learned a lot about Tech and Web . Here is the link to Archives of April and May :
My interest in blogging developed after reading about a blogger in a newspaper . And , it is not just me , there are thousands of bloggers for whom , he is the perfect ideal . He is just like the God for Indian Bloggers .
This blogger is the first professional blogger from India and has 25k+ readers with uncountable hits per day. His feeds are being watched by everyone , from a college student to a professional of IT industry .
Oh ! I forget to tell you his name . Actually , I am his biggest fan on the planet and
This blogger is Amit Agrawal of Labnol ( Digital Inspiration ) . I am quite sure that , I don't need to tell you about him . Who doesn't know him !!!
Why I love Digital Inspiration ? The primary reason is that the contents @ DI are original and very relevant to Indian readers . The articles are written not just for geeks but also for technically disabled people . The archive section of DI is a great reference source too .
Here are some selected links :
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If you love sending SMS to friends , but expense is a worry for you ( specially to Outstation / STD SMS ) , here is very cool and reliable option for you .
Opt for MyCantos.com .
MyCantos is an online service to send SMS anywhere in India , for FREE ! You need to just register yourself with MyCantos and verify your mobile number . Once you verified your number you can start sending SMS for free .
After sign-up MyCantos will send you a code , which is required to enter in verification box on the site . Hence, you can easily verify your number .
MyCantos is quite different from other free SMS services on Internet , as :
One more thing !
You can Add MyContos Free SMS Service into your Orkut Apps !! Hence , it becomes more social .
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Most of you use USB flash drives ( or , Pen Drives ) either for transporting Data from one computer to another or for carrying important files with you . But , have you ever think that your little USB stick can do more magic .
Here are 3 better utilization of USB drive . All of them are FREE !!
1> Opera@USB : Opera@USB is a free package related to the Opera Browser . Opera Browser is the 4th most popular browser ( After Internet Explorer and FireFox and Safari ) . Opera@USB is very cool version of it . Just download it from http://opera-usb.com and install it in a folder inside pen drive . Now , you are the most portable person on the planet .
Opera@USB can Handel your E-mails from different e-mail accounts just like Thunderbird and Outlook .
It can serve as a RSS feedreader . Hence , you can read your all blogs at a single point without logging to any web-based reader while on a different computer .
If you don't have Internet connection at home , then just load your pendrive with this and update your all feeds at your office or any cyber cafe . Hence , you can read them at a computer while at home , i.e. offline !!!!
Opera@USB is a perfect Internet suite and has all other features like Notes , Browser , IRC client , Download manager , contacts manager etc . Opera Browser is claimed to be fastest ( On its official site ) and it has a very unique option for "Speed Dial" , which is quite similar to that of cell phones .
2> PortableApps : A fantastic suite of portable programs. You can run the entire OpenOffice suite , FireFox ( even latest 3RC1 ) , FileZilla , VLC, 7zip, Clamwin antivirus to scan your stick or the host computer, Sumatra, and all types of softwares like word-processor to browser . I hope that you will find portable version of most of your favorite softwares here .
You can install some or all of them into your pen drive and can carry them with you . You can use them at any other computer without caring that if the host computer has those softwares installed or not !!!!
The softwares included in the suite can be grouped as Games,Graphics,Pictures,Internet,Music,Video ,Office, Operating Systems , Accessibility . For Game and Music lover it also has some portable tools .
Download the suite from http://portableapps.com/ and enjoy the real portability of favorite softwares without leaving any personal data behind on the host PC .
3>SyncToy : SyncToy is a free PowerToy that provides an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without added complexity.
SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder.
It is from Microsoft .
Using SyncToy you can synchronize a folder pair located at different locations , say one in your hard disk and another in pen drive . Now , you are free from "Copy and Paste" process . Any change made in any of the folder of pair will be synchronized . Really , a usefull tool for those who carry files , images with their USB drive .
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( Now , I am going to write a complete series on my favorite Blogs and bloggers . This is the first in the series . )
If I asked you about your favorite blogs , most of you will start naming those common tech blogs like Techmeme , TechCrunch , proBlogger .... and so on .
But , I don't wait for posts from these blogs with as eager as I do for posts from a very less known non-tech blog , called Coffee With Sundar ( CWS ) .
It is a blog just based on the format of popular chat show of Indian television , "Coffee with Karan" . It has guest from all possible dimensions and the blogger , Sundar Rajan G S takes their interviews . Sundar is a NIT Trichi passed out......and has got selection into CAT for IIM , after working for Google .
I simply love CWS , because it introduces some very new people and talks about their success story , which is quite inspirational for me .
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TIME Magazine has recently released a list of top 25 blogs , as Time.com 1st annual blog index . The list also contains list of the 5 most overrated blogs for whom there's just no explanation for popularity . TIME also offer Talkback to users and prompting them to post about "Your Favorite Blog" . Visit and comment about your fav blog , specially when it is not there . Mine fav "Digital Inspiration" has missed the list , but hoping that it will be there by the next year ! =================== Posted on TechRaga : http://Blog.ArpitNext.com 
Visit the following link to read the original story : http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1725323,00.html
Surely Google has become the super brand of internet world and it is a role model for other dot-coms that how one company can survive in the world of great competition. But, it is not all about success, even for Google. Many of its products failed or rolled-back due to some problems.
My knowledge about them was limited up to a few like: Google Answer.
But, a recent post on Famous blog "Google Blogoscoped" surprised me that there are a good number of such products. Here is link to that post:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-03-13-n25.html .
A must read entry!!!
Enjoy !
Hi Guys !
I am posting after a very long time , almost after a month ! I was learning and exploring some new things . This includes new subjects in my course and many stuffs on internet .
I tried many new ( may be “new” for just me ) stuffs . My quest for a proper desktop feedreader was compeling me to try some new products . I went through many geeky articles and blog-posts for that .
As in my previous post I claimed that Google Reader is best web-based RSSreader , I am still claiming that . I am impressed with some others , specially the BlogLines ( http://bloglines.com ) . But , finally I have found the coolest way ( Yes! ) of syndication , the internet suites !!!!
Wikipedia describes “Internet Suite” as :
An Internet suite is an Internet-related software suite. Internet suites usually include a web browser, e-mail client (often with a news client and address book), download manager, HTML editor, and an IRC client.
I have tried many Internet Suites , but found Opera (http://www.opera.com/ ) be the best . Opera includes all the functionalities that may be needed to exist on web . Currently , I am using it as Browser,POP3 mail client , feed reader ( I had to import all my subscription here ) and for bookmarking important URLs . Opera is a freeware too !!!!
The Opera Software company claims that Opera is "the fastest browser on Earth."
Third-party speed tests showed that Opera 9.01 performed faster than any other browser in four out of seven speed tests on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X and three out of seven on Linux. Its strongest point by far was JavaScript execution, performing about twice as fast as the other browsers . Opera includes built-in tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, fraud protection, a download manager and BitTorrent client, a search bar, and a web feed aggregator. Opera also comes with an e-mail client called Opera Mail and an IRC chat client built in.
Best part of Opera is the tool Opera@USB , which makes it BEST among the others . You can carry your all Opera data ( including mails , feed-contents , web history , bookmarks etc ) with your USB flash drive to anywhere ! As , it saves data so , you can access them from any PC , even if there is no- internet connection . Certainly Opera needs more functions , but the present ones are more than enough for me .
Opera's latest version is 9.26 , which was released in the last month . The browser side of Opera is cool too . It is tabbed just like the FireFox .The latest update of browser world is that the Microsoft has released the first public beta of Internet Explorer 8 for Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2. I havenot downloaded it so far , as I m in love with Opera now . I don't have even a wish to download it as I don't use it anymore from the time of launch of FireFox ! But now the move to Opera is very pleasing . Truely , I am loving it !!!
Bye .
[UPDATE : FeedDemon may be a good choice also ]
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Hi Guys!
I received many responses from all of you suggesting me a good feed reader. Thanks to all of you.
Guys, I have tried many blog-readers, of both types: web-based and desktop-based. Now here is the summary:
· If you love to stay online, Google Reader is the best for you. Others are not so cool. Another plus point of GoogleReader is its integrity with your Google/Gmail account. Hence, you don’t need to log-in and log-out to a different site. This integrity gives a nice experience. You can also share your stuffs with your friends.
· If you love your Inbox, and want to get your all contents right there, you can subscribe Blogs to your Inbox. You can use Filters (“Label” in Gmail) and add option for skipping the Inbox. Hence, you can read your loved blogs and feeds without using newer OR even strange (for someone) options, called Feed Readers!! But, another side of this story is that some blogs mayn’t have any option for e-mail subscription!! But, this may be a nice choice if avail!!
· If you like to use a desktop based RSS reader; there are many choices for you!! I have tried many of them, but can’t judge the best among them. I would like to mention three of them , which are better than the rest
1. The Amphetadesk (www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ ).
It is very small but powerful tool. Created using Perl Programming. The best thing about it is its portability.
You can carry it in your USB drive and start reading whenever and where-ever you like!! It publishes the contents as HTML. But, it doesn’t look cool. It has no eye-catching format and fails to manage feeds. You may not like it ……….. And I am agree to you …But its simplicity it its biggest power.
2. RSS Bandit (www.rssbandit.org/).
3. RSS Owl (www.rssowl.org/)
Hi Guys!
The past week was not an ease for me. I had to visit several places to finish many pending tasks.
Well, I have tried the not-so-popular-yet Office package "OpenOffice" (http://OpenOffice.org ). This is a yet-to-be OpenSource replacement of Microsoft’s Office package.
The OpenOffice is OpenSource; i.e.; you can have it for free. It has been developed by the SUN Microsystems, the JAVA innovator. So, You can hope that it will rock in future.
Basically, I love the idea of OpenSource and I am fully confident about its success over conventional software companies.
The OpenOffice has many nice features, but it lacks the eye-catching format. As, it is new for MSOffice addicted persons (like me), so It will quite tough for them to switch to OpenOffice.
I would like to tell you most useful feature of it, The PDF conversion. I have to work on different systems and environments, So PDF format is a Boon for me. But, it is not easy to convert all formats into PDF quickly. I have to depend on PDF Virtual Printers, like GO2PDF etc. ! But, most disgusting fact is that their free versions add a bottom-line in each page showing that "This PDF is created using FREE PDF Converter". But, in OpenOffice there is no so display. Hence you can convert your Word documents , Presentations and other formats to PDF easily .
The other thing , which is in my mind is a good RSS feed reader . I am trying some freeware readers . I have found GoogleReader (http://google.com/reader ) to be best but my quest for desktop based RSS reader is still ON.
Have you any recommendations?? Just mail me.
God Bless.
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Hi Guys !!
Sabeer Bhatia , the founder of Hotmail.com and the Indian Cyber Icon , has launched his new venture " SabseBolo.com " .
Sabse Bolo is a conference calling solution specially developed for the Indian market. With Sabse Bolo you can have more than one called party listen to or participate in the call. It is absolutely free and in order to use it all you have to do is register at http://www.sabsebolo.com
I haven't tried it yet , but have registered my e-mail with it . Share yor experiences with me !!!
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